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Base10 is having a nerdiness attack. Here are some things that he found interesting:

Apple has previewed the next version of OSX, codenamed "Tiger," touting it to be its answer to Microsoft's much delayed "Longhorn" update. Base10 is developing a fondness for Apple products. A quick example: Base10 is experimenting with the idea of doing his own hosting. He has an old Windows box running win98 but is having a hard time using IIS. Base10 tried some more modern linux distros but they are not working (this is a really old machine) out of the box. Base10 has resigned himself to getting a low-end computer to act as a server. As an experiment, he tried to set up Mrs. Base10's rather aged iBook to see if a Mac was a viable option. Wham! With Apache built in, Base10 adjusted two settings on the iBook and one on the router and a web server with FTP and SSH was up and running. In fairness it still needs some tweeking. Base10 can't seem to get his router to recognize the machine with a static IP address. But even so, isn't this amazing? Why are we buying our software from Microsoft again?

Up in the sky, the Cassini probe has just produced a striking black-and-white image of Saturn. According to this article, orbital insertion is supposed to take place on June 30 with the first images coming back on July 1. Base10 can't wait for the Huygens probe to be launched into Titan's atmosphere, expected on January 14, 2005. But here's a Voyager image to hold you over.

And then there's this cool idea to use nonotechnology to build unreasonably strong materials to act as a cable for a space elevator.
- posted by Base10 @ 10:40 AM