Category Archives: Technology and Society

Business, Social Commentary, Space, Technology and Society

Luxury Space Hotels?

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I find this story kind of incredible. The hotel itself seems feasible enough, but how in the world do they expect to get the cost down to less than $200,000 per person? And the comments are hilariously clueless. I particularly liked this one:

As much as I would love to go to space, I think it would get very boring after about 5 min of looking out the tiny window. you would be seeing the same view for 5 days, and who seriously is going to look out of the window the whole time? the rest of the time you’re spending it in cramped quarters. I really feel humans do not belong in outer space.

“Feel” is the operative word here. This is clearly a person who doesn’t do much in the way of real thinking.

Business, Economics, Humor, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Technology and Society

High-Speed Trains!

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You know who else liked them?

The Nordic landscape cries out to be traversed by rails over which express trains can speed. It is a characteristic of all Nordic vehicles to increase their speed. Ever-increasing velocity is a built-in characteristic of the rails themselves, the rails by which, in the Nordic experience of the world, the whole world is penetrated. Rails that are already in existence and those that must constantly be constructed for ever newer, ever faster vehicles on which men who experience the world Nordically may strive toward ever new goals. The Nordic soul experiences its world as a structure made up of countless thoroughfares — those already at hand and those still to be created — on land, on water, in the air, and in the stratosphere. It races like a fever through all segments of the Nordic community, a fever of speed which, infectiously, reaches out far beyond the world of the north and attacks souls who are not Nordic and for whom, at bottom, such action is contrary to their style and senseless.

Take a guess. Of course, he was militantly opposed to smoking and a vegetarian, too.

[Via Althouse]

Administrative, Technology and Society, Weird

Web Server Bleg

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Geek Alert for this post.

I’m running a web server app on my computer, which I can address by http://localhost:8080/webapp, where “webapp” is the app.

It works fine, but in theory, I should be able to access it from another machine on the network via http://localhostIP:8080/webapp, where “localhostIP” is the IP address of my machine, but I can’t. It just times out.

I’ve even installed Apache on the machine, and I’ve set up a reverse proxy in the Apache config file per the following:


ProxyRequests On


Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 192.168

#Set up reverse proxy for Webapp server

ProxyPass /webapp/ http://localhost:8080/webapp/
ProxyPassReverse /webapp/ http://localhost:8080/webapp/
ProxyPreserveHost On

Again, where “webapp” is the actual webserver that I’m trying to access remotely.

When I try to access this from either a remote, or my local machine, by http://localhostIP/webapp, I get the message: “The requested URL /webapp was not found on this server.”

Any Apache gurus who can tell me what the problem might be? I’ve opened up firewall to both http and https.

[Update Friday morning]

Problem solved. As noted in comments, it was a combination of allowed ports and SELinux.