Monthly Archives: January 2003

Mobile gaming for all ages!

Microsoft Ireland confirms job cuts

Microsoft Ireland on Tuesday confirmed that about 55 staff would be made redundant, as 113 positions move to locations outside Ireland.

Karlin has more on the Young Scientist winner.

The person I spoke to said that as he understands it, the browser gets the claimed speed efficiencies by starting to download info to one socket. Adnan’s browser then “short-circuits” the socket or breaks that connection and starts downloading other bits of a page, “using fast servers.” It does a number of things at the same time, which makes a page load faster.

Sounds a bit like how mondern P2P applications download. AFAIR the Z-modem protocol could do the same thing or similar but that was long ago in the days of the BBSes..

Todd suddenly feels old

“That’s a Commodore 64!”, I shouted. To which my younger house guests looked at me with bewilderment.

“A what?”

“A Commodore 64. I used to own one. It was a great computer.”

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Music (Happy Birthday, We’ll Sue)

“Happy Birthday to You” is by far the most well-known song in the English-speaking world, and perhaps the whole world, too. For nearly a century, this simple ditty has been the traditional piece of music sung to millions of birthday celebrants every year — everyone from uncomprehending infants to U.S. presidents; it has been performed in space; and it has been incorporated into untold millions of music boxes, watches, musical greeting cards, and other tuneful products. It therefore surprises many to discover that this ubiquitous song, a six-note melody composed in the 19th century and accompanied by a six-word set of repetitive lyrics, is still protected by copyright — and will be for decades to come.

Slashdot | Disney Wins, Eldred (and everyone else) Loses

The upshot is that no works produced in the United States after the 1920’s will ever go out of copyright.

Slashdot | Linux 2.4 VM Documentation by fellow ILUG member Mel Gorman.

Games * Design * Art * Culture – must look at later.

Nokia Courts Linux Developers – woo hoo! Now to learn a new language, API, and environment.. hmm.

Linux: Using goto In Kernel Code – KernelTrap – worth reading!

> However, I have always been taught, and have always believed that
> “goto”s are inherently evil. They are the creators of spaghetti code

No, you’ve been brainwashed by CS people who thought that Niklaus Wirth actually knew what he was talking about. He didn’t. He doesn’t have a frigging clue.