Thanks, looks like a good book, will check it out.

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will sit at the wharf all day drinking beer and fishing.

It's posts like this that keep me reading Slashdot.

I can't mod this up any higher, so: Haha too funny!

Because winter is coming.

Where are my damn mod points!

A better comparison is the Sears catalog, for those who remember it.

You must never have driven through the Chinese countryside. Count your blessings.

Don't try this in Williamson county.

Did you try "password", "123456", and "letmein" ?

Its very handy to have a lightweight web server running on your machine that you control completely. You will immediately start learning about sockets, TCP-IP, and HTTP. You can set up a home page with useful information [e.g. how many cats do I own and what are their names]. Plus if you ever open a port on your router, you will quickly learn lots and lots about why security is important.

I wrote an implementation in C when the Sciam article was first published. Of course, Stomper (a one line program that copies itself to the next higher address) was pretty much unstoppable, until I introduced the ability to capture enemy processes and repurpose them for programs on the allied side. Lots of fun, but I could never get anyone to try it after I explained the game. I think they were afraid of a process "escaping" and overwriting their machine :)

When did we become an Elvish nation?!?

So there is no risk of worldwide contagion, given that African swallows are non-migratory.

European swallow or African swallow?