The only free complete programming environments I remember from Microsoft are GW-Basic, QBasic and DEBUG.EXE .
Those have been great times for developers world-wide. Sadly, QBasic isn't included anymore in Windows 2000, but fortunately DEBUG.EXE still is.
See http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q 258/2/65.asp
Another race would be smart enough to learn and understand our languages. There is a lot of reference material on this planet to make things clearer, and if a baby can learn a language, so can a very-intelligent alien, with nearly unlimited information harvesting, processing power, and very advanced artificial intelligence.
If our historians can manage to figure out ancient languages, then so can aliens figure ours. If we want to communicate with them, we should make our best efforts to teach them our language.
If you would want to teach an alien anyway, you should probably want to try in multiple ways. The first thing you would have to teach the aliens is the basic vocabulary. A basic touchscreen with videos, each showing several nouns. It will speak out the word, and write it down on the monitor whenever it is touched on the screen. Afterwards you could do the same with verbs and adjectives (e.g. color).
You don't want any device like a keyboard or a mouse, because you don't know what physical properties the alien will have. So a touchscreen is the best choice. The operating system would have to be idiot proof and solidly built (and I don't think blue screens would help the aliens to better understand what's going on).
Numbers should be counted by sticks, e.g. 20 will be represented by 20 sticks. Not very useful for big numbers, but that's the simplest option. A small tutorial about basic maths with a video would also be useful.
Another interesting way to communicate with the aliens would be some variant of the Logo language (one that wouldn't use a keyboard). Or maybe even some simplified paintbrush.
And finally after some basic comprehension has been established, you might try to let the aliens surf the web with a basic browser(or perhaps some slightly filtered version of it - you don't know what will happen if they suddenly get a woody, they might become aggressive). Possible good homepages are Google, the Google Directory, and perhaps AltaVista's image search, and maybe a child education site. The pages would need to be cleaned and simplified. If the aliens manage to physically speak our languages, then maybe voice recognition would be helpful for the web interface.
Peer-to-peer is here, and it's here to stay. And there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Napigator shows over 200 non-napster.com
servers. And Napster is only one of the many peer-to-peer sharing utilities.
Napster clones may be the most convenient way to download music, but they are not the only way. You can still download music via HTTP, FTP, NNTP, E-mail, IRC and so on... if you're bored you can look at some of the ways suggested at http://decss.zoy.org/ .
More details have emerged regarding the amazing '2300GB on a PC Card' memory technology developed by a Keele University team led by the remarkable Professor Ted Williams.
(Even as we speak, Register scriptwriters are working on the pilot episode of Prof. Ted, Craggy Island's very own quantum mechanic: "Feck! Girls! Many-particle Wave Functions!").
The team's system crams 86GB of data storage per square centimetre of physical medium, and uses a magneto-optical system to read, erase and write data within the solid state system. That allows, claim the researchers, a data access rate of 100Mbps.
We also learn that Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), which is providing the business brains behind the Keele/CMR joint venture, Keele High Density, is also pioneering the following scientific curiousities, among others: "Zodee -- A disposable toilet cleaning device which avoids the hygiene problems associated with conventional toilet brushes. With major application in hotels and hospitals, this product is likely to be of interest to manufacturers, and downstream processors, of paper tissue."
The Register says: Expect Intel to launch its Downstream processor Real Soon Now.
"Disposal Speculum -- A unique inflatable vaginal speculum which cost effectively solves the problems of current instruments. This project has caused worldwide interest from manufacturers of medical disposables, and is likely to make a major impact on the speculum market."
The Register says: We always preferred the Sinclair Speculum.
"Light Weight Wheel -- A totally new concept for a combined light weight wheel/hub, likely to be of interest to manufacturers of automotive wheels and/or hubs."
The Register says: Wheel meet again, don't know where, don't know when...
CMR is promoting something called X-Cel. We're not sure what it is -- something to do with concrete, apparently -- but we're told Bill Gates already has his lawyers onto it... ®
"M-Systems recently released a new TrueFFS driver for DiskOnChip that includes support for Linux kernel 2.4.X. The new driver can be used as an integral part of the Linux kernel or as a General Public License (GPL)-compliant loadable module. The loadable module approach enables commercial distribution of Linux-based systems using DiskOnChip and M-Systems TrueFFS drivers, while complying with Linux's GPL terms and conditions.
