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CVSNTIf you haven't tried CVS as a version control system then I'd highly recommend it. It supports pretty much anything you'd ever want to do in branching and tagging, it offers wonderful performance over high-latency connections, non-exclusive checkouts, cross-platform support and best of all completely free... This is the page to download the highly regarded NT version. Last Updated: 4 March 2003 |
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ConTEXTConTEXT is a small, fast, powerful and freeware text editor for software developers. It has an extensible colour coding model and (from my testing so far) works like a dream! Great for IDL editing and the occasional forray into Assembler too. Last Updated: 4 March 2003 |
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AnyEditAnother very powerful free development editor, this one is open source and written in C++. Last Updated: 4 March 2003 |
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Things To Make And Do (Some Of Which Might Be Dangerous)Taking a hamster ball and converting it into an object of "such high luminous output that it requires sunglasses to view directly" kind of appealed for some reason. More realistically, the PIC16C54-based LED Colour Changer Lamps actually look rather good. I'll hoping soon to find out how many of the aforementioned PIC16C54s I can destroy with my soldering skills... Last Updated: 14 January 2003 |
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The Register"Biting the Hand that Feeds IT"... Another great example of how to report tech news in the UK. For example UK school plans retinal scans in the dinner queue correctly points out that this may be somewhat unnecessary... Last Updated: 14 January 2003 |
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The Lena StoryIf you've ever done any research into Image Processing the same picture keeps on coming up as a sample - where did it come from and why is it always used for this purpose? Read here for more, and thanks to Dr. William K Pratt for doing the scan originally and storing it on a 1600BPI 9-track tape. Last Updated: 14 January 2003 |
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Roger's ProfanisaurusOne of Viz's finest moments; a comprehensive dictionary of amusing euphemisms and definitions for sexual organs, sexual activities and bodily functions. An excellent source of material to sneakily inject into your documents and presentations, for example, try Crowd Pleaser. Last Updated: 14 January 2003 |
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Periodic Table TableNot content with winning the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for building this fantastically useful furniture object, the author goes on to describe what happens when you add a huge chunk of sodium to a lake. I had gone off chemistry for a while until I read this again. Last Updated: 14 January 2003 |
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NTKnowConsistently excellent sarcastic UK tech update newsletter, providing a minimal 100% text view onto amusing websites and the many dopey website failures (how not to update your dates). Also a strong political line particularly against fools tampering with privacy and censorship on the internet. Last Updated: 14 January 2003 |
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NSDN (NullSoft Developer's Network)I keep promising to take a proper look at this. But in the meantime you will find a nice scriptable installer, VB code to help with writing WinAmp plugins and some real fun around visualisations and skinning. Last Updated: 14 January 2003 |
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