A 2004 iBook G4 Finally Talks To Your Modern NAS
AquaLink connects a Tiger-era iBook G4 to a modern SMB3 NAS through libsmb2 and a tiny local WebDAV server. What matters is the method: wiring an abandoned machine back in, kernel untouched.
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Emerson spent $8.2 billion on an argument. The argument holds.
An Emerson-sponsored essay about the "new era of test" survives fact-checking surprisingly well. Verification really has become engineering's bottleneck, just not for the reasons its Test & Measurement segment sells.
MNT Station does not replace your Reform. It reuses its motherboard
MNT Station turns a Reform laptop motherboard into a desktop or server. Its modularity matters most when it creates a real migration path for hardware that still works.
The NSA's Secret Supercomputer Died From a Missing Part
From 1962 to 1976, IBM's Harvest processed the NSA's most sensitive intercepts through a pipelined stream coprocessor and the world's first automated tape library.
Rock can make hydrogen. The hard part is making it do it again
Eden fractures rock with electrical pulses while Vema bets on hot water and catalysts. Both attack the same bottleneck: keeping enough fresh rock in contact with water to sustain useful hydrogen production.
AI tokens at 90% off are not cheaper. Someone else is paying
Token relays can be legitimate. But when inference sells far below its cost, the bill has not vanished: it has often been shifted onto another account or product.
This file is a database. It runs anyway.
SELF packs an ELF program into a valid SQLite database, registers four bytes at offset 68 with binfmt_misc, and runs it. strip becomes a transaction, ldd a JOIN.
Blender's physics now lives in a node you can open
With 5.2 LTS, Blender moves hair and cloth into Geometry Nodes: an XPBD solver becomes a graph component, constraints become editable data, and a rigid-body engine borrowed from AAA games is on the horizon.
A cut Apple cable, a $5 board, and an unfixable iPhone exploit
Maker forums are full of Raspberry Pi Pico 2 boards with Apple Lightning cables soldered to them. The reason is usbliter8, a BootROM exploit Apple can never patch, and a wiring job you can do at a desk.
Twenty-four bacterial colonies to add two bits
MIT prints bacterial colonies the way engineers place electronic components: two transistors, three relays. The computation gets reprogrammed by changing the print pattern, without touching the DNA.