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| Friday May 11, 2007 | Dynamically added
pigeon fez!
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Friday Dec 9, 2005 | Wayne Carlson, professor of design, art and more at OSU, has
put together an exhuastive (and exhuasting),
20-part critical history
of computer graphics, complete with images and movies of rare early works.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 29, 2005 | Io is a relatively new language on the dynamic programming block. It compares favorably with Python and Ruby in terms of performance. Io is also small and easily embeddable, as would be evidenced by the iol4 operating system. to Computing by fool |
| Saturday Sep 3, 2005 | Apparently the hard drive is the new bling. to Computing by isosceles |
| Monday Dec 13, 2004 | The perennial optimism of old computers as told through T-Shirts. to Computing by fool |
| Thursday Dec 9, 2004 | While you probably don't know if P = NP, you might be curious to see if β2P contains LOGSNP without memorizing the whole zoo. to Computing by fool |
| Saturday Oct 30, 2004 | Not to be confused with the Connection Machine from Thinking Machines, the Chess program Thinking Machine 4 visualizes search of the game tree. to Computing by fool |
| Wednesday Oct 6, 2004 | Inevitable but also so very, very wrong,
Mozilla
Firefox themed
furry anime
girls.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Sep 25, 2004 | As small bootable operating systems proliferate the communities using them are becoming increasing specialized. Take for instance the go boot cd or the goatse rescue floppy. to Computing by fool |
| Tuesday Sep 21, 2004 | In my day, we used to crack with plastic whistles from cereal boxes! You kids with your new-fangled searching and fishing, I tell you it takes the art out of cracking. to Computing by fool |
| Tuesday Sep 14, 2004 | Did you ever wonder where spam comes from? Now you know where to aim the missiles. to Computing by scromp |
| Monday Aug 23, 2004 | Sometimes people are annoyingly distracted by their networked applications and unable to accomplish work. Making use of the new lockout program, you can firewall distraction. to Computing by fool |
| Thursday May 13, 2004 |
Case modders +
anime fans =
Anime maid-shaped
computer case
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 12, 2004 | Shit, there's a lot of fucking swearing
in the Linux
kernel.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 5, 2004 | So you want to be a hacker? As long as you have 10 years of spare time, some folks would be happy to teach you the core bits. to Computing by fool |
| Saturday Dec 20, 2003 | As we approach the 20th anniversary of Apple Computer's landmark '1984' Super Bowl ad, criticism is widespread that beleaguered Apple’s recent ad campaign promoting long-time PC supporters who’d switched to Mac was a little bit conceited. As expected, the devoted Mac zealots were a little sensitive to the criticism. Their sometimes irrational reactions only served to reinforce the prevailing attitude that Mac users are uniquely susceptible to cultlike brainwashing. Like many others, I feel it’s too easy to use the word ‘cult’ to describe any group with whose fundamental creed you might disagree. In my opinion, as the influence of traditional organized religion on people’s lives increasingly wanes in today’s technocratic society, the Mac fanatics' enthusiasm for their machines, which is really nothing more than a silly obsession with their computers, shouldn’t be viewed as unhealthy religious fanaticism, but rather consumers’ freedom of choice in an increasingly monopolistic industry. to Computing by rich |
| Friday Dec 12, 2003 | Worse is Better or Worse is Worse? to Computing by fool |
| Thursday Aug 7, 2003 | In the 60s and 70s, if you wanted to store more data than would fit on
your new-fangled disk
drives and you were frustrated by the slow access times of
tape
drives, then some of your choices were the Data
Cell and the spectacularly complex electron-beam-and-film
photostore. to Computing by gator |
| Saturday Jul 5, 2003 | NaDa does nothing for everybody.
