Trygve's homepage.

Trygve's homepage.: "This marks the fulfillment of the BabyUML goals and marks the beginning of a new project, BabyIDE. The new project could well be very large and take many years. I am in my 78th year. My great great grandfather planted an apple tree when he was 93. He was very particular about the kind of apples he wanted. His family pointed out that it would be 10 years before this particular kind would give its first fruit. My great great grandfather could not see the relevance of this argument. So I follow a family tradition when I dig into yet another new project. I will post intermediate and incomplete results as they appear. Just in case."

Trygve/MVC

Trygve/MVC: "I made the first implementation and wrote the original MVC note at Xerox PARC in 1978. The note defines four terms; Model, View, Controller and Editor . The Editor is an ephemeral component that the View creates on demand as an interface between the View and the input devices such as mouse and keyboard."

Trygve 1975

Trygve 1975: "MODELS - VIEWS - CONTROLLERS
Xerox PARC technical note December 1979"

E.W.Dijkstra Archive: The strengths of the academic enterprise (EWD 1175)

E.W.Dijkstra Archive: The strengths of the academic enterprise (EWD 1175): "My third remark introduces you to the Buxton Index, so named after its inventor, Professor John Buxton, at the time at Warwick University. The Buxton Index of an entity, i.e. person or organization, is defined as the length of the period, measured in years, over which the entity makes its plans. For the little grocery shop around the corner it is about 1/2,for the true Christian it is infinity, and for most other entities it is in between: about 4 for the average politician who aims at his re-election, slightly more for most industries, but much less for the managers who have to write quarterly reports. The Buxton Index is an important concept because close co-operation between entities with very different Buxton Indices invariably fails and leads to moral complaints about the partner. The party with the smaller Buxton Index is accused of being superficial and short-sighted, while the party with the larger Buxton Index is accused of neglect of duty, of backing out of its responsibility, of freewheeling, etc.. In addition, each party accuses the other one of being stupid. The great advantage of the Buxton Index is that, as a simple numerical notion, it is morally neutral and lifts the difference above the plane of moral concerns. The Buxton Index is important to bear in mind when considering academic/industrial co-operation."

Ranch Bean Dip - Allrecipes

Ranch Bean Dip - Allrecipes: "INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)

* 1 (16 ounce) can refried beans
* 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
* 1 (1 ounce) package ranch dressing mix
* 1 cup sour cream

* add to recipe box Add to Recipe Box
My folders:
* add to shopping list Add to Shopping List
* add a personal note Add a Personal Note

DIRECTIONS

1. In a small saucepan, combine beans, cheese, ranch dressing mix, and sour cream. Heat the mixture over a medium heat, stir until the ingredients are well blended and warm."

Zesty Bean Dip - Allrecipes

Zesty Bean Dip - Allrecipes:
"INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)

* 1 (16 ounce) can refried beans
* 1 (1.25 ounce) package taco seasoning mix
* 1 tomato, chopped
* 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

* add to recipe box Add to Recipe Box
My folders:
* add to shopping list Add to Shopping List
* add a personal note Add a Personal Note

DIRECTIONS

1. In a medium saucepan over medium heat, mix refried beans, taco seasoning mix and tomato. Allow the mixture to simmer approximately 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
2. Spoon the mixture into a medium serving bowl. Top with Cheddar cheese and serve warm."

Perspectives - Facebook: Needle in a Haystack: Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos

Perspectives - Facebook: Needle in a Haystack: Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos: "An excellent talk that I really enjoyed. I used to lead a much smaller service that also used a lot of NetApp storage and I recognized many of the problems Jason mentioned. Throughout the introductory part of the talk I found myself thinking they need to move to a cheap, directly attached blob store. And that’s essentially the topic of remainder of the talk. Jason presented Haystack, the Facebook solution to the problem of a filesystem not working terribly well for their high volume blob storage needs."

Dean Kamen's Water Purifier - Biography of Dean Kamen - Esquire

Dean Kamen's Water Purifier - Biography of Dean Kamen - Esquire: "The inventor of the Segway and more now has an idea worth tens of millions of lives. But no one cares. Tracking Lord Dumpling's genius on his seceded island of geekery."

UNIVAC MAGNETIC TAPE

UNIVAC MAGNETIC TAPE: "One inch of magnetic tape, the input medium for Remington Rand UNIVAC, holds even more information than a punched card. One reel holds 1,400,000 numbers or letters. Two 4-drawer tabulat-ing-card files, storing more than 20,000 cards, are compressed into a single eight-inch reel."

