Tag: birthday

Scorpius? Here’s your constellation

The Scorpion in the sky and in mythology. Here’s everything you need to know. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/scorpius-heres-your-constellation…

The Slashdot Interview with FreeDOS founder Jim Hall

In honor of FreeDOS’s 25th birthday, project founder and coordinator Jim Hall agreed to answer the 10 best questions submitted by Slashdot readers. You asked and he answered! Read on for Jim’s interview.

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Source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/06/28/1933239/the-slashdot-interview-with-freedos-founder-jim-hall?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed…

Suzanne Collins has written a Hunger Games prequel set to come out in 2020

Source: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/6/22/18701159/suzanne-collins-hunger-games-prequel…

Interviews: For the 25th Birthday of FreeDOS, Ask Its Founder A Question

FreeDOS was originally created in response to Microsoft’s announcement that after Windows 95, DOS would no longer be developed as a standalone operating system, according to Computerworld’s 2016 interview with FreeDOS’s founder and project coordinator, Jim Hall. “I packaged my own extended DOS utilities, as did others,” he explains on the FreeDOS web site, “and we found other public domain or…

Teen Makes His Own AirPods For $4

samleecole writes: Apple’s AirPods are a tragedy. Ecologically, socially, economically — they’re a capitalist disaster. The opposite of AirPods, then, is this extremely punk pair of DIY wireless earbuds that someone on Reddit hacked together using an old pair of wired Apple headphones and some hot glue. “I started this project roughly two months ago when my friend got a new…