Category Archives: neep-neep

Alan, meet John

Posted on Thursday, 2002 June 20 by Anton

Too cool! A Turing Machine in Conway’s Game Life, extendable to a Universal Turing Machine. Thanks to Andre Uratsuka Manoel for the link. (Link corrected 2004 Oct 6.) 2006: And the newer link is now dead. Never mind, just search … Continue reading →

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is shareware still infected?

Posted on Thursday, 2002 June 06 by Anton

Heather Madrone has an interesting question. My 13-year-old daughter downloaded some software this week. I asked her to check with me next time, so I could show her how to scan it for viruses before she installs it. Then I … Continue reading →

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stream of pseudothought

Posted on Sunday, 2002 June 02 by Anton

Columbia Newsblaster cobbles together phrases from various news sources to generate summaries of top stories. The result can be surreal: . . . Congressional Republicans are using a government – paid videotaped message from President Bush to parry Democratic attacks against them … Continue reading →

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power through the people

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

Mesh Radio. The idea is to link subscribers to each other with multiple tiny dishes, rather than all to a central station. I hope it works: existing schemes lack redundancy at the consumer end. Later: It has been pointed out … Continue reading →

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stupid computers

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 29 by Anton

Save me from software that tries to outsmart me!

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penguin problems

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 22 by Anton

Yesterday my Linux box crashed and I spent all evening trying to bring it back to life, with – as they say at NASA – partial success. Argh. Later: In desperation, I tried ^C when the boot process says “/1 … Continue reading →