With the advent of streaming services, plenty of people are opting to forego the collection of physical media. In turn, there are now a lot of optical drives sitting unused in parts bins and old computers. If you’d like something … Read more
“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios, and now you want to talk about building a reliable network out of… USB drives?” Well, yes. In fact, I’ve already done it. What … Read more
[This is a transcript of the video embedded below. Some of the explanations may not make sense without the animations in the video.] [embedded content] Warp drives are not just science fiction. Einstein’s theory of general relativity says they should … Read more