Showing posts with label people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label people. Show all posts

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Do you see any resemblance?


as i was browsing some of the pictures in my laptop, i saw this picture of my niece during her 4th birthday. anyways, as i look at her pic i suddenly feel that i miss her. she is a sweet yet kinda naughty girl, but she is intelligent and cute like her aunt (hahaha...this is my blog, no one must contradict... :p ) i haven't seen her for quite a long time already because i was busy in school. maybe i should take some time to visit her. i will bring chocolates for her since that is her favorite and maybe i will play with her. :)
do you see any resemblance?

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Mariah Carey's Emancipation of Mimi



01. It's Like That (3:25)
02. We Belong Together (3:23)
03. Shake It Off (3:55)
04. Mine Again (4:04)
05. Say Somethin' (featuring Snoop Dogg) (3:46)
06. Stay The Night (3:59)
07. Get Your Number (featuring Jermaine Dupri) (3:18)
08. One And Only (featuring Twista) (3:17)
09. Circles (3:33)
10. Your Girl (2:48)
11. I Wish You Knew (3:37)
12. To The Floor (featuring Nelly) (3:30)
13. Joy Ride (4:06)
14. Fly Like A Bird (3:54)

Free download...Password: CLAYMORE

from: http://mp3albumsongs.blogspot.com

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Richard Matthew Stallman


Background...

  • Born: March 16, 1953, New York City
  • Parents: Daniel Stallman and Alice Lippman
  • Atheist
  • www.stallman.org
  • Hired by IBM New York Scientific Center
    • preprocessor for the PL/I programming language on the IBM 360
  • Harvard University
    • programmer at the AI Laboratory of MIT
    • regular in the hacker community: “RMS”
    • graduated from Harvard magna cum laude earning a BA in Physics in 1974
    • knee injury
  • awarded six honorary doctorates and two honorary professorships

Where it all began...

  • MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) installed a password control system in 1977
    • decrypt the passwords and sent users messages containing their decoded password
    • to demonstrate that they were not increasing security, but only hindering free access to each other's software and discouraging sharing it

Works...


  • AI truth maintenance system called dependency-directed backtracking with Gerald Jay Sussman
    • early work on the problem of intelligent backtracking in constraint satisfaction problems
  • TECO, Emacs, and the Lisp Machine Operating System
  • Copyleft
    • is a play on the word copyright
    • practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions
    • requires the same freedom be preserved in modified versions
    • author surrenders some but not all rights under copyright law
    • GNU General Public License, Tiny BASIC
  • GNU Project
    • “GNU's Not Unix”
    • September 1983
    • free Unix-like operating system
    • free software movement
    • GNU/Linux operating system
      • incorrectly called Linux
  • Free Software Foundation
    • October 1985

Some humor...

  • “I am also a saint, in the Church of Emacs--Saint IGNUcius...”
  • "There are no godfathers in the Church of Emacs, since there are no gods, but you can be someone's editorfather."

Sources:
http://www.stallman.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
http://www.gnu.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft