A few weeks ago a copy of Unix V4 which was thought to be lost was discovered on a storage tape at the University of Utah. It was then sent to the Home Computer Museum in California, and well, they managed to read it out and put its contents on the Internet Archive. I haven't seen any news articles about this yet,...

In 1981, a new TV station dedicated to playing music videos appeared in the US. It famously started its programme by playing The Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star. In 1987, MTV Europe began its broadcast with an equally fitting video: the Dire Straits song Money for Nothing, which opens with the line "I want my...

I'm currently trying to get a little deeper into Linux and understand more what actually makes the OS tick under the hood. I've been using Linux for almost 20 years at this point, but how the Kernel works and how everything is put together so that a functioning operating system comes out of it is still somewhat of a...

Sometimes, the intros to these linkdumps almost write temselves; there is something in the links that gives me an idea or just a random thought that comes into my head and that I feel is worth writing down. Other times, nothing comes to my mind, no matter how hard I try. Today is one of those times. And you know...

Have you ever heard of Whamageddon? I hadn't, until the hashtag recently showed up in my Mastodon feed. According to the wiki site, it's a tongue-in-cheek survival game in which the player must avoid hearing Wham!'s Last Christmas from December 1st all the way through Christmas Eve. Unbeknownst to me, I've been...

For seven years in school I had the "pleasure" of learning Latin. I'm putting this in quotes because I didn't really like it, except maybe in the beginning. I was never really good at it and therefore didn't get very good grades, which was pretty demotivating. I loved learning English, as you might be able to tell,...

The Xbox 360 turned 20 last week. That's kind of crazy to think about. Is it retro now? Somehow it doesn't feel like it, but if a thing that came out 20 years ago isn't retro, then what is? For context, the Amiga came out 40 years ago this year, and in 2005 it was definitely retro. This also means that the same...

I mentioned in my last post that I bought the complete series Home Improvement, which (translated back to English) is called Look who's hammering in German (I originally said Listen who's hammering which is a more literal translation, but look is probably better English). That caused some amusement on Mastodon, and...

Recently I've been ill and so I spent a lot of time at home on the couch with nothing to do and not a lot of energy to do anything anyway. And what do you do in 2025 in a situation like this? Of course. I got my phone and my laptop and spent an ungodly amount of time online, watching YouTube, scrolling social media,...

This week was kind of weird. I didn't really come across a lot of interesting stuff online, even though I was online a lot way too much. Maybe the Cloudflare outage killed all the interesting things on the internet? This site is not behind Cloudflare btw, nor is it hosted on Amazon AWS, so when these services go...

Today I saw a video of David Coverdale announcing his retirement. Coverdale used to sing for Deep Purple in the 70s before starting his own band Whitesnake, which became hugely successful in the 80s. I'm sure you've heard "Here I Go Again" on the radio a million times. Coverdale is easily one of my favourite singers...

Thank god October is over. Usually I really like it - the trees are turning all kinds of beautiful colours, the leaves are falling, the wind is blowing the leaves around etc. But this October was terrible, because I was sick for most of it. A few weeks ago I mentioned that I was excited to go to the Retro Computer...