The microphone of the beast? Depends on the culture. We’ve all heard about the infamous number 666, which is rather cryptically referred to as the “number of the beast” in the New Testament, and has more recently become known as the number of the Antichrist. In the Bible, 666 is also the number of talents →
This day in history August 12,1981, MS-DOS is released. Now you know. MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Default user interface: Command-line (COMMAND.COM), text (DOS Shell) Final release: 8.0 (Windows Me) / September 14, 2000; 20 years ago Initial release date: 1981 Source model: Closed source; open source →
Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, many of those in the technology community have imagined a future state of, if not quasi-successor to, the Internet – called the “Metaverse”. Metverse is a vision of the future networking that sounds fantastical. The Metaverse is a collective virtual shared space[1] including the sum of all virtual →
Today is the 30rd anniversary of the public release of the World Wide Web project thst had been under development since 1989. Its original homepage still exists! http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html →
A microwave oven is an electric oven that heats and cooks food by exposing it to electromagnetic radiation in the microwave frequency range (typically around 2.4 GHz). What is the circuit diagram of the device →
This posting is here to collect cyber security news in August 2021. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. You are also free to post related links to comments. →
The venerable ATX standard was developed in 1995 by Intel. It uses a power supply with many output voltages to motherboard. Ever since the original ATX PSU standard, the improvements have been gradual and never disruptive. Intel has been feeling some years that it is time to update the way PC motherboards. Starting in 2019, →
Linux Kernel Nixes IDE Support In the Latest 5.14 Release Candidate https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-kernel-nixes-ide-support-in-the-latest-514-release-candidate Linux founder Linus Torvalds recently posted an update on the Linux Kernel Mailing List announcing the arrival of Linux kernel version 5.14. Perhaps the biggest change is the removal of legacy support for Parallel ATA (PATA), also referred to as ATAm or IDE. →
About 1 percent of all electricity generated goes to cloud computing. By the end of this decade, we could be devoting 8 percent or more. How much energy can we dedicate to all this computing? Software and hardware engineering will no doubt need to reorient their design practices more around power efficiency. Read more: Cloud →
How to Run Windows 10 From a USB Drive Loading and running Windows 10 from a USB drive is a handy option when you’re using a computer saddled with an older version of Windows. https://uk.pcmag.com/operating-systems/88253/how-to-run-windows-10-from-a-usb-drive Windows 10 network commands https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ten-windows-10-network-commands-everyone-one-should-know/ Windows Package Manager 1.0 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/?p=6715 Kone jumissa? Näin palautat Windows 10:n menettämättä tiedostojasi Menikö kone →