johnklos

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by johnklos 3y ago
I am so glad there's at least one OS out there (NetBSD) that isn't competing in a popularity contest and still sees the value in writing good, clean, machine independent code. On the other hand, I can see the rationale for depreca
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by johnklos 3y ago
Cat 5 is more than adequate to do gigabit for even huge houses. If some conductors aren't connected, have bad connections, or the order of wires is wrong, then many gigabit ports will negotiate to 100 Mbps, which only requires four wor
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by johnklos 3y ago
This. There are no inexpensive Power SBCs like we have for ARM and RISC-V. Heck, even MIPS has ways to buy and run inexpensively (I run NetBSD on Ubiquiti Edgerouter hardware, for instance). If we could have a low end, quad core 2 GHz Power
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by johnklos 3y ago
That sounds like an MS-DOS problem. Some systems didn't properly detect disk changes, so if lots of buffers were configured, the system would just keep reading the same data out of memory. If your system is fine, and your data is on th
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by johnklos 3y ago
Even when using a FlashFloppy on a real computer (Amiga), it still feels better. You know where your data are. You know how and when it's being accessed. Also, it's interesting how an Amiga can boot off of a floppy faster than mos
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by johnklos 3y ago
This: "Part of it is I think because the Amiga was the last system that was simple enough that one person could reasonably hold the entire machine in their head." This is exactly what appeals so strongly to me about Amigas. This i
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by johnklos 3y ago
Actually, that's precisely expected from Microsoft. The impossibility of communicating with any humans who've ever been in the same room as a clue about how to fix these things assures this.
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by johnklos 3y ago
The point I was making is that even if one assumes the worst about the PowerPC and the best about the Snapdragon, the comparison doesn't make any sense. Even if the IPC were FOUR times that of the PowerPC and we accepted the other assu
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by johnklos 3y ago
"The processor on Ingenuity is 100 times more powerful than everything JPL has sent into deep space, combined." I think that's a bit exaggerated. The RAD750, which has been used for all sorts of devices, runs from 110 to 200
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by johnklos 3y ago
I bought an Amiga 1200 (used) in the mid '90s, invested in a then expensive Blizzard 1260 and SCSI, used the system for years as my primary work computer, then rackmounted it and turned it in to NetBSD server. Sure, it had to be recapp
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by johnklos 3y ago
For all the redundancies that exist, "cloud" isn't reliable and therefore can't replace the mainframe. Then again, most things don't need mainframe level reliability, which is why Microsoft Teams (and other Microsof
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by johnklos 3y ago
You're absolutely right about that - power banks that don't have that momentary cutoff are rare and would be highly sought. However, vermaden is powering a small form factor computer that appears to be able to take anywhere from 1
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by johnklos 3y ago
I'll downvote you AND I'll reply. It complicates firewall rules? How about pass everything out, keeping state, and block everything in, for all of your fragile devices that can't help but run services you can't turn off?
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by johnklos 3y ago
Welcome to 2001, HN!
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by johnklos 3y ago
What I'd really like is for someone to discuss and review any improvements that newer access points can have with older clients. For instance, 802.11ac brought beam forming that made a network of 802.11n clients work better. Otherwise,
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by johnklos 3y ago
They definitely don't run hot. In addition to Dreamcasts, they were used in many appliance type devices like NAS, and I've never seen or heard of any that require cooling.
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by johnklos 3y ago
You answered what OP can do with them, but you didn't answer what cool things can be done with them.
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by johnklos 3y ago
I was making the point that the web server can just keep getting updated by virtue of being part of an active server. Separately, the site doesn't need any updating / maintenance. The same person or people who run the servers aren
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by johnklos 3y ago
I have several dozen that go back at least two decades, but I don't think I should post them without asking the owners. OTOH, here's a rather public one: http://www.baloneypotd.com/
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by johnklos 3y ago
I don't know exactly. I thought so, too, and even got a couple of t-shirts from them at Interop and was fine wearing them. I even recommended them now and then. However, in the last few years, reporting spam and intrusion attempts to t
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by johnklos 3y ago
"Even if it's just static text, you need to patch your OS, update your text editor and migrate the whole document to newer versions." Nah. That's bull. A static site can be put on a web server and the site never needs to
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by johnklos 3y ago
Not surprising. They really have given up on caring about their networks and just let scammers and spammers do whatever they want. Would I trust them to put energy in to proactively fixing up their infrastructure and keeping things happy? H
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by johnklos 3y ago
There were lots of computers in the '80s which claimed official MS-DOS compatibility through emulation or added hardware. There were the Solution and Conqueror emulators for the Sinclair QL, there was Amiga Transformer from Commodore f
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by johnklos 3y ago
It's a horrible title. "PC" means personal computer. It may be a bit pedantic, sure, but if you're going to write an article that talks about technical things, it really smarts to read such a glaringly non-technical titl
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by johnklos 3y ago
> I also tried to use Firefox for a while out of a vague objection to Google and Chromium's browser hegemony; it was clearly slower than Chromium at just about everything, though, and it would regularly lock up the Pi, forcing a har
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by johnklos 3y ago
I've rediscovered how wonderfully usable AmigaDOS is, and had some fun exploring real world usability in 2023 and now 2024. An Amiga 3000 with the original 25 MHz m68030 / m68882 is barely functional, but I can ssh with it, I can
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by johnklos 3y ago
Command +. Supporting / allowing Reader Mode would be good.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Logs. If you're seriously suggesting that others shouldn't care because I could be making them up, then I suppose there's always vigilantism. After all, it can't be illegal if other people can't prove they didn&#x27
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by johnklos 3y ago
Just because there are things that we can do about symptoms of a problem doesn't change the fact that the problem itself might bother some of us. For instance, it bothers me that certain networks quite literally do nothing about malici
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by johnklos 3y ago
Very nice! Dillo is handy to have on lower specced machines. I've used it on m68k. I really should see why it doesn't compile on VAX, though... Thanks!

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