Robert J Turner

RT’s Comments - Love this, Im putting it on my Church site, nice and small and easy to maintain. I am using it for my church events page!

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Flat Calendar (w/FFDB)

Author: Josh Moore

Version: 1.1

————————————————————— Flat Calendar provides the user a calendar in which events and event descriptions can be stored and accessed without requireing any form of database access. In 2002 I took on a job as a web developer. I was to develop a calandar in which events could be stored and viewed. The obvious solution would be to use some form of database and query language. However, these were not available to me. After looking through millions of available scripts, it became apparent to me that there was a void to be filled. I couldn’t find one script that did what I wanted it to do, while looking fairly slick, that did not require a database. So I wrote my own. Flat Calendar uses a flat file database to store and retrieve events. The only things required of the server are the ability to read and write files and PHP4.0 support.

RT’s Comments: Be a fly on the wall, see what bizarre occurances you can catch on web camera? Find one that is near you, stand in front of it and wave whilst a freind snaps a picture of you and send it to me, I will include it here in my blog!

WebCams

These webcams were found automatically through Google with a variety of clever search techniques. Their owners might or might not have intended for them to be public. But they obviously are. Many of them are security cameras in companies or semi-public places. If you hover over the picture you’ll see what location information is available. If you click on it, a window will open and you can see a live video feed, plus comments and ratings and other information.

1398 webcams are available as of last scan. You’re one of 13 current visitors.”

AROS: Amiga® Research Operating System

If you dont want to run Amiga OS in an emulator then check out AROS, you can burn an ISO to CD try it out, its still in its infancy but I have got it wo work sucessfully on a few systems. If your a developer and can help them its a good cause.

Introduction

AROS is a portable and free desktop operating system aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, while improving on it in many areas. The source code is available under an open source license, which allows anyone to freely improve upon it.

Goals

The goals of the AROS project is it to create an OS which:

1. Is as compatible as possible with AmigaOS 3.1.

2. Can be ported to different kinds of hardware architectures and processors, such as x86, PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc, HPPA and other.

3. Should be binary compatible on Amiga and source compatible on any other hardware.

4. Can run as a standalone version which boots directly from hard disk and as an emulation which opens a window on an existing OS to develop software and run Amiga and native applications at the same time.

5. Improves upon the functionality of AmigaOS.

To reach this goal, we use a number of techniques. First of all, we make heavy use of the Internet. You can participate in our project even if you can write only one single OS function. The most current version of the source is accessible 24 hours per day and patches can be merged into it at any time. A small database with open tasks makes sure work is not duplicated.”

I was always a fan of the Amiga Computers, the OS, the games and the software and instead of letting my Amiga collect dust I think I will use WinUAE now on version 1, (worked fine for me 5 years ogo on the early versions) Its taken along time to get to V1 so dont be put off and wait for V2 as you could be waiting another 10 years

WINUAE

WinUAE 1.0 (05.06.2005)

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Bug fixes:

- Fullscreen resolution reset if selected display mode’s

height was larger than width

- Sprite emulation improvements (Battle Squadron missing high

score character and Bubba’n'Stix background mountains)

- Directory filesystem file/directory datestamp modification

if file/directory’s protection flags or comment was modified

(broke in 0.9.92)

- Picasso96 RAM autoconfig area memory size error (16M or

larger was always marked as 8M)

- proper AmigaForever ROM path autodetection

- AMOS filesystem freeze (workaround only, proper fix unknown)

- Kickstart 1.2 was not autodetected (wrong CRC32)

- improved JIT direct access memory area allocation (fixes JIT

direct mode problems with some Pentium 4 or NForce 3/4 boards)

- In some cases all priority-levels were changed to “Above Normal”

- bsdsocket crash fix

- Fixed swapped audio channels

- Picasso96 compatibility problem with Directory Opus 4.12

- Random crash fixed while using external drive sounds or while

loading new configuration on the fly

- Emulation fixes (Shinobi, Double Dragon 2.., broke in 0.9.91)

New features:

- Catweasel Windows driver support, MK1/MK3/MK4 supported

(MK4 direct floppy support and Amiga mouse support coming later)

- Nero Burning ROM ASPI is automatically used if Nero is installed

(better compatibility than Adaptec ASPI)

- Arcadia (Amiga 500 based Arcade system) game support

- Disk swapper-panel improved (path edit box and history added)

- bsdsocket emulation does not ask for internet connection if

requested address is localhost

- Emulation improvements (some Digital’s demos, demo Tenebra partially

fixed, 3v Demo by Cave, New Year Demo by Phoenix, game Sci-fi

graphics corruption, Battle Squadron highscores, Bubba’n'Stix

background etc…)

- Sound sample ripper

- Improved debugger

and more.. (and probably new bugs..)

RT Comment:

Ive seen many of this distrubuted clients that lend processing power to projects, the most famous I can think of is SETI but I cant really see the overall point to this one… If someone can tell me its for the greater good of all then I might concider it, if its for some company to make a buck off my CPU cycles then I dont want to know, I dont have time to find out so why dont you find out for me and ley me know by adding a comment to this entry.

Grub’s Distributed Web Crawling Project: “Chart the Web with Grub

Grub’s goal is revolutionary - to track down every site in the world and provide a real-time map of the Web.

Leveraging the power of distributed computing, Grub allows everyone with an Internet connection to participate in the last frontier of discovery. By downloading the unique screensaver, you can donate your computer’s unused bandwidth to probing the hidden depths of the Web.

We’re embarking on a journey to crawl every site, every day. We’re not there yet but we’re on our way, and every person who runs Grub makes the project better and faster. So if you’ve ever aspired to be a modern day Magellan, this is your chance.

Sign up today and travel to the end of the Web with Grub.”