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LimaBiker posted:I have a t3100 and a t3200, both 286 machines. Happened to me with an Apple IIe power supply. Took an entire weekend to get that burnt coffee smell out of the room.
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Press F to pay respects.
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Blue Moonlight posted:Press F to pay respects. * presses 3 on touchtone pad *
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In Australia they added wifi access points to all the phone booths and made the phones free to use. Ratbag kids immediately started using them for prank calls, just as God and nature intended.
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Quoting myself from the 5000 post thread earlier today:Computer viking posted:I've been out walking again, but it's too late to bother you with too many images - and a bunch of them are Nikon Raw files, so I have to spend a moment in Lightroom to convert them.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Snagged a real cheap iMac g4 today. It’s not really working however. Well it turns out it was overheating. Or I’m 90% sure that was it at least. I pulled it apart and it was crammed full of dust. Whoever designed these things to pull air up from the bottom instead of pushing it out the bottom from the top needs a plaque in the hall of shame. The thermal compound was also rock hard on the parts that connect to the body, and the CPU was absolutely caked with it. A good dusting and a sane amount of thermal compound later and it boots with no errors and doesn’t crash after 30 seconds! It finally runs long enough for me to figure out what it actually is! It’s a 1 ghz with 1gb of RAM. The bottom memory slot is still open, so I can probably bump it to 2gb. I may also track down an airport card for it, since it doesn’t have that. This may just be my favorite apple design. The computer is a joy to use, even though there isn’t a ton you can do with 10.5 these days. I partitioned the drive in preparation for dual booting 9.2.2 as well 
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Overheating must be a common problem on these, mine crashes pretty consistently after 5 minutes of running Unreal
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I had the opportunity to take a bit of a pilgrimage to Palo Alto on a recent California visit, and found this on the back of the Meta sign:
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how has nobody stolen that
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Dip Viscous posted:how has nobody stolen that It's no Wang Computers
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I miss Sun. Their last years gave us zfs and dtrace; I sometimes wonder what they would be working on now if they somehow survived.
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You can use ZFS all you want on FreeBSD! And all the grognard joys of using a semi-abandonware OS that we can insist forever is superior!
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Computer viking posted:I miss Sun. Their last years gave us zfs and dtrace; I sometimes wonder what they would be working on now if they somehow survived. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2040s the entire video is great but especially that description of Oracle from an ex-Sun engineer
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Data Graham posted:You can use ZFS all you want on FreeBSD! And all the grognard joys of using a semi-abandonware OS that we can insist forever is superior! I may or may not know what you mean.  (And yes I'm about to fix that degraded array.)
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 Meanwhile I'm trying to run Gitlab on my box and the only support for the unofficial FBSD port of it comes from some guy in Germany whose website went offline a week ago immediately after my upgrade failed due to Ruby packages he forgot to include and now my whole repo is hosed  But ~reference tcp/ip stack~ Data Graham has a new favorite as of 12:52 on May 24, 2022 |
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Computer viking posted:Quoting myself from the 5000 post thread earlier today: And some of them got turned into tiny libraries 
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Dip Viscous posted:how has nobody stolen that I would pay Zuckerberg to let me take that
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Data Graham posted:
Oh, really? How fun. 
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Yeah the "proper" way to do gitlab apparently is in a CBSD jail, but CBSD is so soft-and-squishy they're only just now getting it to the point where they're thinking about making its containers capable of using persistent volumes (like, you know, you would want to have in an actual production app with a database). For real, is there a FBSD community of goons? I would definitely like to run things like this up the pole if there are enough people to warrant a thread.
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Yospos bithc
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ymgve posted:And some of them got turned into tiny libraries I'm NERZ!
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Continuing my I've been burning them in os x 10.5 with Toast Titanium. I have also tried mounting them and burning them with Disk Utility with the same results Am I doing something wrong here? Beve Stuscemi has a new favorite as of 18:01 on May 24, 2022 |
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On what system are you burning the disc? It's been a decade at least but IIRC to burn a bootable OSX disc you need to use Disk Utility/hdiutil burn or a utility on another platform that is aware of how Macs boot and writes the correct track header or whatever.
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I edited it in, but I'm burning them on OS X 10.5 that is already installed on the imac, with Toast Titanium, but have also tried Disk Utility with no success
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I suspect that some of the isos from macintoshgarden are just incorrectly made and not bootable, usually I had to download a couple different ones before I found one that would work. I think I had most luck writing them with imgburn on a pc.
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If you mount the ISO, is there an InstallESD.dmg somewhere on it? Try burning that dmg with Disk Utility.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Continuing my If you have a spare rpi zero you could try jerry rig a virtual cd emulator with https://github.com/tjmnmk/gadget_cdrom , maybe the way you burned the disc made it slightly different so the system is no longer recognizing as bootable.
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Data Graham posted:For real, is there a FBSD community of goons? I would definitely like to run things like this up the pole if there are enough people to warrant a thread. YOSPOS has a thread that's always teetering on the edge of being archived, though that sort of comes with the territory with BSD. Though be warned that AFAIK the people there are still coming to grips with why someone would want containers in the first place.
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The Algorithm recommended this and it's absolutely wonderful -- a very -intense-sounding Dutchman talking about segmented displays and showing his alternative designs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTB5XhjbgZA He may be a well-known YouTuber but it's new to me. His other videos are great as well, highly recommended.
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Tech relics YouTube just recommended him to me as well. Blessed be the algorithm
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Just found this tech relic for sale at an antiques market. I've got nothing to play it on and no actual practical use for it but it's a neat conversation piece. 
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Techmoan has done a few videos on them recently if you don’t follow his channel.
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Oh my. Am I finally going to play that Longbow game that I fell in love with as a kid, reading PC mags?
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The way tech nostalgia is going, it’s going to be a kickstarted NFT drop or something.
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F117A then we'll talk
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I checked, and it's not Microprose, but this game holds a special place in my heart: My stepfather did the voicework for the colonel or whoever gave you the missions, and the city you can fly missions in is a rough model of my hometown of Eugene, OR. The game was pretty fun as I recall, and let you do all sorts of poo poo you shouldn't be doing, like shoot down all the B-52s you were supposed to be providing ground cover for.
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If that’s the one I’m thinking of, I hated it because it was realistic about the ammo capacity and firing speed so you got like 3 seconds of shooting before you ran out of ammo.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:If that’s the one I’m thinking of, I hated it because it was realistic about the ammo capacity and firing speed so you got like 3 seconds of shooting before you ran out of ammo. I was playing it in like 1989 so my memory is pretty vague, but I think you could run with a decent amount of ammo. Enough to shoot down a squadron of B-52s, at least. 
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