octotoad

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by octotoad 1y ago
AFAIK, Galaxy was exclusive to Alpha, with no equivalent on Itanium, or any other platform.
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by octotoad 3y ago
Close. They bought the company that made it.
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by octotoad 3y ago
Same location, similar situation. I thought it was just me. At least twenty recruiters on my LinkedIn list, and not a peep since I toggled my 'Open to work' status weeks ago. Used to receive a fairly consistent stream of messages
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by octotoad 3y ago
> Dan Dobberpuhl was one of the original Alpha designers before he left DEC to start a chip design firm called P.A. Semi, which Apple bought in 1998 for its talent to work on their Arm processors. P.A. Semi didn't even exist in 1998
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by octotoad 3y ago
Probably an XQuartz (or whatever it's called now) issue.
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by octotoad 3y ago
Makes sense, given Rob Pike was one of Limbo's creators.
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by octotoad 3y ago
IIRC VSI never got the VAX stuff in the deal with HP. I don't think HP will ever bother to bring back the hobbyist program just for VAX, unfortunately. There are easy ways around this lack of official licenses. Ways that I can't&#
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by octotoad 3y ago
I "registered" for an Alpha license last week (I own several systems), but all I got was an email with credentials to access VSI's SFTP server, using a shared 'ACOMMUNITY' username. I cannot access the portal with t
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by octotoad 4y ago
MacFUSE isn’t even open source anymore, so it would likely involve Apple forking a version prior to the license change and maintaining that themselves.
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by octotoad 4y ago
I wonder how much of Mark Shuttleworth's personal funding is still at play in keeping Canonical alive. A quick web search returns articles claiming the company has been profitable since 2018 and that an IPO may be in the works. I can u
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by octotoad 4y ago
The 2018 model has socketed RAM.
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by octotoad 4y ago
Seems 96GB is only for the M2 Max model. M2 Pro just mentions 32GB.
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by octotoad 4y ago
Yeah, “KDE Neon” is the key here. The problem is in the distro, not the DE.
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by octotoad 4y ago
Ugh. No, thanks.
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by octotoad 4y ago
Any good books out there on “modern” Java that somebody would recommend?
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by octotoad 5y ago
Unfortunately not a lot has changed since then in ServiceNow’s JavaScript situation. Still stuck on ES5 Rhino.
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by octotoad 5y ago
Illumos is from the System V family tree, as it is a direct descendant of OpenSolaris.
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Illumos to drop SPARC Support(github.com)
146 points by octotoad 5y ago|179 comments
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by octotoad 6y ago
I’ve never heard anyone say “F stab” for fstab.
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by octotoad 6y ago
We'll surely need to pivot to a blockchain solution first.
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by octotoad 6y ago
Has any Darwin source release included ARM support yet? I thought they were still keeping this closed.
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by octotoad 6y ago
DO has supported FreeBSD for years now.
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by octotoad 6y ago
While the legislation introduced by the Australian government is certainly worrying and should never had been enacted, I've always operated under the assumption that if any government agency around the world really wants to get to my e
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by octotoad 7y ago
FYI for anyone confused by this: Alpha and PA-RISC are two different architectures and vendors. I’m guessing the mention of Alpha in your comment was a slip of the tongue/brain, given the topic :)
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by octotoad 7y ago
Sounds like they’re referring to characteristics of TempleOS that may have suited the original goals of the Raspberry Pi, which was to be a tinker-friendly device for audiences like school children. Some people lament the fact that it simpl
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by octotoad 7y ago
The scent may have alerted predators to your location.
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by octotoad 7y ago
Security fixes are backported to Debian stable release packages. Any respectable, production-ready, stable/LTS distro does this. Obviously you don't get the new features and functionality that may be introduced in an upstream majo
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by octotoad 7y ago
(no snark intended) Are you aware of, or did you consider the historical context behind this name? (the operating system, NeXTSTEP)
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by octotoad 7y ago
This leaves you with a messy, strange non-stable/sort-of-unstable installation that is likely to come back to bite you sooner or later.
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by octotoad 7y ago
Its standard ifconfig handles all the equivalent functionality.

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