Was just reading some user comments on SlashDot.org regarding an article of a sale of government computers that still contained private information, Government Servers Wiped? Never!. This one by user id 698722 posted this in regards to how to get rid of the data on your harddrive.
Its kind of hard to get rid of your [...]
The four gentlemen, Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, who came together to align idea’s and a commonality of communication between programmers has received the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) award.
I have just concluded a semesters worth of Design Patterns including what they are, how they should be used, [...]
I found an interesting article over on the NASA website, it’s called Space Chronicles. The one I was reading was Expedition Six - Space Chronicles #14 by ISS Science Officer Don Pettit. It’s an interesting account and summary of what goes on prior to a space walk. I encourage anyone who has some spare time [...]
Anyone who knows of some major SS related news, do tell. It’s been lacking for a while now, simply because, I haven’t seen anything -major- happen in a while. Other than the LVL+LVZ Editor Update by Bak.
You’ll notice a link to SSBase, this is where SSHQ has moved to ‘cept that it will no [...]
You’ve probably heard by now in my blog entry ‘STS-114 GO/NO-GO FOR LAUNCH‘ that Discovery has gone into space. Though during its launch NASA engineers noticed some debris falling from the external fuel tank, however, not striking it (good thing). So until this matter can be resolved the shuttles are further grounded. Shame. But I [...]
Man, as much as I’d hate to give free advertising to this monopoly - I’d like to share with you some tidbits provided by slashdot.org reviews:
Microsoft will now begin checking the authenticity of the Windows operating system when you go to update. If it finds a pirated copy, it’ll prompt you to buy a legal [...]
Yes peeps, we’re in the T-9 minute hold!!! The NASA team is almost there. Shuttle STS-114 should launch at exactly 10:39:00 am EST. The T-9 hold is last scheduled and final hold left in the launch sequence (lasting 45 minutes). It is going to be a good day. Let us not tempt fate too early [...]
Update 7-23-05:
Got a new version up on http://rshl.org/CLIT
I added several new features for selections including, flipping the selection, rotating (specify any angle you want, like 22.45 degrees), retiling the selection (swapping tiles), appling the EZ tileset to the selection (so that you can draw your map in one tile, then apply the EZ tileset and [...]
Tis is a sad day for us all Star Trek fans. The actor James Doohan, who played Scotty - chief engineer, has passed away today at the age of 85. His wife of 28 years was by his side.
*silence*
Hm, well the other day I posted that Mozilla Foundation had released Firefox and Thunderbird version 1.0.5. However, it appears today, there is a 1.0.6 release for both software. I can hear the ranting begin… “if they were so secure why didn’t they catch these bugs in the first place”. Well I can assure [...]