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by lizknope 3y ago
I got my first x86 PC in August 1994. It came with a 2X CD-ROM drive with the brand new ATAPI / IDE interface. I wanted to install Linux from CD but it was too new to have Linux support so I ended up using 10 floppies to install each
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by lizknope 3y ago
About 20 years ago I bought some live concert DVDs but the band did not release an audio CD version of it. I wanted to listen to it in my car so I ripped the audio from the DVD but when I made a CD it sounded a little off. Then I learned t
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by lizknope 3y ago
If the scalpers pay homeless people 10% of their profits rather than taking 100% then that's still better than the current situation.
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by lizknope 3y ago
I've been using Organic Maps for a few years now since Maps.me died I mainly use it for offline access to hiking trails and it has been great for that.
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by lizknope 3y ago
I've been using XFCE for the last 15 years. Before that it was vtwm, fvwm, afterstep, but I could never get into GNOME or KDE. XFCE just does everything I need and I don't see any reason to switch.
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by lizknope 3y ago
My first PC was a Pentium 90 with 16MB RAM in 1994. I bought it specifically to run Linux. I've never really used DOS/Windows as my main OS on my personal machine. Everything was fast back then. I had X11, Netscape, ethernet in
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by lizknope 3y ago
I just replaced one of my two HVAC units with a variable speed compressor. It cost a lot more than the single or 2 stage units but it is more comfortable, uses less electricity, and runs at "low" to dehumidify longer.
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by lizknope 3y ago
I'm not religious but one of my coworkers goes to a megachurch a few miles from where I live. I looked up their web site and they have 14 different people listed as "pastor." It looks like it is divided up between a senior mi
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by lizknope 3y ago
Above 300TB it starts to make sense to buy an LTO-9 drive ($4,500) and tapes ($120 each for 18TB) Right now you can get 18TB drives for $290 so you can get 306TB for $4,930
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by lizknope 3y ago
I probably spent about $100 total on sports cards as a kid. I never bought an individual card, just a random pack of cards every once in a while. I had a friend with thousands of cards. His dad was a doctor and he would buy multiple boxes
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by lizknope 3y ago
I was a kid in the late 1980's to early 90's. That was the height of the "Junk Wax Era." Baseball cards were so overproduced that stuff from that era is almost worthless. You can still buy sealed unopened boxes of com
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by lizknope 3y ago
Highly doubtful that you will see any in the near future. Qualcomm's previous custom ARM core team and server team got let go. Most went to Microsoft. Microsoft was trying to copy Apple and integrate hardware and software more tightl
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by lizknope 3y ago
> AADP is a prototyping system targeting general embedded applications based on the COM-HPC Ampere Altra module and a reference carrier board, the COM-HPC Server Base. They do use the term embedded on that site which I thought was strang
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by lizknope 3y ago
Listening to the Qualcomm management they seemed more interested in selling licenses to technology than actual physical products. But Qualcomm is selling more than just performance. Cost, quality, schedule, delivery of products. Qualcomm
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by lizknope 3y ago
> The problem that Qualcomm and all the other ARM manufacturers have: they're impossible for tinkerers to get ahold of This sounds more like a problem tinkerers have rather than a problem that Qualcomm or ARM manufacturers have. Qua
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by lizknope 3y ago
My first PC was a Pentium 90 that I got in summer 1994. It had the FDIV bug. I read about the bug, didn't think it was a big deal for how I used my computer and never got a replacement chip. I still have the CPU in a box in the clos
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by lizknope 3y ago
The big hyperscale datacenter companies either design it themselves or partner with another large semiconductor company to help them design it for their particular needs. These companies are not interested in selling to small companies that
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by lizknope 3y ago
They are but it takes 2 to 3 years to develop a chip like this. Someone already posted a link to the Google chip. Microsoft got a lot of CPU designers from Qualcomm's team after Qualcomm got rid of them a few years ago. Now Microsof
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by lizknope 3y ago
You don't have to but I used MrChromebox's firmware on a C710, C720, and 2 Asus Chromeboxes. The project has been around about 10 years. I think it if was not trustworthy we probably would have heard something by now. I remember
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by lizknope 3y ago
Follow the link. Then this link on the left sidebar https://chrultrabook.github.io/docs/docs/installing-macos.ht...
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by lizknope 3y ago
The managers are the ones scheduling the meetings.
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by lizknope 3y ago
15) Meetings. I look at my director and senior directors schedule in Outlook. It is 6 to 10 hours of meetings per day. They often start at 6am and might go until midnight because the company is worldwide. Meetings with people in India, Ch
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by lizknope 3y ago
I still miss AFS ACLs. For the last 25 years at 8 different jobs everything is over NFS. Every company uses Unix groups and some have used groups to manage project access. Sometimes it can take 3 days to get added to a group. When I start
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by lizknope 3y ago
If someone xhosted my machine I would run xmeltdown back to their display. I wrote in another post in the thread about how and why someone would xhost my machine. https://github.com/veltzer/xmeltdown
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by lizknope 3y ago
I was in college in the mid 1990's. Our school had hundreds of Unix workstations from Sun, HP, DEC, IBM, and SGI. Everything was tied together with MIT's Project Athena which used the AFS Andrew File System, Kerberos, and the Ze
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by lizknope 3y ago
The xroach man page has some options that not everyone knows about Turn on -squish and set the -rgc (roach gut color) and you can make your screen look disgusting! It was great in college in the mid 1990's Then there were the jokes ab
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by lizknope 3y ago
I watched Tim's Vermeer about 8 years ago and really enjoyed it. As an engineer, photographer, and someone who enjoys art museums I always find the intersection between the two interesting. Whether it is new paint or printing techniq
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by lizknope 3y ago
If you have the ability to put that many mirrors in space then you could just put the solar panels in space and beam the energy down to Earth as microwaves like this. https://www.space.com/space-solar-power-satellite-beams-e
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by lizknope 3y ago
Yeah, I don't know where the author is getting the POWER arch connection. I thought the IBM Z Architecture was the CISC based System 360 / 390 architecture from the 1960's. At least that is what I remember my one friend who
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by lizknope 3y ago
I've never used or even seen a mainframe in 26 years in the tech industry. My brother in law works for a bank and basically the business runs on it. The hardware and software are certainly impressive but does anyone use a mainframe fo

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