https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4420729/1st-actual-computer-bug-found–September-9–1947 This describes the history of term “computer bug”. In September 9, 1947, a team of engineers working on the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator at Harvard University had a problem: the bug was an actual large moth, about four inches in wing span, in one of the relays beaten to death. Debuggers put it →
https://www.fastcompany.com/90230417/5-causes-of-burnout-in-the-workplace Have you noticed any recent changes in your coworkers? Burnout can happen to any employee in any company–even in the best work environments. Burnout tends to occur when someone in your team encounters at least one of these five circumstances listed in this article. →
https://kk.org/cooltools/alex-glow-hackster-io/ Alex Glow creates electronics videos and tutorials at Hackster.io in San Francisco. This article and podcast presents useful tools for making and broadcasting videos to Internet. Check also Cool Tools Honorable Mentions for some awesome looking maker tools and materials that didn’t fit in the podcast! →
https://opensource.com/article/18/5/how-find-ip-address-linux This article tells Linux commands to find local and public IP addresses for your machine. →
https://opensource.com/article/18/7/sysadmin-guide-selinux Security. Hardening. Compliance. Policy. The Four Horsemen of the SysAdmin Apocalypse. In addition to our daily tasks—monitoring, backup, implementation, tuning, updating, and so forth—we are also in charge of securing our systems. In the spirit of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, here are the 42 answers to the big questions about managing and →
https://opensource.com/article/18/4/introduction-python-bytecode Python source code files; they have names ending in .py. And you may also have seen another type of file, with a name ending in .pyc, and you may have heard that they’re Python “bytecode” files. But beyond “oh, that’s Python bytecode,” do you really know what’s in those files and how Python uses →
https://predictabledesigns.com/top-resources-for-hardware-startups-and-makers/ Hardware startups and makers can use all the help they can get. It can be difficult, however, to find resources for developing a physical hardware product (as opposed to software). This article has a list of 30 online resources for those developing new electronic products. This article was originally published on PredictableDesigns.com and there →
I visited today Product Development Project Gala at Aalto University in Espoo Finland. I tasted pizza made by robots. Ready →
Just received those Potato chips that work like classic TTL logic but up to ~1GHz. Hopefully they will work on my TDR circuit. I should try the chip in this →
Back in the ancient days before sound cards, around 30 years ago, sound cards were rare on PCs. One hack those days was the original Covox Speech Thing, that connected a simple DAC to to PC parallel port. The Covox Speech Thing (also known as Covox plug) was an external audio device attached to the →