The new driver includes source files of the driver layer that enable developers with custom Linux kernels to modify the DiskOnChip driver layer to work with their unique version of Linux and maintain GPL terms. Using this driver as a loadable module also enables faster integration of DiskOnChip within Linux-based systems thus allowing faster time to market."
Opera has limited support for Hebrew in the Windows version (due to the internal support of Windows), and no support (or very limited) in the Linux version.
Oooh! That's a great idea. Lets go back to the glorious days of ASCII art, fixed width fonts, before the days you could use hyperlinks, or maybe back to the wonderful ASCII tables.
Although a great deal of the HTML features are utterly useless in a E-mail (e.g. scripting languages and JavaScript), sometimes the benifits of HTML mail are important.
Once I was at a place where they had a fairly large monitor connected to a crappy UPS. They kept the monitor off to save power. There was a major powerout for a few hours. Once I turned the monitor on to shut down cleanly the server, the UPS overloaded (monitors have a very high inrush current) and the server went down with it.
Moral: be sure to check your UPS can handle the inrush current before you try to save power.
That said, you don't need to keep the monitor on the server on.
Slashdot Mirror
Symantec already does this, sort of.
e.g. They call Sircam: W32.Sircam.Worm@mm
W32 is short for Windows 32bit.
I hope it complies with RFC 2324 (Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)).
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt
Let's not forget Emacs (especially XEmacs-GTK)
The only free complete programming environments I remember from Microsoft are GW-Basic, QBasic and DEBUG.EXE .
q 258/2/65.asp
Those have been great times for developers world-wide. Sadly, QBasic isn't included anymore in Windows 2000, but fortunately DEBUG.EXE still is.
See http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/
Another race would be smart enough to learn and understand our languages. There is a lot of reference material on this planet to make things clearer, and if a baby can learn a language, so can a very-intelligent alien, with nearly unlimited information harvesting, processing power, and very advanced artificial intelligence.
If our historians can manage to figure out ancient languages, then so can aliens figure ours. If we want to communicate with them, we should make our best efforts to teach them our language.
If you would want to teach an alien anyway, you should probably want to try in multiple ways. The first thing you would have to teach the aliens is the basic vocabulary. A basic touchscreen with videos, each showing several nouns. It will speak out the word, and write it down on the monitor whenever it is touched on the screen. Afterwards you could do the same with verbs and adjectives (e.g. color).
You don't want any device like a keyboard or a mouse, because you don't know what physical properties the alien will have. So a touchscreen is the best choice. The operating system would have to be idiot proof and solidly built (and I don't think blue screens would help the aliens to better understand what's going on).
Numbers should be counted by sticks, e.g. 20 will be represented by 20 sticks. Not very useful for big numbers, but that's the simplest option. A small tutorial about basic maths with a video would also be useful.
Another interesting way to communicate with the aliens would be some variant of the Logo language (one that wouldn't use a keyboard). Or maybe even some simplified paintbrush.
And finally after some basic comprehension has been established, you might try to let the aliens surf the web with a basic browser(or perhaps some slightly filtered version of it - you don't know what will happen if they suddenly get a woody, they might become aggressive). Possible good homepages are Google, the Google Directory, and perhaps AltaVista's image search, and maybe a child education site. The pages would need to be cleaned and simplified. If the aliens manage to physically speak our languages, then maybe voice recognition would be helpful for the web interface.
Peer-to-peer is here, and it's here to stay. And there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Napigator shows over 200 non-napster.com
servers. And Napster is only one of the many peer-to-peer sharing utilities.
Napster clones may be the most convenient way to download music, but they are not the only way. You can still download music via HTTP, FTP, NNTP, E-mail, IRC and so on... if you're bored you can look at some of the ways suggested at http://decss.zoy.org/ .
As I looked at the previous Slashdot article, I noticed that the article mentioned a follow-up. The link was dead, so again - Google to the rescue.
