Categoría: software

The Engineering Design Revolution - A History of CAD
Enviado por Fabio
The People, Companies and Computer Systems That Changed Forever the Practice of Engineering and Manufacturing. A \"Brief\" History of CAD by David E. Weisberg

26/02/25 | hace 8 días | www.shapr3d.com

Reviving a Dead Audio Format: The Return of ZZM
Enviado por Fabio
Long-time readers will know that my first video game love was the text-mode video game slash creation studio ZZT. One feature of this game is the ability to ...

29/01/25 | hace 36 días | nicole.express

How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
Enviado por Fabio
How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here\'s the fascinating story behind it.

25/01/25 | hace 40 días | blog.codingconfessions.com
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Un software para volver locos a los spiders de AI que exploran sitios
Enviado por Fabio
This is a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers. Specifically, it's targetting crawlers that scrape data for LLM's - but really, like the plants it is named after, it'll eat just about anything that...

16/01/25 | hace 49 días | zadzmo.org

Una visualización del reloj Unix en tiempo real
Enviado por Acerbus
Un colorido reloj que convierte el tiempo Unix en algo más artístico antes de que llegue 2038, una historia que recuerda al «efecto 2000».

10/01/25 | hace 55 días | www.microsiervos.com

How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software
Enviado por Fabio
Even Microsoft\'s lead architect misunderstood the failure

06/01/25 | hace 60 días | www.theregister.com

16-bit Linux-like Goodness
Enviado por Acerbus
We see many 16-bit retrocomputers around here based on Intel and Intel-like chips such as the 8086, 8088, V20, and similar. While they don’t seem very powerful by today’s standards, the…

05/01/25 | hace 60 días | hackaday.com
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Windows 2: Final Fantasy of operating systems
Enviado por Fabio
It is common knowledge that Final Fantasy could have been the "final" game for the studio, the first and the last in the series. It is far less known that Windows 2, released around the same time,...

03/01/25 | hace 62 días | www.ninakalinina.com

SvarDOS: DR-DOS reborn as an open source OS
Enviado por Fabio
A #DOScember surprise: fits on a single floppy, but has a network-capable package manager

02/01/25 | hace 63 días | www.theregister.com
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Startup’s “AI” tool spams GitHub repositories with bogus commits, without consent
Enviado por Fabio
ut what are you supposed to do if an “AI” product forces itself upon you? What if you can’t run away from it? What if, one day, you open your GitHub repository and see a bunch of useless PRs...

15/11/24 | hace 111 días | www.osnews.com

Compare Cloud Storage providers
Enviado por Fabio
Compare all cloud storage providers using our cloud storage comparison table, and find the best option for you! The table contains 25+ cloud storage providers to compare on all of their features and...

11/11/24 | hace 115 días | comparisontabl.es

Google offers its AI watermarking tech as free open source toolkit
Enviado por Fabio
SynthID provides a hidden way to mark LLM output as artificial.

25/10/24 | hace 133 días | arstechnica.com