an arcade action puzzle game where the objective is to get rid of all incoming balls by rearranging their order. Currently it includes 12 different levels and two modes of gameplay. The engine allows for easy custom level creation with unlimited number of paths, different speeds, ball-sizes, and rules.
Why it is not replaced by COM, how it works, network DDE, links to other sources of information. DDE is support is being removed from Windows (Windows 7 x64 seems to have an issue with it)
"Only one third of a search engine is devoted to fulfilling search requests. The other two thirds are divided between crawling (sending a host of single-minded digital organisms out to gather information) and indexing (building data structures from the results)." By George Dyson
by Erik Demaine. Take a piece of paper, fold it into any flat origami, and make one complete straight cut (i.e., a cut along a line). Now unfold the pieces, and see what you get. Are all shapes possible? Refering back to the original sheet of paper, what patterns of cuts can be achieved by this process?
2.4GHz parabolic mesh dishes from Chinese cookware scoops & a USB WiFi adaptor! Called "WIFRY","WOKFI" or "WOKTENNA" (12"= 300mm diam) shows 12-15dB gain (enough for a LOS range extension to 3-5km)
by Alan Green - These checklists are a tool for helping you focus attention on the critical aspects of your project at the different stages of its lifecycle.
This site provides a free physics textbook that tells the story of how it became possible, after 2500 years of exploration, to answer such questions. The book is written for the curious: it is entertaining, surprising and challenging on every page.
a C/C++ interpreter aimed at processing C/C++ scripts. Scripts are programs performing specific tasks. Generally execution time is not critical, but rapid development is. Using an interpreter the compile and link cycle is dramatically reduced facilitating
Our society is organized around a scarcity economy to such an extent that many people believe 'scarcity' and 'economy' mean the same thing. Even if it were true, different economies deal with differently scarce things.
aims to be for webservices and for C# programs what GNU/Linux is rapidly becoming for desktop and server applications: the industry leader and provider of Free Software solutions.
a general purpose monitoring platform. First, at run time, Pandora reads static configuration files either from disk or from the network. Second, if told so, Pandora opens a control socket to which commands can be sent. Pandora provides an API with C++, C and Guile bindings to ease the construction of clients. These commands allow queries of the actual configuration of the platform and to perform arbitrary modifications on it.
turns VLC into a RAR player that allows you to watch videos (including seeking) directly from inside multi-volume RAR archives without the need to manually unpack them first.
Before you start working with photo images on your computer (or even view them), you should really make sure that your video subsystem is capable and is displaying things correctly. These pages will assist you in adjusting your monitor by providing various test patterns. They also give a brief introduction to issues involved in calibrating a monitor
diversas áreas temáticas com informação relevante e útil para as operações financeiras do cliente bancário, além da principal legislação que enquadra a oferta de produtos e serviços bancários, um glossário de termos financeiros e um conjunto de respostas a perguntas frequentes.
The NOVA mini-series The Elegant Universe, watch all three one hour episodes here, divided into chapters, available in the QuickTime or RealPlayer plug-ins.
Israel as being the United States’ “cop on the beat” in the Middle East. - Why do you hate America? - Have you ever been to a Wal-Mart? - immediate withdrawal? (Iraq)
In a room of just 23 people there’s a 50-50 chance of two people having the same birthday. In a room of 75 there’s a 99.9% chance of two people matching.
A single ant or bee isn't smart, but their colonies are. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck routing to military robots.
...you should be cautious about including C hackers in your projects, as they are often the ones who have the most trouble adapting to the abstraction-based form of software development that object technology embodies... Bertrand Meyer
adaption of the H. G. Wells classic War of the Worlds in comic form by Ian Edgington and D'Israeli (merges 1800 version with some designs from the more recent movie)
Vintage Japanese WWII Air Raid Defense Posters made in 1938, by the Japanese Red Cross working with government authorities to create a series of posters to teach the public about the new Anti-Aircraft Defense Law, which was enacted in seeming anticipation of air strikes following the outbreak of the Japan-China War (1937-1945).
open source animation, the Blender Foundation second open-movie project, a funny and furry 3D short about a giant rabbit who gets even with bullying rodents.
Weekend Project Podcast: Make simple radios to listen too. These were made with materials that they could get their hands on and were small enough to carry around in a big pocket.
ChipIn automates the time consuming and often painful task of organizing people to give together. Connect with friends and collect funds for a birthday gift, office pool, neighborhood fundraiser or any other group purchase
"Last night I heard that Wesson oil doesn't soak through food. Well, that's true. It's not dishonest; but the thing I'm talking about is not just a matter of not being dishonest; it's a matter of scientific integrity, which is another level."
is a layer above the existing toolkits available (Win32 API, GTK, Cocoa, ...). The result is that applications look and function like the user expects on their respective system. Mozilla Public License
to introduce the CVS basics to CVS novices (in 2 minutes) and refresh and improve the knowledge of people who already know CVS. It's a CVS tutorial, a quick start guide but it's told like a story with lots of examples.
the octomatics-project is about a new number system which has a lot of advantages over our old decimal system. the name comes from the mixture of 'octal' and 'mathematics'.
For the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project of the University of California at Irvine, a method for representing Greek characters in ASCII was devised, called Beta Codes.
A Multi-Seat Linux Box: This tutorial shows how to build a multi-head, multi-user Linux box using a recent distribution of Linux and standard USB keyboards and mice. Xorg calls this arrangement a "multi-seat" system.
explores a novel interface to a system administration task. Instead of creating an interface de novo for the task, the author modified a popular computer game, Doom, to perform useful work.
Windows Script is a comprehensive scripting infrastructure for the Microsoft® Windows® platform. Windows Script provides two script engines, Visual Basic® Scripting Edition and Microsoft JScript®, which can be embedded into Windows Applications.