Farewell, 11111010001

As you might know, Slashdot runs on Greenwich Mean Time. That means that you're reading the last story posted in 2001, in which we've gathered some more year-end submissions. Happy New Year to all, no matter what time zone you're in! Zargo writes: "Infosync.no has a great collection of articles named Rewind 2001 looking back at the best stories of 2001. Lots of cool gadgets in there. Samsung 3G prototypes, a car designed by Bella and Nokia, soft hardware by IDEO, Siemens wristphone, Compaq's project Mercury, the Agende VR3 Linux based PDA, the Pogo, Psion's über gadgets, Handspring's Treo, Fathammer's X-Forge, Samsungs YOPY (Linux PDA), Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 including screenshots. Lots and lots of cool stuff to read."

Speaking of Stuff, Dave Gould writes: "I have published my picks for the 2001 Stuff of the Year. Here's hoping for lots of neat new stuff in 2002!" I bet high that stuff continues to arrive. Maybe even more IT.

Weedstock writes: "EE Times has a list of 15 interesting articles about technologies to watch in 2002. One of those articles, Software model needs overhaul, explains the current problems with computer processing and describes new technologies (Such as the Reconfigurable Architecture Workstation processor from MIT) that will affect this domain in the next year."

uninet writes: "'Looking back over the past year, I think most people would have to agree it has been a ground breaking time for open source. While it is true that open source companies suffered just like the rest of the tech sector from poor economic conditions, those same conditions have also made open source appear even more attractive.'" Here's the rest of Open For Business' analysis of the year past and coming.

There are plenty more year-end wrap-ups filled with bulleted lists and instant nostalgia, but few can top Llewyn, who writes: "The couple who met on Slashdot two years ago are celebrating their first wedding anniversary! you can email them at scott@asofyet.org and elysse@asofyet.org or visit their reminiscing website." Congratulations!

For those into New Year's festivities of the more athletic (and semi-athletic) variety, burntfungus writes with words on "Security and open 802.11b WLAN Access Points along the Rose Parade route, Pasadena's yearly event that allow anyone to be a street person for two nights a year! If you get cold there are many places to get a hot cup of coffee or hot chocolate. Watch floats (on webcam, blimps and low flying stealth bombers! Find a public WLAN access point or two."

At least partly wrapping up one of this year's oddest stories, several readers have submitted a link to a CNN story which says that Dmitry Sklyarov has returned home to Russia, and has already raised a toast with his wife and children. I hope Dmitry's treated a little differently on his next visit to the U.S. suwain_2 adds a link to this Newsforge story as well.

Comments

So......

[nuintari]

Are the first post lamers gonna fight over who gets LAST POST?

Roman Numeral Years

[Jucius Maximus]

Alas, we will have to use an extra roman numeral to write the year (when we want to use that format.) It was so great back in 2000 ;-)

1999 = MCMXCIX
2000 = MM
2001 = MMI
2002 = MMII

And what a year it was

[beefstu01]

Boy, I'm wondering what the hell didn't happen this year. Terrorist attacks, new prez, cloning, artifical hearts, iPod, 2.4.x, Linux PDA's, Pentium 4, RAM prices fall, RAM prices go up, people born, people die, text Quake II, etc...

Oh what a year it was. Hell, I think the only thing that didn't happen was me getting a girlfriend...

Happy New Year everyone!

New Year's resolutions:

[Byteme]

1. Give up asking Santa for Peace on Earth each Christmas.

2. Turn off the TV during war/disaster/election controversy.

3. Attend more Free Jazz concerts.

4. Do not boot to Windows once (at home, forced to at work)

5. Take para-gliding lessons.

6. Get a sick stereo (Krell and B&W).

7. Badger slashdot staff until I see a poll without the CowboyNeal option.

8. Knock over the first person I see driving an "IT".

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[nyteroot]

1) stop arguing about politics; the republicans have taken over and there's no stopping them
2) stop trying to lose weight; its not gonna happen
3) stop trying to have a love life; its not gonna happen (see #2 for details)
4) stop hoping to get into my #1 college; ill get rejected, just like i got deferred

its been such a great year..

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[anfloga]

And #5, above all, stay optimistic! :)

New years resolution

[FeanorOfTheNoldo]

My new years resolution is 1024x768 ;)

Re:New years resolution

[sparcv9]

This year, I resolve to 127.0.0.1.

(I seem to have the same resolution every year.)

Whee!

[Splat]

Happy GNU Year!

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Dating your cheques

[Jonavin]

I hope everybody remembers to dates their checks properly. It's seems every January some of us tend to make the mistake of writing last year's date. Remember to write "Year of the Horse" instead of "Year of the Snake". ;)

Re:Oh, I do so love fisticuffs!

[Anonymous Coward]

I, The_Messenger, shall perform duties as ringmaster for the bout of WIPO Troll v. AC. Gentlemen, begin!

You've got the job. However, I think that WIPO is all talk and no action. If he wants to kick someone's ass, he has the opportunity to try. I've accepted his offer, but he refuses to leave his mama's side and make good on his threat.