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Back in the old days, think mid 1980s, we had minicomputers, specifically a DEC VAX 11/780. An entire freshman computer science cohort at a major university would sit down at 9600 baud DEC VT 102 terminals, shoehorn themselves into a machine with one sixteenth the ram that my cell phone has, and internet access for the whole school was a single 56k circuit, about a quarter of what I get out of my cellular 3G network. My phone has a four gigabyte flash card, ten times the capacity of the 14” RA-81 drives that the minicomputer used. Given that only sixteen meg of ram were available the system would have double or triple that amount of swap space configured on one of RA-81 drives.
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We've heard recently of CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act , a bill currently making its way through Congress that many are calling the latest incarnation of SOPA. Reader SolKeshNaranek points out an article at Techdirt explaining exactly why this bill is bad , and how its backers are trying to deflect criticism by using language that's different and rather vague. Quoting: "The bill defines 'cybersecurity systems' and 'cyber threat information' as anything to do with protecting a network from: ' (A) efforts to degrade, disrupt, or destroy such system or network; or (B) theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information. ' It's easy to see how that definition could be interpreted to include things that go way beyond network security — specifically, copyright policing systems at virtually any point along a network could easily qualify."
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What do you do when you’re faced with a massive pile of MP3s with mismatched tags, poor directory structure, or worse? This week we want to hear your best tips and tricks for getting out from under a mismanaged music collection. If your eggs are missing and if no one else can help, maybe you can hire The Angry Team. Dropbox is doubling the amount of free storage you get per-referral to 500MB, doubling the previous 250MB credit–better yet, the bonus is retroactive and applies to referrals you’ve already made. Yesterday we shared a what-if video focused on a 1990s era Facebook; today we have a video with a thoroughly DOS-based 1980s Twitter experience.
iTunes: Time to right the syncing ship — When Apple introduced iTunes in 2001, it served one purpose: As a music jukebox app. Later that year, it added its most important feature: The ability to sync tracks with the just-introduced iPod. Originally, you could just drag tracks onto …
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