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wally writes "Something for the older geeks; it 'started as a bit of a joke around the office, about doing stupid things with old technology' he said. 'Stupid things like, "Well, I can calculate fractals on an abacus!" or "Well, I can surf the web on my Game Boy!". Then one person said, "Oh yeah? Well, I can display video on my XT!". And later that day I kept thinking about it and came up with a way to do it.' And he really did. With video proof and a full explanation with all the needed code, full motion video on an original 8088 IBM."

hypethetica writes "In memory of game developer Silas Warner, a fan-based port of the original PC boot-diskette version of the 1985 classic, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, has been disassembled, CPU speed fixed, and Soundblaster support has been added. The new game executable, blessed by Silas' widow, runs in DOS, Windows, and DOSBox emulators. Both the executables and source code (x86 assembly) are available for download."

Trixter asks: "Like most nerds, I receive a large volume of email that I archive in several files and directories in a filesystem. This is inefficient, especially when it comes to searching for an old or obscure bit of information. I can imagine several better ways to organize email for archival and lookup, but has anyone already done this? I want to try avoiding reinventing the wheel for the tenth time this year. By 'better ways', I'm talking about all solutions--from the Perl monger 'one 10-line script will do the trick' perl script to parse up a long mbox-format file into little bits for intelligent grepping, to maybe an elegant 'mbox-format file to SQL database' loader/translator script and a series of SQL statements to support searches. Please, help me organize my gigabytes-long, decade-long email archive!"

Trixter asks this question, which might be helpful to any of you out there that might be looking to do something similar: "I'm planning a huge, free, online resource, and am just looking for a way to recoup any operating costs; I'm providing the server out of my own pocket, but would like advertising to pay for the bandwidth each month, with any additional profits going into upgrading the server hardware and bandwidth, ad infinitum. Just how do you make money on the web with a free service?"

Trixter writes "Just a quick note that the educational content version of OpenSource called OpenContent has finally been recognized by mainstream media in a fairly well-written article that serves as a primer to OpenContent. "