M.U.L.E. Clone + More
Thursday 30 October 2008 at 06:46 am If you were a gamer in the early 80's you'll remember Mule, now you can run it on a PC Atari Mule.A couple of handy free Windows utilities - Windirstat (find out about your disk utilisation), WCD (wherever change directory) and Safarp (a fast add/remove programs tool).
Great article on the failures of the new Airport Security regulations in the US - The Thing He Carried. The easily forged boarding pass would appear to be a pretty massive flaw!
Information longevity - 'Digital dark age' may doom some data. Whats the best way to keep data safe and readable in the long term (10 years +) ? Afterall - who can still read a 5 1/4 inch disk DOS or 400kb Mac disk ? How about a 100Mb ZIP disk or 1Gb Jaz disk ? And those aren't even particular old . . .
Interesting stuff - Unix Timeline. A huge flurry of activity in the mid 80's into the 90's and now we're left with just the survivors - BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. If it loads up in as a long streaky blur just click the image to expand it to full scale.
While everyone bemoans the wasters that comprise generation x, y and z be sure to point the finger at those that put the world into its current financial and social situation - Shallowest Generation.