Texas Embassy cantina - London

Texas Embassy cantina - London: "The building now housing the Texas Embassy is the former home of the famous White Star shipping line, owners of the Titanic. When the Titanic sank it was to this very building friends and relatives came to view the lists of survivors. An actual black and white photo of this time is hanging on the wall to the right of the main exit from the Cantina.
But our story really begins back in the early 1800's, in a vast and lawless wilderness ruled by Mexico. Bold Americans and Europeans settled the land and called their home TEXAS."

Anarchy at Sea - William Langewiesche

Anarchy at Sea - William Langewiesche: "The sea is a domain increasingly beyond government control, vast and wild,
where laws of nations mean little and secretive shipowners do as they please -
and where the resilient pathogens of piracy and terrorism flourish."

iSerenity - Environments

iSerenity - Environments: "iSerenity Environments

Choose a sound and image experience to relax or work by.

Six new environments to enjoy. Some of the old favorites are now down towards the bottom as the newcomers get top billing. We even have included Typewriters the Sequel, (carriage returns included). Feedback is always welcome and don't forget to tell your friends about iserenity."

pldoc: Utility for generating PL/SQL code documentation

pldoc: Utility for generating PL/SQL code documentation:
"pldoc is an open-source utility for generating HTML documentation of code written in Oracle PL/SQL."

Malcolm Gladwell asks is there such a thing as pure genius? | Books | The Guardian

Malcolm Gladwell asks is there such a thing as pure genius? | Books | The Guardian: "The curious thing about Ericsson's study is that he and his colleagues couldn't find any 'naturals' - musicians who could float effortlessly to the top while practising a fraction of the time that their peers did. Nor could they find 'grinds', people who worked harder than everyone else and yet just didn't have what it takes to break into the top ranks. Their research suggested that once you have enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. What's more, the people at the very top don't just work much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder."

Malcolm Gladwell asks is there such a thing as pure genius? | Books | The Guardian

Malcolm Gladwell asks is there such a thing as pure genius? | Books | The Guardian: "'In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice-skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals,' writes the neurologist Daniel Levitin, 'this number comes up again and again. Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.'"

Timeline twins, music and movies

Timeline twins, music and movies: "Watching Star Wars today is like watching It's a Wonderful Life (1946) in 1977. It's a Wonderful Life was nominated for an Oscar the following year along with Ethel Barrymore (b. 1879) and Lilian Gish (b. 1893)."

Seven Crown Resorts Houseboat Rentals Lake Mead, Lake Shasta, Lake Mohave, California Delta

Seven Crown Resorts Houseboat Rentals Lake Mead, Lake Shasta, Lake Mohave, California Delta: "Available at:
Lake Mead - Echo Bay
Lake Mohave - Lake Mohave Resort
California Delta - Paradise Point"

Ideas

Ideas:
"There are basically three ways of judging sources of information.
One is internal evidence--does the author sound like a competent, well informed person who takes reasonable care to make sure that what he says is true?
A second is external evidence about the information--does it fit other things I have reason to believe are true?
A third is authority--do I have good reason to believe that the source of the information is reliable?"

Gems of Python - Eric Florenzano's Website

Gems of Python - Eric Florenzano's Website

Jac: What are the scariest pieces of classical music?

Jac: What are the scariest pieces of classical music?: "That's the question for today, since this Music Friday happens to fall on Halloween."

download free mp3s of ambient music & new age music soundscapes from the UKs deep sky divers

download free mp3s of ambient music & new age music soundscapes from the UKs deep sky divers: "Here you can purchase digital downloads of deep sky divers CDs and individual tracks. There are also links to some sites where you can download free deep sky divers MP3s.

deep sky divers music is now available from many online sources, either legally or illegally. We are truly independent musicians trying to create unique and worthwhile music without industry support, and we need all the help we can get. By downloading our music from preferred sources (see below), you would be helping and supporting our efforts in the best way possible..."

Processing 1.0 (BETA)

Processing 1.0 (BETA): "Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain.

Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. It evolved from ideas explored in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab."

Never Give In, Never, Never, Never - The Churchill Centre

Never Give In, Never, Never, Never - The Churchill Centre: "this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy"

FWWeekly: Feature: SAXE MANIAC

FWWeekly: Feature: SAXE MANIAC: "He may have given away as much as $6 million, a figure arrived at by adding the amounts of cash, pledges, and the estimated increased value of donated artworks during the last 40 years, but even he’s not sure. “I’ve forgotten some,” he said. “And I haven’t kept the best records,” like the cost of the 1983 Chevrolet pick-up that stayed behind at Happy Hills.

What makes Saxe unique in the annals of philanthropy, said Ruth Brock, a UTA business librarian and his companion of 30 years, is that almost all of the money he’s donated has come from his professor’s salary, boosted one time only by a half-million-dollar inheritance from his frugal, working-class mother. “And he got rid of that as fast as he could,” Brock said."

