merlyn

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by merlyn 6y ago
I wouldn't say popular, but many of my internal network or SAN management items are flash based. Many are EOL'd, and can't be upgraded. The only option is throw out working hardware just because we can no longer manage it...
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by merlyn 6y ago
Because it is bundled in with most OSs now. You have it without even realizing it. ... For now ...
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by merlyn 7y ago
I don't buy it. If its all shifted away from the industry supply, why are all the industrial supply stores devoid of industrial TP as well? Just like all the baking supplies are gone from the stores, AND from the restaurant supply hous
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by merlyn 7y ago
So does the base iMac. The rust based drive is incredibly slow. For some generations of imac's, we had a 100% failure rate over long period of time of spinning disks. When I was buying iMacs for my company, all the SSD models were sp
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by merlyn 7y ago
The 3b2 didn't have a built-in screen. You'd typically use a serial terminal with them, of which there were a near infinite many to choose from in the era. One combination that was popular would be to pair up a DMD-5620 bitblit se
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by merlyn 7y ago
FWIW: A 3b1 (a tiny 68010 based Unix PC) is very different than a 3b2 (custom WE32000 processor Unix box).
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by merlyn 7y ago
I have paid full price for items, and received counterfeits. The listing claimed it was the vendor, it was fulfilled by Amazon. Easily detectable fakes, typos, misspellings, etc. that aren't on genuine items.
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by merlyn 7y ago
Amazon returns are not always free. Oftentimes you have to pay shipping to return it.
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by merlyn 7y ago
The word should be pronounced the way the contraction actually is would (ha)ve. But people are lazy. And words like caramel get blurred over. Or the one that bugs me the most of saying ‘ta’ instead of to. My favorite is the Futurama univers
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by merlyn 7y ago
Ditto. I just did a project upgrading hosted websites to the latest PHP from PHP 5.6. These are already sites that vetted past the obvious issues of the mysql and mcrypt APIs going away, and these sites were all maintained in at least the l
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by merlyn 10y ago
> a steady rise in embedded systems using BSD Perhaps it is more visible now, but BSD embedded systems have been very widely deployed for quite some time.
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by merlyn 10y ago
That is new pricing, you can get great discounts on used, although when companies rip out their cubicles, they figure they'll get good money for them, but they typically sell for pennies, much like most office equipment. Anyway, I&#x27