Techie Tidbits

too tired to give a fuck

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020731080733.htm

Sleep Apnea Linked To Decreased Libido, According To New Study

(sorry couldn't help myself)

cosmic rays linked to global warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020731080631.htm

adsfadsf

the "original" food packages...

http://members.aol.com/mcmaenza/wacky0.htm

hmmmm..

order yer british delicacies here in the colonies

http://brit.fbcusa.com/

yummy yummy yummy i've got Marmite in my tummy..

new MRI technology maps nerves, soft tissues...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020731082630.htm

NIH Licenses New MRI Technology That Produces Detailed Images
Of Nerves, Other Soft Tissues

NIH press release dates back to 12/2000...
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/new/releases/dt-mri.cfm

darn, no asteroid impact in 2019..

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000CEBF2-2B54-1D47-90FB809EC5880000&catID=1

darn, darn, darn..

use your CPU to cook your egg...

http://www.handyscripts.co.uk/trubador_egg.htm

a hands on, how to!

Scientists reveal the secret of cuddles

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992598

"human skin has a special network of nerves that stimulate
a pleasurable response to stroking..."

anyone NOT know that?

back yard BattleMech

http://www.wizkidsgames.com/mwdarkage/mw_article.asp?cid=36984&frame=news

Gotta build one of these for your kids...

Iraq said to be working with ebola....

http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=655146&in_review_text_id=626056

chinese having their tongues snipped to speak better english..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2161780.stm

gotta see it to believe it...

disposable cell phones..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2162075.stm

http://www.hop-on.com/

more techo trash....

unknown animals site

http://www.lorencoleman.com/

mothman, abominable snowman, and more..

scramjet success down under

http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.phtml?article=3409

sounds like good progress to me.

Monday! (a.k.a. PWC consulting) didn't last long

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/26464.html

Acquired by IBM...

VeriSign lied in ICANN race case

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26431.html

using subway train motors as generators..

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/30/nyregion/30TUNN.html

"But now, harnessing the mass and momentum of the new train cars,
the subway's electricians are trying to strike up a better
relationship between train and rail. In theory, it works like
this: A moving train consumes power. When it stops, however, it
can use its motor as a generator and pump some of that power back
into the third rail, to be consumed by other trains around it."

HP uses DMCA to squash defect reports...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26468.html

"Hewlett Packard has threatened to use computer crime laws
and the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act to
muzzle a group of security researchers who unearthed a
flaw in its Tru64 operating system. "

RPM dependency graphs..

http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpmgraph/?topic_id=100%2C257%2C901

Something useful! sort of.. see the visual dependancy graphs
of the RPM's installed on your system.. Now if I could just
get something to tell me what they are before I START down the
install black hole... ;-}

Valgrind, an open-source memory debugger for x86-GNU/Linux

http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/

A purify like product for linux...

802.11b honeypot run by SAIC

http://online.securityfocus.com/news/552

Guess you've got to be careful out there! ;-}

verisign fan mail...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/26469.html

ouch!

more OpenSSL security holes

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-23.html

will it ever stop? ;-}

the answer to ALL your glue needs...

http://www.thistothat.com/

Metal to glass? Metal to leather? ceramic to plastic?

All the answers you could want..

Encrypted VNC via SSH on Windows NT

http://www.systemtoolbox.com/article.php?articles_id=122

ooh awe..

ACLU files suit to challenge the DMCA

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/07/26/digital.copyright.aclu.ap/index. html

Interesting new angle..

3COM gets court to stop shipments of XIRCOM RealPorts

http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG20020726S0011

Wow, not that wireless is taking over we've got to make
more money from old technology by stopping the direct
competition...

WD has 200GB drives

http://www.wdc.com/

Fluid dynamics bearings...

new NIST document on wireless security

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/draft-sp800-48.pdf

Looks like it could be interesting...

convserve water at your house

http://www.h2ouse.org/

tips for every room in your house..

100KW infrared laser on F35..

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992585

should be able to blind each other... ;-}

Winnie the Pooh VS Disney

http://www.lamag.com/cover2.htm

A fun read on a long, long running battle over lots and lots of $$

desktop fusion claims, oops, maybe not..

