| memepool made with only the finest ones and zeros |
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| Tuesday Apr 3, 2012 | Neckbeards rejoice! Because of the entrenched use of OS/2 in point of sale and ATM systems, someone needed to step up and fill the void when IBM decided not to ship OS/2. The answer is eComStation, a licensed and updated version of the OS/2 codebase and product. Either the software or preloaded hardware can be purchased. to Computing by isosceles |
| Wednesday Mar 28, 2012 | Conventional
wisdom is that, to run Linux, you need a 32 bit CPU, a
few megabytes of RAM, and a few gigs of disk space.
Dmitry Grinberg shows that it really requires
a
lot less than that.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 11, 2007 | Dynamically added
pigeon fez!
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Friday Dec 9, 2005 | Wayne Carlson, professor of design, art and more at OSU, has
put together an exhuastive (and exhuasting),
20-part critical history
of computer graphics, complete with images and movies of rare early works.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 29, 2005 | Io is a relatively new language on the dynamic programming block. It compares favorably with Python and Ruby in terms of performance. Io is also small and easily embeddable, as would be evidenced by the iol4 operating system. to Computing by fool |
| Saturday Sep 3, 2005 | Apparently the hard drive is the new bling. to Computing by isosceles |
| Monday Dec 13, 2004 | The perennial optimism of old computers as told through T-Shirts. to Computing by fool |
| Thursday Dec 9, 2004 | While you probably don't know if P = NP, you might be curious to see if β2P contains LOGSNP without memorizing the whole zoo. to Computing by fool |
| Saturday Oct 30, 2004 | Not to be confused with the Connection Machine from Thinking Machines, the Chess program Thinking Machine 4 visualizes search of the game tree. to Computing by fool |
| Wednesday Oct 6, 2004 | Inevitable but also so very, very wrong,
Mozilla
Firefox themed
furry anime
girls.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Sep 25, 2004 | As small bootable operating systems proliferate the communities using them are becoming increasing specialized. Take for instance the go boot cd or the goatse rescue floppy. to Computing by fool |
| Tuesday Sep 21, 2004 | In my day, we used to crack with plastic whistles from cereal boxes! You kids with your new-fangled searching and fishing, I tell you it takes the art out of cracking. to Computing by fool |
| Tuesday Sep 14, 2004 | Did you ever wonder where spam comes from? Now you know where to aim the missiles. to Computing by scromp |
| Monday Aug 23, 2004 | Sometimes people are annoyingly distracted by their networked applications and unable to accomplish work. Making use of the new lockout program, you can firewall distraction. to Computing by fool |
| Thursday May 13, 2004 |
Case modders +
anime fans =
Anime maid-shaped
computer case
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 12, 2004 | Shit, there's a lot of fucking swearing
in the Linux
kernel.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 5, 2004 | So you want to be a hacker? As long as you have 10 years of spare time, some folks would be happy to teach you the core bits. to Computing by fool |
| Saturday Dec 20, 2003 | As we approach the 20th anniversary of Apple Computer's landmark '1984' Super Bowl ad, criticism is widespread that beleaguered Apple’s recent ad campaign promoting long-time PC supporters who’d switched to Mac was a little bit conceited. As expected, the devoted Mac zealots were a little sensitive to the criticism. Their sometimes irrational reactions only served to reinforce the prevailing attitude that Mac users are uniquely susceptible to cultlike brainwashing. Like many others, I feel it’s too easy to use the word ‘cult’ to describe any group with whose fundamental creed you might disagree. In my opinion, as the influence of traditional organized religion on people’s lives increasingly wanes in today’s technocratic society, the Mac fanatics' enthusiasm for their machines, which is really nothing more than a silly obsession with their computers, shouldn’t be viewed as unhealthy religious fanaticism, but rather consumers’ freedom of choice in an increasingly monopolistic industry. to Computing by rich |
| Friday Dec 12, 2003 | Worse is Better or Worse is Worse? to Computing by fool |
| Thursday Aug 7, 2003 | In the 60s and 70s, if you wanted to store more data than would fit on
your new-fangled disk
drives and you were frustrated by the slow access times of
tape
drives, then some of your choices were the Data
Cell and the spectacularly complex electron-beam-and-film
photostore. to Computing by gator |
| Saturday Jul 5, 2003 | NaDa does nothing for everybody.
to Computing by yoyology |
| Friday Jun 27, 2003 | IntyOS is the latest in a long string of attempts to write multitasking operating system software on old, early 80's hardware. to Computing by isosceles |
| Monday Jun 23, 2003 | Finally, the complete guide to illegally burning copies of protected CD-ROMs. Don't tell the cops, d00d. to Computing by yoyology |
| Thursday May 29, 2003 | In the SCO/Linux battle, SCO is in "Hot Pursuit!!!" to Computing by yoyology |
| Tuesday May 20, 2003 | AC power cords aren't just for power anymore. to Computing by yoyology |
| Wednesday May 7, 2003 | DENIM allows users to sketch automated interface prototypes without programming. to Computing by fool |
| Sunday May 4, 2003 | Wanted: Systems Engineer. Must have at least 3 years experience in QnA, nequam and LOBOL. Serious inquiries only.
to Computing by mrnonrespondo |
| Monday Apr 14, 2003 | Have you been lusting after an IMSAI since 1983? You can get
an IMSAI Series
Two, complete with ATX mounting
for convenience. to Computing by gator |
| Wednesday Apr 2, 2003 | Mod your Nintendo into a computer, grab an emulator, and strap in for the ultimate surreal experience. to Computing by fotbon |
| Monday Mar 31, 2003 | Bling Method: Kickin it geek style. to Computing by fotbon |
| Thursday Mar 6, 2003 |
RottenFlesh effortlessly generates
parodies of stupid software submitted to freshmeat.net. to Computing by roo |
| When you use an Apple computer, you're computing with Satan.
to Computing by sck |
| Friday Feb 14, 2003 | Annoyances.org is a collection of, well, all the things that people find annoying about Windows. This includes that stupid arrow that bounces off the Start button, the ugly shutdown screen, and any number of other annoyances in between. to Computing by yoyology |
| Wednesday Jan 8, 2003 | There is here! There is the result of four years of top secret development and is the latest incarnation of a pervasive cyberspace. Although superficially reminiscent of first-person shooters, fantasy role-playing games, and multi-player dollhouses, There follows a trail blazed by such efforts as Lucasfilms Habitat and Electric Communities The Palace to create immersive social realms online.
to Computing by dnm |
| Sunday Dec 8, 2002 | Once upon a time, all you had to worry about was working the bugs out of your programs. to Computing by fatherdan |
| Sunday Oct 20, 2002 | As someone who has switched from Wintel hell back to the Mac (how can one resist BSD with a sexy new-ish GUI?), I've become increasingly fascinated with the Apple switch ads. Though Ellen Feiss's 15 minutes of fame are over, you can still inspect the public lives of the other "switchers": Janie Porche has lots of interesting tidbits, including wanting to marry an electron; Aaron Adams wants us to know lots of things, including that we've all been too tough on the Dell guy; and if you like driving, Jentry Poss's trucking company seems to be hiring. to Computing by crikey |
| Wednesday Sep 4, 2002 | Plucky American upstart NucOS
aims to dethrone entrenched British stalwart HarrixOS using the secret weapon of code!
to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Aug 20, 2002 | Fifteen years ago,
John Sculley
of
Apple
begat a vision of the future of personal computing. The dream inspired
successful
products,
unsuccessful
ones, and
sheer fantasies.
Written by
Hugh Dubberly
and
Doris Mitsch:
The original
Knowledge Navigator video.
(15 MB QuickTime movie --
mirror,
mirror,
mirror)
to Computing by belford |
| Wednesday Jul 24, 2002 | Video Orbits have theoretical uses beyond panoramic photography. The software stitches images automatically, and would be great for pasting large documents scanned on consumer scanning products, if I could only get the low overlap case to work.
to Computing by shadow |
| Tuesday Jul 23, 2002 | DjVu is intended to be an all-encompassing document format. You can get a free version from SourceForge or buy it from LizardTech. I find this very odd, as the most useful part, in my opinion, is the image compression technology, which looks like it would be great for maps and especially aerial photos. That market is currently served nicely by another LizardTech product, MrSid.
Indeed, LizardTech gives away various MrSid viewers and tools, but the image server software disappeared, taking along with it the tool which could be used to batch-decode images on Linux machines. For the hobbyist, product pricing is daunting, and hand-decoding isn't very useful, if the viewer software even supports GeoTIFF exports. At least someday GDAL will likely support DjVu, which will ease the space requirements of keeping a personal cache of geodata.
to Computing by shadow |
| Thursday Jul 18, 2002 | The real
Stick Wars
isn't a
Flash site, a
Star Wars parody,
or a Venetian
brawling style -- it's a nifty and
remarkably
diverse
multi-state
cellular automaton
co-"invented" by
Mirek Wojtowicz
and Rudy Rucker. (Java recommended.)
to Computing by voidptr |
| Tuesday Jun 25, 2002 | Sick of the high and mighty judgemental ways of the Bourne Again Shell community? It's time to switch to the p0rn again shell. Then you'll be an 31337 playa, or just crush alot.
to Computing by fool |
| Thursday May 30, 2002 | Remember NeXT Computers? It was the apple of Steve's eye. While it's common knowledge that the software has received a new lease on life, apparently some enterprising individuals have decided to modify the case beyond all recognition. And how pretty those polished cases are! But what happens when you go too far? to Computing by isosceles |
| Thursday Mar 14, 2002 | Goto statements were
considered harmful.
Csh was
considered harmful.
