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Vista Startup Sound to be Mandatory? 865

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday August 31, 2006 @09:24PM from the any-sound-you-want-as-long-as-it's-this-one dept.

Toreo asesino writes "There has been lots of debate in the past few days over Microsoft's plan to make the startup sound in Windows Vista something that can't be specifically silenced by changing the sound settings in the control panel. Users would be able to avoid hearing it by manually turning down the speaker volume, but then they would have to turn that volume back up to hear anything else."

Da Vinci Code Message Revealed 96

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 30, 2006 @05:55AM from the funny-judge dept.

Ironsides writes "The message embedded in the Da Vinci Code ruling earlier this week has been cracked. The message reads 'Smithy Code Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought' and is a reference to an event from about 100 years ago. The encryption scheme itself was based on the Fibonacci number Sequence which is the same one used in the novel."

Peter Naur Wins 2005 Turing Award 135

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday March 04, 2006 @04:47PM from the celebrating-people-who-deserve-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Peter Naur the winner of the 2005 A.M. Turing Award. The award is for Dr. Naur's fundamental contributions to programming language design and the definition of Algol 60, to compiler design, and to the art and practice of computer programming. The Turing Award is considered to be the Nobel Prize of computing, and a well-deserved recognition of Dr. Naur's pioneering contributions to the field."

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