Modern airliners are rather complicated feats of engineering. Innumerable safety-critical components are connected with tens of miles of wiring, complex...
Computers
The Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers are great little devices, and they can do great things with cameras and...
happens to have a rather special machine in his possession. It’s a rare IBM PC prototype or concept machine from...
If you’ve done much networking, you surely know the frustration of trying to connect to something, say a Raspberry Pi,...
With a title like “Intel Just Matched Apple Silicon. Seriously.“, the latest video from makes some pretty bold claims. But...
Back in the late 90s, Apple was definitely a pretty fruity company, with its aggressively translucent shades of colored plastic...
If you’re water cooling a PC, it’s generally accepted that you need some interface between the coolant and the chips...
FTP isn’t exactly cutting-edge technology. These days, if you control both ends of a connection, you’re probably using scp, SFTP,...
Sandboxing a Linux process usually means spending a lot of effort deciding what it isn’t allowed to see. You might...
You’ve almost certainly heard of the Xerox Alto, the machine that pioneered the desktop-mouse-keyboard interface and inspired Steve Jobs to...
Sometimes that retro gaming itch strikes, and you just have to source components for a Pentium 4 build, like did...
The standard computer mouse is a perfectly useful peripheral if your hands work. If you’ve got some trouble in that area, you...
We enjoyed trip down memory lane looking at a BASIC game, The Wizard’s Castle, written for the Exidy Sorcerer. It...
In the previous installment on UDP broadcasting and service discovery, the basics of both were explored, including an implementation in...
Come next year, those looking to explore the globe virtually via Google Earth will have to do so on their...
New platform combines an operator's license, station, location and live band conditions to answer a practical question: "What can I...
Along with the many displays of outrage, gnashing of teeth and other displays of profound grief at the recent news...
In the early 1990s, Don’t Copy That Floppy was an anti-piracy campaign that attempted to connect with computer-savvy youth through...
Watching ’s build of a handheld 486-based gaming computer, we got to thinking about retro computers and the eternal questions...
Among the many forgotten might-have-beens of the games console world, the Atari Jaguar occupies a special place. It was the...
The smart TV is a fixture in most houses, variously an entertainment portal, corporate data gathering tool, or sometimes an...
How fast can you count to a million? It would probably take you a while. A computer could certainly do...
There are a lot of single board computers on the market these days, so you can be forgiven if you...
OK, every operating system is a bit of a stretch — Windows Vista notably didn’t make the cut — but...
Recently we featured an unusual Commodore 8-bit computer on the bench of — a Commodore 64 in a PET case....
