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Chat Transcripts

Here are transcripts of some technology chats at TalkCity from '97. A must read!!

Alex Haddox, Product Manager of Symantec Antivirus Research Center (SARC)
While "Love Bug" virus hadn't been written in '97, Macro viruses were in their incipient stages. Alex Haddox talks about Symantec and viruses.

Vinton Cerf, "Father of the Internet"
Dr. Vinton Cerf provides some excellent insight into the future of the Internet, ipv6 and his opinions on many technocultural issues.

Michael Steele, Product Manager of AMD
Michael talks about the K6 processor, AMD's future plans and answers some user queries.

Carl Larson, Product Manager of Intel
You read the AMD transcript, now find out the other side of the story from Intel. Carl gives a sneak preview of processor technologies to come and explains the different intel architectures.

Source Codes

The code is not meant for commercial use. Many of the programs were programmed on the Intel P100 or P200 and may not work on the latest processors! You can reuse the source code but please don't mail me asking for technical support. The Pascal programs may require a RTE200 patch.

GraphLIB : Four units for handling bitmap, sprites, double buffer and graphic initialization. Much of the source code is in Pascal. Some of the time critical routines are written in Assembly.

IRCX Client : An IRCX protocol supporting chat program written in Visual Basic. You will need the activex control MSCHATPR.OCX to run it. The signal processors can be used to add your own command support. Source is at very experimental stages only.

Ray Tracer (DOS) : You need to be familiar with the object placement format as given in Roger T. Watkins graphics programming book to use the ray tracer. The source code is in C. There is a Windows version also that was going to be used for nanocomputer.org. The actual task was to be able to render PDB (protein database) files.

ANX : This is an animation file encoder (no compression but makes it into one file), decoder (playback) and viewer (playback from file!). It is written in Pascal. Full source code and sample files are included.

PAL50FIX : A file patcher to allow playback of NTSC mpegs on PAL TVs. Someone could probably write a TSR out of it? Pascal source code.

UnrealIRC : I was writing this before the folks had written Shellsock. The idea is the same, telnet to the host (from the shell) and monitor the connection. Pascal code again.

ShellSock Guide: This is supposed to be a help file. It was created by compiling a RTF file. RTF is a very horrible format. Don't even touch it with a barge pole.

ircclient-0.1.tar.gz : This one utilizes BSD sockets to do communicate. It was developed using the Kdevelop IDE (excellent!). You should be able to compile it on any unix platform. To run, make clean ; make ; make install.

Interesting Web Sites

Some interesting sites that I have encountered while surfing.

Distributed.Net: Distributed processing is a hot topic. These folks write software to solve problems using the millions of Internet connected machines, which would be normally be possible by using a supercomputer. I'm the regional representative for India, drop me a mail at regional-in@distributed.net if you have queries.

FreeOS: Very good resource for free operating system. The coverage is excellent. Sometimes I write articles for the site.

TopCoder: TopCoder was formed by Jack Hughes in order to give employers a way to assess programmer skills. Topcoder holds weekly contests and tournaments to assess programmer performance. Cash prizes are awarded!

NP optimization problems: This site has a list of NP problems which can be optimized for time through dynamic programming and other techniques.

Valladolid ACM Problem Set: The ACM ICPC is an annual programming contest held for college students. This site contains problems from previous contests. It is an excellent starting place for getting practice.

Assemble It Documents: 3d, BSP trees, phong shading, assembly tutorials, pentium optimization tricks.

Crystal Space: It is a open source (?) 3d engine. Only for linux. Very cool, full source code provided!!

Jet3D: Another 3d engine. Works for many different platforms.

Algorithm Page: Huge list of algorithms. Good reading material.

MAX-FUEL, 3dsmax tutorials: If you are interested in 3d modelling and use 3d studio max, this is an excellent learning resource.

Sci.Electronic.Repair FAQ: This really has nothing to do with computers, but all the same, this is one of the most comprehensive repair guides you will find. Now you don't need to call that service tech when your TV breaks down....

Eurodance Radio: A good euro dance radio on the internet. You can listen to the mp3/wma stream.