If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...

Modern operating systems insulate us — as programmers, especially — from so much work. Depending on how far back you go, programmers had to manage their own fonts, their own allocation space on mass ...

At some point in the past, Unix — the progenitor of Linux — treated virtually everything as a file, and all files were created more or less equal. Programs didn’t care if a file was local, on the ...

A shared channel that transmits data one bit after the other over a single wire or fiber; for example, Ethernet uses a serial bus architecture. The I/O bus from the CPU to the peripherals is a ...

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STEVE. TODD, THE PORT SAINT LUCIE POLICE ACTING CHIEF, SAYS THE DEPARTMENT LIKELY PREVENTED A RANDOM MURDER WHEN OFFICERS ARRESTED 18 YEAR OLD OMARION IVORY, WHO WAS HOLDING ONE OF THE WEAPONS HE USED ...

Stephen Port was given a full life term after a 16-month period of sex attacks and murders (Metropolitan Police/PA Wire) He had killed four men, and drugged and sexually assaulted at least eight more, ...

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Serial killer Stephen Port has been found guilty at the Old Bailey of the murders of four men. The 41-year-old former chef invited Jack Taylor, Daniel Whitworth, Gabriel Kovari and Anthony Walgate to ...

Stephen Port, a serial killer who was found guilty of murdering four young men, has lodged an appeal against his convictions. The 46-year-old was sentenced to life in jail after being found guilty of ...