Archive for November, 2007

Alice Help Available

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Trying to figure out how to work better with Alice, I stumbled across a very interesting web site well worth taking a look at:
‘How Do I…?
Anyone struggling or that wants to just get more proficient should check this out.
-Konstantin

Alice Assignment 2 Question

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Right off the bat I’m having an issue I have been unable to figure out.  When I direct the person in my world to move to the animal, the person seems to sink into the ground on the way until the person’s head is level with the animal’s head.  Why is it doing that and [...]

The Next Generation of RAM

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

This is not brand new technology, but it’s not in the general marketplace yet and I heard of it for the first time today.  Magnetic RAM would enable computer RAM to hold data even when the computer is turned off, allowing computers to start immediately without the time it now takes to reload programs on start-up. 
 http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci539346,00.html
http://www.mram-info.com/
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CSCI 1300 and Alice

Monday, November 26th, 2007

As stated at our last class meeting before last week’s test, make sure you come to class this week and next with a USB drive that you have downloaded and unzipped the Alice software onto.  We will be working through the Alice tutorials this week, and if you are not prepared for this you will [...]

Question about making links for the Web Page Project

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Because we have to have 4 pages and with the index page has links to another pages, I tried to write the tag for links but it won’t work. For example, I use:
ahref=”C:\Documents and Settings\Kevin\Desktop\WebProject\FavoriteWebsites.htm”>Kevin’s Favorite Links
P.S.: I altered the tag above by deleting some portions of the tag to ensure that this Technobits display [...]

Amazing laptop computer

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

This is amazing — a laptop computer made from wood and brass.  It looks like it’s fully functional!

“America’s Hackable Backbone”

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

David Brandt found this Forbes magazine story while working on his hacking essay.  It provides a disturbing view of just how easy it would be for crackers to do major damage to many critical American systems, and not the ones you would think, either.