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  1. I have taken a similar class. by Papa+Legba · · Score: 1 · on History and Culture of Computing?

    A point of reference that might help is a class I participated in at Old Dominion University called computers and society (CS 300U). It covered the history of computting (but to a lesser degree than you are proposing) and how computers impact society. If you would like to check the page out it can be found Here . I found the course fairly comprehensive even coverring operation Sundevil ( I remember having to hide my pirated apple ][ software for that one) and other items of hacker/computer note.

    Good jumping off point for developing the class you are researching.

  2. Virginia Tech has one too by cara · · Score: 2 · on U.S. Army Developing Prototype Holodeck
    http://www.cave.vt.edu/

    Besides wearing glasses as someone mentioned, you use a "wand" or 3D mouse to control things. When I was working on my master's degree at Tech, I did a project with the CAVE for a class called Computer Supported Cooperative Work. We did some of the first investigations into hooking up multiple CAVEs so that people could collaborate with each other, seeing each other as an avatar in the CAVE. Unfortuntely, the link to the paper is broken, but here is some info on other projects that grew out of that class project.

  3. Mirror sites by dsplat · · Score: 4 · on LinuxMandrake 7.0 ISO Images Available
    Mandrake's site is swamped right now. The official list of mirror sites is here. The ones listed as doing hourly updates are:



    I haven't gotten through to any of those servers to find out if they have 7.0 on them yet, but I expect they will soon.
  4. Some tips... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5 · on Turn Your 15" Monitor Into 30 Cheap

    Site is /.'ed, so this might be redundant...

    I've actually done this before (a long time ago). A mirror, a lens, a box, and an old monitor and voila! But it's not as K-RAD as you might expect.

    You lose A LOT of brightness from the expansion (imagine the brightness of a 14"er spread over a 6'x6' square!), from lens impurities (it's plasitc for christs-sake!), and from 'leakage'. This last one will KILL this project. If you try this, make SURE you enclose the box and paint it with matte black paint on the inside. Turn the brightness on your monitor up FULL-BLAST (BEWARE: I'm convinced this is what killed 1024x768 on my 14" throw-away). Also, close all your windows and shut off all the lights. Ambient light will force your pupils open and you won't be able to see the screen clearly.

    The lens was $3 (!) at the local surplus store. My brother tells me it can double as an asphalt melter, but I've never tried. :) A 12"x14" mirror was only a few bucks, too.

    I use this setup to have a CTHUGA box (486 w/ DOS, no flames, please) playing constantly in my living room. It's a very entertaining thing for me and my friends when it's all fired up, and with a program like Cthugha, the slight blurring kinda works to it's advantage. (if you've never seen/heard of Cthugha, you've missed the coolest thing I've even seen on a computer: http://www.afn.org/~cthugha )

    Not exactly perfect for games, but definitely a fun geek project for a weekend. If anyone has any questions, don't hesistate to email me.

    Bart "We don't need no stinkin' accounts" Grantham
    grant_b@cs.odu.edu


    PS - Add MAME to the mix and rock on out with some Ms PacMan. Don't deny that is what computers are for!

  5. Prior art on the collaboration patent by Blrfl · · Score: 2 · on NCR Sues Netscape For Patent Infringement
    Remote collaboration among host computer running host program and remote computers each running application program
    ...
    This looks like a general patent on client-server computing. Considering that this patent is dated April 2, 1997 (Granted July 13, 1999), Isn't there a lot of prior art?

    It looks more like a more specific patent on a system to allow an application being run on one system to be seen and operated by one or more remote systems. There's a ton of prior art on that.

    From 1988 to 1990, I did university research that led to software the does just this. The first system replicated full-screen dumb terminal sessions. The second, called XTV , did it for any X11 application. We published the following paper on it:

    XTV: A Framework for Sharing X Window Clients in Remote Synchronous Collaboration
    Proceedings of IEEE TriComm '91, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pp. 159-167, April 1991.

    Similar projects had previously been done elsewhere, but ours was the first that didn't require a special X server or client libraries.

    I'm not sure how NCR thinks Netscape infringed on this patent, but I'm sure some judge will get to hear their lawyer's explanation. This ought to be interesting.