Published at: 05:09 pm - Monday September 24 2018
Linux. ( 1991 — 2018. ) No disrespect is intended for Stepan Mitrofanovich Gudimov (1913 – 1941), died heroically in aerial ramming maneuver… whose beautiful tomb I stole here. But IMHO a dead project of Linux’s stature deserves a tomb, even if only an imaginary and stolen one. Especially a stolen project…
Published at: 01:06 pm - Saturday June 09 2018
Edit: Step-by-step replication instructions for the skeptical experimenter. This article is a review of what I have been able to discover regarding the Google H1, aka Cr50, aka the “G Chip”, found in all Chromebooks of recent manufacture, including the Asus C101PA, my current candidate for a full delousing attempt. To my knowledge, there has […]
Published at: 09:01 pm - Sunday January 28 2018
This post exists to give a permanent home and linkable reference point for certain materials. Specifically, a — to my knowledge, currently the only one found anywhere on the entire Net — grep-able plain-text English-Romanian dictionary. The original source was an ancient piece of MS-Windows nagware. The perpetrator of this item (I hesitate to dignify […]
Published at: 01:05 pm - Sunday May 07 2017
What’s a Sage SmartProbe? See previous articles, A Complete Pill for the Sage SmartProbe. The Care and Feeding of the Sage SmartProbe. Where do I get a Sage SmartProbe? Possibly here — while supplies last. (Warning: I have no relation with this vendor and have no idea whether they still include the probe with “Gizmo […]
Published at: 03:10 pm - Saturday October 01 2016
Note: Please read the FAQ!!! If you cured your Sage SmartProbe of its congenital disease as per the last article on the subject, you may now be wondering what to do with it. The vendor supplied a massive Java shitware with the thing, which does not merit any discussion whatsoever. Instead, we will use the […]
Published at: 10:09 pm - Monday September 19 2016
Note: Please read the FAQ!!! The Sage SmartProbe was a very spiffy “Hard ICE” debugger, one of the few ever manufactured for use with modern (2010s) AMD x86-64 processors, and – as far as I’m aware – the only one ever sold on the mass market, rather than as part of “favourite son” deals (as, […]
Published at: 12:08 pm - Wednesday August 15 2012
Three years ago, I predicted that publishers will inevitably declare war on book-lending: “Let’s pretend that a Nook book (or any similar DRM’d ebook) could be lent in exactly the same manner as a physical book: to whomever you like, whenever you like, for as long as you like – with the added benefit of […]
Published at: 08:02 pm - Friday February 24 2012
Rumor has it that a well-known industrial giant will soon attempt to bring head-mounted displays back into fashion. One ought to remember that, for a number of reasons, they were never really “in” fashion to begin with. To my knowledge, every single one ever marketed fell into one of the following categories: Military toy, priced […]
Published at: 06:03 pm - Tuesday March 15 2011
In the past, I predicted that publishers will inevitably declare war on book-lending: “Let’s pretend that a Nook book (or any similar DRM’d ebook) could be lent in exactly the same manner as a physical book: to whomever you like, whenever you like, for as long as you like – with the added benefit of […]