What's stopping you from buying another SCSI hard drive for your Mac? One-, two-, and four-gigabyte SCSI disks are very cheap these days and more than large enough to host a useful Unix installation.
This is what I did on my Alpha for a long time (NT and Linux on separate disks), and what I do on my Integraph workstation today (W2K and FreeBSD).
If you want a 1-GB drive, I think I have a spare I can send you for the low, low price of $20 plus s/h. You should be able to find them on your own for cheaper than that.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Check out Sonya Keene's _Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp_ for examples of the utility of multiple inheritance (e.g. mix-in classes).
C++'s poor specification and poor implementations teach one to take care when designing languages, not that all the features used in C++ are necessarily bad.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Personally, I think OpenBSD has a very clean, very easy to use install. The only thing that needs to be improved is when one partitions the disk (and the needful improvement there isn't so much a "make it a nice GUI" but "add a command to Do the Right Thing automagically"). Contrast OpenBSD's install (choose from seven packages) with Red Hat's install (choose from 600-something RPMs) or Debian's install (choose from several thousand DEBs), and maybe you'll start to see where I'm coming from. It is next to impossible to strip a Red Hat install down to a useful subset without spending a half-hour (or more) going through the list of RPMs.
Again, this is a matter of personal taste.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Well, all of their code is in CVS. Every time one commits a change in CVS, it bumps the RCS version number. Also, if traffic on source-changes@openbsd.org is any indication, they are pretty good at logging what they do to their code, so maybe the answer to your question is effictively a grep of their CVS data.
I don't think you understand how they package up their releases. It isn't like Red Hat or Debian, i.e. there are no individual packages like perl-5.003-666 or nethack-23-skiddoo. In CVS, one can have vendor releases that are imported as branches off the main line, to be integrated at some later date, so again this may become a matter of writing some kind of reporting system for their CVS tree.
Does any of this make sense?
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
I've got an SSH module called Top Gun SSH installed on my Palm IIIxe. There's also a Top Gun Telnet. Works OK, if you don't mind 40x25. I even have a VT100 emulator. Using Emacs is painful, though.:)
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
If I read the Newsbytes article correctly, it sure sounds like the judge had a clue when it comes to technology (e.g. the bit about not having to print out 80,000 pages of logs, merely burn them to CD). Maybe all hope is not yet lost!
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
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You've almost got it right. Instead of providing a per-account option, an ISP should advertise whether it uses the MAPS RBL. The market should then decide if this is a valuable service and act accordingly. Personally, I would rather subscribe to an ISP that used the MAPS RBL, and I suspect that it would be more popular than one might think (especially if advertised along the lines of "(bullet) spam blocking software"---saying "we use the MAPS RBL" is a little too much jargon for the masses).
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
A few things bother me any time the topics of religion, magic, etc. get brought up, and since this is getting posted late in the discussion, hopefully I'll be ignored by the moderators.
First, most believers in miracles, magic, magick, or whatever you decide to call it seem to ignore the many miracles that happen right under their noses. Someone will pray to god for a miracle of healing, and forgets that the doctors & technology that saves a person's life is that prayer answered. Someone looks for deeper mystical meaning or phenomena, and forgets that grass growing in a lawn is a miraculous and wonderful thing. People get so caught up in what might happen after they die that they forget to spend time thinking about what will happen while they live, how they will affect the Now.
Second, religious fundamentalism is a horrible thing, and if affects ALL systems of belief. It is a sad thing to meet a pagan who claims to be more open minded about spiritual matters to suddenly say "Church of the SubGenius? oh, that's not a real religion". It is a sad thing to meet a Christian who claims that the greatest thing to do is to love everyone to suddenly claim "don't believe in my god? I hate you and you should die". Condemnation, prejudice, intolerance, hatred-of-the-different, these are constants of the human condition, but one hopes that perhaps some enlightened few can rise above it.
As for myself, well, you're all going to burn when the flying saucers come, you mindless Pinks, and don't you forget it! ;)
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
"The worse-is-better philosophy means that implementation simplicity has highest priority, which means [such systems] are easy to port on machines that are worse than median (smaller or slower)."
"A further benefit of the worse-is-better philosophy is that the programmer is conditioned to sacrifice some safety, convenience, and hassle to get good performance and modest resource use. Programs written using [this] approach will work well both in small machines and large ones."