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000450D9-0937-1D3F-90FB809EC58800
00&catID=1

Darn it all! I had high hopes...

mesh wireless networks?

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.08/start.html?pg=8

Bottom up networks that...

"Mesh could make the wireless Web sexy again. When
MeshNetworks did field trials in Orlando, engineers
clocked speeds of up to 6 Mbps, faster than a cable
modem. To show off, they took visitors out on the
highway for a little demo: a laptop receiving
streaming video at 70 mph."

sounds impressive doesn't it..

quite exciting upgrading to BIND 9!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26381.html

We should probably consider this when the new VeriSign
BIND replacement goes into operation...

What will the impacts be on OUR environments (personal
and (large) business)...

be ye carefule yon boobs licketh

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,15410-1018360,00.html

;-}

edward tufte wants a different design for the Pioneer spacecraft plaque..

http://www.edwardtufte.com/1576494545/tufte/space

Gates admits .NET a 'misstep'

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/79868_net25.shtml

Interesting read. But, he's not giving up! ;-}

New Robot Has Basic Social Skills

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=528&e=2&cid=528&u=/ap/20020724/ap_on_hi_te/socially_skilled_robot_5

Hmm, how do we get this into some of the geeks that we know... ;-}

small form factor pc

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.html?i=1661

8"w x 5"h x 11"d

firewire (1f, 2r), usb (2f, 2r), spdif (1f, 1r), keyboard,
mouse, microphone, 5.1 channel outputs, VGA, 2 serial,
10/100 ethernet, AGP slot and PCI slot.

533 MHz FSB

2 DIMM slots

house a Pentium 4 running at 2.53GHz, a GeForce4 Ti 4600
and a 7200RPM IDE hard drive all while being cooled by
only a single fan. Fan is temperature controlled. 51db
vs 64db in conventional mid-tower...

Is MSN8 the "Internet-as-the-operating-system"?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59813-2002Jul24.html

Has Bill hit his vision on target? or even close?

artificial anti-bodies created using molecular imprintation..

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020725081310.htm

I guess if we can't cure disease we can bind with something
else to neutralize...

open source application , intercepts and logs JDBC database statements

http://www.p6spy.com

Looks useful. There's also a package to watch for long-running statements..
Could be useful tuning purposes..

NYT thinks Google is evil..

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/technology/circuits/25GOOG.html

Well, I'm guessing all search engines actually. They think that
they're and invasion of privacy...

VeriSign WLS dead?

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-transfer/Arc00/msg00406.html

Appears that they (dnso) rejected the idea... Let's see what
ICANN does, after all they're considered to be lackeys of
VeriSign anyway..

buy yer own cloning equipment

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/26356.html

sounds like it's less than $10K... who shall we
clone first....

take yer sysadmin to lunch day

http://www.sysadminday.com/

This coming friday is when you should show your
appreciation of your System Administrator..

VeriSign to raise cert prices by 60%

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26344.html

Anybody heard about this?

guess in India a eunuch is considered a she...

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_635266.html?menu=news.quirkies

4GHz Pentium 4's in time for holidays..

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/07/23/intel.pentium.4.reut/index.html

gear up git heads!

about out of time to upgrade M$ licenses...

http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/

bless us every one...

looks like Democrats being dragged into Enron

http://www.nationalreview.com/levin/levin072302.asp

Ah, the joys of politics... ;-}

validating 6 degrees of separation

http://smallworld.sociology.columbia.edu/

I guess we'll find out if we ARE all within
6 degrees of Kevin Beacon

ISO to withdraw JPEG as standard..

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26339.html

jus cain't wenn... wonder how much JPEG was used in PNG...

php security holes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A21958-2002Jul3?language=printer

4.2.0 and 4.2.1 are vulnerable..

got to http://www.php.net/

Proportional Share scheduler for FreeBSD

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102881,00.asp

Looks like you could actually set aside cpu cycles
for processes...

new HD with r/o and r/w heads..

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102881,00.asp

It's got separate cables too...

Interesting possiblities...

new species of squid...

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/07/22/australia.squid/index.html

specimen weighs 250kg and tentacles over 18meters...

clusters and cable reducing technology

http://www.ibm.com/news/us/2002/07/19.html

A new alternative to the KVM and lots of
cables..

non-lethal weapons for military

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,322588,00.html

bugs to eat asphalt, body armor, etc.... things that smell
really, really bad...

DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS
ANTITRACTION MATERIAL
MALODORANTS
PROJECTILES
WEBS AND NETS
REAL RAY GUNS
DRUGS, BUGS AND BEYOND

IETF gets behind Advanced Encryption Standard

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26311.html

The rfc's title is: "Advanced Encryption Standard
(AES) Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)"

doonsbury on wi-fi

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.cfm?uc_full_date=20020721&uc_dac

Good place to find satellites to look for...

http://www.heavens-above.com/

stars planets and more....

diaries of a porn store clerk.

http://www.improvisation.ws/mb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4475

Quite humorous... When we're laid off it might be an interesting
fill-in job...

;-}

companies prepare for uunet colapse..

http://www.msnbc.com/news/782984.asp?0dm=B13JT

Unlikely to happen, but,... Reminds me of the
scramble when the CIX took over the pop and
the later said they were going to charge excess
fees for peering. Took about 2 days to build a
new network..

The new F-22 fighter sounds sweet!

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/business/f22/0721main.html

Interesting article... I particularly like the part where
they have to ctrl-alt-del in flight if the avionics software
has problems...

drive your car on 100% used vegetable oil

http://www.greasecar.com/

Get a kit. pull in McDonalds or Burger King and
have them drain the fryer..

armed services working together? sure they are... ;-}

http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/3622286p-4648190c.html

13,500 troops playing with new toys and tactics..

perl 5.8 released

http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2002/07/18/580ann/

Twice as much code... Six times as many tests...

*** Technical Details Follow ***

SUMMARY

Highlights In 5.8.0

- Better Unicode Support:
Unicode support has been much enhanced since 5.6, at all levels:
- now supports Unicode 3.2.0 (5.6.1 supports 3.0.1)
- at the language (and internals) level Unicode support is
now more ubiquitous and robust
- regular expressions now work with Unicode
- support for non-Latin encodings (such as the various
Chinese/Japanese/Korean encodings) through the Encode module

- New Threads Implementation:
A new multithreading implementation called interpreter threads,
or "ithreads" for short, is available, their use instead of the
old "5.005 threads" is strongly encouraged. The major difference
is that in ithreads any data sharing must be done explicitly.

- New IO Implementation:
the new PerlIO implementation is both a portable stdio implementation
(at the source code level) and a flexible new framework for richer
I/O behaviours

- Better Numeric Accuracy:
previous Perls relied on vendors' string-to-number and back
routines which in some cases proved to be too much trust
leading to nonportable and wrong behaviours

- 64-bit support:
64-bit support is now considered to be mature -- if your platform
supports 64-bit integers or address space, you can compile Perl to
use those

- Safe Signals:
in previous versions of Perl signals could corrupt Perl's internal state

- Many New Modules:
Digest::MD5, File::Temp, Filter::Simple, libnet, List::Util,
Memoize, MIME::Base64, Scalar::Util, Storable, Switch,
Test::More, Test::Simple, Text::Balanced, Tie::File, ...

- Extensive Regression Testing:
Perl has now almost six times as many tests as in 5.6,
and the code is test built daily on several platforms

Incompatibilities

- BINARY INCOMPATIBLE:
mainly because of the PerlIO introduction, Perl 5.8 is not
binary compatible with any earlier Perl release, XS MODULES
WILL HAVE TO BE RECOMPILED!

- AIX Dynaloading:
Perl uses now AIX dynaloading, instead of the older emulated
version, to be more compatible with other applications on AIX

- 64-bit Platforms No Longer Use Perl Malloc:
the Perl malloc seems to have various problems on platforms
with 64-bit addressing, therefore the default in these cases
is to use the native malloc

- Hashing Order Changed Once Again:
the function used in the implementation of hashes was changed
to a better one once again, but your code shouldn't be expecting
any particular key ordering

- Attributes For my Now Handled At Run-Time:
the attributes for my() are now run-time, as opposed to compile time

- REF(...) instead of SCALAR(...):
to be consistent with ref()'s results, references to references
now stringify as "REF(...)"

