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which may or may not be more up to date than this page.
New Stuff
09-06-07
03-26-07
techcrunch.com - a website devoted to new tech startups, especially web 2.0 ones.
03-07-07
Dial up networking info for cingular:
Username: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
Password: CINGULAR1
Phone Number: *99***1#
APN: ISP.CINGULAR
(for APN, go to properties for the bluetooth modem, select 'advanced', and enter:
AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","ISP.CINGULAR"
02-13-07
word of the day:
- sanctimonious -
making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.:
They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
12-11-06
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
11-02-06
A review of santa clara county's voting machines
The machine manufacturer
Other info on sequoia voting:
10-20-06
swig, a package that allows interfacing of a variety of
languages with C++ (including perl, tcl, java, lua, C-sharp)
8-07-06
The ultimate boot cd for windows
8-01-06
The fifth anniversary of the world trade center approaches, here are some links:
7-26-06
slipstreaming windows xp
more useful info
7-6-06
how to be a programmer
6-6-06
prosper.com, an interesting idea where people lend to people!
5-12-06
I'm reading
Cobra II,
it's a pretty good read so far, very intense once the fighting started. Some useful references for it:
4-28-06
regular
expression quantifiers in java.
4-10-06
md5 libraries
3-14-06
A good WoW reference
3-08-06
warlock tips in WoW
A macro which clears debuffs off of you...
/script TargetUnit("player");
/cast Devour Magic(Rank 4)
/script TargetLastEnemy();
3-01-06
Ahhh... a classic
bush video,
gotta love the guy!
2-27-06
good info on fishing in WoW
2-23-06
Das Kapital,
by Karl Marx
2-17-06
a google maps API view of the world of warcraft
2-15-06
An advanced article on AJAX
2-14-06
DICE, a
game designer's summit that's going on now in Las Vegas
2-7-06
WoW:
an interesting priest guide, also talks about spirit/intellect calculations.
2-6-06
An older, but still interesting
article on slashdot about micropayments
Also, it seems buskpay.com is down! when did
this happen?
1-23-06
some links on MMORPG design by internet people:
gamedev.org forum post
* a manifesto
* gamedev.org
* on google
* mpogd editorials
1-21-06
Ok, so I'm a sinner, I got back into WoW, playing only with my buddies, it
is fun after all. I'm ashamed to admit it, but it's true, I'm not going to
get addicted though, I'm not going to get addicted, I'm not going to get
addicted...
I've also tried out a couple other games (including a good emulator):
12-21-05
I finally got Bluetooth Dialup Networking working with my Cingular Treo...
awesome!!
To duplicate:
use the guide here:
treo DUN guide
For cingular, I used the username/password here (you may be able to get it from
your phone too):
http://shadowmite.com/HowToDUN.html
I had to uninstall/reinstall the drivers for my IBM Bluetooth 2 PC card though,
since I couldn't see the 'bluetooth modem' in the list of available modems.
Sweet...
12-13-05
WoW addicts...
Do not heed the siren call of the WoW-beast, encouraging you journey
ever further down the path of 'level-up-ed-ness'. See as the beast
dribbles the faintest hint of sweet 'level-up-juice', and how you
suckle so greedily for every drop.
This is the mark of addiction!
This is the mark of sin!
Do not give in to your sins my brothers! Join me and fight for your
emperor! Many enemies are at our doorstep who must be defeated in
vicious combat, for they will not listen to reason and they will not
submit. I was once like you, brothers, once suckling at the teat of
the 'level-up' beast. But I was shown the good path, I was shown
that I was suckling at the teat of a money-making machine of mediocrity,
and I freed myself from the subtle, yet constant dribble of addiction
that clouded my mind and my soul.
What happens when there are no more levels to 'up'? No more items to
obtain? No more quests to do? Have you achieved more than others? Or
have you walked down a carefully constructed path from which you may
not deviate? Why surround yourself with facades and illusions of glory
when there is no permanence? no accomplishment? Knowing at any time,
all you have achieved can be taken away by your dark god, blizzard, and
the only thing you will be left with is the polluted memories of your
own heretical experiences.
Join us and free your soul from its bondage. You have strayed, but I
believe you can return!
12-7-05
bnetd server emulator
(battle.net server emulator)
12-6-05
neverwinter nights code exchange
* nwn builders
*
intro to persistent worlds *
persistent worlds guide,
all useful info for designing a dmmorpg...
12-2-05
Dawn of War skirmish AI mod
11-30-05
safe disk utilities
(utilities for playing CD game backups)
11-28-05
Small, fast linux distros:
damn small linux
* puppy linux
11-23-05
Wanna learn LISP?
11-16-05
cinelerra, video
editing on linux.
* dvdauthor, also for linux
* more info
* kino, a
linux video editor that supuports avi to mpeg
* another sequence of steps
* mplayer/mencoder manual
11-15-05
Some good system monitoring and checking tools:
I'm sure there are a lot more over at
sysinternals.com, it is an awesome site!
11-11-05
A
good post on AJAX, on slashdot. Also links to different AJAX, XHTML and
XForms sites.
11-07-05
jfree.org, home of jfreechart.
10-31-05
ragdoll animation physics
10-29-05
California law code
10-26-05
An XSL tutorial
10-25-05
Accepting
Credit Cards
10-20-05
If you are ever on a jury, remember that you are there not to determine if a person
is guilty according to the written law, but guilty of 'natural' crime. That is,
unjust laws can be nullified by a jury.
However, an attorney may or may not be allowed to inform the jury of this power,
as decided by the supreme court, so juries have power they are often not aware of!
jury nullification *
another one
10-19-05
free internet sharing programs
10-17-05
NMAP, a FREE, useful network
mapping and security tool.
