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DXZeff
Posted 2023-05-22 10:10 PM (#2458 - in reply to #2457)
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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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Brostenen
Posted 2023-05-23 12:07 AM (#2459 - in reply to #2458)
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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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Brostenen
Posted 2023-07-10 12:36 PM (#2465 - in reply to #2459)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with



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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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Brostenen
Posted 2023-07-10 12:38 PM (#2466 - in reply to #2458)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with



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.

Edited by Brostenen 2023-07-10 12:44 PM
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DXZeff
Posted 2023-07-27 12:08 AM (#2467 - in reply to #2466)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with



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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