The 16-year rewrite. In February 1992, I started work a piece of Frontier called the scheduler. It's the equivalent of what they call "cron" in Unix-Land. You can put scripts in four different places: 1. everyMinute scripts, 2. hourly scripts, 3. overnight scripts and 4. threads. It was a simple bit of code that's been running now for 16 years,…
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In a Letter to His Kids, Wired's Founding Editor Recalls the Dawn of the Digital Revolution. Dear Orson and Zoe, Fifteen years ago, when your mom and I started Wired, you weren't even born. And now look at you — you guys were playing Go Fish with the original crew at the magazine's 15th anniversary party. Back in 1993, we…
News Roundup - Animated 3D, EmerGeo, Altered Oceans, Virtual Airlines. Some more examples of using the new GE 4 time feature with 3D models were posted a week ago at the Google Earth Community. The time animation feature is used to create 3D animations in this case. The first one shows how a Russian Soyuz rocket is set up on…
Does Your Network Have a Public IP Address?. I pose the question in the headline based on early feedback of readers of my new book, Take Control of Back to My Mac, which covers using Apple's Leopard plus .Mac (soon MobileMe) service for remotely accessing files and remotely controlling the screen of Macs you manage or own. The trouble with…
Broadband blueprint. The Broadband blueprint provides a national framework for the future of broadband in Australia. The Blueprint articulates the essential elements of the broadband market and a forward strategy to encourage their development. [edna education news]
TV news of the future?. Here's a mockup of how TV news may work in the future. How I came up with this view... I was drinking coffee, watching the morning news when a story about Virginia Tech came on MSNBC. I really wanted to begin this week without more stories about how they're coping. I know this makes me…
News unfiltered: YouTube embraces citizen journalism. With an official new channel for reports from people around the world, YouTube hopes to make itself the online home for citizen journalism. Great power for the masses, however, brings great responsibility. [Creative Economy : Reports]
Google Earth File Against Logging Leads to Support from Al Gore, and Other Anti-Logging Efforts. The San Jose Mercury News published a story by Scott Herhhold December 3rd on the efforts to stop a logging plan for the Santa Cruz mountains near Los Gatos, California. The efforts to stop the plan by residents in the area got a huge boost…