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Submission + - 30-year-old Mac resurrected as a web server (rhyal.com)

Huxley_Dunsany writes: After much work rebuilding and upgrading it, my Macintosh SE/30 from 1989 is now connected via Ethernet to the Web, and is hosting a simple website and old-style "guestbook." The site has been online for a few days (other than semi-frequent reboots of the system when it gets overloaded with requests), and has served nearly 20,000 visitors. For a machine with a 16MHz CPU and 68 megabytes of ram, it's held up remarkably well!

I'm basically inviting a "Slashdotting" of my old Mac, but I thought this project might bring a few smiles here. Enjoy!

Comment Re: PARENTING ISSUE, not Government control issue. (Score 1) 167

I don't think you understand or fully appreciate the digital world we live in. Parental and governmental attitudes have to change with the times. I am not anti porn by any stretch of the imagination but porn was not so freely available before the explosion of the World Wide Web. I would lobby government to legislate to make these filters default by standard.

Comment Re: Idiots with their heads up their ass (Score 1) 167

You are a moron. I despise Rupert Murdoch but like the poster above said this is just about giving the customers what they want. Who the fuck are you to say that porn should/should not be freely available on the web. While I agree that censorship is a slippery road, I also believe that in this Information Age we live in that you still need to protect children. I wouldn't want my children watching porn. I am also a sky uk customer.

Comment Re:Just Solipsism and Faith-Based Nonsense (Score 1) 951

Perhaps the entire universe is a simulation, that's certainly what I take form the evidence provided so far. Its possible we have no comprehension of the rules and laws (maths) that is used in the "real world" but that the quantum physical oddities we have observed are part of the "simulated universe" we are a part of. Ultimately we could be a simulation within a simulation within a simulation..... you get the idea. So based on this I think Elon might be on the money.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft backs down over IE8 default setting (pcpro.co.uk)

Barence writes: "Internet Explorer 8 will no longer replace the default browser when a user selects the "Use express settings" option during installation. Back in May, Mozilla and Opera accused Microsoft of force-feeding users Internet Explorer 8 through the Automatic Updates process. The object of their ire was the "Use express settings" option which automatically sets Internet Explorer 8 as the default browser. The option was already ticked when Automatic Updates offered users the choice to upgrade their browser. "We heard a lot of feedback from a lot of different people and groups and decided to make the user choice of the default browser even more explicit," notes Microsoft in a blog post."
Data Storage

Submission + - "Five-Dimension" Disc May Store 10TB on On (computerworld.com)

QuixoticWonderer writes: "Computer World has a story about a new disc technology that has the potential to hold up to 10TB on a DVD sized disc.

Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne said the technology, dubbed multiplexed optical recording, can create a "fifth dimension" of recording, using polarization and gold nanorods to reflect light, boosting data density beyond 1,012 bits per centimeter. The team was able to store 1.6TB of data on a disc with the technology and said that someday the technique could yield up to 10TB on a single DVD-type disc.

You can find more details in the Computer World story here."

Comment Re:Privacy concern? (Score 3, Interesting) 216

Its much easier to track someone with Lattitute. Send them a request from your phone and when you get a minute with their phone acceept the request and you're away. When you can exit google maps it still continutes tracking the phone so unless they manually turn off the lattitude feature (and it does ask you every time you exit the app) they will be none the wiser. I'm not a lawyer but I would bet this is probablt illegal.

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