"There is a final benefit to worse-is-better. Because a New Jersey language and system are not really powerful enough to build complex monolithic software, large systems must be designed to reuse components. Therefore, a tradition of integration springs up."
These points apply well to Objective-C in comparison to C/C++, and you would do well to at least read section 2.1 ("The Rise of Worse is Better") to see Gabriel's point.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
I would hesitate to say "C++ programs link to static programs that don't require anything extra". C/C++ also has a run-time library that needs to be linked into your program, regardless of whether you use the C/C++ standard library. On the Windows platform, I believe the C run-time is MSVCRT.DLL; with GCC, it is libgcc. The run-time library is compiler- and/or operating-system-specific.
Most programming languages have some kind of run-time system. Some run-time systems are fairly complicated, e.g. the Lisp run-time is actually an interactive program, not just a library.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
The correct way to provide backwards compatability (or the ability to boot other operating systems from Windows) is good virtualization software. NTVDM and the OS/2 DOS box were steps in the right direction, but VMware or Plex86 are really the proper solutions for operating-system-within-an-operating-system needs on x86. It's too bad that most architectures (including x86) are not so easily virtualizable.
(That's not to say that an option to boot up Windows without the GUI wouldn't be useful, but with the absence of Win32-console versions of Regedit and Control Panel, it currently isn't useful to boot to a command prompt.)
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Earthlink is great stuff. Their technical support staff are pretty clued in, and their customer service staff are wonderful. I signed up during the USB camera deal, and when I didn't get mine, the customer service rep got the new one shipped to me in several days. I don't have any problems with connectivity, and I dial in from my laptops (Windows and OpenBSD) on a regular basis. I haven't had any problems in finding an Earthlink dial-in when I travel.
The only thing I would want from them is the dialer program (which can dial an 800 number and query for local access numbers automatically under Windows). But that hasn't really gotten in the way of anything.
(I wish you would leave your email visible, because I'd much rather respond in private than clutter up this thread with off-topic material. End rant.)
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
So where exactly is that test program for the IIIxe? The FAQ points one to the faulty-DRAM support page, but there's no link on that page or the IIIxe-specific pages.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Just look at Cadillac, if you say you bought a Cadillac I would think you bought a car that handles and looks like shit from years ago... then again it could be the new ones too...
I'll have you know that I'd take a 20- to 30-year-old Cadillac over any of these new "luxury" cars or "sports" cars. I am the proud owner of a 1974 Cadillac Coupe deVille, and it is a better running, better riding car than ANYTHING I've driven that was built in the last 2 decades. That old car handles beautifully, smoothly, and comfortably, and new cars, even new Cadillacs, just don't compare favorably --- they truly don't make them like they used to. Plus, it actually looks like a car, complete with stylized fins in the back and a front grille that makes fucking semi trucks skittish, not this pussyfoot aerodynamic BLOB that "modnern 'njineerin" has cursed mankind with.
(Of course, nowadays they sell plastic wind-up toys instead of manly, sturdy, American, steel CARS, and the public just loves it, so who am I to judge.)
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Both shared memory (aka mmap) and sockets are used for IPC. Other kinds of IPC include UNIX domain sockets (on the file system, I think), FIFOs and pipes, System V IPC, and even signals. If you can get a copy of W. Richard Stevens' Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, he's got a chapter or two on IPC techniques, and he also wrote UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2: Interprocess Communications.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
I'm not certain that the various free systems are such a clear win for the PRC. Free software may look like communism to radical capitalists like tchrist and whatnot, but ideologically it's about liberating the user with regards to information, and that doesn't seem to be very compatible with the PRC leadership's current agenda (even with free software's "programmers of the world unite" trappings).
And ignoring the philosophical baggage, there's a lot of free software out there (like SWAN, GNUPG, the cryptographic file system, OpenSSL, etc.) that is inimical to individuals or agencies with surveillance agendas.
But I'm no Eastern Studies expert, so I am very probably wrong.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
On the contrary! Unless the author explicitly assigns the copyright to another entity (corporeal or legal), the author possesses the copyright regardless of what license she may place on her code. If I recall correctly, the FSF recommends that authors assign their copyrights to the FSF so that the FSF can more effectively fight license violations in court, and so that they can (if need be) easily ammend the license terms of GNU software (e.g. updates to the GPL).
