Baaaaa!
Dec.17, 2006, filed under Miscellany
I stumbled across this rather sweet screensaver over at Electric Sheep yesterday. I was hunting for a new screensaver, having become bored of my Gorillaz one (I know, I know), and fancied something recursive and fractal. Everywhere I looked the maths junkies were crowing about electric sheep.
It’s a nifty little programme that uses the downtime of your computer to calculate fractals. It then produces the most glorious — utterly mesmerising — animations and you get to vote whether or not you like them. The most popular ones get kept.
This is just the sort of thing I was looking for. Sadly, annoyingly and frustratingly, however, as it was cheering me up no end, the damn thing keeps crashing the internet connection on my BT Home Hub. Now we’re on the most expensive of BT’s packages, at a hefty 40Gb/month download, and I can’t imagine we’ve run up against either our fair use or bandwidth limit. This leaves me thinking it’s probably a port setting or something, only I don’t know enough about that sort of thing to work out what’s causing the hub to keel over.
I suppose I could try stopping it from downloading any more sheep, but that was part of the enjoyment. If anyone has any ideas as to why this would be causing problems (it uses bittorrent to download) then drop me a line. Ta muchly.
Do I sound like I know what I’m talking about? I don’t really.
Not a lot I can do about that because as far as I’m concerned the Home Hub is a magical blinky box that connects to the wall and sends magic wooey goodness to my computer allowing it to bring me mail and web pages. But apparently not sheep.
Damn.
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Singularity
~something that is singular as (a) a separate unit, or (b) unusual or distinctive manner or behavior; PECULIARITY;
~the quality or state of being singular;
~a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists;
~a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole. Sight
