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  1. What is a Mainframe & Links & Open Source by Mittermeyer · · Score: 1 · on Mainframe Operators Needed

    That Ace's Hardware link everybody connects to is a good overview of the IBM architecture and components, but frankly there are plenty of other machines that to my mind are mainframes as well.

    Here is a definition that is as good as any, just keep in mind that there are plenty of other mainframes that do not have the IBM label on it.

    Since everyone around here loves TCO arguments, here is the mainframe bid for cost-effective computing.

    A general mainframe nerd site, with great links and how-tos.

    Another good link site.

    The dino web ring, a master compendium of 390-related sites.

    Official IBMese for mainframes, with more sales power then you can shake an MS manager at.

    The granddaddy of all user groups, SHARE kicks butt, defines system requirements to IBM, opposes UCITA, and changes your world more then any 5 computer gatherings you can mention. The members of this organization RUN your bank, credit card, hospital, government and corporate systems. Join the club.

    And finally, you can run a mainframe on Linux or a Mac. Warning, IBM has very strict rules about their OS licensing, you are going into uncharted territory if you do ANYTHING remotely work-related with this. But you CAN run a mainframe emulator.

  2. Re:List of LUGs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft vs. Northwest Schools Part II

    For a listing of the sites in the Linux Users' Groups Webring, check http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=lug;id =42;list

    Specifically for Northeast Ohio, you want the Cleveland Linux Users Group - and they're meeting tomorrow, May 11. Check them out at http://cleveland.lug.net

    CLUG General Meetings are held once per month, on the second Saturday of each month, from 9:30am until around noon. The meetings are informal and we usualy [sic] have coffee and donuts. Meetings are free and open to the public.

  3. Re:Gettin' serious for a minute... by jea6 · · Score: 1 · on Alex Chiu on Science, Religion, and Politics
    I tried passing my 9th grade geometry class on the basis of testimonials. My teacher didn't accept testimonials as proofs.

    "Quackwatch is part of the Skeptic Ring, an alliance of sites that examine claims about paranormal phenomena and fringe science from a skeptical point of view.

  4. Here are some links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2 · on "Free" Assembler And Emulator For The 68HC11/12?
    Have you had a look at EVBU? It's a GPLed 68HC11 simulator.

    Freshmeat is your friend. This then points you at the ASM11 assembler, which then leads you to the 68HCxx webring.

    That should get you started.

  5. sorry, the last few got cut off... here they are.. by techfreak · · Score: 1 · on Two Scoops Of Wearable Computers


    Sorry about that! :-)

    Impossible means no one's done it yet.

  6. Links To Further Information On Wearable Computers by techfreak · · Score: 5 · on Two Scoops Of Wearable Computers

    Here I have a whole bunch of links to further information about wearable computers and "enhanced reality" for anyone interested:



    Impossible means no one's done it yet.

  7. Here are the consoles! by UncleRoger · · Score: 2 · on The Dead Media Project
    Take a look at the Computers, Video Games, and Arcade Collector's Ring. There is also a list of member sites available.

    Personally, I'm more into classic computers.

  8. For more information on Tesla... by arnoroefs2000 · · Score: 1 · on Tesla: Erased at the Smithsonian

    For more information on maybe the most undervalued scientist of all time check the following links:

    How does a Tesla Coil work

    A short bio

    The Tesla Coil webring

    The Nikola Tesla Museum

    Huge ftp archive with Tesla pcitures

    Tesla's Autobiography

    Very thorough plan on how to build your own Tesla Coil

    This guy already made his own Tesla Coil

    Enjoy,
    Arno

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  9. About time Tesla got more coverage by TummyX · · Score: 1 · on Tesla: Erased at the Smithsonian

    Nikola Tesla is also my favourite scientist/inventor. It's ridiculas, when you learn about AC in physics, they don't tell you who invented it. When I learnt about the radio in primary school, I was told marconi invented it - no mention what soever of Tesla.

    Tesla has been erased from history, while lesser scientists like Edison get god like status (most probably cause they're American and not Serbian).

    It's amazing how people are so unwilling (even teachers) to know anything about Tesla.