to Computing by yoyology |
| Friday Jun 27, 2003 | IntyOS is the latest in a long string of attempts to write multitasking operating system software on old, early 80's hardware. to Computing by isosceles |
| Monday Jun 23, 2003 | Finally, the complete guide to illegally burning copies of protected CD-ROMs. Don't tell the cops, d00d. to Computing by yoyology |
| Thursday May 29, 2003 | In the SCO/Linux battle, SCO is in "Hot Pursuit!!!" to Computing by yoyology |
| Tuesday May 20, 2003 | AC power cords aren't just for power anymore. to Computing by yoyology |
| Wednesday May 7, 2003 | DENIM allows users to sketch automated interface prototypes without programming. to Computing by fool |
| Monday May 5, 2003 | Wanted: Systems Engineer. Must have at least 3 years experience in QnA, nequam and LOBOL. Serious inquiries only.
to Computing by mrnonrespondo |
| Monday Apr 14, 2003 | Have you been lusting after an IMSAI since 1983? You can get
an IMSAI Series
Two, complete with ATX mounting
for convenience. to Computing by gator |
| Thursday Apr 3, 2003 | Mod your Nintendo into a computer, grab an emulator, and strap in for the ultimate surreal experience. to Computing by fotbon |
| Tuesday Apr 1, 2003 | Bling Method: Kickin it geek style. to Computing by fotbon |
| Thursday Mar 6, 2003 |
RottenFlesh effortlessly generates
parodies of stupid software submitted to freshmeat.net. to Computing by roo |
| When you use an Apple computer, you're computing with Satan.
to Computing by sck |
| Friday Feb 14, 2003 | Annoyances.org is a collection of, well, all the things that people find annoying about Windows. This includes that stupid arrow that bounces off the Start button, the ugly shutdown screen, and any number of other annoyances in between. to Computing by yoyology |
| Wednesday Jan 8, 2003 | There is here! There is the result of four years of top secret development and is the latest incarnation of a pervasive cyberspace. Although superficially reminiscent of first-person shooters, fantasy role-playing games, and multi-player dollhouses, There follows a trail blazed by such efforts as Lucasfilms Habitat and Electric Communities The Palace to create immersive social realms online.
to Computing by dnm |
| Monday Dec 9, 2002 | Once upon a time, all you had to worry about was working the bugs out of your programs. to Computing by fatherdan |
| Sunday Oct 20, 2002 | As someone who has switched from Wintel hell back to the Mac (how can one resist BSD with a sexy new-ish GUI?), I've become increasingly fascinated with the Apple switch ads. Though Ellen Feiss's 15 minutes of fame are over, you can still inspect the public lives of the other "switchers": Janie Porche has lots of interesting tidbits, including wanting to marry an electron; Aaron Adams wants us to know lots of things, including that we've all been too tough on the Dell guy; and if you like driving, Jentry Poss's trucking company seems to be hiring. to Computing by crikey |
| Wednesday Sep 4, 2002 | Plucky American upstart NucOS
aims to dethrone entrenched British stalwart HarrixOS using the secret weapon of code!
to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Aug 20, 2002 | Fifteen years ago,
John Sculley
of
Apple
begat a vision of the future of personal computing. The dream inspired
successful
products,
unsuccessful
ones, and
sheer fantasies.
Written by
Hugh Dubberly
and
Doris Mitsch:
The original
Knowledge Navigator video.
(15 MB QuickTime movie --
mirror,
mirror,
mirror)
to Computing by belford |
| Wednesday Jul 24, 2002 | Video Orbits have theoretical uses beyond panoramic photography. The software stitches images automatically, and would be great for pasting large documents scanned on consumer scanning products, if I could only get the low overlap case to work.
to Computing by shadow |
| DjVu is intended to be an all-encompassing document format. You can get a free version from SourceForge or buy it from LizardTech. I find this very odd, as the most useful part, in my opinion, is the image compression technology, which looks like it would be great for maps and especially aerial photos. That market is currently served nicely by another LizardTech product, MrSid.
