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For CPU geeks:
Visual 6502: a visual simulation of a vintage microprocessor, in Javascript
The Visual 6502 project uses Javascript (!) and hi-rez images of vintage processors (notably the MOS 6502) to recreate functional, visual models of these ancient beasts:
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This model is very accurate and can run classic 6502 programs, including Atari games. By rendering our polygons with colors corresponding to their 'high' or 'low' logic state, we can show, visually, exactly how the chip operates: how it reads data and instructions from memory, how its registers and internal busses operate, and how toggling a single input pin (the 'clock') on and off drives the entire chip to step through a program and get things done.
Kinda' pretty to watch.
For OS and Mac geeks:
Looking back at OS X's origins
The fortunes of the Mac platform drastically changed 10 years ago, with the release of a simple CD.
On Sept. 13, 2000, Apple released its Mac OS X Public Beta, a limited-time trial run of the ultra-modern, groundbreaking operating system that would replace the old Mac OS. Priced at $30 for a CD distributed via Apple’s online store, the beta gave the general public their first taste of an operating system that would go on to win popular acclaim and attract scores of Windows users to the Macintosh.
Lots o' backstory on the development of OS X....
Seriously. I've long been a user of both Macs and Windows, though I've generally favored Mac. But OSX in general, and Leopard in particular, are my favorite operating systems ever. Beautiful.
I find myself hating the Finder with fair regularity and wishing for something as generally functional as Explorer, but otherwise I'm right there with you.
What do you find wrong with Finder?
Gris,
I like Path Finder a whole lot. That's my "finder" of choice.
I have no problems with the standard Leopard Finder. I have no problems finding anything, and if I do, Spotlight has no problems finding it for me.
And I'm majorly in love with the dock.
I also like Path Finder a lot, actually. The "Queue" is one of my favorite features of all time, with the quick-access terminal nearly as awesome. But I stopped wanting to pay the upgrade fees a while ago.
The Finder is way better now than it used to be. But I used to have troubles that I'm essentially incapable of explaining. One thing I do hate still: in List View (my view of choice), it's impossible to create a new folder inside of an uncollapsed folder that ISN'T the root folder of the window. At least, I've not figured out how.
The thing that annoys me about Finder is that you can't easily reorder items in column view. Sometimes I want to switch between alphabetically and date created on the fly and there isnt a button for that.
HTML table question:
This is for a web application that only runs on IE. Currently I'm testing it on IE8.
I define a table like so:
<table frame="box" width="100%" align="center" rules="none" >
The problem is the table border has that 3-D effect, which we don't want. All we want is a one-pixel wide border around a table.
When I try this:
<table frame="box" width="100%" align="center" rules="none" border="1" >
or this:
<table frame="box" width="100%" align="center" rules="none" border="1" style="border-style: solid">
I still get the 3-D border effect. I would think that specifying a border one-pixel wide would result in a one-pixel wide, non-3D border, but no. Do I need to define something in a stylesheet?
