The Daily Grind 552

Sick infants always seem so perplexed with the world.

Software

• Get Solaris 10 - I suppose I ought to take a look at this, though it would be nice to know whether it actually runs on any hardware I own before I bother to download a copy.
• OpScript - Open source Object Pascal scripting engine for Windows hosts. (via Jonathan Wells)

Information

• The Origins of Cyberspace, Sale 1484 - Auction at Christie's of various books and manuscripts in the history of computing (ignore the cutesy auction title; most or all of these have nothing to do with "cyberspace"). If I had six or seven figures of disposable income hanging around I'd be right in there bidding. (via SlashDot)
• Exclusive Excerpt from Volume 4 of The Art of Computer Programming - Wow, after decades the next volume of the classic Knuth series is starting to appear, and you can actually download part of it.
• BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft Announces Simulation Questions - This could raise the bar for MCP exams - or it could prove to be a complete joke. I've seen some of the previous attempts at simulations on such exams and they weren't impressive.
• A First Look at IIS 7.0 - And Microsoft starts to leak information about another coming product. (via Nikhil Kothari)
• About Int32's DontTouchThis() - Brad Abrams explains a slimy hack in the Base Class Library.

Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.

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