johnklos

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by johnklos 4y ago
While some of us are big fans of the Amiga 3000 and Amiga 3000T, the 4000T is definitely a desirable machine. The A4000's IDE is absolutely horribly suited to the Amiga. SCSI with real DMA, like the A3000(T)'s and A4000T's, w
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by johnklos 4y ago
The failures are due to the fact that the people who can get contracts don't have good programmers, and the people who have good programmers can't get contracts.
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by johnklos 4y ago
It's funny how if you ask people about forward-looking systems today, they have either learned mistruths or haven't learned enough about the history of computing to picture much that's reasonable. "Java!" used to be
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by johnklos 4y ago
Perhaps I'll have to make a HN post just for that some time :)
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by johnklos 4y ago
The VAXstation itself doesn't take much power and therefore doesn't generate too much heat. The power supply moves a small amount of air by virtue of its fans, but not much. It was tested and runs fine in a room at ambient tempera
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by johnklos 4y ago
Lots of people are running RISC-V, so this definitely isn't true any more. It was true at a time, but not any longer. OTOH, I run the only 1U VAX in the world ( http://vlc.zia.io ), and if anyone else were running anything si
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by johnklos 4y ago
I recently had some free time and used it to finish fixing up an Amiga 3000 (recapping the motherboard, repairing some battery damage on the motherboard). I installed AmigaDOS 3.2.1 and started doing things with it like running a web browse
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by johnklos 4y ago
Ubuntu is feeling more and more like Windows every day. There are lots of parts that feel unpolished, and blatant bugs make it feel untested. I had to use Ubuntu for a couple of days recently, and in just that little time I found a handful
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by johnklos 4y ago
This is interesting, but clearly there was caching going on, because the physical bus can't go as fast as some of these results. Samsung's own comments about their drives: To reach maximum read/write speeds of up to 1,050&#x2
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by johnklos 4y ago
I can't speak for the person you're asking, but BSD is worlds easier than using Linux. A how-to for FreeBSD can be used with NetBSD with minimal changes. Why? Because the BSDs don't expend effort to deliberately try to differ
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by johnklos 4y ago
My goodness. How can you possibly say that Ubuntu hasn't changed much from 18 -> 22? There are whole how-tos that are completely useless from those changes. All sorts of things are different. That's ridiculous.
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by johnklos 4y ago
Actually, while it's not the same, it's basically very similar. It means Apple did no real vetting, which by itself says something about them.
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by johnklos 4y ago
So this company really wants people to pay $330 and just simply ignore the fact that it's a super shitty, highly ineffective lock. They're not even trying to hide their grifts these days, are they?
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by johnklos 4y ago
He never stated any technical reasons at all - neither then, nor a week later, nor since. He was asked very specifically, by people who are extremely competent, on a technical list: "Can you be specific about what is wrong?" &quot
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by johnklos 4y ago
Between the FreeBSD WireGuard drama and WireGuard's maintainer's (Jason Donenfeld) reaction to the NetBSD implementation, I think it's a good idea to look at not only what's happening, but why and by whom. There's s
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by johnklos 4y ago
Pay Google money, and they'll let you do all sorts of things you're not supposed to do.
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by johnklos 4y ago
This is difficult to read. The author confuses nouns and proper nouns and isn't clear about who it is they're referring to (who are the neo-liberals, for instance?). I understand that not everyone is as good at writing as others,
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by johnklos 4y ago
Searches which plainly worked just a few years ago now return nothing. Specific and exact searches, even ones in quotes, return nothing or return bull, even when Google has had those results before. It's as if their disks filled up, so
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by johnklos 4y ago
I don't think I'd recommend that subreddit to anyone who wants to get in to self hosting. They're quite gatekeepery unless you're doing things the way they want. Just look up any email self hosting there to see what I me
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by johnklos 4y ago
I have no clue what Puma is in this context, but I really think people should do a quick search before they pick names, particularly with a number, and especially when a name and a number have a horrible history: https://www.ther
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by johnklos 4y ago
That is so dumb. I love it!
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by johnklos 4y ago
I don't know specifically why OpenBSD dropped support, but NetBSD dropped i80386 support after NetBSD 4 because gcc dropped i80386 support. So it is, in fact, relevant because OpenBSD would've had to have maintained an older gcc j
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by johnklos 4y ago
But that's not how it works. Nothing is frozen in time. NetBSD 10 isn't functionally frozen compared with NetBSD 1.4 on mac68k because mac68k hardware hasn't changed since back then. "PC" means personal computer, an
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by johnklos 4y ago
The toolchains dropped support for the i80386, not the OSes directly. Intel, as they're known for doing, half-assed many things. Even though the 32 bit mode on the i80386 wouldn't be compatible with i8086 real mode and they could&
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by johnklos 4y ago
So many companies make stupid, gratuitous changes that break perfectly acceptable browsers. For what? They're not making browsing any faster - no, instead, they're adding things that make the newest, fastest computers we can buy t
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by johnklos 4y ago
Scott Manley, unsurprisingly, did a nice video showing what it'd look like if you could see all the satellites and debris in space from the surface of Earth. It's scary how much stuff there is up there. https://www.yout
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by johnklos 4y ago
Oooh! Will 2022 be the year when a virtualization platform can finally run The Sims 2? ;)
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by johnklos 4y ago
What fun! It's so good to see these systems still in use. The Amiga community never fails to impress. In addition to modern updates to AmigaDOS (3.2.1 is great), there are projects to replace battery damaged motherboards, to replace ha
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by johnklos 4y ago
This is oversimplifying things a bit. It can categorically be stated that for a year's worth of CPU compute, local will always be less than Amazon. Of course, putting percentages on it doesn't work - there are just too many variab
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by johnklos 4y ago
Ah. The logic of the masses. Apologies that this was a bit deep for you :)

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