Following on from the previous post, my obsession with X.25 did not wane at all in fact it may have strengthened. And, if that wasn t bad enough, it has spawned a couple of new ones. The venerable synchronous serial card needed a driver; these devices are substantially more complicated than the regular (and well [ ]
After making the post/video about OSI, I found myself wallowing in a weird nostalgia about my early life experiences with networking. Back then, before the Internet, the experiences were limited to domestic modems and the various services that were available, which mainly consisted of BBSs, MUDs, and videotex. But, I was also aware of phone [ ]
If you’ve ever studied anything at all to do with computer networking, you’ll almost certainly have heard of the OSI model. For over 40 years, this model has been decorating the early chapters of networking textbooks as a description of how networking is implemented as a stack of seven layers, starting from the physical media [ ]
Sometimes, it s nice to spend time on Ebay looking at vintage computer equipment. I couldn t ever justify actually buying anything in that category, because spending money on increasing the amount of old junk I have in my office is rarely a good idea. So instead, I have found that drinking before Ebaying makes buying useless [ ]
Sunday. I found myself watching an old VHS rip of TISWAS, and immediately after it there was an episode of The Innes Book Of Records, containing this surreal Scottish take on the Bonzo s Humanoid Boogie. The whole episode is some of the most bizarre TV I ve ever seen, and out-weirds my few memories of the [ ]
Hard as it may be to imagine, there was a time when Java was brand new and exciting. Long before it became the vast clunky back-end leviathan it is today, it was going to be the ubiquitous graphical platform that would be used on everything from cell phones to supercomputers: write once, run anywhere. Initially [ ]
Despite having been quite miserable for the majority of the last few months, I thought it probably better to record something positive rather than try to let out a long, anguished, scream in blog form. Everyone already knows about the global march backwards through the Enlightenment and into a new era of Feudal-Fascism so, instead [ ]
If someone talks to you earnestly about Web-3 in any positive way, they re either a con-artist or a cunt.
https://heretechal.hashnode.dev/10-unpopular-assertions-about-programming
https://heretechal.hashnode.dev/were-doing-tech-wrong-part-1