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Tate Geological Museum

Tate Geological Museum

Bruce Ediger

A Museum You Should Visit

If you happen to be in Casper, Wyoming, you should visit Tate Geological Museum. It’s a small, but very well done geology and paleontology museum. There’s interesting things for most family members, even well-informed 4-year-olds could have fun and learn things.

CP/M and VAX/VMS Memory Layout

Bruce Ediger

It’s often said that DEC operating systems influenced the design of the CP/M microcomputer OS. Let’s examine that assertion by looking at how a process was laid out in memory.

Wordpress Malware Ecosystem 1

Wordpress Malware Ecosystem 1

Bruce Ediger

Something upwards of 40% of all Internet websites use WordPress blogging software. WordPress is written in the PHP programming language. Because PHP has a lot of quirks, and because just about any wanker can come along and crap out a solution to any given problem, WordPress installations have traditionally had security flaws. That makes WordPress installations subject to a lot of shady activity.

Wireless Charging Detector

Bruce Ediger

I dropped my cell phone and cracked the screen, so I got a Google Pixel 6 and a wireless charging stand. I ended up looking up the “Qi” standard for these chargers. It seemed like the coils used to transfer energy weren’t particularly exotic in size, shape, material or manufacture, so I decided to try to receive some energy from the charging stand.

I’ve since revised this contraption.

Mission to the Moon

Mission to the Moon

Bruce Ediger

I’ve been reading science fiction for a long time, since maybe second grade, circa 1968. I believe that the first scifi book I read was Lester Del Rey’s Mission to the Moon.

Starship Troopers

Bruce Ediger

strong of arm, and empty of head

I’ve been reading science fiction for a long time, since maybe second grade, circa 1968. I believe that the first sci fi book I read was Lester Del Rey’s Mission to the Moon, but that’s for another day

One of my favorite books is Robert A. Heinlein’s 1959 Starship Troopers