edoneel daily - daily stuff on chaosnet

I'm in the process of moving to sdf, a very cool public access unix system. The new url will be http://edoneel.chaosnet.org

31 March 2003

• Discussions about the 6Bone going away.
• Life Made to Order Efforts to create custom-made organisms--one DNA letter at a time--could yield new sources of energy or novel drugs.
• The Institute for End User Computing
• Intro to PHP5

28 March 2003

• Essentials of Constraint Programming
• Constraint Programming and Reasoning - a web page from Thom Fruehwirth
• On-Line guide to Constraint Programming
• The SR 111 report

27 March 2003

• The top of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science's Trading Agent Competition - TAC
• Self-Assembling Networks

26 March 2003

• Evolutionary Neural Networks: Design Methodologies
• Interview with Marc Tremblay, Sun's Chief Architect for the Processor and Network Products Group.
• Al Jazeera, the Quatar independent TV station now has an english language web service for those of us who don't speak Arabic. I get Al Jazeera on cable and it does make me wish that I understood Arabic so that I could follow.
• While we're at it, Dar al hayat also has an english language section. They seem to be from Cario

25 March 2003

• Will Wright, creator of The Sims, SimCity, etc, speaking at PC Forum 2003.
• AI Interface Standards: The Road Ahead - A Roundtable Discussion of the 2003 Game Developers Conference

24 March 2003

• The Omicron Engine is a multipurpose game engine for Windows and GNU/Linux
• John Perry Barlow is far from amused from his post in Brazil
• Top Ten Dying Game Genres
• The thin line between reality and video games. - San Jose Mercury news is carrying an article about a 2-year-old Silicon Valley start-up called Keyhole and their product Earthviewer.
• Sourceforge RSS feeds

20 March 2003

• Life Sciences Grid
• Open Grid Services Architecture Data Access and Integration OGSA-DAI
• Japan's BioGrid
• Grid Outreach - e-Diamond Improving diagnostic confidence with a standardised mammography database
• Making a Statement, in Absentia
• GDC 2002: Polygon Soup for the Programmer's Soul: 3D Pathfinding

19 March 2003

• Get behind the M.U.L.E
• IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference CSB2003
• ACM Multimedia 2003
• Internet, lag, UDP, TCP and prediction
• Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond
• Genmud - Used to be Battle for Destiny. All rooms/objs/mobs/areas are one data structure. Players are within a world where wars happen and players can shape the direction of the world. The world can be automatically generated.
• Better Game Design through Data Mining
• The evolution of punishment explained
• Artificial Anasazi
• First Monday article on Leaderless Resistance

18 March 2003

• Travel Agent Game in Agentcities (TAGA) is a multi-agent framework for simulating the global travel market on the Web with the Semantic Web technologies. It extends and enhances the original TAC system [Wellman 99] to work in an Agentcities environment of FIPA compliant agents.
• Artificial worlds used to unlock secrets of real human interaction
• A practical approach for defeating Nmap OS-Fingerprinting
• Surveillance Nation
• Not Dead Yet: A Report on the 2003 Game Developers Conference.
• Cyberworlds 2003
• OpenSG 2003 - Symposium Concepts and Components of Software Frameworks for Interactive 3D Graphics
• Much of computer science involves using bulldozers to shove tough problems into someone else's back yard.

17 March 2003

• When it comes to IT projects, it doesn't get much better than this: Procter & Gamble Co. saves $300 million annually on an investment of less than 1% of that amount.
• Mars and Mansions
• Do it yourself fibre Channel

14 March 2003

• Social-network mapping Software

12 March 2003

• Run those old IBM OSes

11 March 2003

• A 3D animation of Linux source code development
• Autonomic computing
• Measuring Lost Freedom vs. Security in Dollars
• Clique of Instant Messagers Expands Into the Workplace
• Software Pioneer Quits Board of Groove
• 3D is hard, let's go shopping
• An email from Dee Hock about the emergent democracy paper

10 March 2003

• The World of Ends is interesting
• IBM's self aware software.
• Networks Everywhere
• 10 Reasons NOT to make MMOGs

07 March 2003

• Swiss-Prot 41.0 released
• ENZYME 30.0 released
• IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium 2003

06 March 2003

• It's Just a Fantasy, but Real Life Is Always in Play - Alternate Reality Gaming.
• That points us to Cloudmakers.
• Release 23 of TREMBL, a protein sequence database complementing SWISS-PROT
• Bee-like robot swarm wins MIT prize
• Falling prey to machines
• 2003 trading agent competition
• The main page for the trading agent competition is here
• MUD usage stats

05 March 2003

• Cool - TarProxy - cause spammer's pain

03 March 2003

• Perlfs - write your file systems in Perl.
• lemonoder a lisp weblog.