Month: August 2012
Last Monththe Spy recounted his adventures with changing his Linux server to a bigger badder machine running a much more recent OS. This month, he bit yet another migration bullet, moving into a new laptop. Why an issue? Software. The longtime reader may recall the iconoclast Spy has continued to use good old reliable Eudora for his mail client, lo these many years. Well, cannot do that even with Lion, much less Mountain Lion. BTW, the new machine is a…
Java Apple II emulator author Brendan Robert was quite understandably pleased to announce that his JACE emulator has reached a new milestone. Said Mr. Robert: This is the first major release, bringing this emulator within a hair of my original vision for what I wanted it to be: it is a complete recreation of the computer I had growing up. (yaaaaaay!) There are a few bugs left to fix, but the only people in this world that claim software is…
Here is the situation… My father was asked to take some pictures for a club he attends every week. He generally prints them out when ever someone asks for a copy. He also prints out a series of thumbnail pictures on a single page. I gather this is called a contact sheet. This time around the Windows program he used decided not to recognise the network printer. This was very odd because all the other programs on his machine saw…
The popular Apple II emulator for the Windows PC is now better than before with this latest version that incorporates the following improvements: Changes: [Feature #4399] Allow Z80 SoftCard to be inserted into slot 4 or 5. (Allows CP/M v3 to work) Reworked Configuration (property sheets) to allow multiple hardware changes. Updated Help .chm with info on No-Slot clock. Fixes: Floating bus not returned for empty slot $Cnxx addresses. Fixes: – A2VGA.DSK: Apple][VGA card detection. – [Bug #018643] Mabel’s Mansion….
The infamous “top-secret” document-leaking web site WikiLeaks recovered just Monday from what appeared to be a massive, week-long DDoS attack from thousands of distinct IP addresses. The group took assistance from security and performance firm Cloudfare in order to handle the extra capacity needed to withstand the attack– over 10 gigabits per second. A posting on the site states: “The bandwidth used is so huge it is impossible to filter without specialized hardware, however… the DDoS is not simple bulk…
A few weeks ago, Ewen Wannop, author of the premier telecommunications program for the Apple IIgs, Spectrum, announced that he had transitioned the program to freeware status. He has now released revised and redesigned manuals for his program, including the main program and scripting manuals. Says Wannop, I have updated the various Spectrum manuals to my new PDF format, and combined the original v1.0 and v2.5.3 manuals into single manuals. I have also added the reference manuals for the various…
Under another hat, the Spy runs WebNameHost which is a small hosting company in business for a decade now, and offering professional hosting in a safe environment for Christian, authors, small businesses, and personal sites. This is less than a living business, but much more than a hobby, as his teaching demands that he be able to discourse with students on all manner of computing technology without seeming too much a fool or irrelevant. It also needs to break even….