Indeed, LizardTech gives away various MrSid viewers and tools, but the image server software disappeared, taking along with it the tool which could be used to batch-decode images on Linux machines. For the hobbyist, product pricing is daunting, and hand-decoding isn't very useful, if the viewer software even supports GeoTIFF exports. At least someday GDAL will likely support DjVu, which will ease the space requirements of keeping a personal cache of geodata.
to Computing by shadow |
| Thursday Jul 18, 2002 | The real
Stick Wars
isn't a
Flash site, a
Star Wars parody,
or a Venetian
brawling style -- it's a nifty and
remarkably
diverse
multi-state
cellular automaton
co-"invented" by
Mirek Wojtowicz
and Rudy Rucker. (Java recommended.)
to Computing by voidptr |
| Wednesday Jun 26, 2002 | Sick of the high and mighty judgemental ways of the Bourne Again Shell community? It's time to switch to the p0rn again shell. Then you'll be an 31337 playa, or just crush alot.
to Computing by fool |
| Thursday May 30, 2002 | Remember NeXT Computers? It was the apple of Steve's eye. While it's common knowledge that the software has received a new lease on life, apparently some enterprising individuals have decided to modify the case beyond all recognition. And how pretty those polished cases are! But what happens when you go too far? to Computing by isosceles |
| Thursday Mar 14, 2002 | Goto statements were
considered harmful.
Csh was
considered harmful.
Reply-to munging was
considered harmful.
<FONT> tags,
the phrase "character set",
recursive Makefiles,
XSL,
WAP,
and some
stuff
I've
never
even
heard of
has all been
considered harmful.
Enough! If you
hate
something,
just say that it
sucks,
already.
to Computing by belford |
| Sunday Mar 3, 2002 | Old Computers.Com has profiles and pictures of almost every old computer you can think of. Ever heard of the Sega SC3000H? Need a cheap and reliable portable? Read-up on the TRS-80 Model 100 or the Epson HX / HC 20. Or maybe you wanna compare the Atari ST to the Amiga 1000. to Computing by klint |
| Wednesday Feb 6, 2002 | Even though I should have known better,
I'd always thought you needed a full-out
clean room if you planned to
open a hard drive and have it operate again. These case modder sites
suggest
otherwise with
their clear-drive-cover projects. to Computing by gator |
| Friday Feb 1, 2002 | Trying to fix your computer? You could let Shotgun Studios or Datadocktor'n help you out!! Defraggling a motherdisc has never been so fun!
to Computing by caspian |
| Friday Jan 25, 2002 | It is all well and good to use AppleScript to automate a radio station or fight crime. However, the true test of a programming language is how close it gets you to Sinbad. to Computing by akk |
| Friday Dec 21, 2001 | If you're a Programming Languages geek, or even if you just want some example code for a given language, check out
Michael Neumann's 362 examples in 116 programming languges.
to Computing by laurel |
| Wednesday Nov 28, 2001 | You're not crazy, the radio waves are being controlled by a computer. More specifically, Tempest for Eliza is a program that uses your monitor to send out AM band radio signals. You can tune your radio in and listen to the cichlisuite [pronounced: sickly sweet] IDM tones. to Computing by fool |
| Monday Nov 26, 2001 | ¿Quien es mas macho: Microsoft Technical Support or the Psychic Friends Network? Neither apparently. to Computing by fool |
| Tuesday Nov 20, 2001 | Corporate graffiti: Monkey see, monkey do. to Computing by sylvar |
| Tuesday Oct 30, 2001 | Deipnosophists Trace Country Music and other computer generated headlines. to Computing by fool |
| Sunday Oct 28, 2001 | Like cockroaches or kudzu, AOL disks will never go away, no matter how many we recycle or attempt to return. So let's try and be positive about it! Let's celebrate their infinite variations and near-infinite quantity! And while we're collecting disks, we can branch out into saving other AOL memorabilia! to Computing by tregoweth |
| Monday Oct 15, 2001 | Systray.org allows you to post and discuss the little icons next to your Windows clock.