- Unicode Model Changed (no more "use utf8", almost)
In Perl 5.6 "Unicodeness" was lexically scoped to the operations;
in Perl 5.8 "Unicodeness" is bound to the data. The only remaining
use of "use utf8" is when the Perl script itself is written in the
UTF-8 encoding of Unicode.

- VMS: Socket Extension Dynamic, IEEE fp Default on Alpha
- the Socket extension is now dynamic rather than static, which may
cause problems in really old VMS installations
- the IEEE floating point is now the default format in OpenVMS Alpha,
see README.vms for reasons and other details

Nomenclature Change

- What the "Camel III" book called an "IO discipline"
is now called an "IO layer"

Deprecations

- dump():
the functionality of the dump command is now considered obsolete

- 5.005 threads are now to be considered deprecated;
the new "interpreter threads" implementation should be used instead

- Pseudohashes:
the user-visible implementation of pseudohashes is going to be removed
and replaced with something cleaner (also, the internal implementation
will have to go since it was found to slow down the overall hash access)

- Use of tainted data in exec LIST and system LIST:
now gives a warning, but will become fatal error in a future release

- tr///C, tr///U:
the interface was found to be a mistake, pack("C0", ...) and
pack("U0", ...) can be used instead

Known Problems

- AmigaOS cannot build Perl 5.8.0

- The Compiler Suite: bytecompiling and compiling still do not work

- Lvalue subroutines: still experimental

- Interaction of local() and tie(): the exact semantics are still in flux

- Tied/Magical Array/Hash Elements Do Not Autovivify

- Self-tying arrays and hashes: currently explicitly disallowed

pervasive, human-centered computing..

http://oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/index.html

Interesting projet at mit..

article on bluetooth in Mac OS 10.2

http://80211b.weblogger.com/2002/07/17

Interesting read.

single gene gives mice big brains...

http://www.msnbc.com/news/782312.asp

The implications of this should scare you...

transmeta laying off 40%

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-944936.html?tag=fd_top

about 200 folks..

TurboLinux is toast..

http://www.linuxgram.com/article.pl?sid=02/07/18/0626223§ion=newsflash

Word is they've shut down... Maybe the future of the Unix workstation
is Mac OS X...

Deloitte Consulting changes name to: Braxton

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/26265.html

Better or worse than: Monday!

Guess those big accounting firm names ain't what
they used to be! ;-}

FCC says Bells can sell you, who you call and how long you talk

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-224366A1.pdf

. to any affiliate...

I know I feel safer.

AMD continues to lose money..

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/26256.html

Lots'o cash!

Forgent Networks has patent on JPEG compression..

http://ir.forgent.com/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=FORG&script=410&layout=-6&i
tem_id=314044

Just cain't win..

man dressed as dolly parton going door to door selling girl scout cookies

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_631920.html?menu=news.quirkies

Only one complaint to the cops....

Siebel cutting 1000 (16%)

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Earns-Siebel.html

61% decline in profits..

new volvo safety car -- run by Win(*

http://msnbc.com/news/781431.asp

Managed by 5 separate computer systems running Windows 98.

Lots of neet new features though. e.g. headlights automatically
narrow (higher speeds) and widen (lower speeds) to give you
the best view..

video over IP for knee surgery

http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/02/pr0261.htm

Techies building head mounted cameras with LED lights,
bouncing off different satellites...

Acclaim wants to advertise -- on tombstones..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/computergames/story/0,11500,667942,00.html

"...poor families might be interested..."

innovations in regex

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/07/15/regexp.html

Interesting read for regular expression fans..

Interplanetary Superhighway...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020718075904.htm

Talks about using Lagrange points to require less fuel. Also
ties in the dinosaur killer asteroid..

DrKoop.com bought...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020715/wr_nm/health_drkoop_dc_1

Market Cap was $1B, sold for $186K... Pretty good price for
acquiring a user base of ~2M

DC suburbs have 4 of top 13 wealthy counties in country..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4227-2002Jul14.html

Fairfax is #2, Loudoun is #3 (median income is $80K), Howard is
#10 (median income is $74K) and Montgomery is #13 (median income
is $71K)...

UFB

High intensity LED flashlight..

http://www.smarthome.com/9202.html

Can run CONTINUOUSLY for 1 month on 3 D-Cells...

