martedì 23 febbraio 2016
Old fashion computers
Today surfing the web I found this site...it talks about Aged hardware and vintage computers..
It's awesome!
Early personal computers were nothing like present day computers - they had personality!
Each was different and more exciting than the previous, with new features and capabilities.
This website is dedicated to the preservation and display of these vintage computer systems.
http://www.oldcomputers.net/
Millenium bug Y2K
The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the Millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or simply Y2K) was a problem for both digital (computer-related) and non-digital documentation and data storage situations that resulted from the practice of truncating a four-digit year to two digits. This made year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900. The former assumption that a twentieth-century date was always understood caused various errors concerning, in particular, the display of dates and the automated ordering of dated records or real-time events.
In 1997, the British Standards Institute (BSI) developed a standard, DISC PD2000-1,[1] which defines "Year 2000 Conformity requirements" as four rules:
- No valid date will cause any interruption in operations.
- Calculation of durations between, or the sequence of, pairs of dates will be correct whether any dates are in different centuries.
- In all interfaces and in all storage, the century must be unambiguous, either specified, or calculable by algorithm.
- Year 2000 must be recognized as a leap year.
It identifies two problems that may exist in many computer programs.
Firstly, the practice of representing the year with two digits became problematic with logical error(s) arising upon "rollover" from x99 to x00. This had caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times on and after 1 January 2000, and on other critical dates which were billed "event horizons". Without corrective action, long-working systems would break down when the "... 97, 98, 99, 00 ..." ascending numbering assumption suddenly became invalid.
Secondly, some programmers had misunderstood the Gregorian rule that determines whether years that are exactly divisible by 100 are not leap years, and assumed the year 2000 would not be a leap year. Years divisible by 100 are not leap years, except for years that are divisible by 400. Thus the year 2000 was a leap year.
Companies and organizations worldwide checked, fixed, and upgraded their computer systems.
The number of computer failures that occurred when the clocks rolled over into 2000 in spite of remedial work is not known; among other reasons is the reluctance of organisations to report problems
How to Win at PacMan
In this video we show how to win at pacman...a vintage game very popular in the first heigthies!
How install win 95 in virtualbox
Here is how to install Windows 95 in Virtualbox!
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.
How to Install Windows XP in Virtualbox (Video Tutorial)
Here is a very well done video that explains how to install Windows XP on Virtual BOX
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See "About VirtualBox" for an introductio
If you want to install Home Edition of Windows XP you could find another video here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7YC8...
Virtualbox:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downl...
WinRAR:
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
Windows XP Setup File:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_YI...
You need a password to extract the files:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_YI...
How to create a CD ROM or DVD ROM with Nero Burning ROM
In this video is shown how to create a CD-ROM/DVD with Nero Burning ROM on Windows 7
Enjoy the Tutorial! :)
Enjoy the Tutorial! :)
How to use Nero Burning ROM to COPY CD AUDIO on Windows XP (Video Tutorial)
In this video is shown how to make a fresh copy of an AUDIO CD with an awesome historical software: NERO Burning ROM!
How to install UBUNTU on your SMARTPHONE (Video Tutorial)
This is a guide showing how to install Ubuntu on your Google Nexus device.
Here's the guide from Ubuntu Wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install
Good luck & enjoy!
(Thank you to TechHarvest for the tutorial)
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