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Wired ethernet resolves most of my own teams/zoom/webex etc anxiety that any glitches in anyones meeting video or audio are probably NOT caused by my own connection....

The STe came pretty close with DMA stereo audio playback, though only at 4 sample rates so software resampling and mixing was still required. I did a lot of my own tracking on an 8…

Dolby Surround aka ProLogic, was later enhanced with Prologic II which provided a higher bandwidth and rear left+right matrix.

This is a good article on the topic I came across today: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cbc-pronunciation-kyiv-ukraine... Boils down to that the Ukrainian vs Russian pronunciation i…

Well... Ukrainian is Ukraines official language, so it makes sense to me to use the spelling derived from the official & most widely spoken language of the country. Unlike Switzerl…

already already

*iOS IOS is Cisco's router OS. Apple did license it though, to prevent any potential lawsuit...

I can kind of relate to the feeling of IPv6 being "new and scary" to back in 1995 when I barely grasped IPv4 routing... everything becomes clear eventually with experience and expo…

Hehe yeah... 2400bps modems ran at 1200 baud. 33.4Kbps modems ran at 3400 baud (at most)

It's not secure at all, as some services (PayPal!) Allow password reset via SMS to your regitered mobile number. So if someone even has control of your mobile number via sim swap f…

"PDP" being an initialism of "Programmed Data Processor" should also be capitalized along with the acronym BASIC...

... "local LAN" is a tad redundant. :)

You can setup a receive connector on exchange online to trust mail from specified souce IP(s) (ie your onprem mailserver) with no need for additional mailbox licenses... good for a…

Grey market Win10 keys like this are probably a part of it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/373546396164 Edit: After reading article, indeed above method is noted. Also many people will n…

Most people don't know you can just dial ##004# to remove all conditional call forwards that normally default to voicemail. Or if the network doesn't unset it, you can set it to a …

I suspect a Hanson Guitars received a cash offer they couldn't refuse for their domain. ;-)

Heh, like the msexchange manager icon on your microsoft exchange server... :D

Commonly solved on modern upgrades with voltage level converting components... 5V to 3.3V and vice versa.

I think you mean "risqué"

Heh, I built that site as a StarTAC fan all those years ago, and Jax decided to preserve it when I donated the server hard drives and my box of startacs to him heh... the real limi…

You must mean 8Khz - which results in a 64kbps stream. (8000 bytes per second) The companding was actually a very good use of 8 bits per sample for voice, introducing little artifa…

HTTPS MITM + Wireshark If it even uses HTTPS lol

Even Windows 3.11, NT 3.51 did this... and my Atari ST... probably windows 1.0 even because a mouse was not always guaranteed to be attached and/or working on early PC's. In my cas…

Check out this demonstration of "Space War" on a PDP-1 using a radar long-persistance CRT: https://youtu.be/1EWQYAfuMYw