Getting to another episode of The Computer Chronicles today, we have Storage Devices – the way we save our data. Today, we use hard drives with sizes easily in the terrabyte ranges, or solid state drives that while at a somewhat lower capacity provide incredibly fast read and write speeds. Hell, my phone, a budget …
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Destiny 2: Clans And Guided Games
Another video today, this time from Bungie, covering some new elements to the social aspect of gameplay in Destiny 2: Clans, and Guided Games. Clans are now more deeply integrated into active gameplay, funcitioning much like guilds have traditionally in MMO RPG’s for, geeze, probably over two decades now! The basic situation of having a …
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Xbox Game Pass Walkthrough
The Xbox Game Pass feature, which I wrote about a little while ago (see the article here)launches on June 1st, and in preparation for this, Microsoft just (as in, a few minutes before I began writing this article) published a quick video going over how to use the service, in very simple terms. As with …
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June 2017 Xbox Live Games With Gold
Time for the next months Games with Gold lineup, and this time we’re changing the article format a bit. Something I find interesting is that this time around, I’m seeing pretty positive feedback on the YouTube comments on this one, a rare treat to see people not complaining nonstop about the game selection. That’s a …
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Re: How To Piss Off Someone From Memphis
Oh boy, another one of these X, Y, or Z articles about Memphis! This time, we got “How to Piss Off Someone from Memphis”, an article that, oddly enough, is written by someone who is from but, according to their profile, no longer lives in Memphis. Funny, looking at her profile on the site, it …
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Destiny 2: Homecoming Trailer
This is the first trailer I’ve watched for Destiny 2 since it’s announcement earlier this year, and all I have to say is, I like what I see. I genuinely enjoyed Destiny, for what it was worth to me, and while I do feel the game had some major flaws in both it’s own design, …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 14: The Power Glove – Episode Review
In what is, incidentally, the final “Angry Nintendo Nerd” episode the Nerd takes a look at the most infamous NES accessory of all time: The Power Glove.
WannaCrypt – A Week Later
A week ago, the internet went into an absolute panic over a new virus laying siege to thousands of computers across the world – WannCrypt, often shortened to WannaCry. This combination of file-encrypting ransomware and self-propagating worm wreaked havoc in many businesses during those initial days. Seemingly as soon as it had started, however, it …
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48 Years Ago: The Launch of Apollo 10
On May 18th, 1969, John Young, Tom Stafford, and Gene Cernan began an 8 day mission that would act as a “dress rehearsal” for the planned manned landing on the Moon of Apollo 11. This flight was the 2nd of 4 that would be launched in 1969, and would serve to test the Lunar Module …
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Recording, ’50s Style
While browsing YouTube, I stumbled across another interesting little film worth sharing: In this case, a documentary on a music recording studio “Sugar Ray’s Vintage Recording Studio” which is designed to perfectly re-create the essence of recording in the 1950’s, using vintage equipment and ethos from that bygone decade. This film talks about the troubles …
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May 2017 Xbox One Update Walkthrough
Microsoft has made yet another somewhat major change to the Xbox One dash recently. I’ve had it for the past few months (as part of the preview program) and I have to say, they are really polishing up the minor flaws that have been hanging around since the “new” Xbox One Experience update back in …
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SpaceX Launches Its Heaviest Payload Yet – Inmarsat-5
Yesterday evening SpaceX launched Inmarsat-5 F4, the heaviest payload yet flown on a Falcon 9. Inmarsat-5 is yet another communications satellite, this one intended to provide increased network connectivity over Europe (to put it extremely simply). The vehicle was a Falcon 9 full thrust, and due to the record weight of the payload (for Falcon …
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WannaCrypt – My Understanding Of It So Far
I’ve been intending to write about this since the day it hit, but like most any new malware, the scene surrounding it changed almost minute by minute, meaning that anything I did try to write, if I had, would have been obsolete information by the time I published, so I sat back over the weekend …
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Space Shuttle Columbia: Second Flight – 1981 NASA Film on STS-2
On November 12th, 1981, the Space Shuttle Columbia was launched on the second flight of the Space Shuttle Program, a flight which also marks the first re-use of a crewed spacecraft – one of the key goals of the Shuttle Program. STS-2 marked the first use of the Remote Manipulator Arm (the “Canadarm”) , and …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 13: A Nightmare On Elm Street – Episode Review
Following immediately from the Friday the 13th episode, the Nerd looks into the 4 player capable horror classic that is A Nightmare on Elm Street on NES.