Computers

https://blog.joda.org/2018/09/do-not-fall-into-oracles-java-11-trap.html Java 11 has been released. It is a major release. In addition to new features Oracle have also set it up to be a trap (either deliberately or accidentally). For 23 years, developers have downloaded the JDK from Oracle and used it for $free. But not anymore as earlier as it commercial that needs →

https://archive.org/details/bstj-archives The scientific discoveries and technological innovations produced by Bell System research and engineering were critical not only to the evolution of global telecommunications but, more widely, they had a considerable impact on the technological base of the global economy. The invention of the transistor at Bell labs in 1947, and subsequent advances in related →

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/750 This article from MAXIM discusses the key relationship between video resolution and the required bandwidth to accurately process and display that video signal. The equations and table address standard definition, NTSC and PAL, as well as high definition DTV standards. Computer display formats are also covered. →

https://opensource.com/article/18/8/must-read-tech-newsletters Here’s an interesting looking list of 14 newsletters on open source software. →

This posting tells the story how I got a video made of my old computer demo from almost 25 years ago. The story of that computer demo told in Computer Demo: Bogus Party III Video by Bogus Device posting. That old program was designed to run on DOS operating system on a pretty old hardware. →

https://opensource.com/article/17/9/messy-sensor-data This tutorial explains how to use Pandas and Python to work with messy data. If you have never used Pandas before and know the basics of Python, this tutorial is for you. This tutorial shows how to clean up messy data with Python and Pandas in several ways, such as: reading a CSV file →

This is a story goes back to around 25 years. This a a story of Bogus Party III Video by Bogus Device computer demo that I was making in 1993. The demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audio-visual presentations. The purpose of →

https://www.assembly.org/summer18/demoscene Watch the demo competition live on Finnish national TV! The legendary Assembly demo competition will be shown live on national (Finnish) YLE TV2 channel on Saturday August 4 starting around midnight after the ROG Tournament CS:GO Finnish Championship 2018 Finals. You can view event also on-line: AssemblyTV hosts interviews, chats and of course the →

http://sysadminday.com/ Your network is secure, your computer is up and running, and your printer is jam-free. Why? Because you’ve got an awesome sysadmin(s). Happy SysAdmin Day! July 27, 2018 – 19th Annual →

https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/eye-on-standards/4460689/The-merger-of-networking–storage–RAM–and-cache Since the dawn of civilization, the computing bottleneck has been the tawdry I/O relationship between disk drives and RAM (random access memory). The emergence of SSDs (solid state drives) loosened but didn’t alter this I/O bottleneck. With fast networks computers can move data onto their disks from remote systems as fast as they can →