Game Theory — Open Yale Courses

Game Theory — Open Yale Courses: "This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere."

'Round the Chuckbox: Grilled Hot Mexican Beef Sandwich Santa Fe

'Round the Chuckbox: Grilled Hot Mexican Beef Sandwich Santa Fe: "The sandwich was a hit Saturday at the engine house of the El Dorado Western Railway. I served it with old fashion navy bean soup and cole slaw.

GRILLED HOT MEXICAN SANDWICH SANTA FE

This sandwich is a great way to use leftover roast beef. Santa Fe cooks toasted open faced sandwiches under a red-hot broiler. I adapted the sandwich to engine house cooking by toasting it in a cast iron skillet. I added sliced tomatoes and changed the hot chilies to fresh (from fresh, parboiled)."

University of California: StatFinder

University of California: StatFinder: "Table 16-2007. Fall applicants, fall admits, fall enrollees, admit rate and fall applicant yield rate: first-time freshmen, by high school GPA, universitywide and by campus: Fall 2007"

App Engine Recipe - XML RPC server using Google App Engine

App Engine Recipe - XML RPC server using Google App Engine: "XML RPC server is a very popular way of exposing an API to your website. XML RPC server can run standalone. On a past website project I got it running inside Apache so that it could run alongside the main website. (For XMLRPC server in Apache - check my post http://jyro.blogspot.com/2007/11/xml-rpc-server-inside-apache-modpython.html)

Implementing the XML RPC server is very easy.

First download Julien Oster's standalone XML RPC server from http://www.julien-oster.de/projects/xmlrpcserver/

It is a single xmlrpcserver.py file that you will find inside a tar.gz archive. Just copy the file to your Google App engine project."

SQL University.net : Free Sample Lectures

SQL University.net : Free Sample Lectures: "These are free extracts of SQL University.net courses covering a variety of topics."

Top 10 Epic FAIL Funny Videos - Starpulse Entertainment News Blog

Top 10 Epic FAIL Funny Videos - Starpulse Entertainment News Blog

Podcasts from the University of Oxford

Podcasts from the University of Oxford:

"Podcasts from the University of Oxford"

Lyra Fidelium | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow

Lyra Fidelium | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow: "Samuel J. Stone (1839-1900) was an Anglican clergyman and poet whose claim to fame is that he wrote the hymn, The Church’s One Foundation. But that’s just the hit single off a great album. That hymn is from an interesting collection that Stone wrote in 1866 entitled Lyra Fidelium: Twelve Hymns on the Twelve Articles of the Apostles Creed. It’s available online here."

Streaming video: X-rays

Streaming video: X-rays:

amazing video of making xrays with sticky tape!

Do five simple things a day to stay sane, say scientists - Times Online

Do five simple things a day to stay sane, say scientists:
"Steps to happiness

Connect
Developing relationships with family, friends, colleagues and neighbours will enrich your life and bring you support

Be active
Sports, hobbies such as gardening or dancing, or just a daily stroll will make you feel good and maintain mobility and fitness

Be curious
Noting the beauty of everyday moments as well as the unusual and reflecting on them helps you to appreciate what matters to you

Learn
Fixing a bike, learning an instrument, cooking – the challenge and satisfaction brings fun and confidence

Give
Helping friends and strangers links your happiness to a wider community and is very rewarding"

The psychology of conmen - The Law Report - 30 September 2008

The psychology of conmen - The Law Report - 30 September 2008: "How do conmen convince you to part with your money? Who are they? And how do they choose their victims? Learn their secrets from someone who has studied their dark arts. Magician Nick Johnson has some interesting insights into psychology of scams...and some suggestions on how to stop your money from going up in smoke!"

Loo with a view: The world's toilets with the best vistas | Mail Online

Loo with a view: The world's toilets with the best vistas | Mail Online:

The beautiful places one can go.

Design Classics, The London Underground Map | Smashing Telly - A hand picked TV channel

Design Classics, The London Underground Map | Smashing Telly - A hand picked TV channel: "But the pinnacle of London Transport’s modernist design was the Tube map which rearranged distances to produce a supremely navigable schematic diagram that is little changed today. (I have been looking for this documentary for ages)."

Valued Lessons: How to DTrace Python in OSX

Valued Lessons: How to DTrace Python in OSX:
"So, here's how you use dtrace on your python application in Mac OSX:

1. Get DTraceToolkit.
2. Edit Python/py_cputime.d by replacing 'function-entry' with 'entry' and 'function-return' with 'exit'.
3. Call 'sudo dtrace -s Python/py_cputime.d'
4. Let it sit there a while and hit ctrl-c.
5. Enjoy the results"

NIX v. HEDDEN, 149 U.S. 304 (1893)

FindLaw | Cases and Codes: "The attempt to class tomatoes as fruit is not unlike a recent attempt to class beans as seeds, of which Mr. Justice Bradley, speaking for this court, said: 'We do not see why they should be classified as seeds, any more than walnuts should be so classified. Both are seeds, in the language of botany or natural history, but not in commerce nor in common parlance. On the other hand in speaking generally of provisions, beans may well be included under the term 'vegetables.' As an article of food on our tables, whether baked or boiled, or forming the basis of soup, they are used as a vegetable, as well when ripe as when green. This is the principal use to which they are put. Beyond the common knowledge which we have on this subject, very little evidence is necessary, or can be produced.'"

Finance - So Simple a Caveman Could Do It

Finance - So Simple a Caveman Could Do It: "Imagine you live in a cave in hunter-gatherer society. Og is going to spend the day hunting. You have previously harvested some berries, lived frugally, and now have an extra handful of berries you can give Og to eat while he hunts all day. You and Og make a deal. When he returns from the hunt, he will give you two handfuls of meat. That’s debt. If instead of promising you a fixed amount of meat, you agreed that he would give you a fixed share — say half — of what he brings back to the cave, that’s equity."

lisp50

lisp50:
"The news feed for the 50th Birthday of Lisp at OOPSLA 2008.
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Monday, October 20, 2008"

Noteflight - Learn More

Noteflight - Learn More: "Noteflight is a new online service that lets written music take full advantage of the web. The Noteflight Score Editor is a full-featured application that displays, edits, prints and plays back music notation in any standard web browser. You can create your own scores, choose to share them with others, or publish them to Noteflight's browsable, searchable online library of music."

A Backspace Key Can't Fix Everything - New York Times

A Backspace Key Can't Fix Everything - New York Times: "An enduring drawback of correction fluid is the solvent vapor. That could be fixed, but not without damaging the psyche of faithful consumers, said Mr. McCaffrey of Liquid Paper: 'People who have grown up using a product tend to equate its smell with quality, and you don't want to change that - whether it's crayons or correction fluid.'"

The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time

The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time: "The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time is a partnership between the Palace Museum and IBM. The goal of the project is to provide the means for a world-wide audience to celebrate and explore aspects of Chinese culture and history."

The Internet Treehouse - A Broadcasting Masterclass

The Internet Treehouse - A Broadcasting Masterclass

home [LiquiBase]

home [LiquiBase]: "LiquiBase is an open source (LGPL), DBMS-independent library for tracking, managing and applying database changes. It is built on a simple premise: All database changes (structure and data) are stored in an XML-based descriptive manner and checked into source control."

solarsystem

solarsystem: "For years I had wanted to go see the Maine Solar System Model.

Built with diligent skill on a tight budget by the Northern Maine Museum of Science, the whole thing runs for 40 miles along US Route 1 between Houlton and the University of Maine at Presque Isle where the Museum is located."

sqlmap: a SQL injection tool

sqlmap: a SQL injection tool: "sqlmap is an automatic SQL injection tool developed in Python. Its goal is to detect and take advantage of SQL injection vulnerabilities on web applications. Once it detects one or more SQL injections on the target host, the user can choose among a variety of options to perform an extensive back-end database management system fingerprint, retrieve DBMS session user and database, enumerate users, password hashes, privileges, databases, dump entire or user's specific DBMS tables/columns, run his own SQL SELECT statement, read specific files on the file system and much more."

Applied Geometry � American Scientist

Applied Geometry � American Scientist:
"HOW ROUND IS YOUR CIRCLE?: Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet. John Bryant and Chris Sangwin. xxii 306 pp. Princeton University Press, 2008. $29.95.

The great power of computers to model various aspects of geometry and mechanics has made it possible to visualize things quickly and in useful and innovative ways. But nothing beats the construction of a physical model. And when the model conforms exactly to the mathematical prediction, it is very satisfying. How Round Is Your Circle?, by John Bryant and Chris Sangwin, is a guide to making physical models of various phenomena of geometry that are related to serious applications, both historical and contemporary. The mathematics required is elementary: standard geometry and trigonometry, with occasional bits of calculus."

Consola Fonts

These are the nice looking ones

The Underground Grammarian - Richard Mitchell

The Underground Grammarian - Richard Mitchell

"All of Richard Mitchell's books are now available online for free."

Liquid Mongoose - Folding Paper into CD and DVD Cases with Album Art and Movie Covers from the Internet

Liquid Mongoose - Folding Paper into CD and DVD Cases with Album Art and Movie Covers from the Internet: "The Paper Case project allows you to print a fold-able piece of paper into a CD or DVD case, using the content of the internet as your album art or movie cover. This solves the issue of your DVD collection taking up 20 times more space than the size of the disc. Or when you buy an album online, and are left on your own to store and label your burned CD. No longer are expensive CDs and DVDs left to chance to get scratched beyond recognition."