Frankly, your statement is ridiculous---merely placing code under the BSD license doesn't automatically assign copyrights to the Regents of the University of California, does it? I can understand some objecting to the GPL---it trades certain kinds of freedom (the freedom to do whatever you want with the code) for certain kinds of protection (protect the user's license to modify and redistribute the code), and not everyone is going to share this ethic---but this ill-informed sniping should be beneath most mature hackers, even those of us who are most passionate in our advocacy.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Richard Fateman has a program called "mockmma" that is a simple knock-off of Mathematica. I don't know how complete it is, but I doubt it is anywhere close to being a complete clone of Mathematica. It's written in Common Lisp and there's a pointer to it on the ALU's Lisp Tools page.
Usenet newsgroups sci.math and sci.math.symbolic (but read the FAQ, first, and read the news groups for a few weeks before posting!)
I'm sure if you spend a little time with a search engine (Deja, Google), you will turn up more information. I found the above in less than five minutes, so I'm sure there's much more information out there if you look a little bit.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Strangely enough, this was just debated in comp.lang.lisp this month (search Deja for a thread with "Transmeta" in the subject). The prevailing opinion seems to be that Lisp on general purpose computers is roughly 1/2 the speed of C or faster (depending on compiler, level of safety, declarations, etc.) but you end up spending orders of magnitude less time coding and debugging, and that special-purpose hardware will do less for Lisp than softer things (like having the GC and the virtual memory manager play well together). Do look the thread up---the arguments are presented in a much clearer fashion than my attempt at a summary.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Lisp has had a compiler since the MacLisp Days Of Yore(tm), circa the 1960s. Most modern Lisp implementations are purely compiled. That's right: "Just In Time" and "Incremental" compilation have been features in most Lisp products for at least the past twenty(!) years.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
The Internet is NOT secure enough for billions of dollars worth of transactions; exploits are too regular an occurrence, and snake oil is too profitable (vendors are either glossing over vulnerabilities or trying to peddle crap technology). Cracking "Internet voting" (whatever that is this week) has the potential to cause even more damage than cracking business databases or financial transactions---the corruption of a society and its system of law, not just to Joe Smoe's Visa account.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Strange, to think that several centuries ago, doctors drilled holes in the heads of their patients to "let the evil spirits out", and now modern medical science is doing something very similar, as a valid medical treatment.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
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What's stopping you from buying another SCSI hard drive for your Mac? One-, two-, and four-gigabyte SCSI disks are very cheap these days and more than large enough to host a useful Unix installation.
This is what I did on my Alpha for a long time (NT and Linux on separate disks), and what I do on my Integraph workstation today (W2K and FreeBSD).
If you want a 1-GB drive, I think I have a spare I can send you for the low, low price of $20 plus s/h. You should be able to find them on your own for cheaper than that.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Check out Sonya Keene's _Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp_ for examples of the utility of multiple inheritance (e.g. mix-in classes).
C++'s poor specification and poor implementations teach one to take care when designing languages, not that all the features used in C++ are necessarily bad.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Personally, I think OpenBSD has a very clean, very easy to use install. The only thing that needs to be improved is when one partitions the disk (and the needful improvement there isn't so much a "make it a nice GUI" but "add a command to Do the Right Thing automagically"). Contrast OpenBSD's install (choose from seven packages) with Red Hat's install (choose from 600-something RPMs) or Debian's install (choose from several thousand DEBs), and maybe you'll start to see where I'm coming from. It is next to impossible to strip a Red Hat install down to a useful subset without spending a half-hour (or more) going through the list of RPMs.
Again, this is a matter of personal taste.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Well, all of their code is in CVS. Every time one commits a change in CVS, it bumps the RCS version number. Also, if traffic on source-changes@openbsd.org is any indication, they are pretty good at logging what they do to their code, so maybe the answer to your question is effictively a grep of their CVS data.
I don't think you understand how they package up their releases. It isn't like Red Hat or Debian, i.e. there are no individual packages like perl-5.003-666 or nethack-23-skiddoo. In CVS, one can have vendor releases that are imported as branches off the main line, to be integrated at some later date, so again this may become a matter of writing some kind of reporting system for their CVS tree.
Does any of this make sense?
