Here is a way I found to do a byte swap on a floating point number. For those who dont know what that is, it is a method that I use for converting data so that machines with different architectures can share data. Intel machines, for example, are “little endian”, whereas Sun boxed are “big endian”. Anyone else have another way to do the same thing? Keep reading for my method…
If you’ve ever flown in a commercial plane, you’ve probably been told to turn off your cell phone during the flight. Now, you have also probably been led to believe that the use of a cell phone could interfere with the operation of the aircraft. Well, I never believed that using a cell phone could have any effect on a commercial plane – and I have asked pilots in the past about it, and they agree (and here is a link to someone else that thinks similarly). So where does this “rule” come from? Could using a cell phone “bring down a plane”? If there really is a threat, wouldn’t it make sense to at least have some way of detecting such devices, for the safety of the passengers?
Every once in a while, I find some software that I really think is useful, and that other people could use if they knew it existed. Lately I was looking around and stumbled on a couple of data visualization packages (for Linux, both FREE), both of which seem to be pretty cool, and a freeware SSH program for Windows. Read on to get more info on all of them…