Reply-to munging was
considered harmful.
<FONT> tags,
the phrase "character set",
recursive Makefiles,
XSL,
WAP,
and some
stuff
I've
never
even
heard of
has all been
considered harmful.
Enough! If you
hate
something,
just say that it
sucks,
already.
to Computing by belford |
| Saturday Mar 2, 2002 | Old Computers.Com has profiles and pictures of almost every old computer you can think of. Ever heard of the Sega SC3000H? Need a cheap and reliable portable? Read-up on the TRS-80 Model 100 or the Epson HX / HC 20. Or maybe you wanna compare the Atari ST to the Amiga 1000. to Computing by klint |
| Tuesday Feb 5, 2002 | Even though I should have known better,
I'd always thought you needed a full-out
clean room if you planned to
open a hard drive and have it operate again. These case modder sites
suggest
otherwise with
their clear-drive-cover projects. to Computing by gator |
| Thursday Jan 31, 2002 | Trying to fix your computer? You could let Shotgun Studios or Datadocktor'n help you out!! Defraggling a motherdisc has never been so fun!
to Computing by caspian |
| Thursday Jan 24, 2002 | It is all well and good to use AppleScript to automate a radio station or fight crime. However, the true test of a programming language is how close it gets you to Sinbad. to Computing by akk |
| Thursday Dec 20, 2001 | If you're a Programming Languages geek, or even if you just want some example code for a given language, check out
Michael Neumann's 362 examples in 116 programming languges.
to Computing by laurel |
| Wednesday Nov 28, 2001 | You're not crazy, the radio waves are being controlled by a computer. More specifically, Tempest for Eliza is a program that uses your monitor to send out AM band radio signals. You can tune your radio in and listen to the cichlisuite [pronounced: sickly sweet] IDM tones. to Computing by fool |
| Sunday Nov 25, 2001 | ¿Quien es mas macho: Microsoft Technical Support or the Psychic Friends Network? Neither apparently. to Computing by fool |
| Tuesday Nov 20, 2001 | Corporate graffiti: Monkey see, monkey do. to Computing by sylvar |
| Monday Oct 29, 2001 | Deipnosophists Trace Country Music and other computer generated headlines. to Computing by fool |
| Saturday Oct 27, 2001 | Like cockroaches or kudzu, AOL disks will never go away, no matter how many we recycle or attempt to return. So let's try and be positive about it! Let's celebrate their infinite variations and near-infinite quantity! And while we're collecting disks, we can branch out into saving other AOL memorabilia! to Computing by tregoweth |
| Monday Oct 15, 2001 | Systray.org allows you to post and discuss the little icons next to your Windows clock.
to Computing by fool |
| Sunday Oct 14, 2001 | The C Terrain is a beginners level programming tutorial: "You need to talk to Compiler in his terms. You need to learn the laguage he loves to use. Its the language very similar to English, and yet so powerfull that it can make your stupid mu-Pee fall in love with you. But its only when you agree to learn the language on which Mr. Compiler insists." to Computing by braino |
| Thursday Oct 11, 2001 | As holistic medicine has grown in response to the failure of science to handle disease, so too has holistic computer medicine grown to tackle computer viruses and more. to Computing by faisal |
| Wednesday Sep 26, 2001 | DeskSwap is a screensaver that swaps images of the user's desktop with others, exchanging candid glimpses of familiar-looking but ultimately unfamiliar workspaces. to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Sep 18, 2001 | In the world of William Gibson, the AI programs like Wintermute are listed in a registry and wired to kill switches--in case they become too powerful. In current times, web robots, like WebReaper, are listed in a registry and wired to kill switches--in case they become too powerful.
to Computing by enigma |
| Sunday Sep 16, 2001 | Real Time Battle and Robot Battle are just two of many games in which the object is not to do battle with the competition directly but instead write little programs that fight each other on a virtual battlefield.
Core Wars, one of the oldest of these games, has spawned an entire subgenre in which fighters are evolved
genetically instead of being written by hand -- programs writing programs for fighting programs inside programs.
to Computing by joshua |
| Sunday Sep 2, 2001 |
Those of you who took a
beginner's computer science
course may remember
programming
Karel
the Robot.
Now, quake before the might of
Karel++! to Computing by voidptr |
| Wednesday Aug 22, 2001 | The infamous
and ubiquitous blue screen of death. If you've
left a PC running a Windows product for more than an hour at a time you have
most likely experienced it yourself. Not
even Chairman Bill can escape its hoary clutches. Take heart, now you can
finally experience the pink
screen of death and others! Or why not join in the fun and amuse your friends
and terrify your enemies with the BlueScreen
Screen saver.
to Computing by asosa |
| Sunday Aug 12, 2001 | Rumor has it that when Seymour Cray discovered Steve Jobs purchased a CRAY supercomputer to model a new design, Cray said "Funny, I am using an Apple to simulate the CRAY-3."
to Computing by fool |
| Monday Aug 6, 2001 | Perl:
Some people like it, some people love it, and some love it so much they'll advocate using it for almost anything, or even start flame wars with people who prefer alternative scripting languages (despite reasoned and blunt arguments not to).
But for one man, it is a love that dare not speak it's name.
to Computing by kilinrax |
| Get your hands off me, you damned, dirty Microsoft CEO! to Computing by therubal |
| Wednesday Jul 25, 2001 | Sex sure does sell, but can it sell the unsexiest thing of them all: an OS? Something tells me no. to Computing by skallas |
| Wednesday Jul 4, 2001 | What do you do with to Computing by jcs |
| Wednesday Jun 20, 2001 | Many people take it upon themselves to modify their bland, beige computer case. Many of the modifications strike me as sort of ricey but others, IMHO, seem to have real artistic merit. Yet others seem to reside in the realm of creepy and disturbing. Be sure to check out the location of the reset switch. to Computing by singe |
| Wednesday Jun 13, 2001 | I'm a sucker for a computer covered in colored plastic, but I'm an ever bigger fool for the completely transparent PC. You can tell your friends it's really an expensive and rare prototype.
to Computing by skallas |
| Tuesday Jun 12, 2001 | Remember the Apple ][? There's still some resources and some current software. There's even a Un*xy operating system for it.
to Computing by jcs |
| Wednesday Jun 6, 2001 | The History of Video Games
details, among other things, how a
playing card distributor and
radio manufacturer make it big, while
others stumble and are absorbed.
to Computing by jcs |
| Tuesday Jun 5, 2001 | The alpha and omega of spyware detectors, Lavasoft's Ad Aware has just released the long awaited version 5. You're probably running one of the hundreds of spyware applications right now.
to Computing by skallas |
| Monday Jun 4, 2001 | Like Perl?
Now you can use it all the time!
to Computing by jcs |
| Friday Jun 1, 2001 | Hey tech fogies! Remember old school BBS's? The glory of slow download speeds, ANSI, and blurry porn! Now enthusiasts have written up new BBS's you can connect to via telnet. Or hook up your old 2400 baud BBS to telnet and relive the era before e-nausea.. to Computing by mercaptan |
| Tuesday May 15, 2001 | There no longer is a difference between hacking tools and anti-hacking tools. I'd be concerned if a sysadmin couldn't spoof her IP or launch a Smurf attack. to Computing by skallas |
| It looks like Microsoft is trying to kill Clippy.
Would you like to help? to Computing by boneyard |
| Wednesday May 9, 2001 | We have all heard of distributed computing projects that let you do things like break encryption and search for little green men, but did you know you can use your spare gigahertz to fight AIDS? to Computing by enigma |
| NetBSD on a Dreamcast. Unix on a GameBoy. Linux on a Playstation 2. Linux on a Palm. Windows CE on a Dreamcast. to Computing by george |
| Tuesday Apr 24, 2001 | Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Dave Touretzky has collected a rather impressive list of DeCSS materials, including a really fantastic gallery of DeCSS descramblers. This features the famous t-shirt, a DeCSS haiku, a dramatic reading of the DeCSS algorithm, and an implementation in a language for which no compiler currently exists. to Computing by crikey |
| Sunday Apr 22, 2001 | Know C, the programming language?
You sure?
Herein find the answers to some
Infrequently Asked Questions,
ranging from the
sublime to the
ridiculous. to Computing by voidptr |
| Thursday Apr 19, 2001 | Purpx bhg jjj.ebg13.pbz sbe gur yngrfg va fvzcyr fhofgvghgvba pvcure abfgnytvn. Furrfu! to Computing by crikey |
| Tuesday Apr 17, 2001 | Know C, the programming language?
How about
Duff's
Device?