Visible for 1 mile...

WOW!

Air Conditioning is 100 years old this week...

http://www.global.carrier.com/details/1,,CLI1_DIV28_ETI3676,00.html

Celebrate! Celebrate! Tomorrow (July 17th) will be a particularly
GOOD day for it too!

The Capitol has had it since 1928... Used to be the drawing
card for movie theatres during the 30's, 40's, and 50's...

Britney Spears, exposed, so to speak...

http://www.kingpixel.com/britney/

This site really takes Britney apart... ;-}

IBM,Intel, and ISPs consider US wide 802.11

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/16/020716hnwirelessnet.xml

Sounds like everyone is jumping on the wagon..

The "quality" of life in Silicon Valley

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/15/technology/15PAWN.html

Interesting read. Looks like they're real close to the
crash...

Three coffees a day keeps dementia at bay

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4705704%5E2,00.html

I'm sure that Mt Dew will qualify.... ;-}

GM - Leader in Fuel Cell cars..

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.08/fuelcellcars.html

Keep your fingers crossed. Excellant article. Hope he/they
can pull it off...

Julius Caesar has a weblog...

http://www.sankey.ca/caesar/

;-}

Intel to use Rambus technology in Ethernet chips..

http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG20020715S0019

3.125 G/S serial capabilities

interesting article on automatic language translation

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?articleID=0008357C-B04C-1D2D-96D7809EC588EEDF&catID=4

.. and the state of the art.. don't translate words, translate sentence
fragments, etc.. compare
bunches of translations looking for similarities, etc.

CPU's without clock cycles?

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00013F47-37CF-1D2A-97CA809EC588EE
DF&catID=2

Asynchronous speeds, run as fast as they can without having to stop
and synchronize on the clock... Sounds too good to be true..

potential new career... talking to geese.. and chickens... and maybe a duck or two...

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_629241.html?menu=news.quirkies

Maybe we can get properly trained.... ;-}

yahoo changes email BODY text of their users...

http://www.ntk.net/2002/07/12/

Send/receive email to/from someone at yahoo.com and they
MAY not be seeing what you sent... and you might not
even know..

Guess we should be sending an MD5 along with each
message.....

Scary..

pretty cool space science site that yer kids (and u) will like

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/

even build yer own comet..

Hope for those rare medical diagnosis

http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2002/0714/coverstory.htm

WOW... If only we could get the doctors to use it!

new java home page

http://java.sun.com/

Finally got rid of the applets. Looks very, very nice...

Norway cancels M$ contract

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26172.html

Sounds like M$ had an exclusive contract for whole
country, state, local, etc...

more than u thought possible to know about the US flag..

http://www.outlawslegal.com/organic/flag.htm

WOW!

atomic bomb photographs

http://simplethinking.com/home/rapatronic_photographs.htm

At the, like, 20, 30, 40ms range...

faster learning... or brainwashing!

http://www.paul-raedle.de/vtrain/sugg.htm

Here's a gotcha!

http://www.paradox1x.org/mt/archives/000124.shtml#000124

wrong place, wrong time, no doubt about it!

routing connections through other computers on the Internet

http://www.peek-a-booty.org/pbhtml/index.php

Connection obfuscation... To by-pass censorship, etc. Possibly
even route around network outages 'tween you and where you
want to go.

new sesame street puppet to be hiv positive.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020711/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_sesamestreet_1&printer=1

make enemies, lose friends?....

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020711/flth005_1.html

I'll have to see if I can find out which "VeriSign" is selling the list...
Sound "Trust"worthy to you? sigh..

M$ entering the home wireless networking market..

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26152.html

>From the article:

"But I can tell you that Microsoft is monitoring the security
concerns around wireless networking, particularly with regard
to WiFi, and we will address these concerns in our products.
It's important to keep in mind that security needs to be
balanced alongside other important considerations, such as
speed and ease of use. Also, security always involves a
tradeoff between safety and performance."

Got that deja-vu feeling all over again.... ;-}

bugs in PGP

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/07/11/encryption.flaw.ap/index.html

Anyone using PGP anywhere? You might want to upgrade... ;-}

scramjet missle engine hits Mach 6.5 at 90K feet..