to Computing by fool |
| Sunday Oct 14, 2001 | The C Terrain is a beginners level programming tutorial: "You need to talk to Compiler in his terms. You need to learn the laguage he loves to use. Its the language very similar to English, and yet so powerfull that it can make your stupid mu-Pee fall in love with you. But its only when you agree to learn the language on which Mr. Compiler insists." to Computing by braino |
| Friday Oct 12, 2001 | As holistic medicine has grown in response to the failure of science to handle disease, so too has holistic computer medicine grown to tackle computer viruses and more. to Computing by faisal |
| Thursday Sep 27, 2001 | DeskSwap is a screensaver that swaps images of the user's desktop with others, exchanging candid glimpses of familiar-looking but ultimately unfamiliar workspaces. to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Sep 18, 2001 | In the world of William Gibson, the AI programs like Wintermute are listed in a registry and wired to kill switches--in case they become too powerful. In current times, web robots, like WebReaper, are listed in a registry and wired to kill switches--in case they become too powerful.
to Computing by enigma |
| Monday Sep 17, 2001 | Real Time Battle and Robot Battle are just two of many games in which the object is not to do battle with the competition directly but instead write little programs that fight each other on a virtual battlefield.
Core Wars, one of the oldest of these games, has spawned an entire subgenre in which fighters are evolved
genetically instead of being written by hand -- programs writing programs for fighting programs inside programs.
to Computing by joshua |
| Monday Sep 3, 2001 |
Those of you who took a
beginner's computer science
course may remember
programming
Karel
the Robot.
Now, quake before the might of
Karel++! to Computing by voidptr |
| Wednesday Aug 22, 2001 | The infamous
and ubiquitous blue screen of death. If you've
left a PC running a Windows product for more than an hour at a time you have
most likely experienced it yourself. Not
even Chairman Bill can escape its hoary clutches. Take heart, now you can
finally experience the pink
screen of death and others! Or why not join in the fun and amuse your friends
and terrify your enemies with the BlueScreen
Screen saver.
to Computing by asosa |
| Monday Aug 13, 2001 | Rumor has it that when Seymour Cray discovered Steve Jobs purchased a CRAY supercomputer to model a new design, Cray said "Funny, I am using an Apple to simulate the CRAY-3."
to Computing by fool |
| Monday Aug 6, 2001 | Perl:
Some people like it, some people love it, and some love it so much they'll advocate using it for almost anything, or even start flame wars with people who prefer alternative scripting languages (despite reasoned and blunt arguments not to).
But for one man, it is a love that dare not speak it's name.
to Computing by kilinrax |
| Get your hands off me, you damned, dirty Microsoft CEO! to Computing by therubal |
| Thursday Jul 26, 2001 | Sex sure does sell, but can it sell the unsexiest thing of them all: an OS? Something tells me no. to Computing by skallas |
| Thursday Jul 5, 2001 | What do you do with to Computing by jcs |
| Wednesday Jun 20, 2001 | Many people take it upon themselves to modify their bland, beige computer case. Many of the modifications strike me as sort of ricey but others, IMHO, seem to have real artistic merit. Yet others seem to reside in the realm of creepy and disturbing. Be sure to check out the location of the reset switch. to Computing by singe |
| Thursday Jun 14, 2001 | I'm a sucker for a computer covered in colored plastic, but I'm an ever bigger fool for the completely transparent PC. You can tell your friends it's really an expensive and rare prototype.
to Computing by skallas |
| Wednesday Jun 13, 2001 | Remember the Apple ][? There's still some resources and some current software. There's even a Un*xy operating system for it.
to Computing by jcs |
| Thursday Jun 7, 2001 | The History of Video Games
details, among other things, how a
playing card distributor and
radio manufacturer make it big, while
others stumble and are absorbed.
to Computing by jcs |
| Wednesday Jun 6, 2001 | The alpha and omega of spyware detectors, Lavasoft's Ad Aware has just released the long awaited version 5. You're probably running one of the hundreds of spyware applications right now.
to Computing by skallas |
| Tuesday Jun 5, 2001 | Like Perl?
