I still have an old ThinkPad with 256MB Ram that I have running on BeOS in a drawer.

BeOS is very responsive because EVERY thing ins threaded and they embraced multi-threading and SMP from day 1. Other OS/s use an event loop in the GUI apps while BeOS does it somewhat different. It encourages threading and not a single loop when you consume an event, process it and then go on to the next one. Events tend to spawn threads that then interact with each other. The single event consumer thing is a very old paradigm in UI design.

Another OS which is very very responsive for the same reason is Photon, the GUI running on QNX.

I miss BeOS, was really a great system.

WTF do you have such a thing???

A friend of mine who studied chemistry used to light his BBQ fires with self-made napalm. He stopped doing that whan a) some right-wing terrorists inquired about building a bomb and b) He blew the roof off his lab-room and almost killed himself.

Then went into making drug, but that ended with an raid by the cops armed with heavy weapons who kicked down the door when his mom was there. They had bugged a kettle that she bought over the mail.

Suhweet. Definitely. I one used a Nintendo Powerglove with wire cut to interface with a joystick port and used to to play a Tci Tac Toe game we wrote. Back in 92 or so. That impressed some chicks...

My sister is a veterinarian in nowhere, Africa and she has a PhD in Veterinary science. She does it because she likes it!

Once a RAID card on a machine with a critical database croaked. I EBayed for a replacement, did a buy now and phoned the seller and offered him 100$ Cash if he sent the damn card by courier RIGHT NOW at . Next morning it was waiting for me.

Problem was that the yokel who configured the card did not write down the config and I could not boot it. So I looked at the chip numbers and figure that one of them was a NVRAM chip. Took the NVRAM chip from the broken card with the hope that it had the config and plugged it into the new card. I was never in my life so happy to see Windows NT boot.

The data was rescuable, a few years later wrote a C program to reconstruct the RAID disks from image on that same damn machine, but that was critical and had to be done fast.

OF course my boss ran around and told the board that WE did some hardware engineering. He had nothing to do with it.

To reply to myself: The commute is by train, not car. And I live 5 minutes walk from the station.

Agreed. I live in Germany, 15 km from one of the most expensive cities in the country. I live in a small town, 15 minute commute to the inner city (and 20 to my office). I own a large house, large garden, grow my own vegetables and have a much better quality of living than almost all of my colleagues. They all rent.

It's not brain surgery.

Give Oracle a break.

When Java was run as a totally open source thing by Sun it did not generate enough revenue and Sun, well, died. Went bankrupt. sold all their assets. Fired all their staff. Companies still need revenue and Sun's model did not work.

I am sure Oracle is not going to keep running Java the same way after that happened.

Thanks for that heads-up

MBP, last year. 13 Inch Retina with 1TB SSD, 16GM Ram

The test server under my desk has a i7 3550 with 32GB RAM and a couple of 3TB and 4TB disks and a boot SSD. It has a gigabyte mobo, and can run MacOS/X just fine. I seldomly use it though.

I also have about 10 arduinos,2 RaspPi model1 and 1 RaspPi model 2 for what it's worth.

>New idea - have a second run of conduit placed fairly high up. Suggested uses: Wall mount speakers, TVs, and such.

This. My entire house is wired up with Cat6 but this is something I can kick myself about.
It would have been rel useful for exactly that reason.

Also, don't think "no, I will never need an ethernet connection in the roof". Put it in while you can. Trust me, you will regret it :(
I want to put my Time Capsule there for security reasons. If someone breaks in I don't want my laptop AND my backup disk stolen.

More like attorocks but whatever.

And what much difference is there between a speeding bullet and a rock? The way you throw the rock might differ, but a rock is a rock.

> The ROOT cause, as you imply, was Europtimism.
> The PanEurope folks were willing to accept any tissue-paper rationalization or flimsy camouflage to encourage
> more countries to join in their giant Kum-Bay-Yah fest of the EU.

The fundamental problem of liberalism. It is based on wishful thinking, not on facts.
Whe the Euro came said that they should have had 2 currencies. But that would have been politically incorrect since you now have a 'good' and a 'bad' currency.

Whether the liberals like it or not, things tick differently in the south of Europe. That does not mean the people are bad or that you are insulting when telling them that. But things are diffeent there for many historical, cultural and geographic reasons. Throwing everyone into the same pot was a bad idea.

No? Then it is useless for me.

The point about an advanced workstation is an advanced OS.