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There was even a version for the BBC Micro called RAM WARS! (In The Micro User magazine - listing and full article (PDF) both online). Ah, that brings back memories...

There was even a version for the BBC Micro called RAM WARS! (In The Micro User magazine - listing and full article (PDF) both online). Ah, that brings back memories...

haha yes that was funny back then ... here are two phonecalls with martijn. To bad it's Dutch only but on the second you can hear that Martijn and his partner in crime get very upset. Very nice to hear if you can understand it. Look for "zijn ontkenning en het artikel in Planet Multimedia gisteren met de telefonische ontkenning van Bevelander plus het gesprek met Bevelander en zijn compagnon."

For this you might need an interpretting parser, such as IParse.

If you want to have something more powerful than regexprs, and still have it as an interpretter, you might have a look at an interpretting parser that I wrote: IParse.

The correct link is: http://home.planet.nl/~faase009/Signindex.html.

Look here for a collection of Signature programs that could serve as inspiration.

Seems like Belgium isn't mentioned.
Belgium has 20,2% of all households on broadband (all households, meaning that those without any form of internet are counted too)
source

Now since 36,4% of all households in Belgium have internet (tainted: 2001 statistics)
source

this would give us a 55% (probably less since the above percentage has risen meanwhile) broadband penetration into the internet households.

Is it just me, or did Belgium deserve an entry in this article?

(I do realise that Belgium is a small, high populated country, but still...)

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?

The above is a Brainf*** program. If you want to know what it says use BF online.

But if you reckon they were worth it, I may go back and give them a go. What does everyone else think?

Spoiler Warning!

After Dune, just about everything is depressing. God Emperor of Dune was weird enough, but wait until you come to Heretics of Dune.

Herbert builds up a belief system, where he just shows everything that you knew and respected fade away. And things that you loved to despise, or did not quite like of, like say the BG, turn out to be almost the nice guys!

And then you will realize why Leto-II was good to the BG in the God Emperor series! He knew that the BG had a much much bigger role to play.

Now Dune:Chapterhouse. Thats another very very weird book. Its almost like telling you, everything you knew, or thought that you knew, is false. And you hardly got to see the tip of the iceberg.

He leaves it on a very weird note - either he was planning to write more or did not want to, or knew that he'd not live to write more. Coming to Marty and Daniel, read this article. The ending of the Dune series is just as weird as the ending to Asimov's foundation - just about anything could happen, and you're left with infinite possibilities, and infinite questions :-)

So on the whole, the whole series has a little sad note, and a very weird feeling, but you come away satisfied, although with lots of questions!

Now my question is, what really happened to Ix? Because in House Atreides by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson, he discusses some very weird things about the Atreides and the Ix houses, and some weird characters and the like. Any ideas? I would also like to read more about the Butlerian Jihad, guess Brian is writing a book on that?

Dried compressed mud, also known as pisé can last incredibly long under the right climate. The most fascinating construction is the Arg-e Bam, in the middle of an iranian desert. It was founded 2000 years ago, and abandonned 200 years ago, and it is still here. Of course, very little rain there, or else... It is said that the citadel was never defeated; the only time an army almost conquered it, they had to make a river run against the high walls; when they tumbled, they realized there was much more thickers walls to get to the citadel, so they gave up.

Bam is now under heavy restauration, it is a highlight of every tourist trip in Iran. I highly encourage everyone going to Iran to get there, despite the long long boring trip by bus to reach it.

If you think that *that* is bad, read this (sorry, Dutch only).

In short, it explains that Dutch wiretapping equipment is actually bought from an Israeli company, who is allowed to spy on Dutch phonecalls using their installation.

And it tells us that 300,000 requests for personal information are sent to ISP's and telecoms every year! A number which is expected to rise to 900,000 in a few years!

No wonder the Dutch government doesn't want to provide us with numbers - if this is any indication they are tapping just about every phoneline in the country!

I think it is a sad conclusion that XML is here to stay, as it is not such a good format for which is intended and attempts to fix some of the flaws of XML by additional (and often contradicting) formalisms, have not made things better. XML basically can only represent a tree data-structure with named nodes and attributes. It does not have facilities to represent sorted and unsorted collections with key fields in a proper manner. It also lacks a mechanism for representing references between elements and it is rather poor with respect to the explicit definition of semantical properties of the data, and is very limited in the expression of additional constraints. I once made an effort to come up with something better myself. Please read this description for the details.

Many people hold the opinion that Marty and Daniel represent Frank Herbert and Bev his wife, and that in the last chapter Frank Herbert is waving goodbye to us, by the famous last words: Gholas. He's welcome to them. And although this interpretation is strengthed by the Eulogy for Beverly by Frank in the back of the book, it would not surprise me, that he has put this in, with the thought in mind that he might not be able to finish his last book. This 'literary' interpretation does not conflict with the `factual' interpretation that Marty and Daniel are Face Dancers.

I think this deserves more research by me in the future, because a biologist who is convinced there are massive problems with evolution and then changes his mind would be significant indeed - and so would understanding his reasons why.

Especially considering this review:
At least one pro-evolution writer, Gert Korthof, has seized with delight Denton's apparent flip-flop on evolution. In Part 2 of Nature's Destiny that appearance is quickly dispelled, but Denton still deserves some of the blame for the confusion. Virtually every reference to evolution in Part 1 could be replaced with a reference to the survival of species, and the argument concerning the laws of physics would not be diminished. By using the word "evolution" as he does, Denton seems to be contributing to the obfuscation of that word, rather than clarifying it as Phillip Johnson seeks to do.

