thomas_of_needham - Slashdot User

Comment Defending WinXP Weakly (Score 1) 466

by thomas_of_needham on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @12:56PM (#26971275) Attached to: Which Distro For an Eee PC?

I run xampp with Apache server on my Asus EEE 1000 and it performs quite well along with a wireless usb modem talking to my server for a Geocaching application. The application fits on a USB flash drive as well. If you are into Geocaching you can see various versions at http://gpsmancer.com/ All in all the Asus with WinXp is a great netbook that runs my applications perfectly.

William Gibson's AGRIPPA Recovered and Revealed 98

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @09:16AM from the gripping-hand dept.

Bud Cook writes "While the text of William Gibson's elusive electronic poem AGRIPPA is widely posted around the Web, it has not been seen in its original incarnation — custom-built software designed to scroll the poem through a single play before encrypting each line with an RSA algorithm — since 1992. Today is the 16th anniversary, to the day, of the poem's initial release. A team of scholars at the University of Maryland and UC Santa Barbara used forensic computing to restore the code from an original diskette loaned by a collector and have placed video of the complete 'run,' as well as never-before-seen footage from the night of AGRIPPA's public debut in 1992, up on a Web site called the Agrippa Files. There's also a detailed essay documenting the forensic process, plus a mess of stills, screenshots, and a copy of the disk image itself."

Comment Re:Make em expensive again (Score 1) 197

by thomas_of_needham on Friday February 01, 2008 @10:54AM (#22260860) Attached to: Drop-Catching Domains Is Big Business

I recently let a domain of mine lapse due to apathy on my part. A domain grabber picked it up and converted it to some dumb links and I wished them luck with my former no-hit ssite and domain. The annoying thing is I cannot get in touch with them to get them to take my name off the contact part of whois. All contacts e-mail and phone go nowhere. If I were going to change things I would make domain holders visable. Just my $.02 . Thomas of Needham

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