In the previous installment on UDP broadcasting and service discovery, the basics of both were explored, including an implementation in...
Computers
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....
Perhaps at this point, getting NetBSD running on an obscure piece of hardware is a dog-bites-man story, and not worth...
It seems like everybody takes their turn doing an ESP32-based weather display, and why not? They’re cheap, they’re easy, and...
Some might say the venerable Z80 doesn’t need another operating system, but obviously disagrees. He has come up with a...
The following is an update from Georges (WH6AZ) announcing the release of Transceive version 1.4, a MacOS app that brings...
Raspberry Pi 5 price increases. (Credit: Jeff Geerling) Although easily dismissed by some as another cruel April Fools joke, Raspberry...
As literally everything ought to be able to play DOOM in some fashion, recently set out to make the venerable DNS...
With ever increasing sizes of various programs (video games being notorious for this), the question of size optimization comes up...
The Linux world is currently seeing an explosion in new users, thanks in large part to Microsoft turning its Windows...
You probably don’t spend a lot of time using the FAT32 file system anymore, since it’s thoroughly been superseded many...
We’re used to electronic parts of the same type staying predictably the same, sometimes over many years. An early Z80...
It’s Pi Day, and while we know that many of you celebrate privately, those that take a moment to put...
It’s a bit of an understatement that at release Windows Vista rather fell flat. Much of the problem was due...
On the podcast, and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of...
