We posted about the super-cool retro electronics gallery previously, but if you actually want to play these games, emulator style, LEDhead seems to be the best way to do it. There are Windows, Palm and Pocket PC versions. Once I get back, I’ll check these out–the screenshots look great. Thanks karramarro! Link.
There are a few HOW TOs floating around on getting Podzilla on 4G iPods; here’s another. (And it’s for Windows folks.) I tested the installation instructions on Windows XP, but I haven’t tried any other OS. I will also tell you how to watch videos on your iPod. Link.
The St. Petersburg Times has a Hacking history article. Weird. Hacking has been around for more than a century. In the 1870s, several teenagers were flung off the country’s brand new phone system by enraged authorities. Here’s a peek at how busy hackers have been in the past 35 years. I’d say hacking has been part of our culture since there were humans around. Link.
Wow, $30k a year too! This Fall, Eyebeam R&D will launch the OpenLab, a new facility dedicated to public domain R&D. We are seeking inaugural fellows to join us at Eyebeam. The ideal fellow has experience creating innovative creative technology projects, a love of collaborative development, and a desire to distribute his or her work as widely as possible. We encourage artists, hackers, designers and engineers to apply.[via] Link.
“Secure optical data storage could soon literally be at your fingertips thanks to work being carried out in Japan. Yoshio Hayasaki and his colleagues have discovered that data can be written into a human fingernail by irradiating it with femtosecond laser pulses. Capacities are said to be up to 5 mega bits and the stored data lasts for 6 months – the length of time it takes a fingernail to be completely replaced.” [via] Link.
Seems like everyone is tired of waiting for others to fix the problems, so they’re doing it themselves, even if it’s not quite perfect. The UK is turning into a nation of unwilling DIY desktop-security installers, research has revealed. ISPs’ failure to provide desktop protection against internet threats has forced two-thirds of home PC users to take the DIY option, despite the majority lacking the necessary know-how to ensure they are not left vulnerable. Link.
Mac SE/30 running an Apache web server on Debian Linux (woody). It was quite easy to set up this system. Here are some details. Mac SE/30 with 4 GB Quantum FireBall hard drive, and 80 MB of RAM (using MODE32). There is an 80 MB Mac OS partition for System 7.5.3 Revision 2 and a Mac application that is required to boot Linux, called ‘Penguin’. You cannot boot the Mac directly into Linux – it must be done from the Mac OS. Link.
