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"I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why."

http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-we-are-slower-than-other-oper/

about by technology and computers will benefit the business exclusively, with none of their benefits being shared with the employee. If productivity doubles, profit doubles, workl
I was explaining on Hacker News why Windows fell behind Linux in terms of operating system kernel performance and innovation. And out of nowhere an anonymous...

Space Shuttle Electrical SYSTEMS; See what the Electrical SYSTEMS of the Space Shuttle

https://spaceshuttleguide.com/system/electrical.htm

also is sent to the computers, where software checks the limit; and if the temperature is at or above 349� F, the backup C/W alarm light on panel F7 is illuminated. This si
Jerome Meriweather's 777 Flight Deck Center Instrument Panel Display. With clickable items.

Virus Fighters

http://webarchive.me/geocities/SiliconValley/Bridge/3691/nerds.htm

per Month per 1,000 Computers, Top Viruses, 1996-1998 ????????????????????? 12 Sources of Infection, Boot and Macro Viruses, 1997 ??????????????????????????????????????????????? 2

NetHack 3.6.0: Guidebook for NetHack 3.6

http://www.nethack.org/v360/Guidebook.html

of your hardware and software, and whether various compile-time options were enabled when your executable was created. The three possible display options are: a monochrome charact

25 Years of Linux — so far [LWN.net]

https://lwn.net/Articles/698042/

in moving down from minicomputers, had become much more widespread, but it also lost the code-sharing culture that had helped to make it Unix in the first place. The consequences
On August 25, 1991, an obscure student in Finland named Linus Benedict Torvalds posted a messag [...]

IBM SAGE

https://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-ibm-sage.html

by people and not computers... To aid that idea SAC even instituted the "failSafe"; program. What made it automatic was the program flow of the SAGE computer.... In simple terms t

The EBS Authenticator Word List

http://www.akdart.com/ebs.html

for mobile phones and computers .  The US government unveiled a communications system that in case of emergency should soon allow it to send SMS alerts to Americans' mobile p
This is a rare look at an old Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) authenticator word list from the early 1970's, as well as a number ofother historical documents concerning the EBS s

Scientology v. the Internet

https://discord.org/lippard/skeptic/03.3.jl-jj-scientology.html

network of interlinked computers, has given individuals the power to obtain information on virtually any subject from all over the world. It has also put into their hands the abil

WA8LMF Mobile Ham Radio Page

http://wa8lmf.net/ham/

on home and ham shack computers, Kenwood most likely decided it wasn't worth redeveloping the software for this slow-moving product and and killed it instead. ] About the same tim

Kevin Boone: More like Windows every day

http://kevinboone.me/morelikewindows.html

on desktop and laptop computers in the '90s, long before it became a relatively mainstream thing to do. My first Linux distribution took the form of a shoe-box-sized stack of flop
The ease of installation and use of modern desktop Linux distributions comes at a price. I review a couple of low-complexity alternatives to mainstream Linux distributions: Alpine

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0

https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" Note 1: CAPTCHA tests often involve asking the user to type in text that is displayed in an obscured image or audio file. Note 2: A

Julia Evans

https://jvns.ca/

More drawings about computers Nov 2016 A few drawings about Linux Sep 2016 New zine: Linux debugging tools you'll love Jul 2016 A few sketches Apr 2015 A zine about strace Exe
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