3COM US Robotics Cable Modem CMX - this one rates as one of the world's TOP 10 cable modems, being capable of speeds as high as... 3000 kbps, probably more than your average modem...
This goodie costs just $99 USD [19000 PT Escudos], but NETCABO - the sole Internet cable provider @ Portugal - asks you 3x that price!
And, if you are @ Portugal, did you know that Portugal Telecom increased by an average of 67% your Internet cruises?
I hope they all die swimming on money.
More Infere - forward Inference Engine (on LISP)
Last day 16 January 2000, I wrote about the 1st version of my inference engine - infere - but I forgot to mention that the current documentation and examples, are available @ my Computer Science Projects page.
Go ahead and download the documents! See if you can spot any mistake - I am very prone to errors :)
Windows 2000 PRO [final] - First comments
Not only I've been exxxtremely busy, but also facing some unexpected difficulties: for example, being a Windows 2000 Pro [final] user, I've come to the conclusion that unless I upgrade to a dual or quad Pentium configuration, W2K doesn't give me any boost... on the contrary...
W2K brings in some compatibility issues; the most common are:
#1) say goodbye to old scanners - twain drivers are history, and if your scanner needs one, odds are that it will not be supported by Microsoft's latest.
#2) say goodbye to fast gameplay, when using a single processor - I tested some games under Windows 2000, such as Age of Empires 2 and Midtown Madness, and the first caused some kind of system violation, while the second ran @ the speed of a snail, as if I wasn't using a 3D accelerator at all, despite the picture quality showing that hardware rendering was indeed working. I don't own a multiprocessor machine, but I believe that using more than one processor will very much benefit software, even when it was written without such architectures under consideration.
The current operating system kernel uses very complex memory management algorithms, plus the NT tradition of running every proggie on top of the concept of a virtual machine, meaning that much more computation power is required, to keep games kicking.
#3) say hello to memory snapshots! Now you can turn off your computer, and restart it the next day, e-x-a-c-t-l-y as you left it! Nice feature!, and it only requires as much HD space, as the memory your PC has. In my case this is a 20 seconds operation that dumps 512 MB to the HD. Beware with HD usage, if you are running an older machine... but then... why are using Win 2000 PRO, on such hardware?
#4) say goodbye to some controller devices. By default, not a single gaming device [joystick, force feedback wheel, etc...] is supported, but Microsoft delivers special drivers to its own devices, so it is a matter of time, until everyone else does the same.
More on Win 2000 PRO, soon.
The Internet! enters your cable modem using a coaxial cable, exactly like the one your aerial TV antenna uses.