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...you can use the Classical Music Seach site. Just type in the melody (any key; it auto-transposes), and it searches for classical songs with that melody. It won't help you with jazz, but if you can't recall the name of a classical piece, this site can help.

What's that song that goes, like, A# G# F F F and then an A7 chord?

Behold Classical Music Search

I'm afraid there is no classical song that goes A# G# F F F, followed by anything from A7.

Guess I'll have to stick to the guy in the next cube, then.

Oh, and this for classical pieces.

Heat? I don't think so. The vast majority of solar electromagnetic energy is above the ultraviolet wavelengths. See this (ultraviolet is between 0.001 and 0.4 microns).

It's time for some Q&A.Let's start with familiar /. lore.
Q. Who invented the Internet?
A. The US federal gummint (DARPA)
Q. On whose dime?
A. The US taxpayers'
Q. What industry occupies the largest portion of the US federal government's trillions of dollars in expenditures?
A. Defense. 35% in 2001. Welfare and other means-tested entitlments were 6%.
Q. What has the US Dept. of Defense been focusing on since the end of the Cold War? A. Technology - computerized planes, satellites, drones, tanks, etc. Read any Afghanistan story in the Washington Post or New York Times, or any other major newspaper, and you will hear nothing but raves about our high-tech military.
Q. And who does that money employ?
A. Engineers, technologists, programmers.
Q. What do they make on average?
A. A starting salary of $60K, if not more

Q. Wow, Eric, sounds like the geeks get the most welfare of all! Why do you think they complain so much?
A. (stumped)

And don't even dare to complain how hard it is to figure out what the government spends - it took me 6 seconds to find the US budget. Whew!

No, that's called a uniform distribution. It's a sufficient, but not necessary condition of randomness. There are plenty of other random distributions.

you are redefining "random".

Not quite. Take at look at the second definition of "random" from dictionary.com (the one that's explicitly labeled as the mathematical definition):

Of or relating to a type of circumstance or event that is described by a probability distribution.

The whole Eazel/Gnome thing is beginning to grate on my nerves. Though I like Gnome better than KDE, I am getting this sudden urge to drop the lot of them and re-install my trusty old copy of TkDesk; I can't remember a single time that crashed on me, or asked me for money, or ever even did anything other than what I wanted it to do.

Ximian ticks me off. Hey, guess what? As far as I can tell from the gnome.org pages, I can either download the Ximian packages or, if I don't want to go with the Ximian version, I can download and compile Gnome from the source. Great, just what I want to do: spend four years trying to get it to build/make/link/brush its teeth/get dressed/etc before giving up and downloading the Ximian-branded one. Just peachy. Well, I have news for you: not everyone wants the commercial versions. I want a binary (RPM, DEB, etc) of the non-Ximian Gnome. But I likely won't get it.

This is potential flamebait, but I thought GNOME was supposed to be a development environment, not just a desktop. If Ximian would stop trying to make Gnome just about the freaking desktop (they could start by developing a desktop with a different name), this would clear up a lot of confusion and help to draw the proper lines between development environment and desktop. Otherwise, neither has a chance.

Dave Barrett's Clock

The Original - Bob Blick's Clock

Luberth Dijkman's Clock

Andrew Jardine's Clock

Ken Staton's Clock

Victor Tihonov's Clock

Don Zehnder's Clock

Come one, build a clock, join the club!
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Here's a link to a news story about Graffiti from late 1994. Don't know if Palm patented it then, but it certainly was out before 1995 (when the Xerox patent was first applied for).