Comment Re:You're kidding, right? (Score 1) 2058
Somehow I doubt there is a homeowner policy in force...
Comment Re:When you have a machine from that era... (Score 1) 507
Transplant the drive, install image on beefier hardware--I've used variations on this technique for years. Works great.
I generally use a desktop box for the work. You need a small collection of laptop drive adapters (less than 20$ for a good selection). Then debootstrap a base image and customize from there; another route is to build your mini-image in a free partion and copy the completed custom install onto the 486's drive....
The take-home is: pull the drive and build/image from a modern machine.
I generally use a desktop box for the work. You need a small collection of laptop drive adapters (less than 20$ for a good selection). Then debootstrap a base image and customize from there; another route is to build your mini-image in a free partion and copy the completed custom install onto the 486's drive....
The take-home is: pull the drive and build/image from a modern machine.
Comment Re:There is a very simple solution ...indeed (Score 1) 347
If his intent is to 'just make it work', this is the way to go. I've built LTSP style rigs going back to the days of KDE 1.x and 486's/Pentiums; good initial set-up and ssh have served. Once the BIOS settings are solid, there is little reason to go mucking there again.
Comment Re:new to me (Score 1) 389
The 'plastic' is the carrier.. the stuff that sticks to the paper. The "fuser" melts the carrier onto the paper like an iron on transfer.
Comment Re:Three Letters (Score 1) 591
about 10G for an old 33k modem pulling 24/7 for an average month.
Comment Tri-X, E-6, CibaChrome?? yes. (Score 1) 195
Yes,
Tri-X lives on, available for 55 yrs+ in 135 format. and for color reversal prints (direct positive process), Ilford CibaChrome continues under the name Ilfochrome Classic.
You can still make ArT and it is still pricey.
Comment Re:slashdotted... but available on Coral Cache (Score 5, Informative) 476
Still viewable via ye olde Coral Cache: http://smari.yaxic.org.nyud.net/blag/2009/03/06/microsoft-skull-fucks-icelands-economy-contracts-syphilis/
Comment Cyclops whizzing (Score 1) 553
One caveat... you best have good muscle memory to line up ole one eye Willy--lack of stereo vision hampers rangefinding.
Comment Re:Small Open Source project (Score 1) 252
You may not be a coder, but there is need for other contributions:
- answer usage questions in a forum
- documentation. (patches, even...)
- testing. choose a favorite app and test
- bug reports w/ reproducable test cases
Oft repeated, seldom heeded...
Comment Re:Service Day? WTF? (Score 1) 252
where it is more socially acceptable !?
Comment Re:Won't Help Big Three (Score 3, Funny) 740
- Junkyard receives old car
- Junkie sorts; lists "interesting" carcass
- Motorhead buy rusting hulk
- Motorhead retitles vintage gem as "Salvaged"
Submission + - Mainstream Primer on RIAA tactics
quist writes: "To mark the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the RIAA assult of on filesharing, this week Marketplace on American Public Radio is running a three-part series on the battle. This is a very concise summary for friends and family who are unfamiliar with the situation. Part one — No pause in music industry's tough play — briefly summarizes Tanya Andersen's case and includes quotes from EFF's Fred Von Lohmann, Mitch Bainwol, chairman and CEO of the RIAA and, of course, Ray Beckerman. Part two — Free? Illegal? ... What's the difference? — describes the muddy water surrounding the Spiral Frog's "free" music downloads. The conclusion, which aired yesterday, will appear the Marketplace site later today."
Submission + - Dan Lyons Repents Over SCO Reporting
Groklaw Reader writes: "Dan Lyons, long known for his stories claiming that SCO's cases had merit, has finally repented. With SCO in bankruptcy, he's finally admitted that "the geeks were right" and it's time for him to "eat crow." While it might just be a cynical ploy to troll for more page views, he could just as easily do that without admitting error—Maureen O'Gara, for example, still believes in SCO, even after all this. Besides, why pass up an opportunity to say "I told you so!"?"
SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing 321
Stony Stevenson writes "SCO Group CEO Darl McBride is now claiming that competition from Linux was behind the company's filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 'In a court filing in support of SCO's bankruptcy petition, McBride noted that SCO's sales of Unix-based products "have been declining over the past several years." The slump, McBride said, "has been primarily attributable to significant competition from alternative operating systems, including Linux." McBride listed IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems as distributors of Linux or other software that is "aggressively taking market share away from Unix.""
Journal Journal: 1 Teraflops at only 62 Watts
AP has an article describing a new processor from Intel expected to run at 1.01 Teraflops while using only 62 Watts of electricity. While the chip is only in the research stage, its a very promising step for supercomputers.
