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My school used AFS. It was great being able to use ACLs to give a specific student and no one else access to a directory in my account. Then we could make groups of students for group projects. Then I got a job in 1997 and it was back to
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When I started college in the fall of 1993 we had hundreds of DECstations. A mix of 2100 black and white machines, 3100, and a few 5000 machines. That's where I learned C/C++, ran Spice and various logic simulators. DEC had alr
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Good question but I don't know. Apple did not create A/UX. It was created by UniSoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniSoft https://virtuallyfun.com/2021/09/19/so-what-is-the-de
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AIX was the first Unix I ever used in 1991 on an IBM RT with the ROMP CPU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RT_PC I wanted one on my desktop so bad. DOS/Win3.1 PCs were just so bad to me. Then I saw SunOS and re
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I think XP is when the DOS based Win95/98/ME was merged with NT
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A/UX was still a licensed version of Unix. This post says the licensing fee was $1,000 per seat. https://www.reddit.com/r/Apple_AUX/comments/11wks6i/what_was... I remember the AT&T / BSD l
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My roommate's Alpha had the SRM firmware which he used to boot NetBSD. ARC would boot NT but SRM could not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRM_firmware
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I think the scientists don't think it is worth it. The reason we need the James Webb telescope in space is because the infrared wavelengths it studies are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere. We can observe a lot of the radio spect
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I remember setting multiple modelines and cycling through them with ctrl + alt + plus/minus Then the monitor would freak out and start buzzing on the high resolution modeline that didn't quite work so you would switch away and go
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Most people don't realize that most chips have more processors than just the main CPU cluster. The PCIE and DDR PHYs often have tiny low end CPU cores used for things like link training. There may be 10 of those CPU cores and these a
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If the price of water was the same for human and agricultural use then the cost of the beef would increase and more people would stop eating it and eat the cheaper plants instead. This would also decrease energy usage helping with climate
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There is a huge amount of agriculture in the California desert in the south around the Salton Sea. The "sea" itself was created by accident when the Colorado River irrigation channel broke and the river was diverted into the Salt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_water_wars They already do this. The Owens Valley was turned into a desert to divert water to LA. There are aqueducts moving water from the Colorado River to LA and Phoenix whi
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I don't live in CA or any of the places you listed. People move to where good jobs are and I never think of the places you listed for good jobs. Retired people generally want to live where the temperatures are warmer and don't hav
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https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/contributors/valley-... Alfalfa is used to feed farm animals like pigs and cows. But we export 70% of what we grow in California to Japan and China. The Japanese raise
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I use sshfs. If you can login via ssh then you can mount the remote server through ssh as a local drive. https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs For added security I limit my home ssh access to a handful of trusted IPs inc
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We did that in 11th grade pre-calculus class. We got the number 2.71828 and then our teacher said "Now go to that button on your graphing calculator that says e^x and type e^1" We did and our minds were blown. Why was this str
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I have a few Verbatim "Tuff and Tiny" USB drives. Like this but without the plastic clip part. I can fit them in my wallet because its about the thickness of 2 credit cards which are also in my wallet. https://www.ama
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I'm in integrated circuit design and one of the most rewarding aspects is brainstorming with coworkers on a white board. When someone asks a question about a bug in the flow and you have the answer it feels good to help and vice versa
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They spelled it "correctly" there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer Etymology The misspelling of referrer was introduced in the original proposal by computer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker to incorp
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I always felt that the point of playing sports was to do something as a team. Drawing up a football play to throw the ball to the open receiver. Score a touchdown and everyone gets high fives. Or get the basketball rebound and pass to a
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That's kind of hilarious. I guess he's using the HTTP "referer" tag
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It was posted yesterday to reddit on "Today I Learned" and got over 59,000 upvotes. I knew I had seen it here before and now I'm seeing it here for the third time.
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Satellite phones have existed for decades. They are expensive and data speeds are slow but if you are talking about for emergency use then a satellite phone is smaller, cheaper, and more practical than Starlink. If you need high speed data
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I've been using Linux almost exclusively since 1994. Lack of drivers was definitely a problem but it made me spend a lot of time researching whatever I bought first. Lots of reading Linux HOWTOs and Usenet forums about whether a parti
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Usenet in the early 1990's is still superior to modern forums. Threads could go on for years, the newsreader programs automatically marked posts as read and would only show you new posts in the thread. Compared to today it is hard to
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My roommate in 1992 would run this on his 386DX with the 387 math coprocessor. It would take literally days to run to create a small 640x480 image. This was in the days of DOS where you could only run one program at a time. It would run a
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Amazon does not design ARM cores. Graviton uses Neoverse cores licensed from ARM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWS_Graviton
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I wish governments would incentivize working from home. We've already seen that this can be done effectively for a huge percentage of the population. In 2019 I was spending about $250 on gasoline a month. In 2020 with mandatory work
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I'm on some reddit tech forums and people will say "I need help storing a huge amount of data!" and people start offering replies for servers that store petabytes. My question is always "How much data do you actually hav

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