Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its...
Computers
Despite the rise of ARM processors in more and more computers from embedded systems to daily driver PCs, the x86...
In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer or as-in-speech. This situation is...
While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure x86 assembly and as a...
Many readers will be familiar with the idea of a glitching attack, introducing electrical noise into a computer circuit in...
Even if you are relatively young, you can probably think back on what TV was like when you were a...
has started a new video series to show his latest recreation of a Commodore VIC-20. The core of the machine...
It’s not uncommon for a new distro version to come out, and a grudging admission that maybe a faster laptop...
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...
