Notes from the August 2001 Meeting


Forth in Linux and Unix
submitted by Kevin Appert and Dave Jaffe

The Russian Forth Interest Group (some English there, have a look!) and a couple of Linux links:
http://www.forth.org.ru/

GFORTH (for Unix/Linux)
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/

KFORTH (Linux)
http://ccreweb.org/software/kforth/kforth.html

Debian package
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/interpreters/kforth.html

Portable Forth Environment (Unix)
http://PFE.sourceforge.net/

Skip's list o'Forths
http://www.forth.org/compilers.html

BigForth
http://bigforth.sourceforge.net/

Charmed wearable computers
http://www.charmed.com/catalog/


Misc
submitted by Kevin Appert

Surveillance Cameras
A woman in Tulsa saw this picture and (incorrectly) identifying the fellow as her ex-husband, called the police.
http://www.sptimes.com/News/080801/TampaBay/_They_made_me_feel_li.shtml

The Surveillance Camera Players
At least one (and perhaps more) organization has troupes of mimes protesting security cameras (for some years now)
http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html

A new participant!
Jodell Bumatay and her URL: http://www.dolfina.org/jodell/
Her "Instant Tourist Guide to the FORTH Dimension": http://www.dolfina.org/tutorials/index.shtml

Utilities software
WASP (write all stored passwords) Password Recovery (removes ******* so you can see the passwords you've arranged to automatically key in) and AC Plug (to keep you from timing out when connected to your ISP)
http://www.iopus.com/