Now you can use it all the time!
to Computing by jcs |
| Friday Jun 1, 2001 | Hey tech fogies! Remember old school BBS's? The glory of slow download speeds, ANSI, and blurry porn! Now enthusiasts have written up new BBS's you can connect to via telnet. Or hook up your old 2400 baud BBS to telnet and relive the era before e-nausea.. to Computing by mercaptan |
| Wednesday May 16, 2001 | There no longer is a difference between hacking tools and anti-hacking tools. I'd be concerned if a sysadmin couldn't spoof her IP or launch a Smurf attack. to Computing by skallas |
| Tuesday May 15, 2001 | It looks like Microsoft is trying to kill Clippy.
Would you like to help? to Computing by boneyard |
| Wednesday May 9, 2001 | We have all heard of distributed computing projects that let you do things like break encryption and search for little green men, but did you know you can use your spare gigahertz to fight AIDS? to Computing by enigma |
| NetBSD on a Dreamcast. Unix on a GameBoy. Linux on a Playstation 2. Linux on a Palm. Windows CE on a Dreamcast. to Computing by george |
| Wednesday Apr 25, 2001 | Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Dave Touretzky has collected a rather impressive list of DeCSS materials, including a really fantastic gallery of DeCSS descramblers. This features the famous t-shirt, a DeCSS haiku, a dramatic reading of the DeCSS algorithm, and an implementation in a language for which no compiler currently exists. to Computing by crikey |
| Sunday Apr 22, 2001 | Know C, the programming language?
You sure?
Herein find the answers to some
Infrequently Asked Questions,
ranging from the
sublime to the
ridiculous. to Computing by voidptr |
| Thursday Apr 19, 2001 | Purpx bhg jjj.ebg13.pbz sbe gur yngrfg va fvzcyr fhofgvghgvba pvcure abfgnytvn. Furrfu! to Computing by crikey |
| Tuesday Apr 17, 2001 | Know C, the programming language?
How about
Duff's
Device?
(This article should scare C programmers for
reasons only C programmers understand, and everyone
else for reasons C programmers just don't understand.)
to Computing by tjs |
| Thursday Apr 12, 2001 | I'm not sure if Luddite is a real company or just a joke, but you've got to question a website that sells wooden computers and also gives you a list of the founder's other failed wood-related businesses. to Computing by crikey |
| Sunday Mar 11, 2001 | True horror tales
of systems administration. to Computing by moose |
| Saturday Feb 24, 2001 | Object-Oriented Programming good. Object-Oriented Programming funny. Object-Oriented Programming very very bad.
to Computing by che |
| Tuesday Feb 6, 2001 | "Take the HAL 9000, mix in some Talking Moose, a little Bugs Bunny, a
Stooge or three, plus a whole lot of attitude and what do you get? DeskBots, the
robotic talking desktop companion!"
to Computing by dha |
| Sunday Feb 4, 2001 | Why font smoothing? It slows things down and hurts my eyes, but some people actually like it. to Computing by djinn |
| Tuesday Jan 30, 2001 | The real problem with Seti@Home is the unimaginative names. Who would you rather see catch the next Wow! signal, a corporate ad like Sun Microsystems, a lame Monty Python reference, or The Great Culinary Search for Delicious Aliens. Of course a mention of Seti@Home wouldn't be complete without mentioning ways of hiding it from your boss. to Computing by skallas |
| Is there any nobler art form than the computer industry
promotional T-shirt? View the artifacts on display
at GeekT.org and
Apple T-Shirts
and decide for yourself. (And if you want some
for your very own, you may wish to consult
a friendly
dealer.)
to Computing by tregoweth |
| Saturday Jan 20, 2001 | Evolution has been theorized as
the origin of life, first
by Darwin. Now, scientists are
evolving
circuits. No telling where this could
lead. to Computing by petek |
| Monday Jan 15, 2001 | Take almost complete control over your windows PC with MS's most powerful tools: the popular regedit and the well-hidden and unsupported Tweak UI.
to Computing by skallas |
| Tuesday Jan 9, 2001 | It may be hard for These Kids Today to believe, but there was computer porn
before the public discovered the internet. to Computing by dha |
| Tamper-resistant
hardware uses physical security to perform sensitive operations (like
decryption and public-key signature) safely in a potentially hostile
environment. This technology is used in applications from postage to safeguarding
nuclear weapons, and attacking it is the subject of much research.
