Subj : Re: Too many? :) To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Tue Oct 06 2020 19:57:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > Whereas I've gotten rid of most of the old hardware as too slow won't > work for what I want it to do. Do have my DEC Rainbow 100 and the two > "super XTs", mainly for sentimental reasons. The XTs, or at least one, > was supposed to run the X10 (home automation) stuff but ended up the > current computers could more easily. I have the 286 (and wish I'd kept the souped-up XT, oh well) and a few from the late 1990s in the basement, but the ones in regular or even intermittent use ... well, Bullet is the oldest everyday PC, with a 2008 motherboard and a quad-core, and the oldest laptop still in occasional use is the same age. Anything below a 3GHz Core2Duo is just too slow these days, and anything below an iX is increasingly painful online. > > If you use a teen-tiny you should get it to fit on a single sheet! > KM> If I used little teeny print I'd need little teeny eyes to read > KM> it... > KM> https://people.well.com/user/bubbles/LilTEyes.txt > > Neat! (I was still in elementary school when that was written!) Bubbles has been around a while > KM> At least on Windows you can use ! or !! or !!! to force a front > KM> sort. This does not work on linux, which ignores the leading ! > KM> mark. > > Never tried a filename with a leading exclamation point -- doesn't > follow my naming rules. We all have our weird quirks. > > > /home/barry/File Cabinet/Recipes/ > > |-- aa_Cooking Tips > > |-- aa_Food Timeline > > | |-- Food Timeline: food history research service_files > KM> Food timeline, fish: Fresh, Stale, and Stinking in 3 days. > > How'd you know that was what was in there?! I looked in your fridge, and got food poisoning. > KM> Yeah... that's why it irks me so much that Microsoft nuked all > KM> the old support files. They've done this twice now, apparently > KM> under the theory that this would force people to upgrade. No, it > KM> just annoys us... when they announced that they were killing the > KM> pre-XP files, I pulled all of 'em, and it was only 8GB. They > KM> didn't announce it when they killed most of the XP support files. > KM> :/ > > Yes, I was also thinking the "that'll force 'em!" 8 GB is nothing. > ..Just for comparison found this: "the average person used 2.9GB of > mobile data per month in 2019". So not-quite three month's worth of > data was Microsoft's 'savings'. At the time it was about a third of an average consumer HD. So a bit more significant at the time, but still chicken feed by their standards. > Didn't know Windows 10 was case-sensitive but not really following > Windows stuff. I'd prefer a lack of case sensitivity (in general -- I didn't know it either until I accidentally had two almost-same filenames... > does add a slight degree of bafflement to passwords): for me would make > things a little easier. Guess I'll just go off and create my own > distribution! Anyone can do it. > > From what I've read the Raspeberry Pi will be using a 64-bit ARM > instruction set soon. :) About time! > > OTOH it seems to work fine for some people - maybe I'm missing a command > > switch? > KM> Wait for next generation hardware. > > do sleep 99999 ? Does that work on me or the hardware? New distro: Rip Van Winkle OS :) > KM> Yeah, most of 'em do. In my experience they're not just > KM> barebones, but also lots of everyday stuff doesn't quite work. > KM> Inability to configure the desktop is no worry for a server, but > KM> annoying for a workstation. Another reason I don't bother looking > KM> at barebones distros, unless that's all there is. > > Yes, would seem like a potential problem with random stuff not working > because vital stuff wasn't installed originally. Minor experience with > that kind of thing: sometimes the programme wil tell you what's missing, > sometimes not and so off to search for an answer for a problem we're not > quite sure is. Yeah, and while Synaptic and some commanline magic can get around it, why do all that extra work? > Could be -- I've been mild entertained by watching the text scroll on > the screen during installs. Most of the time no clue as to what the > output means, though have glimpsed bits of humour ==> instead of a > stuffy-and-formal name for an error-catching utility it'll be called > something like 'Boo-boo Grabber'. LOL, yeah, seen a few of those :) > > > KM> Which in this day and age is just insane. Yeah, you get an end > KM> result precisely tailored, but at the cost of a lot more time and > KM> bother, especially when 99% of installs want to wind up with the > KM> ordinary generic one-size-fits-all binary, so why individually > KM> build it? > > It's those vocal One Percenters! WAG: carry-over from the days when > the installation needed to fit on a single CD? Nope, from the habit of compiling drivers into the kernel (which was horrible design, but was the only way to get any performance out of it, back in the day). Which naturally extended to everything. > > > .. Picked up book called "Glue in Many Lands"; can't put it down. > > KM> Sticky situation! > > I am rather attached! > KM> To what?? > I'm thinking the book but does depend on reference points. Jump, I come > back down, so attached to Earth..... You were supposed to cut the umbilicus! > > .. Famous Last Words: Everything seems to be working fine now. > KM> Barry's USB. > > The good news is it doesn't randomly lock up unless I do do something > with the USB. ...Well, winter's coming and in the past I did have the > occasional problem with touching and the static zap caused everything to > stop. (Anything come to mind with that forgotten detail? Insert USB > and/or static means _________.) I've never had a static shock to the case make it reboot or freeze up... wonder if it might be a symptom of marginal hardware. þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .