Category: Computer

While reading the January 2004 IEEE Spectrum, I noticed that the guy that they had been touting as a penniless engineer looked familiar.  This advertisement has been in the Spectrum for some time, but it really hit me that he looked familar.  Where have I seen this picture before?  Then it hit me; this is…

A distributed denial-of-service attack brought down SCO’s web site. Story @ InternetWeekLooks like SCO is getting what they deserve for claiming they own the intellectual property to the Linux OS.

The three most interesting things in the magazine this month were:About the emerging use of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) in devices that will be able to be reconfigured into new devices programatically. Not just by adding new software to the device, but actually reconfiguring the hardware on the fly.  It was a personal-digital-assistant, but now it’s…

I added “trebuchet ms” at the front of the font-family attributes of the Cascading style sheet.  It seems a little bit cleaner than what I was using.

"Did you realize," my daughter asked me one day, "that Dad has about 20 computer keyboards in the basement?  What’s up with that?"Great question, I thought.  Too bad I’ll never get a straight answer.  To my eternal chagrin, I’ve found that direct inquiries about technology purchases at my house always seem to end up in…

"I support 10,000 users, all of which wake up every morning with their hair on fire."  Larry Leibrock, University of Texas at Austin, on why billing problems make it harder to depend on his SkyTel Pager as his "Umbilical Cord."  ComputerWorld, 6 Dec 1999