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When Microsoft announced it would stop developing MS-DOS after 1995, college student Jim Hall “packaged my own extended DOS utilities, as did others,” according to the web site for the resulting “FreeDOS” project.
Jim Hall is also Slashdot reader #2,… Continue reading FreeDOS Celebrates More Than 30 Years of Command Prompts With New Release
For some users, Windows 11/10 displays the Not implemented error while opening photos on their computer. This problem can occur due to corrupt system image files or a conflicting background application. If you cannot open photos on your Windows 11 comp… Continue reading Not Implemented error while opening photos on Windows 11
Sick of raiding old TVs and CRT monitors for flyback transformers to feed your high-voltage addiction? Never fear; if you’re careful, a 3D-printed flyback might be just the thing you’re …read more Continue reading Satisfy Your High-Voltage Urges with This Printable Flyback Transformer
“AMD processors were instrumental in achieving a new world record,” reports Tom’s Hardware, “during a recent Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics simulation run on the Frontier supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.”
The article poi… Continue reading New Supercomputing Record Set – Using AMD’s Instinct GPUs
“AMD processors were instrumental in achieving a new world record,” reports Tom’s Hardware, “during a recent Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics simulation run on the Frontier supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.”
The article poi… Continue reading New Supercomputing Record Set – Using AMD’s Instinct GPUs
With all the attention on LLMs (Large Language Models) and image generators lately, it’s nice to see some of the more niche and unusual applications of machine learning. GARF (Generalizeable 3D …read more Continue reading Software Project Pieces Broken Bits Back Together
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Microsoft fixes actively exploited Windows CLFS zero-day (CVE-2025-29824) April 2025 Patch Tuesday is here, and Microsoft has delivered fixes for 120+ vul… Continue reading Week in review: Microsoft patches exploited Windows CLFS 0-day, WinRAR MotW bypass flaw fixed
Have you ever felt the urge to make your own private binary format for use in Linux? Perhaps you have looked at creating the smallest possible binary when compiling a …read more Continue reading Learning Linux Kernel Modules Using COM Binary Support
“Researchers say that a person’s intelligence plays a bigger role in their computer proficiency than previously believed,” writes SciTechDaily, “so much so that practice alone may not be enough to ensure ease of use.”
A new study has found that gener… Continue reading Do Cognitive Abilities Predict Performance in Everyday Computer Tasks?
We don’t think of computers as something you’d find in the 17th century. But [Levi McClain] found plans for one in a book — books, actually — by [Athanasius Kirker] …read more Continue reading A 17th Century Music Computer