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https://www.billdietrich.me/Linux.html

to servers to supercomputers. Same is not true of Windows and Mac, although you do find Windows in ATMs and vending machines and other odd places. Miscellaneous Standards / projec
Linux operating system basics, parts, myths, and truths

The Andrew Turnbull Network: A portal to hopelessly disparate topics

http://www.andrewturnbull.net/

was an OS for personal computers, with the user in full and complete control. Yet, I also remember Win95 as the beginning of the end for the PC as an open, OS-agnostic platform. P

Discontinued Software

https://almy.us/softwaredeath.html

Software I've used computers for over 50 years so I've seen my share of computer programs, and computers, come and go. But it's always disconcerting when long used programs go awa
Discontinued Software

Ron Schnell - @RonnieSchnell

http://www.driver-aces.com/ronnie.html

game installed on more computers than any other in the world, except for Solitaire. This includes WoW or anything else you can think of. I am the founder of MailCall.Com, which I

Herb's S-100 Stuff

http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/s100.html

IEEE-696 systems are computers from 1975 and through the 1980's which have a specific kind of 100-pin computer "bus" for their cards . For many years I've provided assistance, har

poindexter, WHO?

http://tilde.club/~poindexter/

data from my family's computers. This "homelab" isn't one of those half-racks full of industrial-grade servers in closets you see on YouTube. I assembled mine over the years from

Life Before Demos

http://www.oldskool.org/shrines/lbd

youth with a love of computers can bring to the demo scene. But the new blood probably has no idea what was interesting before demos came around in 1990. Sure, everyone can downlo

Rants

http://toastytech.com/evil/rants.html

out. Remember, modern computers use YOU. I reeeeeeally need to get around to testing some new Linux distros. 2/6/19 Microsoft is really trying to get retards to switch to Office 3

Can you trust your computer?

http://www.gpascal.com/trust.htm

Most people think their computers should obey them, not obey someone else. With a plan they call "trusted computing," large media corporations (including the movie companies and r

Online BYTE Archive

https://halfhill.com/bytelink.html

the most crash-prone computers ever built is that reliability has never been a high priority — either for the industry or for users. [Cover story: April 1998] Why Mainframes

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

the "Golden Era" of computers-- it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called "Real Men" and "Quiche Eaters" in the literature). During this period, the Real Men

SmartFilter - I've Got A Little List

http://sethf.com/anticensorware/smartfilter/gotalist.php

mystique attached to computers. They're too often thought as mysterious entities, with inner workings which are beyond comprehension. But in fact, the operation of computer progra
Why censorware blacklists are inherently inaccurate, both technically and politically, with SmartFilter as a case study


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