I recently bought a Hama multi-slot card reader, primarily for reading the Smart Media cards used in our camera. It came with software for Windows. I installed it on our Windows 98 machine, and plugged in the device, following the instructions to the letter. Ka-boom! Blue screen. After about an hour of trying and [...]
I read this a few years ago, and don’t think I appreciated some of the finer points (how many books don’t deserve a re-reading?).
You can find out about the book at Amazon so I won’t bother with the plot. It’s a wonderful study in far future tech - the ships, minds, and drones [...]
…when it takes you over two weeks to recover from OSCON. What with the travel (ok, including a connectionless week in Manchester visiting relatives), the email backlog, and the catch-up at work, not to mention the overwhelming saturation of information, ideas, inspiration, and other things beginning with ‘i’ that came from the great time [...]