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The Apple Macintosh perform 24 years of its launch in the market this January 24, and with it the introduction of the graphical environment to the general public. Prior to the Apple Macintosh PC, the model Lisa, had already offered a graphical environment and mouse, but at a prohibitive price of nearly $ 10000.

To commemorate the date Dave Clausen, has made a modification of a case Macintosh 512k and has changed the mainboard by a Mac Mini, in addition to making the appropriate adjustments in order to withstand a floppy LS120 and the classic keyboard and the mouse Macintosh 512k.

The steps required to replicate the feat, circuits, photos and videos of the project are on the website of Dave.

Here the video of Steve Jobs introducing the Apple Macintosh:

This is a relly good example of social critics through the humor:

After giving me a tour of the site of CompUSA, looking for a bargain because it is already in liquidation, I found it suspiciously similar to the website of Tigerdirect, then I decided to check out where is hosted the CompUSA website, and oh! surprise, it is in range of IPs that belong to Tigerdirect.

Look what I got:

volkan68@volkan68-desktop:~$ nslookup www.compusa.com
Server: 64.52.192.98
Address: 64.52.192.98#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.compusa.com
Address: 199.181.77.62

volkan68@volkan68-desktop:~$ whois 199.181.77.62

OrgName: TigerDirect
OrgID: TIGERD-1
Address: 3329 chapell blvd.
City: Durham
StateProv: NC
PostalCode: 27707
Country: US

NetRange: 199.181.77.0 - 199.181.78.255
CIDR: 199.181.77.0/24, 199.181.78.0/24
NetName: TIGER
NetHandle: NET-199-181-77-0-1
Parent: NET-199-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: MARCOPOLO.TIGERDIRECT.COM
NameServer: DNS2.TIGERDIRECT.COM
Comment:
RegDate: 1994-07-21
Updated: 2001-10-04

RTechHandle: AP-ORG-ARIN
RTechName: Amato, Peter
RTechPhone: +1-305-228-3390
RTechEmail: pamato@tigerdirect.com

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2008-01-14 19:07
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN’s WHOIS database.

If somebody knows what is the story behind this, please let us know. Tigetdirect bought the CompUSA domain name or CompUSA is using Tigerdirect as a ASP for the virtual shop.

This is a very funny video, presented by the same Bill Gates, enjoy it:

In 1987, Guns N’ Roses, rock band release its firs album “Appetite for Destruction”, in which “Sweet Child O’Mine” was the first number one hit of the band. But I found this video, which is really funny, the same song but in unplugged version played by Indian musicians:

This is a very funny video from youtube, where director David Lynch, tell us, what he think about people who watch movies over the iPhone.

In a paper published in the Indiana University the researchers Hao Hu, Steven Meyers, Vittoria Colizza and Alessandro Vespignani (which can be downloaded from here). Explain how is possible a specific designed malware can propagate for a entire city using the wifi routers, because in many cases it has areas where the signal overlap. If it became a true event could stop a vast part of the Internet.

What can I say, really funny.

Since last year has increased the number of projects which seek to offer a metaphor for desktop on the web, how part of tenure to the Web 2.0, this category of Web pages usually are called WebOS because many people associate the desktop with the operating system. They are well known similar projects like eyeOS and YouOS, but now has come Atoolo.

Atoolo, as any other WebOS that claims to be, try to copy a conventional desktop on the web, with taskbar, Start button and applications like word processor, spreadsheet and a instant messaging application. The look is impressive finish, and we have 1GB to store our documents, but the advent of a desktop 100% functional even this far, but the current progress show us that is a matter of time before we have a fully web-based desktop, and as a result of it, the cost of desktop PC would be reduced tremendously.

Here some screenshots:

Just to warn that with the latest service pack (version 3) for Office 2003, Microsoft has disabled support for older file formats like Excel 95, Excel 97, PowerPoint 97, CorelDraw, and so on. Now you may not have access to those files. So gentlemen know if updated to latest service pack 3 for Office 2003, because it may not open its old files according to Microsoft for security reasons. The question then is, why before we save our data in formats that Microsoft knew were unsafe?.

Well if someone made the mistake of upgrading its Office 2003 with the latest service pack, and seeks access to the old files on this website that Microsoft described the manual procedure to disable blocking those files.