* Also, a patent law blog
10-11-05
advice for PhD students.
Also an interesting subject on which to do more research:
Question: I am working in
theorem proving, and one of the most important papers
is your paper Simple word problems in universal
algebra [KB] from 1970, written with
P. B. Bendix. I have two questions. The first is, do you
still follow this area and what do you think of it? And
the second is, who is and what became of P. B. Bendix?
Knuth: This work was published in 1970, but I
actually did it in 1967 while I was at Caltech. It
was a simple idea, but fortunately its turned out
to be very widely applicable. The idea is to take a
set of mathematical axioms and find all the
implications of those axioms. If I have a certain
set of axioms and you have a possible theorem,
you ask, does this theorem follow from those
axioms or not? I called my paper Simple word
problems in universal algebra, and I said a
problem was simple if my method could
handle it. Now people have extended the method
quite a lot, so that a lot more problems are
simple. I think their work is beautiful.
10-10-05
creating inventions
with genetic programming
10-06-05
C++ boost smart pointers
* using C++
auto_ptr effectively
10-03-05
recent real estate transactions in the bay area
10-01-05
Here are some links on penta-hydrate water:
answers.com
A discussion: here
a critic
and here
As for me, I'm not sure but it definitely goes down smooth!
9-19-05
millions of games
* zillions of games!!
9-18-05
html reference
9-16-05
bush approval raw poll data
9-15-05
lymph system cleaning
* Also, incorporate cheaply!
* here too
* as well as here, these also do LLCs
9-13-05
dystopia review,
a half-life mod. Also, the igf, independent games
festival, march, 2006. I'm there! Some other
interesting
links
9-12-05
Windows product key finder
9-8-05
We are products of the anxietyculture,
don't worry about it though!
9-7-05
converting
a mysql MyISAM db to InnoDB
* Also,
patents being released to open source developers
9-6-05
homefair.com, financial/real estate info site.
8-30-05
ubuntulinux, a FREE distro, with
FREE updates. *
Who Links Here
8-26-05
I LOVE the TREO!! Check out the bluetooth
TomTomGo GPS receiver for it! Also,
a review on it
.
8-16-05
A good article about
orbital mechanics
7-22-05
Is that Xbox or PS2 disk scratched and un-workable? just pop over to
consolebackups.net and order
a replacement!
7-18-05
Ever want a really insulting t-shirt? Just go to
tshirthell and pick one up!
7-15-05
Here is an interesting article on how easy it is to find info on people over
the internet. Scary stuff! Also,
zabasearch, a place where you can find people
by searching through public records.
7-14-05
Grub, a distributed web-crawler
7-08-05
A good article
on why software patents, and more specifically, OBVIOUS software patents are BAD.
7-06-05
If I ever feel like I have an excess of happiness, and need to get rid of some,
then I'll shoot
over to this site,
and practice my french while I'm at it.
6-30-05
An interesting site that talks about MONEY
6-24-05
Good overview of financial
investment vehicles * You can buy
bonds, tbills, etc from the government here!
5-25-05
Some older, but still interesting micropayments articles:
here
* here
* bitpass
5-15-05
html special char reference
* freeware for the palm
5-11-05
specialist games, offers
some of the games workshop rules for free
Also, the J2EE tutorial
5-04-05
prolexic, a DDoS defense company
*
an interesting article about online extortion and DDoS attacks
4-27-05
SPACE HANDBOOK: ASTRONAUTICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, an awesome article
about space and practical considerations when traveling in it.
4-25-05
refurbished laptops
cheap barebones systems,
both are here in the bay area!
4-24-05
an online book on relativity
4-18-05
some hockey tips
4-17-05
various DVD authoring guides
* also here
4-13-05
Random Computer
Science Paper Generator
4-04-05
Interesting java articles,
by Brian Goetz.
3-17-05
SBC dial-in access numbers
3-15-05
To enable Address bar auto-completion in firefox:
- enter 'about:config' in the address bar
- create a new boolean value named 'browser.urlbar.autoFill'
- set its value to true
3-11-05
Here's an interesting quote I found on
slashdot:
That's precisely the kind of thinking that makes crashes possible. When everyone believes something is a safe bet, they discount risk more and more. Market phenomena often work themselves out over decades, which is beyond most people's attention span.
Take stocks for example. From 1980 to 2001, stocks were the right place to be. When a trend lasts that long, it changes people's attitudes. In 1980, most people were very nervous about stocks, because they had spent the previous couple decades sucking.
If you bought the Dow Jones in 1929, you had to wait until 1956 just to break even. And this isn't such a rare outlier. If you bought in 1966, you didn't break even until 1983. Once you include taxes and fees, it was more like the early 90s.
It takes a while for attitudes to shift. Despite the bubble popping, lots of people still believe that their 401k is going to grow at 7-10% per year. That's not necessarily true anymore.
America's economic fundamentals are troubling. We actually spend 5% more than we make. With no domestic savings to fund future growth (or even service our existing debts), we're dependent on foreign investors. And the foreign investors are getting very nervous as the dollar continues to slide.
3-10-05
starting a startup
2-28-05
Ever wonder what ports windows opens?
here is a list.
2-25-05
Rome Total Realism
2-22-05
Some interesting games:
DROD,
nethack,
gruntz
1-06-05
A good article
on why intellectual property is different from physical property and why different laws
should apply.
1-03-05
First post of the new year!! happy 2005! Lets start with a blast from a past:
Total Annihilation tactics:
from gnug
*
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