Furtwangler

I love Beethoven's music. And perhaps the most famous Beethoven conductor is Wilhelm Furtwanger (1886-1954), a controversial figure because of his alleged ties to the Nazis. But the fact is that Furtwangler never joined the Nazi party and did not approve of them. After World War Two he was charged with supporting the Nazis, but he was eventually cleared on all counts.

Furtwangler's recorded performances of the Beethoven symphonies are among the best, if not the best. The recordings made during the war are the most intense I've ever heard. The Fifth and Ninth Symphonies recorded in the 1940's are especially good. If you love classical music and haven't heard Furtwangler's Beethoven recordings, you owe it to yourself to listen to some of these performances.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Save some white meat for me. ;)

Server 2008 x64

Now giving Server 2008 64-bit a try. The OS generates more BOINC points per day than Server 2008 32-bit or Kubuntu 64-bit. Seems pretty stable.

Kubuntu

I'm giving another operating system a try - Kubuntu 7.10 64-bit. Has a really nice desktop interface. In order to get the BOINC client to work properly, I had to install 32-bit libraries. BOINC works fine now, but some of the 64-bit programs don't. Not sure how to fix that. Since this OS is being used for distributed computing only, it's not that big a deal.