Sidneys1
Booting Sun Sparc Servers
Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video]
on Friday October 04, 2024 @03:09PM (#41744621)
Here, eat your heart out: https://sidneys1.com/retrocomputing/2024/10/04/booting-sun-s...
Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video]
on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @04:26PM (#41724678)
I absolutely adore the terminal. It appears to have several VT-compatible modes, so should be very usable with modern Linux. Except I don't have the accompanying Wyse keyboard with the appropriate setup keys required to switch compatibility modes. Gotta trawl ebay for one one of these days...
Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video]
on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @04:18PM (#41724619)
Yes, I got ahold of these just weeks before moving to a new state. Things have been a bit chaotic since then. Here's a video of it booting, though!
Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video]
on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @09:36AM (#41720517)
A couple years ago I got a reply to a Craigslist ad I had posted looking for 90's and 00's era computers people were looking to get rid of. This guy said he used to run a small website starting around 1995, and had a couple "SUN servers" taking up space in his storage unit that he'd love to get rid of.
He was a bit of a curmudgeon, going on about how his business partner screwed him out of a "seven-digit payout" when his domain eventually got bought by some Japanese company. But a minivan rental and some elbow grease later I had a whole pile of hardware that he was all to happy to be done with: A Sun SPARCstation 20, a Sun ULTRA 1 Creator, an Axil Ultima 1 (a third-party Sun clone), an gorgeous amber Wyse CRT terminal, and a few other odds and ends.
I wrote a more detailed list on my blog [1], but so far all I've managed to do with them is get the drives out and cloned and the ULTRA 1 running (an involved process as the internal BIOS memory lost power long ago, wiping such transient properties as "what is my MAC address".
[1]: https://sidneys1.com/retrocomputing/2022/06/03/retro-roundup...
Re:Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs
on Saturday August 10, 2024 @12:57PM (#41210726)
Not with 4o, but I tried it with 4 (through Copilot) a while ago and the results were abysmal, even with very neatly printed handwriting.
Re:Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs
on Friday August 09, 2024 @05:00PM (#41205371)
I'd like to hear more about this! I keep coming back to trying to OCR my journals, but nothing I've tried so far works well (enough) on handwriting.
Re:Sudo for Windows
on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:17AM (#39315614)
There's always gsudo: https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
Re:Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity
on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @08:28AM (#37673646)
Stardock Groupy adds this functionality to Windows, and Microsoft briefly toyed with the idea themselves [1].
[1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-windows-10-testers-w...
Re:Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want...
on Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:30AM (#37160573)
https://signal-bot.readthedocs.io
The actual Pip package isn't published yet, but the documentation should be self-explanatory.
Re:Reverse Engineering a Windows 95 Game's Asset Storage Format
on Saturday February 25, 2023 @07:51PM (#34941992)
Where's the fun in that? I've been looking for a good reason to play with `std::filesystem` anyways.
Re:Reverse Engineering a Windows 95 Game's Asset Storage Format
on Saturday February 25, 2023 @06:52PM (#34941673)
This is part one of hopefully three. Future parts will look at disassembling the binary to find secrets!
Reverse Engineering a Windows 95 Game's Asset Storage Format
Show HN: Stail.sh – Short Tail
https://gist.github.com/Sidneys1/8973f8868300c8bac2e714de3d99ede4
This is a fairly short (59 LOC) utility script that allows you to tail the output of a command, but while only showing the last -n (default 5) lines of output without scrolling the output buffer. It will trim lines to the terminal width (rather than wrap them) to avoid splitting terminal escape sequences. You can also optionally -p PREFIX each line of output. Finally, it (by default) removes...
Re:It's Time for an RSS Revival
on Friday December 23, 2022 @11:07AM (#34107284)
Two RSS submissions today, from different sources. Interesting.
Haven't seen this in the comments for either: https://miniflux.app/
A very lightweight self-hosted web client for managing RSS feeds. I very much like it.
Re:PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting
on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @09:40AM (#33969442)
I have - I've used IPFS to archive the channel of a creator I like (in true data-hoarding fashion).
It is neither convenient nor especially easy. It's mostly managed by a home-grown bash script that uses yt-dlp to archive videos, organized by playlist, and then update a IPNS key.
I plan on writing up a blog post about it at some point, if there's interest. I mentioned the project to the particular creator's fan discord (the creator doesn't participate with the community at all themselves) and there was a surprising amount of backlash from the community leaders. Most of the concerns revolved around the notion that I was somehow stealing ad revenue from the creator (despite my explanations that IPFS is not at all a convenient platform for video consumption). I might take the IPFS node off of the public network to circumvent this worry, and only peer with other parties interested in archival of that specific channel.