Archive for March, 2005

Water

March 17th, 2005 by Keith Burnett

Motivation and timescale

March 17th, 2005 by Keith Burnett

Last few Drink or Die members are going through the courts – a non-profit cracking and warez ring
The BBC report on the UK conviction of Alex Bell and Steven Dowd now in 2005 after raids in 2001 relating to activity in the mid 90s has me thinking about the difference in timescales in IT and [...]

Statistics simulations

March 13th, 2005 by Keith Burnett

A series of Java based statistics simulations provides covarage of most aspects of statistics at level 3 and 4 (Normal distribution, skew, sampling, tests of significance)
These are part of the Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics and you can download the lot as a ZIP file (or as JBuilder source code)
The site also includes a stats [...]

FTP upload script (perl)

March 6th, 2005 by Keith Burnett

Andrew Hunter provided a simple and ingenious perl script that will ftp a directory’s worth of files to a remote Web server
Well done that man
This script worked fine on Windows under Active State perl and works (without modification) under Mac OS X using the perl that comes with Panther