Adam Osborne was the master of momentum—until it all came crashing down
Learn why Google decided to create an all lowercase keyword for Chromebooks.
Learn to cook (which saves you money) and do all the house chores (including ironing).
An interesting view. But the PET was definitely lower specced than the later 16/32-bit machines usually regarded as workstations.
Up to the 1990s there were workstations designed for software development (Lisp/Smalltalk Machines by various vendors), graphics and CAD (Apollo, SGI), and general purpose systems (Sun, HP).
Was Xerox Star the only office workstation?
Were there other dedicated workstations (not high-end PCs or Macs) designed for office and business tasks? Of course there were word processing machines. But I'm not sure they qualify as they didn't play in the same league as the Star and were much less versatile.
Although it did have an nVidia card, my PC was an otherwise ordinary machine running Ubuntu, not a gaming rig or something custom built.
I love Linux. But I got so exasperated with system updates breaking X-Windows and dropping me into the console with no clue what to do, for some time I intentionally deferred the updates.
I wanted a stable daily driver, so in 2015 I switched from Linux to ChromeOS. Now I'm back to Linux with the Crostini container of ChromeOS and Raspberry Pi OS on a Raspberry Pi 400.
Introduction by Harry: David Bunnell (1947-2016) didn't create the idea of computer magazines. But he may have done more than anyone to turn them into a big business. In the 1970s, when David was working at pioneering PC company MITS, he published Computer Notes—as far as I know, the first peri...
My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K in the early 1980s when I was 17. My parents agreed to buy it and I used to device to learn about computers, which I was curious about as I had played a bit with the Apple IIe and the Sinclair ZX-81 of some classmates.
Because it's the most effective and powerful tool for putting the Unix philosophy into practice.
Overview The Medley Interlisp Project has made significant progress toward its goals of preserving, extending, and documenting the “experience” of Interlisp for now and for the future. This annual report highlights our achievements and ongoing efforts. Key Accomplishments We’ve structured our work a...
Disclosure: I'm a member of the Medley Interlisp Project.
An alternative is to ask questions about features of the pitched product or offer.
Okay. But if a robocaller doesn't lead to results, it may be programmed to give up on unpromising numbers.
When receiving unsoliciting phone calls by telemarketers, many people consistently hung up, don't bait, and don't interact. So why don't telemarketers delete from their databases such phone numbers that don't lead to any sales or other business benefits?
Maybe the cost of keeping the numbers is so low telemarketers just don't bother. Or keeping track of what numbers to delete may actually have a cost. Or perhaps telemarketers hope those people will eventually pick up the calls.
Any insight?
There are plates with labels and information but they're small, easy to miss, and not for all items. But the venue is still relatively young and more work is underway.
What's even more remarkable is 95% of the items on display still work. And they have lots more in storage.
They are car enthusiasts too, so that's why there are some such vehicles. The bulk of the material comes from the personal collection of one of the founders of the group.
My photos of a visit to the incredible Ctrl+Alt Museum retrocomputing museum in Pavia, Italy. Mind blowing.
Restoration project headed up by Steve Kaisler is gathering steam
While I don't downvote posts with emojis I'm most interested in reading tech content, where emojis feel redundant and distracting.
VokoscreenNG is a screencasting tool that works with Raspberry Pi OS, I tested it on my Pi 400. And it's also easy to install, just sudo apt install vokoscreen-ng gstreamer1.0-pipewire.
I've updated the post.
Lisp, the language that has them all.
Can you recommend any screen video capture tools compatible with Wayland? I’ll use such a tool on my Raspberry Pi 400 under 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm, so I'd prefer one with appropriate Debian binaries.
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VokoscreenNG is a screencasting tool that works with Raspberry Pi OS, I tested it on my Pi 400. And it's also easy to install, just sudo apt install vokoscreen-ng gstreamer1.0-pipewire.
Can you recommend any screen video capture programs compatible with Wayland, possibly with Debian binaries? I'd like to use such a tool on my Raspberry Pi 400 under Raspberry OS Bookworm 64-bit.
A forgotten strand of computing illuminates the famous stories of the early micros.
Text searches (e.g. page search in browsers) that do return results, but they don't show up anywhere on the screen or aren't highlighted.
Between the Material You design and move to break apart the Chrome browser from ChromeOS, now more than ever, ChromeOS is Linux with Google's desktop environment.
A decade of support is a much better deal than what Microsoft or Apple will give you
Although I did see some punch cards I never used them. At the time I couldn't afford a computer with punch cards and was too young and inexperienced to work for an organization that had such machines.
In 1994, Ted Leonsis was the head of the new media marketing firm he created, Redgate Communications, spun out six […]
Most washing machines have a timer that prevents you from opening the hatch just after the washing cycle ends. Instad you must wait for the timer to go off, usually a minute or two, before you can open the hatch.
Why? Would letting the user open the hatch immediately after washing ends pose any safety or other issues?
The ready-to-work and easy-to-use Linux distribution
