mstroeck - Slashdot User

Comment If you go Nazi, you will be pwned (Score 1) 1117

by mstroeck on Thursday December 18, 2008 @10:42AM (#26159629) Attached to: What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have?

Believe me. If you make the locks too obnoxious, somebody will make you look stupid.

Unless you have a very well-versed and well-paid IT-staff, the computer-literate students in any given high school class outnumber you in available man hours by a factor of about 10.

If you mess up, they'll make sure all the turned-on clients in your school display a rotating technicolor Goatse on a set date and time (been there, done that). Treat them like the kids they are, not like mind-criminals.

Submission + - Historians Recreate Source Code of First 4004 App

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mcpublic

on Thursday November 15, 2007 @08:40AM

mcpublic writes: "The team of 'digital archeologists' who developed the technology behind the Intel Museum's 4004 microprocessor exhibit have done it again. 36 years after Intel introduced their first microprocessor on November 15, 1971, these computer historians have turned the spotlight on the first application software ever written for a general-purpose microprocessor: the Busicom 141-PF calculator. At the team's web site you can download and play with an authentic calculator simulator that sports a cool animated flowchart. Want to find out how Busicom's Masatoshi Shima compressed an entire four-function, printing calculator into only 1,024 bytes of ROM? Check out the newly recreated assembly language "source code," extensively analyzed, documented, and commented by the team's newest member: Hungary's Lajos Kintli. 'He is an amazing reverse-engineer,' recounts team leader Tim McNerney, 'We understood the disassembled calculator code well enough to simulate it, but Lajos really turned it into "source code" of the highest standards.'"

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