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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/18
Periods of long drought can reveal historic changes in the landscape and soil.
One example was posted last year at [Archive.is] Je bent een Sassemer als … of the natural ice staking area in Sassenheim, The Netherlands, which is part of a polder.
Historically, creeks were running through it, and later on drainage tubes were laid into the ground:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/11
I always forget which colours the [WayBack] PS/2 port for keyboard and mouse have.
Some of my old (some call it classic or vintage) mice and keyboards don’t even have a coloured plug.
Luckily, Wikipedia has the answer File:Ps-2-ports.jpg – Wikipedia :
Color Description Purple Keyboard Green Mouse
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/19
Can you imagine MS-DOS 6.2 recognising an 8 gigabyte SD card and allowing it to format it with multiple 2 gigabyte partitions?
Keeping old stuff working: [WayBack] Insentricity :: Adding Solid-State Storage to an Original IBM PC :: with these nice links:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/15
Today, Niklaus Wirth, “father” of The Pascal Programming Language turned 85.
Happy birthday!
Almost 50 years ago, Niklaus Wirth submitted his famous paper “The Programming Language Pascal” which was published early 1971
Luckily it is archived on both the WayBack machine and Archive.is as the only PDF copy I could find on-line isn’t always on-line: http://oberoncore.ru/_media/library/wirth_the_programming_language_pascal.pdf
Originally it was published by Niklaus Wirth in Acta Informatica, Vol. 1, Fasc. 1, 1971 pp. 35-63
He has been very active, just browse through the [WayBack] List of computer science publications by Niklaus Wirth
To celebrate his birthday, here are some interviews with him:
If you like the ones above as much as I do, then search for more: there are plenty!
–jeroen
via: Happy 80th birthday Niklaus Wirth! « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/11
We look at the hard drive failure rates for the data drive models in operation in our data centers in 2018 (now totaling over 750 petabytes and 100,000 drives). In addition, we’ll see how the new hard drive models we added during the year did, including our 12 TB HGST and 14 TB Toshiba drives.
Full article: [WayBack] 2018 Hard Drive Reliability Stats by Manufacturer and Model
Statistical data at [WayBack] Backblaze Hard Drive Stats: Hard Drive test data from the Backblaze data center. Backblaze is affordable, easy-to-use cloud storage.
Via [WayBack] 2018 Hard Drive Reliability Stats by Manufacturer and Model https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2018/ – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+
–jeroen
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