The advent of cheap Win8.1 tablets and lack of a "Metro Mode" in Firefox is really going to bite Mozilla in the ass. Hopefully they will reconsider adding that feature back in as even with Australis, Firefox on a Winbook TW802 is a bit annoying to use. I have tried running the Android version of Firefox thru DuOS as an alternative, and its mildly better to use, but still not as slick as IE11 in the tablet UX area.

USB type C finally solves the issue of non-reversible cables. The Lighting port is not that robust, there are issues with the charging pins corroding.

Meanwhile the $99 tablet I picked up at Microcenter has more connectivity (full sized USB, Micro-USB for charging that can take OTG adapters, micro-SD slot, and micro-HDMI). Apple couldn't fit a Micro-HDMI port on this thing? I'd say this laptop is the ultimate example of form over function. "But it looks great on my desk!"

MOOOF!

Plenty of GPL'ed software is bundling things like OpenCandy with the installer.

Microsoft used plain old C for Win32. That cruft known as MFC used C++.

Nope, it was swiftly replaced after his demise.

The Contura Aero uses standard 2.5" ATA hard drives.

There is a slight problem with these adapters I have encountered. The USB to IDE chipset they are based on will not work with drives under about 1GB for some reason. They don't seem to support non-translated drives that rely on cylinder-head-sector style addressing. My solution is to find a 2.5 to 3.5" IDE plug adapter and a machine with a real parallel IDE port. I wouldn't trust a PATA to SATA adapter with this either. Laplink via serial is another option (NT based Windows don't work with the parallel cable), I have it on my Contura Aero 4/33c, mostly because it didn't come with the PCMCIA floppy drive. Ethernet cards can get messy if the machine is still running DOS, you have to mess with card and socket services, the old LAN Manager driver stack, plus have a PC Card that has DOS drivers.

Cue the dramatic music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The first video I posted on YouTube was actually encoded and shared with friends back in 2000. Many other pre-existing meme videos were likely among the site's first uploads too. Online video was nothing new, but a site that allowed one to post it and share it (and more importantly had the bandwidth for it) was uncommon before 2005.

Not only that, many don't have the equipment to run a multicam setup. Cameras and a time code generator cost money.

Western Design Center still makes quite a bit of money selling those 65c02s and 65c816s. :P

Actually, the NWS produced GFS model accurately predicted less snow for Northern NJ and NYC. The NWS was relying a bit much on the forecast produced by the Euro model this time around.

I somehow managed to land up with 3 EISA/VLBus 486 motherboards. They appear to be workstation class boards as 2 of them have 16(!) 30pin SIMM slots and take 256MB of RAM. The hardware is out there, but its fairly uncommon.The latest boards I have seen with EISA were 440FX based Pentium Pro and Pentium II boards (almost always SMP server boards). Any support for it seems to have been dropped starting with the 440LX chipset, so PCI effectively killed it off. The latest motherboard made with EISA dates to around 1996-97, so either way that guy is running some old hardware. I wonder what is special about that FDDI card though?