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Virgin Media in Piracy Crackdown

July 4th, 2008 by thinkjim · 2 Comments

In a bizarre turn of events Virgin Media has joined forces with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) to harass customers that the BPI claims have illegally downloaded music tracks using Virgin’s Broadband service.
Up to 800 warning letters have been sent out to customers by Virgin with the warning “if you don’t read this your broadband [...]

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Seti@Home

January 20th, 2006 by thinkjim · No Comments

I’ve started working on Seti@Home again, after on/off work on the project between 1999 and 2001. I completed a mere 571 workunits for Seti during that time (7000 hours). Seti have now switched to a new software platform called boinc (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), which replaces the Classic Seti software. Work is now [...]

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