Still have one? I am jelly. Is there a working version of Haiku for them yet?
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I miss BeOS, TBH. I ran a heavily customized BeOS R5.05 install that had upgraded bits from OpenBeOS (later, HaikuOS), ZetaOS etc.
I ran it as a daily driver on a Dell GX1 SFF that I swear was designed for BeOS: Max RAM the BeOS kernel supported without hackery was 768MB - The GX maxed out at 768MB; The GX1 had a Rage GPU that BeOS natively supported (Including 3D Acceleration!) which was a very short list; the GX1 had a supported NIC, IDE controllers, etc etc.
I had upgraded the CPU to a 1.4GHz Tualatin-S that, sadly, had to run at 1.04GHz as the GX1 wouldn't run a FSB higher than 100mhz so my 133mhz FSB Tualatin had to bop down a little. Still screamed.
sigh I miss that system. I would still be running it if lightning hadn't fried it.
It sat next to my NeXTstation Turbo Color that I used for way longer than was reasonable as my primary system, lol. The NeXT was a daily driver till 2008.
33mhz 040 w/ 128MB 60NS EDO. OPENSTEP4.2 + lots of ported goodies friends and I did. Even managed to get SSLv3 working and load newer websites! :D
... wish I hadn't sold it.
Oh yeah! I also had a Pre-FCC certification dual 66mhz BeBox. Cool machine. Slow as shit though. The 603e in it wasn't natively SMP capable IIRC. The GLU chip could either run one CPU with L2 cache or dual CPUs with L2 cache disabled. Coherency was done in software. Unless I am horribly misremembering. It was a nasty hack and showed.
My BeBox! https://www.flickr.com/photos/helfer/albums/7215762193739249...
My GX-1 and my NeXT :D https://www.flickr.com/photos/helfer/6676203105/in/photolist...
Have you heard that didn't invent them or even start the company or even cofound it?
Anyways, yes, he has done a lot of good and is actually smart. But it has also gone to his head and the more power and wealth he accrues the more it shows. Like with most people.
Mindlessly bashing him is just as much of a waste of time as mindlessly sucking his knob.
It is all sooo boooooring.
Different strikes for different folks.
I love stuff like this. It’s computer history. It’s interesting from a technical perspective as well as being a snapshot of culture.
Anyways, I have a family friend who is a doctor. He lives in a quiet neighborhood in a $400k house. It’s unassuming. He does drive a Panamera but he actually loves it and drives it because he loves it.
If you saw them in public you’d think they were just a regular middle class couple.
Last time I saw their /bank accounts/ (I do their IT work), not other assets like stocks or whatever, they had over $15million in cash.
It’s pretty wild. They probably have more money than most of the assholes living in the Country Club in McMansions here. And no debt.
And a whole lot of people want to just overlook everything because “he makes a lot of money” or “I like this tech thing”
My current employer is a prime example of this stupid mentality causing issues.
They’ve gotten better about it but since I started little over two years ago they’ve had probably 60% turn over of full time team leader and higher staffers. Our poor VP spent the last 3 years arguing with our Japanese President and others about the need for retention policies as we have such a high staff turn over that it was/is costing us money in overtime etc. we were in a bit of a death spiral last year that we’ve luckily pulled out of but we lost so many people due to COVID and similar that we were working people mandatory 12 hour shifts with mandatory OT and kept having /more people/ quit. For obvious reasons. And then new hires wouldn’t last through their first paycheck.
They had to up base pays and bite the bullet and hire a ton of people all at once to try and get shift times lower.
It’s one of those things that makes me glad I’m IT. I’m a critical employee and they bend over backwards to accommodate me when I need it. I try to not abuse that though :)
We are a tier 1 parts supplier for Honda and we operate damn near 24/7/365
She teaches college English and lit and the crap people turn in is mind blowing. They can barely string together a coherent sentence verbally and they turn around and write the same way…
And I am far from a poster child of “skilled writer”, but , damn, is it bad.
But let's not complain any more. Apparently that is faux pas
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It was nice for what it was.
I just can’t get excited about anything iOS as unless you have REALLY bought into the “ecosystem” it’s a clusterfuck.
- File management is still a sick joke.
- unless they’ve really changed something that I’m unaware of (which I’ll admit is entirely possible) with “iPadOS” vs regular iOS, multitasking is still a pathetic joke. The state saving and pausing which relegates the devices to essentially fancy task switching and not real preemptive multitasking (other than extremely specific program scenarios and services functionality) which drives me insane. Why the hell does my SSH client have to constantly ping my location to get around the “you can run 13 seconds in the background before the OS forcefully state pauses you”? Why the fuck can’t apple give a nice little “this app can run run run till it’s little heart bursts in the background!” Toggle switch you can control?
People go on and on about iPhone battery life and… there’s a reason for that.
- The ridiculous sandboxing between programs that’s supposedly a security feature but just makes for an insufferably inconsistent UI and terrible management of data between programs … I guess that goes with my file management complaint.
I dunno. I just can’t abide a complete blackbox lockdown of my devices to the point of them being literal appliances. But apparently I’m in the minority there.
Also, most people appear to just be perfectly happy rapidly task switching. And having only most of their programs paused when switched from works fine for them I guess.
I will say for /consumption/ of say documents like PDFs and Comics, the iPad is fantastic. But outside of that basic usage they drive me insane.
Sorry for the meandering rant. I’m waiting for food with my 8yo and bored lol
But I definitely can understand a desire for both options.
Pattern matching has been successfully applied to phone logs between seemingly randomized src and dst phones. I'm busy at work and terrible at communicating clearly but what I am trying to say is that even when person A is using multiple phones and person B is also using multiple phones, there is still enough of a pattern involved such as call lengths, time of calls, etc to be able to sniff out and match these seemingly random devices to specific users.
I would have to dig up papers/reports on times this has been successfully done and reported publically.
But my point is that even running shit through coin mixers etc there is a high probability of there /still/ being enough latent information floating around to suss out a track between src and dst of blockchain transactions.
“ The panels were used to check the usage of the processing nodes, and to run diagnostics.”
The LEDs, iirc, were tied to the processors being active or accessing memory or something. I forget exactly what. It wasn’t really for information purposes but for looking impressive.
And impressive it is. There’s one at a museum in GA that is wired up to randomly blink the LEDs and it’s the best thing ever lol
Wait, you mean something that literally tracks any and all actions in a literal chain of history that is immutable is easy to track?!?
You mean that pattern recognition can be applied to even “randomized” in both size, time, and destination of transactions can be done to track like how they can track burner phones?
I’m shocked! Shocked I say!
“Let’s review still image quality of latest mcgizmo phones… via video!” “Let’s turn a 3 minute read into a mindless 45 minute video for “engagement””
Somehow, people got it into their heads that vaccines = immunity! With 100% success!!!!
And, no? What?
I haven’t figured out where they got it from.
I mean, I haven’t looked into it and tbh I wouldn’t be that surprised if it DOES correlate to a higher risk. But I’m willing to bet we are talking insanely low risks but people will always know someone directly or through 6 degrees who had this happen so therefor it’s an evil plot!!111
It’s fucking amazing.
Lol. Oh my god. You literally made me LOL.
And even ignoring that then YES, YES they should be held accountable if they are knowingly spewing falsehoods and stirring up people and it causes shit like that.
“Free speech” != “I can be a total fuckwad and say whatever so want without any repercussions!”