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Computer viking posted:I've never really dealt with IBM, but the impression I'm getting these days is that they're effectively trying to become a subsidiary of some mediocre indian outsourcing company? They were making some huge advancements on machine learning a while back, but I never hear anyone talking about them any more. Except for shops that have some legacy Z/OS mainframe or iSeries system that they are desperately trying to migrate off of.
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Remember the time that IBM Watson was allowed to learn from the Urban Dictionary and they had to clean up it's databases because it said the answer to a question was "bullshit"? https://www.theatlantic.com/technol...lete-it/267047/
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Trabant posted:Remember Clippy? He's back, in emoji form! 
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I'm looking at a Facebook ad for a Mac Plus with a "Hard Disk 20" (not SCSI) drive and a printer, apparently everything works except for the floppy eject mechanism, trying to decide if it's worth $160 or not... I'm kind of enamored of the idea of it as an over-elaborate serial terminal. What a loving fool I was for not acquiring these old Macs by the dozen in the early 2000s, when you could generally find one sitting on the curb if you drove around long enough on any given Saturday.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I'm looking at a Facebook ad for a Mac Plus with a "Hard Disk 20" (not SCSI) drive and a printer, apparently everything works except for the floppy eject mechanism, trying to decide if it's worth $160 or not... I'm kind of enamored of the idea of it as an over-elaborate serial terminal. The floppy eject mechanism was the best part. It made a great sound At one point I had a couple Mac plusses and SEs and I had a plan to appletalk them all together and have like terminals in different parts of the house where you could message other people and then cell phones happened.
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BigFactory posted:The floppy eject mechanism was the best part. It made a great sound I have not heard this sound in decades yet heard it perfectly in my head when I read this lol
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Code Jockey posted:I have not heard this sound in decades yet heard it perfectly in my head when I read this lol Exactly the same thing happened to me. I can hear it perfectly!
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We would install MacPuke on all of the machines at school so I always here it with a Bbbbbllllllelaaaaaaaaahhh
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Gonz posted:This was a fascinating build. I'm a bit salty over how smoothly Need for Speed II runs on that PC. I had the Playstation version which ran at a blazing 25 fps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Io0YYvQtQ
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My first interaction with Need For Speed was the Panasonic 3DO version. It was cool at the time, but yeah, that version ran at 15 FPS.
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CPColin posted:Those are my current speakers Same here on my vintage computer setup. Got Cambridge Soundworks 2.1s on my current gaming PC that I got bundled with the SB Live! back in the late 90s 
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There's a particular smell that setup brings to me, and I'm not sure I can describe it. Eau de nostalgia?
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Eau de electrolyte I've gotten pretty good at replacing those tiny smd capacitor cans on logic boards but I hate how complicated it is to swap out all the old perished caps in power supplies and analogue boards
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I always assumed it was the smell of the fire inhibitors and dye in the plastic gassing off as your screen and case heats up.
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Man, this looks slick as hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vup_uNtvfgo
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Gonz posted:Man, this looks slick as hell. The Web Version! (as mentioned in the video) https://rigelengine.nikolai-wuttke.de/
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It's no donkey sanctuary, but if anyone is in the Houston area, there is a big tech relic liquidation happening this weekend. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1178156389355802/
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Gonz posted:Man, this looks slick as hell. Oh snap I have a larger version of those speakers. They're awesome.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlFnMt3o1as Newly discovered Lemmings content!
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Are SAS drives still a thing that people use? I have a couple brand new 1gb Seagate Enterprise SAS drives, factory sealed.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Are SAS drives still a thing that people use? I have a couple brand new 1gb Seagate Enterprise SAS drives, factory sealed. If by people you mean enterprises, yes. People? No.
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:If by people you mean enterprises, yes. People? No. Makes sense. I think I ordered them for an xserve but never used them. If anyone here wants them, they can have them. They're just clutter at this point.
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Might want to offer them up in the storage and/or home server threads in SH/SC too.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Are SAS drives still a thing that people use? I have a couple brand new 1gb Seagate Enterprise SAS drives, factory sealed. did SAS and 1gb drives even overlap, or did you mean 1TB?
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:If by people you mean enterprises, yes. People? No. people who work for enterprises too imo the best perk of being a professional computer janitor is dumpster diving enterprise gear that is built to last forever of the 24 1tb sas drives in these machines i think there have been zero failures in over 7 years of 24/7 operation  just close your eyes when the power bill comes
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r u ready to WALK posted:people who work for enterprises too I'm jealous! I run an HP DL380 server with SAS drives for my VM host (that runs poo poo like my Plex server, a backup server, various little Linux VMs for things) and it takes SAS disks, but yeah I assume you meant TB, because lol 1 gig drive And yeah, lifecycled enterprise gear on Craigslist tends to be relatively cheap and will run forever, and also heat your house nicely!
