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Gotta love ASCII art. I got a link to this page full of University of Florida ASCII art. It also has ASCII art for a ton of other ASCII art pages.
The AOL
Protocol has finally been cracked. Now programmers have figured out exactly
how the client software interacts with the AOL server software, so this should
let developers create 3rd party AOL login programs. Now Linux and other
non-supported OS users can use AOL, and the user is no longer tied to AOL's
proprietary software in Windows. This is reverse engineering at its
finest.
AMD's lastest processor, the Athlon XP (no
relation to Windows XP) has just been released. According to Tom at least, the
1800+ model outpreforms the 2 GHz Pentium 4 in most of the benchmarks. Also when
talking about this, it's worth noting the naming scheme that AMD has chosen. The
1800+ model actually runs at 1533 MHz, not the 1800 MHz someone might expect.
This is AMD's response to the general public's mindset that whatever chip has
the higher clock speed is the faster computer. This is definitly not the case,
as AMD's 1533 MHz chip can compete quite well with Intel's 2000 MHz chip. But
the public doesn't know this, hence AMD's naming scheme. Marketing is a
interesting thing isn't it?
Speaking of Intel, I had the oppurtunity to
see the president and CEO of Intel, Graig Barrett, yesterday at a talk he gave
here at UF. It has about an hour long and touched on how computers and
communication were combining. Most of the stuff was generic corporate talk about
how great the internet was and how cell phones are being revolutionized by
making them digital and connecting them to the web. One thing that struck me was
his firm belief that personal computers are here to stay, as well as not having
much interest in the next generation of computing with quantum computers and the
like. It was still an interesting talk, and it's one of the nice things about
going to a huge university like this.
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