Engineering in the white spaces
Some more interesting links harvested over the last few months - there should be something for everyone in today's link dump.
Techie
- Keygen for WinZip 9: Found using Google's new code search app.
- Xooglers: Reminiscences from ex-Googlers.
- Mars Polar Lander vanished: Interesting analysis of the software bug that lost a spacecraft.
- More software horror stories: Dead bodies everywhere.
- Alarm bell phrases : When you hear one of these, run.
- Humorous error messages: On the Nixdorf 8870, canceling a print job would sometimes produce the message Spooling is too tough!
- Google hardware circa 1999: They've grown a little since then - 170,000+ servers was the last figure that I heard.
- Naughty, naughty: Beware when stealing somebody's wireless Internet access.
Fun
- Things nobody tells you about the South Pole: Apparently, it's been stolen several times.
- KEO: Watch the skies in 52,007 AD.
- The radioactive boy scout: Nobody really needs a home-made nuclear reactor .
- The 48 Laws of Power: Many software developers have Machiavellian tendencies.