Beware of the dancing bunnies

Larry Osterman's WebLog: "Beware of the dancing bunnies.
I saw a post the other day (I'm not sure where, otherwise I'd cite it) that proclaimed that a properly designed system didn't need any anti-virus or anti-spyware software.
Forgive me, but this comment is about as intellegent as 'I can see a worldwide market for 10 computers' or 'no properly written program should require more than 128K of RAM' or 'no properly designed computer should require a fan'."

The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

Raymond Chen's Blog is bursting with knowledge, trivia and awesome tips & tricks for the Win32 guru.

Lego Turing Machine

Lego Turing Machine: "Thursday, July 14, 2005
Lego Turing Machine
This person built a Turing Machine out of Lego, and has posted extensive build-notes.
Well, this Turing machine is not entirely mechanical... I used the RCX to store the transition table. Since the symbols are bar codes read with a light detector, it would have been very difficult to continue with a physical mechanism.
Three subroutines are required, one to select which symbol to provide on top of the memory, one to turn the provider one quarter of a turn, and one to pull out one symbol from the bottom of the memory (reading it on the way). "

GMail Drive shell extension

viksoe.dk - GMail Drive shell extension

What a cool idea - not a new idea, but well executed - and backed by a free & reliable host.

The Great Software List

The Great Software List

It would be nice to have a real list of great software -- without the hype, the adware