One of the latest impressive innovations to come out of Google is that they have speech recognition software good enough to automatically index audio and video streams and make the spoken word searchable. Due to the impending presidential election, the project is currently focussed on political speeches, and makes it easy for you to compare what different politicians have said about any particular issue. You can find it here: http://labs.google.com/gaudi

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After threatening it for a number of years, my Dad has finally set up his own web site. Find out more at Ron Jackson - Now & Then 1939-2006.

For a while now, I've wondered what the prime numbers look like in binary, that is, if you paint the ones as white dots, and the zeros as black dots, what does the whole set look like? I finally got around to writing a program to generate the prime numbers and output them as a PNG, and you can see the results below...

I was trying to find out how to tell, from within a C program under GCC, what OS the code was being compiled under. I was porting RPCemu to MacOSX, and wanted to switch between big and little endian code without doing something clunky in autoconf.

I have access to a number of machine through work, and it's sometimes hard to find adequate information about the operating systems that are installed on them. The first problem is finding out what version of what operating system they are using. Usually, the uname -a command is enough to work out what's running on a UNIX machine, but sometimes (particularly with Linuxes) it does not provide quite enough info. This page contains a list examples for determining exactly what your working on.

I've been slowly working on a new look for this website and I've just switched it on. It's not finished, and it almost certainly looks foul if you are using Internet Explorer^†, but it's getting there. Feedback is welcome, and will be added to the following list...