deadlyllama

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by deadlyllama 5y ago
That's a blast from the past! Shine's output doesn't sound great. If you need the performance on embedded hardware, that's what it's there for. If you need quality sound and can't afford to crank up the output
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
See also: The Scottish Restaurant...
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
egcs! Now there's a blast from the past!
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
NoIP/DDNS/etc still means a dynamic IP address, with possibly broken reverse DNS, from a dynamic DNS pool. To send email you need a static IP with correct reverse DNS, or other people's servers will reject your mail (best cas
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
Is confidential computing needed if all you're doing is forwarding packets? Your cloud provider can see the packets as they leave and enter your VM. If I was building this I'd stand up a VPN (choose your favourite protocol) betwe
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
Breaking is mostly self-inflicted. I followed the 123qwe.com version of the ISPmail tutorial, but made some changes to fit in with my aged Nextcloud setup. This caused a few hiccups. Changes were -- mysql not postgres, allowing mail logi
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
I've just gone back. I ran my own mail server from 1999 on a residential cable IP until taking the Gmail for your domain bait. Hey, free mail hosting with XMPP and nice webmail! Last time I was on exim/cyrus/spamassassin. Now
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
I wonder if some of what went wrong with XMPP was the big platforms (Facebook, Gmail) adopting it, then dropping it. Coupled with the rise of smartphones and the cloud. Previously you ran your chat app on a desktop PC and it stored your cha
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
Had the IBM Workpad c3 (Palm V with an IBM logo on the case). Got it second hand from a local IBM employee. Read loads of books on it while walking to university (1 hour each way) with iSilo. Dropped it on the road once and it was barely sc
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
Sounds like the scene in Soylent Green where Roth gets to listen to classical music and watch calming scenes of nature... as he is euthanised. When your workplace starts emulating 70s dystopian sci-fi, that's a sign you might be doing
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
There's a good Geekzone thread on head unit installation. Especially useful if you want to keep the factory reverse camera operating. Note the camera needs 6V. Voltage conversion boards are ultra cheap on aliexpress or if you're i
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
New Zealand? My Dad's old Subaru Legacy used its display to show Japan rotating around as we turned corners, us always in the sea. I'm onto my second 2005 Mazda MPV (they're great cars). This time I've replaced the head
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
Not just timing critical stuff. BIOS calls for serial were slow, character at a time. If you wanted to fill a buffer and keep processing you wrote your own interrupt driven serial code or used a good library. No serious software on DOS woul
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
I'm a minister, in New Zealand (not the US!). I'd always recommend a Christian counsellor to a parishioner who needed counselling, and I'd always go to one myself. If I'm going to unburden myself on a professional I&#x
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
NZ hasn't banned Huawei 5G but the cell networks have chosen Samsung (Spark), Nokia (Vodafone), and Ericsson (2degrees).
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
A lot, as long as it respects Western intellectual property "rights." Like persuading Oxford University to NOT give away the rights to its COVID-19 vaccine: https://khn.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
We used a Google spreadsheet for our gift registry ten years ago. One of my friends, a sheet metal worker, gave us a really decent toolbox. Still using it.
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by deadlyllama 5y ago
Even when the church holds the funeral - often at no charge if its a member of the church who has died, and for a small suggested donation for others - a funeral director handles the body. And that costs thousands and thousands of dollars.
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by deadlyllama 6y ago
When I was a student at VUW, the institution this article is about (early 2000s), computer science had its own, separate IT system. With staff. Who were legendary. I see the head sysadmin from back then is still there... No "shadow IT,
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by deadlyllama 6y ago
I used to (late 2000s) work for a tiny, tiny company that was courting a customer in the mobile banking space. They wanted us to tick boxes. So we bought a box (some sort of Fortinet) that said it was a firewall and IDS. Plugged it in, use
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by deadlyllama 6y ago
CGA looks worse in modern screenshots though. The colour palette could be awful but the monitor would add some blur between the pixels and that helped. EGA had the same. VGA 320x200 was pixel doubled (640x400 was fed to the monitor) so it
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by deadlyllama 6y ago
That's why I've been using Joe's Own Editor since I first installed Slackware in the 90s. I learnt the Wordstar keybindings via Turbo Pascal (used WordPerfect for word processing). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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by deadlyllama 6y ago
Yeah, but they'd all be in the same /32, which is trivial to block. You'd have to intersperse "legitimate" users through your space to thwart that.
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by deadlyllama 6y ago
Multiple boot floppies? Never had to do that. I was very excited by the new version of DR-DOS that let you build a menu system in CONFIG.SYS to load a different set of drivers and memory managmemt at start up. Also the wierd IRQ issues. Sim
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by deadlyllama 6y ago
CGA had a green / red / yellow mode (320x200), but never saw anything as well dithered on it!
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by deadlyllama 6y ago
The Android Developer Phone 1 was announced in December 2008. I got mine in March 2009. That's twelve years next month. I still miss the hardware keyboard.
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by deadlyllama 6y ago
In Wellington (I live there) there's a QR code on every shop you're supposed to scan with your phone for contact tracing. Most people don't but they still see them - so yes it's still on our minds.
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by deadlyllama 6y ago
Zander attributes burnout (at root, excessive, sustained stress) to optimising our lives. There is some truth in that. But to write an article in late 2020 about excessive stress while ignoring the major stressor of COVID-19 is naive at b
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by deadlyllama 6y ago
And there's good competition, I'm paying NZ$90 for the same speed (900/400) with no data cap. Static IP. And all the NZ prices quoted include sales tax (NZ law requires this) so the equivalent US price without sales tax would
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by deadlyllama 6y ago
In my recent experience in churches in New Zealand, newer hearing aids either don't have T-coils, or the audiologist has to turn them on (and hasn't), or the hearing aid owner does but doesn't know how. 10-20 years ago everyo

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