Sunday, October 15, 2017
Friday, September 29, 2017
Unix Sixth Edition remastered
MIT created a copy of Unix Sixth Edition that targets x86 that they use for teaching operating systems.
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Another 'blog this so it doesn't get lost in my bookmarks mess' post
Chess meets checkers - 'Chessers'
Standard chess setup, except that 4 pawns advance one step, and the resulting empty spaces on ranks 2 & 3 (7 & 6) get filled in with checkers (8 checkers per side vs the traditional 12.)
https://schwartztronica.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/checkmate-by-checkers/
Multiple variations listed. A followup post was promised but apparently never happened.
Friday, July 14, 2017
An intensive history of ADVENT with photo
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/1/2/000009/000009.html
This is a detailed history of the game, including a photo tour of the real cave and matching game trail
Sunday, May 28, 2017
History repeated as farce
The modern equivalent of a station wagon full of 9-track tapes
Amazon strikes again
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Footshooting
The intersection of 'secure everywhere', 'drop insufficiently secure protocols', and running obsolete applications/operating systems:
I can't read the following URL on my laptop.
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix09/tech/full_papers/toomey/toomey.pdf
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