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Friday, May 27, 2005 3:17 PM

The Antikythera computing device, the most complex instrument of antiquity

In 1900 Greek sponge divers discovered an astonishingly intricate mechanism in Antikythera, an island near Crete (Greece). Its complexity is far in advance of what was expected from a device that was build about 80 BC. Read the full story Here.  
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 12:41 PM

A word about Security

David Wheeler has a great page about Securing Microsoft Windows. Check it out Here.
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Friday, May 06, 2005 2:55 PM

zLoc a nice (and unknown) VFP Intellisense Feature

Probably today is the day of the tips! -:) Earlier today reading Rick Schummer's blog I discovered a very kewl VFP Command: zLoc From Rick's post: “ In one of your programs type in the following: zlocAnd press the spacebar.
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Friday, May 06, 2005 1:33 PM

Another super cool calvin's tip

In his blog Calvin Hsia presents a nice VFP program to load the Windows Registry into a table. I tried it and it works nicely. In my machine it took about 3 minutes. Be patient... Check it out here. (Via Alex Feldstein)
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