Paul Panks is the author of "HLA Adventure," an adventure game written in Randall Hyde's HLA (High Level Assembly) language. His ultimate intention was for others to eventually contribute to this project, so in May 2003 he released it into public domain, including the source
code, so others could add to the game over time. Paul is a native of Phoenix, Arizona, an avid fan of pro football and creative writing, and became
interested in Linux programming through Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core.
Ubuntu Linux is a new
experience for me. Having
used only Red Hat's
Fedora Core, I was
anxious to try out the
recently released Ubuntu
5.10 (available from
Ubuntu's Website at
www.ubuntu.com). I was
not disappointed. After
waiting approximately 45
minutes to downl...
Human memory and Random
Access Memory (RAM) share
one thing in common: they
are both very volatile.
This basically means that
once the power sources
feeding the memories are
terminated, the memories
disappear forever (at
least in the case of
human short-term memory;...
I often wonder what
happens to data when it
gets erased. Just where
does it go? What happens
to it? Does it 'vanish'
completely, or does it
still exist somewhere,
perhaps in the memory
bank of the expanding
universe?
My aunt and I were having
an e-mail discussion
about which is the
easiest to use: a real
photo album with pictures
or a computer photo
album, as on a CD-ROM. I
suggested that we put all
the family photos into an
album rather than having
them strewn all over the
pl...
There is a concept in
computers called the
'Digital Rainbow,' an
idea that describes how
all digital projects
eventually end at a pot
of programming gold.
Riding the Digital
Rainbow is akin to riding
the light waves of a
silicon world, from
everything in computers...
Sometime between the
years 1995 and 2004,
Linux reached the
mainstream of computer
users the world over. No
longer was it all about
Microsoft or the Mac. Now
there was a new sheriff
in town, and it was a
penguin packing some
serious heat.