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TM Crusoe
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Location: Hull, UK | Ah, I see. Had no idea as we don't do that in our denomination, so my mind automatically went over to thinking she'd graduated or something. In any case, good stuff.
Still no micros or Unix around here.
I remember when I was a kid and I had a big party one time... and invited my friends and then all the kids me and my friends hated, largely because they were bullies. This meant they (the bullies) had to get us presents and hand them over with a begrudging smile, then we just spent the rest of the time beating on them. Insisted on a bouncy castle and stuffed one of them head first into the seam between the floor and the wall. Of course nobody came over to see why the castle was bouncing and banging, as they just assumed kids would jump around in the thing. I think that was the first time anyone ever really saw my evil side.
Meanwhile, here, have a rare photo of me without stubble, with one of my Aunties and my Granddad:
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TM Crusoe
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| Sweet.... They look like they are good people. :-)
As for Unix, then I used it first time back in 1995. It was a Vax system and we used CRT terminals to log into the system by command prompt. Or Bash shell to be precise.
It was in the spring of 95, and Win95 was not released yet and NT was nowere to find a "copy" of. So it was kind of a mindblowing moment to log in and do everything by text.
Like it was the same machine we all logged into and we trained programming and network administration from the terminals.
I asked around at that time, and nobody had a "copy" of System-V or other Unix flavours, and then someone suggested Slackware Linux to me.
However it was not ready, so I stuck to Os/2 and later Win98, then xp, Win7 all while testing and learning Linux on the side.
And then came the Win7 end of life announcement, and finally in 2016 Linux was ready for my personal need's. I refuse to use Win8, Win8,1 and up.
Wayyyy too buggy and pretty much crap to use. Hence in 2016 I switched fully to Linux, as BSD is lacking much of the good stuff.
But yeah.... I fell in love with the way Unix are structured, and most of the way it is functioning are the way Linux works. It is just the correct choice for me personally,
and especially when the GUI and stability of Win-10/11 are the worst on the market today. Heck, even MacOS on one of those new M2-Pro are way better.
Kind of makes one wonder, as the power regulator on the new Mac's are so inferiour. They burn out and send higher voltage (25, 35 or something) straight into the storage.
And you can not change the storage on those Mac's, neighter can you change or upgrade the memmory. Just a big mess of hardware poop.
Speaking of. Why the heck did they go that route anyway? Like I understand the need for fast storage and all that, but at least give an option to "downgrade" to an actual
spinning platter drive if the user want that. That thought of things in the sky, are so appauling to me personally. Why? And it is not only Apple that does it.
MS and Google are hellbend on getting everything online. I say MY data and I decide were I am storing my stash of stuff. To me, if I want security, there is no other way than Linux. |
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TM Crusoe
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| Got my self a second Playstation3 recently. I paid 44 USD (41 Euro or 35 UK Pounds).
I comes with two controlers, and 9 games.
The goal of this console, is to mod it. That way I have access to some Playstation2 games, but also a lot of other consoles through emulation.
I will also be able to install Ps3 games from original discs and run them fully from HDD alone. As far as I understand, the Ps3 is a great emulation machine. |
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TM Crusoe
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| DXZeff - 2023-05-23 12:10 AM
Ah, I see. Had no idea as we don't do that in our denomination, so my mind automatically went over to thinking she'd graduated or something. In any case, good stuff.
Still no micros or Unix around here.
I remember when I was a kid and I had a big party one time... and invited my friends and then all the kids me and my friends hated, largely because they were bullies. This meant they (the bullies ) had to get us presents and hand them over with a begrudging smile, then we just spent the rest of the time beating on them. Insisted on a bouncy castle and stuffed one of them head first into the seam between the floor and the wall. Of course nobody came over to see why the castle was bouncing and banging, as they just assumed kids would jump around in the thing. I think that was the first time anyone ever really saw my evil side.