Japan: Playing Baseball with Rocket Launchers and Tanks on Japanese TV

Japan: Playing Baseball with Rocket Launchers and Tanks on Japanese TV: "The crew trekked down to Cambodia to use the military's equipment. At first, the Cambodian military didn't want to use a tank, so instead they taped a baseball to a rocket. This, obviously, didn't show how well the baseball would travel at such speeds, as it just blew everything up, as you can see above."

Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Express Edition - 32 Bit

Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Express Edition - 32 Bit: "This AMI comes with Oracle Enterprise Linux Release 5 Update 1 and Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Express Edition software pre-installed and configured on the 32 Bit platform. In a matter of minutes, you can have a fully configured Oracle Database computing environment running on Amazon EC2 that includes the web based rapid development tool Applications Express (APEX). For further information about Oracle Database in the Cloud or this Amazon Machine Image, please visit http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/cloud/index.html"

A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature

A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature: "The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy."

simonsound � Sound

simonsound � Sound: "1947-1959

Ken Hollings presents a live twelve-part series of unscripted reflections on the fantasy of science in the early years of the American Century

With electronic sound production by Simon James

Between 1947 and 1959, the future was written about, discussed and analysed with such confidence that it became a tangible presence. This is a story of weird science, strange events and even stranger beliefs, set in an age when the possibilities for human development seemed almost limitless."

Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners

Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners: "To celebrate the publication of Kelly's new collection, Pretty Monsters, most of Kelly's previous collection Magic for Beginners is now available as a free download in various completely open formats"

Secrets of email | www.buzz.mn

Secrets of email | www.buzz.mn:

"At some point, email programs will be so large and complex and feature-rich they will vindicate every argument made by Ted Kozinski."

18.25 SimpleXMLRPCServer -- Basic XML-RPC server

18.25 SimpleXMLRPCServer -- Basic XML-RPC server: "If logRequests is true (the default), requests will be logged; setting this parameter to false will turn off logging."

oracle 10g dbms_scheduler explained

oracle 10g dbms_scheduler explained:

begin dbms_scheduler.create_job(
job_name => 'DEMO_JOB_SCHEDULE'
,job_type => 'PLSQL_BLOCK'
,job_action => 'begin package.procedure(''param_value''); end; '
,start_date => '01/01/2006 02:00 AM'
,repeat_interval => 'FREQ=DAILY'
,enabled => TRUE
,comments => 'Demo for job schedule.');
end;

Canvas tutorial - MDC

Canvas tutorial - MDC:

" is a new HTML element which can be used to draw graphics using scripting (usually JavaScript). It can for instance be used to draw graphs, make photo compositions or do simple (and not so simple) animations. The image on the right shows some examples of implementations which we will see later in this tutorial."

Some Schumpeter Links

"Schumpeter advanced the paradox that economic progress destabilizes the world.
Progress and job destruction go hand in hand in a dynamic process he called creative
destruction. Today, as in the 1930s, Schumpeter's insights help explain how jobs
emerge and disappear through the innovation and entrepreneurship of free enterprise."

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

• The Churn --The Paradox of Progress
  

• Free Enterprise -- Appreciating the Churn
• 
  
• Schumpeter in His Own Words

Wired:

• The Father of Creative Destruction

Harvard University Press:

• Prophet of Innovation -- Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction

'Pan Am, Gimbel's, Pullman, Douglas Aircraft, Digital Equipment Corporation, British Leyland--all once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life. No one understood this bedrock economic principle better than Joseph A. Schumpeter. "Creative destruction," he said, is the driving force of capitalism.

Described by John Kenneth Galbraith as "the most sophisticated conservative" of the twentieth century, Schumpeter made his mark as the prophet of incessant change. His vision was stark: Nearly all businesses fail, victims of innovation by their competitors. Businesspeople ignore this lesson at their peril--to survive, they must be entrepreneurial and think strategically. Yet in Schumpeter's view, the general prosperity produced by the "capitalist engine" far outweighs the wreckage it leaves behind.

During a tumultuous life spanning two world wars, the Great Depression, and the early Cold War, Schumpeter reinvented himself many times. From boy wonder in turn-of-the-century Vienna to captivating Harvard professor, he was stalked by tragedy and haunted by the specter of his rival, John Maynard Keynes. By 1983--the centennial of the birth of both men--Forbes christened Schumpeter, not Keynes, the best navigator through the turbulent seas of globalization. Time has proved that assessment accurate.'

