24 MHz??
IBM PC from 1981 was running just fine with 4.7 MHz
We couldn't run a webserver (mostly because it wasn't invented) but a BBS with 2 modems was running fine.
Posts by John Doe 6
134 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Sep 2009
Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller
Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away
Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't want – here's what we actually need
Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy
Friday 23rd May 2025 06:20 GMT
I also use Model M - has done it for 30 years and it is the same Model M.
The click-feature hated by some is there because it is needed by real "touch typists", they need feedback of a key being pressed so they don't need to look up from the paper.
There is a reason for everything on a Model M, it's not just for the noize. The weight is also on purpose - a keyboard SHOULD not move easily.
Btw. a "Touch Typist" is someone who type a lot and move data from one piece of paper to another or to a computer, they keep their eyes on the paper they are typing from - thus needing audible feedback from the keyboard.
Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf
Monday 18th November 2024 21:19 GMT
Re: what does ~* do?
In some quite old UNIX systems root didn't have a separate home directory...
executing rm -r ~* would be something like rm -r /*
This is from the HP manual "HP-UX 11i Version 1 Installation and Update Guide" under "Cold Install" ...
"Consider creating a root home directory that is not /. This keeps the user root dot files out of the / directory. Make sure it is on the root volume by not locating it under the mount point of the file system. A good name to use is /homeroot (not /home/root) as /home is often a mount point. This is especially important if you are using LVM or VxVM and /home is a seperate volme."
Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come
Famed Apple analyst chances his Arm-based Macs that Apple kit will land next year
Exchange some currency you want to? Guess the BIOS setup keyboard combination first you must, young Padawan
The D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future
Skype for Web arrives to bring the world together. As long as the world is on Chrome and... Edge?
Europe's home PC buyers reach for their collective smartphone, sigh: We don't need a new desktop. This is a computer, right?
BOFH: On a sunny day like this one, the concrete dries so much more quickly
Sunday 7th July 2019 07:52 GMT
Re: Informal poll on whether you've ever had to do something like this
Yes, but not for the auditors, they usually only want data up to 6 years back.
We had to get an ancient backup system going to restore a more than 10 year old Lotus 123 file which could prove that a product someone just had patented was something we had for years. IBM was btw. very helpful providing the Lotus 123 software needed to read that file.
Stop using that MacBook Pro RIGHT NOW, says Uncle Sam: Loyalists suffer burns, smoke inhalation and worse – those crappy keyboards
Windows Defender ATP is dead. Long live Microsoft Defender ATP
Twilight of the sundials: Archaic timepiece dying out and millennials are to blame, reckons boffin
What did turbonerds do before the internet? 41 years ago, a load of BBS
Love Microsoft Teams? Love Linux? Then you won't love this
Monday 28th January 2019 21:03 GMT
"The omission is an odd one. Microsoft has a Skype client for Linux, so a similar client for Teams should not be beyond the imagination of the Windows giant. Particularly given its much-publicised love for the Linux platform."
That's not odd...
Microsoft has no Skype for business client which is what Teams is supposed to replace.
The technology behind Skype for business is NOT Skype but Lync - only the name has changed.
Mobile networks are killing Wi-Fi for speed around the world
Sunday 25th November 2018 08:35 GMT
That is comparing Pineapples with Carrots!
WiFi speed is effectively limited by your wire speed and as long both 3G/4G/5G and wire is provided by the same companies your wire speed will not reach 5G speeds (because they are more interested in feeding 5G transmitters with x10Gbit than deliver 10Gbit Ethernet to your home (and no WiFi AP supports currently more than 2x1Gbit).
Joe Public wants NHS to spend its cash on cancer, mental health, not digital services
Mi 8 Pro: Xiaomi early buyers wait for modern firmware
Amazon Alexa outage: Voice-activated devices are down in UK and beyond
Windows XP? Pfff! Parts of the Royal Navy are running Win ME
Sunday 11th November 2018 06:29 GMT
I don't think you understand the concept "work" in this specific situation...
It is not a desktop environment but a very much specialized environment where the PC just run one or two applications and there may be some extra hardware involved.
Upgrading the OS may require millions in new hardware.
No, I do not like the situation - someone should have said "STOP, this will not work, a ship is not a place for a desktop operating systems!"
Friday 9th November 2018 23:14 GMT
Actually it is quite easy in a military environment - sadly the rest of the world do not live by military standards.
RN is not alone in this, most navies have the same issue but again this is manageable those are very closed environments.
It would be very nice if hospitals et. al., airplanes, ships and critical infrastructure could be run like that... people (primary politicians) are however stupid so they are not.
McAfee says cloud security not as bad as we feared… it's much worse
Tuesday 30th October 2018 01:32 GMT
We haven't because those Russian, Chinese, NSA hackers didn't want us to know and the corporations providing cloud services are afraid of saying anything just yet (people are still able to move back - in a couple of years we will be megafu***d and locked in the cloud). Wait a couple of years and the bubble will crack - the world as we know it will collapse - the cloud will be taken over - and everyone will say "WTF just happened ??"
On the seventh anniversary of Steve Jobs' death, we give you 7 times he served humanity and acted as an example to others
Linux 4.19 lets you declare your trust in AMD, IBM and Intel
Working Apple-1 retro fossil auctioned off to mystery bidder for $375,000
WWII Bombe operator Ruth Bourne: I'd never heard of Enigma until long after the war
Microsoft 'kills' passwords, throws up threat manager, APIs Graph Security
First Boeing 777 (aged 24) makes its last flight – to a museum
Lenovo Thinkpad X280: Choosing a light luggable isn't so easy
So what's Microsoft's counter-AWS cloud strategy? Don't be evil
£1 in every fiver that UK biz, public sector spent on software in 2017 went to *drumroll* Microsoft
A third of London boroughs 'fess to running unsupported server software
Apple is Mac-ing on enterprise: Plans strategic B2B alliance with HPE
Wednesday 4th July 2018 14:44 GMT
Actually...
...it is easier to get an Mac to boot Linux than it is to get a PC to do the same.
They may have some ideas how they want to people to use their product but that is not different from how your dishwasher manufacturer want you to use their dishwasher.
Most of the anti-apple mob are angry Windblows users who are afraid of losing their "supremacy" of having to reinstall their PC at least once a year.
I am btw. running OpenSuSE on a MacBook Pro... installing Linux on a Lenovo was too time consuming.
Oh one more thing: Windblows still can't manage proper display scaling something OS X and Linux has been doing for over 10 years.