He says he'll be leaving to work for `a big company' and that, yes, he will be working with PCs. The Lair
would like to wish Mat all the best, and we won't say `we told you so' when he starts regularly shouting
at Windoze 98 :-)
The incredibly brainy people down at IBM have pioneered a rather special development,
I think you'll agree.
Most edge connectors are currently made out of aluminium. You know, the things that break on the custom
chips :-). The new technology will allow an unprescedented 2,200 exterior connections, say IBM, and is
manufactured at the 0.2 micron level. Currently,
IBM are distributing development kits, but the first products using the technology are expected by the
end of this year.
Relating to this, chairman emeritus of Intel, Gordon Moore has said that
his (in)famous law about chip power doubling every 18 months would need to be revised. Copper conductors
would boost electron transfer by 50% but manufacturing would be hit by increasingly complex
lithographic procedures.
The familiar .com
,.edu
,.org
and .co
top level domains names (and variations thereon) have served us well.
Certain domain names have snuck in from time to time, .net
being one that springs to mind,
but I'm sure I've seen a site with a .plc
domain name.
However, there is definitely a
problem: not only are we running out of DNS address (the funny numbers that represent www.company.com),
certain legal problems are growing up around internet domain names.
To help combat this problem, the powers that be have decided that we need more domain names. These
are, as follows:
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.web | Web related sites |
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.rec | Similar to the Usenet dir - recreational |
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.nom | For personal sites |
| .info | Guess... |