(This article should scare C programmers for
reasons only C programmers understand, and everyone
else for reasons C programmers just don't understand.)
to Computing by tjs |
| Thursday Apr 12, 2001 | I'm not sure if Luddite is a real company or just a joke, but you've got to question a website that sells wooden computers and also gives you a list of the founder's other failed wood-related businesses. to Computing by crikey |
| Saturday Mar 10, 2001 | True horror tales
of systems administration. to Computing by moose |
| Saturday Feb 24, 2001 | Object-Oriented Programming good. Object-Oriented Programming funny. Object-Oriented Programming very very bad.
to Computing by che |
| Tuesday Feb 6, 2001 | "Take the HAL 9000, mix in some Talking Moose, a little Bugs Bunny, a
Stooge or three, plus a whole lot of attitude and what do you get? DeskBots, the
robotic talking desktop companion!"
to Computing by dha |
| Sunday Feb 4, 2001 | Why font smoothing? It slows things down and hurts my eyes, but some people actually like it. to Computing by djinn |
| Monday Jan 29, 2001 | The real problem with Seti@Home is the unimaginative names. Who would you rather see catch the next Wow! signal, a corporate ad like Sun Microsystems, a lame Monty Python reference, or The Great Culinary Search for Delicious Aliens. Of course a mention of Seti@Home wouldn't be complete without mentioning ways of hiding it from your boss. to Computing by skallas |
| Is there any nobler art form than the computer industry
promotional T-shirt? View the artifacts on display
at GeekT.org and
Apple T-Shirts
and decide for yourself. (And if you want some
for your very own, you may wish to consult
a friendly
dealer.)
to Computing by tregoweth |
| Saturday Jan 20, 2001 | Evolution has been theorized as
the origin of life, first
by Darwin. Now, scientists are
evolving
circuits. No telling where this could
lead. to Computing by petek |
| Sunday Jan 14, 2001 | Take almost complete control over your windows PC with MS's most powerful tools: the popular regedit and the well-hidden and unsupported Tweak UI.
to Computing by skallas |
| Tuesday Jan 9, 2001 | It may be hard for These Kids Today to believe, but there was computer porn
before the public discovered the internet. to Computing by dha |
| Monday Jan 8, 2001 | Tamper-resistant
hardware uses physical security to perform sensitive operations (like
decryption and public-key signature) safely in a potentially hostile
environment. This technology is used in applications from postage to safeguarding
nuclear weapons, and attacking it is the subject of much research.
Commercially available tamper-proof systems include GEMPlus smartcards, crypto iButtons,
and
extremely secure devices from
IBM.
to Computing by gator |
| Wednesday Jan 3, 2001 | Dear pathetic Macintosh fanatics: IT'S OVER. YOU LOST. GET OVER IT. to Computing by peterb |
| Monday Jan 1, 2001 | If I ever decide to water cool my PC, please kick my ass. to Computing by peterb |
| Thursday Nov 9, 2000 | The author of Perl In Latin manages to restrain himself for a full sentence before adding that he has a 'plausible rationale' for this ars inana. to Computing by mpc |
| Tuesday Nov 7, 2000 | Bill Gates calls himself very naive about his past beliefs on how computers could solve the world's problems. Another insider finally sobering up and realizing that futurism and technology are tools and not the basis of a retro-future utopia. to Computing by skallas |
| Monday Oct 30, 2000 | Elves
are not just for the fantasy genre anymore.
Milind Tambe and his colleagues at
The University of Southern California have done some fascinating
work with intelligent agents (aka "elves") that
can coordinate with other elves to schedule meetings, order meals, and track
other users of the system using GPS devices. to Computing by laurel |
| Wednesday Oct 25, 2000 | Arrgh. Now that The Wave is out, I feel I've found the coolest web platform ever devised - my very own Commodore 64! Sadly, I can't afford an afterburner or a cool GUI right now, both of which are required...
to Computing by wwwwolf |
| I bet a lot of you didn't know that Atari, maker of
fine video games such as Pong and now a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Hasbro Interactive used to build pretty fine computers.
That would be a shame since Atari computers are a part of many "0ld
5k00l" geeks' history. Go educate yourself at The Digital Antic Project.
If you still don't get it, "Antic" was a magazine for Atari computer
users, and a big slice of personal computing history sits between its
pages. If your personal computing religion included the Commodore 64,
you'll probably want to visit The
Def Guide to Zzap!64 or, if you're just into cover art, there's
this archive of lovingly
scanned and cleaned up Zzap!64 covers. And while we're strolling
down 64K memory lane, everyone who's ever pirated a copy of a Beagle
Bros. program should visit The Beagle Bros. Online
Museum and feel very, very bad. You know who you are and why.
Now if only I could find archives of "80 Micro", "inCider", and
"Creative Computing".... to Computing by braino |
| Tuesday Oct 24, 2000 | Rabid Macintosh fans, unable to to wait for Apple to release their next design innovation, have begun to design their own next generation of curvy and translucent computers. Of course, pornographers and professional industrial designers are equally unable to resist the temptation of form over function, or at least rehashing an old product with a new plastic shell. to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 3, 2000 | VR pioneer Jaron Lanier trashes AI and futurists admitting that the quality of code can never keep up with the advancement of hardware and that the belief in AI is currently producing anti-intuitive and hard to use software. The full manifesto is on Edge.org. to Computing by skallas |
| Thursday Sep 28, 2000 | Every pointy-haired boss should be given a copy of the Hacker FAQ. If your boss seems to have a literacy problem, use the video version, Your New Hacker: An Employer's Guide. to Computing by sylvar |
| You've all heard about such famous
"chatter
bots" as
Eliza and
Parry,
which can imitate human conversation (over a limited domain) fairly well.
However, another, less well-known, program called
Racter
once
wrote
(or at least
helped to write)
a whole book.
This collection of stories and poems, "The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed," was published
in 1984 under the amusing pen-name of
"Mark V. Cheney" (later changed to "Racter").
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Sep 23, 2000 | The Creating Your Own OS FAQ. For everyone who says they can make a better operating system than Microsoft.
to Computing by kade |
| Friday Sep 1, 2000 | Hey, kids! Got thirty five thousand clams? You, too, can
own your own Cray C90! Only one owner, comes pre-painted with
Pittsburgh's Black & Gold colors! Buy now, they have to make room for
682 more machines!
to Computing by moose |
| Wednesday Aug 30, 2000 | Var'aq is the programming language of the future. By which I mean that it's a Klingon programming language. to Computing by keith |
| Wednesday Aug 16, 2000 | Mac On Linux allows a PowerPC Linux box to boot a copy of MacOS in a unix process. to Computing by joshua |
| Linux weenies keep yapping on and on about running Linux on the mainframe, but it's a much cooler hack to run a mainframe under Linux. to Computing by joshua |
| Sunday Aug 13, 2000 | Windowblinds - Make your windows-based PC look like BeOS, Macintosh, and even OS/2 2.0. to Computing by kade |
| Thursday Aug 10, 2000 | A few months ago I noticed people are still using
Rexx to build
dynamic web pages. Plausible. Today
I heard of something more, er, sinister:
CobolScript®!
Just see
how this baby threatens Perl's omnipresence and
elegance!
to Computing by wwwwolf |
| Wednesday Aug 9, 2000 | John Conway's
Game of Life
is a simple and well known
cellular
automata
that can be used to generate some pretty
amazing
behavior, including a
Universal Turing machine.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 7, 2000 | Enter the strange world of the only helpful computer virus. After copying itself to your drives and floppies it nicely asks if you'd like to encrypt your data using the IDEA encryption alogrithm. Its friendly but its not free, you can buy it here for ten dollars. to Computing by skallas |
| Word Perhect is a nifty Flash program that allows you to write on old phone bills and cigarette foil. It also has an extensive help system. to Computing by enigma |
| Friday Jul 28, 2000 | Today is Systems Administrator Appreciation Day.
Show your appreciation for the
one who keeps your accounts alive and your machines running, lest you
suffer the consequences. to Computing by moose |
| Wednesday Jul 26, 2000 | One for the Babbage "if only people had listened" file:
Konrad Zuse came up with apparently the first
high level language, called
Plankalkül. When? 1945.
Not stoked enough? He had an electromechanical, freely-programmable binary computer working in his parents' living room in 1938. I can imagine the fights that that caused. "Konraaaaad, I want to put my feet up, but there's tickertape spools on the footstool! And AGAIN with the metal shavings in the sofa!!"
to Computing by sburke |
| Pee-wee Herman to Eric Raymond (ESR):
"If you like Python so much, why don't you marry it?". to Computing by sburke |
| Tuesday Jul 25, 2000 | Well, sure, we all thought that we knew. I mean, it was obvious, right. We just had to let it go. But we were wrong. The Amiga isn't dead. Now, instead, of just being a piece of hardware, it is a virtual machine. There's even a Linux SDK you can buy. They are hoping to become the way to write truly portable useful applications for the future. to Computing by keith |
| Friday Jul 21, 2000 | I just got a new Commodore
64, and I have been writing down some dream
descriptions with it. Anyway, Trans64
program seems to bomb these days, so I have to OCR the text,
often
with varying results.
Well, I don't blame C64. The machine supports
wonderful
philosophy and can do
pretty
amazing things like web serving
even at this great age.
to Computing by wwwwolf |
| Thursday Jul 20, 2000 | For those who're fiddling with cryptographic protocols, BAN & GNY Logic are some useful tools. to Computing by mpc |
| Tuesday Jul 18, 2000 | Raph Levien is one cool guy. He's donated a bunch of useful patents to the public, and he's working on a free scalable vector graphics editor, gill. Here's an interview where he talks about fonts, graphics and a bunch of other good stuff. to Computing by simon |
| Monday Jul 17, 2000 | This guy owns a lot of
ancient, probably useless
computer equipment. His pages kept telling me, "You're using
Windows, contact
Red Hat
for an upgrade." I dunno, it's hard to take serious someone who admits writing a
for Dummies book. Hey, think he might
want a used
Cray?
to Computing by moose |
| Wednesday Jul 12, 2000 | "404 not found" You deserve a kinder note Like this web haiku to Computing by stimpy |
| Wednesday Jun 28, 2000 | RSA In Javascript. Wow.
to Computing by mpc |
| In a JavaOne interview, Jon Bosak ("father of XML") came so close to up and saying what I've been screaming for years -- SGML is the biggest fucking mess that otherwise smart people ever came up with.
For example, he observes, delicately:
"You know, with SGML, after 13 years of implementation there were fewer than half a dozen SGML processors in the world, and with the single
exception of James Clark's, all of those processors had been constructed by efforts that were Department of Defense sized effort.
