Folding@home

Folding@home is a distributed computing project that is working on "understanding protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases." Seems like a great project, reminds me of the heady days of SETI@home (Wikipedia). I don't know why there aren't more projects out there like this, it is such an obvious use of all the computing power that is sitting out there, doing little but idling.

Google Earth Issues with nonfree fglrx drivers

It seems Google Earth does not play nice with ATI 28.8 drivers and later for Linux. Here is the workaround taken from n01getsout.com’s blog:

Apparently, all versions of ATI’s proprietary Linux (fglrx) drivers version 2.28 and newer will not work for Google Earth (at least on some systems). So here is how to get Google Earth working again:

1. Get a copy of libGL.so.1.2
2. Put the file in the Google Earth directory (usually /usr/local/google-earth)
3. Rename the file to libGL.so.1
4. Start Google Earth and enjoy!

Hope this helps. Special thanks to Josh from www.ground-impact.com for hosting the file.

Wikipedia goes off-line

As per a slashdot article, Wikipedia will now be availible in an off-line version. Details are here:
Slashdot article and hompage of the WikipediaonDVD project.