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GeekNights Monday - Old Computers
Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about old computers (e.g., the Apple II GS, the Amiga, and the humble 486), why they're different from modern computers, and what they can be used for today. Primarily, we mean museum pieces, teaching tools, awesome hacks, and guaranteed non-compromised encryption key generators. In the news, TrueCrypt was shut down under extremely dubious circumstances, raising fears that that project received a National Security Letter or had other government woes and other heavy speculation. Also, Apple Day brought many minor Apple announcements, though SWIFT is what you should be paying attention to.
ConnectiCon is just around the corner in July, and it has a pretty amazing panel/workshop/lecture schedule. Join us there! Also join us in the GeekNights Forums!
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http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/06/02/1556236/truecrypt-cryptanalysis-to-include-crowdsourcing-aspect
As Rym said. If you get served security papers that require you to not tell anyone about them, is it ok to say "I am definitely not being investigated by the NSA right now! Guys, seriously. Not at all!"
We also had a limited edition 33.6k X-Files modem which would play the first few seconds of the X-files music on start up which I thought was the best thing ever, when upgrading from the vanilla 28.8k modem.
Also learning how to computer to make games work was my path.
Wow that WWDC really did fit Victor's meme.
Nothing original from Apple and my iOS developer friend is whining about the change in language.
SMS -> iChat or whatever people in Apple land use, already functional in Google Hangouts.
Everything is - this is what Android has over us except a bigger screen so we'll release it as our own and break down the walled garden.
Its the same thing that happened when the iPhone was launched except all the phones OS ideas were copied from phones which weren't sold in the US (they were predominantly smartphones with styluses or non-capacitive touch screen phones from Nokia, Samsung, HTC and other smaller players.
You have to commend how much control Apple holds over the media and uneducated population.
A kid was telling me how his Macbook Air was better than any 'PC' because he could program from terminal and didn't need to download anything to start writing programs. I asked him to demonstrate this, he couldn't.