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Early Wednesday Morning
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(link) Wednesday, 12-December-2001 02:04:00 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Quite a few people responded to the "What was Australia's first webserver?" question. Most people suggested that life.csu.edu.au is the one, it claims to be so on the front page and has a reasonable explanation of its history, so in the absence of any other plausible candidates I guess that's the one! Phil, who's email is @justice.tas.gov.au, you were first to suggest that server so drop me a note with your postal details and I'll send along some minty goodness ASAP. Thetron suggests this History of the Internet in Australia page which, while interesting and full of info, doesn't seem to list the first Oz webserver, as far as I can see.
The people who own the big-fan-equipped PC's in the pictures below have come forward too - the Volkswagen-fan PC belongs to Paul AKA eXplague and it has its own page here. Alan says: My friend and I own and made these cases that are posted on your site. Mine (GTiR), the black one, is a Duron 800 @ 920 cpu runs 31 and motherboard runs 23 (without aircon), and my friend (Cambo) the blue computer is a P3 1000 @ 1300 cpu runs at 34 and motherboard runs at 26 (without air con) We call ourselves TBF (Team Big Fan) as a bit of a joke :) we are also in the [RiCE] clan... my (GTiR) fan is 30cm and Cambo's fan is 29cm.. we are planning on doing a server computer with 2x 290cm thermo fans.. should be interesting.... 290cm. I'm hoping that's a typo! Monkit jumped on the big-fan bandwagon with his effort, but that's cheating. :)
Mike noted an interesting Game AI story on Xtravision. Apparently Virtua Fighter 4 will attempt to learn your fighting style so that it can mimic you. Then, you can save that character, upload it to the net and let other people play against a virtual you. Hmm, imagine that technology applied to a driving game, or even something like Counter Strike.
Voodoo spotted this HyperOS thingo that lets you run several copies of windows on one PC.. not like a dual-boot though, it's a bit more clever than that. Dunno if it lets you run Linux or something else too, tho.
One area I will sadly admit my Kung-Fu is not the strongest in, is soldering. Ex-Hardware have a guide to soldering bits of wire together that looks like it might be a big help. Just the thing you need to help you tackle things like Wolfy's DIY LCD project.
Sniper noticed that Arnie will be back in a Terminator 3 movie.
Heatsink-Guide have a neato little thermal control circuit project, to automatically control your fans according to a measured temperature and hence keep the noise down. We had a similar thing here a while ago and there are a few more options in our archive, mostly in the Hardware Hacks section.
In my wanderings I discovered this new(ish?) Usenet Archive on google. 20 years of archived newsgroup discussion, with highlighted posts of interest such as the first mention of Microsoft, Linus Torvald's original Linux announcement as well as many "real world" events.
Here's an interesting thing from Mr Bill, a huge solar-power tower to be built in Victoria. It will be the world's tallest man-made structure, at 1km tall.
Digit-Life have posted their monthly 3D Digest for November.
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