Discover Roundtable: Will Computers Replace Engineers?

Not long ago, men flew to the moon and plotted their course with slide rules, pencils, and graph paper. Now we live in such a complex age that not only do our lives depend on computers, but only computers can design computers.

There’s an internet worm out there affecting MSSQL servers and it slowed the Internet down a lot this morning. Look on any news site and you’ll find plenty of coverage. Here’s the BBC coverage.

Connecting to the net with my PC and sharing with 7650

The ionCube PHP Accelerator

A new version of PHPA has just been released. This is a minor update, and improves the handling of PHP crashes, and reduces the liklihood of the SHM cache remaining in the ‘pending reinitialisation’ state.
The behaviour of phpa_cache_admin when listing processes has been enhanced to show whether or not an ‘active’ process is really alive or dead.

Wired 11.02: The Year The Music Dies

Truth is, it may happen even sooner. This year could determine whether the music business as we know it survives.

Sokoban for the Nokia 7650 – I have no idea how to play it yet but there’s 90 levels so should keep me going for a while!

eBooks for your PDA – includes a reader for the Nokia 7650 too!

P3nfs – mount the filesystem of your PDA on your Unix box over infrared or bluetooth!

New 7 Wonders – Project – Society – Suggest a new nominee Let’s all suggest the Dublin Spire!

Effortless (or Better!) Bug Detection with PHP Assertions – via PHP Everywhere.