The 1990s seem to have reached that point at which they are once more considered cool, and ephemera of the...
Computers
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...
The 8-bit home computers of yore that we all know and love, without exception as far as we are aware,...
It’s time to talk about Microsoft’s patch Tuesday, and the odd vulnerability rollback that happened. CVE-2024-43491 has caught some attention,...
Although quantum processors exist today, they are still a long way off from becoming practical replacements for classical computers. This...
Ian from Dangerous Prototypes demonstrating the RP2350-E9 issue in a Bus Pirate prototype without pull-ups. There’s currently a significant amount...
The 3DConnexion Space mouse is an interesting device but heavily patent-protected, of course. This seems to just egg people on...
The RSGB is getting ready for National Coding Week which begins on 16 September. This national event is in its...
Recently Raspberry Pi released the 2GB version of the Raspberry Pi 5 with a new BCM2712 SoC featuring the D0...
One of the things that we love about the modern era of computing is the increasing ease by which you...
Through all the generations of computing devices from the era of the teleprinter to the present day, there’s one interface...
For those of us who lived through the early 8-bit computing revolution — the tail end, in our case —...
On an x86 system the BIOS is the first part of the system to become active along with the basic...
When thinking of the first PCs, most of us might imagine something like the Apple I or the TRS-80. But...
Some old computer languages are destined to never die. They do, however, evolve. For example, Fortran, among the oldest of...
I try not to go off on security rants in the newsletter, but this week I’m unable to hold back....
