] "It's a premonition of things to come," Pike said. "It
] makes sense. These things have no family to write home
] to. They're fearless. You can put them places you'd have
] a hard time putting a soldier in."

Robots with rockets. Seriously.

Wired News: More Robot Grunts Ready for Duty

] This document is intended as a comprehensive reference
] for the Standard C programming language, including its
] support library.

One of the nicer C references I've found, and explictly explains the standard libraries that most posters on comp.lang.c don't seem to understand. I never knew there are a qsort in stdlib.h!

Standard C Reference

this is a boot loader that has a built in compiler, it compiles the kernel its going to boot then boots it...

sure its a bit useless (though I'm sure someone has thought of a reason for this), but you gotta love that sort of project...

--Abaddon

TCCBOOT: TinyCC Boot Loader

vim themes... Wheee!!!

VIM Color Scheme Test (perl) - Thu Oct 21 23:14:37 2004

] Scientists from RAND Corporation have created this model
] to illustrate how a "home computer" could look in the
] year 2004. However the needed technology will not be
] economically feasible for the average home. Also the
] scientists readily admit that the computer will require
] not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50
] years from now scientific progress is expected to solve
] these problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran
] language, the computer will be easy to use and only

I just want to know what the hell is the steering wheel for.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (Does Not Compute)

] Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and
] Unix. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help
] you organize the ideas and information you deal with
] every day.
]
]
] Have you ever felt the frustration at not being able to
] locate a website you wanted to check out, or find an
] email you found interesting, or remember an idea about
] the direction of the political landscape in
] post-industrial Australia? Or are you one of those
] desperate souls with home-made, buggy, or
] not-quite-perfect notes systems?
]
]
] Time for Tomboy. We bet you'll be surprised at how well a
] little application can make life less cluttered and run
] more smoothly.

Pretty slick. My friend alex wrote this.

Tomboy : Simple note taking

] (ver: 0.5.5 Size: 14k) - Makes mailto: links load your
] webmail's compose page and adds a Compose link to the
] context menu. Currently supports
] GMail/Yahoo/Hotmail/Netscape/OperaMail/Mail.com/Horde/Squ
] irrel and 1 user customizable entry. (Firefox/Mozilla
] Suite/Netscape 7.x)

Sweetness. This mozilla/firefox extention alloys you to click on mailto: and to send the mail via gmail

jedbrown.net | Mozilla

] GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses
] your Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a
] Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem
] infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and
] libgmail to communicate with Gmail.

This is a fucking brilliant idea! If I was giving out an award for hack of the year this would be in the running. Yes, python is a brain crushingly inefficient way to implement a filesystem, but Gmail is still likely to be the bottleneck. Google probably won't like this because they don't really expect people to use all of the space they have, but they probably can't stop you from doing this either. Got to port this to OSX!

GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem (dot mac for linux for free)

] Prototype SMT (Surface Mount Technology) Assembly
]
] Prototype Stencils are frameless laser cut solder paste
] stencils specially designed for manual printing. Your
] $149.50 Prototype Custom Stencil comes with a squeegee
] blade and board holders. The Prototype Stencil system
] will make your prototype assembly job easier and save you
] time. We are backing that with a money-back guarantee
] program. Buy a low cost Prototype SMT Stencil and try it
] using our recommended process. If you are not satisfied
] with the results, you may return the stencil for a
] complete refund.

This is cool. You can design and then send your one off PCB design to get printed.
- design board layout
- send board to get fabbed (www.pcbexpress.com)
- stencil on soldering paste
- super glue components to board
- stick in toaster oven
- Wait

Then voila! You have a nicely professional designed and made circuit board. How hot is that?

Stencils Unlimited - The Leading Provider of Laser Cut Solder Paste Stencils

] Smart pointers are objects which store pointers to
] dynamically allocated (heap) objects. They behave much
] like built-in C pointers except that they automatically
] delete the object pointed to at the appropriate time.
] Smart pointers are particularly useful in the face of
] exceptions as they ensure proper destruction of
] dynamically allocated objects. They can also be used to
] keep track of dynamically allocated objects shared by
] multiple owners.
]
] Conceptually, smart pointers are seen as owning the
] object pointed to, and thus responsible for deletion of
] the object when it is no longer needed.

Smart Pointers