The IT Crowd is a British sitcom set in the offices of the fictional Reynholm Industries in London. The comedy was running from 2006 to 2013. The programme was critically acclaimed and has a cult following. I found this very funny video The IT Crowd – Browser and Internet. Here are YouTube links to the →
MT87 Digital Clamp Meter is the cheapest digital clamp multimeter I have found. It has been sold at price for less than 10 Euros/Dollars, while some other places sell the same mater often at around 20-30 Euros price. Main Features: ● Mini and compact design, easy to hold ● Data hold and LCD display, easy →
Semiconductor test equipment (IC tester), or automated test equipment (ATE), is a system for giving electrical signals to a semiconductor device to compare output signals against expected values for the purpose of testing if the device works as specified in its design specifications. IC Testers are devices which are used to test Integrated Circuits by →
Imagine if, instead of cryptic text strings, your computer produced error messages in haiku… A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. More examples at https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.en.html →
Commodore 64 (C64) was the most popular home computer in the days when you connected your computer to the TV set. This most popular home computer just turns 40 years old. Commodore C64: The Most Popular Home Computer Ever Turns 40 article tells that this year marks the anniversary of the most popular selling home →
A wire stripper is used in removing insulation from around a wire or cable. Sure, you can do this with a pair of scissors, wire cutters or even a utility knife, but using a tool specifically designed for this purpose makes life easier if you work with wires often. Here are three wire strippers I →
Russia tried to cut off electricity to about two million Ukrainians in a cyber operation scheduled to take place on Friday night, April 8th. The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Sandworm tried on Friday to take down a large Ukrainian energy provider by disconnecting its electrical substations with a new variant of the Industroyer →
Telecommunication and networking has been and will be one of the core technologies in helping the evolution of mankind and technology. Here is a quick view to the history of the modern electronics based communications technologies with help of few history articles. “10th March, 1876 – The day when Alexander Graham Bell made the first →
Did you know than an audio equipment can cause “off gear distortion” on line level signals that are driving multiple pieces of audio gear? I have had situation where I had one CD player wired to inputs of two different amplifiers (Y-splitter cable). When both amplifiers were powered on, everything worked nicely. But when one →
Happy birthday Windows 3.1, aka ‘the one that Visual Basic kept crashing on’ This 30-year-old software that first introduced Windows Registry and killed Real Mode. This was the Windows version that made it to really mainstream. Windows 3.1 sold very well, with an appealing user interface and consumer-friendly multimedia features. It did, however, have a →