Monthly Archives: March 2002

Paper in the Information Age

Posted on March 31, 2002 by Pace Arko

When I had my last contract job at The Company that Must Not be Named a lot of my officemates would print out and photocopy almost everything. This always struck me as a wasteful slaughter of trees for the sake … Continue reading →

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The Stop Button for the Internet

Posted on March 30, 2002 by Pace Arko

Sure, it’s a joke, but in truth, the Internet ultimately depends on the hierarchy of the Domain Name System, which is, ultimately, controlled by eight server farms in Europe, Asia and North America, which in turn depend on updates every … Continue reading →

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Another Minor Milestone

Posted on March 29, 2002 by Pace Arko

I got Linux running the way I want on my LAN now. Still lots of things to be done though. Need to upgrade all the appropriate pieces of the OS–starting with the default Red Hat 6.2 distribution. Need to get … Continue reading →

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Factory Floor is One Year and Three Days Old

Posted on March 25, 2002 by Pace Arko

I guess I should mark this occasion: One year of using the Greymatter script. Before, Factory Floor was just a vague way of referring to the site’s root page without saying, “home page.” Before, Factory Floor was just a site … Continue reading →

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Silly Scientist Tricks!

Posted on March 22, 2002 by Pace Arko

Today there are a lot of links to very interesting articles on Nanodot. For example, the use of diatom shells in MEMS or as drug delivery capsules. Another interesting one is about the construction of three-dimensional polymer crystals (Think of … Continue reading →

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Yes, I know it's late

Posted on March 21, 2002 by Pace Arko

Macromedia is planning an evangelizing tour to tout the new accessibility features of Flash MX. Considering the legions of Flash designers out there that probably may never learn how to design Flash objects accessibly one wonders if an upgrade and … Continue reading →

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Links!

Posted on March 20, 2002 by Pace Arko

Web advertising just gets uglier and more in our face as time goes on. Good thing I got Internet Junkbuster to cut through all this junk. Take a look at the Small Times site, it’s a good source for nanotech, … Continue reading →

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Okay. This is just too nifty to pass up

Posted on March 13, 2002 by Pace Arko

Wolfram Research has a form that lets you enter equations and have them integrated. This is really really neat! Takes me back to my old calculus days. Obviously it’s a drag to do this all in ASCII. This means that … Continue reading →

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Holovision!

Posted on March 7, 2002 by Pace Arko

I guess this is some contradiction to my earlier post about all the unrealized dreams of science fiction but, I just came across a company that makes three-dimensional viewing systems. This isn’t merely three-dimensional rendering on a CRT or LCD … Continue reading →

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