Saturday, June 26, 2004
The BYTE matter ended honorably, and I now write a column for BYTE.com but I expect you knew that.
If you buy a book from Amazon by clicking on the icon to the left, I get a small percentage. If you buy a book through BOOKS page by clicking on the book itself, I get a much larger percentage.
In any event, buy STARSWARM. And Buy The Burning City by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Do so now...
There is the Black September War page which describes pages on that subject.
We have added to the Velikovsky Discussion and also added a page on the origins of the First Dark Age.
Infantry in the Modern World: observations and a discussion.
WORK IN PROGRESS: an updated page on work I'm doing.
Some comments on Strategic Defense
What kind of computer to take to college? See discussion in alt.mail.
New reports on Viet Nam in the FPRI Reports section. See Winning the Viet Nam War and Who Were We in Viet Nam?
A really well done debate on Evolution in Alt.mail. There are other discussions in Alt.mail, and there are a lot of new REPORTS.
New debates on the future of the military.
What do you want computers to do? Discussion here.
Two partial reports on my trip to Japan. [1] [2]
There is a Work IN Progress page on what I am doing.
This isn't "new" but it's new for most: there's a report on a visit to Mount Wilson
Picture report on Writers of the Future Awards.
This definitely needs updating, but at least now there is a search function.
We have a photo-essay on The Corpse Plant at the Huntington Library. Thousands of Angelenos turned out to see a plant that stinks like rotting meat and only blooms once every generation...
There is a bit of a flap about an article Norman Spinrad did about me, Space, SDI, and the Space Council. I've given it a page of its own. The discussion keeps expanding.
Two short photo groups: the Christening of Julian Elise Miller, and a short expedition by Niven and me to take cover photographs for The Burning City.
A new TOUR GUIDE to this site; tries to describe what's here.
Taiwan and the Two Chinas: Essay by me, and report from FPRI
Good letter on Upgrading to Windows 98 SE with good advice.
There's
a new page about Spinrad's LeMonde
article about me and space and SDI.
The Debates section has been organized with a home page, and there is a new essay/debate on SMP and the Future of Computing.
We are trying to reorganize with sub webs. Wish us luck. Still working on getting
VIEWDEX sort of indexes the VIEW pages. View is my daybook/journal.
Give indices to earlier pages of VIEW.
MAILDEX an index to Chaos Manor Mail is now available.
Previous include Maildex1, Maildex2, and Maildex3
Currentview and currentmail will always have those names. Note that this means links to interior bookmarks in either of them by that name will be broken at week's end when currentview is renamed to the proper sequential number and a new currentview page is begun. Similarly for mail, of course. Links to the page title will work, though.
The REPORTS section has been organized. New Feature: Moshe Bar's Opinion, reprinted by permission; if you do Linux or want to you must read Moshe Bar. See the Reports summary page for more. His report on family Linux is priceless.
- There are now REPORTS and REVIEWS summary pages, which tell something of what's available.
- alt.mail for discussions of "off topic" matters, in particular the state of society, recent festivities in Iraq, etc.
- Reports Summary
- Reviews Summary
- Columns Available Summary
- A short disquisition on the origins of The Strategy of Technology (a book on line)
New Table of Contents and A Search
page.
ORDER
OUT OF CHAOS: Indexes to THIS SITE, View
One, and Current View
Problems with Internet Explorer 5 Beta, a report by Russell Kay
A special report by Robert Bruce Thompson on cookies: what they are and when they can be an annoyance. With a reply, and discussion.
My Death Valley Crash: what I did on my way home from Comdex. With Pictures
The
Linux Papers: An ongoing story. See
View 23 for organization.
New:
The Halloween Papers. A meta
journal. Much more on Linux. And the beginnings of
a major essay on The Second Computer Revolution along
with responses from Readers.
An odd exposition on the Dean Drive
A new Special Report by Bob Thompson on Diskeeper 4
The
Linux Papers: An ongoing story. See
View 23 for organization.
The Linux Installation Adventure: Log book of the adventure
- Linux Adventure
A new Special Report by Russell Kay on Partitioning Blues
A new Special Report on building the Pentium
II box by Robert Bruce Thompson
Extending the UTP Ethernet: Special Report by
Robert Bruce Thompson
A new structured index page! Thanks
to John Rice.
Special Report: Discussion of Digital Video conducted by Alex Pournelle
How To Get
My Job: (from the December 1996 BYTE)
New pages on Linux: Adventure and Linette Install
Reorganized MAIL and VIEW for easier indexing.
Special Reports by Robert Bruce Thompson: Digital Camera and Upgrading Old Kerby
A new rant by Peter Glaskowsky on stealing the
Workstation Terms
The Microsoft Monopoly Debates
The Yorktown Affair:
The USS Yorktown was towed back to port after a problem with NT-- or was it? A Chaos Manor
Discussion.
Special Report on Backing Up NT by Robert Bruce
Thompson
Special
Report on Open Developer's Conference by Talin. This report generated the Yorkton
Incident discussion.
DAVID EM's Siggraph 1998 Report
The trials and travails of Win
95 and more. See View for the week. A series of horror
stories. In Mail there is the removable IDE drive bug and
its fix.
Beginning of a new
section on GAMES.
An essay
sort of on programming philosophy. By me. Updated with reader comments.
A kind of movie review of PI, by me.
MELTDOWN: the Microsoft Direct X Conference.
Another special report by Peter Glaskowsky If you have any interested in Direct
X, this is the report to see.
Some musings on James Hogan
and the Velikovsky Affair
DAVID
Em on Graphics: a new report.
A special report by Peter Glaskowsky
Monday July 6 reorganizing Mail
and View yet one more time. New stuff in the Windows 98 discussion. Mail has material on
how to get the AOL AIM monster out of your Netscape, and how to make mailing lists using
Outlook. And more.
NEW Sunday July 5, 1998 A new Space Paper (actually several years old but still current).
NEW (Wednesday July 1, 1998) More Pictures. Just starting. Will be updated often.
NEW (Monday, June 29, 1998) Alex on Word Weirdness
NEW (Monday, June 29, 1998) Windows 98 discussion.
NEW (Saturday, June 27, 1998) Web
construction details, largely Front Page
NEW (Tuesday, June 23, 1998) Spacemail
NEW (Tuesday, June 23,
1998) The return of the Book of the Month
NEW: (Monday, June 22, 1998): David Em's Graphics Report, updated daily
this week.
NEW: (Sunday, June 21, 1998)
