Troed Sångberg
Troed Sångberg
Troed Sångberg
The personal blog of a hacker, dad, demoscener, cybersec professional, software engineer, futurist and above all someone who dives deep into whatever interests him for the moment.
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It’s somewhat easy finding modern software able to read ancient data formats (note, "somewhat"). It’s often more difficult finding the opposite - conversion from modern formats to older ones. When I’ve wanted to edit graphics using...
You’re getting a 3D printer? Why - what will you use it for? -Oh you know, it’s handy to have around when stuff around the house breaks down. Making spare parts, repairs, stuff like that. I’ve seen it lots of times. I’ve said it more...
It’s retro computing time again! As part of my quite extensive rebuild of one of my Atari STE machines I want to have both an HxC SD floppy emulator as well as the original floppy disk drive mounted internally in the machine at the same...
I just did a writeup on how to replace the original PSU in an Atari ST/E with a modern picoPSU. I’m quite satisfied with how it came out - click the link for some pretty pictures ;)
One of the first components to show symptoms of age in an old computer is the power supply unit. This might show up as unstable video output, frequent crashes, problems reading disks or even worse - other components giving up. One option...
Why my Mac Mini from 2008 (model 2,1) went from Snow Leopard to Lion to Mavericks in the last 24 hours. I like my Mac Mini. It’s the first Mac I ever bought, on a whim, and it’s served me well both as a workstation and lately more of a...
The L2311c monitor is a "desktop hot-swappable" monitor to which you connect USB devices and ethernet, where you’re supposed to only then have to connect it to your computer via a single USB cable to access all of its functionality. On...
This page describes how a still produced little piece of hardware can add real time clock (RTC) functionality to our old favourite computer systems. In this case it’s an Atari STE, but any ST with ROM sockets will work. Why? I can’t...
Seasonal Affective Disorder - SAD. wikipedia also known as winter depression, winter blues […] or seasonal depression, was considered a mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience...
All software contain bugs. All complex software contain numerous bugs. Some of those bugs are security holes. When you hear that a software vendor has found and fixed a security problem that means that somehow that specific bug came up...
Bitcoin press has gone through the roof in the last few weeks. So has the exchange rate between traditional currencies and bitcoins - a fact that has seen as many different explanations as I’ve seen people wrapping their heads around the...
As I’m writing this, I have 20 tabs open in my web browser. Of those, the five latest are newly opened and temporary part of things I’m currently researching. 15 tabs are fixed, they’re always the same. Those tabs contain the websites I...
A report from the World Bank is making rounds in media today. While portraying catastrophic scenarios, it contains no new actual research and is simply extrapolating statistical possibilities. Unfortunately the media headlines aren’t...
An availability cascade is a self-sustaining chain of events, which may start from media reports of a relatively minor event and lead up to public panic and large-scale government action. On some occasions, a media story about a risk...
In the spring of 2008 I sat in the audience at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, watching Clay Shirky on stage. His talk about the cognitive heat sink, on how television had disrupted humanity from spending large parts of our time on being...