http://www.yoyogames.com/make

There is a free version - and paid for. You can code via their visual tool - or on the command line. My 11 year old son makes fine games using this!

I'm on Virgin and have had the same IP address for years. It's not guaranteed to be static - but it is static enough that I don't bother with any dynamic DNS services.

I'm surprised that removable backup media has not caught up with the speed of change in hard disk sizes. In the olden days we used to backup with a couple of QIC-60's and we were happy. Later it was DAT backups, What inexpensive tape backup technologies are available today? It would seem that the best alternative is to use a drive itself as a backup medium and take it off-site.

The majority (99%) of the worlds hydrogen is made from hydrocarbons believe it or not (natural gas). Hardly a solution! Yes you can make it from water - but it is not efficient - and you would be better off using that electricity to charge a battery vehicle.

If this were the case, Apple would be out of business.

Well said - seriously - i'm so over hacking up my own hardware - I just want to buy something, plug it in, and it works. Maybe if I were a teenager with lots of time on my hands, and no money - OK, i'll spend a few days hacking up a NAS - but i'm not. I have a job, make good money, and have a life. I'm willing to pay for convenience.

http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/

Excellent firefox plugin to solve just this "problem".

"ShareMeNot is a Firefox add-on designed to prevent third-party buttons (such as the Facebook “Like” button or the Twitter “tweet” button) embedded by sites across the Internet from tracking you until you actually click on them. Unlike traditional solutions, ShareMeNot does this without completely removing the buttons from the web experience."

http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/

"ShareMeNot is a Firefox add-on designed to prevent third-party buttons (such as the Facebook “Like” button or the Twitter “tweet” button) embedded by sites across the Internet from tracking you until you actually click on them. Unlike traditional solutions, ShareMeNot does this without completely removing the buttons from the web experience."

And this is where Wikileaks comes into play - leak away your employers dirty secrets!

SCO Unix is not Xenix. SCO UNIX was based on System V R3 - Xenix was based on - Xenix :-)

Xenix came from Microsoft. It originally ran on the 8086, then the 80286, then a 32-bit version was released.

SCO UNIX only ran on a 32-bit processor (386 and above).

Xenix was a pretty nice OS - available WAY before any other UNIX like OS ran on commodity hardware. You could easly run 16 serial terminals on a 286. Running 4 terminals on an 8086 was also no problem at all.

Of course, this was all when SCO was "The Santa Cruz Operation" - the original SCO - not the new "SCO Group" which it ended up being called after being bought by Caldera.

It is bound to happen.

What is the definition of art? I once heard it described as:

Art is anything you are willing to exhibit

If I want to exhibit a turd on a stick - well that's art. You might not like it, but that does not change the facts.

It would be interesting to see if the 3DS is backwards compatible with the DS Lite. Nintendo typically always support the previous generation of consoles.

It would also be interesting to see if playing an older DS game will be interpolated into some sort of pseudo-3D on the 3DS - perhaps with some downloadable modules specific to each game. Not to change the gameplay, but perhaps to just give it a new look and feel.

Hmm, well 'Xenix' is actually an old SCO product which SCO originally bought off Microsoft, but it was then licensed to several other vendors - but as has been said here, your best bet is the serial port. Either use UUCP, or if you have a compiler on the host - compile up a simple xmodem/ymodem/zmodem binary and transfer like that. Worst case scenario, tar up all the data, compress it (it would have old style unix compress -.Z), uuencode it (if you don't have uuencode, you can download it -it's just a shell script I recall), split it up into chunks, then just cat each individual chunk onto another host and reverse the process to decode it all back into a tar file. You might want to checksum each bit too (sum should be on old Xenix systems).

I think removing the disk and mounting it on another host should be your absolute last resort.

Imagine some malware which randomly downloads a dozen copyright mp3's - instantly making millions of unsuspecting users instant criminals - potentially with a 3-strikes liability. Insane.