So you just look at that and you say, well, I guess that SGML is probably a little on the far side of the complexity we want."
Gosh, a little, probably?
to Computing by sburke |
| Sunday May 28, 2000 | The hot new computing trend of the new millennium will be to refurbish old Macintoshes using Mega Bloks. I suppose Legos would work, too. to Computing by crikey |
| Wednesday May 24, 2000 | One of my first computers was a Commodore 64.
As a kid, the graphics and sound from that
little machine were amazing. Ever wondered
what became of Jeff Minter,
Rob Hubbard and
all the other great games programmers and composers?
c64.org
has tracked down many of the scene and archived
a huge number of the games and original tunes.
to Computing by simon |
| Friday May 19, 2000 | Tired of wearing silly glasses to get a headachy 3-D effect? Don't worry, Deep Video Imaging layers a number of LCD displays to provide depth of field. They aren't cheap ($10,000 or so) but they'll be available soon.
to Computing by joshua |
| Monday May 1, 2000 | RSA-129,
distributed.net, and SETI@home showed that
we could use the Internet to do big computations.
Electric Sheep uses this paradigm to make beautiful screensavers for you. Now,
Popular Power is a company
distributing clients that harness your idle computer resources to do
distributed processing.
to Computing by nelson |
| Saturday Apr 29, 2000 | LowerBound is a computer hardware search engine that scans pricewatch and many other web retailers for best prices, product features, and so on. to Computing by nyarl |
| Wednesday Apr 26, 2000 | I work in the technical support area of an ISP, which means I get
some really odd calls.
to Computing by rampage |
| The Flying Circus is an excellent compendium on Genetic Algorithms, including tutorials, demos for various platforms, and movies. to Computing by joshua |
| Artifical intelligence technology can be applied to many fields of life, from commerce, to social simulations (telnet required), to making sex-crazed teenagers look really pathetic. to Computing by kier |
| Tuesday Apr 11, 2000 | SpinCircuit - design and build your own electronic components online. to Computing by faisal |
| Tuesday Apr 4, 2000 | IDcide tells you when you may have entered a "cookie tracking network" by alerting you when you are recieving cookies from the site you are currently not visiting. (Unfortunately, it only works for Internet Explorer under Windows.) to Computing by joshua |
| Most web ad-busting rely on a proxy between your browser and the world, but it is also possible to filter out those annoying banner ads with a neat hack. to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 28, 2000 | Last week, Mathworks ran their third online
programming contest. These are unusual contests in that
they involve elements of open-source development, which in turn raises
interesting and
as-yet-unresolved questions
about how to run a competetition in the context of
a gift economy.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 27, 2000 | The Crypt Newsletter is focused on computer security, usually from a very cynical perspective. In particular, they've concocted the Joseph K. Guide, the Devil's Dictionary of IT. to Computing by mpc |
| Friday Mar 24, 2000 | Ten gigabytes on tape might seem dull... but on
adhesive tape?! The
European Media Lab
in Heidelberg gives you 10737418240 reasons to
love the sticky stuff, and the same technique could
be used for holographic storage.
to Computing by oznoid |
| Thursday Mar 23, 2000 | The Adaptive Communication Environment, or ACE has turned Professor Douglas Schmidt into a minor deity among High-Rel CORBA and scalable web junkies. From JAWS, The JAWS Adaptive Web Server to TAO, The Ace ORB, ACE is being used increasingly as a "platform independent framework using core design patterns for concurrent communication." Although open source, it is available in value-added form through Riverace Corp.
to Computing by urog |
| Wednesday Mar 22, 2000 | Feel like you're not chewing up enough RAM yet? The Moaning Goat Meter will get rid of that unused memory for you, while monitoring your processes in gloriously tacky fashion. to Computing by mpc |
| Friday Mar 17, 2000 | Bodenstaendig 2000 - We have no idea what it is, but the "Hi-Tech-Version" is so very 1983. Gotta love that scientific help system, too. to Computing by faisal |
| Thursday Mar 16, 2000 | A lot of people have tried to build secure, distributed filesystems for everything from making ubquitous data havens to global authenticated storage of sensitive materials. The Self-Certifying File System is yet another attempt, with some interesting ideas. to Computing by dnm |
| Friday Mar 10, 2000 | Lambert Bies shares everything you could possibly have wanted to know about parallel and serial interfacing. to Computing by joshua |
| Sunday Mar 5, 2000 | Speaking of pure assembly language, the V2 OS is a fresh new operating system being designed from the ground up in good ol' 32-bit Intel 386 assembly. The current version is 37 Kb in size, and contains a nice command-line interface, a rudimentary filesystem capable of recognizing your hard drive partitions, and can even be installed with image-viewing software. to Computing by succa |
| Sub-pixel font rendering is the art of seperating a pixel into its Red, Green, and Blue constituents when rendering, allowing certain display devices to smooth the font's jagged edges very effectively. This info comes to me from the Gibson Research Corporation, an extremely cool one-man-army run by Steve Gibson. A fine example of his work is ShieldsUp!, an eye-opening freeware tool for checking your computer's security. More impressive is that he codes his Windows apps in pure assembly language. to Computing by succa |
| Friday Mar 3, 2000 | dynamism.com imports the latest in supercool fast lightweight notebooks from Japan, because you really love diminishing marginal utility. to Computing by faisal |
| Thursday Mar 2, 2000 | Graspable User Interfaces is an interesting idea -- using physical objects and artifacts to manipulate virtual objects via a sensitive desktop. to Computing by imploded |
| TheBrain is a goovy piece of software that attempts to help you index things like bookmarks, files, and other electonic content more along the lines of how you think.
to Computing by dnm |
| Thursday Feb 24, 2000 | After wading through the noxious arcana of the windows registry,
regedit.com is a godsend.
to Computing by mpc |
| Wednesday Feb 16, 2000 | Crypto-gram is a security based news and commentary newsletter published by Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Crypography and the Electronic Privacy Papers, and founder of Counterpane Internet Security. With his excellent, well argued commentary, and his panache for hitting a softspot in the security community, it's a must read for all.
to Computing by imploded |
| Monday Feb 14, 2000 | Adobe's
Portable
Document Format
is nice, but who wants to pay
hundreds of
dollars to be able to write and manipulate PDF files?
Check out Planet PDF or the
PDF Zone, where
you can find advice, information and tools for working with PDF,
including a (mostly) free ANSI C library
of functions that allows you to read and write PDF files.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Feb 13, 2000 | Ruby is a new scripting language that attempts to be as powerful as Perl but without any O'Reilly books written about it. to Computing by joshua |
| Thursday Feb 10, 2000 | Low-fat computing is a heretical approach to the integrated design of hardware/software systems, based on the Forth philosophy of Chuck Moore and Jeff Fox. to Computing by arkuat |
| Valentine's Day will soon be upon us, and what better way to spend it than getting married via a Quake 2 game. to Computing by succa |
| Tuesday Feb 1, 2000 | It takes a rare and
intense strain of
nerdism to enter
programming contests.
However, the actual contests are a
diverse lot.
Some of the contests are
judged on
the basis of performance, others
on size
and still others on more
philosphical grounds.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jan 29, 2000 | The Blocks architecture for metadata management: the most buzzword-laden spec I've ever seen. to Computing by succa |
| Monday Jan 24, 2000 | You think someone spending twenty-some bucks on America
Online for Dummies (6th edition) is frightening?
How about Buying
Online for Dummies, ICQ
for Dummies, or Yahoo!
for Dummies? to Computing by tregoweth |
| Friday Jan 21, 2000 | One of the highlights of the Microsoft Museum is the company timeline, which notes the "months of maniacal hours" spent working on 1981's MS-DOS without mentioning that Microsoft didn't create it. to Computing by rogers |
| Tuesday Jan 18, 2000 | GlobZ bills itself as "interactive games, stories & toys." Open a window/toy. Move it around. Resize it. Golly. It's a minor Flash masterpiece. to Computing by cricket |
| Saturday Jan 15, 2000 | I've been having this 404 not found error for favicon.ico showing up in
my website logs. Why, I wondered, were people trying to fetch a file
that's never been on my website? This
article
answers the question - it's another Microsoft
"feature".
to Computing by larrybob |
| Friday Jan 14, 2000 | The future of the Internet and computing may be more ubiquitous and less novel yet, if Michael L. Dertouzos, director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and his compatriots' visionary project, Oxygen, turns out to work. Encompassing a plethora of fields such as chip design, user interface engineering, network infrastructure, and social impact, it may very well become as natural as the air we breathe. to Computing by dnm |
| Thursday Jan 13, 2000 | The "it's free but we spam you" business model
seems to be getting popular. Two examples
are freeDSL.com, a company
that gives you free DSL access but which displays
targeted ads in a small window while online; and
free-PC, which gives
you a (you guessed it!) free PC in exchange for
piping advertisement directly to your brain. Unfortunately,
to take advantage of these offers you have to be willing
to cripple your machine by running a certain
successful yet oft-disparaged operating system.
to Computing by xrayjones |
| Wednesday Jan 12, 2000 | For the memepoolians out there, such as myself, who may be of a certain so-called hat-wearing underground, there's no better balanced daily source of info than HNN and SecurityFocus. to Computing by dnm |
| So, not sure what to think of REBOL just yet? I don't blame you, but I would suggest checking out Scheme if you're wondering what kind of coolness REBOL descended from. to Computing by dnm |
| Tuesday Jan 11, 2000 | Wally Dug is a genius.
