Here’s a link to a cool article at webreference.com that explains how to use XML, HTML, and Perl together in Web publishing.
I’ve seen textfiles.com mentioned here and there over the past few days. Looking through the old text files reminds me of calling the old Ripco BBS in Chicago in a quest to find the coolest g-files available. Interestingly, Ripco is still around.
Here’s something that won’t come as a surprise … people have already figured out how to hack the new Pentium III chip and obtain the serial number, even if you have that “functionality” turned off. When are these companies going to learn that people figure out how to get around everything, given time? The chip was hacked the guys at c’t magazine in Germany.
In an interesting turn of the geopolitical worm, the US government is helping US companies give jobs to Russian nuclear scientists in hopes of preventing them from going to work for nuclear wanna-bes in the developing world. Intel has hired some of these scientists to do some programming for 3d games, according to a story on News.com. I had the privilege of working with some Russian computer scientists awhile back, and they were some of the best programmers I ever encountered.
Two interesting Microsoft-related items today! The first is Microsoft’s white paper on standards support. The second is A Crack in the Wall, by Jean-Louis Gassee (of Be). The JLG article discusses the “Windows rebate,” a program Microsoft uses to prevent its OEMs from dabbling with other operating system vendors. I’d love for the government attorneys to question Joachim Kempin about this when he takes the stand in the anti-trust trial.