The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) was developed under the auspices of a committee of the American Standards Association, called the X3 committee, by its X3.2 (later X3L2) subcommittee, and later by that subcommittee’s X3.2.4 working group. The ASA became the United States of America Standards Institute or USASI and ultimately the American National Standards Institute. » Charles Torvalds | askapache.com
The roots of CGI lie in the first mechanical aids to drawing and painting. The earliest of these were developed to help solve a problem every artist has found to be sticky: perspective. Before the introduction of geometric perspective, the realistic depiction of nature was not one of the purposes of art. Instead, artists chose the size and position of objects in a picture by their relative importance to one another. A distant castle might appear to be larger than one in the foreground simply because it was considered more important. ...
I remember my first program, by which I mean one that I cobbled together myself, not simply typing in a complete listing from the manual. I was twelve, the year was 1985, and the computer a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A (a machine which was actually the first 16-bit home computer). My program was a very simple text adventure game, created by chaining together as many IF¦ THEN GOTO statements as I had patience for. ...
Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: ”Bro,1 you don’t work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver.” They have a point. Mordor sucks, and it’s certainly more physically taxing to dig a tunnel than poke at a keyboard unless you’re an ant. But, for the sake of the argument, can we agree that stress and insanity are bad things? Awesome. Welcome to programming. ...
Programming is social, too. Most people think it’s not. With assistance from media portrayals of programmers and sloppy stereotypes of our own, they think most of us would prefer to work alone in the dark. Some do, of course, but even then most programmers I know like to talk shop with other programmers all the time. They like to talk about the places where they are stuck, as well as the places they used to be stuck. War stories are the currency of the programmer community. ...
Yan Zhu, a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, came to that determination after noticing that WordPress servers send a key browser cookie in plain text, rather than encrypting it, as long mandated by widely accepted security practices. The cookie, which carries the tag ”wordpress_logged_in,” is set once an end user has entered a valid WordPress user name and password. It’s the website equivalent of a plastic bracelets used by nightclubs. Once a browser presents the cookie, WordPress servers will usher the user behind a velvet rope to highly privileged sections that reveal private messages, update some user settings, publish blog posts, and more. The move by WordPress engineers to allow the cookie to be transmitted unencrypted makes them susceptible to interception in many cases. ...
Welcome to the most unnecessarily complicated netcat album release format yet. In this repository, you will be able to compile your own kernel module, create a /dev/netcat device and redirect its output into an audio player (tested with mplayer and play from SoX as well). ogg123 - < /dev/netcat ;’ Brandon Lucia, Andrew Olmstead, and David Balatero github.com
Android apps can take photos with your phone in background phones without displaying any notification and you won’t see the app on the list of installed applications. App can send the photos over the internet to their private server. You can also find video with demo in this post. » Szymon Sidor | snacksforyourmind.blogspot.co.uk
Bash 2048 v1.1 (https://github.com/mydzor/bash2048) pieces=16 target=2048 score=2884 /------|------|------|------\ | 4 | 2 | 8 | 4 | |------|------|------|------| | 2 | 16 | 256 | 32 | |------|------|------|------| | 16 | 32 | 16 | 2 | |------|------|------|------| | 2 | 8 | 128 | 4 | \------|------|------|------/ GAME OVER Your score: 2884 You have lost, better luck next time. ;’ mydzor github.com
Belky es el ”sysop” (administrador) de VampireBBS. Anda estos días muy contento porque ha puesto de nuevo en marcha su vieja BBS. 32 personas accedieron al sistema nada más inaugurarlo, lo que en este prehistórico mundo es un éxito. Las BBS fueron, en la década de los 80 y 90, la Internet de la gente de la calle, la red a la medida humana, precursoras de todo lo que vendría después y centros de aprendizaje para muchos programadores, administradores y, en general, hackers. Hoy quedan muy pocas en pie, sólo tres en España, pero están decididas a no morir. ...