Posted in History, Just For Fun, Programming on October 31, 2007 | 22 Comments »
Compute! Magazine
Back to reminiscing! I’m dedicating this part in the series to this magazine, because I think it was that good. Compute! was published from 1979 to 1994. Though it started out focusing exclusively on computers that used the MOS 6502 CPU, or some variant, like the Apple II, Atari 8-bits (400, 800, XL and [...]
Posted in Education, History, Programming, Technology and Software on October 19, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I saw that lispy wrote about this. I happened to spot the original speech by Richard Stallman on reddit. The title intrigued me: “My Lisp Experiences and the Development of Emacs”. I’ll go through some pieces of it, because there are some interesting stories in here.
My first experience with Lisp was when I read the Lisp [...]
Posted in Art, Just For Fun, Programming on October 12, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I found this on reddit today. “Programming: You’re doing it completely wrong”.
Trivia question: Who’s that staring back at you in the poster?
I agree with one of the comments: They should make one up with Dijkstra’s mug in it.
Posted in internet abuse on October 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was prompted by another blog post I read to check up on the situation with indquery.com, which I had complained about earlier. It looks like it’s been resolved. I checked the site and all I saw was an ASP.Net directory structure. So it looks like it’s down.
I was getting ready to take any action I [...]
Posted in History, Just For Fun, Programming, Technology and Software on October 5, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Apple ][
The most commonly found computers in public schools in the early to mid-1980s were the Apple ][ plus and //e. These were 8-bit computers, running MOS 6502 CPUs (or some variant), running at 1 Mhz. They typically had anywhere from 48 to 64 kilobytes of RAM. They were the models Apple made before the Lisa and Macintosh.
When they finally installed [...]
Posted in Analysis, Technology and Software on October 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
James Robertson is no fan of Microsoft, but yesterday he had to call out the machinations of the EU as “stupid”. I agree.
First, the EU demanded that Microsoft sell a version of Windows in the EU market without Windows Media Player. Microsoft complied, with “Windows n” (for (n)o media player), a configuration that became an [...]
Posted in Education, Movies on October 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Mike Judge, who created the movie “Office Space”, came out with a movie that’s on DVD now called “Idiocracy”. The name and the cover drew my attention. It shows the classic “Ascent of Man” from ape to homo sapien, and then shows man devolved into something less. (Update 10-3-07: I should point out this movie was rated R [...]