Vance Lucas � Building a Better Woot! Checker: Comparison is Key

Vance Lucas � Building a Better Woot! Checker: Comparison is Key: "The goal for a great Woot! checker should be not only to simply regurgitate information directly from the Woot! data feed, but to also provide the information necessary for users to make a purchasing decision quickly. After all, the very reason for the existence of any Woot! checker is so you don’t miss out on a great deal. Why not take that idea to the next level to give your users at least a 15-second advantage by eliminating steps in the research process? That’s where Woot! Compare comes in."

What's New on the Leopard Command Line? | MacResearch

What's New on the Leopard Command Line? | MacResearch: "Here are some of the DTrace scripts you will find that may be of use in profiling your system:

* bitesize.d – Analyse disk I/O size by process.
* creatbyproc.d – File creates by process name.
* httpdstat.d – Realtime httpd statistics.
* hotspot.d – Plot disk event by location, look for hotspots.
* cpuwalk.d – Measure which CPUs a process runs on.
* weblatency.d – Measures web latency."

King Lines Trailer

King Lines Trailer: "Here is the trailer for our new film, King Lines,
which follows Chris Sharma around the world on the ultimate sending quest."

Remove U3 SmartDrive Software

"Removing the U3 Launchpad disables the U3 smart functionality. So think before you click. And make the smart choice."

CodeThinked | The Programmer Dress Code - Part Deux

CodeThinked | The Programmer Dress Code - Part Deux: "In this post I tried to add a huge number of people that were suggested, but remember, they had to have a big beard, long hair, or in some other way look pretty gnarled."

CodeThinked | The Programmer Dress Code

CodeThinked | The Programmer Dress Code: "So there you have it, my totally incomplete list of bearded, long haired, casually dressed visionaries."

FuturePundit: Only Low Doses Of Chocolate Reduce Inflammation Marker

FuturePundit: Only Low Doses Of Chocolate Reduce Inflammation Marker: "From the paper's abstract: If you ate about 3/4ths of an ounce of dark chocolate every third day you'd get the optimal benefit.

A J-shaped relationship between dark chocolate consumption and serum CRP was observed; consumers of up to 1 serving (20 g) of dark chocolate every 3 d had serum CRP concentrations that were significantly lower than nonconsumers or higher consumers. Our findings suggest that regular consumption of small doses of dark chocolate may reduce inflammation."

papert: logo in your browser

papert: logo in your browser:
"papert ― logo in your browser
examples: koch snowflake | hilbert curve | spiral"

xVideoServiceThief Official Web site

xVideoServiceThief Official Web site:
"# Download Videos from a lot of important Web Video Services: YouTube, Google Videos, etc...
# Convert the downloaded videos to Mpeg, DivX, etc..."

NerdKits - educational microcontroller kits for the digital generation

NerdKits - educational microcontroller kits for the digital generation:
"A NerdKit is a combination of electronic parts and wisdom, which together will teach you about digital electronics, embedded systems, and how to bridge computers with the 'real world'. The electronics world has changed dramatically in the past few decades. We want to make sure that it's still easy to get involved with modern technology, and to experience a challenging and rewarding hobby!

A NerdKit is appropriate for software hackers looking to branch out into electronics, and has educational material to allow even middle-schoolers and high-schoolers (ages 12 ) looking for a fun challenge to learn by doing, especially with the help of a techie parent! A microcontroller is a small computer on a single chip, including processing, memory, and inputs and outputs -- see the Wikipedia page for more information."

HttpFox :: Firefox Add-ons

HttpFox :: Firefox Add-ons:
"HttpFox monitors and analyzes all incoming and outgoing HTTP traffic between the browser and the web servers.

It aims to bring the functionality known from tools like HttpWatch or IEInspector to the Firefox browser.

Information available per request includes:
- Request and response headers
- Sent and received cookies
- Querystring parameters
- POST parameters
- Response body"

HttpFox :: Firefox Add-ons

HttpFox :: Firefox Add-ons: "An HTTP analyzer addon for Firefox"

E.W. Dijkstra Archive: What led to "Notes on Structured Programming" (EWD1308)

E.W. Dijkstra Archive: What led to "Notes on Structured Programming" (EWD1308): "Finally a short story for the record. In 1968, the Communications of the ACM published a text of mine under the title 'The goto statement considered harmful', which in later years would be most frequently referenced, regrettably, however, often by authors who had seen no more of it than its title, which became a cornerstone of my fame by becoming a template: we would see all sorts of articles under the title 'X considered harmful' for almost any X, including one titled 'Dijkstra considered harmful'. But what had happened? I had submitted a paper under the title 'A case against the goto statement', which, in order to speed up its publication, the editor had changed into a 'letter to the Editor', and in the process he had given it a new title of his own invention! The editor was Niklaus Wirth."

