That does make a lot more sense.

The rebranded ones were the best: https://i0.wp.com/applerescueo...

I think Fujifilm had them as well. Always white.

I still have Jaz drives. Or Jiz Drives, as they are now known thanks to GTA2.

I think it's the USB to SCSI adapter I have, but the performance is really bad. I need to boot up an old XP machine and try it, ideally with a proper SCSI card. I've got a PCI one, but what I really need is a PCMCIA one.

The computer I connected by first Zip 100 drive to had an 80MB hard drive.

The hope is that at least one of them can beat the Chinese to it.

SpaceX is iterating but hasn't yet reliably reached orbit with unmanned ships, and needs to develop several more technologies to actually land. They need to do in-orbit refuelling, fly to the moon, and then demonstrate a soft landing (without anything to catch it like they have on Earth), and finally ascend to lunar orbit again (the crew will then transfer to Orion for the return trip).

Blue Origin haven't launched anything, but tend not to until they are fairly sure it is going to work. Their scaled down model will need to be followed by a full size one close to what they intend to land with a crew.

China has shown full scale models of their lander, but not yet flown any of the system. Like Blue Origin, they tend not to iterate like SpaceX, they fly stuff when they are fairly sure it is going to work. They look to be on target for 2029 though.

Okay, here's one field: in the last four weeks, Claude Code has detected and diagnosed 91 genuine bugs in the open-source library I maintain. That's 91 bugs that likely would have remained unfixed indefinitely, unless/until I (or a user) happened to stumble across a resulting runtime misbehavior and then laboriously worked our way backwards to pinpoint the underlying software defect. I'd estimate probably 150 man-hours were saved, right there.

It sounds like a bug. Tesla did the same thing and it resulted in a lot of Teslas dying prematurely because the flash memory wore out due to all the logging.

They tried to charge people to fix it too.

Finding Nemo is one of the funniest movies. I can never again hear whale sounds without thinking of that flick, among other memorable scenes.

Tesla's own stats, which I don't believe for a second.

And those stats are for managed "Full Self Driving", where a human has to monitor it all the time. Competitors have had actual self driving cars where there is no full time human monitoring, for years.

If I had that kind of money I'd have stepped down long ago to live on a private South Pacific island with rum, hot tubs, and supermodels.

Have you considered hiring someone on a contract basis to maintain ufraw? If you depend on it, surely it's worth investing in.

My experience with Debian is similar. Much less broken stuff than Ubuntu or Mint. But also the usual problems with things changing in breaking ways between versions, which makes instructions on how to do things outdated within a year or two, 3rd party software stops building and so on... Like you, I have VMs with obsolete versions of Debian and Ubuntu, just to keep certain bits of software working. Meanwhile on Windows I can still install a version of MPLAB from the 90s to build some old firmware.

Out of interest, how do you discover the IPv6 addresses of your IoT devices, so you can connect to them?

I looked into IPv6 for home use a while back, and basic stuff like adding new devices to the network and finding them is a bit of a nightmare.

On IPv4 with DHCP it's easy enough to just scan the entire subnet looking for the new device, if you don't know its IP address. With IPv6... There are three of four different ways devices can make themselves discoverable, and Windows support for them is a bit limited.

IPv4 works, it's familiar, it's easy. That's why there hasn't been a big migration. There just aren't big benefits for most people, and there are considerable downsides.

I've been looking since March 2024. Having no reasonable options in sight, have reopened https://informationr.us/