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OK, well this is for Hemos's birthday, so the mind boggles. How about a 10/100 Ethernet option?

Or the Beowulf clustering option...

--Seen

The are rather expensive, at about $800 - $2100 each! Cool though...

--Nicholas

We did this to one of my friend's trucks about a year and a half ago. He still gets a stray peanut shooting out of the vent every now and then.

Here's a link to Eugine's paper that created quite a ruckuss in 1996.

Also, here's a 1998 Wired article that gives a good deal of background about Podkletnov, and why his paper was so badly recieved. It does meander a bit. I'd recommend skipping the boring parts where the writer recounts his visit with some other nut who thought he could duplicate Podkletnov's experiment. It is funny though, and it does show a lot about how a bad scientific method can produce erroneous results.

Enjoy!

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Epitaph

...yet. Anyone else remember Atari Force? :)

-jon (look, mommy! it's Microsoft Heroes 2000!)

... in the gbdev mailing list. I run the archive at mixdown.org/gbdev.

The add-on would be a DSP or fast processor because, as one poster correctly put it, the GB processor (a bitched-up Z80) simply does not have the balls to decode an MP3 stream at any usable rate.

I too consider a GB MP3 device totally useless. A RIO gives you all that, has more memory (IIRC) and is better on batteries, to boot. The GB can't even be used as a (proper) audio output because there is only a single pin on the GB cartridge you can inject audio on, so that leaves stero operation out. Unless they've somehow used the GB sound chip in its digitized mode.

The people in that list have a lot of great ideas, but some seem to want to push the platform too far (read: beyond something economically worthwhile). Things like MP3 addons, PDA software, raycasted 3D graphics and <cough> a multitasking OS are, IMHO, a waste of effort and brainpower for otherwise bright minds. However... full-colour imagery, robotics and a multitude of cheap computing projects are well worth the effort.

If you've got one and you want to hack it, join up. You can buy Bung's cartridge to transfer your software to a real GB or use one designed by one of the list gurus. There are some people in there who do GB code for a living, others who are under Nintendo NDAs, and even others who seem to know more than Nintendo themselves knows about the GB. :-)

ctags stopped cutting it when I moved from C to C++, and it's useless for Java

Exuberant ctags is far advanced over old ctags programs. The C support is much improved and C++ and Java support have been added and work like a charm. Works especially well in combination with Vim. If you don't like the way it handles Java, you can give JTags a try, but it's nowhere near as stable.

If you're doing Java development, you'll probably also want to use Jikes, as it integrates very nicely with QuickFix mode in Vim and make mode in Emacs. There's also a Jikes Debugger java debugger, but I've not used it.

a decent code beautifier, since indent doesn't work right for Java

jsbeautifier is one of many -- a search I did a few months ago turned up 10 or 12 beautifiers for Java, and even more for other languages.

Of course, if you want a good graphical debugger then ddd is the way to go -- it lets you get to the gdb command line if need be.

Sumner

I would say that if the govt. has the capability to implement something like ECHELON, which monitors many different media (and more bandwidth intensive ones at that), then they definitely have the capability to implement FIDNET.

There is already a worldwide surveillance network in place called ECHELON. It's a cooperative effort between the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, & Australia.

A friend of mine made a web site called the necktie repository. Its useful for anyone who had trouble or doesn't know how to tie a necktie, like me.

http://fly.hiwaay.net/~jimes/necktie

Nah there's plently of dinky little 3d VRML objects around. You get a pencil or something and you can rotate it with your mouse. Great fun for about 2 minutes.

Funny, most of the VRML I have seen has been quite specific applications. Most of the Java I have seen has been stupid animated icons.

There is a nice jumping place to other VRML worlds, and it is reachable from here. The vast majority of worlds out there are not little play toys, which is not what you can say about the vast majority of java applets.