Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers
by Betty Alexandra Toole, Ed.D.
The Association for Women in Computing has the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award and some more info about Ada “Who was Augusta Ada Lovelace?” Well she was the daughter of Lord Byron, the poet. Ada’s mother did not want her daughter to follow in her father’s footsteps and had her trained in mathmatics. Ada is given credit for being the first female computer programer, and frist programer by several.
Why I Love my Qube I want one. We have one as a proxy at a remote location. It was soo cool to hold. Xmas gift idea 🙂
onHand The World’s Smallest PDA it is like Dick Tracy, not they need to add PCS/Celluar.
Guru Paradox: User-Centered or Self-Centered? scares me. Quality of “published” material, books written, predictions made and speaches given don’t matter as long the activities are vigirously pursued. No wonder the pundits are usually full of it. No wonder the speaches are boring. No wonder there are so many crappy books on the market.
Ease of Use vs. Sweat Equity There is something to be said for actually knowing what one is doing but everynow and then just getting the job done now is most important. I’m thinking a good marriage of Ease of Use and Sweat Equity will be MacOSX, Macintosh Ease of Use with Unix power, the toolset command line etc.
Debian with the FreeBSD kernel mentioned in Debian Weekly News – November 23rd, 1999. Intresting Debian currently runs with the Linux kernel and HURD kernel. There are some concerns about liscensing issues, Linux is GPLed and BSD has it’s own liscense. slashdot has a discussion.
Slashdot’s Top 10 Hacks of all Time rebutals “The Top 10 Subversive Hacks of All Time” on C|Net
Long Status Listing for PPT Tom Christiansen has posted updates for Perl Power Tools: The Unix Reconstruction Project, a.k.a. PPT.