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
I've got an SSH module called Top Gun SSH installed on my Palm IIIxe. There's also a Top Gun Telnet. Works OK, if you don't mind 40x25. I even have a VT100 emulator. Using Emacs is painful, though. :)
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Well duh, you've got little x-es where there should be numbers, you dummy! :)
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
If I read the Newsbytes article correctly, it sure sounds like the judge had a clue when it comes to technology (e.g. the bit about not having to print out 80,000 pages of logs, merely burn them to CD). Maybe all hope is not yet lost!
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
You've almost got it right. Instead of providing a per-account option, an ISP should advertise whether it uses the MAPS RBL. The market should then decide if this is a valuable service and act accordingly. Personally, I would rather subscribe to an ISP that used the MAPS RBL, and I suspect that it would be more popular than one might think (especially if advertised along the lines of "(bullet) spam blocking software"---saying "we use the MAPS RBL" is a little too much jargon for the masses).
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
A few things bother me any time the topics of religion, magic, etc. get brought up, and since this is getting posted late in the discussion, hopefully I'll be ignored by the moderators.
First, most believers in miracles, magic, magick, or whatever you decide to call it seem to ignore the many miracles that happen right under their noses. Someone will pray to god for a miracle of healing, and forgets that the doctors & technology that saves a person's life is that prayer answered. Someone looks for deeper mystical meaning or phenomena, and forgets that grass growing in a lawn is a miraculous and wonderful thing. People get so caught up in what might happen after they die that they forget to spend time thinking about what will happen while they live, how they will affect the Now.
Second, religious fundamentalism is a horrible thing, and if affects ALL systems of belief. It is a sad thing to meet a pagan who claims to be more open minded about spiritual matters to suddenly say "Church of the SubGenius? oh, that's not a real religion". It is a sad thing to meet a Christian who claims that the greatest thing to do is to love everyone to suddenly claim "don't believe in my god? I hate you and you should die". Condemnation, prejudice, intolerance, hatred-of-the-different, these are constants of the human condition, but one hopes that perhaps some enlightened few can rise above it.
As for myself, well, you're all going to burn when the flying saucers come, you mindless Pinks, and don't you forget it! ;)
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Well, it would have supported at least FORTRAN, and I think Lisp was developed on a 7040 or a 7090.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
You should read Richard Gabriel's article Lisp: Good News, Bad News, and How to Win Big. The gist of the article (paraphrased or cut-n-pasted from the article) is that:
These points apply well to Objective-C in comparison to C/C++, and you would do well to at least read section 2.1 ("The Rise of Worse is Better") to see Gabriel's point.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
I would hesitate to say "C++ programs link to static programs that don't require anything extra". C/C++ also has a run-time library that needs to be linked into your program, regardless of whether you use the C/C++ standard library. On the Windows platform, I believe the C run-time is MSVCRT.DLL; with GCC, it is libgcc. The run-time library is compiler- and/or operating-system-specific.
Most programming languages have some kind of run-time system. Some run-time systems are fairly complicated, e.g. the Lisp run-time is actually an interactive program, not just a library.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
DOS mode & company were hacks anyway.
The correct way to provide backwards compatability (or the ability to boot other operating systems from Windows) is good virtualization software. NTVDM and the OS/2 DOS box were steps in the right direction, but VMware or Plex86 are really the proper solutions for operating-system-within-an-operating-system needs on x86. It's too bad that most architectures (including x86) are not so easily virtualizable.
(That's not to say that an option to boot up Windows without the GUI wouldn't be useful, but with the absence of Win32-console versions of Regedit and Control Panel, it currently isn't useful to boot to a command prompt.)
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Earthlink is great stuff. Their technical support staff are pretty clued in, and their customer service staff are wonderful. I signed up during the USB camera deal, and when I didn't get mine, the customer service rep got the new one shipped to me in several days. I don't have any problems with connectivity, and I dial in from my laptops (Windows and OpenBSD) on a regular basis. I haven't had any problems in finding an Earthlink dial-in when I travel.
The only thing I would want from them is the dialer program (which can dial an 800 number and query for local access numbers automatically under Windows). But that hasn't really gotten in the way of anything.
(I wish you would leave your email visible, because I'd much rather respond in private than clutter up this thread with off-topic material. End rant.)
