This got generated as something of a byproduct of my research into a number of different things, but I thought I'd share it. I built a simple Asteroids network game. The architecture is such that the server calculates the entire game, and sends each client a report on what they can see. The client then sends back a very specific data structure ( Read more... )

I've been writing network code for well over a decade now. Early on, I was writing straight off the RFC's, so I got to see the protocols that make up the Internet as we know it in their original state. In RFC793, Transmission Control Protocol (arguably one of the most influential standards ever to come out of IANA), Jon Postel, the editor of the ( Read more... )

After QUARTZ was rendered immobilized by hinge damage, and EMERALD still having worrisome damage to its power brick, I moved using my Christmas gifts to procure a replacement. Today RUBY arrived. The 9th mainline machine I've owned, and the 8th laptop, RUBY is a Duo Core 2.2 Ghz machine with 8GB of main storage, the most I've ever had in a single ( Read more... )

My new Eee T91 arrived today. It makes an exceptionally good Skype video phone. It is named OBSIDIAN.