KC8ZKF | 5 years ago | on: ThinkPad 560E
I’m just playing. It will probably be idle before too long. The Linux box was used in anger for a couple of years.
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KC8ZKF | 5 years ago | on: ThinkPad 560E
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.
KC8ZKF | 5 years ago | on: A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Older Raspberry Pi
The English word “apron” comes from the French “napron.” “A napron” became “an apron.”
KC8ZKF | 5 years ago | on: Florian Schneider has died
Also, Florian was an inspiration for David Bowie’s “V-2 Schneider” from the “Heroes” album.
KC8ZKF | 5 years ago | on: Why Do FM Frequencies End in an Odd Decimal? (2015)
Plenty of exceptions though. e.g. KDKA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and WACO Waco, Texas.
KC8ZKF | 5 years ago | on: Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never heard of (2014)
LM358 op-amp?
KC8ZKF | 5 years ago | on: SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork and OneWeb
Point spreads negate common sense and understanding. Remember touts sell you who to bet on, not who is going to win.
KC8ZKF | 5 years ago | on: Restarting America means people will die – five thinkers weigh moral choices
If you’re trying to avoid the paywall, note that the NYT has removed the paywall on Coronavirus related articles. Including this one.
KC8ZKF | 6 years ago | on: Lead-Free Solder Is Better for You
Maybe this isolation we’re going through will give me time to upgrade. -73-
KC8ZKF | 6 years ago | on: Lead-Free Solder Is Better for You
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).
KC8ZKF | 6 years ago | on: SystemE: A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp
What rough beast, its hour come round at last,
slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
KC8ZKF | 6 years ago | on: SystemE: A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp
What did rms use? GDB?
KC8ZKF | 6 years ago | on: War Is a Racket (1933)
Germany declared war on the United States.
KC8ZKF | 6 years ago | on: Chimpanzees Spontaneously Dance to Music
Ya. It’s almost enough to give the researchers the benefit of the doubt. Nah.
KC8ZKF | 6 years ago | on: 49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change
IBM? AT&T, more likely. Unix had an 8 character limit long after people knew better.
KC8ZKF | 6 years ago | on: Why Kids Love Garbage Trucks
Everybody hates a tourist.
KC8ZKF | 6 years ago | on: Phoebus Cartel
The cartel disbanded in 1939. Were the bulbs labeled and classified by power consumption before then?
KC8ZKF | 6 years ago | on: Yakovlevian Torque
Or "stage right" and "stage left."
KC8ZKF | 6 years ago | on: Yakovlevian Torque
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.
KC8ZKF | 6 years ago | on: While California Fires Rage, the Rich Hire Private Firefighters
“Uber for fires.” You’ll be richer than Crassus.
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