Yesterday new data privacy laws took hold in the European Union. These laws, known as the “General Data Protection Regulation” or, GDPR, very basically, and I do mean in a very basic form allow European Union residents to demand a company they have data with get rid of said data at that users request (or …
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45 Years Ago: The Launch Of Skylab 2
On May 25th, 1973, the first manned mission to the United States first space station, Skylab, launched from Launch Complex 39-B at Kennedy Space Center. Originally scheduled to launch 10 days earlier, on May 15th, the launch was delayed when it was discovered that Skylab had suffered major damage on its way to orbit; the …
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I Don’t Have Anything Planned For Today, So Here’s A Picture Of A Titan IV
No, seriously, I didn’t have anything prepared for today, but wanted to get out an article, so, I thought I would share this – one of the best photos I’ve ever seen of my favorite satellite launch vehicle ever, the Titan IV. In this case, a Titan IV-B. This is the same type of vehicle …
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Game Player’s Gametape Vol. 1 No. 8
Time to take another break from the usual, and take a look at the next Game Player’s Game Tape, this being tape 8 of the series. For those of you new to these tapes, they were produced in the late 80’s and early 90’s by the company responsible for the then new “Game Player’s” magazine …
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Saving Skylab – How To Save A Space Station
For 10 days in May of 1973, the world waited as NASA worked hard to prepare a fix to the damaged Skylab space station. Based on the information available, they knew what kind of damage had happened to the station during launch, but without being up there to see it, no one knew quite for …
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Saving Skylab – Keeping The Station Alive
When the United States first space station, Skylab, was launched on May 14th, 1973, it suffered major damage – the micro meteoroid shield intended to protect the station from space debris and the heat of the Sun was torn off, causing temperatures in the station to rise far beyond what the vehicle was designed for. …
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The Computer Chronicles – Memory Management (1990)
Today we take for granted just how Memory (in a sense, raw working space) systems are being shipped with, or how much is available to a custom machine builder. 8, 16, 32, even 64 gigabytes of RAM are easily available in most any system you could buy or build today. Just a decade ago, 4 …
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How The Skylab 63 Second Anomaly Crippled A Space Station
When Skylab launched on May 14th, 1973 things looked good from the ground. The Saturn V 1st stage ignited, and like the Apollo launches before it, the vehicle began its flight – Americas first space station was off to what looked like a perfect beginning to its mission. After about 50 seconds or so the …
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45 Years Ago: The Launch of SkyLab
45 years ago today, the final Saturn V to fly launched from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, carrying on it the first (and only) space station for the United States: Skylab (often stylized as “SkyLab”) I absolutely love Skylab. The station itself, how it came to be, and the dramatic story of its …
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Bits And Bytes – Series Review
Over the past year I took some time to cover every episode of the 1983 Canadian TV series “Bits and Bytes.” This was a television program designed to give its viewers some insight into the then-new home computer scene, covering basic principles of computing, showing some things you can do with various computers of the …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 36: Halloween – Episode Review
That’s right, we’re doing back to back Nerd episode reviews. In this case, we hit the second half of the Halloween 2007 videos, the other Atari 2600 game James bought in the last episode… Halloween. This game is, debatably, a little better. It’s got it’s own gory elements, much like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but at …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 35: Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Episode Review
Here we have the first of the Halloween 2007 Angry Video Game Nerd videos. This one focuses on the rather rare Atari 2600 game “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” which is based on the movie of the same name. At least, it’s supposed to be, but given this is Atari, things are, well, up for …
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Free Video Game Day 2018
Today was quite the interesting one in the gaming community, and was something I actually wasn’t aware of till just a few weeks ago: Free Video Game Day. It functions much like Free Comic Book Day does for, well, the comic book community. The different is FCBD is sponsored by the comic book industry, directly …
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The Computer Chronicles – Portable Computers (1985)
Computers first and foremost are tools to do work. Sometimes, you need to do work “on the go” and if your work involves a computer, you would need a computer that can be just as “on the go” as your work needs – a “portable computer.” Most of the computers in the world today are …
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Destiny 2 – Expansion II: Warmind – Launch Trailer
Well, looks like tomorrow, May 8th, is the launch day for the second expansion to Destiny II. Funny, I forgot it was actually coming, considering how little I get around to playing Destiny 2 anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I actually really do enjoy the game, but it just doesn’t have the ability to draw …
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