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McNealy doesn't look too receptive, either. Has anyone ever noticed that Ballmer looks like the Wicked Witch of the West?

Robocup is the real world cup of robot soccer, about 5 years in the running. The 2004 American Open is happening in late April, and it will supposedly be open to the public. And for the really hardcore fans, there's Robocup 2004 in Portugal. See ya there ;) Failing that, you should at least watch a match (4-legged league).

What about Visual Basic for MS-DOS. Does anyone still have a copy?

It's easy to find - just google for vbdos.zip [Direct Link]. In fact, you can find most older software this way - ie, Borland Pascal 7 (bp7.zip | Direct), Turbo C++ 3 (tc3.zip | Direct), QuickBASIC 7/PDS (qb7.zip | Direct), Turbo Prolog (tprolog.zip | Direct , etc.

Try poking around in the directories containing the files listed above (eg, http://thegeekery.org/downloads/ci/ - they tend to have cool stuff.

ps. - I had a book on VB for DOS - the book was terrible, but so was VBDOS, so I guess they went well together.

It should be noted that our web page is being updated, and some of the links seem to be going to place holders. Sorry about that.

definitely a good idea - and for geek points you could check out our spiffy new motion capture lab :-)

> A xor A=1

Might want to re-check your math. That should be zero.

Here's a handy table to refer to which I've partially reproduced below, but in proper (ascending) binary order. You can do this enumeration to build truth tables for tertiary logic, and higher.

Notes:
1) Don't mind the table seperators - had to find some way to get around the /.'s gay lameness filter(s).
2) To lazy to fill in the names for '?' ;-)


A B | 0 N ? A ? B X R | r x b ? a ? n 1
----+ ================ ________________
0 0 | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
0 1 | 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 | 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
1 0 | 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 | 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1
1 1 | 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 | 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1

0 = Hardwired to false
1 = Hardwired to true
N = AND
A = Value of A
B = Value of B
X = XOR
R = OR

And the negates in "reverse" order:
r = NOR
x = XNOR
b = Negate B
a = Negate A
n = NAND

Funny thing is, I first saw this table in one of my Logic books!

This Electronic Truth Tables describes some of the un-named ones.

Cheers

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Funny Lameness filters:
That's an awful long string of letters there.
Please use fewer 'junk' characters.

The species in question is Namalycastis Abiuma.

A picture can be found here.

The same Article Text and a better picture of the monstrous bugger can be found Here. Scary lil bastard eh?

Can't find much out there on the actual habits of the lil bugger. I user a vermicomposter with redworms to reprocess kitchen vegetable waste for the garden. Anyone know how well these little(?!?) monsters eat? Be interesting to toss one in a bin, and see how it does.

Kangaroos are daytime critters, but are sometimes active at night, and get squished by cars (or cars squished by the big ones).

Marsupial possums are often nocturnal.

Regular cars are more likely to disturb wildlife than solar cars.

wanna know more about em? australianwildlife.com.au

the route taken by the solar challenge is (I presume) chosen for maximum sun. a lot of the places on the map are incredibly dry and have little wildlife due to the lack of water. Coober Pedy is like a moonscape, Alice Springs is a lot more hospitable, as is Tennant Creek.

Water is not always easy to come by in the desert, which can have an unusual effect on wildlife.

Truck road trains and tour buses use these roads, so solar cars should be a nice change of pace.

If you're (physically) going to watch the challenge, don't miss some of the amazing places out there.

It is possible to get a better resolution on the console. Check out all the FBDev stuff that's in your kernel, and this page: http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/ . My new GeForce isn't yet supported in X, so I'm using the console at 1280x1024. With fbi, a console jpeg viewer, lynx is pretty good. My only complaint is that Sluggy posts in gif, and the gif->jpeg conversion doesn't work on my machine.

Look at www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/ for information on how to make your banshee work under the 2.1/2.2 kernels and the X Frame Buffer server (It works for me!).

Alternatively, follow glide.xxedgexx.com/status.html for the status of the Banshee X-server. The current status is "Rough draft of the 3.3.3 version of the Banshee X server is written and compiles. Now testing."

-benjy@NOSPAM.alum.mit.edu