Floppy Longevity
This week, I received a package in the mail. From my mother. Inside was a treasure:
A bunch of my 3.5 inch floppy disks! All of these are at least 20 years old, so I was pretty curious if any … Read the rest
This week, I received a package in the mail. From my mother. Inside was a treasure:
A bunch of my 3.5 inch floppy disks! All of these are at least 20 years old, so I was pretty curious if any … Read the rest
This was fascinating to watch.
From Ars Technica:
… Read the restFormer Firefox developer Robert O’Callahan, now a free agent and safe from the PR tentacles of his corporate overlord, says that antivirus software is terrible, AV vendors are terrible, and that you should uninstall your antivirus
I have a few small collections of things, but my latest curation is old software. In this case, Mac OS through the ages.
From left:
System 6 (the first retail boxed version of the Macintosh OS)
System 7
System 7.1… Read the rest
With most of my correspondence, financial information, photos, etc. only existing electronically, it has always been important to have reliable and redundant backups. I’m sure you’re the same way, right? If something happened to your laptop or tablet or phone, … Read the rest
Cross-posted from work.
Researchers predicted that 2016 was to be the “Year of Video” in the digital space — and it was. Cisco projected that 64% of all consumer internet traffic was video, and Brafton is projecting this to … Read the rest
Most out-of-the box keyboards (the one that came with your crummy Dell, or was built into your laptop) are pretty terrible. Mushy-feeling, cheaply constructed, and quiet. Most laptop keyboards are bad because they have to be lightweight. Desktop keyboards are … Read the rest