The "Pournelle Configuration" involves a few hacks to the keyboard -- but sometimes Jerry falls victim to his own peculiarities.
Evaluation Software from Beyond the Grave
Jerry Pournelle
Jerry tries to buy WinProxy, but the evaluation software doesn't want to go away
XP Thoughts, PlexWriter, Winding Down
Jerry Pournelle
Will Aunt Minnie like XP Home, wonders Jerry? Also, "Is Fergie still Fergie?", recommendations for the Kingston Data-Pak, PlexWriter, and this month's games, books, and movies.
Windows XP Installation Deadlines
Jerry Pournelle
Challenges installing Windows XP, also kudos to WinProxy and WinVNC.
Voice Recording Meets Open Source Dr. Dobb's talks with Bruce Kaskey, cofounder of <a href="http://www.orecx.com">OrecX</a>, about the Oreka open source project and why it's an important contribution to the open source community.
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.
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.