David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more
Electrical outlets and light switches are designed to take no fewer than three different types of screws, and a pinch, any screwdriver that fits can work. But there are specific sizes you can use that minimize your chances problems. In this blog post, I will cover what size screwdriver for electrical work, as well as the three types.
Marx train set 9635 was an electric train set Marx that Sears sold in 1952. You may also hear collectors refer to it as Happi-Time train set 9635, because that’s what Marx printed on the box. It featured Marx’s best locomotive pulling 3/16 scale metal cars.
I saw a YouTube video the other day saying it was time to stop buying used Dell Optiplexes, and he advocated building a new PC based on an AMD Ryzen 5 instead. But is it really as cut and dry as that? In this blog post, I will look at both options.
I’m not a big fan of the whitelist and blacklist terminology. The language is potentially harmful, but besides the racial implications, it’s also unclear. In this blog post, I’ll go over the traditional meaning of whitelist vs blacklist, and you’ll see why I say the alternative, dare I say progressive, terminology is also much more clear.
At the dawn of October 1988, the IBM PS/2 was looking like a success. As it closed out its third quarter of 1988, IBM announced the PS/2 had sold 3 million units in its first year and a half on the market. The pace of 2 million units a year made it one of the best-selling machines in the world at the time. But it ultimately proved to be IBM’s downfall in the PC market. So it’s historically significant, however you feel about IBM. But should you buy an IBM PS/2? Is an IBM PS/2 a good retro computer?
Marx train set 29609 was an electric train set from 1953. While some Marx collectors joke that the only rare Marx train set is the one that doesn’t run, this diesel transition set is rare and valuable today.
If you need to resolve CVE-2023-33140 OneNote Spoofing remediation, the best way to do it is to uninstall it. Here’s why this is OK to do, and how to do it. Fixing Windows Store vulnerabilities is hard.
Although never as big as some of the other more memorable trends of the time, penny loafers were absolutely something you saw people wearing in the 1980s and 1990s. Here’s how a traditional shoe design from the 1950s came to be remembered as an 80s and 90s trend.
The Tandy CM-11 monitor, introduced in 1988, was the more expensive CGA-compatible monitor from the Tandy 1000’s heyday. It had a reputation for being reliable, but more importantly, it included a better picture tube than its entry-level counterpart, to provide a display more worthy of the Tandy tagline of “Clearly Superior.”
Marx train set 9632 was an electric train set Marx that Sears sold in 1953. But you may also hear collectors refer to it as Happi-Time train set 9632, because that’s what Marx printed on the box. While some Marx collectors joke that the only rare Marx train set is the one that doesn’t run, this entry-level set is surprisingly rare and valuable today.