Remember the old 1.44 MB floppy disks?
No? Or maybe you do, but you want to forget?
YouTuber Dr. Moddnstine decided to perform a massive upgrade on his IBM 486, and besides adding all bell and whistles, he documented a storage hack to bring up the capacity of the Floppy 1.44 to a whopping 128 Gb.
How?
You have to read the (short) article…
but let me leave you a hint.
The new graphic file formats for the new web.
As of this writing, Google has confirmed it started testing authentication through notification to a smartphone.
I am not sure how this works for burners, and for anonymizing cellphone accounts, so I will investigate this, but so far it seems like a cheap approach to Two Factor Authentication.
The new graphic file formats for the new web.
Now that HTML 5 is gaining traction expect to see also major changes on the graphic types that get uploaded to websites.
Google has released the specs for a new format, WebP
Read the specifics from Google, like how it provides lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. WebP lossless images are 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs. WebP lossy images are 25-34% smaller in size compared to JPEG images at equivalent SSIM index. WebP supports lossless transparency (also known as alpha channel) with just 22% additional bytes. Transparency is also supported with lossy compression and typically provides 3x smaller file sizes compared to PNG when lossy compression is acceptable for the red/green/blue color channels.
Webmasters and web developers can use the WebP image format to create smaller and richer images that can help make the web faster.
But wait!!! There is more!!
BPG wants to replace PNG and JPGs
https://eek.ro/why-bpg-will-replace-gifs-and-not-only/
Go to their website and check the demos. It is worth seeing
Advantages?
Animation support. You can have a GIF half the size of an MP4.
Video inline play (but without sound). One of the biggest problems is that on Mobile Safari no video can be played inline. GIFs solve, and when we have GIFs that are 5% the size of the original, that’s epic!
High compression ratio. Smaller than a JPG and even smaller than Google’s WebP with similar quality if not better.
You can start using today with a Javascript decoder.
This other website shows you a cool demo
Microsoft was prepping release in spite of another a bug triggering Windows Store crashes, but update-tied bug was a deal breaker.
Initially they discovered a bug that crashed the Windows app store, but eventually they discovered the big one that blocks the user from installing future OS updates.
That’s bad.
Still, corporate IT knows that in a Microsoft environment, the Windows Mobile Devices are king. Sure iPhones are still the rage, but since Apple never cared to give tools for the corporate IT manager, we hope these mobile devices keep gaining acceptance.
Compiled by Juan M. Pousada
Kirk Skaugen, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s client-computing group, said at the Citi Global Technology Conference held on Tuesday September 8th 2015. “I can confidently say today, you can eliminate all your passwords today, if you buy a sixth-generation Core system.”
Skaugen was referring to the new sixth-generation Core chips that Intel released last week. Those chips power some of the latest Windows 10 devices that come with some of the new facial-recognition software, like Windows Hello. To enjoy the full functionality of Windows Hello, you also need Intel’s RealSense 3D Camera, which looks at multiple angles to detect the photo’s depth and heat to determine the user’s identity.
Intel Corporation introduced the 6th Generation Intel® Core™ processor family a few days from this conference, Sept. 1, 2015
The coolest new feature in Skylake, though, is a technology Intel calls Speed Shift. Before the sixth-gen Core CPUs, the operating system would be responsible for giving cues when more or less performance is needed and the processor would adjust its speed accordingly. That reaction would usually take 30ms, but now Intel has shifted the intelligence over to the processor and is allowing it to make the determination itself.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/intel-wants-to-nuke-all-your-passwords-2015-9#ixzz3lLYyCL00
Read more: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/1/9238379/intel-skylake-launch-ifa-2015-kirk-skaugen-interview