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Someone created something. Its value greatly exceeds the perceived "degradation of the environment" of a spelling mistake. Not acknowledging that says more about the pedant than th…

If we can all hear the tiny violin, who cares?

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Available on Amazon. Usually zero reviews. But there is that screenshot circling around of a 1-star review based on someone attempting to and failing to put out a campfire. If you …

I was not including SDXC or even SHDC cards, only SD. I am trying to find a maximum capacity SD card to use in a Palm T|X, either 1 or 2 GB. Back when SDHC first came out, I often …

Next up is optical discs and early flash memory variants such as Sony Memory Sticks, MMCs, xDs, and SD cards. When is the last time you used one of these formats?

The media is the message. Criminals don't launder bitcoin at non-profitable nail salons either.

I was staying at a hobby farm and I was on the second floor in the loo when I noticed a shadow from above. It was a peacock looking at me through the skylight. They are evil evil b…

"The system always works the way a rational human would expect." We all wish, we all wish.

The RIAA will have to create a takedown notice to takedown their takedown notice, invalidating the former takedown notice?

As soon as you start to vary, accidentally or not, the heights of cells, you're in for a bad time. Sorting large datasets with varying cell heights will bog down your system. Force…

Windows 10 now being a rolling release is making things even harder. Even if you do learn how to do something, you have no idea how long that method will remain viable or if featur…

I remember feeling angry when I learned about the undocumented MBR switch for FDISK. There I was, beginning to learn to spell words with 6 or more letters, thinking I had to use a …

This was awhile back and was particularly nasty. No token, no check-ins, it was an unapologetic man-in-the-middle login prompt. Terms of service had wording that made mining all da…

I used to do this all the time over port 53. My closest coffee shop would allow people to access Wi-Fi only if you gave them full access to your Facebook account. DNS was the only …

The worn wood in grain elevators can be truly amazing from decades of grain eroding the wood and creating beautiful smooth surfaces. It would be a shame to tear it down without rec…

Run Spectrum Holobyte's Tetris Classic in DOSBox.

I picked up a 5 1/4" floppy without the sleeve that was on the side of the road 20 years ago, sliced open another disc sleeve that had bad sectors and replaced it with the found di…

I had to request refunds on half of the apps that I purchased because they disappeared or completely ceased functioning? I only bought items on the Windows Store because I had a fe…

All email from Microsoft ends up in my spam folders, regardless of whitelisting. I assume it is bad faith on Google's part.

As a child, I was extremely uncomfortable with Dr. Huxtable when he was in his office. I would regularly walk away from the show when he was in his at-home office alone with someon…

So you can run Corel software in it?

A decade ago, one client at an old job required ZIPs be 256-bit AES WinZIP encrypted, which at the time meant WinZIP was the only option. The employer was so cheap that they they d…

Sorry, my bad for not specifying that. Deaths of journalists are one of those things to always note. Romania =/= Bulgaria

Well this was certainly an interesting link form the same page: https://www.occrp.org/en/28-ccwatch/cc-watch-indepth/8813-a-... "But the victim of the brutal rape and murder was Bu…