Remembering gopher

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Remembering π

Remembering π 09/17/2004 06:13 AM
David Pescovitz: In March, a savant in England recited π from memory to more than 22,000 decimal places. Still, he wasn't even halfway to the world record set by a Japanese man in 1995. This article in Plus magazine describes how these amazing memory feats are accomplished and how to improve your own remembrance of numbers past.

"Like most people, you have probably had the odd experience of smelling, say, an old piece of furniture and being reminded of something that happened to you in the distant past. Smell has a particularly strong connection with memory, perhaps because the part of the brain that deals with smell is close to the hippocampus, which is where it is believed long term memories are formed. If you deliberately surround yourself with a particular smell when trying to memorise something, that smell is likely to help trigger the memory later when you need to recall it."

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Remembering the BBS Scene

Remembering the BBS Scene 04/02/2005 04:07 PM
Ah, those were the days. As now, it was a healthy mix of academics, techies, conspiracy theorists and trolls. Jason Scott has a great website chock full of old BBS textfiles, with no advertising. What does his collection include? Well, it's a lot like K5 if you ask me, but maybe a little more naive. There are some ugly things down in these archives; there are narcissistic ravings from pre-adolescent social misfits. There are calls for anarchy. There's satanism, there's racism, there's all the -isms in the book lurking in the words. But there's hope, too. There's excitement, there's joy, there's every manner of feeling being crammed down into ASCII and posted for the world to find. It's a spectrum of humanity, and this is what I hope you'll find, buried there, among the text. Enjoy. Jason Scott Proprietor, TEXTFILES.COM

Remembering the voxel

Remembering the voxel 03/14/2005 04:52 PM

Remember the voxel? In the days before polygons, the voxel (volume pixel) was touted as the solution for rendering complex gaming environments. In this week's Game.Ars, Carl pays tribute to the late, lamented voxel.

NovaLogic’s Delta Force and Comanche were terrific voxel-based games with sprawling terrain models, but the voxel came around at a juncture when 3D gaming environments were transitioning to the polygon. And so, Game.Ars remembers the voxel (heck, I had to think of something to intro the column), a forgotten graphics gremlin that appeared in some memorable games but just couldn’t stand up to the mighty polygon.

Along with the trip down nostalgia lane is a look at the week's top gaming news, including the probable demise of one gaming studio. There's also news of upcoming releases, with a "definite" release date for the Matrix Online. Dig in!

Remembering Pioneer 10

Remembering Pioneer 10 06/13/2004 08:10 PM

Net-Gopher-1.10

Net-Gopher-1.10 04/29/2004 12:37 AM

Net-Gopher-1.06

Net-Gopher-1.06 04/22/2004 10:32 AM

Net-Gopher-1.08

Net-Gopher-1.08 04/26/2004 06:09 AM

Net-Gopher-1.11

Net-Gopher-1.11 04/30/2004 12:37 AM

Net-Gopher-1.12

Net-Gopher-1.12 05/02/2004 12:22 AM

Net-Gopher-1.15

Net-Gopher-1.15 05/27/2004 05:59 AM

Net-Gopher-1.07

Net-Gopher-1.07 04/25/2004 12:16 AM

Photos: Remembering the pope

Photos: Remembering the pope 04/08/2005 03:06 PM
Tens of thousands of mourners converge on Vatican City to honor Pope John Paul II, bid farewell.

Remembering the French Laundry

Remembering the French Laundry 03/28/2005 10:23 AM
Ages ago, I began the process of moving all my megnut.com entries into a new version of Movable Type, a process I never completed. There are still about seven months of entries from 2002 that never made the transition, and sit only on my hard drive. One of those entries was my tale of eating dinner at the French Laundry, and many people have emailed asking why they can't find it on my site. Well I'm happy to say I've reposted it: It's All About Finesse. All the rest of the stuff is still missing, but for all those who've asked for it, and for myself too, I've gotten it back online. I think it's one of my favorite megnut posts of all time. Every time I re-read it, it brings that magical evening rushing back. Hard to believe it was almost three years ago! Has my Keller devotion waned in that time, you ask? Hardly! I got the Bouchon cookbook for Christmas and have already tried several of the recipes. And not only that, but I've been practicing for a return to one of Mr. Keller's kitchens by eating as much yummy food as possible, including a recent superb outing to Gramercy Tavern in New York City. My hope is to visit Per Se, Thomas' New York City outpost, later this year. Belly -- and wallet -- beware!

