pak9rabid

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by pak9rabid 10mo ago
Well, look at how Microsoft tried to hijack the JVM back in the 90s. I think the big fear is that somebody creates a "mostly compatible" product, that in fact isn't 100% compatible, and tries to market it as the same thing a
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by pak9rabid 10mo ago
Yes, a VM with extremely tight integration with the Windows environment to make things that would otherwise require lots of time to setup a breeze. I use it as my daily driver for dev work (at work, since we're required to use Windows
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by pak9rabid 11mo ago
That's the difference between an engine and game developer.
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by pak9rabid 11mo ago
I'm guessing none of these diehards were running domain controllers.
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by pak9rabid 11mo ago
Dialing-up a friend to play Quake, there essentially was no lag. Dialing-up to the Internet to play Quake via TCP/IP...shit tons of lag (150+ ms).
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by pak9rabid 11mo ago
Win95 had its own stack, codenamed Wolverine
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
The Coastal aged cheddar that Costco sells has these. And she's right, it makes the cheese much more enjoyable.
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
Not to mention the liability of hosting users' media, which would have needed costly moderation to ensure nothing too illegal made its way in.
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
That sure is a lot of words to say Milkdrop
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
I hear this
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
Well, thank you for that. That's a great weight off me mind.
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
Yes is horrible, this idea.
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
Exactly. Using base64 as an obfuscation tool, or (shudder) encryption is seriously misusing it for what it was originally intended for. If that's what you need to do then avoid using base64 in favor for something that was designed to
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
The SIP "redphones" is an idea I really like. My wife managed to get a SIP IP phone from one of her buy-nothing groups that I've been meaning to setup an Asterisk server for just to mess with. Maybe stick it upstairs where m
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
You can if you're using LVM. Take a snapshot of the logical volume your system is on, then run `dd' against the snapshot, as it's essentially a frozen point-in-time. I've used this trick many times in a live, rw environ
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
Yep, my "package repo", if you will, for pretty much everything I installed on Slackware back in the day.
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
Coding is like sex, both are susceptible to performance anxiety when made to be done in front of others.
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
Also, have we all forgotten about Groklaw already?
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
It's still a good idea to abstract away these services behind a standardized interface. This way switching from one service to another is just a matter of providing an alternative implementation to said interface. Granted this approac
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
That's what I was wondering. Seems like a band-aid solution to an underlying problem.
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
PCEngines! Man, I've been running my Linux firewall/router & AP's off these machines for years. They are rock solid.
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
Ugh.....I do unfortunately.
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
Oh wow that's cool, I'm going to have to check that out. Thanks for the link!
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
Wow, this is fascinating stuff. Just a side question (and please understand I am not a low-level hardware expert, so pardon me if this is a stupid question): does this arch support any sort of speculative execution, and if so do you have a
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
I suppose one could always use WindowMaker if they're looking for that experience: https://www.windowmaker.org/
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by pak9rabid 1y ago
Good 'ol GNUStep. I think the only thing I ran that relied on it was WindowMaker, which was an excellent, minimalistic window manager back in the day.
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by pak9rabid 2y ago
The Banshee kind of sucked. Voodoo2 12 MB was king in those days.
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by pak9rabid 2y ago
RocketArena players unite! God I spent an ungodly amount of time playing RA3.
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by pak9rabid 2y ago
Quake2 with a K6-2 and Voodoo2 was a kickass combo. At some point iD software released the 3DNow! patch for Quake2 which yielded yet another 10 FPS....good times.
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by pak9rabid 2y ago
That may have even been in the x11amp days.

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