An old-school Atari zine’s history of the PPC architecture.

Another great ALA article: Never use a warning, instead support undo everywhere. Amen.

[stars: 5] Touching the Void. Do you think that your problems are difficult? Get a grip. This film will tear a strip off your back, and show you what the impossible looks like. And the impossible is possible, if you really want it. The story is a tale of unimaginable pain, facing death, and inspiration.

Microsoft released the BSOD screensaver last week, a monotonic form of the BSOD XScreensaver (which includes crashing hits like: Microsoft’s BSOD, Linux’s very own kernel panic, the Mac bomb, the Mac sad face, the Amiga guru meditation error, and the AtariST bombs).

The Death of TCP/IP
How do you push for the acceptance of a new protocol? First, make the old one unworkable by placing millions of exploitable TCP/IP stacks out on the Net, ready-to-use by any teenage sociopath. When the Net slows or crashes, the blame would not be assigned to Microsoft. Then ship the new protocol with every new copy of Windows, and install it with every Windows Update over the Internet. Zero to 100 million copies could happen in less than a year, and that year could be prior to the new protocol even being announced. It could be shipping right now.