He even says so himself. After reading his article on building
removable media with
pancakes or muffins, however, I am forced to agree.
to Computing by halfjack |
| Saturday Jan 8, 2000 | Turn your dull, dreary Windows desktop into a raging Macintosh love beast using MacVision. to Computing by succa |
| Sunday Dec 19, 1999 |
csh programming considered harmful. Film at 11.
to Computing by tjs |
| Friday Dec 17, 1999 | If you happen to be chained to a desktop machine, I strongly reccomend the IBM Trackpoint Keyboard
featuring their trademark red eraserhead pointing device. If you occaisionally photoshop, there is a ps/2 port on
the back for a real mouse. However you'll be surprised how infrequently you'll move your arms away from the keyboard
and how much more physically connected you feel to your machine. I encourage you to switch
mouse button functionality between right and left buttons for optimal right handed trackpointing though.
If you reject pointing devices all together, then you should definitely go with IBM's AT Buckling-Spring Keyboard.
101 keys (none of this windows crap) of loud blissful joy.
to Computing by akk |
| I've spent the last few months looking for the perfect laptop. This involves compulsively checking
with japanese importers (jpd and
dynamism) as well as reading trade rags and
poorly written magazines. While the SONY Vaio I mentioned earlier is an
absolute steal at $1400, I think the most perfect of the perfect laptops today has to be
the Fujitsu Biblo MF40X. Featuring an XGA 12.1" display, 3d accelerated graphics,
a 0.18 micron process Pentium III at 400mhz, and a modular bay that takes a DVD drive in a
svelte package that weighs between 3.7 and 4.5lbs. Unfortunately despite my letters, Fujitsu
only sells the SVGA version in the US, so you'll have to fork out $3800 to
jpd for the import.
to Computing by akk |
| "PCs are like telephones, which also used to be huge objects that all
looked the same. The reason why the profit margins on the PC are so small
for so many manufacturers is that they've all concentrated on the same
thing: the CPU, the hard disk. People won't spend so much money on that
anymore. People want to feel the value of having
well-designed products.
As long as manufacturers introduce wonderful quality, small size and great
benefits, customers will pay for that."
- Ken Omae, senior vice president of PC marketing, Sony Electronics
to Computing by akk |
| Wednesday Dec 15, 1999 | Sure, they may have renamed it recently, but it isn't every day you find a company selling a data rescue product named after a delicious italian dessert. to Computing by dnm |
| For years, one of the favorite tools (aside from rm -rf /usr/home/luser) of any true BOFH was and is grep. Perfect for scanning mailboxes, looking through files in /tmp for juicy phrases, what have you. Now that raw power combines for the first time on a network level, openening a whole new world for evil sysadmins everywhere. Mwahahahaha! to Computing by dnm |
| Is there any point to making a web page that offers a graphical
user interface to the web, running inside your web-browser, which
already provides a graphical user interface to the web? The
people at Simple.com
seem to think so. to Computing by larrybob |
| Thursday Dec 2, 1999 | I always suspected that Apple had
some deep, dark
secret to explain why they're not bankrupt yet. to Computing by peterb |
| Tuesday Nov 30, 1999 | Antoher legacy of my misspent youth: Tradewars is still alive and kicking. There are certain
pleasures in still being able to play the game on-line. to Computing by mpc |
| In my BBS'ing youth, I was involved in a collection of room-based BBS's using Citadel. The software still exists in various incarnations, quite a few BBSes do, as well. to Computing by mpc |
| Friday Nov 26, 1999 | Who knew there were so many
different kinds of barcodes?
And each of them with their own strange encodings and checksums. to Computing by sburke |
| It's likely that quantum computing will, in the future, be a reality.However, making algorithms for
them is not going to be trivial as they don't function at all like our traditional digital computers.
To facilitate this, Open Qubit wants to emulate them.
The emulator won't run at nearly the speed of a real quantum computer, but it should at least be
helpful for developing algorithms before we finish developing the computers. to Computing by keith |
| Tuesday Nov 23, 1999 | First they gave you ASCII Wars. Now, the geeks of the internet bring you Pointer Wars.
to Computing by djinn |
| A Gallery of GUIs shows off the history of GUIs, from the early Xerox to the most modern UNIX window managers.
to Computing by borges |
| Monday Nov 22, 1999 | If you're like most Macintosh users, you've been screaming since Apple started shoving a completely shameful new interface paradigm down users' throats with the release of Quicktime 4 and Sherlock II. If you're one of those disgruntled fans, check out Raul's Sherlock II WinFix, which gives Sherlock II the Macintosh look and feel for which you bought the darn box. As to Quicktime 4, the only hope is to switch back to the Quicktime 3 MoviePlayer application, which is compatible with Quicktime 4 unless you consider dorky metallic sidebars to be a "feature". to Computing by faisal |
| Thursday Nov 18, 1999 | Need to hold on to that job in the upcoming high-tech bust cycle? Learn how to write unmaintainable code. Now you can code just like RMS! to Computing by peterb |
| Tuesday Nov 16, 1999 | Amidst all the fans, heatsinks, and futuristic cooling mechanisms, pretty much everyone has overlooked the most obvious substance for cooling your overclocked CPU: liquor. to Computing by succa |
| Thursday Nov 11, 1999 | Given how many things at LISA '99
compared themselves with mon,
perhaps it warrants a look. to Computing by shadow |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | Not one of the sexier operating systems out there, but still perversely fun, VMS has an active hobbyist community. to Computing by mpc |
| Unisys has announced plans to
fine websites
$5000 if they use GIFs created with unlicensed software.
In response, Bay Area nerds have declared this Friday to be
burn all GIFs day.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Nov 3, 1999 | E is the
latest incarnation of a
series
of
software implementations. This one has
been released under a Mozilla-style license,
and was designed to permit the implementation of capability-based
Smart
Contracts.
to Computing by arkuat |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 1999 | The Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library is a search engine for academic papers in Computer Science topics that lets you search by journal, title, abstract, author and institution. to Computing by joshua |
| Symbolics, now defunct, used to make computers than ran LISP in hardware. Like the Smalltalk environments at PARC, it was an environment that would affect the design and use of everything onward. Several virtual museums document their history. to Computing by joshua |
| Like Frontier, Cold Fusion,
and the other cruftilicious web application servers (like the ultra expensive
Vignette StoryServer),
Zope is a web server, content management system, and
portal toolkit. It's free, built with Python and does the whole
open-source-save-the-whales-thang. Download it today and change the world. to Computing by akk |
| UNIX sysadmins may find some utility in a new easy-to-use graphical administrator tool: DOOM to Computing by faisal |
| The Hello World
Page, like the
I Can Eat Glass Project
and the
Ate My Balls webring,
shows that anything not worth doing will be done anyway, in lots and lots of
different ways.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Sumea is a native Java, fully 3D, polygon
engine that supports depth-of-field, particle systems, alpha blending and
texture mapping.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Monday Oct 18, 1999 | Ken Perlin, perhaps most
famous for his
noise and turbulence
functions (which won him an Oscar), has done tons of other fantastic work.
Make sure to check out his continuing
procedural
texturing work,
his Java fractal
planet and the
animated face,
also implemented in Java.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Not just for stoners, Lava Lamps are also helpful for generating random numbers. to Computing by jon |
| Thursday Oct 14, 1999 | Neil: "My computer has no nose." Bob: "Then how does it smell?" Neil: "Terrible". to Computing by jon |
| Saturday Oct 9, 1999 | Well, there's a lovely definition of my favorite mascot which also includes a sound file...another site which has some small relation to said mascot, and the history of the same, oh yeah, and a really bad poem. to Computing by djinn |
| Friday Oct 8, 1999 | Linux, linux, linux. That's all I hear anymore. Hey, I like it too, but let a million flowers bloom. Fortunately, The Daemon News provides coverage for the Free, Net, and Open BSD communities. to Computing by peterb |
| Saturday Oct 2, 1999 | The Dynamical & Evolutionary Machine Organization group at Brandeis University evolved a to Computing by joshua |
| Wednesday Sep 29, 1999 | After reading Tom's Hardware Guide for a little while, I thought I was the shit. I felt confidant in overclocking celerons, video cards, and generally pushing my machine. Then I started reading Ars Technica. With articles like their SMP smackdown, What to do with iMacs, and Damage labs advice columns, I've brought my useless knowledge of the nearly obsolete to a truly "pimptastic" level. to Computing by akk |
| Sunday Sep 26, 1999 | In the "things I didn't really need" category, Desktop.com lets you do your work in a graphical desktop environment... hosted in a web browser... that's already running on your Windows based PC. What's the advantage of this again? Your new computer is too fast and you prefer the feeling of running Office 2000 on an unstable 386? to Computing by faisal |
| Wednesday Sep 22, 1999 | Digital cameras are finally becoming a competitive alternative to traditional film for snaps of the family and friends. And with 24-bit color it would seem that they provide the naked eye a full spectrum of distinguishable color. But for some applications what you really need is 960-bit color and Wintress Engineering Corporation fits the bill nicely.
to Computing by urog |
| Monday Sep 20, 1999 | Jesux (pronounced Hay-sooks) is a new Linux distribution for Christian hackers, schools, families, and churches. There is already a core distribution being prepared, based on RedHat's distribution. Jesux will be distributed under the Christian Software Public License which is aparently much like the BSD licence. to Computing by joshua |
| Saturday Sep 18, 1999 | Interested in experimenting with
neural nets?
Then pick up a free copy of the
Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator, which has
an impressive
list of features, a nice GUI, and is availabile on
many platforms.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Friday Sep 17, 1999 | Censorware is a big debate today, with libraires and schools installing it on every machine they have. But thankfully, folks like Peacefire, Censorware.org and IANS are helping the censored find the content they seek.
to Computing by imploded |
| Tuesday Sep 14, 1999 | All over the network, hidden in strange places,
obsolete protocols are
still supporting obsolete content. to Computing by peterb |
| What are those knuckle-heads at AOL up to now?
