Posts by mroach@mas.to
 (DIR) Post #ASp8Ul6JTNTiBixicK by mroach@mas.to
       2023-02-19T02:38:27Z
       
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       More #SunMicrosystems hotness. SunBlade 1000 booted into #Solaris with that gorgeous CDE login screen. Notice that the Sun logo is illuminated when the system is powered on.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYdHb7vDnmlQExHl3Y by mroach@mas.to
       2023-08-11T20:44:37Z
       
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       @EU_Commission Cash? That stuff you get from your grandparents on Christmas and becomes a chore to get into your bank account? How about just discontinuing cash?
       
 (DIR) Post #AZ2ACnGxmrOBf11GwC by mroach@mas.to
       2023-08-23T12:30:26Z
       
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 (DIR) Post #AZQr6MWAKcAw7qLrWq by mroach@mas.to
       2023-09-04T17:39:52Z
       
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       My mouse and mousepad for #suntemberThe Network Is The Computer #SunMicrosystems
       
 (DIR) Post #AZl09f5GwYPfHT7b0q by mroach@mas.to
       2023-09-14T11:56:02Z
       
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       For #Suntember, my Sun Ultra 24 that I transformed into a daily-driver.It's one of the few ATX-based systems that Sun made, so replacing the guts was a piece of cake. I quite enjoy the hot-swappable SATA slots. I've used those a bunch.https://mroach.com/2020/08/sun-ultra-24-reborn/
       
 (DIR) Post #AZnkvRriNTVmOKQNVo by mroach@mas.to
       2023-09-15T15:21:48Z
       
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       On this the 28th anniversary of the 1995 classic Hackers:HACK THE PLANET!
       
 (DIR) Post #AZnkvU4YAiy1EiRenQ by mroach@mas.to
       2023-09-15T15:23:59Z
       
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       Timeline check: we're farther away from the release of Hackers than it was from the first moon landing.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZolSZEkCnUK0SFrzU by mroach@mas.to
       2023-09-15T17:11:30Z
       
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       For #Suntember, how about watching some movies and TV episodes featuring Sun hardware?https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.html#Sun%20MicrosystemsI really love the descriptions on this website: "Wildlife researcher Daniel Zavitz uses the Sun to watch his video footage of the murder and to record it onto a PCMCIA card that he then hides in a TurboExpress handheld games console."
       
 (DIR) Post #AZrw3HsOpx3f1tBxp2 by mroach@mas.to
       2023-09-17T20:13:37Z
       
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       @flexion Damn I want these to plug into my Silicon Graphics-branded speakers.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZrykMZ5TrkLvmpJPU by mroach@mas.to
       2023-09-17T20:46:32Z
       
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       @stux It’s funny how when some brown people killed 2977 Americans by flying planes into buildings, the US flipped out and started wars and built new government agencies so it couldn’t happen again. Then 10-15x that many people are killed every year by guns in the US and it’s all “thoughts and prayers, but the 2nd amendment…”
       
 (DIR) Post #AZsxr1iTUJwUV8n6Q4 by mroach@mas.to
       2023-09-18T07:18:52Z
       
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       One day I discovered you can upload images to services that will print or embroider them onto apparel. Now I’ve got my favourite hat and tshirt. #Suntember
       
 (DIR) Post #AbEuJrxFGM3v82epN2 by mroach@mas.to
       2023-10-26T20:57:49Z
       
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       It’s been 20 years and I’m still sad that Firefly got cancelled.
       
 (DIR) Post #AujVIM6lC4MSjWVhey by mroach@mas.to
       2025-06-02T14:05:37Z
       
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       Reading about Ukraine’s drone attack deep inside Russia is wild. You’d expect this from a Fast and Furious movie:“The quadcopters were apparently built into wooden cabins, loaded onto lorries and then released after the roofs of the cabins were remotely retracted. The drones used Russian mobile-telephone networks to relay their footage back to Ukraine, much of which was released by the gleeful Ukrainians.”https://archive.md/uDeWy
       
 (DIR) Post #AyDyCcmnsHDQJhbKZE by mroach@mas.to
       2025-09-04T17:34:16Z
       
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       We deal with a bank that sends us data by zipping-up a CSV and emailing it to us every day. They told us they'd have an API in December 2022 so they're a little late on that.Usually the CSV headers are in English, but sometimes they're in German, and sometimes a mix of English and German. Sometimes the file is UTF-8 and sometimes ISO-8859-1. Sometimes dates are dd.mm.yyyy, sometimes dd.mm.yy.I'd really like to know how things work on their end. Again, this is a BANK.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyDyCeKW8PmH6YNlku by mroach@mas.to
       2025-09-15T08:09:17Z
       
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       A new variant has emerged: the CSV header row is UTF-8 but the data rows are ISO-8859-1. At this point it's actually hilarious.