Computer Glitch Halts Seattle New Year’s Fireworks
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITsupersat writes “At the stroke of midnight New Year’s Eve, Seattle’s fireworks show ground to a halt. The source of the problem is reported to be a corrupted file that wasn’t checked until the last minute. After two reboots, the fireworks had to be detonated manually. And yes … one blog commenter, claiming to have worked on prior shows, said that the shows run on Windows.”
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Why Should PHP Ever Be Taught In School?
In PHP, == is equality after typecasting, where 0 == "0" and "" == "0" evaluating to true are accepted conventions. They are useful constructs in many situations in a similar vein to C's convention of 0 being boolean true and non-zero being boolean false, which the critics cleverly ignore.
Best Motherboards With Large RAM Capacity?
I recently 'upgraded' to 64-bit Vista so that I can access larger amounts of RAM. I know that various Linux distros have had 64-bit support for years. I also typically use Intel motherboards for their reliability, but currently Intel's desktop motherboards only support 8GB of RAM and their server motherboards are too expensive.
Gen Y Hits The Library The Most -- But Not For Books
Not books. Most were seeking gaming software programs, characters in the Second Life virtual world and online help with homework." Another way to think about the results: about 47 percent of Americans didn't visit a library even once last year.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
IPhone Wants To Hang On To The Old Year
pdclarry writes "Users of the iPhone have noticed that it is showing December 31, 2007, even where it is already the new year. There have been a number of reports confirming the problem: Bug in Clock, Problem with New Year: My Clock — shows wrong year, Worldclock went wrong for "tomorrow" items."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
The Rising Barcode Security Threat
But you had to remember not to use your own membership number.' The article also points out that boarding passes work on this basis — with something like GNU Barcode software and a template of printed out tickets, one might be able to take some nice vacations."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Apricot Team Selected For Fully Open Source 3D Game
The project (known as Apricot) aims to produce a cross-platform, 3D game with completely Free (CCA) graphics, music and code. An important side-effect of the project is to improve open source tools for the professional game development industry." I look forward to more 3D games on my desktop, even if this one won't be the first.
27 Billion Gigabytes To Be Archived By 2010
4 in 2007. IT teams are looking into clustered architectures and centralized storage-area networks as one way to control capacity growth, shifting away from big-iron storage and custom applications. The reason for the data avalanche? Archive data.
Office 2003 Service Pack Disables Older File Formats
Naturally, they did this by default, and then documented a mind-bogglingly complex workaround (KB 938810) rather than providing a user interface for adjusting it, or even a set of awkward 'Do you really want to do this?' dialog boxes to click through.
Pop3-stream
It accesses a given POP3 mailbox using the PHP IMAP extension authenticating as an user with password specified in the URL passed to the PHP fopen function. The class can read individual message headers and body in a single stream when the PHP fread function is called.
UserAction
Package: UserAction Summary: Authenticate users with MySQL database records Groups: Databases, PHP 5, User Management Author: Gurdeep Singh Description: This class can be used to authenticate users with records stored in a MySQL database. It takes an user name and password and executes a MySQL database query to verify whether the specified password matches the user password.