Broken USB thumb drive data recovery
A friend damaged a USB thumb drive accidentally. There were files on the drive that were valuable to him, so …
Author Archives: rberteig
Should I Cry about Ransom Ware
Once again the criminals have managed to make the news with a piece of software that damages your PC. It …
Refreshing old hardware with Linux
Like many of us, I have an old laptop just laying around that works mostly just fine, but is a …
Ancient Tools: The TECO Editor vs. UTF-8 Text
Back in the days of yore, when computers had front panels of switches and lights and core memory was actually …
Pan rulers, or how to store that pot of soup
Like many people who cook, often the result is a pot full of something that needs to be transferred to …
New Logo
As a step in our ongoing effort to refresh our company image, we have updated our logo from informally using …
Fun with DreamHost: SSH, Tera Term, and Keys
Let’s use a key pair to access a server at DreamHost with SSH from Windows. As another quick note about …
Fun with DreamHost: Fossil
I’ve mentioned before that Cheshire likes to use Fossil for version control. Most of our need is for internal use …
Basic firmware for an audio player with effects
For a personal project, I needed a device that could play distorted audio and take cues, as described by a …
Audio player with effects
For a personal project, I needed a device that could play distorted audio and take cues. I could have used …
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