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4th January 2000

Macintosh System Error Codes

“-33 Directory full, -34 Disk full: all Allocation blocks on volume full, -35 No such drive, -36 I/O error, -37 Bad name: perhaps zero length, -38 File not open, -39 End of file reached while reading, -40 Attempt to position before start of file, -42 Too many files open, -43 File not found…”

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4th January 2000

[ Designmuseum ]

“This informative, innovative site offers an insight into international contemporary design. Incorporating design & architecture exhibitions (past & present), education programmes, entertaining facilities, membership schemes and design shop.” Current exhibition: “How did James Bond inspire a toilet brush? Not the kind of question one might imagine the Design Museum posing, but one which is fundamental to the Museum’s millennial exhibition, Design: Process, Progress, Practice. Design: Process, Progress, Practice takes 20 of this century’s most iconic creations and looks not just at what they are, but how they are and more importantly why they are. Unlike most exhibitions, DP3 is not a celebration of what is good. The items chosen have been identified to communicate something specific about design and the way it affects us all.”

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4th January 2000

[ Designmuseum ]

“This informative, innovative site offers an insight into international contemporary design. Incorporating design & architecture exhibitions (past & present), education programmes, entertaining facilities, membership schemes and design shop.” Current exhibition: “How did James Bond inspire a toilet brush? Not the kind of question one might imagine the Design Museum posing, but one which is fundamental to the Museum’s millennial exhibition, Design: Process, Progress, Practice. Design: Process, Progress, Practice takes 20 of this century’s most iconic creations and looks not just at what they are, but how they are and more importantly why they are. Unlike most exhibitions, DP3 is not a celebration of what is good. The items chosen have been identified to communicate something specific about design and the way it affects us all.”

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4th January 2000

Wired Magazine and Wired Web site may rejoin

“Wired magazine and Wired News, a daily news service, could soon be reunited, the San Francisco Examiner reported last week. Advance Publishing, current owner of the magazine, may purchase the www.wired.com URL address from Lycos Inc. for close to $15 million, the newspaper reported.”

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4th January 2000

Visual Science: An Emerging Discipline

“The emergence of computer graphics as a powerful medium to communicate information is one of the primary reasons graphics is playing a larger role in engineering, science and technology. Such a powerful medium has emerged from many sources. The author suggests that there is a philosophical foundation and a unique body of knowledge necessary for a discipline called visual science. This emerging discipline has as its foundation spatial cognition, imaging and geometry. These three areas when combined provide the knowledge base for visual science. The applications for visual science can be grouped into two areas: artistic and technical.”

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4th January 2000

Creating good websites

“Many people have the impression of Web design as a purely technical task, somewhat akin to programming or designing a database. In their view, the ‘difficult part’ of creating a website is coming up with the final HTML code that makes the page display. This is absolutely not the case. If only it were that easy… In reality, web design covers an enormous range of skills, some of which are professions in their own right. To be a good web designer, you must truly be a ‘jack of all trades.’ It probably helps if you’re a master in at least one or two of them.”

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4th January 2000

Creating good websites

“Many people have the impression of Web design as a purely technical task, somewhat akin to programming or designing a database. In their view, the ‘difficult part’ of creating a website is coming up with the final HTML code that makes the page display. This is absolutely not the case. If only it were that easy… In reality, web design covers an enormous range of skills, some of which are professions in their own right. To be a good web designer, you must truly be a ‘jack of all trades.’ It probably helps if you’re a master in at least one or two of them.”

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