AOL Watch has the latest scoop
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Sep 11, 1999 | Fast forward to the future with snobol4.com!
And be sure to get the t-shirt they got there. It'll go great with your Nagel prints and your Coleco Adam game collection.
to Computing by sburke |
| Thursday Sep 9, 1999 | With Java, Sun finally brought 1960's programming language technology to the world. Someday
maybe Sun will take heed of
Request For Enhancement #4064105: Compile-time type safety with parameterized types
and bring us early 1990's technology.
Until then, we've got Generic Java, which adds polymorphic types to Java and still compiles into
standard Java bytecode. to Computing by akk |
| Alice is tool designed to make it easy for novices to develop interesting 3D environments and to explore the new medium of interactive 3D graphics. to Computing by joshua |
| Patrick Bridges maintains a comprehensive list of Current Operating Systems Projects and OS-related research. to Computing by joshua |
| Wednesday Sep 8, 1999 | If you want or need old school Borland compilers, such as
Turbo Pascal v1.0 or Turbo C v1.0, go check out
The Borland Community Museum. (You'll probably want to click the "Anonymous" button at the login
prompt). They also have some information about
Borland history, and
they're working on adding a Hall of Fame. to Computing by keith |
| Wednesday Sep 1, 1999 | Has the recent
security hack of Microsoft's Hotmail made you paranoid
of your at-work online job-hunting? Sure, HushMail offers
web-based email with java-powered public-key encryption - but both sending
and receiver must use HushMail accounts for it to work. Thanks to ZipLip, you ungrateful, company-resource-abusing
turncoats can keep your primary webmail provider while exchanging encrypted messages with your favorite headhunters.
to Computing by pjammer |
| Friday Aug 27, 1999 | A personal construct from AvatarMe is only the first step in aping your
favorite Snow Crash
Hiro. An interactive, bandwidth-hogging processor-time-abusing Metaverse home (a la Ng) will be
sine qua non for true bitheads. Start building yours today with tools from 3D Anarchy
to Computing by pjammer |
| Unisys now wants $5000 from virtually every web site operator in the world. Don't you just love frivolous software patents? to Computing by faisal |
| Wednesday Aug 25, 1999 | Everyone wants the ultimate 3d card. to Computing by peterb |
| Ted Nelson's legendary Xanadu
hypertext project is now
open source.
to Computing by tregoweth |
| Tuesday Aug 24, 1999 | "The IDchip
experiment was the embodiment of millenial angst as I saw it." Forget ID cards. Think wetware. to Computing by faisal |
| Monday Aug 23, 1999 | Remember the days when someone asked to borrow your calculator, and you pulled out that vinyl-wrapped HP, laden with buttons. You probably said something like "oh, but it's not a *normal* calculator" and they twisted an eyebrow at you, sealing your fate as an ubergeek. RPN? What's that? The Museum of HP Calculators is a precious collection of photographs, historical notes, programming information, and manuals for HP calculators, including the first (non IC!) RPN calculator HP ever made, the HP 9100. Craig Finseth's HPDATABase is an amazing collection of specifications for HP calculators. And while you're at it, you might has well join the International Association of Calculator Collectors.
to Computing by urog |
| Readers of Neal Stephenson's fantabulous Snow Crash excited about the prospect of interacting with the Internet through a digital construct/avatar won't need to wait for technology to catch up with their nerdish fantasies. While it may take some time before you can wield it like Hiro/Y.T., your personal avatar (the graphical/visual component) is available today, thanks to 3D-capture photobooths from the good folks at AvatarMe.
to Computing by pjammer |
| Thursday Aug 19, 1999 | Intrigued by SIGGRAPH but don't want to spring $200 for a full set of
conference proceedings?
You're in luck: you can get most of
this year's
papers on-line for free.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Wired to the teeth but never even thought of getting a fax machine until someone embarassingly asks you for your fax number? Get your faxes through email via eFax. to Computing by faisal |
| This Saturday (August 21) at 23:49:57 UTC the 10 bit
GPS
week counter will
roll over.
The
effects
will be minimal as most GPS receivers were built with the rollover in
mind. However, I certainly won't be
flying
anywhere that night.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 18, 1999 | I'm not sure where I stand amongst the other 43,000 or so
SIGGRAPH '99 attendees, but I thought the Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces paper was much cooler than Teddy. From a single image of a face, this system can make a fully animated 3d model that is frightenly realistic. to Computing by akk |
| Monday Aug 16, 1999 | One of the more popular papers at
SIGGRAPH this year was about
Teddy,
a 3d modelling program that has an artist-friendly UI and nifty
non-photorealistic rendering.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 9, 1999 | For every standard, there are
alternatives.
to Computing by goboro |
| Religious convictions regarding the relative merits of the things aside,
Trackpoints
aren't just for laptops anymore. You can now get 'em in pc keyboards
of both the
standard and
ergonomic variety.
to Computing by goboro |
| This guy is just a little biased.
to Computing by goboro |
| Tuesday Aug 3, 1999 | Even though we should know better, the term "web servers" conjurs up images room-sized cooling towers or wide desktop workstations. But how small a functional server can you build with non-military budget and ordinary hardware tools? This small. to Computing by pjammer |
| Friday Jul 30, 1999 | Forgetting the Good Old Days, hunkered over the Apple //e down in the basement running up long-distance charges on your parents' phone bill? Experience it again, right down to the phosphorescent green glow! to Computing by petey |
| Thursday Jul 29, 1999 | Dallas Semiconductor builds the clever iButton, a computer chip armored in stainless steel. They have a Java-powered cryptographic iButton that can do public key cryptography. Java iButton rings were given out at JavaOne 1998, but the crypto was disabled. One person decided to program his Java Ring to simulate a German ENIGMA machine. to Computing by petey |
| Wednesday Jul 28, 1999 | Funny thing about finite populations... hardcore computer users seem to have them in much larger (sometimes inverse) proportions to the general population. Thus, there may be no end to the number of people who love ugly or hate cute. to Computing by penth |
| Tuesday Jul 27, 1999 | The TOM Conversion Service allows you to convert a file from your local disk or from the Web to a format useful for viewing with your Web browser or saving to your local disk. Turn Excel spreadsheets into HTML tables. Turn Word documents into web pages. Turn PowerPoint presentations into GIFs. Turn PDF files into GIFs.
to Computing by petey |
| Not to toot my own horn or anything, but the CMU NASD project has released the source code to their network-attached secure disk prototype. Now you too can pretend that your computer is really an intelligent disk drive attached directly and securely to the network, without any pesky general-purpose machines in the way. to Computing by magus |
| Wednesday Jul 21, 1999 | Those of us who favor civilized
scripting languages tend to blanch at perl, we
write
essays,
create
alternatives, and start
advocacy organizations. The perl people,
just start a site
counting the number of times somebody says "perl rules".
This is somehow symbolic.
to Computing by mpc |
| Tuesday Jul 20, 1999 | Has the recently-released Back Orifice 2000 made your IT department paranoid of your connection to the Internet? Perhaps the paranoia is justified - conventional firewalls (designed to keep hostile commands out) are unable to stop Trojan Horse attacks, which works by instructing trusted terminals to secretly send compromising information to the cracker outside. Zonelabs has recently designed a "reverse firewall" Zone Alarm that scours outbound packets for signature Trojan emissions.
to Computing by pjammer |
| The Intel Errata Series - a chronicle of all the bugs present in Intel processors. Because hey, we all make mistakes. Some of us more than others. to Computing by succa |
| Friday Jul 16, 1999 | Waxing nostalgic for those kinder, simpler days? Delete Excel and go back to VisiCalc. to Computing by faisal |
| Tuesday Jul 13, 1999 | You're smart and you want to know what's going on in PC hardware. C|Net's
computers.com doesn't cut it. You need
Tom's Hardware Guide. to Computing by akk |
| Saturday Jul 10, 1999 | As the age of
Wired
mercifully
draws to a close. It may be time to consider
the virtues of the antithetical perspective.
Enlightened
Luddism, the works of Neil Postman,
Ubiquitous Computing, and the possibly
heretical thesis that
technology
isn't a panacea. to Computing by mpc |
| Wednesday Jun 30, 1999 | Having trouble figuring out what the OSI networking model has to do with the real world? Here's a handy comparison of the OSI model and the Taco Bell seven layer burrito.
to Computing by faisal |
| Monday Jun 21, 1999 | CipherClerk is a java applet that implements a collection of historic "paper and pencil" cryptosystems. In addition, explanations of various systems, up to and including WWII codes, are covered and explained. to Computing by joshua |
| From Compaq research, a theoretical new gizmo called a Factoid:
"The Factoid's purpose in life is to accumulate information that is broadcast from other Factoids, and upload it to the user's home base. The sort of information envisioned are tiny facts, such as one might see on a sign, in an advertisement, on a business card, or on the display of an instrument like a thermometer or GPS receiver." to Computing by tregoweth |
| Thursday Jun 17, 1999 | Dynamism and JPD
are importers of japanese ultralight and ultrathin notebooks before the come out in the states like the
latest Fujitsu Biblo. Yum. to Computing by akk |
| Wednesday Jun 16, 1999 | Reconfigurable Computing (computers based entirely on programmable logic) has gotten some buzz recently as the amount of vaporware increases. However, Bournemouth University's Dynamically Reconfigurable Hardware Library points out Stanford's Adaptive Computing, Berkeley's BRASS, and MIT's RAW are providing a rigourous analysis of the challenges involved.
to Computing by joshua |
| Thursday Jun 10, 1999 | If you're thinking of writing an article on the stupidity of the Y2K hype, you might first have to check with the company who trademarked the term "Y2K". Oops, that's "Y2K (tm)". to Computing by succa |
| Tuesday Jun 8, 1999 | This article nicely justifies the "wow, this interface sucks"
reaction I had when I first tried QuickTime 4.0. to Computing by akk |
| Monday Jun 7, 1999 | The only thing on this webpage is a list of every known font in the universe. to Computing by succa |
| Saturday Jun 5, 1999 | Want to see what someone else's desktop looks like? Course you do. to Computing by ned |
| Tuesday Jun 1, 1999 | Tired of traditional computing architectures?
