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Wednesday, 12-March-2014 16:25:33 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The web turns 25 years old today. Techspot take a look back at some milestones. We’ve come a long way since Tim-Berners Lee wrote his paper proposing an information management system to facilitate information-sharing between physicists in universities and institutes around the world. Nowadays it’s hard to imagine what life would be like without the web; it’s permeated virtually every aspect of our lives and shaped the way do things. Interesting to think that OCAU has been around for nearly 15 of those 25 years, too.
Callan spotted that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game from Infocom turned 30 recently - and you can now play it on the BBC website! It says you need to be logged in for it to work but it seems to be working OK for me without signing in to anything. The game will kill you frequently. It's a bit mean like that. If in doubt, before you make a move, please save your game by typing "Save" then enter. You can then restore your game by typing "Restore" then enter. This should make it slightly less annoying getting killed all the time as you can go back to where you were before it happened.
A quadcopter pilot has been arrested in Melbourne. Police have intercepted a drone allegedly trying to deliver a stash of drugs across a remand centre wall west of Melbourne. Officers and the air wing were called to the Metropolitan Remand Centre in Ravenhall, 22 kilometres west of the city, on Sunday about 4.30pm after reports that a drone was flying nearby.
The Linux Foundation and edX are going to offer an introductory linux course for free online. The Linux Foundation has long offered a wide variety of training courses through its website, but those can generally cost upwards of $2,000. This introductory class, which usually costs $2,400, will be the first from the Linux Foundation to run as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). There is no limit on enrollment through edX's platform.
Anandtech report that Kingston seem to have quietly lowered the spec on their SSDNow V300 product. The first generation V300 (which was sampled to media) used Toshiba's 19nm Toggle-Mode 2.0 NAND but some time ago Kingston silently switched to Micron's 20nm asynchronous NAND. The difference between the two is that the Toggle-Mode 2.0 interface in the Toshiba NAND is good for up to 200MB/s, whereas the asynchronous interface is usually good for only ~50MB/s.
AMD released the AM1 platform recently, with coverage on PC Perspective and Arstechnica. Back at CES earlier this year, we came across a couple of interesting motherboards that were neither AM3+ nor FM2+. These small, sparse, and inexpensive boards were actually based on the unannounced AM1 platform. This socket is actually the FS1b socket that is typically reserved for mobile applications which require the use of swappable APUs. The goal here is to provide a low cost, upgradeable platform for emerging markets where price is absolutely key.
Owen noticed this video about the Wolfram Language. Stephen Wolfram introduces the Wolfram Language in this video that shows how the symbolic programming language enables powerful functional programming, querying of large databases, flexible interactivity, easy deployment, and much, much more.
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