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Re:ThinkPad 560E
on Sunday August 09, 2020 @06:49PM (#24103619)
I’m just playing. It will probably be idle before too long. The Linux box was used in anger for a couple of years.
Re:ThinkPad 560E
on Sunday August 09, 2020 @05:59PM (#24103297)
Five or six years ago, I bought a lot of three ThinkPad R40 Celerons sold for parts, hoping to get one useable machine. I did, ending up with a rather pedestrian LXDE Linux laptop.
Just this week I got a second one running with a whopping 256 MB of RAM, and put OS/2 (ArcaOS) on it. It’s quite a snappy machine. Loads of fun.
Re:A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Older Raspber...
on Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:23PM (#23585647)
The English word “apron” comes from the French “napron.” “A napron” became “an apron.”
Re:Florian Schneider has died
on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:47AM (#23112394)
Also, Florian was an inspiration for David Bowie’s “V-2 Schneider” from the “Heroes” album.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office vs. Booking.com
Re:Why Do FM Frequencies End in an Odd Decimal? (2015)
on Monday April 20, 2020 @02:16AM (#22921609)
Plenty of exceptions though. e.g. KDKA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and WACO Waco, Texas.
Re:Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never he...
on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:56AM (#22886546)
LM358 op-amp?
Re:SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork and OneWeb
on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:44AM (#22875226)
Point spreads negate common sense and understanding. Remember touts sell you who to bet on, not who is going to win.
Re:Restarting America means people will die – five thinkers weigh mora...
on Friday April 10, 2020 @09:08PM (#22838952)
If you’re trying to avoid the paywall, note that the NYT has removed the paywall on Coronavirus related articles. Including this one.
Bald Eagle Nest Livestream
Re:Lead-Free Solder Is Better for You
on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:51AM (#22725570)
Maybe this isolation we’re going through will give me time to upgrade. -73-
Re:Lead-Free Solder Is Better for You
on Monday March 30, 2020 @12:46AM (#22725327)
Try 63/37 tin/lead instead of 60/40. 63/37 alloy is eutectic, meaning its melting and solidifying temperature is the same (183C). 60/40 has a semisolid state around its melting point (~=190C).
Hackenbush. Two-player game invented by John Conway
The Counter-Culture and Its Apologists:2 – Consciousness III (1970)
Re:SystemE: A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp
on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:46AM (#22125150)
What rough beast, its hour come round at last,
slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Re:SystemE: A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp
on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:16PM (#22124515)
What did rms use? GDB?
Re:War Is a Racket (1933)
on Friday January 10, 2020 @12:51PM (#22012947)
Germany declared war on the United States.
List of things named after John von Neumann
Re:Chimpanzees Spontaneously Dance to Music
on Thursday December 26, 2019 @09:27PM (#21888631)
Ya. It’s almost enough to give the researchers the benefit of the doubt. Nah.
Re:49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with min...
on Friday December 13, 2019 @08:06PM (#21787093)
IBM? AT&T, more likely. Unix had an 8 character limit long after people knew better.
Re:Why Kids Love Garbage Trucks
on Monday December 09, 2019 @02:44AM (#21741019)
Everybody hates a tourist.
Re:Phoebus Cartel
on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:55AM (#21604784)
The cartel disbanded in 1939. Were the bulbs labeled and classified by power consumption before then?
Assembly language vs. machine code [video] Ben Eater
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Re:Yakovlevian Torque
on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:02PM (#21488720)
Or "stage right" and "stage left."
Re:Yakovlevian Torque
on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:01PM (#21488711)
Also, if you look at it as bottom as front, the description doesn't match. The left side is slightly forward to the right, contrary to the article.
Re:While California Fires Rage, the Rich Hire Private Firefighters
on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:04PM (#21366176)
“Uber for fires.” You’ll be richer than Crassus.
Re:Sinclair Zx Spectrum: absolutely better than Commodore 64 (2005)
on Friday October 25, 2019 @07:47PM (#21360365)
It was sold as the Timex Sinclair in the USA.
I was planning on buying one, but ended up with a used VIC-20 instead.