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Human Clock (Complete with Hands!)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-times-have-cute-women dept.

soulsteal writes: "Some people with too much time on their hands have decided to make a clock of, for, and by the people! Humanclock allows for anyone anywhere to set their time zone and view over 1100 pictures of people posing with one of the 1440 minutes available each day. On the geek side, their server is a Radio Shack 2.4mhz TRS-80 Model 100 portable running a port of Aache and PHP." Something seems extremely suspicious about that server ...

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  1. Re:The Tape Recorder is bogus by codepunk · · Score: 2, Informative

    And being a hardware hacker myself I would also insist that you are dead wrong and it is possible. It may be a bogus story but your reasoning is dead wrong.

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  2. To see the site use Google's web-cache at: by wo1verin3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:j7H61q2E32M:w ww.humanclock.com/+&hl=en

  3. Re:I call bullshit by sommere · · Score: 2, Informative
    Adapting a Walkman for I/O when 99% of walkman don't have a record head?

    you obvously didn't have a trs-80... I had one, and I used a audio tape to save my basic programs. Yeah, its a joke, you can't save 4GB on an audio cassette, but using a cassette tape for a TRS-80 is quite real.

  4. Re:I don't believe it!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's quite possible really, anything with an RS232 port can act as a webserver, providing it has at least enough ram for it.

    Mind it, it won't be fast, or all that good, but it's possible.

  5. I call bullshit by SomeGuyFromCA · · Score: 5, Informative
    4 gigs of data on a cassette tape? Adapting a Walkman for I/O when 99% of walkman don't have a record head? And oh, oh, this is the best part:

    9999 ' subroutine for reading from packet driver
    10000 FD$ = -1
    10010 READ FD$
    10020 PEEK FD$
    10030 POKE FD$
    10040 POOP FD$
    10050 PUKE FD * 7
    10060 IF FD$ = "YUMMYPACKET" THEN 10080

    Hoax. Right up there with the potato server.
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  6. Oh come on, use Netcraft - its FreeBSD not a TSR-8 by lordpixel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Slashdot comment wrapping may break this URL:

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off& mo de_w=on&site=www.humanclock.com&submit=Examine

    Besides, the webserver page claims all the data for the images is stored on a TDK cassette tape. They say "we estimate we can get 4gb on the tape before we have to turn it over".

    Its a joke guys. A funny one, but a joke ;)

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  7. Re:What's the deal with 4:20? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    4:20 is, at least in the USA, the "smoking time" for all the pot smokers out there.

    There are tons of stories about why, because it's the police call sign for a marijuana bust or because it's Bob Marley's birthday. But you're supposed to smoke at 4:20... and don't even get me started about 4/20 @ 4:20... that's a national holiday for tokers ;-)