FFS. Has the entire country gone mad ...
No test equipment for me yet. When we are done moving I will need to restore a few pinball machines. Is there interest in a documentation ?
I know nothing about Linux, so I'd appreciate your thoughts on the setup and the version of Linux pre-installed. I'm given to to understand that it has a 100% MS Office compatable office suit as well.
Dual booting is a good way to wipe your main system.All I can say, the Linux way... "Works for me"
Yes, I've had dual booting machines too, in the past. There's always that little uncertainty, though. Especially since Microsoft have a tendency to want to be alone and in control.
Anyway, if dual-booting had worked for me, the way I want my computers to work, I'd probably run it a bit more. As it is, I tend to value continued access a bit too much. If I must reboot I can't be arsed. It's too much of a workflow reset, as I always found myself wanting something from the other OS. Emulation and structured access to data is a much better option, if I can't find a way to do things in the main OS.
I want my BSD/OS back. CBA to write device drivers even tho I have the source.
@Zucca your poster was way incomplete. The entire Bell labs unix line was left out ...
There was also no mention of IBM's OS/2
And was a damn good O/S that Itty Bitty Morons fumbled. By the time it was perfected and actively marketed MS was in firm control.
What can a modern OS do with 1.44MB ? Blink an LED maybe ? If even that...
Keep doing that Vince as we all need pulling into line when laziness rears its head.
Oh and how's your garage coming along ?
What can a modern OS do with 1.44MB ? Blink an LED maybe ? If even that...
OpenBSD still boots off of a 1,44MiB floppy. You can run in rescue mode from that, but it, admittingly, is mostly aimed at getting the OS running, a network configured (including a RealTek 2.5 Gbit network card driver ) and download the install packages.
What can a modern OS do with 1.44MB ? Blink an LED maybe ? If even that...
OpenBSD still boots off of a 1,44MiB floppy. You can run in rescue mode from that, but it, admittingly, is mostly aimed at getting the OS running, a network configured (including a RealTek 2.5 Gbit network card driver ) and download the install packages.
Yeah maybe it can manage to squeeze a bare-bone kernel and get you a command line a few vital network related utilities, to get out of trouble as you say but... I doubt they can fit the graphical user desktop environment and web browser, that QNX did ? I don't see that happening with any modern *nix flavor... the size of any program that's not a basic command line/console utility, is huge, with huge and numerous libraries to support it... unit these days is not bytes anymore, more like hundreds of mega bytes...
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Ah yes that's what I advised... experiment on a spare PC, progressively.. don't wipe your main system...
Dual booting is a way of avoiding that issue.
Dual booting is a good way towipe your main system.break your brain.
The price on this a little on the high side. . .
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115116197545
BSD/OS did boot quite well off a 1.44 MB floppy disk. and it was reasonably fast. The kernel compiled in 57 seconds on a Pentium Pro 200.
When I relocated the router I decided to do the same thing over here. Hooked the router/wifi to a UPS.
And since I use a laptop, it means I can continue working while the power is gone. I'm not losing power really often but it happen the other day. Was pretty cool my plan worked perfectly. I was on a vidcon meeting and it didn't even hitch
I've got a UPS for the router, the switches in the garage where the router is, and my servers and some of the ATA boxes for telephony. I still need to hook one up for my core switch in the house. If I can power that, I'll have power for most wifi, and the IP telephones on the bottom floor and so on. I have one brutal 500W UPS w/o batteries that I can use. Will look into it. Today, if I need to work during an outage, I'll switch to 4G tethered from the phone, which works pretty well. There is one access point in the garage too, powered from the UPS, so that might be an option if there's reach. Might work.
QNX anyone ??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX
In 1999/2000 I remember trying a demo disk from them. On a single 3.5" 1.44MB floppy, that you would boot from, they managed to cram a complete desktop OS. You would get your graphical desktop, task bar, "start" menu, a text editor, web browser and modem drivers, was well impressed !
What can a modern OS do with 1.44MB ? Blink an LED maybe ? If even that...
According to Wikipedia, was mostly targeted to embedded devices like smartphones. BlackBerry used QNX and eventually bought QNX... still in use today in phones and cars and whatnot, apparently...
Dual booting is a good way to wipe your main system.All I can say, the Linux way... "Works for me"
Yes, I've had dual booting machines too, in the past. There's always that little uncertainty, though. Especially since Microsoft have a tendency to want to be alone and in control.
Anyway, if dual-booting had worked for me, the way I want my computers to work, I'd probably run it a bit more. As it is, I tend to value continued access a bit too much. If I must reboot I can't be arsed. It's too much of a workflow reset, as I always found myself wanting something from the other OS. Emulation and structured access to data is a much better option, if I can't find a way to do things in the main OS.
Ok, so will somebody from the timenuts gang from Germany please buy these from ePay - its a set of two Hewlett Packard 5065As Ru standards - pleaaase?
eBay auction: #353785283417
The current bid is at 605 European Pesos with > 1 day left.
Cheers,
THDplus_bad
@Zucca the forum does not support svg. search for unix history chart on google.
No, I cannot clone myself. Or rather, I have not tried yet, but my experience in advanced genetics is rather limited.
When I wanted to borrow a gene sequencer and some retrovirus equipment to fix that chromosome with the broken leg, our ethics committee told me to back off.
I might have another look as the corona virus seems like a good candidate give it another try to distribute that experiment
Why does Pinky and the Brain and Mad Scientist come to mind ...
Anyway.
(No, I am not going to do that, I think that males are getting too snowflaky anyway. I am more for the stereotypical viking, and would see myself more as a shieldmaiden than a sissy. Role stereotypes ...)
in other news,
Hubby just survived another surgery which was unsuccessful (again). Seems that they cannot get the sinus reducer in place as the catheder is either not long enough or they cannot get the long one (which they use for access from the leg) to bend around an s curve when coming from the neck.
This s*cks big time, it means they cannot help him.
I'm in the middle of packing up the stuff in the company flat. Expect to get the Volvo back tomorrow, hopefully with trailer hitch installed and operational. Will need to drive our stuff up north ASAP.
Cannot access my pinball stuff which is somewhere in an industrial complex near Hanau due to new CoVID regulations.
FFS. Has the entire country gone mad ...
No test equipment for me yet. When we are done moving I will need to restore a few pinball machines. Is there interest in a documentation ?