    If anyone is interested in Tesla coils btw, you can have a look around the tesla coil webring

  10. Try wearables by Jaime+Herazo+B. · · Score: 1 · on Head Mounted Displays Get Cheaper

    You should see the homepage of Steve Mann, at http://www.wearcomp.org, and the wearable webring


    Be ready with a bucket for all that drool. On second thought, better get a boat :)


    "Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"

  11. Another Nomination - Mechanical Hacks by Penguinista! · · Score: 1 · on Slashdot's Top 10 Hacks of all Time

    Don't know if this entirely qualifies as a 'hack' but progressing along the lines of nominating aircraft designs as "great hacks," we ought not overlook the CF105 Avro Arrow built in Canada in the 1950s. Since the program was ultimately scrapped by the Canadian government at the time (citing budget concerns) before the aircraft ever went into full-scale production, it obviously didn't become as famous as it otherwise would certainly have done, but the fact remains that it was a fantastic achievement.

    The best website concerning the Arrow is probably the Discovery Channel's Flight Deck which has a good piece on the technical aspects of the Arrow, and exn.ca has some decent stuff as well. There are several other sites which contain pix, specs & plans, noteworthy info and comparisons or narratives (mirrored), and like all obscure subjects online, it also has a Web Ring.

    The Arrow was the first aircraft to pull a 2-G turn at 50,000' without loss of speed or altitude - unusual even today. It was also an extraordinary achievement in the amount and variety of weaponry that it carried in its weapons pack, which could include not only weaponry, but also reconansance equipment, fuel, and just about anything else, most of which could be reloaded or swapped in a matter of minutes - still impressive by today's standards. Consider that an Arrow in 1959 could have flown higher at a similar speed (slightly faster, actually) than an F-14D Tomcat did 31 years later... the Arrow is a 40-year-old accomplishment that would compare remarkably well with the aircraft of today - and comparisons with aircraft of its day are in most instances almost unfair, unless you look only at a single feature.

    • The CIA's U2 spy-plane had a higher flight ceiling than the Arrow - 60,000' compared with 58,000 - and its only defence was altitude. In 1959, one of the very few things aloft that could have brought one down from its flight ceiling was an Arrow, which could bring down a target at a 70,000' altitude. The U2 was replaced by the SR-71 Blackbird (nominated elsewhere), which the Arrow predates just slightly (the Blackbird first hit the drawing board at Lougheed's SkunkWorks in September 1959, whereas the Arrow project was scrapped in February 1959; note the SR-71 has a strikingly similar cockpit configuration). For further comparison, the F14's flight ceiling is about 53,000', (the SR-71's is around 85,000' achieved in 1976).
    • The F-117A Stealth Fighter has internal weapons carriage and fly-by-wire controls: the current wave of the future. The Arrow had both in 1957.
    • The F/A-18 engines (20 years later) each produce 11,000/16,000 pounds thrust without/with afterburner; the Arrow's Iriquois engine produced 19,500/25,600 with a potential for 30,000 -- more similar to a MiG-31 or an F-14.
    • Delta-wing aircraft were revolutionary at the time - the Arrow was a tail-less delta-wing design with a "blended" cockpit (think Stealth Bomber) rather than the (at that time) conventional "bubble" cockpit with a conventional wing design.
    • Although the Arrow was intended for use as a fighter-interceptor, its armament bay was larger than a B29 Bomber's.

    The Arrow contained serveral other aviation 'firsts' and 'near-firsts' and several 'bests' and 'near-bests' - but the truly amazing thing was the way that Avro brought it all together in a single package. The designers' plans for an 'Ultimate Arrow' suggest they were thinking bigger still, despite having made history already - there is really no telling what might have evolved from the project today if had been left intact. After the project was scrapped, many of the design team from Avro went on to work on other projects, so that certain Arrow features apparently began to appear in a variety of places, including (perhaps) the Concorde, the Stealth Bomber, and at NASA, where 32 Avro engineers ended up working on Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo - including Apollo 11 (nominated elsewhere) and I believe 13 (also nominated elsewhere) and the space shuttle.