U.S.S. Repulse:Engineering

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I, and my sites, all use Apple's MacOS operating system. Despite recent rumors of Apple's impending demise, I remain confident that my access to the MacOS and its further development are not in danger. Counting Apple out of the fight seems to be a biannual pastime of the business reporting industry.

If you need information concerning Apple Computers or software, use the following search engine:

Apple Data Retrieval

Ah, now we come to the seamier side of personal computing. I do not like Microsoft. Why? Well, let's see:

"No one will ever need more than 640K of memory." Bill Gates dooming us to fates worse than extended memory and infinite pageswapping and the 640K barrier
"Our interface is as easy to use and as stable as the MacOS." Yeah, right.
Those wonderful ballooning Microsoft App memory and disk space requirements
Microsoft's unhesitant use of the Fear/Uncertainty/Doubt factor to crush innovation at other, smaller firms
Those feature-rich programs that nevertheless won't do the one *(!*#$%^ simple thing you need
Microsoft Office. I gotta use it, but that doesn't mean I gotta like it.
...etc. etc. Insert your own here! Cut out and save!

Having gotten than off my chest, I nevertheless concede that they produce products which an overwhelming number of people either must or have become inured to using. Some even like them better, and their arguments, no doubt, sound as evangelical as mine. That's their lookout. I wish them well. Thus, I offer the link above to Microsoft's home pages. And to keep the books even, there is the following:

Microsuck

Welcome to Microsuck. They say it all for me.

Trek Engineering and Technology

Warp Technology-A Primer

We wouldn't be able to get anywhere without the Warp drive. If you're curious about how it works, and why various ships on various shows use different warp numbers, check out the Warp Primer.

The Star Trek Particle Bestiary

In the course of exploring known and unknown space, the intrepid crews of Starfleet have run up against an astonishing number of highly unusual particles and particulate behavior, ranging from warp particles to dekyon fields to soliton waves to chronitons. There is a complete guide to those little beasties, and provisions for adding your own if there's one you think was mentioned on trek and isn't there.

Stardates and How They Work (Really!)

However could we keep those deepspace rendezvous without knowing what Stardate it is?