Automation Adventures

Revision3, host of such video podcasts as Diggnation, Systm and TekZilla, suffered a Denial of Service attack over the Memorial Day weekend. The interesting twist in this is that Revision3 says MediaDefender was the one causing the DoS attack.
Why is this interesting? Because for years discussions have been going on about the moral and legal [...]

The Mozilla Foundation is trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records by setting a World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. They plan on accomplishing this goal by having as many people as possible download Firefox 3.0 on the official launch date.
To participate, head over to Download Day 2008, and [...]

Darth Vader feels blue: http://tinyurl.com/2gt6ln (thx jkottke) #
Amazing animated wall-painting: http://www.vimeo.com/993998 #

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I came across this interesting page, that shows the ubiquitous “Hello, World!” program in 366 different more or less well known programming languages.
It clearly shows the difference in the two database language that we use at my place of work, Cobol and Progress.
Cobol:
* Hello World in Cobol
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IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. HELLO.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
DATA DIVISION.
PROCEDURE [...]

A nice weekend home automation project: the Emergency Party Button.
The Emergency Party Button turns an ordinary apartment into a full-blown disco, complete with laser, black lights and fog machine. The guts of the whole system is the X10 protocol, that is used to send a signal from the Big Red Button to a transceiver module, [...]