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Busy Busy Busy …

Blog updates very well may become few and far between over the next couple of weeks, whilst I literally hammer out some issues with the Joomla database structure breaking mySQL replication sigh.

Then there is the varios nagios addons I am writing for monitoring/alerting/gathering perf data for the solution (closed source atm sorry).

You can however follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/saiweb which I will try to update at least once a day.

The next big release planned is 2.0.1.0 of Wordpress-Flowplayer, the release will address Issue #6 meaning an overhaul of the current admin menu.

If you want to request a feature or report a bug with the plugin you can do so in our TRAC system, you do not even have to register anymore.

Cheers

Buzz

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Saiweb Folding@Home Team ID 156680

For those not in the know Folding@Home is a piece of software that runs in the background of your desktop, server, heck even your PS3.

I originaly started out back in 99/2000 with the united devices cancer research client, their website of UD.com however seems to have long since slipped into web history, no doubt due to their nature of charging for CPU time on ‘thier’ grid, which was made of donor machines … Folding @ Home however is Open Source and not run by some shady business but by a variety of labs and Educational bodies (https://folding.stanford.edu/English/About).

Ok so what is this ‘folding’ all about?

When protein chains combine in your body to form more complex chains, and eventualy cells the process of combination is called folding, and problems during the ‘folding’ stage can lead to Cancer, Alzheimers, Parkinson’s disease etc …

The problem faced when looking at protein folding is the shear number of possible ‘folds’ for each different type of protein, of course this is where computer power comes in, but even that has it’s limits this is where distributed computing helps.

Rather than a large super computer which is limited in budget, size and power distributed computing takes place by assigning a small work load to a ‘volunteer machine’, what this has lead to is a virtual super computer larger than any other, driven by software, and at the time of writing claims some 260,000 Active CPU’s

So please install this small piece of software on your machine by visiting the downloads page here: https://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download

Once you have the client running please join the Saiweb team 156680

Cheers

Buzz

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I will be dedicated several machines to this, they will appear in the team members list prefixed buzz_ , one core from our Dedi server has also been dedicated to running F@H.

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Wordpress Flowplayer (Flowplayer for Wordpress) UPDATE

With the release of wordpress 2.7 and flowplayer 3.x I thought it was time to update the plugin.

A development copy as always can be obtained from:

svn co https://svn.blog.oneiroi.co.uk/branches/wordpress-flowplayer/trunk

However please remember that it is development and most like will not work.

Anyway enough talk here are some screen shots of upcoming version of the plugin (2.x).

UPDATE: I have been in contact with the flowplayer development team, and can now confirm 2.x of this plugin will support both GPL and commercial versions.

I am adding a section to the admin menu to allow input of a license key, and a link at the bottom of the menu to allow you to purchase a commercial license.

Purchasing a commercial license helps to support the Flowplayer project and continue it’s development, for a list of features in flowplayer 3.x see: https://flowplayer.org/documentation/index.html

Certain features i.e. custom logo, will only work with a commercial license.

Please direct any requests for support on this plugin to our TRAC system: https://OFFLINE/saiweb

UPDATE 2: V 2.x of this plugin should be release this evening.