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Java help
2007-12-31 13:53:00 There are several people who have kindly offered to answer Java questions. Send all questions to: Sun has a "New To Java" Programming Information Center to help get you started.Bill Venners, who teaches with me, has created the Java Answers Forum. He said: "I wanted to create a place where programmers could ask and answer each other questions, where the questions and answers would remain indefinitely and be searchable." The forums at TechInterviews have many people asking and answering Java questions.IBM DeveloperWorks contains some nice introductory material.Robert Hurd has created Code Collection, An Internet technology help web site to assist Java programmers. You can send programming questions to rhurd@codecollection.com. --> Kathy Kozel has created http://www.javaranch.com/ for the same reason. You can send programming questions to kathykozel@javaranch.comMarcus Green maintains the Java Certification Exam Discussion ForumAnother page about certification www.le...
Wikipedia for schools launched
2007-12-30 16:38:00 Volunteers at the English Wiki pedia and SOS Children have launched the Wikipedia Selection for Schools . The selection?s articles have been cleaned up and checked for suitability for children, avoiding adult content. It includes the best of Wikipedia as well as many thousands of pages of extra material specifically selected to be of interest to children who follow the UK National Curriculum and similar curricula elsewhere in the world. The entire selection is said to be roughly equivalent to a 15 volume encyclopaedia with 24 000 pictures, 14 million words and articles on 4 625 topics. Aside from being accessible on the site, it is also possible to download the entire selection via BitTorrent (2.5GB compressed with full size images, 792MB compressed with only thumbnail images). Hilton Theunissen of Inkululeko said that they will gladly send copies to anyone who wants. Theunissen added that the digital encyclopedia will also be made available at all tuXlab schools around the country. F... More About: Launched
Hexadecimal to RGB converter
2007-12-29 15:21:00 Hexadecimal (often abbreviated hex) is a 16 numeral system, usually written using the symbols 0-9 and A-F. It is a useful system in computers because there is an easy mapping from four bits to a single hex digit. Thus one can represent every byte as two consecutive hexadecimal digits. Colors in HTML are specifyed using hexadecimal numbers.Most graphic design programs (photoshop, photopaint, paintshop pro etc.) offer to handle colors in a RGB (Red, Green, Blue) color system. To define a certain color you simply enter the amount of each of the three colors Red, Green and Blue.Another way to convert a decimal value into a hexadecimal value is using the Windows standard calculator (If you don't see the hex-option in the calculator, click the view-menu and choose scientific). Enter a value, click the Hex-field and the calculator will convert the number to hexadecimal.Here is one such converter: Hexadecimal to RGB converter More About: Converter , Codes
Morse Code
2007-12-29 15:14:00 Morse code is a method for transmitting telegraphic information, using standardized sequences of short and long elements to represent the letters, numerals, punctuation and special characters of a message. The short and long elements can be formed by sounds, marks or pulses, in on off keying and are commonly known as "dots" and "dashes" or "dits" and "dahs". International Morse code is composed of six elements: short mark, dot or 'dit' (·) longer mark, dash or 'dah' (-) intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes within a character) short gap (between letters) medium gap (between words) long gap (between sentences ? about seven units of time) Morse code can be transmitted in a number of ways: originally as electrical pulses along a telegraph wire, but also as an audio tone, a radio signal with short and long tones, or as a mechanical or visual signal (e.g. a flashing light) using devices like an Aldis lamp or a heliograph. Morse code is transmitted using just ... More About: Code , Codes , Morse , Morse Code
Braille System
2007-12-29 15:10:00 The braille system, devised in 1821 by Frenchman Louis Braille, is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write. Each braille character or cell is made up of six dot positions, arranged in a rectangle containing two columns of three dots each. A dot may be raised at any of the six positions to form sixty-four (26) permutations, including the arrangement in which no dots are raised. For reference purposes, a particular permutation may be described by naming the positions where dots are raised, the positions being universally numbered 1 to 3, from top to bottom, on the left, and 4 to 6, from top to bottom, on the right. For example, dots 1-3-4 would describe a cell with three dots raised, at the top and bottom in the left column and on top of the right column, i.e., the letter m. In braille, pages are separated by a line so that you can feel going across the page. The braille system was based on a method of communication originally developed by Charles Barbier in res... More About: System , Blind , Codes
Competitions
