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This currently looks like a poor 486 fighting for dear life. Edit: This also looks like a fairly Finnish thing to do. Thinking not only of Linux and hacking, b

by jug 5y ago

This currently looks like a poor 486 fighting for dear life. Edit: This also looks like a fairly Finnish thing to do. Thinking not only of Linux and hacking, but also their general demoscene culture and such things. See also: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-04-16-finland-recognises-the-demoscene-as-part-of-its-cultural-heritage https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-04-16-finland-re...

Hydraulix989 5y ago
Didn't take long to overload it given it is a 486
- bigiain 5y ago
  Jan 2001 was the first month I hit $1mil in revenue from our website. It was served from a Pentium P5 beige desktop box colocated in PAIX. Actually, there were 3 of them. 1 running Apache and Perl FastCGI, one running MySQL, and a third which mostly ran backups, but could be used as failover for either the web server or database if required. I used to fly from Sydney to San Francisco 3 or 4 times a year with half a dozen hard drives in my carryon, because that was the most reliable way to do major upgrades - we had three identical boxes in the office in Sydney, and would install/configure/test major software and dependancy upgrades in house, then go to the data centre and swap in the new drives one machine at a time with zero downtime - usually. I was rarely the only one in my datacenter aisle with a screwdriver and a PAIX guy looking over my shoulder, but most other people were swapping out whole rack mount servers, not opening them up to replace or upgrade components.
  - sillysaurusx 5y ago
    1 mil from what?
    - ungamed 5y ago
      I believe its "Turn down for what"
    - bigiain 5y ago
      Hotel, car hire, and tour bookings. 32-33% margin after credit card fees. We were doing great, and totally full of ourselves. We turned down a buyout aisle we thought we were worth 10 or 20 times what they offered. Then Sept 11 happened and our revenue crashed 90% overnight. :sigh:
  - digisign 5y ago
    "'PAIX, the 'Palo Alto Internet eXchange' was a neutral Internet exchange point." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAIX
chrisstanchak 5y ago
Good. Second Reality 4ever.
marttt 5y ago
> ... fairly Finnish thing to do ... +1 for this lovely metaphor. I'm Estonian, but I absolutely love Finns for their peculiar between-the-lines humor, and their tendency to go really deep into fringe stuff. A Finnish guy once demonstrated a retro bicycle he was restoring, stating that it's going to take him two years to finish it. "This needs to be done properly," he said with a barely noticeable smirk. Re: Finns, demoscene, and frugal computing: see also Viznut and his insightful essays: http://viznut.fi/en/ http://viznut.fi/en/
- anthk 5y ago
  Inner Spain (read: non-coast) it's like that. If they need months to repair something well, they'll fight for it for long.

by jug 5y ago

Hydraulix989 5y ago

Didn't take long to overload it given it is a 486

bigiain 5y ago
Jan 2001 was the first month I hit $1mil in revenue from our website. It was served from a Pentium P5 beige desktop box colocated in PAIX. Actually, there were 3 of them. 1 running Apache and Perl FastCGI, one running MySQL, and a third which mostly ran backups, but could be used as failover for either the web server or database if required. I used to fly from Sydney to San Francisco 3 or 4 times a year with half a dozen hard drives in my carryon, because that was the most reliable way to do major upgrades - we had three identical boxes in the office in Sydney, and would install/configure/test major software and dependancy upgrades in house, then go to the data centre and swap in the new drives one machine at a time with zero downtime - usually. I was rarely the only one in my datacenter aisle with a screwdriver and a PAIX guy looking over my shoulder, but most other people were swapping out whole rack mount servers, not opening them up to replace or upgrade components.
- sillysaurusx 5y ago
  1 mil from what?
  - ungamed 5y ago
    I believe its "Turn down for what"
  - bigiain 5y ago
    Hotel, car hire, and tour bookings. 32-33% margin after credit card fees. We were doing great, and totally full of ourselves. We turned down a buyout aisle we thought we were worth 10 or 20 times what they offered. Then Sept 11 happened and our revenue crashed 90% overnight. :sigh:
- digisign 5y ago
  "'PAIX, the 'Palo Alto Internet eXchange' was a neutral Internet exchange point." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAIX

chrisstanchak 5y ago

Good. Second Reality 4ever.

marttt 5y ago

> ... fairly Finnish thing to do ... +1 for this lovely metaphor. I'm Estonian, but I absolutely love Finns for their peculiar between-the-lines humor, and their tendency to go really deep into fringe stuff. A Finnish guy once demonstrated a retro bicycle he was restoring, stating that it's going to take him two years to finish it. "This needs to be done properly," he said with a barely noticeable smirk. Re: Finns, demoscene, and frugal computing: see also Viznut and his insightful essays: http://viznut.fi/en/ http://viznut.fi/en/

anthk 5y ago
Inner Spain (read: non-coast) it's like that. If they need months to repair something well, they'll fight for it for long.