Commercially available tamper-proof systems include GEMPlus smartcards, crypto iButtons,
and
extremely secure devices from
IBM.
to Computing by gator |
| Wednesday Jan 3, 2001 | Dear pathetic Macintosh fanatics: IT'S OVER. YOU LOST. GET OVER IT. to Computing by peterb |
| Tuesday Jan 2, 2001 | If I ever decide to water cool my PC, please kick my ass. to Computing by peterb |
| Thursday Nov 9, 2000 | The author of Perl In Latin manages to restrain himself for a full sentence before adding that he has a 'plausible rationale' for this ars inana. to Computing by mpc |
| Wednesday Nov 8, 2000 | Bill Gates calls himself very naive about his past beliefs on how computers could solve the world's problems. Another insider finally sobering up and realizing that futurism and technology are tools and not the basis of a retro-future utopia. to Computing by skallas |
| Monday Oct 30, 2000 | Elves
are not just for the fantasy genre anymore.
Milind Tambe and his colleagues at
The University of Southern California have done some fascinating
work with intelligent agents (aka "elves") that
can coordinate with other elves to schedule meetings, order meals, and track
other users of the system using GPS devices. to Computing by laurel |
| Wednesday Oct 25, 2000 | Arrgh. Now that The Wave is out, I feel I've found the coolest web platform ever devised - my very own Commodore 64! Sadly, I can't afford an afterburner or a cool GUI right now, both of which are required...
to Computing by wwwwolf |
| I bet a lot of you didn't know that Atari, maker of
fine video games such as Pong and now a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Hasbro Interactive used to build pretty fine computers.
That would be a shame since Atari computers are a part of many "0ld
5k00l" geeks' history. Go educate yourself at The Digital Antic Project.
If you still don't get it, "Antic" was a magazine for Atari computer
users, and a big slice of personal computing history sits between its
pages. If your personal computing religion included the Commodore 64,
you'll probably want to visit The
Def Guide to Zzap!64 or, if you're just into cover art, there's
this archive of lovingly
scanned and cleaned up Zzap!64 covers. And while we're strolling
down 64K memory lane, everyone who's ever pirated a copy of a Beagle
Bros. program should visit The Beagle Bros. Online
Museum and feel very, very bad. You know who you are and why.
Now if only I could find archives of "80 Micro", "inCider", and
"Creative Computing".... to Computing by braino |
| Rabid Macintosh fans, unable to to wait for Apple to release their next design innovation, have begun to design their own next generation of curvy and translucent computers. Of course, pornographers and professional industrial designers are equally unable to resist the temptation of form over function, or at least rehashing an old product with a new plastic shell. to Computing by joshua |
| Wednesday Oct 4, 2000 | VR pioneer Jaron Lanier trashes AI and futurists admitting that the quality of code can never keep up with the advancement of hardware and that the belief in AI is currently producing anti-intuitive and hard to use software. The full manifesto is on Edge.org. to Computing by skallas |
| Friday Sep 29, 2000 | Every pointy-haired boss should be given a copy of the Hacker FAQ. If your boss seems to have a literacy problem, use the video version, Your New Hacker: An Employer's Guide. to Computing by sylvar |
| Thursday Sep 28, 2000 | You've all heard about such famous
"chatter
bots" as
Eliza and
Parry,
which can imitate human conversation (over a limited domain) fairly well.
However, another, less well-known, program called
Racter
once
wrote
(or at least
helped to write)
a whole book.
This collection of stories and poems, "The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed," was published
in 1984 under the amusing pen-name of
"Mark V. Cheney" (later changed to "Racter").