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020711075955.htm

You could get from here to there rather quickly!

webmethods... toast?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58135-2002Jul11.html

Not looking good here..

make yer own killer viruses -- at home

http://www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/science/biology/2002-07-11-manmade-virus_x.htm

Apparently it all that easy... :-{

paint yer shoes?

http://www.rheingold.com/paintyourshoes.html

I was gonna do this just the other day... ;-}

802.11b access points down to $60..

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?SRCCODE=BEFREE&SKU=d700-1038

Might have to break down here....

time to migrate from Java to M$ .NET..

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/dotnet_MovingJavaApps.asp

Here's how to do it! Should go looking for Sun's response, nah, I'm sure
it'll be in
my mailbox soon enough! ;-}

M$ Software Engineering slide presentation...

http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix-win2000/invitedtalks/lucovsky_html/

Quite interesting... 200 engineers, 5 hr build on 486/50 for NT3.1,
1400 engineers, 8 hr build on 4 way PIII Xenon 550 for Win2K..

Interesting reading on their build processes the the rest of their
processes..

Buffie the Vampire Slayer vs Bio Terrorists

http://www.csis.org/burke/hd/reports/Buffy012902.pdf

Apparently Buffie should be the response model for bio terrorism.....

using lasers to clear mine fields

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992528

That's an option I want on MY Humvee.... ;-}

no email wednesday

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26128.html

The Liverpool town council has banned internal emails on
Wednesdays so employees will use more traditional methods
of communication before they forget how... ;-}

hard drive capacity growing 100% per year

http://www.eet.com/at/news/OEG20020709S0041

New discoveries could up that to 3000%....

as always, don't get caught with yer pants down!

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_504739.html

Need I say more? ;-}

An "If I were Stratton Sclavos" article..

http://icann.blog.us/stories/2002/07/08/ifIWereStrattonSclavos.html

Ouch!

Janis Ian article on Internet music downloading

http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html

Quite interesting.

help don knuth finish Vol4 of art of programming

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html

Maybe you can get yer name in the credits...

future of hard drives..

http://www.storagesearch.com/serialata.html

Serial ATA... Got LOTSA potential!

Time Travel Fund...

http://www.timetravelfund.com/

This is a good one. You give them money. They put some percentage
into a trust fund. Then through the miracle of compound interest
in 500 years or so when time travel becomes possible and the amount
in your fund matches what it costs to perform they'll show up on
your doorstop to take you to the future... hmmm...

Chicken Feathers could replace silicon in microchips..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36816-2002Jul7

Fresh from the way-out-there machinery... ;-}

If you see a trash can on the edge of the road, leave it there..

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_624397.html?menu=news.weirdworld.strangecrime

If you don't you might get fined when the cops don't get their radar
speeding
camera pictures....

Win2K has 9 months to live...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26077.html

the beginning of the death slide that is...

an excellant read for you football fans....

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020715fa_fact

Quite entertaining! It appears that globalization
is ruining everything.... ;-}

port-forwarder, 100% java, inspect data

http://www.bbzzdd.com/plugproxy/

Looks pretty slick.. Java/swing app should run anywhere...
anywhere you've got a Java VM, that is.. ;-}

replace your mouse with your eye

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2098000/2098030.stm

Get yer own eye-tracker installed RSN...

space suits hit the pit crews...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2099000/2099100.stm

Interesting article on direct uses for space technology..

latest kermit for windows...

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html

Some things never die!

Internet Virtual Terminal Connections: SSH, Telnet, Rlogin, SSL/TLS.
Internet Security: SSH v1/v2, Kerberos 4/5, X.509 Certificates / PKI, and SRP
Built-in FTP and HTTP Internet clients
Active and Passive FTP modes.
HTTP Proxy and SOCKS4 firewall traversal.
SSH port forwarding (tunneling).
X Windows session forwarding.
Persistent connections through NATs.
Modem and serial port connections.
40 different terminal emulations.
Kermit, XYZMODEM, and "ASCII" file-transfer protocols.
An Internet-accessible service for remote access.
International character-set translation including Unicode.
Numeric and alphanumeric paging.
Full scripting and automation of all the above.
Easy graphical one-time setup of all your connections.