This is the follow-up from: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/6071. html
More details have emerged regarding the amazing '2300GB on a PC Card' memory technology developed by a Keele University team led by the remarkable Professor Ted Williams.
(Even as we speak, Register scriptwriters are working on the pilot episode of Prof. Ted, Craggy Island's very own quantum mechanic: "Feck! Girls! Many-particle Wave Functions!").
The team's system crams 86GB of data storage per square centimetre of physical medium, and uses a magneto-optical system to read, erase and write data within the solid state system. That allows, claim the researchers, a data access rate of 100Mbps.
We also learn that Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), which is providing the business brains behind the Keele/CMR joint venture, Keele High Density, is also pioneering the following scientific curiousities, among others: "Zodee -- A disposable toilet cleaning device which avoids the hygiene problems associated with conventional toilet brushes. With major application in hotels and hospitals, this product is likely to be of interest to manufacturers, and downstream processors, of paper tissue."
The Register says: Expect Intel to launch its Downstream processor Real Soon Now.
"Disposal Speculum -- A unique inflatable vaginal speculum which cost effectively solves the problems of current instruments. This project has caused worldwide interest from manufacturers of medical disposables, and is likely to make a major impact on the speculum market."
The Register says: We always preferred the Sinclair Speculum.
"Light Weight Wheel -- A totally new concept for a combined light weight wheel/hub, likely to be of interest to manufacturers of automotive wheels and/or hubs."
The Register says: Wheel meet again, don't know where, don't know when...
CMR is promoting something called X-Cel. We're not sure what it is -- something to do with concrete, apparently -- but we're told Bill Gates already has his lawyers onto it... ®
After a bit of background search on Google...
Surprise, surprise...
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/10/1235259.shtm l
The newly released Opera for Linux is ad-sponsored freeware
"M-Systems recently released a new TrueFFS driver for DiskOnChip that includes support for Linux kernel 2.4.X. The new driver can be used as an integral part of the Linux kernel or as a General Public License (GPL)-compliant loadable module. The loadable module approach enables commercial distribution of Linux-based systems using DiskOnChip and M-Systems TrueFFS drivers, while complying with Linux's GPL terms and conditions.
The new driver includes source files of the driver layer that enable developers with custom Linux kernels to modify the DiskOnChip driver layer to work with their unique version of Linux and maintain GPL terms. Using this driver as a loadable module also enables faster integration of DiskOnChip within Linux-based systems thus allowing faster time to market."
Source: M-System's press release
Opera has limited support for Hebrew in the Windows version (due to the internal support of Windows), and no support (or very limited) in the Linux version.
Oooh! That's a great idea. Lets go back to the glorious days of ASCII art, fixed width fonts, before the days you could use hyperlinks, or maybe back to the wonderful ASCII tables.
Although a great deal of the HTML features are utterly useless in a E-mail (e.g. scripting languages and JavaScript), sometimes the benifits of HTML mail are important.
Once I was at a place where they had a fairly large monitor connected to a crappy UPS. They kept the monitor off to save power. There was a major powerout for a few hours. Once I turned the monitor on to shut down cleanly the server, the UPS overloaded (monitors have a very high inrush current) and the server went down with it.
Moral: be sure to check your UPS can handle the inrush current before you try to save power.
That said, you don't need to keep the monitor on the server on.
There are a few utilities which will guarantee that data will be unrecoverable with forensic analysis.
Look for wipe in freshmeat.
Office 2000 doesn't work with Wine, apparently because of a copy-protection scheme in it.
Tapes replaced vinyl and CD's replaced tapes.
A better comparison would be to compare a audio compression to file compression.
There is no reason to stick to ZIP files. Yet it's still the most popular archive format.
Like there are robots exclusion standards in Usenet (x-noarchive), and on the web (robots.txt), we should probably make some similar standard for IRC.
/mode themselves so they won't be archived.
So people or channel ops can
Chat robots that won't follow those standards should be banned off IRC.
In case you missed the quickie a few months back, here's a solution: http://www.iol25.com/mfreeland/wow.htm
Every type of media has the possiblity of getting damaged, that's why we have CRCs and error correction algorithms.