dosman33

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by dosman33 16d ago
Lol, nice. Does an audio recording of an ivory-billed exist?
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by dosman33 1mo ago
It was the sadness in his voice and the look in his eyes that aligned with his words. I certainly experienced plenty of skepticism directed at me based on my age in my youth, this was not that.
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by dosman33 1mo ago
Before I worked at TSS doing in-home PC repair, I did a short stint at Radio Shack and got the Compaq experience you described. I remember going to the introduction event for the Compaq roll-out into Radio Shack stores, I was sitting in a l
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by dosman33 1mo ago
These old ads are great, really takes me back to that era. In the mid to late 1990's I was a pimply faced youth in community college and picked up a part time job doing "PC repair". I couldn't put my finger on it, but th
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by dosman33 1mo ago
I skimmed over half way through and they were still talking about gourds.
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by dosman33 2mo ago
It's cute to see folks who have completely drunk the in-house koolaid try to communicate to outsiders, and we're better off for it. I really struggled to understand OS/400 coming in with a working knowledge of Unix/Linux
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by dosman33 2mo ago
Yes. I could not fathom why anyone would want to run anything besides AIX on them though. You can run all the other OS's on cheap commodity hardware, the draw for me was having an AIX system to work with.
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by dosman33 2mo ago
I was familiar with both the "laptop AS400" and the PowerPC thinkpad - these were different hardware unrelated to each other. I believe the sales demo machine was a CISC architecture demo machine that predated PowerPC, but I'
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by dosman33 2mo ago
As a youth a few decades ago I had an opportunity to play with one of these systems at home (and I actually still have it boxed up somewhere). I managed to acquire a 9401 Model 150 that fell off the back of a truck, it came with a 5250 term
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by dosman33 2mo ago
Anyone running ripgrep on a an HPC cluster against a large cluster filesystem needs to stop and redesign their workflow. This generates high amounts of small I/O which is the Achilles heel of any large cluster filesystem. You are expor
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by dosman33 2mo ago
Anyone remember the predecessor, Today With A Techie (Twatech Radio): https://twatech.org
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by dosman33 2mo ago
TL;DR: I believe the Datamaster should be considered part of the lineage of the ATX standard today. The interesting thing I recently noticed about the Datamaster is that I believe this system's motherboard inadvertently (or deliberatel
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by dosman33 2mo ago
AI is the industrial revolution finally arriving at the land of information and software development, full stop. Read Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope if you want to understand whats happening and see a roadmap of whats ahead. What h
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by dosman33 3mo ago
Those that can, do - and those that can't, teach. Teaching is rewarding which is why people do it, but you're asking them to take less pay for what is often a harder job - convincing kids to learn something when they have dozens o
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by dosman33 3mo ago
#loadbearing
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by dosman33 8mo ago
Robotic sputnik tool, it is very slick. Something that's not obvious is that these work best on ABUS or other locks that have one solid driver pin and spools in every remaining pin stack. This way, when you locate and lift the solid dr
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by dosman33 9mo ago
It's not an accident that its so hard to get this stuff right, I've heard countless stories like this from friends who are parents. If the market wanted parents to be able to figure this out it would be getting it right. It's
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by dosman33 1y ago
I miss Notacon and Jason Scott's Demoscene parties.
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by dosman33 1y ago
Man, this brings back memories of playing with Festival back in the day. I wrote a bunch of scripts to generate dynamic Festival text2speech audio for a Part15 AM radio station, a virtual radio station DJ over 15 years ago. The intelligibil
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by dosman33 1y ago
Ohm lordy, we're blaming the student for not having years of homebrew experience before he entered school? Sure any hobbiest knows what a 555 is, but when the lab assistant doesn't even catch it and the chip was handed out to the
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by dosman33 2y ago
Regardless of what the real story is on this van, lookup the Bernie S. case if you want an easy case with proof of government surveillance incompetence. Under cover Secret Service agents were photographed surveilling a 2600 meeting in a mal
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by dosman33 2y ago
Heh, reminds me of the days I kept Win95 and Win98 DOS boot disks for emergency booting Windows machines.
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by dosman33 2y ago
Man, this takes me back.
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by dosman33 2y ago
That's certain to spread joy.
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by dosman33 2y ago
Ah yes, memories of my laptop, an Orinoco card, and Netstumbler cruising down the highway during my day-job. Shortly after that I added an X-10 video receiver and a USB Hauppauge WinTV adapter to capture video transmitters too. I'd rea
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by dosman33 2y ago
I think this was the plot of an episode of CSI (don't recall which sub-series, maby Miami?) in the 2000's. Eventually they determine a guy dies of lead poisoning and they figure out he ate massive amounts of chocolate candy. Concl
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by dosman33 2y ago
"So.. what will the world do with this knowledge?" "Something something, rule 34."
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by dosman33 2y ago
Very interesting. A TL-15 is an excellent container, but I'm not familiar with a 5 wheel combination lock in commercial service in the US. I have a S&G vault lock which has 4 wheels. I don't doubt 5 wheel locks exist though, e
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by dosman33 2y ago
Same company makes both combination dials and the large padlocks like the 831, 833, 851. I was lucky enough to tour their manufacturing facility, it's a typical machine shop plus a small foundry as they do their own casting on-site too
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by dosman33 2y ago
This is called the "soft drill". And strangely, this can still be a destructive attack. There are systems that can do proper manipulation by graphing out the gates, and there are systems that just do brute force attacks by dialing

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