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Sep 23, 2000 | The Creating Your Own OS FAQ. For everyone who says they can make a better operating system than Microsoft.
to Computing by kade |
| Friday Sep 1, 2000 | Hey, kids! Got thirty five thousand clams? You, too, can
own your own Cray C90! Only one owner, comes pre-painted with
Pittsburgh's Black & Gold colors! Buy now, they have to make room for
682 more machines!
to Computing by moose |
| Wednesday Aug 30, 2000 | Var'aq is the programming language of the future. By which I mean that it's a Klingon programming language. to Computing by keith |
| Thursday Aug 17, 2000 | Mac On Linux allows a PowerPC Linux box to boot a copy of MacOS in a unix process. to Computing by joshua |
| Linux weenies keep yapping on and on about running Linux on the mainframe, but it's a much cooler hack to run a mainframe under Linux. to Computing by joshua |
| Sunday Aug 13, 2000 | Windowblinds - Make your windows-based PC look like BeOS, Macintosh, and even OS/2 2.0. to Computing by kade |
| Thursday Aug 10, 2000 | A few months ago I noticed people are still using
Rexx to build
dynamic web pages. Plausible. Today
I heard of something more, er, sinister:
CobolScript®!
Just see
how this baby threatens Perl's omnipresence and
elegance!
to Computing by wwwwolf |
| Wednesday Aug 9, 2000 | John Conway's
Game of Life
is a simple and well known
cellular
automata
that can be used to generate some pretty
amazing
behavior, including a
Universal Turing machine.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Aug 8, 2000 | Enter the strange world of the only helpful computer virus. After copying itself to your drives and floppies it nicely asks if you'd like to encrypt your data using the IDEA encryption alogrithm. Its friendly but its not free, you can buy it here for ten dollars. to Computing by skallas |
| Monday Aug 7, 2000 | Word Perhect is a nifty Flash program that allows you to write on old phone bills and cigarette foil. It also has an extensive help system. to Computing by enigma |
| Friday Jul 28, 2000 | Today is Systems Administrator Appreciation Day.
Show your appreciation for the
one who keeps your accounts alive and your machines running, lest you
suffer the consequences. to Computing by moose |
| Wednesday Jul 26, 2000 | One for the Babbage "if only people had listened" file:
Konrad Zuse came up with apparently the first
high level language, called
Plankalkül. When? 1945.
Not stoked enough? He had an electromechanical, freely-programmable binary computer working in his parents' living room in 1938. I can imagine the fights that that caused. "Konraaaaad, I want to put my feet up, but there's tickertape spools on the footstool! And AGAIN with the metal shavings in the sofa!!"
to Computing by sburke |
| Pee-wee Herman to Eric Raymond (ESR):
"If you like Python so much, why don't you marry it?". to Computing by sburke |
| Tuesday Jul 25, 2000 | Well, sure, we all thought that we knew. I mean, it was obvious, right. We just had to let it go. But we were wrong. The Amiga isn't dead. Now, instead, of just being a piece of hardware, it is a virtual machine. There's even a Linux SDK you can buy. They are hoping to become the way to write truly portable useful applications for the future. to Computing by keith |
| Friday Jul 21, 2000 | I just got a new Commodore
64, and I have been writing down some dream
descriptions with it. Anyway, Trans64
program seems to bomb these days, so I have to OCR the text,
often
with varying results.
Well, I don't blame C64. The machine supports
wonderful
philosophy and can do
pretty
amazing things like web serving
even at this great age.
to Computing by wwwwolf |
| Thursday Jul 20, 2000 | For those who're fiddling with cryptographic protocols, BAN & GNY Logic are some useful tools. to Computing by mpc |
| Wednesday Jul 19, 2000 | Raph Levien is one cool guy. He's donated a bunch of useful patents to the public, and he's working on a free scalable vector graphics editor, gill. Here's an interview where he talks about fonts, graphics and a bunch of other good stuff. to Computing by simon |
| Monday Jul 17, 2000 | This guy owns a lot of
ancient, probably useless
computer equipment. His pages kept telling me, "You're using
Windows, contact
Red Hat
for an upgrade." I dunno, it's hard to take serious someone who admits writing a
for Dummies book. Hey, think he might
want a used
Cray?
to Computing by moose |
| Wednesday Jul 12, 2000 | "404 not found" You deserve a kinder note Like this web haiku to Computing by stimpy |
| Thursday Jun 29, 2000 | RSA In Javascript. Wow.
to Computing by mpc |
| Wednesday Jun 28, 2000 | In a JavaOne interview, Jon Bosak ("father of XML") came so close to up and saying what I've been screaming for years -- SGML is the biggest fucking mess that otherwise smart people ever came up with.
