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by vaxman 1y ago
> Funny story. I learned a lot of life lessons from VMS. I did too, but the lessons have nothing to do with the incredible platform. There is this fictitious scene in "The Pirates of Silicon Valley" where young Billy boasts th
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by vaxman 1y ago
Tesseract OCR was created by digital (DEC) in 19_8_5 (yes, 40 not four YEARs ago). Now go back and read the article and ROFL with me.
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by vaxman 1y ago
So people with access to the TailScale control plane can easily add and remove devices from your network. https://youtu.be/bJHPfpOnDzg
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by vaxman 1y ago
Oh this site does humor great, it's just that the serious participants are so "focused" they don't (or can't) realize how funny their often esoteric comments are. As far as devolving into useless one liners --there
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36'000 km range with a simple ESP32? For sure a world record(youtube.com)
5 points by vaxman 1y ago|4 comments
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by vaxman 1y ago
Ex-DECie (31337) Andreas Spiess demonstrates bridging 36,000km using an ESP32 SoC with (only) 15mW of power. He doesn't mention (the obvious) here, but another way of accomplishing this is to enhance the other side of the link INSTEAD
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by vaxman 1y ago
DEC failed because Corporate America perceived that the Chief Architect of VMS had created a futuristic version for Microsoft that ran on commodity hardware. He should have convinced Ken Olsen to let him port VMS to commodity hardware and g
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by vaxman 1y ago
Time to get working on a new 300 mile segment between Vegas and Phoenix..It's mostly flat geography, undeveloped and devoid of animals BUT is filled with NOS (Naturally Occurring Asbestos) and reaches lethal temperatures early in the S
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by vaxman 1y ago
RIP Jay Miner https://youtu.be/mpWe5C58y40
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by vaxman 1y ago
Not even 24 hours later, I called it --the Administration IS asking Congress to de-fund NPR: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-p... Meanwhile NPR has new reporting that DOGE has sent two o
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by vaxman 1y ago
If only there were credit-card sized, LiPol-battery powered 'puter with built-in wireless networking and a GPU-accelerated remote streaming app that output HDMI, all made and distributed by a Five Eyes alliance country for less than $1
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by vaxman 1y ago
XReal.isAChineseCompany == TRUE Be sure to fill out the customer information/registration and download the latest firmware :/
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by vaxman 1y ago
They didn't use StarLink?! ROFLMAO I hope he doesn't think Trump is his boy and will keep DOJ off his back. The problem is that the institutional funds and market makers will not support this level of Watergate/Enron/Wor
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by vaxman 1y ago
I had read a book about Objective C in the 1980s and towards the end, was in with the Sybase crowd, so I did see NeXTStep (which had adopted it) back in its prime and instantly realized the potential --NeXTStep let "business analysts&q
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by vaxman 1y ago
Wish I could take you all back to Slashdot for a few moments in the late 1990s to see all the similar trash that was HYSTERICALLY being bloviated by young, mostly not American, straight-up socialists who were following around a disgusting
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by vaxman 1y ago
In another box in the gar-age...yes, a case of Compute magazines(and dead scorpions/scorpion parts).
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by vaxman 1y ago
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/meta-wins-bid-to-prevent-... It's very sad. She reported to Congress that she faces a $50K per disparagement penalty. Let's say there are 25 disparagements in the book and i
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by vaxman 1y ago
It's biological https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-47622059 (mankind didn't know this until the relatively recent advent of "live" brain imaging). Something similar happened with SJobs and today peop
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by vaxman 1y ago
no
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by vaxman 1y ago
https://youtu.be/cvVBY4QuA5w I hope Mark issues a public statement that he is dropping his emergency arbitration against her and will allow her book to Publish. I get why he did it, but it didn't work and now it is hur
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by vaxman 2y ago
Still have le grand Amiga 1000 garbage in the gar-age...unsuspecting storage boxes filled with systems, boards, volumes of ROM Kernel Manuals, hundreds of period magazines, Aztec C, bazillion dollar 10MB-20MB (yes MB) hard drives and memory
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by vaxman 2y ago
Don’t take it personally, but if you aren’t researching and developing new and improved methods of performing Information Technology to better equip your company to compete in its marketplaces, then you had better be purely in Operations.
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by vaxman 2y ago
He brought down the empire by committing the ultimate offense: walking across the street and taking the additional money. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their careers, millions more disrupted because of his selfish act. In the 9th Cir
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by vaxman 2y ago
That is the kind of comment that a well run bulletin board would moderate. Then again, there are probably not enough VMS systems people left to really have an r-war (short of architecture war). VMS' key feature over Unix is consistency
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by vaxman 2y ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/01/g-... The worst of what Billy ever did was cause some people to lose their will to live by destroying their life's work (like pulling w
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by vaxman 2y ago
From my perspective[1], there is no concern with what Mark Zuckerberg has done lately. By all accounts he had a good upbringing and is very sharp, but he reportedly had controversial people coming at him after college like Sean Fanning and
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by vaxman 2y ago
At one point, I was living somewhere that had access to someone's C64 and I wrote a VT100 emulator in FORTH to access a remote VAX via 300bps modem into MeritNet. Then I wanted to do graphics on the VAX and remembered the GiGi (which r
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by vaxman 2y ago
*-either NOT vetted or were vetted by unknown/untrusted parties
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by vaxman 2y ago
oh hell yeah. makes me want to go grab a 6502 box from the gar-age. Do the rPi Pico 2W next!
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by vaxman 2y ago
PDP-7 Macro Assembler BTW, Unix on DEC hardware was never really popular outside of academia so DEC's machines were primarily programmed in FORTRAN, BASIC or Macro assembler, but there were still several third-party C compilers (for RT

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