ProfeC.net

Author Archive

Response to “The Illegal Usage of RFC 822″

By Lee • Apr 21st, 2008 • Category: Recent Entries, Technology
Response to “The Illegal Usage of RFC 822″

I have to admit that I have definitely misused RFC 822. Who hasn’t? Using your example of large files (or any file for that matter), there really isn’t a better way to get a file(s) to someone who doesn’t know “any better”.
For example I had to send a photograph to someone last week [...]



Coming soon: superfast internet

By Lee • Apr 7th, 2008 • Category: Current Events, Technology
Coming soon: superfast internet

The internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.
At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less [...]



Photo of the Week April 6, 2008

By Lee • Apr 6th, 2008 • Category: Photo of the Week
Photo of the Week April 6, 2008

Okay, it’s been a while since I have shared any photos with everyone. This one has been in Flickr for a while, but not “advertised”. I think I have enough for a set of these, but I am trying to be picky and only give you guys my 4+ starred photos. Feel [...]



South Park to Offer All Episodes for Free Download

By Lee • Mar 28th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment, Recent Entries
South Park to Offer All Episodes for Free Download

Parker and Stone said they were inspired to start the site when they got “really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time. So we gave ourselves a legal alternative.”
read more | digg story



An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up

By Lee • Mar 12th, 2008 • Category: Current Events
An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up

As a symbol of health and wellness, nothing surpasses the simple push-up.
Practically everyone remembers the actor Jack Palance performing age-defying push-ups during his Oscar acceptance speech. More recently, Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor whose last lecture became an Internet sensation, did push-ups to prove his fitness despite having pancreatic cancer.
“It takes strength to do [...]