2007-12-29 14:49:00 If you want to find any kind of competition, simply go here: Competitions Around the World. There are many categories, like Algorithm, Animation & 3D, Architectural & Architect, Auto, Coding , Graphic Design, Internet, Internet programming, Math Competitions, Online Competitions, Software, Web Design, Web Development, and many, many other competitions.Also you can find some competitions on Wikipedia: Math Competitions, Classical Music Competitions, Classical Guitar Competitions, etc, etc, and also one of the best computercoding contests: TopCoder, also CodeCup, and for high-school students: USACO.And some maths competitions: International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO), youcan get a very good preparation and help from Mathlinks. Also you canparticipate in this one too: International Mathematics Project Competition(IMPC),but this link is old, and you can't get too much information from there.If anyone can find any link about future IMPCs, please tell me! I wouldbe very grateful. More About: Other , Maths
Math Related Web Links
2007-12-29 13:57:00 Art of Problem Solving http://www.artofproblemsolving.com A site developed to help students learn how to solve the puzzling problems -- The creators of AoP were this student once. They were the kids who wanted to win the trophies. They worked hard and became the kids who won the trophies. The trophies are in attics now. The problem-solving skills, the love of mathematics, and the friendships forged with peers with similar interests remain. They've applied the skills we've developed through mathematics to a variety of fields in college, then in the professional world. "Now we've returned to our starting point - the student in a room, chewing on a pencil, staring at a question, giving up, reading the answer, and thinking. . . How would I have thought of that? "This time you are the student. We are building this site for you, to provide a resource you can turn to. "You're stuck on a problem, so you write friends on our Forum. You hang out in our Math Jams. You take an online... More About: Links , Competitions , Related , Maths
HOWTO: Convert A Friend To Linux
2007-12-29 13:51:00 Warning: You should proceed with caution using this Howto , if you do not know what you are doing you could damage your relationship with Friend 2.0 or totally break it. Also, using this Howto extensively with multiple Friend 2.0's may damage Life 4.5, and end up as a sorrow lonely geek. Prerequisites : Before attempting to convert Friend to Linux , there are some major tweaks you need to do. If you already done these tweaks and living by them then good for you, if not then doing this is a MUST: First of all you need to have a Friend first to convert before attempting to convert. And in order to have a Friend you need to have a Life right? Let me try to make it simpler for you my fellow geek: Now you have a package named whatever-3.42.tar.gz, what will you do? Untar it, then configure, make, make install right? But you will need a compiler first right? Now think of Life as your compiler, all of us have Life, but we need to recompile Life first using the -lessgeek and -moreoutgoing... More About: Tech , Convert
Mozilla Aims to Weave a New Web
2007-12-29 13:27:00 Mozilla Aims to Weave a New Web Most Web browser users typically save their preferences and bookmarks locally. A new effort from Mozilla, called "Weave," may change that using a browser-integrated set of hosted online services. The general idea is that by utilizing a Mozilla online services backend, users can store data such as bookmarks and history. That data can be synchronized with their local browser or even multiple browsers. Weave is currently in development in Mozilla's Lab effort for emerging technologies, with its initial 0.1 release providing a basic set of functionality. Synchronizing bookmarks is hardly a new concept, with popular services such as del.icio.us, Google Browser Sync and Apple's .Mac services already established offerings. The difference with Mozilla Weave is that its designers intend it to become something more than just a bookmark and history synchronization tool. According to the Mozilla Labs blog post announcing the Weave effort, one of the goals... More About: Computers , Firefox , Mozilla
Apple?s lawyers threaten fake Steve Jobs
More articles from this author:2007-12-25 02:21:00 The Fake Steve Jobs blog is always entertaining. And never more so than now. According to recent posts on the blog, site owner Daniel Lyons has been approached by Apple to accept money in return for closing down the site. After initially announcing the offer on the blog, Lyons was then contacted by Apple?s lawyers threatening legal action and telling him the deal was not meant to be public knowledge. The ensuing debate is fascinating as Apple?s lawyers get increasingly heavy-handed. After Lyons makes public the offer of cash to shut down the blog, Apple?s lawyers return with a letter in which they tell Lyons that there are at least three posts on his site that they ?deem to be actionable?, a lawyer-speak way of threatening legal action. The three posts are listed in a later blog post and involve predictions made on the Fake Steve Jobs blog about upcoming product announcements by the company. The action by Apple is reminiscent of its attitude towards the Think Secret blog which Appl... More About: Computers , Lawyers 1, 2 |
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