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Ever wondered how ADSL (or broadband internet access over telephone lines) works? I often have and, having worked
for an ISP in the UK (BT Retail) for about 6 months I can offer a slightly better explanation than when I started. ADSL stands for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. It is...
Read More | Aug 27th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Feb 26th, 2008
I invented an encryption algorhythm today and used it to "hide" the information in an unused password I came up with. This was done on paper, not with a program. However, I am planning to start laying some code down for this today (in Haskell, partly as an exercise to help me learn the language)....
Read More | Mar 24th, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jan 29th, 2008
Hello everyone and welcome to the next episode of Mushy-pea's blog. This entry is about my favourite language (except English of course) Perl. If you're a regular Perl user you might already know this; the developers of Perl 6 are using a prototype version of the Perl 6 interpreter written in...
Read More | Jan 4th, 2007
Hello blog readers. So I was thinking, "how can I seriously depress the lovely Daniweb visitors today?". Then it hit me: The End of All Life (EAL). I was reading an article in Physics World a few years ago about some predictions on the long term survival prospects of life, based on known...
Read More | Nov 22nd, 2006 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: Nov 26th, 2006
I was in a pub in Manchester recently for my friend Chris's leaving do (he's got a job in Spain :p ). Somehow a brief discussion about Mac OS X got started (yes, OK I started it). Most people I've met who've used it seem to think it's great because:
1. The GUI is great.
2. It's really...
Read More | Sep 28th, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Sep 29th, 2006
With all the disscussion about classical computing issues on Daniweb, I thought it was time for an explanation of quantum computing. As I'm sure most of you are aware, a conventional CPU performs operations by switching transistors on and off in order to manipulate values stored on registers. The...
Read More | Sep 21st, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Sep 23rd, 2006
