It’s not uncommon for a new distro version to come out, and a grudging admission that maybe a faster laptop...
Computers
If you’ve ever designed a battery-powered device with a Pi Zero, you have no doubt looked into decreasing its power...
Although initially defined as an issue with GPIO inputs when configured with the internal pull-downs enabled, erratum RP2350-E9 has recently...
The dulcet tones of a modem handshake may be a thing of the distant past for most of us, but...
Continuing the series on floppy copy protection, examines Electronic Arts’ Interlock system. This was used from 1984 to 1987 for...
Have you wanted to get into GPU programming with CUDA but found the usual textbooks and guides a bit too...
Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones, and a few writers’ ancient...
It’s fairly insignificant in the scheme of things, and there’s no hardware as yet for us to look at, but...
The Internet Archive has been hacked. This is an ongoing story, but it looks like this started at least as...
A month ago, I’ve talked about using computers to hack on our day-to-day existence, specifically, augmenting my sense of time...
Earlier this year Zilog stopped production of the classic 40-pin DIP Z80 microprocessor, a move that brought a tear to...
Should you be able to brick a keyboard just by writing a driver to flash the lights on it? We...
July 1981 cover of CompuServe’s magazine. Long before the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, there were...
One of the most universal experiences of any Linux or Unix user is working through a guide or handbook and...
The 1990s seem to have reached that point at which they are once more considered cool, and ephemera of the...
was digging around their old MAC hard drives, revisiting some abandoned shareware games they wrote over three decades ago, and...
As technology progresses, we generally expect processing capabilities to scale up. Every year, we get more processor power, faster speeds,...
Recently, bought an Akaso EK7000 action camera for his daughter’s no-smartphones-allowed summer camp, which meant that after his daughter returned...
What can you do with a cheap Linux machine with limited flash and only a single free GPIO line? Probably...
While version control used to be reserved for big corporate projects, it is very mainstream these days. You can attribute...
OpenWRT is a powerful piece of open-source software that can turn plenty of computers into highly configurable and capable routers....
The x86 CPU landscape of the 1980s and 1990s was competitive in a way that probably seems rather alien to...
Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines....
For almost as long as there have been microcomputers, there have been attempts with varying success to make tiny handheld...
Docker and other containerization applications have changed a lot about the way that developers create new software as well as...
