DIY: PC water cooler
Here you have an article explaining how to build your own PC water-cooled freezer. With photos. Funny, at least.
Here you have it: an electronics company has developed drinking glasses which signal when they are almost empty so that table staff know when to bring a refill.
Of course, it has been invented in Japan.
El mayor farsante “creacionista de tierra joven” de la actualidad, Ken Ham, del ministerio “Answers in Genesis” internacional, estará visitando España este mes, en su campaña de ignorancia y oscurantismo anticientífico.
Aquí teneis el itinerario de este fanático lavacerebros. Esto es lo que nos toca en València:
Domingo Marzo 17, 2002 – Valencia
Lugar: Encuentro Cristiano
c/ Guardia Civil, 23
Dos charlas: 6:30pm-7:30pm and 7:30pm-8:30pm
Ojalá sea posible que una nutrida concurrencia escéptica española, bien preparada en el escepticismo y en el “debate” evolución-creacionismo, puedan asistir para dejar expuesto a Ken Ham como el farsante que es ante el público español.
Seems like blogspot.com is a bit buggy these days. I hope they solve their problems and the service will be restablished.
CRC Press has allowed Meneze et al. to make publicly available their Handbook of Applied Cryptography. This is an award-winning book and, of course, a must-have in your Computer Security library.
Here is the book and here is the source code of most of the algorithms in the book.
So you belived Microsoft and you thought XP is the most stable version of Windows out there? In fact it’s not. Zappadodle‘s people say this will break it:
main (){
for (;;)
printf ("Hung uptbbbbbb") ;
}
}
Well, I’ve not tried it, but I think it should not crash (at least, not with every compiler: it should depend on what microinstructions the compiler generates). If anyone could comment on this, please do so.
Some people are really bored. Like this guy who has “filmed” Star Wars Episode IV (the first one ever produced) in ASCII art and is “broadcasting” (or might I say “narrowcasting”?) it via telnet. Point your telnet clients to towel.blinkenlights.nl (port 21) and try it yourself./
The Los Alamos National Laboratory has a paper explainin how to measure light speed using the ping command included with most operating systems. It’s very interesting.
An additional explaining: light speed is constant (c=3e8, aprox.), but propagation speed is not constant. It depends on the medium (being exact, it depends on the propagation constant, ß, of the medium) and can be calculated using one of the following equations:
or:
For optical mediums a simpler expression is given using material’s effective refraction index (ñ), but I cannot remember the expression now O:-)
Do you remember when you were a child and enjoyed wraping plastic bubbles? Now you can do it in your computer, here’s the virtual bubblewrapper. As they say, this is a page to waste vital lifetime. But don’t pass by 🙂