Hi, I just read an article on Wired that reasoned something along the lines of: "internet is for horny nerds => women don't want to be nerds => women are ...
As many of us know, Linux is full with software development tools. However, how useful those tools are for a developer? I tend to state that Linux lacks IDE. ...
WARNING: This is going to be yet another geeky and quite-off-topic posting... I looked at google.com's site yesterday, and I liked how they changed their logo...
I don't normally post here stuff from slashdot, but today they announce a very important event that you won't want to miss: Tomorrow, on 7:25:21 am (Israeli...
is software engineering a science, or is it b.s.? (i can tell you what that the common attitude in the technion's computer science faculty is, and it's not...
... IMO if the homework grade isn't part of the final grade, there's nothing immoral with copying work, its just abit stupid. ... Same in TAU. But most of us...
The following colloquium in the Technion might be of interest to the "hacker" community (just look at the name of their computer!). Note, however, that it's a...
... A technical win. Because when I remember names I remember them by sounds, I think that most of us do too. So having 2 variables with the same sound and ...
... In some ways, case sensitivity decreases value of self-documentation of programs. It can be very misleading to following function: char *Open( char *foo,...
This year I was out of the country (and mostly away from a keyboard) on April 1st, so I didn't get to "enjoy" the crop (or should the "o" be an "a"?) of April...
I am wondering (and pondering) about whether Capitalism is the Ideal way of running an economy which will accompany us for the rest of history or it is simply...
(fwd from the geeks@... mailing list) This years april-fool-RFC:s. Pi Digit Generation Protocol http://rfc3091.x42.com/ This protocol is intended to...
After a long time I had the "The prefix 'God said'" signature, I managed to come up with a new one, which I'm not sure is entirely original. (my mother said...
Did anyone download all the files of the classic Graphics Programming Black Book and mirror them in an Israeli FTP or Web site? I am trying to download the...
I encountered this web-site when browsing the web: http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.html It's a C/C++ interpreter which claims to cover about 95% of ANSI C and...
an interesting article about the apparent "holes" in the foundation of mathematics. http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns22811 from slashdot:...
Hi, Today happened to be PI-day. Since I'm a firm believer in the "celebrate for any silly reason" philosophy, I wonder if some of you would like to go out and...
Hi, Can anyone explain what the limits are on the precision of the computer clock that I can get on an Intel PC? For instance, Linux (and other BSD-like...
Hi, I just finished installing a remote managment system on NT. The installation procedure was the sort of thing that used to give Linux a bad name. Here is...
Just spotted this article on the latest LinuxGazette: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue64/evans.html It talks about Kaptain which is a KDE utility for creating...
... Actually, it sounds so neat I want to write one for windows. But why would it put a new angle on our discussion? (or did I miss a joke again?) And...
I just saw John Gilmore's article "What's Wrong With Copy Protection" from two weeks ago, in http://www.toad.com/gnu/whatswrong.html This is probably the...
Hi, Some of you may remember one of X-files slogans : "I want to believe" Infact many people justify their faith in anything on that basis - their need to...
Hi hackers, I have a stupid (read "basic") question. When people talk about an (ethernet) connection of N Mb/s, what exactly does this mean? Does this mean...
I would like to send series of pings from time to time to some sites in Israel, for my own nefarious research purposes that are too boring to expand upon. I...
... I like the idea of interfaces like language, I thought about it a while ago. One of the reasons that GUI's are sometimes a pain is that their language is ...
