saw this post on /. which led to this article “Your laptop is lying to you” which writes about the indicators we see in our devices are actually manipulating us psychologically. partly agree with the laptop case (my Intel laptop provides ‘time remaining’ but my AMD laptop doesnt), and i believe the handphone case would hit most of us. check it out and see if your devices lied to you too 😉
Logo – my first programming language
in the midst of writing a (next-to-meaningless) term paper and my mind drifted off (not surprising) and the word “Logo” came to mind.
gotten this off wikipedia:
Logo is a computer programming language used for functional programming. It is an easier to read adaptation and dialect of the Lisp language; some have called it “Lisp without the parentheses.” It was created for educational use, more so for constructivist teaching, by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. Today, it is known mainly for its “turtle graphics”, but it also has significant facilities for handling lists, files, I/O, and recursion. Logo can be used to teach most computer science concepts, as UC Berkeley Lecturer Brian Harvey does in his “Computer Science Logo Style” trilogy.
here’s a sample of logo’s code.
to get a copy of the berkeley’s logo, visit Brian Harvey’s home page or George Mills’ MSWLogo page.
looking for a firewall software or antivirus software?
if you are hunting for a firewall software and you’ll like something that’s FREE (and good of coz), get ZoneAlarm Free.
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and btw if you are looking for FREE antivirus software (and good one of coz), get AVG Anti-virus Free Edition. i have been using it for 3 years and it has helped me grab many viruses on the run. especially useful when your friends plugged in their usb/thumb/flash drives into your pc/laptop. and the best thing is, AVG uses relatively less system resources compared to some other BIG names which you may be familiar with 😉
keyboard’s always the same old keyboard?
saw this article entitled “The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time” on pcworld off /. did not realise there’s so many interesting/confusing keyboards before the first ibm-pc keyboard that i have ever owned.
some of the comments on some of the keyboards:
- Some of the keys controlled as many as six different functions.
- had no Backspace key.
- too many symbols printed on each key.
- poor key placement … resulting in users’ making repeated accidental hits and sending the cursor back up to the top of the screen.
- have anyone seen the period key? Oh, it’s over there on the numeric keypad.
- no Left Shift key existed–instead, a Control key sat in its place
- most frustrating key combinations was Shift-Q, which would quit a program or reset the computer, much to the chagrin of users who lost a day’s work while erroneously trying to capitalize the letter Q.
how lucky i am 😛
How to burn a DVD folder containing BUP, VOB and IFO files
if you have backup your dvd and ended up having two folders audio_ts and video_ts, you can rebuild your dvd with 2 freewares alone. afterdawn.com has this HOWTO guide which can guide you through the steps (including getting the reqd software).
quick steps:
1. grab Folder2Iso.
2. use roxio creator, nero burning rom, dvd decrypter or some software that can write the ISO file.