Ever wanted to hold the sun in your palm? Between your hands? Next time you go out take a snap yourself of you holding the sun all by yourself.
(Click the thumbnails for full size images)
Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server — thus, the name Apache
Apple Computers - favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 o’clock.
C - Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it ‘New B’. He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie)
CISCO - its not an acronymn but the short for San Francisco.
Compaq - using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
GNU - a species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humour associated with its pronuniciation and was also influenced by the children’s song ‘The Gnu Song’ which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with ‘GNU’s Not Unix’.
Google - the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ‘Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’!
Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.
HP - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ‘Moore Noyce’ but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Java - Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was another language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank.
Hey,
I am publishing the my portion of the NightFall source code under GPL.
You can download it, and some of the videos that show what can be done with it from http://www.nigredostudios.com/nightfall
You will need 7-zip to open the source code, get it from http://www.7-zip.com
The images to the right are resized images form the random archives found here at AMMAHLS - now you can use these images as an active desktop item, or repaint your desktop with a full screen active desktop image from the AMMAHLS.com archives.
All you need to do is;
1) Click start
2) Click RUN
3) type desk.cpl
4) Select the desktop tab
5) Click customise desktop
6) Click the web tab
7) Click new
Enter the URL
http://www.ammahls.com/random/rotate.php
9) Click ok
10) On the big box asking would you like to make http://www.ammahls.com/random/rotate.php and active desktop item chose OK
11) A sync will happen (might take a few minutes)
12) Click ok
13) Click apply.
To make it full screen click Cover Desktop in the menu bar as accessed from this menu
Enjoy!
Let say you have undeletable file called .pureftpd-upload.446e2f48.15.1dc1.3385a655 in on your site you cant remove, well there is a simple solution to this problem.
You can create a PHP file called something.php, and place this code into it
$myFile = '.pureftpd-upload.446e2f48.15.1dc1.3385a655';
unlink($myFile);
?>
Now upload something.php to the folder that has the stubborn pureftpd-upload file in it, and change the persimmons of the folder to 777 (and something.php) via CHMOD.
Next open something.php in you web browser via your domains URL, as an example; web page http://www.example.com/path/something.php
Now the file has been deleted.
You MUST delate something.php and return the folder to the original CHMOD (Normally 644) once you remove the folder for security.
If you have more then one .pureftpd-upload just make additional lines with the file such as
$myFile = '.pureftpd-upload.446e2f48.15.1dc1.3385a655';
unlink($myFile);
$myFile2 = '.pureftpd-upload.1iU1dkC5.25.qN26.qN446e28';
unlink($myFile2);
?>
Adam
Hey world!
Marriage is coming in about 12 months to my wonderful girl Ping Ping, and I (Adam).
Its all unofficial until I ask for permission from her parents, but we are preparing for it all to go to plan in October 2008.
Yays!
Adam
Click here and give me a thumbs up so that Nigredo has a chance of getting a place, or winning the contest 
Nigredo Studios website has finally gone live, after 4 months of pain staking work - you can view it here http://www.nigredostudios.com
Adam
The random archive http://www.ammahls.com/random has just reached 650 files, and around 130MB.
Take a look, and give me some feedback!
With the fun i had doing a hole heap of optimization to ZHLT & CST, i have chosen to tackle FFDshow (tryout), an open source Coedc for windows.
I will be making my first commit around the 25th of April 2007.
I have also been looking at doing some work on Firefox for windows but it’s just to much code to get my head around first, and second needs no real speed boost - its a web browser, not a compiler.
Place for about text
So who is amckern & WTF is AMMAHLS?
First AMMAHLS is just:
amckerns Maps Mods And Half Life Stuff
Who is amckern?
Adam ‘amckern’ McKern is a 26 Year old programmer / level designer running an Australian games developer called Nigredo Studios based in Baulkham Hills, a suburb of Sydney.
My history of games development comes from mods such as Nightfall, Incoming Source, SDBC, and Nuclear Dawn. I also have industry experience where I have done work on titles such as UAG & the Catapult IDE for the GBA.
In my spare time I play Natural Selection, make maps, take an active role in helping run Custom Factor, and apply my programming skills to projects such as FFDShow Tryouts - a modified version of the FFDShow Codec, and maintain both ZHLT 3.x & CST 1.x.
