Saturday, January 21, 2023

My thoughts on disclosure

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A reply to this post. It's taken me a week or so to think it through, so I've had some pauses in writing it. > The government...
Friday, January 20, 2023

A little bit about fonts

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Posted as a comment reply here , too, as AC. • Arial at 10pt/13.5px is the best reading font so far -- this at 150% scale with a 1920x1080...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

The persistence of good USB and audio port designs, and some history of the 3.5 mm headphone jack

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Also posted this on slashdot as AC. MicroUSB was introduced January 2007, endorsed by the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) for data a...
Friday, August 26, 2022

The good and bad releases of Windows

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Across the history of the development of Windows, each major iteration of this operating system family has that bad/good cycle. Windows 95 ...
Monday, September 6, 2021

Finding drivers for obscure devices on Windows 10. A short walkthrough.

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This post goes back to " Obscure ways to get and old hp printer driver for Windows XP ". Long story short, aka the quick-and-dir...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Obscure ways to get an old hp printer driver for Windows XP

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So, some people are stuck on Windows xp, as may be some computers. But files do need printing. This set of instructions is good for other ha...
Monday, June 28, 2021

The modern wonders of smartphone tech

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So I watched footy yesterday between Wales and Denmark (Denmark won :), and the football pitch showed ads for some large South-East Asian br...