50 years of the hard drive.

Amazing, but ...

Comment This week I attended an event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View that celebrated the golden anniversary of the IBM RAMAC 305, the first hard disk drive storage system.…

[The Register]

 

11:56:26 AM    comment []

 

:)

Daleks prepare invasion of Google Earth.

Interdimensional portal menaces Netherlands

Our Dutch readers, and particularly those living in Hilversum, are hereby warned that they should immediately arm themselves with pulse plasma rifles and prepare to defend their homeland from interdimensional attack:…

[The Register]

 

11:51:09 AM    comment []

 

And just where is VectorWorks heading? 

VectorWorks Adds Location Planning Module (Nemetschek NA).

Nemetschek North America Releases Location Planning Module for VectorWorks

From: Nemetschek NA
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

11:47:34 AM    comment []

 

Animation Module for VectorWorks Available (Architosh).

AnimationWorks 1.1 Animation Module for VectorWorks

From: Architosh
Type: News Report

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

11:45:42 AM    comment []

 

With BitRocket and now Xtorrent, OS X BitTorrent clients must be in season. [Hack the Planet]

 

11:44:47 AM    comment []

 

Mobiles put the web in your hands. BBC Click investigates the new ways phone companies are trying to get us to access the net through our mobiles. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

11:41:39 AM    comment []

 

A Visual Walkthrough of New Features in Vim 7.0. An anonymous reader writes "Anybody who has used Linux or any other OS would be aware of the very powerful and feature rich text editor Vi. This interesting article takes a visual look at some of the new features in the latest version of Vim 7.0 — a Vi clone created by Bram Moolenaar. From the article: 'Just for once, I wouldn't mind siding with the beast if that is what it takes to use Vi. The modern avatar of Vi is Vim — the free editor created by Bram Moolenaar. Riding from strength to strength, this editor in its 7th version is a powerhouse as far as an editor is concerned. When ever I use Vim (or GVim for that matter), it gives me the impression of the Beauty and the Beast'"

[Slashdot]

 

11:26:02 AM    comment []

 

Beck and Andres on Extreme Programming. narramissic writes "In recent years, Extreme Programming (XP) has come of age. Its principles of transparency, trust and accountability represent a change of context that is good not only for software development but for everyone involved in the process. In this interview, Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres, co-authors of 'Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change' discuss how XP makes improvement possible."

[Slashdot]

 

11:21:54 AM    comment []

 

YouTube offers "several RSS feeds for categorized groups of videos (such as recently uploaded, top viewed etc) as well as customized feeds for users and tags." [Scripting News]

 

11:18:28 AM    comment []

 

More public participation

Building Web Sites With PHP-Nuke.

Community websites explained

Building a configurable, flexible and highly interactive community web site from scratch is no mean feat. Get the technical implementation right and you might have a vibrant and active community coalesce around your site. Get it wrong and you’re left with dead web real-estate that’s dressed right but is going nowhere. However, thanks to PHP-Nuke, most of the hard work has been done up front. And, for the would-be community site developer who doesn’t have the time to read manuals, Packt Publishing has even taken the hard work out of figuring what to do post-installation.…

[The Register]

 

11:15:53 AM    comment []

 

Public participation user interface?

Gefen 4x4 HDMI Matrix audio-visual interconnect.

Multiple input, multiple output

Review Gefen has announced an HDMI four-by-four crossover unit. Though it can be used as a straightforward HDMI switch for linking multiple players to a single display, it's actually more advanced than that: any of the four inputs can be switched to any of the four outputs...…

[The Register]

 

11:13:49 AM    comment []

 

What's wrong with this landscape?

Sparkplug 9: "Pope says Islam is violent. Islamics react with violence. Pope apologizes." [Scripting News]

 

11:10:18 AM    comment []