Subj : life ?
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Thu Feb 13 2020 22:40:06

Hello Maurice!

30 Jan 2020 22:41, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 MK> Yes.  Speaking for myself java died when Sun Microsystems went out of 
 MK> business but to be honest java was never doable on any of my systems 
 MK> ever.  Why would you want java?

without java there would not be any android devices

 BP>> so 3 raspberrypi with ssh ?
 MK> I only have one and at the moment it isn't running.

yes same happend with all my devices, lost time and spirrit with them

 MK>  The 3 that I am 
 MK> using are all x86_64 although I am keeping an eye on the risc-v 
 MK> development but so far it is only out of curiousity.

good or bad ?

 MK> As for the 
 MK> raspi3b+ I have, my plan is to get it working with pure DC input 
 MK> sometime this summer.

it can be simple as a power bank imho but to make it redudendant power banked 
is not that simple

 MK>  I am toying with the idea of using the new 
 MK> lithium iron phosphate batteries which are very expensive at the 
 MK> moment.

will explode ?

 BP>> it have nice hardware such as a sas lto4 tape streammer

 MK> Too expensive.

more likely too expansive to use :)

 MK>  Also I haven't messed with tape drives since the early 
 MK> 1990's and did have access to external scsi exabyte drives but mostly 
 MK> worked with ye olde 9 track tapes.

i got a sysquest drive, looked like it was a new 8" floppy disk in cartridge 
design :)

 MK>  I'll stick with sata drives for 
 MK> now since they are way cheaper than tape.

yes maybe


 Regards Benny

.... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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