A lot of people are asking for the right to repair. Many people believe products should last longer, and therefore when broken, they should be repaired. This requires products to be designed for repair as well as support for repairers of all kinds. The goal of right-to-repair rules, advocates say, is to require companies to →
VideoLAN (VLC) is a free, open source multi-platform media player and environment that plays most media files and DVD-VCDs as well as Audio CDs and various streaming protocols. VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software, and streaming media server →
This posting is here to collect cyber security news in February 2021. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. You are also free to post related links to comments. →
Nothing is more difficult than making predictions. For this reason I did not do any “predictions for 2021 cyber security” posting before year 2021 started. Instead of trowing out wild ideas what might be coming, I have collected here some trends other people have predicted or reported. The State of internet security in 2020 was →
I was pretty actively in making the Assembly computer festival event and the live TV broadcasts made them in the late 1990′s and early 2000′s (and still somewhat in some later years). Here are some tricks learned on that era: Triax cables are used in TV broadcast industry for TV camera interconnections (connecting camera to →
Interesting new micro-controller board and custom chip from Raspberry Pi: Raspberry Pi Pico. Pico provides a single push button, which can be used to enter USB mass-storage mode at boot time and also as a general input, and a single LED. It exposes 26 of the 30 GPIO pins on RP2040, including three of the →
50 years ago: The WORLD’s first computer music player was completed in Finland 21 January 1971. The machine was developed by inventor Erkki Kurrenniemi with the help of a Sitra grant. Historia|HS 50 vuotta sitten 21.1.1971 Suomalainen teki sävellystietokoneen article says: The music machine Dimi is a leading invention in its field, it will also →
This posting is a collection on trends and predictions for year 2021. The year 202 was grappled with fear of infection, incredible loss of loved ones, financial stress, isolation and fatigue from constant uncertainty to name a few. Many people expect that 2021 will mark a turning point. Heading into 2021, technology — both new →
For decades, CES® has marked the start of a new year, setting the tone for the industry with inspirational innovations and influential insights. This year CES 2021 was a digital venue showed newest innovation in consumer electronics. It had some 1900 virtual booths, several peripheral product showcase. Here are some links to reports on the →
Error-correcting code memory (ECC memory) is a type of computer data storage that can detect and correct n-bit data corruption which occurs in memory. ECC memory is used in most computers where data corruption cannot be tolerated under any circumstances, like industrial control applications, critical databases, and infrastructural memory caches. ECC protects against undetected memory →