NeHe Productions: OpenGL Article #13

NeHe Productions: OpenGL Article #13: "gluUnProject converts Windows screen coordinates to OpenGL coordinates. This means that you can get the position of your mouse on an OpenGL Window and use this method to find the x, y and z coordinate of where you clicked."

Carrot Caviar

Carrot Caviar:

250 g Carrot Juice
2.0 g Sodium Alginate

500 g Water
2.5 g Calcium Cloride

Press/Digital & VISystems Partner On CICS/COBOL To UNIX Migration - biz.digital.announce | Google Groups

Press/Digital & VISystems Partner On CICS/COBOL To UNIX Migration - biz.digital.announce | Google Groups: "MAYNARD, Mass. -- April 7, 1994 -- Digital Equipment Corporation
and VISystems Inc. jointly announced today a partnership agreement
that enables Digital to resell VIS/TP, VISystems' transaction
processing system on the UNIX platform. The Digital/VISystems
partnership offers customers the ability to migrate their mainframe
CICS transaction processing to Digital's OSF/1 (UNIX) open systems
environment while realizing cost savings that often range from 50
to 80 percent or more."

"Open CICS" port ... NCR Corp. has inked a porting and certification pact with VISystems Inc. of Dallas, Tex., for VIS/TP, an open systems-based online transaction processing (OLTP) system also known as "Open CICS." (Mergers/Acquisitions/Alliances) | Software Industry Report | Find Articles at BNET

"Open CICS" port ... NCR Corp. has inked a porting and certification pact with VISystems Inc. of Dallas, Tex., for VIS/TP, an open systems-based online transaction processing (OLTP) system also known as "Open CICS." (Mergers/Acquisitions/Alliances) | Software Industry Report | Find Articles at BNET: "'Open CICS' port ... NCR Corp. has inked a porting and certification pact with VISystems Inc. of Dallas, Tex., for VIS/TP, an open systems-based online transaction processing (OLTP) system also known as 'Open CICS.'"

OpenGL Video Tutorial - Home

OpenGL Video Tutorial - Home:
"Know some C ? Want to learn how to program in 3D? You've come to the right place! Designed to be understandable to beginners, but advanced enough for experienced developers, the free video tutorials here will get you started making 3D programs using OpenGL and GLUT in no time. Each lesson has a text version and comes with exercises to help you gain experience programming on your own, rather than just shoving lots of syntax down your throat. So what are you waiting for? Let's learn some OpenGL!"

The freeglut Project :: About

The freeglut Project :: About: "freeglut is a completely OpenSourced alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library. GLUT was originally written by Mark Kilgard to support the sample programs in the second edition OpenGL 'RedBook'. Since then, GLUT has been used in a wide variety of practical applications because it is simple, widely available and highly portable."

Scott Crossfield Foundation

Scott Crossfield Foundation:
"Always Another Dawn - The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot"

online version -- neat!

Storkyak: Linux equivalent of ifconfig /renew, or, how to reconnect to the internet

Storkyak: Linux equivalent of ifconfig /renew, or, how to reconnect to the internet:

"To get the same effect as ifconfig /release and ifconfig /renew on my SUSE Linux, I use dhcpcd -k, followed by dhcpcd. This shuts down and then restarts the dhcp client daemon."

Database query tool - Aqua Data Studio is the query analyzer that works with Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL and more.

Database query tool - Aqua Data Studio is the query analyzer that works with Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL and more.: "Aqua Data Studio is a database developer's complete Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The IDE provides three major areas of functionality: A) Database query and administration tool B) Suite of compare tools for databases, source control and filesystems, and C) a complete and integrated source control client for Subversion (SVN) and CVS."

Tungsten Replicator

Tungsten Replicator:
"The Tungsten Replicator implements open source database-neutral master/slave replication. Master/slave replication is a highly flexible technology that can solve a wide variety of problems including the following:

* Availability - Failing over to a slave database if your master database dies
* Performance Scaling - Spreading reads across many copies of data
* Cross-Site Clustering - Maintaining active database replicas across WANs
* Change Data Capture - Extracting changes to load data warehouses or update other systems
* Zero Downtime Upgrade - Performing upgrades on a slave server which then becomes the master"

The Scale-Out Blog: Bringing Open Source Replication to the Oracle World

The Scale-Out Blog: Bringing Open Source Replication to the Oracle World: "On Tuesday we will be announcing replication support for Oracle. Oracle replication will be based on our open source Tungsten Replicator, which is currently available in an alpha version for MySQL. Our goal is to provide replication that is accessible and usable by a wide range of users, especially those running lower-cost Oracle editions."

Richard McMahan's Mini Museum

Richard McMahan's Mini Museum

Inspiration OTD, miniature edition.

libevent

libevent: "The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. Furthermore, libevent also support callbacks due to signals or regular timeouts.

libevent is meant to replace the event loop found in event driven network servers. An application just needs to call event_dispatch() and then add or remove events dynamically without having to change the event loop."

