Microsoft has just officially jumped into Cluster Computing market using Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. What is going to happer with Grid Computing market which is widely adopted by hardware major vendors, e.g., IBM, Sun, and EMC.

There have long since been many smaller players actively providing Grid and Grid-like products for Windows operating systems. Digipede for example, has recently received accolades for its Digipede Network Grid computing solutions for the Microsoft .NET platform. It is not hard for one to imagine Microsoft leveraging these companies in any way its massive bankroll desires. We"ll possibly start to see some of this MS Grid ecosystem unfold in the first half of "06, when Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 ships (MS already has already announced a partnership with Platform around the release.

Since 3 days ago, My AdSense Status in Google Sidebar bundled with always shows "Invalid Username/Password" no matter what I tried. Fortunately, I have just got a popup said that AdSense Status has been updated! to version 1.1 for fixing this problem and added support for searchs and referals. Wow!

For more information, see Invalid Username/Password in support forum.

Many BitTorrent leechers like to use BitComet because of its performance comparing to memory footprint comparing to the most famous Azureus. Azureus may be the best but it is so huge. Machines older than 1 year are not recommended to run Azureus. Furthermore, your physical memory should be at least 512 MB.

However, BitComet is banned by most of private trackers. Private trackers mean to tracker keeping track of upload and download ratio for controlling leechers. Most of them add a key to metadata so that the session could be identified as a known user. However, this mechanism is useless in front of BitComet. BitComet has their own tracker so every instances of BitComet can share pool of peers together in centralized fashion. In addition, DHT network makes this tracker to span on all peers.

Eventually, the rumour about  aka  has an answer from . It turns out that Google has just released  last night. What is Google Pack? Actually, it is a collection of desktop software developed by Google and companions. For Google itself, they produces 5 softwares listed below.

In addition, Mozilla, Symantec, Lavasoft, and Adobe also joined this campaign.

Actually, I have installed most softwares listed above except only Norton, Ad-Aware, and Google Pack Screensaver. The great advantage of Google Pack is . Actually, it seems to clearly show that Google plays on Desktop War in different way comparing to . Instead of Konfabulator-like APIs, Google offers low-level APIs. I guess that  could be able to run on Google Sidebar someday.

I am trying to claim this site at Technorati. The first try is to embed JavaScript into my site. Unfortunately, it turned out that I got "xmlhttp is undefined" in IE and the same one for FireFox. Then I have to skip to next step by this post to include a link to my profile at Technorati Profile.

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