Interrupt-Driven

Some of you probably know this diagram which shows the history of the unix operating system familly. It’s IMHO less known that the same author also created a diagram which shows a detailed history of programming languages
(link).

To get a nicely printed version of this, fetch the recent Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung catalog. It has the timeline on it’s flipside.

In one of todays featured articles wikipedia.org explains the so called “heavy metal umlaut”
(link). Böse!

Chris sent me this link that morning. It’s a cpu load monitor which uses one of these battery self-tests as a display device. Great stuff!

Comic Cosmos together with Cinemaxx Darmstadt is showing a series of mangas. I will most probably
skip the “Shaolin Kickers”, but the rest of the films looks promising to me.

Besides some stories read by humans gutenberg.net also hosts a great number of audio books which were produced using a text to speech processor (link).

Perhaps i’m just playing the woman but for me the quality of these recordings is hard to bear. I can’t image that someone is really listening to this stuff. Mind an example? Listen to this sample from Mary Shelleys Frankstein
(link). What’s the point in distributing these files in the first place?

Project Gutenberg has several audio books of
Sherlock Holmes stories online (link).

• The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Valley of Fear, Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Last Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

The sound quality of the files i’ve sampled so far is quit good.

The University of Minnesota provides audio files of their lecture “Studies in Narrative: Science Fiction and Fantasy”.

If you’re into Sci-Fi or Fantasy it’s definitvely interesting stuff. The first two lectures discuss the origin and history of Sci-Fi. The next two lectures are doing just the same for Fantasy. It’s also tried to define the borders between theses two related genres. The fifth lecture starts a treatment of the classical Sci-Fi theme of utopian/distopian societies.

The current issue of the weekly german newsletter “Die Zeit” has a really good squib written by Harald Martenstein which reflects upon certain trashy tattoos which are called Arschgeweih. As far as i could see it’s not part of ZeitOnline.

The DaLug is hosting a talk about the future of VoIP.

The topics include :

• Protocols and standards
• VoIP and NAT
• Voice quality
• Linux tools
• VoIP and the Web

The focus of the talk is SIP. The date is may 28th, start is at 6pm. For further information have a look at the
announcement .

Interrupt-Driven has a new home. It’s no longer located at the digital analogy
of a farm track but has relocated to a fairly well connected vicinity.

After some fights with the moveabletype import/export function operations
should now be back to normal. If you notice that something is broken please
drop me a comment.

Many thanks to Collin for hosting meerkoetter.org!