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?

Not such a good page

[J.D. Hogg]

"Infosync.no has a great collection of articles named Rewind 2001"

Read : Infosync.no vividly reminds you of all the cool toys you really wanted to buy in 2001 but couldn't afford, and probably won't be able to afford in 2002 either.

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

Enter the Palindrome

[LionMan]

The last one was 1991 - now we have 2002.
But we won't have another for 110 years! (and then 110 every time after that one until 2992, after which we'll wait for 3003. But I'll be dead by then. Maybe slashdot won't!)

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:

[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.)

when? what?

[jjeffries]

Posted by timothy on 18:59 31 December 2001

I'm set up for EST... /. will use whatever time zone you want it to.

I'd like to have the time displayed in seconds since the Epoch. Surely I'm not alone! Everyone knows nothing important happened before 1-1-1970 anyway, no?

Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[lalleglad]

As the first line states:

"As you might know, Slashdot runs on Greenwich Mean Time."

and I have noticed it for a long time, I will now take the opportunity to ask if Slashdot editors wouldn't please enter the new age and use updated acronyms? :-)

A good explanation can be found here:

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_ gc i213612,00.html

Even MS has the following [slightly related] page from 1997 (and we wouldn't wanna be defetaed by MS, would we ;-)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=k b; EN-US;q158588

Ergo, skip the GMT and start using UTC.

Oh, and I hope all will have a Happy New Year!

Whee!

[Splat]

Happy GNU Year!

This salutation is a free greeting; you can restate it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This greeting is distributed in the hope that you will have a happy new year, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of HAPPINESS or FITNESS FOR YOUR ROUND GEEK FIGURE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Good resolution...

[tcc]

Your wife/girlfriend/mistress/mom bugs you with finding at least ONE good resolution for 2002? here's one that will make you happy to follow and shut them off for next year :)

in 2002, my resolution will be 1600x1200x32x75+hz... on a 21+" LCD, playing DOOM III.

Hey, they've asked for it so stop feeling guilty and go buy one with your next (or maybe 10 next) paychecks :)

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:Wrong.

[coyote-san]

I read someplace (Knuth? Burke?) that this rule was invented long after ancient times. For most of the empire there was only addition - with the symbols often "out of order" to modern eyes, and even after the subtractive rule was introduced there are some truly bizarre constructions found in the ruins. Not only would the ancients use MIM for 1999, they were just as likely to use IMM.

Re:WooHoo!

[Jethro]

I wasn't around time before last; was everyone worrying that their nerdy news site would be toppled by the non-event of Y2K? ;)

No. We all spent most of the previous 3+ years fixing all the would-be y2k problems, only to get yelled at by non techies for causing hysteria, because, since we fixed everything for them, nothing happened. Bloody ingrates.