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Scott's Bass Lessons - YouTube edit / delete

Some interesting tips here.

to bass guitar music teaching ... on 10 October 2016

The Poly Computer Resources Page edit / delete

New Zealand's equivalent of the BBC Micro.

to 6809 poly retrocomputing ... on 10 October 2016

mntmn/amiga2000-gfxcard: MNT VA2000, an Amiga 2000 Graphics Card (Zorro II), written in Verilog edit / delete

DIY Zorro II graphics card, based on an FPGA development board, with Picasso drivers. Neat!

to amiga electronics fpga graphics retrocomputing ... on 05 October 2016

The curious case of the switch statement / fuzzy notepad edit / delete

The history of "switch" in Algol/BCPL languages. Ignores pattern-matching in functional languages, so the inclusion of Rust here is a bit incongruous.

to c language-design retrocomputing switch ... on 23 September 2016

Mark Fickett | Art Stuff | Dice Roller edit / delete

"An automatic system for rolling a polyhedral die and taking photos of the rolls; extracting the image of just the die from those images; clustering the images of the die by which face is shown; and analyzing the results."

to dice games random rpg statistics vision ... on 19 September 2016

Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study edit / delete

"This article documents Hacking Team's third-party acquisition of zero-day (0day) vulnerabilities and exploits. The recent compromise of Hacking Team's email archive offers one of the first public case studies of the market for 0days."

to economics exploit security ... on 15 September 2016

diffoscope: in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories edit / delete

"diffoscope will try to get to the bottom of what makes files or directories different. It will recursively unpack archives of many kinds and transform various binary formats into more human readable form to compare them."

to diff reverse-engineering software ... on 15 September 2016

Noel Chiappa's Home Page edit / delete

I came here from one of the retrocomputing lists (PDP-11 panels), but the section on Japanese woodblock art is really interesting.

to art digital japan pdp11 retrocomputing ukiyoe woodblock ... on 15 September 2016

USB Product IDs - Openmoko edit / delete

"As the openmoko products have been discontinued, Openmoko Inc. is opening up the use of its Vendor ID for use by the Free and Open Source software and hardware communities. This means you can simply register your devices and will get an allocation of a Product ID for free."

to open-hardware usb ... on 15 September 2016

BBC Computer Pages - Home edit / delete

"I am putting on these pages a few miscellaneous items that might interest those people who still like to play with BBC Computers. Most of what is here concerns the BBC Master 512"

to acorn bbc drdos gem master pc retrocomputing ... on 15 September 2016