Tag: computers
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The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
Dan shares Blackle Mori's iceberg-diagram/list of computer science weirdness.
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Needed new UPS batteries.
Almost bought from @insight_uk but they require registration to checkout.
Purchased from @SourceUPSLtd instead.
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Rebuilding a Windows box with Chocolatey
As often happens when he moves house, Dan broke a PC. But thanks to package manager Chocolatey, he was able to get it back up-and-running in a fraction of the time he might have expected.
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Fox (Household NAS)
Dan builds Fox, a NAS and application server for his household, and shoots a timelapse video of the construction.
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Fix your PC with a crystal pendulum
Uploaded to YouTube 11 years ago, in what now feels like an earlier era, this old classic still makes me smile every time.
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Evolving Computer Words: "Hacker"
Of all evolving computer words, "hacker" is perhaps the most-loaded and controversial. Dan explores how it's changed and whether it can ever return to its original meaning.
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Evolving Computer Words: "GIF"
People think of GIFs as animations for the Web, but that's only a fraction of their story.
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Evolving Computer Words: "Broadband"
Dan continues to examine words whose popular meaning have diverged from their technical definition; today, he looks at "broadband".
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Evolving Computer Words: "Virus"
Of all the computer words that have diverged from their original meaning, "virus" has perhaps diverged the furthest. Dan explains how, and why it matters.
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My hardware engineering is a little rusty, @ComputerHistory, but wouldn't signals propogate along this copper cable at "only" somewhere between 0.64c and 0.95c, not 1c as you claim?
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Dan instructs a 5 year-old in diagnosing and replacing a blown PSU in her mother's computer.
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Additional Processors
Computerphile
Computerphile at its best, here tackling the topic of additional (supplementary) processors, like FPUs, GPUs, sound processors, etc., to which CPUs outsource some of their work under specific circumstances. Even speaking as somebody who's upgraded a 386/SX to a 386/DX through the addition of a "math co-processor" (an FPU) and seeing the benefit … -
The Case Against Quantum Computing
by Mikhail Dyakonov Quantum computing is all the rage. It seems like hardly a day goes by without some news outlet describing the extraordinary things this technology promises. Most commentators forget, or just gloss over, the fact that people have been working on quantum computing for decades—and without any practical results to show for it.
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Reply to Hardware Issue - when did hard drive space get like this?
Hardware Issue (Aquarionics) So, I am a professional system administrator. It says it on my business cards and everything. Every couple of months, when I have to explain to the receptionist at the London office that yes, I do work here, and so Nicholas Avenell (Aquarionics) wrote:
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(My first hard drive for the Amiga 600 … -
You will gain 50 Windows XP
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