If you happen to have an old PC that has a USB port but BIOS doesn't know how to boot from it, check out Plop Boot Manager (https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html).
This life-saver utility does one simple thing: you put it on a floppy, CD/DVD, boot from it and then choose what you want to boot next: USB, floppy, HDD partition, etc.
And it's only 500 Kb in size!
This way you can install modern OS on an old hardware if all you have is a memstick image and no ISO or CD/DVD burner.

#RetroComputing #PlopBootManager

Well my employer has decided to partner with Palantir, which means it's time for me to find a new job. I was a lot more willing to make 40% less than market rate when I knew my employer wasn't funding concentration camps because they want AI coding tools.

Anyway of you need a UX designer/researcher who knows his way around government regulations, healthcare, enterprise software I'm looking!

Cool,cool… I guess given Grok’s current configuration it should have the DoD invading Poland, around what, the first of September?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/14/elon-musk-grok-defense-department/

i'm not sure if anyone noticed this since it didn't make the news, but a month after McBarge sank, its former owner Howard Meakin passed away.

if you're unfamiliar with McBarge, it was a fascinating relic of canadian history: a floating mcdonald's from Expo '86 (vancouver).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McBarge

the mcbarge sank in march of this year, and no one was able to get ahold of the last known owner. it's likely because he was in the hospital.

howard's obit:
https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/nsnews/name/howard-meakin-obituary?id=58340159

#canada

There's a guy on TinkerDifferent that got their hands on an early prototype of the Finder from 1982 and some other early demo apps - including the Bouncing Pepsi Caps (made to impress mike scully) app.

MacPaint 0.1, the IconEditor and a few others. This is all stuff the Mac team was using to build the Mac. Pretty cool! I don't think any of these apps were outside Apple until now?

https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/early-demos-finder-soundlab-sbardemo-windowmanager-iconeditor.4498/

How many parked (unused) domains do you own? I have an idea and want to know if my assumption is correct.

Boost generously, please.

In early 2024, Robert Smith used his DaynaPORT driver to create a SANA II driver for the Amiga based on Lukas F. Hartmann's MNT ZZ9000 network driver and using the BlueScsi v2 WIFI version to enable the Amiga to access the Internet.

Now, with version 1.0 of BlueSCSIUI, he has released a user interface for BlueSCSI for AmigaOS 2.0 and higher that supports configuration and diagnosis of the DynaPORT driver.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-07-00058-EN.html

#Amiga #driver #Wifi