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digital age, our computers have become central to so many aspect of our lives. Yet, how much control do we have over the software that powers these machines? Proprietary software

Kernel Planet

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There are far more computers in the world than performance engineers to tune them, leaving most running untuned and wasting resources. In future there will be AI performance agent

Electronics and electrical design checklist

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For humans? For computers / control software? For power? For other subsystems? Are there status LEDs Power Programmable Subsystems Are multiple boards needed? How are subsystems c

KA7OEI - Audio comb filter for hum removal

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of everything! Not all computers/sound cards are created equal.   While audio filtering can be done with a rather modest computer (an 800 MHz single-core computer is adequate

1401 Stories

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out errors before the computers arrived. I built a lot of muscles there, horsing hundred-tray files from end to end of the building and back again, then merging corrected cards ba

Cool Links! – Qalle’s home page

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Cellar – retrocomputers Dhole Moments – cryptography, furries eevee's Fuzzy Notepad – game development, furries, etc. Hackaday – hardware hacks every day h

Clonezilla - About

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clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the hard disk. This increases the clone efficiency. With some high-end hardware i

How to start with CP/M

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CP/M-68K on 68000 based computers.) 8080/8085/Z80 computers of the 1970's and 80's can be found; check this part of my document about old and new CP/M computers. A popular option

Windows XP

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is an Operating System? Computers use an application called an Operating System to coordinate the operations of your computer. The diagram below illustrates that the Operating Sys

Electricmonk.nl weblog

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to replace it, since computers are throwaway devices now. They’ll fail or become obsolete way before the battery ever dies. However, if the battery dies, your computer will
Ferry Boender's blog

Book review: Retro debugging

https://wozniak.ca/blog/2019/01/04/1/

Debugging for Microcomputers (Robert C. Bruce, Reston Publishing, 351 pp., 1980) Program Style, Design, Efficiency, Debugging, and Testing, 2nd Ed. (Dennie Van Tassel, Prentice-Ha

postmarketOS // real Linux distribution for phones

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tablets and other computers is artificially limited by lack of software updates. This is either caused by closed source software that cannot be updated by anyone but the original
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

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