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...hapless first-year was exercising the ambition characteristic of Harvard students when he used his word processor to cut and paste addresses into an advertisement for last week's Opportunes-Callbacks concert. While he may have gained some concert-goers, he also drew a barrage of tongue-lashings. Former Digitas president Jeff C. Tarr '96 called it a "horrible waste of resources" and "bad e-mail etiquette." And Paul Martin, chair of the Faculty of Arts Sciences Committee on Information Technology insisted that mass mailings could "bring the system to its knees." The most extreme reaction was a piece...
...Canaday resident said he used his word processor to copy the addresses from the directory onto the letter document. Simon said he then inserted commas in the spaces between the names, and mailed the documents...
...play Quake, you might need some new hardware. Quake runs on high-end 486 machines with at least 8 megabytes of RAM--but just barely. And you can't run Quake on Macintosh computers or older 486 machines without floating processor units, like the 486-SX models...
Alluding to a scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in which Indy must choose the real Holy Grail, Colangelo brought out two Pudding Pots, one of which was the real Pot and the other a clever imitation--a food processor...
...test his theory, Ellison has commissioned Acorn, a British computer maker, to help design a "networked computer" to his specifications, with a keyboard, a processor, some random-access memory, a communications link and not much else. Meanwhile, nearly every other major computer maker, from Apple to IBM, claims to have something similar in the works. Sun has teamed up with Japan's Fujitsu on a machine they are calling (not surprisingly) the "Java terminal...