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date: 2024-07-26, from: Digital Antiquarian
The Voyage of Magellan, Chapter 11: Winter in Patagonia
https://www.filfre.net/2024/07/this-week-on-the-analog-antiquarian/
date: 2024-07-26, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News
Some things we noticed this month. What did you see?
http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2078.html
date: 2024-07-25, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News
If you have been enjoying the regular chance to see a RISC OS coding masterclass (or if you wish you had not missed the previous sessions), you can catch another episode live at 1pm on sunday.
http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2088.html
date: 2024-07-24, from: Linux Magazine
Not only has NVIDIA released the driver for its upcoming CPU series, it's the first release that defaults to using open-source GPU kernel modules.
date: 2024-07-24, from: Hans Otten's Pascal for small machines
I found an archive with the source of the early Lisa Pascal by Silicon Valley Software. The archive contains images of Lisa disks in dc42 format. In these disk images are the sources (and more) of the Silicon Valley Software Pascal compiler for the Lisa. The archive, together with sources of the Lisa Operating system […]
http://pascal.hansotten.com/2024/07/24/apple-lisa-pascal-compiler-sources/
date: 2024-07-23, from: Computer ads from the Past
For Those Who Seek.
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/bible-research-systems-the-word-processor
date: 2024-07-23, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News
If you have a FIRE or Pyro system from RISCOSbits (I reviewed mine here) you may be interested in their new machine stands. The stand has a gap underneath that will fit a DVD drive underneath.
http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2087.html
date: 2024-07-23, from: Low-tech magazine
Image: Ebook. Photo: Marie Verdeil.
Many of you have asked for ebooks, and now you can download both the chronological and thematic books series in epub version. The files work on any type of device, without restrictions. You can find all ebooks in our online bookshop.
Patrons get free access to all ebooks and PDF archives.
Image: Low-tech Magazine Ebook. Photo: Marie Verdeil.
Image: Low-tech Magazine Ebook. Photo: Marie Verdeil.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2024/07/low-tech-magazine-the-ebooks/
date: 2024-07-22, from: Happy Macs site
Summary: In my first post covering the install of Snow Leopard on a PPC Mac, I mentioned that I would follow up with more insights into issues with this unsupported configuration, and workarounds that I had found. This post provides those “insights”… more like “observations”, but at any rate, a follow up on what works […]
https://happymacs.wordpress.com/2024/07/22/snow-leopard-ppc-what-works-what-doesnt/
date: 2024-07-22, from: Linux Magazine
If you’re into rolling release Linux distributions, OpenMandriva ROME has a new snapshot with a new kernel.
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/OpenMandriva-Lx-24.07-Released
date: 2024-07-22, from: Low-tech magazine
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The circular economy – the newest magical word in the sustainable development vocabulary – promises economic growth without environmental destruction or waste. However, growth makes a circular economy impossible, even if we recycle all raw materials and all recycling is 100% efficient. No technology can change that because it’s not a technological problem. In addition, many modern products are too complex to recycle.
In this series of articles, LOW←TECH MAGAZINE explores how the circularity of various technologies like bicycles, solar panels, and wind turbines evolves. Placing the recycling of resources in a historical context makes clear that we are not moving toward a circular economy but rather increasingly away from it.
- How circular is the circular economy?
- Can we make bicycles sustainable again?
- Plastic waste in the fuel tank?
- Recycling animal and human manure is the key to sustainable farming
- How to make wind power sustainable again?
- Reinventing the small wind turbine
- How to build a low-tech solar panel?
- How to escape from the Iron Age?
Patrons get free access to ebooks, as well as early access to new print books at a reduced price.
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How to build a low-tech internet?, Kris De Decker, Roel Roscam Abbing, Marie Otsuka, 2023. Ebook edition.
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How to downsize a transport network?, Kris De Decker, 2023. Ebook edition.
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Heating people not spaces, Kris De Decker, 2024. Ebook edition
The Low-tech Magazine archives are also available as a chronological series consisting of four volumes.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2024/07/thematic-book-series-how-circular-is-the-circular-economy/
date: 2024-07-21, from: RiscOS Story
There will be an out of schedule meeting held by the Midlands User Group (MUG), at which the group’s own John Rickman will discuss the use of StrongED as a scripting tool when programming in Python. MUG meetings are usually held on a Saturday afternoons, with some being held in person, and some online using Zoom. However, this meeting will instead be held on Wednesday, 24th July, at 7:30pm – presumably to get around other commitments, and possibly in the interests of encouraging attendance; a Saturday afternoon in the middle…
https://www.riscository.com/2024/stronged-scripting-aid-mug-24th-july/
date: 2024-07-21, from: RiscOS Story
WimpInfo is a small application that was previously supplied by Quantum Software, and is now hosted here on RISCOSitory after Stuart Halliday announced he was shutting down the software house. Its purpose is to provide information about whatever is underneath the mouse pointer – information about windows, icons, menus, and so on. This can be useful to programmers when developing their applications to ensure their code is doing what they think it’s doing, and that they’ve set up those windows, icons, menus, and so on correctly. Fred Graute, of StrongED…
https://www.riscository.com/2024/wimpinfo-1-24-released/
date: 2024-07-21, from: Richard Murray's blog
Some software updates, New glasses, Sunflowers.