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Submission + - Lotus 1-2-3 ported to Linux (techradar.com)

Submitted by drewsup on Monday May 30, 2022 @09:15AM

drewsup writes: As reported by The Register, a Lotus 1-2-3 enthusiast called Tavis Ormandy (who is also a bug-hunter for Google Project Zero), managed to successfully port the program onto Linux, which seems to be quite the feat of reverse engineering.

Itâ(TM)s important to stress that this isnâ(TM)t an emulated program, but rather the original 1990 Lotus 1-2-- for x86 Unix running natively on modern x86 Linux.
Ormandy also developed an entirely new display driver for the program, which can now be run on more than just the 80x25 window.

Submission + - New "Hairy" material is perfectly hyrophobic. 2

Submitted by drewsup on Sunday March 07, 2010 @09:24AM

drewsup writes: As quoted in Daily Science, Wolfgang Sigmund, a professor of materials science and engineering at University of Florida, has created a material modeled after spider hairs. A paper about the surface, which works equally well with hot or cold water, appears in this month's edition of the journal Langmuir.

Spiders use their water-repelling hairs to stay dry or avoid drowning, with water spiders capturing air bubbles and toting them underwater to breathe. Potential applications for UF's ultra-water-repellent surfaces are many, Sigmund said. When water scampers off the surface, it picks up and carries dirt with it, in effect making the surface self-cleaning. As such, it is ideal for some food packaging, or windows, or solar cells that must stay clean to gather sunlight, he said. Boat designers might coat hulls with it, making boats faster and more efficient. Hairy glass anyone?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100224132639.htm

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