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by lizknope 6y ago
My university in the mid 90's had HP LaserJet 5 Si MX printers in the computer labs. When I got a job in 1997 I laughed at how bad the printers were in the office. I convinced my manager to buy the same HP LaserJet 5 Si MX. It was $
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by lizknope 6y ago
I bought a Brother HLL2300D over 5 years ago. I only print about 10 pages a month but it has never jammed and I just put in my third toner cartridge. It's monochrome but I almost never need to print in color. For photos I just upload
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by lizknope 6y ago
It depends on the market. I have been designing semiconductors since 1997. All of the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools from Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor, and others are written for Unix/X11. Back then everyone had a Sun SPARC or
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by lizknope 6y ago
I started college in the fall of 1993. I went to a science and math boarding school for high school where we had Internet access. We used Archie to find FTP sites to find stuff. I think it was Christmas break 1993 when a high school frien
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by lizknope 6y ago
If you work or plan to work in the semiconductor industry with EDA tools (Electronic Design Automation) then Tcl is very popular because it is the built in scripting language for many tools from Cadence and Synopsys. Many companies end up
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by lizknope 6y ago
IBM still designs their own silicon. They still make chips in the POWER architecture and the Z architecture for mainframes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER1
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by lizknope 6y ago
There are around 300 million vegetarians in India. That is close to the population of the United States. Whatever health problems you think they may suffer from it isn't the ability to procreate. I gave up meat 6 years ago. All of m
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by lizknope 6y ago
Mostly the same here. My cable modem IPv4 address would stay the same for about a year. It only changed when we had an extended power outage of more than 6 hours about once a year during a bad storm.
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by lizknope 6y ago
Someone told me around $30 million for a 14 layer chip in TSMC 5nm but I couldn't get real confirmation.
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by lizknope 6y ago
I bought a new virtual machine and I waited about a day until I logged in. The SSH logs showed over 100 failed login attempts. I hadn't even logged in! I changed the default SSH port to a random high number. I had zero failed login a
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by lizknope 6y ago
We have changed the definition of "planet" multiple times so I'm sure we will redefine "moon" as well. Pluto was recently demoted but this has happened before to Ceres and others. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by lizknope 6y ago
Close but PCIE Gen3 was the first version that switched to 128/130 encoding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#History_and_revisi...
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by lizknope 6y ago
I worked on a PCIE Gen3 retimer. The problem was you were trying to fool both ends into thinking you weren't there and was kind of violating the spec. PCIE Gen4 has explicitly defined the terms allowing you to make a chip that is com
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by lizknope 6y ago
I think this is his equipment rack in his basement from 2009. The image is from the official OpenBSD web site. http://www.openbsd.org/images/rack2009.jpg Security is an important issue to them so they feel they need p
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by lizknope 6y ago
I've been writing to NTFS for at least 10 years. It was the FUSE driver but it worked fine and I never had any problem other than it seemed to write at half the speed of ext4
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by lizknope 6y ago
I've eaten less than 10 fish in my entire life. I don't like it at all. I haven't eaten any meat in 15 years. I don't miss it at all. I also don't miss any of the health problems that went away after I stopped e
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by lizknope 6y ago
I had a friend get WordPerfect for SCO working under Linux. That was around 1996. I found these instructions. https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/WordPerfect-5.html Same friend had a DEC Alpha and got Digital Unix Netscape to
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by lizknope 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Binary_Compatibility_Sta... The Intel Binary Compatibility Standard (iBCS) is a standardized application binary interface (ABI) for Unix operating systems on Intel-386-compatible com
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by lizknope 6y ago
I installed Slackware 2.1 with kernel 1.1.59 in the fall of 1994. I only had about 15 floppies between me and my roommate. I remember getting the "a" series of disks and then the "d" series for development and so on. I
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by lizknope 6y ago
The article said the floppy drive is kept behind a locked panel. The article doesn't mention if the updates fit on a single floppy or a stack of 20 floppies. I don't see a fundamental problem as long as the data has checksums to
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by lizknope 6y ago
I have gigabit fiber through AT&T. So do my parents 30 miles away. I get a 0/10 from the test-ipv6.com site I logged into my parents network and they get a 10/10 As I said we live 30 miles away and we both got fiber 2 years a
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by lizknope 6y ago
I'm not going to defend Dubai but regarding oil being dominant to the economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Dubai Oil production, which once accounted for 50 percent of Dubai's gross domestic prod
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by lizknope 6y ago
The desert is habitable by plants and other animals. Not every desert is the Atacama. Deserts in places like Arizona and Utah have tons of life.
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by lizknope 6y ago
14TB drives were on sale for $200 recently. I picked up another 5. 15 drives * $200 = $3000 total 210TB I also said LTO-8 not LTO-6. I can manage 15 drives. LTO-6 is 2.5TB which would require 84 tapes to equal the 210TB of hard drives.
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by lizknope 6y ago
Tapes are cheap. Tape drives are very expensive. I can buy 200TB of hard drives for about the price of an LTO-8 tape drive.
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by lizknope 6y ago
Some of Nikon's sensors are probably made by Tower Jazz. https://petapixel.com/2020/06/05/towerjazz-hints-that-nikon-... Nikon has also used Toshiba in the past but probably 80% of Nikon's DSLR sens
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by lizknope 6y ago
You listed the 777 which is an older plane. The newer 787 Dreamliner has been in service for almost 10 years. It is more comfortable because it's composite structure allows for higher humidity and higher air pressure. A normal fligh
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by lizknope 6y ago
I have driven through parts of the western US where it is 100 miles to the next gas/petrol station. There are farms and ranches in these areas but they are connected to the electrical grid with wires. It seems like having an electric
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by lizknope 6y ago
Most people brush their hair, put on make up, or wear nice clothes, when they go out. I've seen some people online after a few weeks and some people look quite different at the moment. Some people are embarassed. Some don't car
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by lizknope 7y ago
I had an office with a door for 14 years. I've been in a cubicle again for the last year until 2 months ago when I've been working at home. I was so much more productive in an office with a door. I could close it for silence, I

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