The Burning City by Niven and Pournelle is out, a new granddaughter is here, and Jerry's website is still/again up -- with no thanks to how some programs (don't) work.
Spam, Mailbombs and Outlook
Jerry Pournelle
Opting-in to opt-out only makes it worse. Learning to delete unwanted mail at the server, and turn off Outlook's polling feature, may help.
CD Writing And Cable Untangling
Jerry Pournelle
If you need to save more than a ZIP's worth, you've got choices -- Direct CD and CD Creator, as well as magneto-optical or the Orb. Meanwhile, Jerry tries to untangle his cable room.
What Zope Did Wrong (and How It's Being Fixed) Dr. Dobb's talks with Lennart Regebro about the many things that
Zope 2 did right and did wrong. Lennart has also been one of the driving
forces behind Five, the integration of Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2.
Ubuntu and the Software Around It Dr. Dobb's interviews Ubuntu's Gerry Carr about the Linux-based Ubuntu
operating sytem and the application lifecycle tools -- such as the
recently released Launchpad -- that surround it.
In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