Remembering the BBS Scene ||
kuro5hin.org

Remembering the BBS Scene ||
kuro5hin.org 04/07/2005 03:22 AM
Remembering the BBS Scene .. I remember it well .. Article on kuro5hin

kuro5hin.org/story/2005/4/1/51917/44859
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Remembering Non-Registered Visitors

Remembering Non-Registered Visitors 06/26/2002 01:00 PM
You have a couple of forms on your site that require the same user information or a single form that is frequently resubmitted by visitors. You don't have the time to implement user registration and don't want to spend hours or days learning somebody else's code. You are not sure if people will sign-up at all. What you need is to "remember" non-registered visitors.

Whatever Happened to Gopher?

Whatever Happened to Gopher? 04/28/2004 05:53 AM
Whatever Happened to Gopher?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62988,00.html

Answer: the Gopher protocol developed in the 1990s at the University of Minnesota may have been eclipsed by the World Wide Web, but it's alive and kicking (even if somewhat underground). Floodgap.com shows that more than 250 active gopher servers are currently online (almost half of affiliated with American colleges and universities) and can be found on every continent but Africa and Antarctica. Gopher-enthusiast John Goerzen believes that gopher is an excellent alternative to PDA and smartphone Web browsers, and says: "Consider this example: Port-a-Goph, a gopher client in development for Palm OS. Cameron Kaiser wrote this in his spare time and got it working quickly on his own Palm," he said. "Contrast that with the state of Web browsing on handheld devices: Despite many years to improve them, I still regularly run across Web sites that simply do not render at all, or render so poorly that they are unusable."

My LinkSeries Internet Guides were written in 1992 - 1994 that list all the gopher sites for academic research and were used in academic libraries around the world in search of scholarly information from the Internet. These have been replaced and updated with my latest 2004 Internet MiniGuides.

Gopher Still Going Strong

Gopher Still Going Strong 04/12/2004 12:53 PM
In 1993, most of my internet usage was based around email and gopher. Gopher, if you didn't use it, is a pre-web internet protocol for presenting text with hypertext links. I used to use gopher to check the weather report every morning. It wasn't long after I became addicted to gopher that I first heard about the "web" which I was told would replace gopher. It certainly made sense, though, I assumed the web was only a stepping stone to the next technology that would go beyond the web. It seems that the web became quite a lot more than I expected, and gopher has pretty much disappeared completely - excep t that it hasn't. There are some people who are still actively maintaining gopher sites and are even pushing for it to be used in more areas - such as for wireless devices. Of course, I'm not sure what (if any) advantages gopher really has over WAP, which didn't exactly set the world on fire as a wireless protocol for displaying hyperlinked text info on wireless devices (though, is now finding new uses more fitting for the technology).

Net-Gopher-Response-XML-0.90

Net-Gopher-Response-XML-0.90 05/07/2004 06:18 AM

Gopher-Mechanize-0.27

Gopher-Mechanize-0.27 01/24/2004 05:35 AM

Windows XP: Remembering More than 400
Folder Settings

Windows XP: Remembering More than 400
Folder Settings 06/17/2004 06:16 PM

Remembering Spuddy: Memorial Details

Remembering Spuddy: Memorial Details 04/10/2004 03:39 AM
As I have already mentioned previously, there will be a memorial celebration of dear, dead Spalding Gray next Tuesday, April 13. This will take place in The Vivian Beaumont Theater at New York's Lincoln Center at 4:30 pm. (The address is 150 West 65th Street. Directions are available here.) This event will feature excerpts of his performances as well as other vignettes captured from his remarkable life. In addition, there will be performances and remembrances by Judy Collins, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Eric Bigosian, Barbara Kopple, Lee Grant, Bob Holman, and myself, among others. The Vivian Beaumont is an entirely appropriate venue for this event, since Spalding probably performed there more often than in any other theater save The Performing Garage on Wooster Street, (which would hardly accommodate the many who will likely want to gather in his memory). Indeed, as some of you have noted, there is some question as to whether The Vivian Beaumont will suffice, since it only has 1100 seats, and I have received more than 1100 e-mail messages and postings to my blog from people who feel bereft of him. Furthermore, the seating will be first come, first served. There are no tickets. When the theater has filled, it will be full. There will be a guest list, however, for people who actually knew him or who feel particularly compelled to honor his coming and going. I know there are many among you BarlowFriendz who fall into one of those categories. If you are one of these, and are either in New York or can make it there, please e-mail me before mid-day on Tuesday and I will try to see to it that you are added to the list. I can't promise that I'll be able to help everyone who asks, but I'll do what I can....