Befunge
discards the crypto-fascist linear program counter
in favor of a multi-dimensional program counter that
can iterate over a variety of surfaces. While
in CS theory this is about as useful as square wheels,
it's great for making fellow coder's heads go blooey.
to Computing by mpc |
| ZOPE is an open-source
context management system which looks like it might
have some wide-ranging potential. It's somewhat
similar to Frontier,
but more hackable.
to Computing by mpc |
| Saturday May 29, 1999 | The Register has excellent early-breaking technology news with wry commentary - their slogan is "Biting the hand that feeds IT." to Computing by joshua |
| Saturday May 22, 1999 | While Active Matrix's Hideaway claims to be
a "white hat" hacker's resource page, dedicated to ethical hacking, the instructions
on a variety of color box-building techniques
suggest otherwise. to Computing by pjammer |
| Friday May 21, 1999 | The Boolean Spaces Property Machine. It may be art, it may be math, it may be an obscure torture device. to Computing by mpc |
| How useful is the web? How
can paper prototyping aid interface
design? And once the software and the website are finished, who cares about
testing the documentation?
User Interface Engineering, that's who.
|
| Tuesday May 18, 1999 | Tired of boring error messages whenever you try to access a webpage that doesn't exist? Cool404 is an ongoing effort to archive some of the more interesting "404 not found" error messages on the web. to Computing by succa |
| Monday May 17, 1999 | If you're not studly enough to develop PalmOS applications in forth,
you might want to look into Waba, a subset of
Java (the language, the bytecode,and the platform) designed to run on Palm OS and WinCE devices.
Unlike Sun's full JVM for the Palm OS, waba
has a small footprint, and provides native support for serial I/O and native databases. to Computing by akk |
| Thursday May 13, 1999 | The Atari Historical Society displays much of the late Atari Corporation's products, from their earliest coin-op games to their last-gasp console system, the Jaguar.
The Atari Time Machine shows off the history of the corporation itself and the motivation behind many of the product decisions. to Computing by joshua |
| The Flux Research Group has a number of interesting operating system projects, including the high-security kernel Fluke, the distributed system toolkit Khazana, and the highly modular OSKit - build an operating system out of parts!
to Computing by joshua |
| Wednesday May 12, 1999 | Ayse Goker has a very well organzied page of links of
AI resources on the
web, including companies, journals and free software. to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Trouble visualizing huge hierarchies?
Take a look at
hyperbolic
trees! It's an interesting way to navigate
big tree structures, and it's fun to click
around on. The demo requires Java.
to Computing by oznoid |
| Tuesday May 11, 1999 | Now if only memepool followed the Style Guide for Authoring
Hypertext Content for Mobile Devices (or had an alternate page that did),
then the Avantgo Channel I created for
use on my Palm Pilot would be even more impossibly nifty.
to Computing by peterb |
| Friday May 7, 1999 | Virus or hoax - Which is it? First of all, go to CERT,
the Computer Emergency Response Team, to educate yourself on recent advisories.
Then, check out CIAC, the
Computer Incident Advisory Capability, rather unusually placed within the U. S. Department
of Energy. Good descriptions of past and recurring hoaxes are to be found there.
to Computing by urog |
| Want to be able to saturate a 100Mbit network link
without using up more than 2% of your processor?
InterProphet
has ethernet cards that'll do just
that.
Their boards do TCP processing so your machine doesn't
have to, and they claim it'll scale to let you
saturate a gigabit link with 5% of your processor.
to Computing by magus |
| Thursday May 6, 1999 | Microsoft's
MURL web-site
is a free archive of
academic CS
talks
given at Microsoft and several select universities.
Unfortunately (and predictably), these talks are recorded in a
proprietary format, viewable only under Windows.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday May 4, 1999 | The "sick and wrong but cool" award for April goes to Great Circle - it isn't just one of the best memory debugging / GC tools around, it also lets you remotely debug applications via a web browser. to Computing by faisal |
| Emulation.net
is your one-stop site for the finest in emulators
running within the
MacOS. Whether you'd like to relive all
the old Commodore
64 memories of your youth, play around with a
virtual VAX,
or just ape a
PalmPilot,
it's all here for the taking. to Computing by crikey |
| Sunday May 2, 1999 | For several years now, Mr. Chank Diesel has been the Internet's premier typographer, spinnin' out the keenest new fonts with alarming speed. The fonts he charges cash money for are clearly the nicest, but, really, his free fonts are nothing to sneeze at. Especially nifty is the rockstar font archive, featuring hand-drawn fonts by members of Man or Astroman?, Six Finger Satellite, Soul Coughing, The Flaming Lips, and many more.
to Computing by crikey |
| Thursday Apr 22, 1999 | The Hacker FAQ provides management types with advice on the care and feeding of a happy hacker. Rest assured, there are ethics involved. You may want to become a hacker. Kind of a debatable process. You'd probably know if you were one. to Computing by machita |
| Monday Apr 19, 1999 | e-services is HP's fancy name for automated intelligent agents that handle all sorts of administrative tasks to make your life easier.
to Computing by faisal |
| Thursday Apr 15, 1999 | Neoplanet takes the WinAmp skins model to the browser. You can dress it up, and take it wherever you like. to Computing by occupant |
| Pad++ demonstrates a new idea in user interface design: the Zoomable User Interface (also known as multiscale interfaces.) to Computing by joshua |
| Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk. It is essentially in the public domain, runs bit-identical on a huge number of platforms, and includes the authentic Smalltalk user interface. to Computing by joshua |
| Monday Apr 12, 1999 | Who is reading your email, usenet posts, and can see all that extreme tentacle porn you're ogling? Phear no longer because other people are
just as worried as you! First, get an anonymous remailer. Then,
anonymize all of your usenet posts, and finally get a dental dam for your browser to surf anonymously.
to Computing by urog |
| Friday Apr 9, 1999 | Version 4.1.0 of ye olde Jargon File
is now online, in case you can't remember what a
meme or the
slashdot effect are. to Computing by tregoweth |
| Monday Apr 5, 1999 | Mitre's Collaborative Virtual Workspace combines the geographic representation model of MUDs with modern collaboration features like videoconferencing, shared document repositories, whiteboards, etc.
to Computing by faisal |
| Thursday Apr 1, 1999 | Carnegie Mellon University (sporadically) maintains an immensley useful
repository of
artificial intelligence software, documentation, programming languages,
mailing-list archives, and utilities.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 25, 1999 | Hello, World,
have a cold one.
to Computing by mpc |
| Monday Mar 15, 1999 | Multics was developed in the mid-1960s in
the programming language PL/1. Unix folklore has it that Unix began as a miniature
mutant offshoot of Multics. to Computing by arkuat |
| Tuesday Mar 9, 1999 | An Atlas of Cyberspaces,
showcasing research and commercial products for
visualization of network topology, information space, and own surfing behavior. While much
of the more interesting software is academic in nature, many of the commercial packages
are downloadable for at least a trial basis.
to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 2, 1999 | ICab, the new German web browser for the Mac now available in English and ready for test drivers.
Less than a meg and does exactly what the big guys do, maybe better. to Computing by occupant |
| Monday Mar 1, 1999 | There's only one way to avoid being suckered by the
Bastard Operator from Hell's
Excuse of the Day:
Read the Frigging Manual!
to Computing by penth |
| Friday Feb 26, 1999 | What makes CG swarms swarm? Jurassic herds, Dalmatian scrambles,
and Unreal fish follow the paths traced by Craig Reynolds' 1986
work 'boids'.
The ~400x400 Java applet with 3D boids schooling and
wheeling is worth a new browser window. to Computing by taoist |
| Thursday Feb 25, 1999 | yapc -- yet another perl conference. This is a cheap rogue perl conference (at ~ $50 instead of ~ $1000) built from the bottom up. More Perl to ya!
to Computing by oznoid |
| Wednesday Feb 24, 1999 | A site that injects a little sanity into the
y2k bug debate.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 22, 1999 | Wotsit's Format contains file format
information on hundreds of different file types. to Computing by joshua |
| Thursday Feb 11, 1999 | Unhappy with Apple? Complain "directly" to Steve Jobs.
to Computing by faisal |
| Tuesday Feb 9, 1999 | bsy's List of Internet Accessible Coke Machines,
in case you're curious just how wired grad students
in Pittsburgh are.
to Computing by tjs |
| Looking for Unix software?
Try the
comp.sources.unix archive.
to Computing by tjs |
| Monday Feb 8, 1999 | The Universal Library project -- indexing and archiving
"All the collected works of Mankind" (Jefferson, sic) right next to your pr0n collection.
