Posts by ram@sfba.social
(DIR) Post #ARh2qVwVBNjVcDQCHo by ram@sfba.social
2023-01-16T07:08:53Z
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One more lifer from the recent India trip. Gray francolin spotted while driving back from Vedanthangal. #bird #photography #birdPhotography #birding #birdsOfIndia
(DIR) Post #AVfnjQMdc8ZrSHXz3A by ram@sfba.social
2023-05-15T02:47:43Z
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I have been to this place umpteen number of times and have been blessed with a decent sunset only once.... but I will keep chasing the magic ;-)#landscape #photography #landscapePhotography #monoLake
(DIR) Post #AXubS4AtIizFmD8L3Y by ram@sfba.social
2023-07-21T05:37:15Z
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The brat at home is turning into a gaming nerd and wants to try #windows #pc. Except for a brief period in 1997, after several #BSOD I have never ever wanted to have anything to do with that thing. Any #linux … even the notoriously easy to break #slackware was way better than that half baked paid excuse of an OS in the last century. Now… I write this post after having ordered a PC with windows 11. Pray for me my friends… 🤦🏾♂️
(DIR) Post #AXubS5zGYusPOji5DM by ram@sfba.social
2023-07-21T06:18:26Z
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@birnim Slackware 0.x never had anything called package manager. Everything had to be built from source and you had to manage the dependencies yourself. Was a nightmare until we moved to Debian.
(DIR) Post #AXvEw4xyomtf8FOeMS by ram@sfba.social
2023-07-21T14:47:59Z
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@josemanuel @birnim couldn’t remember version number. Only remember it was the very first version. we had to compile everything from the kernel because we were tweaking it to make it run as a router and we had our own Ethernet driver because we tried to emulate atm switches and needed custom headers in the frame. Fun times…
(DIR) Post #AXvMd16DlrSvGmflYG by ram@sfba.social
2023-07-21T16:14:10Z
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@josemanuel @birnim I never said it was Slackwares fault. Just had too many instances of having to go correct versions of glibc or associated libraries to make certain applications work and it definitely was a nightmare if you were not handy with makefiles and C code. I don’t know which version of Slackware you refer to. The first versions had the latest kernel versions but nothing much beyond that. Try bypassing the package manager on today's distros and bringing up X windows for instance. That was pretty much what we were doing in the last century. What versions worked on one computer will most definitely not work on another just because the graphics card was different. And with no google around to help you figure out which ones worked. That is what I had in mind when I wrote “notorious” ;-)Windows hid all the details behind their bsods which was really hell compared to Slackware’s inconvenience :)
(DIR) Post #AaJ8OnxdSxVFRZPQ5Q by ram@sfba.social
2023-09-30T23:11:59Z
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@IdahoLark Very sorry to hear that. Wishing you a speedy recovery and hope you get back outdoors soon...
(DIR) Post #AbAL7H8u1ri0SIWutk by ram@sfba.social
2023-10-26T02:31:16Z
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Test shot from the #Nikon #Zf #CatsOfMastodon #Photography
(DIR) Post #AdPqftLEbHGyMwEH1E by ram@sfba.social
2023-12-30T19:58:39Z
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A very positive start to the new year for our family 🤦🏾#covid
(DIR) Post #AdQ2KJYhdxTql90TQG by ram@sfba.social
2023-12-31T05:51:57Z
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Nothing like a good dose of #blandings to help through a bout of #covid !! Still makes me laugh out loud despite the fever!!