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Code Jockey posted:I'm jealous! I used to have a DL380 Gen8 all maxxed out on the CPU and RAM. I really didn't like it due to all the fuckery (enterprise) poo poo I had to learn to get it to do what I wanted. This was matched with a StorageWorks D4500 or something that has 12 Full Size SAS sockets. Not long after owning I relegated that to a door stop due to noise and power, and now it lives in a building at work doing server stuff while I make money leasing it to the company. At home now I have the StorageWorks by itself and the Mini-SAS SFF-8088 cable through a hole in the wall to my gaming PC that has the interface card installed in the PCIE. I can do whatever I want as far as torrents, gaming, managing server and have 5 concurrent Plex users at a time and I don't notice any issues.
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Our "120TB on a budget" file server at work is a very similar setup - except that I could not really justify paying nearly thrice the price for HP certified drives-in-caddies, so it's just jammed full of off-the-shelf 8/10/12 TB SAS drives. This works fine, except that when you fill a storageworks chassis with drives but no ($100+ if you can even buy them) cryptographically signed HPE disk caddies, it turns every fan to 100% and holds them there. We keep it in an unused office, so whatever; it does work perfectly fine besides the angry vacuum cleaner noises, and has so far lasted well beyond any warranty. When we do replace it, I still think I'll try to find a chassis that either takes bare drives or has cheap and easily available caddies, though. Computer viking has a new favorite as of 01:42 on Jul 24, 2021 |
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Computer viking posted:Our "120TB on a budget" file server at work is a very similar setup - except that I could not really justify paying nearly thrice the price for HP certified drives-in-caddies, so it's just jammed full of off-the-shelf 8/10/12 TB SAS drives. This works fine, except that when you fill a storageworks chassis with drives but no ($100+ if you can even buy them) cryptographically signed HPE disk caddies, it turns every fan to 100% and holds them there. We keep it in an unused office, so whatever; it does work perfectly fine besides the angry vacuum cleaner noises, and has so far lasted well beyond any warranty. I bought cheap chinese caddies, fans arent 100%. If I remove a drive though on the otherhand it loses it's mind.
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I looked at that around the time I bought it, but at least back then the only third party caddies I could get were for the previous generation - supposedly because HPE had started signing the traffic between the temperature probe and the chassis. Now that you mention it I guess it's time to take another look; I'm sure some intrepid manufacturer has worked around that by now.
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insta posted:did SAS and 1gb drives even overlap, or did you mean 1TB? Oh poo poo yeah 1 TB
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Computer viking posted:I looked at that around the time I bought it, but at least back then the only third party caddies I could get were for the previous generation - supposedly because HPE had started signing the traffic between the temperature probe and the chassis. Now that you mention it I guess it's time to take another look; I'm sure some intrepid manufacturer has worked around that by now. I'm all pissed off cos Chia miners have discovered the StorageWorks that are surplus and the price is rising. I'm about to expand to 24 drives and I am too cheap to pony up $200 now. I'll just keep an eye out for deals that sneak through
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Gonz posted:My first interaction with Need For Speed was the Panasonic 3DO version. It was cool at the time, but yeah, that version ran at 15 FPS. I mean, I remember game reviews in the early PC 3d era where 15fps was considered playable. Pretty sure I tried to play stuff at, maybe, 10. 30 was considered the peak above which improvement wasn't a big deal.
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I feel like it's borderline retro still but I managed to get a free for a minor favour 15" PowerBook G4 early 2005 model, great condition, just a slight dent on one corner. 1.5 GHz G4, 1280x854 display, 512 MB of RAM. Slightly annoyingly it's much too new to boot OS 9, so I have Leopard installed now after learning more than I wanted to about OpenFirmware in order to USB boot the installer (while I do have a stack of dual layer DVD-RWs (didn't think they existed but that's what the label says?), I have no burner available) Tiger might be better since I can run Classic in that version, but it was enough of a pain getting Leopard on there that it can wait. Battery's completely shot, might have to give replacing the cells a try when I get home and can disassemble it properly and figure out what's inside.  Looks like KingSpec PATA SSDs are the most plug and play solution for an SSD upgrade? And I suppose a FireWire external hard drive could be useful, firewire seems to be the preferred external storage interface in this era so might be easier to work with? longview has a new favorite as of 14:45 on Jul 28, 2021 |
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