Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

If you’re jealous of the beautiful Apple Macintosh interfaces and OSX’s expose feature, Task Switch XP might be the panacea you need. They provide a 100% free 300kb open source installer and source code. The application is also lightweight, using about 700kb of RAM and 0% CPU. Here’s a quick screenshot:

This has inspired me to repurpose a verse from Tupac Shakur’s famous Hit ‘em up to commemorate this application:

Hit your tabs and you see task switch-
Call the macs and show ‘em task switch!
Windows, I switch ‘em up.

This thing totally blows Microsoft’s Windows XP TS powertoy out of the water!

From my cryptography textbook:

Suppose you want to factor a number of around 200 digits. The method used in elementary school is to divide n by all of the primes up to the square root of n. There are about 4 * 10⁹⁷ primes. The number of electrons in the universe is estimated to be less than 10⁹⁰. Long before you finish your calculation, you’ll get a call from the electric company asking you to stop.

For the first time ever, I rank fourth on Google for the search term “elliott,” directly above Missy Elliott, my competitor for so many long years:

This is totally a huge ego search, but I must confess that I optimized the front page a little more heavily for that keyword than I did before, increasingly the density dramatically.