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Deamon : By Daniel Suarez. http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-...4196483&sr=8-1

What nerdie / geekie type dude/dudette could resist such a title? Not this one!
Actually, I heard about it on a podcast and thought it sounded good so bought a kindle copy. The Amazon reviews are all pretty good also so you could not go wrong, right ? Wrong!
The premise is totally cool. Dead dude controls the world from beyond the grave, ...

BC/AC
My life can be split into two parts:Before the crash, BC, and after the crash, AC.
Life before the crash was fun! I could do stuff. Fun stuff. Lot's of stuff. Now to do anything is a chore.

BC: My one size fits all MacMini-getting old but still doing what it was intended to do- was humming away just as Steve intended. I had two well tasty bottles of dark beer in the cooler, it was a sunny Friday evening and all was good. But not for long!
The dreaded spinnging ...

So how big is yours?
Mine is as small as it could be and that's the way I like it.
I know plenty of people actually extend theirs: Why? I don't see the point. For some it will never be big enough. Crazy people. I know the 'big is better' applies to just about everything these days-i feel embarrassed ordering small fries-and there is the 'better looking at it than looking for it' school of thought. All good arguments.
But at the end of the day what's the point? If you never really ...

While waiting for payday we spent some time tidying up the OS, things were a little unsettled as I'd just thrown stuff in everywhere just to try and make things work, now we had proved it working we had to make it elegant. I wrote a few bash scripts to show the status of the nodes as they came up and also worked out wake on LAN so I could turn each machine on just by typing commands into the master, which I also scripted so I could run one command and it would turn each machine on one at a time, ...

Back to our cluster, I took a break from the software side of things for a while and decided to do some work on the look of the server, this thing was standing in Will's living room after all! After watching a documentary about supercomputers (yes I am that exciting) I got rather excited by the NSA's Cray supercomputer named the 'Black Widow' (yes I did just say a computer excited me) it was something to do with the liquid submersion cooling and the flashing red lights that made this thing so cool, ...