All over the map this week.
- VT100 Terminal Art: old text-based animations you can run in your terminal. (via)
- Free security advice. Generally correct, and not so in-depth you can’t hand it to most anyone. (via)
- A project to resurrect Unix on the PDP-7 from a scan of original assembly code. (via)
- Refurbishing A 1927 Switchboard. I like the way very old electronics smell, strange as that may seem. (via)
- Y2K Futurism, or what people thought the future would look like 1996-2002. (via)
- NexDock, or a phone/laptop dock device. This is getting pretty close to the ‘seamless’ device version I have in my head. (via)
- The Five Stages of NoSQL. (via)
- GNU complexity 1.5. Someone run this on a BSD. (via)
- The past and future are here. It’s just not evenly distributed (yet). (via)
Your unrelated link of the week: teasmades, 50% off with the code ‘MOTHERSDAY2016’ until March 9th. Given the difference in US – UK voltage, I don’t know if this would be a good investment for me, but I’d sure like to have one.
VT100 Terminal Art renders too fast. I used the following script to actually view it:
$ cat $file | while read line; do echo “$line”; sleep 0.05; done
I don’t know about teasmaids, but from experience, using UK kettles replugged for the US means it will take longer to boil, because it’s just resistance. The clock on the teasmaid shouldn’t require much power and so probably won’t be affected YMMV. If I remember correctly, sockets for electric cookers provide the higher voltage, but you need a special plug in order to use it.
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