technology to detect your "mood" on the phone

http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/07/07/wmood07.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/07/07/ixworld.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=200027

punch the buttons to hard, to fast... have the wrong tone...
use curse words.. get automatically transfered to "crisis
control" personnel.

more palladium...

http://www.privacy.org/print.php?sid=1046

Want some links to the actual M$ patent on Palladium? Looks
like EVERY program will have to be cleared through M$
before they'll load it... might not be a bad idea if they're
going to analyze it for poor programming, but, alas I'm
that isn't what will be the basis for "approval"...

web directories irrelevant?

http://www.yahoo.com/

The ole directory is so far down the home page now
that I'll bet it doesn't even show up at all (and
then barely) on anything less than 1024x768

convert the repressed from the inside out..

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/07/06/iran.village.com.ap/index.html

Well, well, well now... maybe there's hope for the world after
all..

there IS a strategy to win rock-paper-scissors...

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsb-results1.html

Wow, this is a cool page. Dates to 1999 but you can
get the code...

more scary details on M$ palladium

http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/2002-07-05.html

The opportunity to prevent no M$ OS code from
running on palladium hardware is enormous!
The source code will be open and available.
You can probably run non m$ OS, BUT,
patent/copyright laws might stop your...

programming is finished in this country...

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/07/04/india.developers.reut/index.html

The land of choice is India. M$ and Sun spending huge amounts
to recruit/train. Free trips to US, etc. Nice, really nice.

Budget rent-a-car using satellite tracking

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/azstar/20020706/lo/rental_car_tracking_spurs_suit_1.html

and charging you the "appropriate" fees/fines if you leave
your 'area'...

use/abuse your web site visitors...

http://www.netninja.com/papers/pdc/pdc.txt

Here's how to use their browsers while they visit
your site, and beyond.... ;-}

Cat-6 UTP approved...

http://www.tiaonline.org/media/press_releases/index.cfm?parelease=02-88

Use it, don't abuse it!

a linux computer for ~ $200...

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/07/05/india.simputer.reut/index.html
http://www.simputer.org/simputer/

Going to spread geekdom to the illiterate masses....

control yer etch-a-sketch via a web page...

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2mfh8/

I know we've ALL wanted to do this... ;-}

we don't understand their 'culture'

http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id={289AB100-3D8D-41EA-9121-E5E007818276
Question is, do we really want too...

sigh..

My kind of law firm....

http://www.ppbfh.com/

You've got to read their newsletter... "The Bitches from Hell Reporter".

Lawyers with a sense of humor... who would of thunk it...

liquidmetal... no rust no cracks..

http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/07/05/liquid-metal.htm

Wow... Maybe the terminator isn't too far off.

Twice as strong as titaniam, melts at 750 degrees and
sells for $10-$15 a pound.

You could certainly cast this in yer microwave!

want to buy govt assets?

http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/fcw2.htm

Who knows, maybe we can buy a firetruck or an
old APC.

computer mods...

http://metku.net/

Tired of looking at the same old computer and peripherals?
a few quick mods and voila!

pyrotechnics, chemistry of fireworks.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/kaboom/elemental/

What elements contribute their 'all' to our fireworks!

20-year old takes spear through head, and lives!

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/07/02/greece.spear.reut/index.html

Sounds like fun to me! (pix of xray in article)

"Power Nap" Prevents Burnout; Morning Sleep Perfects A Skill

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020702065823.htm

Sounds like a plan to me!

a new whois service...

http://www.whoisreport.com/

interesting....

make yer own backyard wildlife habitat

http://www.enature.com/

Lots of good nature info here.

this could be YOUR story.... ;-}

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/07/01/spyware_inc/index.html

Good story on our industry (web) huckstering....

use your home microwave to cast bronze, silver, iron..

http://home.c2i.net/metaphor/mvpage.html

Make yer own small foundry!!!

your 802.11 network secure?

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2002/05/24/wlan.html

problems, problems....

1 billionth computer sold...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2077000/2077986.stm

est. six years to hit the 2 billion mark!

windows media player security upgrade

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25956.html

You might want to delete it from your computer, if you've installed
it, as it give M$ the right to delete any software from your
computer that M$ decides is violating digital copyrights...

Northrup takes over TRW..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7018-2002Jul1.html

almost $8 billion...