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by Tor3 11mo ago
I have a BeagleBoard like that in a drawer somewhere. Getting it to boot from USB may be a reason to fiddle with it again, sounds fun. As a side note, I want that reasonably priced < https://github.com/ataradov/usb-sn
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by Tor3 11mo ago
I haven't heard it being called "Red Hat's XFS". Silicon Graphics, when it was still a company, ported XFS to Linux and Linus accepted it. I've been using XFS for a very long time, and I've never been on Red H
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by Tor3 11mo ago
So, the 1973 one is likely really 9-track then, possibly 800 bpi. Should be fine reading that one on my drive, if the tape isn't in physically bad shape. Not that I expect them to ship it to me!
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by Tor3 11mo ago
That was a bit tongue-in-cheek.. and a more accurate word would be "banned", not "illegal". It's just something HP used to sell, not dangerous as such, but it's a CFC-based tape head cleaner. Very efficient, an
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by Tor3 11mo ago
I have a 9-track CCT tape reader/writer which I've used for tapes going back to 1982 or so. I'm kind of surprised that a 1973 tape is 9-track and not 7-track, but then again I'm not certain when the change to 9-track hap
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by Tor3 11mo ago
Look at what I replied to. The claim was "You can't have [buses] roaming around with no way to turn them off remotely". As if there's some general rule or agreement that it MUST be possible to turn buses off remotely. W
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by Tor3 11mo ago
"But it could also have been that they put the entire bus in a giant Faraday cage" And that's what they did. If that was necessary for the conclusions is not said in the article. Only that the remote access could - Update
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by Tor3 11mo ago
"You can't have busses roaming around with no way to turn them off remotely." Hm? Not a single bus on the road in my city can be turned off remotely. There's never been one ever, since bus transport started. So why shou
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by Tor3 11mo ago
The tests done on the buses showed that they can be stopped as well as otherwise controlled remotely from China. This is way more than diagnostics, and remote control is _not_ something which is common in road vehicles.
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by Tor3 11mo ago
That's only about the black death, and some specific reasons for why that helped, kind of, _some_ parts of Europe. First, it definitely didn't help everyone - Norway, for example, lost all economic power and went into the 400 year
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by Tor3 11mo ago
Yes, that's the one.
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by Tor3 11mo ago
That day our tech chief at the time came running and told us about the worm, and that apparently our country managed to avoid it because the news spread quickly enough that one guy simply unplugged the whole country from the Internet - ther
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by Tor3 11mo ago
So the general theory is that if you kill half of the population the descendants will be better off? What's the mechanism, and what happens if you follow that to its conclusion?
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by Tor3 11mo ago
My collection of 5 1/4" floppies were mostly fine, after some thirty years. I think I had one or two (of very many) with read errors. 3.5" floppies though.. just about every "HD" (1.44MB) ones were a goner. The &quo
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by Tor3 1y ago
What's discussed in this subthread is running Windows applications under Wine. When it's running under Windows there's no discussion to begin with. In any case, I'm not going to try to set up a Windows VM on my Linux com
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by Tor3 1y ago
Installing a Windows VM is not really an option for me for various reasons, but in any case that's just.. running Windows. I don't have a Windows license either so I expect I wouldn't be able to anyway.
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by Tor3 1y ago
Well.. I don't know anything about games, I don't run them. I'm not aware of Bottles, yet.
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by Tor3 1y ago
I've used all the Japanese language and font settings (including your suggestions), and I have fonts installed, and for what barely runs this gets the fonts mostly working. It makes no difference for what doesn't even install. On
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by Tor3 1y ago
Japanese Windows software mostly don't run, or does it badly, with Wine on Linux. Unfortunately. I've been a full-time Linux user since 1992 and this frustrates me. Some of the software won't even pass the install stage. I&#x
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by Tor3 1y ago
Turbo Pascal started to ship with an example spreadsheet program, as source. A co-worker took that source and ported it to a version of Pascal running on VAX/VMS. After that you could often see a VT-100 with a spreadsheet running, in
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by Tor3 1y ago
I've been clicking my way around the website for a while now. I haven't seen any bugs or glitches. Could you give an example of what's failing for you?
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by Tor3 1y ago
I use ssh -X all the time (actually I have -X permanently enabled so it's always there - for the targets where I want to use it). However, if there's any combination of latency and heavy X traffic (which can be found in surprising
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by Tor3 1y ago
Yeah.. I'm more of the "4 minutes" type myself, so I kind of didn't foresee that.
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by Tor3 1y ago
I'm going to have V2H installed (Vehicle-to-Home), where excess power from the solar panels will charge the car battery, and the car battery can feed the home at night. I'm planning on following a setup I saw in another house, it
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by Tor3 1y ago
Good water heaters are key. Mine is 200 liters and I've experienced cold water exactly once in three decades: One day 3 guests took hour-long showers each. Normally a family of five will never experience cold water. The one I'm g
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by Tor3 1y ago
I use Sailfish on an Xperia 10 mod. III. Unfortunately the only Xperia models which support the full Sailfish w/Android compatibility are the way too long ones. I intensely dislike long phones. I miss my old Jolla phone (they're
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by Tor3 1y ago
A phone bought in one region should be supposed to continue working when you travel to other regions - which people (in most parts of the world) do all the time. And, indeed, my phones all do that. However, they don't all work with loc
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by Tor3 1y ago
I see some people didn't get the obvious joke.. the big joke though is that some people actually think like that. As a little boy I was into Erich von Däniken and his books about how, basically, aliens made a lot of the "impossibl
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by Tor3 1y ago
And that's exactly why the title is "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel". Not that it's a "Nobel Prize".
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by Tor3 1y ago
And unfortunately it's also used in some places outside the ones you're mentioning, e.g. private persons renting out their camper (I've seen this). Which opens the doors to fraud, as has happened too many times (the fraudster

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