Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music has been remade. It is a great sampler of all the many, many genres of electronic music that are out there. You'll like some, hate others, and laugh at the rest.
The new update now includes several clips of each type of music (instead of just one clip like previous versions had). It should give you a decent taste of each of the types of electronica out there.

Tommy, you mean its not all called "techno"??? *gasp* No, although most people call it "techno", Techno is but just one class of electronic music. So check out what all is out there.

By the way, props to Ishkur for adding the seperate Downtempo section - I'm ALL about that stuff. And the time-maps, lets you know when things came out and what/when they evolved from.

Almost every computer today is equipped with the TCP/IP networking protocol. (the chief communication standard in the world, due mainly to it being the essential Internet protocol). Basically, networking traffic of any sort is broken down to 1s and 0s, just as all data in a computer is. The 1s and 0s transmitted across the network connection is actually a series of minute high and low pulses of electricity. The recipient then "decodes", or demodulates, these high and low pulses as a 1 or a 0. (high or low).
One professor at Algoma University posed a question to his 4th year Computer Science students, can sound be used as a transmission medium?

The result was TCP/IP over Bongos drums.

    - Ricky Ricardo and Andy Kaufman would be proud.

I'm fired up. REM is on tour for the Greatest Hits record that should be out soon. Its got all their hits, "End of the World", "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?", "Everybody Hurts", and some of their lesser known hits "Find the River", "Begin the Begin", "Fall On Me".

update : The show was awesome! Everything was great. They should post the setlist to their website. Ed Harcourt sounded quite a bit like Coldplay, with maybe some Radiohead thrown in for 'artistic genius'. REM came out kickin' with "Begin the Begin". Also got to hear a few new songs, as well as their biggest hits (save for a few from Monster). They ended with a great little tune called "End of the World...". , and was probably the best way to end an REM show. I loved it.

For more information, visit REM's site at www.REMHQ.com.

I'm taking a C++ and COBOL class at SFA State this semester.
I already know C++ to the point that I am fairly comfortable with it. I hope to expand on this knowledge during the semester, and to learn the "right" way to code.
As for COBOL? I'm not too sure how enjoyable it will be.
This cool link shows how each language differs by presenting the most simple "hello world" program. There are some very odd-looking programs/scripts listed on there, I'm sure you havent heard or seen at least 75% of the languages listed on there.

Any of you that know me, know I have been working on my silent server. Trying to get Neodux to run from a small solid-state x86 computer. Although I do have it running (see previous post), I wonder about how feasible/practical it would be to silence my desktop computer.
The hard-drive would stay in my desktop system, since I gotta have more space than just 256Mb. But, how much would it cost to silence my CPU cooler? How about my power supply?

For CPU-cooling, the most efficient and silent way to dissipate heat is using water-cooling, and with some of the latest advances in water-pumps, it sounds as if you can totally eliminate all moving parts from your water-pump.