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I would argue that the main reason of implementing this particular CoC is keeping apart people who have opinions about things they don't know. There are still lots of them, and may be even more if they will come from the "blessed" groups. Every extremism is malicious here. I have some opinions...

I disconnected my camera when I replaced a top cover in my notebook, just skipped connecting it to mainboard. Next, when I was replacing LCD panel because it developed green vertical line, I disconnected it from the inside of cover as I forgot that I disconnected it from the mainboard :)...

An old, crank-rotated computing machine (arithmometer). Chinese-made, branded "Flying fish", clone of Monroe (?L-series?) with some mechanical differences (different chassis on sides, release plate actuator, a bit modified bell mechanism). According to a few sources I found these machines were...

I'm not sure are these SJWs so far to the left of political scene. They are not sponsored by a communist country from abroad, nor have a connections with a single orthodox left-wing party, they are not operating for the profits of left-wing groups too. But they are sponsored by companies, and...

There is a problem. But it seems like it's made mostly by two factors: 1. Business wants software now, written asap, not after optimization, thinking that computers have almost infinite power. It may even work, but only if one such badly written program is operating at a moment. Now this is the...

I was thinking about getting such small reader... and then hacking it with some Linux. After this "1984" trick with Amazon's reader and violation of GPL in eClicto reader (which just passed without consequences to distributor) I am just afraid what this device can do with totally unknown...

Today I overoptimized code by accident. I'm doing something totally experimental. I'm trying to build a small BASIC microcomputer using AVR chips... In well-commented C. The thing is that I have lots of computing power (20MHz ATMega), but small memory (32kB for program, 2kB of RAM). So it is...

I had similar case - this time with LUKS - two computers, relatively small difference in performance, both had fast disk drives, and older one seems to go like Win95 on a 4MB 386 with all I/O through encrypted drive. I think it may be caused by usage of some hardware acceleration, there are...

I watched "The Computer Programme" in Archive.org. The Acorn computers used in BBC program were one of the fastest home-segment machines these times, with highly optimized BASIC and lots of accelerating quirks like using TV overlay character generator for fast text/semigraphic mode. The good...

I got a Power Mac G5, the basic 2004 model, with 1.8GHz single CPU and RAM expanded to 2GB, two 80GB drives. Bought on a flea market, with intent to restore, fix and maybe trade for some other computer I don't have. So, first tests shown that the machine is technically 100% working. However, its...

Similar thing here, 9/11 replaced by Smolensk air crash, "Reich" replaced by "Russian agents", or, not exaggerating, "homosexual-freemason plot" (Seriously, WTF? my parser crashes on this) and blaming not Merkel, but our former Prime minister. The problem is that this goes not only from people...

And here's the difference between school systems in Poland and Germany. I remember that generally all things I wanted to know I had to learn myself, from sources far from school books. In school I remember only "we will skip this chapter, there's no time" and one teacher who tried to teach us...

I never said that we have any conspiracy, nor that we have prison camps at schools. There is no conspiracy in this scope and seeing conspiracy in everything is in my opinion a first sign of some logic thinking problems. Like this gentleman from IT security who sees conspiracy in mosquitos biting...

People in government are not people who decide. Trying to influence them is like trying to influence Macdonald clown. They are mascots. This is the thing most people don't want to know for some reason. Politicians only execute orders, like employee dressed as this clown. If they are ordered to...

For some unknown reason, I have significant communication problems with Czech people when talking about old computers, doesn't matter is it in English, Polish or Czech. When I tell them that I collect old computers and I'm looking for buying some, they, as usually, direct me here and there, to...

The sad truth about all these "innocent" organizations is that they are "innocent" until they help the side which controls media - that was with Al-Quaeeda - when they were fighting with Soviets, they were (in American cameras) peaceful defenders. When they started with independence from USA...

Bought a quite nicely looking early-2000s ATX case with floppy and two CD drives for an old computer, from classified ad. The only info about its history I got from previous owner was that he got it from local TV station when they thrown old things to recycling. However... I have no idea what...

(rough translation to English) "For every DC-DC converter of this type, Ilim = 0.5*(1-2*g+(1/k))*(Ui*T/2*n*La) if and only if IN = INlim" Sorry for poor formula in text.

Unfortunately condensing many parts is essential in such machine. Especially that some parts are not only electronic parts, they're also used in heat management, physical installation of board or are subjected to rather high stresses (To avoid problems as with N900, connectors should not go out...

So a few things: 1. ATMega328p chips! Finally I can make my Atari converter as a nice prototype: And I GPLed my code. Not tested well, terribly buggy, but works in typical Atari boot-up mode. 2. I got the Russian ZX Spectrum clone called "Bajt". Surprisingly, all TTLs were OK and the problem...