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IRC (Internet Relay Chat) has been around since 1988, which makes it ancient in Internet terms. And although it’s still used by hundreds of thousands of users around the world, IRC has seen a dramatic downturn in usage. We have talked to the creator of IRC, and others, about why the once so widely used technology has seemingly fallen out of favor with so many users. /notice IRC is alive and well, thanks.
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It may only be April, but 2012 has already seen a worrying number of legislative acts hit the headlines that threaten online privacy. From the entertainment industry-backed SOPA in the USA, to the UK’s surveillance state-issued CCDP, 2012 has seen governments and industries across the western world try to put the brakes on the vibrant, free-thinking, online ecology that has grown over the last decade. From SOPA to CISPA, all the ways Big Brother is Watching.
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Steve Barnet is hiring, but not for an ordinary IT job. Barnet is looking to fill what may be the coolest Unix administrator job opening in the world—literally. Plenty of IT jobs exist in extreme and exotic locales, but the WIPAC IT team runs what is indisputably the world’s most remote data center: a high-performance computing cluster sitting atop a two-mile thick glacier at the South Pole. Sysadmins on ice.
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Sure, Microsoft is still making plenty of money — billions — off of their consumer goods. But the decent quarterly numbers they reported last week in some ways mask what is really happening: Microsoft is slowing morphing into a full-on enterprise company. Microsoft’s two biggest businesses will be their enterprise businesses.
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Hillman Curtis, a former rock musician who became a prominent first-generation Web designer and a visionary figure in the Internet’s evolution from a predominantly text-based medium to the multimedia platform it is today, died on Wednesday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 51. He led the way in early Flash Player design for the web.
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And it turns out that it's June[^].
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All the better I say. Everybody knows computers have no future. Football is where it's at!
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Not based on logic at all. Atheltic director or the coach demanded $2M more or I'll quit and then here we are.
Hey guys, first of all a) this is the Southern United States that we are talking about, where football is f*king king and then b) hey that just means there will be less computer programmers out there, more jobs and more $$ for those of us who do have the skillz.
Besides, you can teach yourself computer programming anyway.
Sincerely Yours,
Brian Hart
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Many of those jobs will go to people in other countries, and they will be thankful. And some of the work will also go overseas because of lack of skills in the US.
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Oh well, too bad, I guess The Man wants to keep the populace stupid, unemployed, and obedient.
We are putting Bread and Circuses over others.
Sincerely Yours,
Brian Hart
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American stupitidty. The people doing the budgets must have had too many concussions. Too stupid to let one concussion heal before going back on the field.
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Post developer and IT-related news to the Insider News for a chance to win an Amazon gift card. The heart of The Code Project is member contributions. Now you can contribute news, too.
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If you build a website, you will want your own domain name, which means you will need to manage your Domain Name System (DNS). While there is nothing very complicated here, the info is scattered across the Internet, so I decided to write a “cheat sheet”-like tutorial which will hopefully save you some time! thisis.useful.com
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where is the cheat-sheet??
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When I think about the iPad as a sysadmin's tool, I don't think about it in terms of can/can't. Obviously, the iPad can be a sysadmin tool. Heck, I used Windows Mobile 6 phones as sysadmin tools. It wasn’t a lot of fun, but if you were really far from a laptop, tin cans with string, or a sharp stick and soft dirt, you could do it. Can you run a network with just an iPad?
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Presenting Cargo-Bot. The first game programmed entirely on iPad using Codea. Cargo-Bot is a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crates. Sounds simple, right? It's like SkyNet, but fun.
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Here's a thorough and rigorous introduction to the study of the complexity of strings. What we would really love to do is be able to look at a string of binary digits and decide how “random” it is. And yet, by the immutable laws of probability, we cannot speak of how random one particular outcome of an experiment is. We need a new notion that overcomes this difficulty. It all adds up to 00011101001000101101001000101111010100000100111101.
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Firefox, thanks in part to the indespensible Firebug extension, has long been a crucial tool for web developers. But Chrome is fast, sleek and has its own vast array of free extensions. Here are a few that make it equally useful for web devs. Everything you need to build the web.
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The ZX Spectrum is 30 years old. The successor to Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX81 - at the time the world's best selling consumer computer - it introduced colour "high resolution" graphics and sound. Happy Birthday ZX Spectrum!
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This is the story of the creation of a new font, Avería: the average of all the fonts on my computer. The field of typography has long fascinated me, and I love playing with creative programming ideas, so it was perhaps inevitable that the idea came to me one day of “generative typography”. It's a little bit Goudy, and a little bit Comic Sans.
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Ever met someone who uses UX and UI interchangeably? Ed Lea created this photographic infographic to visually define the differences between user experience and user interface design and how they relate to a product. 404 Milk Not Found.
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I’ve learned a lot from the development of NameLayer, and I’m ready to divulge every trick in my arsenal. In this guide, I provide realistic solutions to the frustrations encountered when naming a company. Plus, I’ll have some fun analyzing both good and bad company names. A rose.com by any other name...
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