The first electronic computer; the ENIAC, was born of the need to calculate ballistics tables for a sideways firing from air-planes. This necessitated the construction of the massive computer to hold vacuum tubes pulsating at 100,000 beats per second. The computational speed was estimated to be at 1,000 multiplications per…
Read MoreThere is a new mini-pc in the works, this is a diminutive fanless computer that runs Linux Mint and is perfect as a hidden computer in the living room. This computer has impressive specifications for the size. Intel Core i5 CPU. Intel HD integrated graphics. 4 Gigabytes of RAM. 500…
Read MoreThis new computer monitor is a 4K screen that displays 3840×2160 pixels. That is incredible. I have two 1680×1050 monitors and I can not imagine using a screen that high res; you would be set for real estate if you had two of them side by side. That would be…
Read MoreThis picture posted by Aenigma @ Reddit shows a machine at Best Buy that is advertising a Nintendo product powered by a recent distribution of Ubuntu. I do not know what release it is but it looks like 12.04. Hard to tell when you can only see the bootsplash. But…
Read MoreThe personal computer has changed so much since the early days of the computer. The earliest true computer, the ENIAC was a massive machine that took up a warehouse. This massive machine used vacuum tubes to perform calculations instead of the modern silicon chips that the computers of today use….
Read MoreMicrosoft Corporation wants computer science to be taught in UK Elementary Schools. This is a good idea; preparing children for the use of Microsoft office and Windows, but they would not learn UNIX or Linux operating systems, which I believe is key to a well rounded education in computing science….
Read MoreThis hardware chart has a lot of information about various hardware sockets and plugs used by computer hardware. Older systems are covered as well as more modern hardware such as SATA ports; and the older IDE connectors. The old IDE system was very annoying; the SATA equivalent that we use…
Read MoreTo create a new swapfile on your Linux machine to complement the existing /swap partition; the dd command will come in handy. This command will create the swap file as a loopback filesystem. adeptus-mechanicus ~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=524288adeptus-mechanicus ~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=524288 This command…
Read MoreThis person really believes that the Commodore 64 is the oldest computer that ever existed and does not know about the Collossus; and the ENIAC. They had workable computers in the 1950`s; these were able to perform quite useful calculations. The computer that was placed in the Voyager 1 probe…
Read MoreThis has just been spotted in China! Ubuntu computers for sale in a computer shop. Ubuntu must be a very popular Linux distribution over there. There was the old Red Flag Linux distribution a while ago; but they seem to be adopting the popular Ubuntu distribution instead. A very good…
Read Morehttp://cargocollective.com/jayse/Avengers. Some information here about the user interfaces used in the Avengers movie. These touch screen interfaces were used a lot in the movie. The touch screen computer model is all the rage at the moment even if it is not that useful when using a computer for a long…
Read MoreThe best tip to give a computer user is to clean the dust out of your computer regularly, if your computer is in a dusty environment, the fans that cool the CPU and GPU will gradually fill with dust until the efficiency of the heatsink and the fans is reduced….
Read MoreComputer tape drives were all the rage in the early days of computing, with computer tape drives able to store massive amounts of data these days. The early computers used tape to store computer programs and information on reel to reel tapes that were on giant reels that were threaded…
Read MoreIt is very important to keep your computer clean and free of dust, to stop it looking like this, so get to it. Not only is it ugly, it can damage your components as the heat-sinks get clogged with dust and lint therefore the air from the fan can not…
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