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Nerd at daytime, partyman at night

Steve Wozniak - Steve Jobs - creators of Apple Macintosh

Tsutomu Shimomura - Sun's network security guru

Dan Farmer - Sun's network security guru

Steve Outtrim - Hotdog

Marc Andressen - Netscape
Jamie Zawinski - Netscape

Michael Dell - still only 30, youngest fortune 500 CEO ever

Ray Ozzie - creator of Lotus Notes

Cutting edge Technologies

SONET: currently at 10GBps, it's not as fast the 1TBps achieved by Fujitsu, but this still enables you to download data faster through the network than from your hard disk! Ideal for Virtual Reality apps.

FibreChannel: promises to be the way to go for ultrafast I/O

RAID Level 5 disk storage

64 bit Oracle database: Totally destroys 32-bit Oracle7.

MPEG-2: incredible video compression. Like that, how many movies can you fit in one CD?

The Alpha 21164 processor: currently at 333 MHz, it leaves the rest eating dust.

The Raptor 3 Workstation: running on Alpha 21164 (above), it's the greatest Windows NT workstation ever

Holographic storage: where iron-doped crystals (eg, Strontium Niobate) the size of a pack of cards would hold 1TB of data

Protein Memory - where "cubettes" 1"x1"x2" are expected to hold Gigabytes (Byte Apr96)

Quantum Computers- where single atoms are deployed, and raw processing speeds expected to reach 1GHz (Byte Apr96)

Online Information

AllMusic: database of all major albums ever released (+ reviews, bios, etc)

Movies

Internet Movie Database

screenit.com: spoilers

Computing

Byte

PC Magazine

PC World: Malaysian edition

Business

Findat: world business info at your fingertips.

Spiritual

Gospel Communications
Answers to tough questions

News/Mags

Weird and wonderful
Ufomind.com: X-philes joint
Blackbird: SR-71 unofficial homepage
Info on sick individuals (Bundy, Gacy, Jones, Dahmer et al) and more
Charles Manson, America's favourite psychopath
Perfect example of pure, no-frills content :-)

Shareware

Shareware.com

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