developer's resource for computer interfacing, especially USB, serial (COM) ports, mass storage, Ethernet and Internet for embedded systems, and the parallel port.
by Edward de Bono. "There is a story of a man who painted half his car black and the other half white. He said he did this because he loved to hear the witnesses dogmatically contradict each other whenever he was involved in an accident. A wife tries on a new dress and loves it. Her husband who is with her dislikes it. She is looking at the colour and shape - he is looking at the price."
Blind compliance to authority. This should be a case study for psychologists, a wake up call to the education system and force a reflection about society. This was put into a movie Compliance (2012) and is covered in Wikipedia's article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam).
Flirty Fishing (FFing) was a form of religious prostitution practiced by the Children of God/The Family cult from 1974 until it was officially discontinued in 1987.
Free online biodiversity encyclopedia, with hundreds of thousands of new images and specimen data as to build a web page for each of the 1.9 million recognized species.
Very well done series of videos supporting the claim that NASA never sent astronauts to the Moon, giving NASA defenders an impossible time (even embarrassing at times) in their attempts of refutation. Work done by Jarrah White (http://moonfaker.com/home.html)a student doing his BSc in Astrophysics.
There are a number of words and phrases that GNU recommends avoiding, or avoiding in certain contexts and usages. Some are ambiguous or misleading; others presuppose a viewpoint that we hope you disagree with.
contains file format information on hundreds of different file types and all sorts of other useful programming information; algorithms, source code, specifications, etc.
is the file extension source. Here you'll find a collection of file extensions; many linked to the programs that created the files. This is the FILExt home page.
previously at http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ , ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 is the international standardization working group for the programming language C++.
these essays are intended for beginners, pointing out useful techniques. Some are for experienced programmers poking into previously unknown areas of MFC. Some are advanced techniques, highly specialized.
C and C++ compilers automatically define certain macros that can be used to check for compiler or operating system features. This is important when writing portable software.
Microsoft® ActiveX® Data Objects + Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (Multidimensional) (ADO MD) + Remote Data Service (RDS) + Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects Extensions for Data Definition Language and Security (ADOX)
The Microsoft® Windows® Driver Development Kit (DDK) is a consolidated driver development kit that provides a build environment, tools, driver samples, and documentation to support driver development for the Windows family of operating systems.
a portfolio of products that are based on the power of networks and the idea that the same software should run on many different kinds of systems and devices.
by Alan C. Kay ffrom Apple Computer - "Most ideas come from previous ideas. The sixties, particularly in the ARPA community, gave rise to a host of notions..."
From Jakob Nielsen, usability guru. The user's experience should be similar to all other similar applications to minimize learning curve and maximize usability.
"I refer to the tools and techniques on this page as "notemaking" because "taking notes" is passive: just as we must make meaning, so we must make notes---in our head, on the page, and in our notebooks"
lecture notes for the course Programming Graphical User Interfaces (PGUI). The course belongs to the curriculum of the Department of Computer Science in the University of Tampere.
"To the first person to inform me of a legitimate bug in the code, I'll pay a bounty of US$10 (by check or Paypal). If directed to a charity, I'll pay US$20."
a general purpose library and file format for storing scientific data. It arranges data into datasets (multidimensional arrays) and groups (a structure for organizing objects). With extra software support like a viewer, etc...
provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library. The libraries are intended to be widely useful, and are in regular use by thousands of programmers across a broad spectr
an edited reprint of the paper What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic, by David Goldberg, published in the March, 1991 issue of Computing Surveys. Copyright 1991
Embeddable scripting language used frequently in games combining simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics.
As CD's are not 100% indestructible many people want to make a backup of their games. Using the backup to play the game thus saving the original. (Fight the DRM)
by andy@nobugs.org, "I recently became interested in parsing C++. It's taken me quite a while to gather together various resources from the web, so I thought I'd share my findings with the world ..."
by Bill Venners May 23, 2005. <<"patterns" is still a buzzword. ... Patterns help sell seminars. There's a lot of marketing hype around design patterns. ... can help people learn object-oriented thinking>>