For example, he observes, delicately:
"You know, with SGML, after 13 years of implementation there were fewer than half a dozen SGML processors in the world, and with the single
exception of James Clark's, all of those processors had been constructed by efforts that were Department of Defense sized effort.
So you just look at that and you say, well, I guess that SGML is probably a little on the far side of the complexity we want."
Gosh, a little, probably?
to Computing by sburke |
| Sunday May 28, 2000 | The hot new computing trend of the new millennium will be to refurbish old Macintoshes using Mega Bloks. I suppose Legos would work, too. to Computing by crikey |
| Wednesday May 24, 2000 | One of my first computers was a Commodore 64.
As a kid, the graphics and sound from that
little machine were amazing. Ever wondered
what became of Jeff Minter,
Rob Hubbard and
all the other great games programmers and composers?
c64.org
has tracked down many of the scene and archived
a huge number of the games and original tunes.
to Computing by simon |
| Friday May 19, 2000 | Tired of wearing silly glasses to get a headachy 3-D effect? Don't worry, Deep Video Imaging layers a number of LCD displays to provide depth of field. They aren't cheap ($10,000 or so) but they'll be available soon.
to Computing by joshua |
| Monday May 1, 2000 | RSA-129,
distributed.net, and SETI@home showed that
we could use the Internet to do big computations.
Electric Sheep uses this paradigm to make beautiful screensavers for you. Now,
Popular Power is a company
distributing clients that harness your idle computer resources to do
distributed processing.
to Computing by nelson |
| Saturday Apr 29, 2000 | LowerBound is a computer hardware search engine that scans pricewatch and many other web retailers for best prices, product features, and so on. to Computing by nyarl |
| Thursday Apr 27, 2000 | I work in the technical support area of an ISP, which means I get
some really odd calls.
to Computing by rampage |
| The Flying Circus is an excellent compendium on Genetic Algorithms, including tutorials, demos for various platforms, and movies. to Computing by joshua |
| Wednesday Apr 26, 2000 | Artifical intelligence technology can be applied to many fields of life, from commerce, to social simulations (telnet required), to making sex-crazed teenagers look really pathetic. to Computing by kier |
| Tuesday Apr 11, 2000 | SpinCircuit - design and build your own electronic components online. to Computing by faisal |
| Tuesday Apr 4, 2000 | IDcide tells you when you may have entered a "cookie tracking network" by alerting you when you are recieving cookies from the site you are currently not visiting. (Unfortunately, it only works for Internet Explorer under Windows.) to Computing by joshua |
| Most web ad-busting rely on a proxy between your browser and the world, but it is also possible to filter out those annoying banner ads with a neat hack. to Computing by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 28, 2000 | Last week, Mathworks ran their third online
programming contest. These are unusual contests in that
they involve elements of open-source development, which in turn raises
interesting and
as-yet-unresolved questions
about how to run a competetition in the context of
a gift economy.
to Computing by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 27, 2000 | The Crypt Newsletter is focused on computer security, usually from a very cynical perspective. In particular, they've concocted the Joseph K. Guide, the Devil's Dictionary of IT. to Computing by mpc |
| Friday Mar 24, 2000 | Ten gigabytes on tape might seem dull... but on
adhesive tape?! The
European Media Lab
in Heidelberg gives you 10737418240 reasons to
love the sticky stuff, and the same technique could
be used for holographic storage.
to Computing by oznoid</ |