Meanwhile, here, have a rare photo of me without stubble, with one of my Aunties and my Granddad:
The more I look at the picture, the more awesomme that cane of your granddad is. It is like a piece of art. :-)
Regarding Unix. Then I think you will have a blast, using old CRT terminals, connected to a REAL Unix server.
I totally fell in love with Unix back in 1995, doing emails and logging into other servers through SSH back then.
It was something serious to do. Tracking server connections by monitoring IP adresses, with the use of traceroute.
But Unix is just a certification, like if you have a Unix-Like system, and make it fully POSIX.
Then you can even call Linux a Unix system. It just have to go through the certification system.
But boy.... Going from MS Dos straight to the capeabilities of Unix through text mode console login.
That is a thing of beauty.
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TM Crusoe
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Location: Hull, UK | The good news is that the 110 film came back just fine:
Granddad has since upgraded from the cane to a rollavator.
I hate the Unix model of computer use, it's based on the crappy old concept of computers belonging to a large organization and not the individual. I want the machine on my desk, not in some government building. Far too limited and slow for anything I would want to do.
Haven't been around here much lately. Decided to ignore the pains in my gut and just ride my bike around instead.
Starting to put down some decent mileage and regain muscle, but it's slower as I have no fat to convert, meaning my body has to build it from nothing and it makes me extremely tired.
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Location: Hull, UK | It is. Northeast England. |
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| I suppose most of you know about might Nokia cameraphone of the past.
I'm talking about Pureview 808 model, with large sensor size, released back in 2012.
It's still not surpassed in terms of resolution and detail.
Just take a look on macro comparison vs iphone 15:
https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/post/iphone-15-pro-max-vs-nokia-p...
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TM Crusoe
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Location: Hull, UK | Phones are for making phone calls, so I've never really given this stuff any thought beyond figuring a camera will take better photographs than a telephone.
About the only phone I ever used the camera on often was my Morpheus X3 in the mid-2000s, quite an obscure phone I think. Unfortunately nearly all the photos were lost as I took a lot of photos of girlfriends I had at the time, some of which were pretty revealing, and so the MiniSD cards were indiscriminately zero filled a long, long time ago.
For now, I'm still on electronics duties trying to get things done in time for the deadline on a synth demo. I have this monstrosity to show for it, but now have to alter it again due to the unavailability of motherboards:
They may laugh, but AudioPCI uses the same CODEC as many high quality cards and its inputs are good if you cut the ground planes off with a knife. They didn't wire it well, all unused inputs go to ground and this makes them noisy. Unfortunately MIDI control is on TRS jacks due to space constraints in the drive bay panel. |
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TM Crusoe
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Location: Hull, UK | Damn, things have been busted since that long ago, huh? Doubt anyone is still here, but in any case, the server is (obviously) pretty sickly. The motherboard is basically disintegrating - connectors are falling off and all sorts - so I have no idea how long the site will stay up.
It will come back on a more permanent basis at a later time, when I replace the motherboard. I cannot, however, guarantee that it will be possible to save the database. As such, the forum may become static from that time onward. Everything on it will still be here, for what little use it is, but it will have no function because I don't really want to spend the time setting it up again. Of course there's always a possibility that I'll be super lucky and things will just start up as usual after transferring to new hardware. Probably going to be running on an Intel G2020 or similar spec i3. At present things have been on the same server since 2009, a 1.6GHz Atom 330 with 1GB of RAM and 160GB of storage space.
Take note, silly Linux pushers, that it took my motherboard physically breaking into pieces to kill my Windows server, a machine built with the cheapest possible hardware fifteen years ago. This is in spite of almost continual attacks from the Chinese and who knows what other punishment the machine racked up over the years. Still even now it serves pages faster and with less power usage than your FOSS junk could ever dream of.
In the mean time, I have been working on more electronics and the current project is approaching its end. I aim to solve the power problem with K7 machines and I believe I have arrived at an affordable solution. I will be attempting to have the first PCBs fabricated next week. |
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TM Crusoe
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| Still here. I have just been doing many other things than computing lately. My daughter started at a school where she has a dorm room. And she got a boyfriend now.
