Current items like news.
Summer is nearing its end, autumn leafs are everywhere, yellow, red and brown… unless you’re in australia… eh or by the equator?
Regardless, this is kind of a hoax since I’m writing this in March. But still, I’ve discovered the timed post, and so, this hour being very special I’ve decided to take advantage of that.
So happy ninth of the ninth of the ninth of…. well you get the gist of it…
The 3.0 version of the open source office suite OpenOffice is now out.
Download it on their home page: http://www.openoffice.org/
Oops! We used up the last resources of our planet yesterday… Should I be worried since it was my birthday? :O (Or perhaps I have completely other reasons for concern?)
http://www.ameinfo.com/169573.html
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008701.html
The concept was apparently invented by Global Footprint Network. Here’s a link to their overshoot page: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/gfn_sub.php?content=overshoot
You may have heard of the Large Hadron Collider or perhaps concerns about its safety, and if not you may still have come across this funny web page to test if it has destroyed the world yet.
Check the source for the last one as well, there are a few laughs. Their test to see if the world has ended is:
if (!(typeof worldHasEnded == "undefined")) {
document.write("YUP.");
} else {
document.write("NOPE.");
}
If the undefined variable worldHasEnded is not “undefined” then there’s some really spooky stuff going on… like the end of the world… otherwise we’re all safe and sound. In the same spirit I’m offering a test for world destruction for Java (and possibly C++ and other object oriented languages as well):
System.out.print("Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? ");
if (this == null) {
System.out.println("Yes!");
}
else {
System.out.println("Nope");
}
Is the object running this test not existing any more… then risk is neither is the rest of the world…
Of course, we’ll have to wait until sometime in the end of October or beginning of November before they actually start colliding protons… and then perhaps the world will end…
ASP.NET 2.0 apparently has a vulnerability when doing URL rewriting, making it possible for Googlebot (and possibly other search engine bots as well?) to crash a .NET 2.0 site.
Once upon a time a CD was large. Huge. You used it to save lots and lots of data.
Then came MP3s, movies, digital cameras with millions of pixels and suddenly the CD was small. And the DVD came, and for a while it was large… I don’t think it ever was huge.
Today I would have to use more than 300 4.4 GB DVDs to save all my data, and that only includes the data on hard drives. Making back-ups becomes a question of selecting what to back-up and what to leave for chance. A real pain.
But there might be light at the end of the tunnel.
This is (layman’s interpretation) done by using holograms. The disc is transparent (wonder how that will work with labeling?) and uses ten layers of data (to compare with blu-rays that use two, and ordinary DVDs that use one). Anyway, sometime around 2010 they might be able to fit as much as 1 Terabyte to a CD-sized disc.
That’s probably the same time as hard drives comes in 10-20 Terabyte sizes, and soon after the 1TB DVD will once more be insufficient.
Wheehoo…