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A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change | Holovaty.com

http://www.holovaty.com/writing/fundamental-change/

automated fashion, by computers. Yet the information gets distilled into a big blob of text — a newspaper story — that has no chance of being repurposed. “Repurposed”? Let me clar

Sapphire GLS

https://sapphire.matthewevan.xyz/

for desktop and laptop computers. Sapphire GLS is a freely licensed operating system for desktop and laptop computers. This means that you are allowed to run, share, modify, and s

Kevin Boone: Adventures with Artix

https://kevinboone.me/artix.html

of bringing life to old computers, none of the commercial Linux vendors have much interest in supporting this. That's not a criticism -- after all, I work for a commercial Linux v
Artix is a low-resource Linux that can be configured to run well on old, low-powered computer hardware. In this article, I describe my first attempts at setting it up.

Daylight Theory: Fingerprints

https://www.daylight.com/dayhtml/doc/theory/theory.finger.html

searching since computers perform the necessary boolean operations very quickly. Structural keys vary widely in size, from a few tens or hundreds of bits to several thousand bits

The small web is beautiful

https://benhoyt.com/writings/the-small-web-is-beautiful/

in this era of fast computers with plenty of RAM? A number of reasons, but the ones that are most important to me are: Fewer moving parts. It’s easier to create more robust system
A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.

Night City | Atari Reviews

https://nightcity.neocities.org/atari

the stranglehold home computers had over the games industry here. The system's simpler games appealed particularly to younger kids just getting into gaming in the late 80's. Evide

The Sierra Help Pages - Keeping the classics alive on modern PCs

https://sierrahelp.com/

on newer, faster computers with newer Operating Systems. The help and information that is gathered here comes many sources. Most of it is my own work from experimentation, trial a
An online tech help database for playing classic Sierra On-line games on modern computers and Operating Systems

LISP Information and Resources

http://www.lispmachine.net/

were general-purpose computers designed (usually through hardware support) to efficiently run Lisp as their main software language. In a sense, they were the first commercial sing

Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun

https://kevinlynagh.com/rust-zig/

take advantage of how computers actually worked and run as fast as the hardware allowed. To write applications that could run in minimal environments like microcontrollers or web

EFF "Net Culture & Cyber-Anthropology" Archive

https://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/

as comprising "computers, telecommunications, software and data in a more abstract form," with the core being the Net, and see the works of such cyberpunk authors as Wil

VAX-11/750/780

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a new breed of superminicomputers. At the same time, the PC industry was launched by the Apple II,which could be hooked up to any color television. The first desktop computer from

Metadata Activity

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can purchase books, computers, clothes, and any number of other items; you can book seats on planes and rooms in hotels. The possible uses of the Web seem endless, but there the t


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