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My 2008 Mac Pro arrived, and it’s a shiny beast of a machine 🙂  It’s sitting beside a younger relative, a 2002 Power Mac G4 Quicksilver. It came with OS X 10.5 Leopard installed – it looked like it was a clean install, but as for any used machine, I like to do a clean …
Having grown up with 8 bit computers, starting with an Atari VCS and then a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, I find it fascinating that decades later there’s an increasing level of interest in computers from the 80s and 90s with thriving online communities, podcasts and even meetup groups of enthusiasts who get together to discuss the …
Following this tutorial to build a simple REST api on Node.js with Express, attempting to retrieve all docs from my MongoDB gave these errors: 2016-05-19T20:10:47.311-0700 [initandlisten] connection accepted from 127.0.0.1:52053 #4 (2 connections now open) 2016-05-19T20:10:47.325-0700 [conn4]Â authenticate db: nodetest { authenticate: 1, user: “”, nonce: “xxx”, key: “xxx” } 2016-05-19T20:10:47.336-0700 [conn4] Failed to authenticate …
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Early 80s in the UK was prime time for the 8bit home computer games industry. I posted a few links of some interesting computer history documentaries on YouTube a while back, including the TV Drama ‘MicroMen’ which covered the rivalry between Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry at the time. Here’s a couple more: Commercical Breaks: a …
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