Gopher: Underground Technology

Gopher: Underground Technology 04/12/2004 04:56 AM
More than a decade ago, gopher took the Net by storm. The Web stole its thunder soon after, but enthusiasts are still keeping it alive -- and bringing it into the future. By Lore Sjöberg.

Aftershock Gopher Server

Aftershock Gopher Server 11/13/2003 03:02 AM
Aftershock 1.0 Released

Creating (and remembering) crazy hard
passwords

Creating (and remembering) crazy hard
passwords 02/05/2005 09:50 PM

I've got several levels of passwords I use, high security, medium, and low, depending on what I need it for (amazon? high. gmail? medium. a random bulletin board? low.). So I'm constantly having to make new ones up and make them good.

Lifehacker has a simple tip to making a good password that involves intertwining two words into one, but the best tip I ever got was from Rusty at kuro5hin.

Think of a classic song. Now write down the first letter of each word in the chorus. At one time, I had a super high security password that was something like "1itlntyed2cbaba1." That stood for

"One is the lonliest number that you'll ever do. Two...can be as bad as one..."

I replaced numbers mentioned in the song with number signs in my password for extra l33t-ness. It was super easy to remember this nearly impossible thing, because I could just sing it and write it down.

Remembering Neil Postman, 1931-2003

Remembering Neil Postman, 1931-2003 04/09/2004 04:12 PM
"There aren’t any teachers until there are learners, and there aren’t any learners until something is disturbed in the student’s world." These were my remarks yesterday at NYU's memorial service for Neil Postman, who passed away on October 5th, 2003. He was my teacher.

Junk hauler lets computer do his
remembering

Junk hauler lets computer do his
remembering 06/05/2004 07:21 AM
Chicago Tribune Jun 5 2004 10:26AM GMT

Flash memory takes a licking and keeps
on remembering

Flash memory takes a licking and keeps
on remembering 08/02/2004 03:02 AM
Flash memory cards (CompactFlash, Secure Digital, xD, Memory Stick and Smartmedia) are nigh-indestructible (I once put a brand-new Exilim digital camera through the laundry: the camera was toast, but the SD memory survived and is still in use today!).

The one question I have is how these things fare against time itself, given that CDs and DVDs tend to delaminate, tapes crumble, and HDDs' bearings seize up -- it'd be great to have media that you could bury in a time-capsule for a couple decades with confidence.

They were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy.

Perhaps surprisingly, all the cards survived these six tests.

Most of them did fail to get through two additional tests - being smashed by a sledgehammer and being nailed to a tree.

Link (via Engadget)

"a report that Gopher is still alive and
kicking"

"a report that Gopher is still alive and
kicking" 04/13/2004 10:28 PM

Gopher Hole Found in Microsoft IE

Gopher Hole Found in Microsoft IE 06/05/2002 01:41 PM
Finnish computer security company Online Solutions Oy says IE is vulnerable to attack through its gopher client.

HOWTO turn your bl0g into a gopher site

HOWTO turn your bl0g into a gopher site 04/04/2005 02:24 AM
Cory Doctorow: George Hotelling's April Fools' Day prank was converting his blog to a gopher site -- gopher being a text-only, menu-driven precursor of the Web ("gopherlog, or rlog for short"). In so doing, he created some scripts to simplify the process. He's posted them online for anyone who wants to convert her or his blog to a gopher site.

First, you need to get and install PyGopherd. It's fairly simple, just download it and follow the instructions in the manual to install it, then configure a directory for it to serve. I told it to serve ~/public_html/gopher/ but any directory will do.

Then, download feedparser, html2text and this script of my own design to create text files from an RSS feed. Set the output directory to the same one that your gopher server is using, set the RSS feed to your RSS feed and you're more or less done. For extra fun, put the script in a cron job so that it will keep updating with new items. If you do that, you'll also need to rm the old files (which really should be done in my script, but see the part above about this being a hack that needed to work in a couple hours).

There's plenty of room for improvement. For instance you could write a Python script for PyGopherd to parse the RSS feeds, which would cut down on all sorts of problems and be useful to literally tens of people.

Link (via Waxy)

Wired News: Gopher: Underground
Technology

Wired News: Gopher: Underground
Technology 04/12/2004 08:48 PM
Gopher: Underground Technology

wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62988,00.html
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National Geographic: Remembering Pearl
Harbor-history, maps

National Geographic: Remembering Pearl
Harbor-history, maps 12/08/2003 08:02 AM
National Geographic's Remembering Pearl Harbor Day .. NationalGeographic has a good resource on line .. section devoted to the Pearl Harbor attack .. 62 years ago today .. a hideous event

plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor
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