Starting with out-of-print books, their goals
include reproduction of out-of-print books
and replication of all public domain works.
to Computing by oznoid |
| As reported by IEEE Spectrum 1999 January, the MIDS Internet Weather Report aka. IWR
is a set of geographically oriented maps showing internet ping delays, generated hourly.
to Computing by urog |
| Thursday Feb 4, 1999 | An excellent article on the
legality of creating and using emulators. to Computing by peterb |
| All the news that's fit to print, manipulate, mislead, and
mystify. to Computing by jacquez |
| Wednesday Feb 3, 1999 | Every file
format in the world -- collect 'em all!
to Computing by tregoweth |
| With DomainSurfer,
you can do searches for domain names containing a given
text string -- like
money,
duck, or
lewinsky.
to Computing by tregoweth |
| Saturday Jan 30, 1999 | Go to The PDF Zone, the clearinghouse for everything related to Adobe's Portable Document Format. to Computing by joshua |
| PRCS is a revision control system with many improvments over CVS to Computing by joshua |
| Friday Jan 29, 1999 | Artificial intelligence applied to solve your everday problems at
Forum 2000.
to Computing by peterb |
| Sunday Jan 24, 1999 | Correct some of your youthful Usenet indiscretions
with Deja News' automated
message nuker. to Computing by tregoweth |
| Friday Jan 22, 1999 | Prodigy's shutting
down its pre-Internet "Classic" service
rather than fixing its year-2000 bugs. to Computing by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Jan 20, 1999 | In an effort to set the record straight, the Attrition Errata page has some information on what's true and, more importantly, what's not true with respect to Internet security. A recent submission to memepool can be seen highlighted under Charlatans.
to Computing by stimpy |
| Monday Jan 18, 1999 | Corporations fight
back against hackers -- hard. to Computing by tregoweth |
| Friday Jan 15, 1999 | The fall of Microsoft:
a look back. to Computing by tregoweth |
| Monday Jan 11, 1999 | For the hacker who has everything except the ability to take your laptop on a trip without 10
damn CD's from games that require them to start even though they installed 640 megabytes
on your hard drive, be sure to visit Fravia's Pages of Reverse
Engineering. Everything you need to start retroactively improving the software you've
paid for.
to Computing by peterb |
| Saturday Jan 9, 1999 | History of Computing Information has more about ENIAC than the average high school history textbook has about anything, and is maintained by Mike Muuss, the inventor of ping.to Computing by joshua |
| Wednesday Jan 6, 1999 | The
Windows "April Fools 2001" bug. (Insert your
own Gates/April Fool/HAL joke here.) to Computing by tregoweth |
| Saturday Jan 2, 1999 | The ACM has put a
few classic papers and speeches
on their web-site. Los Alamos has a
more complete archive,
of ACM papaers, which is
searchable as well.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Dec 31, 1998 | History isn't written by the victors; it's written by the publishers. to Computing by tregoweth |
| Saturday Dec 19, 1998 | Far more than you ever wanted to know about PostScript. to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Dec 15, 1998 | Whether you're new to the language or an expert looking for clever tweaks,
you should check out the C-Scene
Zine, a technical e-zine devoted to C and C++. to Computing by riotnrrd |
| ...and the Irony Of The Year Award goes to... Hotline Communications and Adam Hinkley, creators of the software pirate toolchest favorite Hotline.
It seems they're now battling it out in court, arguing over intellectual property rights. to Computing by faisal |
| Tuesday Dec 8, 1998 | Doxygen is a documentation system for C and C++. It can generate an on-line class browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LaTeX) from a set of documented source files. to Computing by joshua |
| The UNIX Hater's Mailing List Archive. For when "rm -rf /" just isn't good enough.
to Computing by faisal |
| Monday Dec 7, 1998 | You think you're a hot programmer, but has your code
ever
killed a man?
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Dec 3, 1998 | Amazing, alarming, surprising, and free:
Siag is an "Office" package for Linux
that looks nice, yet builds using standard Unix
tools and doesn't cost a dime. You might not
notice that it has a Scheme backend.
"Siag Office - It Sucks Less!"
to Computing by tjs |
| Wednesday Dec 2, 1998 | Exploring the Internet is a somewhat dated
book about networks, OSI, ISO, ITU, and lots of
other scary TLAs--with a cameo by Motorhead and
other assorted amusements.
to Computing by tjs |
| Netscape learned from Microsoft, now it learns from Scientology: People don't like your new marketing scheme? Try some nuisance lawsuits and hope people shut up. to Computing by faisal |
| Tuesday Dec 1, 1998 | Where are they now? to Computing by jason |
| Monday Nov 30, 1998 | MIND CONTROL! Of your computer? to Computing by faisal |
| Sunday Nov 29, 1998 | We got tired of lugging around those bulky albums,
so GramoFile
came to the rescue. Now we only lug around those
bulky CDs.
to Computing by shadow |
| A real equalizer app for Linux would be nice,
but in the meantime
PipeWave has to suffice. Has some useful filters, too.
to Computing by shadow |
| Princeton Sound Kitchen
is a set of sound manipulation utilities for SGI and NeXT. Shame on them for
not releasing source so that the rest of us could play along...
to Computing by shadow |
| Saturday Nov 28, 1998 | Bash.org hacked? Looks surprisingly similar to Kornshell.com...
to Computing by joshua |
| Monday Nov 23, 1998 | We all know that C is
just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar so it should be no
surprise that there's a long-standing
contest to see who can write the most
obscure or obfuscated C program
that actually does something useful.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 20, 1998 | Peter Suber invented Nomic. He also has a very large collection of information regarding knots.
to Computing by urog |
| excerpt: [This is] intended to serve as a comprehensive collection of algorithm implementations for over seventy of the most fundamental problems in combinatorial algorithms.
to Computing by urog |
| Want to be hip? Forget brand label key-fob-neck-ropes. Check out sources for many of the common "exploits" being used by netizen youths to ruin the Net. to Computing by urog |
| Thursday Nov 19, 1998 | If Oracle can put a file system into a database, someone can put an file system in perl.
to Computing by faisal |
| Alice is a surprisingly fun 3D object scripting program, intended for children, paid for by the Department of Defense with US citizen's tax dollars. Completion of this joke is left as an exercise to the reader. to Computing by nyarl |
| Saturday Nov 14, 1998 | Okay, so Y2K may cause the end of the world after all. to Computing by faisal |
| Tuesday Nov 10, 1998 | Laptop batteries keep running out? Try wiring it up to a compact car battery.... to Computing by faisal |
| Monday Nov 9, 1998 | Steve McConnell has written three of the most prominent books on software project management, as well as numerous articles (available on his web site).
to Computing by faisal |
| Wednesday Nov 4, 1998 | If you weren't sick enough of Open Source Evangelism, along comes "The Halloween Document" - an allegedly internal Microsoft strategy document dealing with the Open Source software methodology "threat", complete with only slightly misguided editorial from Open Source advocates. to Computing by faisal |
| Friday Oct 30, 1998 | Dennis Ritchie is credited with the C
programming language, along with Unix.
If you have anything to do with computers, you
know what those are. He has a substantial
collection of many, many things related to C
and Unix; while not overly funny, they're damn
useful.
to Computing by tjs |
| Jamie Zawinski has a
caller-id hack that sounds cool
(although admittedly half-baked). Maybe it's time to buy
some excessive hardware at my place.
to Computing by tjs |
| Sunday Oct 25, 1998 | ht://dig is a
GPL'd website indexer and search engine designed
for a small domain or intranet. to Computing by joshua |
| Friday Oct 23, 1998 | The Interface Hall of Shame is an
irreverent collection of examples of common human/interface design mistakes.
to Computing by joshua |
| Thursday Oct 22, 1998 | Great DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) visualization software,
with source for free...
graphviz
to Computing by oznoid |
| Saturday Oct 17, 1998 | Internet Father, IANA God Jon Postel has passed away.
to Computing by faisal |
| Monday Oct 12, 1998 | DHTML MacOS -- a clear sign of too many chemicals in the water. to Computing by nyarl |
| Friday Oct 9, 1998 | The macarena isn't gone yet. to Computing by jason |
| Wednesday Oct 7, 1998 | Infect your friends. to Computing by joshua |
| Abort, Retry,
Fail?
to Computing by jason |
| Friday Oct 2, 1998 | One of the fathers
of Unix goes for a ride in a MiG-29.
to Computing by goboro |
| Just when you thought you were safe from former Amiga-weenies, meet REBOL,
a new "programming" language. to Computing by akk |
| Thursday Oct 1, 1998 | It doesn't really get any better than 1bsd on a PDP-11. to Computing by petey |
| Monday Sep 28, 1998 | LISP: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big
is a notorious paper containing the infamous
"Worse is Better" argument, an important read for
anyone wondering why all the good ideas never seem
to work out. to Computing by tjs |
| Wednesday Sep 23, 1998 | Can't afford that new machine? Build your own. to Computing by jason |
| Tuesday Sep 22, 1998 | Ever wanted to make everything sound like it's been through a cellphone?
A free implementation of the GSM 6.10 lossy speech compression
also lists a huge number of audio compression and generation resources.
to Computing by joshua |
| Abstraction and Modularity in Intercal. You know you want it.
to Computing by faisal |
| Friday Sep 18, 1998 | You've heard rumors, but here's the real deal: the INTERCAL CGI script to Computing by bah |
| Cool XML parsing in perl at the XML::Parser home page. to Computing by bah |
| Agora is a web-crawling repository of software components. Java, CORBA, etc. Still needs some work, but good potential... to Computing by nyarl |
| Thursday Sep 17, 1998 | GOT VT-320? GOT TERMCAP?
to Computing by bah |
| A plethora of Pre-compiled Solaris Freeware. Only useful if you're running Slowaris. to Computing by bah |
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