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Can anyone share recent experiences / stories on Cloud repatriation projects
1 points by linker3000 2y ago|1 comments
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by linker3000 2y ago
Some jester tagged one of the houses on a new build estate near to me as the Burger King UK headquarters on Google Maps. /Got it removed.
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by linker3000 2y ago
I was a freelance trainer and specialised in NetWare and networking at the time. I was very busy (UK) working for the likes of Barefoot computer training (Aris), Skytech, Azlan, Comtec, Expertise, QA and others. I was also a systems and net
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by linker3000 2y ago
I don't remember that. I do remember that with 2.12 and 2.15 I occasionally had to use a hex editor on disk drive-related files to make the drives work with certain hardware. I also recall having to key-in hard drive defect tables as p
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by linker3000 2y ago
I was a systems engineer and also taught NetWare admin classes. I also worked with Novell to update their training material. I remember the first release of NetWare 386 very well; it was a breeze to install, but the early version had a bug
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by linker3000 2y ago
The biggest mistake is not ringfencing this update in a test environment before sign-off for general deployment.
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by linker3000 2y ago
I bumped into this ageing hippy (grey hair, cheesecloth shirt, pony tail, shorts and sandals), in Frys (East Brokaw Road) during one of my trips from the UK to the USA. He was a really nice guy and wanted help choosing some kind of adapter
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by linker3000 2y ago
Following on from my story elsewhere about working for HGST (Western Digital), visiting HQ in San Jose from the UK and making it to Halted a couple of times... ...then WD acquired Sandisk and I found myself in Utah for tech training, and ma
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by linker3000 2y ago
I'm from the UK and used to work for HGST (Owned, then assimilated, by Western Digital) and used to travel to SJ 2-3 times a year for specialist tech training and business briefings. I made it to Halted a couple of times and would spen
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by linker3000 2y ago
Try the free VPN built into Opera Browser.
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by linker3000 2y ago
Best add 'solder' to your shopping list unless you already have some, or the new iron you buy comes with a starter amount.
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by linker3000 2y ago
Had to look it up... The Rabbit r1 is a ChatGPT based personal assistant device developed by tech startup Rabbit Inc, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_r1 So not an adult toy (Rule 34 excepting)
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by linker3000 2y ago
Used MB ejection seats were re-used in flight sims. When I worked in the industry (electronics eng), I saw one in either a Jaguar or Tornado sim under construction and it had a brass plaque on the side naming the pilot and day of activation
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Forget Copilot+, Windows is already tracking everything you do(xda-developers.com)
41 points by linker3000 2y ago|26 comments
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by linker3000 2y ago
Actually, I think it was me asking "Show me an example of a major systems outage at Microsoft." /Bets on "If it's not DNS, they'll be rolling back a poorly-tested patch they just installed."?
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by linker3000 2y ago
Looking forward to iAI, eh!?
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by linker3000 2y ago
That article seemed to be mostly about hand-wavy workarounds for subscription-based services. I presume the author hasn't heard of the well-established, Open Source Zoneminder project, which has excellent camera and data management fun
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by linker3000 2y ago
> I've even been banned for posting in an unrelated subreddit. This is against the mod rules and deserves reporting.
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by linker3000 2y ago
I found some old Turbo Pascal code I wrote in the late 1980s - early 1990s and managed to compile and run it under a DOS emulator a few years back. The code is a map editor for the Rockford ('Boulderdash') PC game. Unfortunately,
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Z80 Product Line Z84C00 End of Life / Last Time Buy [pdf](mouser.com)
79 points by linker3000 2y ago|28 comments
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by linker3000 3y ago
Print out the current time in words. A DOS .COM program ~390 bytes. https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS...
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by linker3000 3y ago
I have an MPS-801 dot matrix printer for my Commodore 64. The biggest challenge is buying listing paper at a sensible price. /Also have a Panasonic KX-P1124, but it weighs a ton and I've no room to keep it out so it lives in a cup
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by linker3000 3y ago
Yeah, but lots of denim dungarees - all you'd see is Felicity's head and hands.
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by linker3000 3y ago
Chuckles hysterically and twiddles mustach...er..full symmetrical gigabit fibre to the home from a regional provider. Moved from Plusnet (BT owned) 65/20Mbit (I think?) FTTC
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by linker3000 3y ago
OK on my Watch4 Classic FWIW.
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by linker3000 3y ago
We're of a similar age. I had to make do with 1152 bytes on the school's Acorn System Ones - until the CBM (PET) 3016 arrived.
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by linker3000 3y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/wiki/software
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by linker3000 3y ago
If you want to see some candle flicker code based on a PIC12F508 or 9 see below. The flicker effect is based on a linear feedback shift register function to provide a pseudo random effect. https://github.com/linker3000/
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SIDKick Pico: A Commodore 64/128 SID chip replacement using a Raspberry Pi Pico(github.com)
3 points by linker3000 3y ago|0 comments
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Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice(bleepingcomputer.com)
175 points by linker3000 3y ago|169 comments

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