He is almost too scared to kiss her, but they both love sitting around and talk about everything, so that is a good sign. (aka, not going to become a grandparent early)
Gaming wise, I am in the process of getting rid of many of my older consoles. Those I never use anyway, and have not been using for over two years.
Those would be some Ps3's and so on. Keeping Xbox360 and one Wii. And speaking of, I got a Wii balance board for free. Tried a couple of balance board games also,
however the only one that I found fun and to my liking were this Monkey Ball game. In where you play by tilting to the sides. Challenging enough and easy enough for me.
Uhhh.... And I have been playing some of that game called Plague Inc Evolved. That is a fun game. The goal is to spread a dissease and evolve it and kill all humans as the goal.
That is a really fun game and I can highly recommend it. |
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TM Crusoe
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Location: Hull, UK | Sounds like good stuff. I have also been selling things to pay for a new PC and should be ordering most of it tomorrow, incoming electric bill permitting.
My workstation completely died, I had mass disk failure, as well as failure of local backups and somehow, failure of off-site backups. All my data is gone.
I feel like I've done a ton of stuff but have nothing to show for any of it yet. I suppose I did at least start working on a preliminary new video logo, as I have no remaining copy of the one I was using: http://dxzeff.com/trash/album/LOGO2401.MP4
This is being rendered in Duke Nukem 3D - entirely this time, with none of the effects or anything taking place in Vegas. This is purely Build with numerous alterations to Duke3D's game logic. The engine itself is unmodified. |
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TM Crusoe
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| That is a big bummer, loosing all ones data. Personally I am keeping a backup of everything that I have gathered since around 1997/98'ish. Having two backups of everything on spinning plates in USB enclosures. You know, longer life span than SSD based storage.
I have actually helped my son do his first major sale in life. He had this so called jailbroken Ps3. Or more precise, a Ps3-slim with Hybrid FirmWare and HEN (Homebrew enabler). That he grew tired of. So I helped him take photo's, write an online sales add, and helped with the communication with buyer. The sale toke place in my home, and my son did the actual exchange of money for console. I must say, he grew a bit, so proud he was doing this. And then he put me in charge of finding an Xbox One S console for the money. Well, it can be done and have money left, as a jailbroken Ps3 can be sold for more than an Xbox One S.
However.... I found this used Xbox One X in original box. One owner, and I only had to throw around 22 British Pound's on top from my own pocket. I think he will be surprised when he recieves the console. :-) And I dont think he will complain at all, as the console have double the storage capacity than a regulair One-S. Plus I have a couple of Forza Motorsport games extra in the box (F5, F6 and F7) that he can choose one from, and then he has all the games that I bought so-called digital versions of, on his account. Hogwarts Legacy and some other games like Cities Skyline. He is fully into these strategy games that also have those simcity/simearth/railroad-tycoon ellements to them.
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Dont worry.... I did remove all "backup" games from the console, before my son sold it. I dont do piracy sales, and neither want my son to do.
It is just in poor taste to sell pirated stuff. If one absolutely have to, then do it for free. Dont buy or sell that stuff. And never tell anyone how to do it, as people really have to figure it out on their own.
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TM Crusoe
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Location: Hull, UK | I neither condone now discourage piracy. It exists. It always will. Sometimes it is the only possible way to obtain a piece of media.
The PC is progressing, but I've had to reuse parts despite not wanting to. I'll go into more detail about it one day, but for the time being, it seems like initial completion should be just over a week away unless I get stuck with a massive electric bill or something, which isn't entirely unlikely:
In other news, I will soon be trying to learn 8051 assembly for use in an electronics project, namely interfacing a sound chip from an 80s game console to the wavetable header in a PC and driving it with MIDI.
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| DXZeff - 2024-11-04 10:44 AM
I neither condone now discourage piracy. It exists. It always will. Sometimes it is the only possible way to obtain a piece of media.
I am fully on board with that. People can pirate all they want. But selling pirated stuff, are just a line one simply do not cross. |
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