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Time Travel: Running Python 3.7 on XP(ntcore.com)
1 points by vkaku 3y ago|0 comments
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by vkaku 3y ago
I am asking that if you had one pot of gold, where would you distribute the pot? This is about understanding why your choice. If your answer is, I'd give one pot to each, and one of them is for the short run, that is okay. But I'm
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by vkaku 3y ago
I do have a question, let us say we favoured an alternate approach like a BioEngineered Cornea, what would be the downside to doing that vs. this? If you had to choose a pathway to fix the blindness issue, which one would you choose? Why? S
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by vkaku 3y ago
You completely miss the point about sustainability and choose to argue, you go ahead. If I were running an older computer, I would figure out how to be productive with Office 95. Likely prediction: You will never build that Pentium III mach
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by vkaku 3y ago
I'm saying that software is getting bloated over time, and it needn't - if the idea is to keep software engineers employed, we could spend a few years doing a tick - increasing features and more years doing a tock - making things
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by vkaku 3y ago
In true video game fashion: There are rumours that there are non-Microsoft people out there compiling Windows kernels. If you choose to investigate, the reward would be a FS-Cache RAM Knob.
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by vkaku 3y ago
I hear you, I hear you. ARM is at least 30 years old, if not more :) My first computer (in school days) was a 6502 based BBC Micro - so, maybe half an ARM (and a leg) computer. I am well aware of the TLS/SSL issues, I was personally re
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by vkaku 3y ago
1. What computer are you using? You do know that a lot of software developers do not take active advantage of instructions right? Mostly because developers aren't as aware of floating point rounding modes or availability of co-processo
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by vkaku 3y ago
We'll if you already have the code, you should be able to get farther with it. I think :-)
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by vkaku 3y ago
Correction: Geforce (GT) 730 is PCIe 2.0 (Fermi or Kepler). Mine is Kepler. It works fine, I can CUDA+ run a few other things quite well.
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by vkaku 3y ago
That's a steal!
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by vkaku 3y ago
The point is that old software and hardware are everyday usable. There are modern day software that do not suffer from the same performance issues as some of the other bloated ones. Albeit very few exist. One can always complain about thing
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by vkaku 3y ago
By your logic, a PII 400 MHz came in 1997 and you are running software that was released 4 years after that processor did. So instead of figuring out how to run something that works very well, you're just ... complaining. I agree with
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by vkaku 3y ago
You can do that research with other systems. Not the one where you are stuck because of outdated protocols, certificates etc. Besides, if your system is not following the most secure TLS version or having the most up-to-date certs, what
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by vkaku 3y ago
So, that's just your choice then. How you wish to pay for it depends on YOUR choice. :-)
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by vkaku 3y ago
Next time, complain that your DOS 6.0 can't run Notepad :-) Maybe you paid a fortune for that system back in the 80s. If I were on DOS, I'd be happy running Borland C++ with 1-2MB of RAM. Even though Ahem 640k ought to be enough
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by vkaku 3y ago
It's the same logical process. A list of public keys that are trusted for installations are already kept in the OS. When updating, first they download packages are public key updates, and signed with the old key. The user is also alert
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by vkaku 3y ago
I guess there are places on the internet where I have seen people being able to build some versions of Windows from source. Since this is illegal I can't say a lot more about it. There's always the ReactOS project, I wonder how go
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by vkaku 3y ago
The overall memory usage is still much lower than 512MB when running the older Office XP suite - and when using Remote Desktop. In contrast, I tried running Opera 36 and my system started swapping already. That has nothing to do with hardwa
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by vkaku 3y ago
Your CPU instructions follow an architecture written almost 40 years ago and JavaScript is itself 27 years old. They are actually museum worthy. The point of having any standard is to exactly prevent people from debugging things every few d
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by vkaku 3y ago
How are certificates distributed to computers before the TLS session begins? How does a user trust an untrusted certificate and it's chain, say from Let's Encrypt? You only distribute public keys to the end user - and private key
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by vkaku 3y ago
It was a fun video experiment, I wanted to actually see if a low-power semi-modern PCIe card (2.0 x16) with HDMI would actually work on a slot 478 motherboard with PCIe 1.0 x16. It works rather well and can run OpenCL 1.2 applications. Appa
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by vkaku 3y ago
An IDE from even 2001 isn't as dumb as you would think at all. In fact, I was one of those early adopters of Websphere Application Studio (Eclipse) and I thought it was bloated. 20 years later, it's the same argument, same stack (
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by vkaku 3y ago
Well, that article is for others to write. :-) I see lot of people already write about Apple II, and I seem to follow one who is working on getting Fujinet to those. https://www.tindie.com/products/masteries/fujine
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by vkaku 3y ago
Great Collection! Kudos to the folks maintaining this well. Thank You!
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by vkaku 3y ago
Thank you! It is part of POSReady on LegacyUpdate. I have installed it. :)
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by vkaku 3y ago
I think that new software bloat far outweighs the benefits brought in by new hardware as well. You would also need to ask how many people here actually use Raspberry Pis as their daily driver to claim the power benefits that they should be
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by vkaku 3y ago
If I do this exercise 30 years from now it will get there.
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by vkaku 3y ago
I saw that, the work done to get WolfSSL to work is truly examplary on how to keep things going. Do post a link to that SHA256 patch. I suppose it is possible to compile and generate an unsigned 3rd party cryptographic services DLL (CAPICOM
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Usability of Old Computers(blog.karthikkumar.org)
160 points by vkaku 3y ago|201 comments

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