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
So where exactly is that test program for the IIIxe? The FAQ points one to the faulty-DRAM support page, but there's no link on that page or the IIIxe-specific pages.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
I'll have you know that I'd take a 20- to 30-year-old Cadillac over any of these new "luxury" cars or "sports" cars. I am the proud owner of a 1974 Cadillac Coupe deVille, and it is a better running, better riding car than ANYTHING I've driven that was built in the last 2 decades. That old car handles beautifully, smoothly, and comfortably, and new cars, even new Cadillacs, just don't compare favorably --- they truly don't make them like they used to. Plus, it actually looks like a car, complete with stylized fins in the back and a front grille that makes fucking semi trucks skittish, not this pussyfoot aerodynamic BLOB that "modnern 'njineerin" has cursed mankind with.
(Of course, nowadays they sell plastic wind-up toys instead of manly, sturdy, American, steel CARS, and the public just loves it, so who am I to judge.)
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Both shared memory (aka mmap) and sockets are used for IPC. Other kinds of IPC include UNIX domain sockets (on the file system, I think), FIFOs and pipes, System V IPC, and even signals. If you can get a copy of W. Richard Stevens' Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, he's got a chapter or two on IPC techniques, and he also wrote UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2: Interprocess Communications.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
I'm not certain that the various free systems are such a clear win for the PRC. Free software may look like communism to radical capitalists like tchrist and whatnot, but ideologically it's about liberating the user with regards to information, and that doesn't seem to be very compatible with the PRC leadership's current agenda (even with free software's "programmers of the world unite" trappings).
And ignoring the philosophical baggage, there's a lot of free software out there (like SWAN, GNUPG, the cryptographic file system, OpenSSL, etc.) that is inimical to individuals or agencies with surveillance agendas.
But I'm no Eastern Studies expert, so I am very probably wrong.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
On the contrary! Unless the author explicitly assigns the copyright to another entity (corporeal or legal), the author possesses the copyright regardless of what license she may place on her code. If I recall correctly, the FSF recommends that authors assign their copyrights to the FSF so that the FSF can more effectively fight license violations in court, and so that they can (if need be) easily ammend the license terms of GNU software (e.g. updates to the GPL).
Frankly, your statement is ridiculous---merely placing code under the BSD license doesn't automatically assign copyrights to the Regents of the University of California, does it? I can understand some objecting to the GPL---it trades certain kinds of freedom (the freedom to do whatever you want with the code) for certain kinds of protection (protect the user's license to modify and redistribute the code), and not everyone is going to share this ethic---but this ill-informed sniping should be beneath most mature hackers, even those of us who are most passionate in our advocacy.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Given the things which have been done in the name of religion in this century, this is a blinkered and irresponsible attitude at best.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Richard Fateman has a program called "mockmma" that is a simple knock-off of Mathematica. I don't know how complete it is, but I doubt it is anywhere close to being a complete clone of Mathematica. It's written in Common Lisp and there's a pointer to it on the ALU's Lisp Tools page.
There are other resources:
I'm sure if you spend a little time with a search engine (Deja, Google), you will turn up more information. I found the above in less than five minutes, so I'm sure there's much more information out there if you look a little bit.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Strangely enough, this was just debated in comp.lang.lisp this month (search Deja for a thread with "Transmeta" in the subject). The prevailing opinion seems to be that Lisp on general purpose computers is roughly 1/2 the speed of C or faster (depending on compiler, level of safety, declarations, etc.) but you end up spending orders of magnitude less time coding and debugging, and that special-purpose hardware will do less for Lisp than softer things (like having the GC and the virtual memory manager play well together). Do look the thread up---the arguments are presented in a much clearer fashion than my attempt at a summary.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Lisp has had a compiler since the MacLisp Days Of Yore(tm), circa the 1960s. Most modern Lisp implementations are purely compiled. That's right: "Just In Time" and "Incremental" compilation have been features in most Lisp products for at least the past twenty(!) years.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
The Internet is NOT secure enough for billions of dollars worth of transactions; exploits are too regular an occurrence, and snake oil is too profitable (vendors are either glossing over vulnerabilities or trying to peddle crap technology). Cracking "Internet voting" (whatever that is this week) has the potential to cause even more damage than cracking business databases or financial transactions---the corruption of a society and its system of law, not just to Joe Smoe's Visa account.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Strange, to think that several centuries ago, doctors drilled holes in the heads of their patients to "let the evil spirits out", and now modern medical science is doing something very similar, as a valid medical treatment.
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16