http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/as_b6...&feature=email

Lecturer: Bro Sheikh Feiz 4rm Austrailia

For how long, for how long are we going to be heedless of the signs of
Allah (SWT), for how long are we going to be busy with the Dunya
(World), busy making money, chasing our dreams, following our desires...

If by chance any of you guys have a casio FX602P calculator stashed
away somewhere, I'd love to purchase it. It's a vintage calculator and
pretty much impossible to get nowadays. I used to dream about having
one of these when I was a kid, and I'd like to pick one up (before I
kick the bucket, you know:))

Thanks!
-Dean

Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080702-intel-an-expensive-many-core-future...

from above:

Intel has bad news for software developers. It's been hinted at already,
but now the company has stated explicitly: it's not enough for software
developers to be targeting dual, quad, or eight cores. No, the future
holds tens, hundreds, or thousands of cores, and developers are going to
have to bite the bullet and write programs that will scale to such
systems.

... snip ...

recent posts mentioning multiple core chips:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#3 on-demand computing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#83 CPU time differences for the same job
http://www.garlic...

NSFnet -- 20 Years of Internet Obscurity and Insight
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/07/01/2124239.shtml

NSFnet celebrates 20 years of Internet obscurity, inspiration
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29491

from above:

That was the email sent to users of the NSF’s fledgling NSFnet to
announce that the network's backbone had been upgraded to a “blazing
T-1 speed.” NSFnet was created by NSF a few years earlier in an attempt
to create a computer network similar to the Department of Defense's
ARPANET.

... snip ...

NSF and the Birth of the Internet
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/textonly/index.jsp

from above:

Hans-Werner Braun, former Principle Investigator for NSFNET at MERIT
Networks: "The original 56 kilobits-per-second NSFNET backbone using
Fuzzball-based LSI 11 nodes, became operational in mid-1986 between...