It's All Text! :: Firefox Add-ons

It's All Text! :: Firefox Add-ons: "Edit textareas using an external editor, because it's all text!

Right click on a textarea, select 'It's All Text!' and edit the text in the editor of your choice.

Alternatively, click on the edit buttons added for your convenience. Right click on the edit buttons for even more options, including preferences."

Toad World > Community > Blogs - Speed Up Toad - Updated

Toad World > Community > Blogs - Speed Up Toad - Updated: "Below are ten easy ways to make sure you’re getting the best productivity from Toad:"

Townhall.com - tohu vavohu

Townhall.com - tohu vavohu: "Hugh Hewitt listeners - tweet 'em for listener paticipation"

Best Electronics Kits For Adults

Best Electronics Kits For Adults: "'I'm an adult looking to learn how electronics work and have some fun building projects. But all the kits I've found online are for kids 8-10 years old, and they don't really explain the principles - they just color-code where to place components on boards. Are there any kits aimed at adults? I know if anyone has got the answer, it's this community.'"

Cern builds largest computer grid to study origins of the universe | 8 Feb 2008 | ComputerWeekly.com

Cern builds largest computer grid to study origins of the universe | 8 Feb 2008 | ComputerWeekly.com: "The grid, which will go live in June, will pool the processing power of approximately 100,000 CPUs worldwide. It will process information at a rate of 1gbps, said Francois Grey, head of Cern's IT communications team.

'About 20% [of CPUs] will be here at Cern, another 30% will be in 11 major datacentres, and the rest of the computing power will come from 250 other centres worldwide,' said Grey."

Cern leads the way in database innovation | 26 Feb 2008 | ComputerWeekly.com

Cern leads the way in database innovation | 26 Feb 2008 | ComputerWeekly.com: "Cern has also pushed database-clustering technology further to enable a single database to run across a number of distributed computers. The LCG database deployment project has set up a worldwide distributed database infrastructure for LHC.

It will do this using a program called Oracle Streams to capture, filter and synchronise data stores worldwide.

The software allows users to control what information is put into a stream - the connection between the primary data capture and its end source/sources - and will determine how the stream of data flows is routed to nodes worldwide, and to determine what happens to events in the stream and how the stream terminates. By specifying the configuration of the elements acting on the stream, a user can filter and manage data in a more meaningful way."

Conceptual Trends and Current Topics

Conceptual Trends and Current Topics: "Heinlein engineered his own nerdy solution to a problem common to famous authors: how to deal with fan mail. In the days before the internet, Heinlein's solution was fabulous. He created a one page FAQ answer sheet -- minus the questions. Then he, or rather his wife Ginny, checked off the appropriate answer and mailed it back."

How-To Guide for Descriptors

How-To Guide for Descriptors: "Defines descriptors, summarizes the protocol, and shows how descriptors are called. Examines a custom descriptor and several built-in python descriptors including functions, properties, static methods, and class methods. Shows how each works by giving a pure Python equivalent and a sample application.

Learning about descriptors not only provides access to a larger toolset, it creates a deeper understanding of how Python works and an appreciation for the elegance of its design."

Table of Contents: The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1

Table of Contents: The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1:
"The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1
Edited by David Ahl, published 1976"

Think Python: An Introduction to Software Design

Think Python: An Introduction to Software Design: "This book is scheduled to be published by Cambridge University Press in early 2009, using the title 'Python for Software Design'. I will continue to maintain a Free electronic version of the book here, but hard copies will not be available for a few more months."

Learn To Program - Beginner's Guide

Learn To Program - Beginner's Guide:

"The goal of this guide is to be the funnest and easiest way for a beginner to get started programming. To this end, we have made 3 innovations that set this guide apart from all others:

1. Program right now in your browser: You can edit and run any of the examples directly in your browser. No downloads or software installs, ever.
2. Publish your programs on the web: This guide will teach you how to publish web apps at your own domain name so you can share your creations.
3. All JavaScript: JavaScript is the most prevalent programming language in the world, and AppJet lets you write entire web apps using this single programming language for everything."

Proggy Programming Fonts

Proggy Programming Fonts: "Monospaced Bitmap Programming Fonts
Looking for the perfect programming font ?
This site is the home of the Proggy programmer's fonts (Proggy Clean, Proggy Square, Proggy Small, and Proggy Tiny) as well as a number of contributed programming fonts (Crisp, Speedy, CodingFontTobi1, and Opti). It is also the home of two other proportional bitmap fonts for use on web pages (Webby Caps and Webby Small).

Every font you will find here was created by a programmer and is free.

The proggy fonts are a set of fixed-width screen fonts that are designed for code listings."