When we begin reading Part 2, it immediately becomes apparent that Denton is talking about something very different from Darwin's concept of natural selection acting on random changes. Denton proposes that evolution is true in a sense, but that it is not driven by random changes, but rather by intelligently directed leaps which involve significant changes in complexity. Further, he proposes that these directed leaps are not performed by supernatural acts of interference with the laws of physics, but instead were elaborately planned into the laws of physics from the beginning. Thus, Denton finds a point of common ground between pure naturalism and the intelligent design of higher organisms -- a remarkable feat.

Anyway, I'm off to bed.

...in a comment mentioning both penii and computers. Is your wang floppy?

The BBC wanted a micro which they could use in their educational stuff. They went to Acorn, who was a successful manufacturer of the Atom, and basically they agreed that the next generation computer, which was to be called the Proton could be called the BBC Micro. This gave Acorn exposure and extra sales, and the BBC the machine they were looking for. For about a decade, you saw BBC micro's popping up in BBC shows including Dr Who. Acorn later made the Electron, and then the Archimedies, before going bankrupt.

Therefore the BBC do not own the copyright on the ROM's in the BBC micro.

The Silicon Graphics Refrigerator Project (or: How To Turn a $175.000 High-End SGI Challenge DM Server into a Fridge)

Does no one know about this?

We Esperanto speakers have Pasporta Servo. You can find hosts all over the world who will house you for free.

Damn, we need to do a better job of getting the word out. Anyway, it's fairly easy to learn. If you want to see the world on the cheap, give it a shot.

well, on this link is an old copy protection scheme: enforced DMCA?
but it apparently worked for at least one game.

Car and cdr originate from the IBM 704 family of computers' address handling.

But the Dutch PTT does[DUTCH]. In the link KPN states that it will not start providing wireless networks any time soon.
It's mentioned that they may still remember the failure of Kermit (Greenpoint), what in my opinion mainly failed because it was only meant for outgoing calls, and most antenna's were placed near (on top off) public phones.

Another reason not to provide the service will be the big investment KPN made in UMTS-licenses, and their recent introduction of i-Mode.

How has 'building|making' been/is confused/missused/associated with 'destroying|demolishing' things?

Case :

I think before publishing material publicly, one should do some research and confirm sources/results with other relevant people on that subject.
(eg. confirm "hack[er|ing]/crack[er|ing]" with (a) guru[s] in computers, like ESR).

This goes aswell to the slashdot editors for their (subject)postings; and all other form of publishing (you know who you are).

Reference :
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/hacker.htm l
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/hacker-eth ic.html
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/cracker.ht ml
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/cracking.h tml
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=hacker
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=dark-side %20hacker
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=cracker
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html
http://home.planet.nl/~faase009/Ha_hacker.html
http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/faqs/hacker.html
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0 ,,sid14_gci212220,00.html
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0 ,,sid14_gci211852,00.html
....and many more are out there, on the World Wide Web.

turning a VAX into a keg dispenser with webmonitoring
or maybe just a bar or how about a fridge

The problem isn't about our rights, it's about conservative over-reaction.

Lest ye not forget, the Libs are just as anxious to take away speech they do not agree with. E.g., Tipper Gore and the Parents Music Resource Center.

Granted, most of the threats to free speech seem to come from the right, but that's only because the left runs the media in this country. (Don't believe me on that one? You're wrong.)

>His Scully and Xena skins were sporting wangs.

Exactly, that would make perfect sense for someone in the computer programming profession.

The Silicon Graphics Refrigerator Project (or: How To Turn a $175.000 High-End SGI Challenge DM Server into a Fridge)

yep.

You can't port OS X to Intel simply because this would blow Hollywoods latest good/bad-clichés: According to Wired Good guys use Apple Macs, the baddies use Windows PCs. LOL... But I thought about it and except for Milennium I really can't come up with any counter-example...

I used to work at a company that made extensive use of ye olde RS/6000 boxes (AIX! Yay! Not). Now these things were pretty big (in recent terms) and allowed for almost infinite expansion in terms of storage. IBM, being a helpful lot, made sure that they came with all the fans you needed, for full expansion, pre-installed.

So each Friday we bought some six-packs of beer and put it in the (empty) drive bays. Came out wonderfully chilled at the end of the workday.

No refrigerator modding required.

Hrm, well, I do seem to recall reading on Usenet more than once that the SGI Origin 2000 double stacks had a little space between the two nodes and that said space got pretty toasty when the cabinet was closed... Of course, this wouldn't be the first time that SGI hardware was abused in some form or fashion...

SGI Indigo Esspresso

VAXbar

SGI Challege Fridge

Can't forget these:

http://home.planet.nl/~mourits/koelkast/

The Silicon Graphics Refrigerator Project
(or: How To Turn a $175.000 High-End SGI Challenge DM Server into a Fridge)

This is still the most creative use of a computer case that I've seen. Mmmmmm.... beer.

We all know that the *real* power programmers use BF anyways and the BF compilers/interpreters are cross platform!

--Josh

Finally, there is effective research being done, to make computers, as Douglas Adams (RIP) would have put it, more than typewriters with televisions in front of them. By combining a 3D display with the 3D sensory technology in development by companies like Sensable people can interact with a genuine multidimensional, immersive computer environment. Beyond the prOn possibilities of merging the technologies (fondle-able images anyone?) is a whole new world of design. Though I can't see the displays improving word processing or programming much, designing products on a 3D screen, touching them in virtual space, and printing them on 3D printers offer a whole new world of simple product development. Converse is already using a 3D printing and fax system to design shoes in boston, and give their factories in Asia models to work from.

This article is pretty detailed...