On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 01:21:06PM -0500, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
> At 12:39 PM 4/9/2025, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> >I'll continue to play with it but my initial reactions still stand.
> >No sign of intelligence and not ready for prime-time.
>
> What did you ask it to do? Exactly,
On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 01:33:48AM -0600, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
> Beyond just the compiler, there are also optimization and other settings
> (like the multitude levels of C-compliance or how strict to be about
> warnings, or conditional-builds to tailor it specific situations).
>
> Regardl
On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 09:30:03PM +, Wayne S wrote:
> Alex, your posts come over with the “flag” set (i get a red “flag” on my
> iphone). Did you mean to flag all your responses for some reason ?
Interesting. Do you just get a red flag or is there also some message
text displayed? I don't h
On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 08:54:49PM +, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
> You do not have that absolute ability to know. You can rely on a virus
> scanner to help but that’s not absolute either.
Except those also have a lovely track record off becoming entry points
for malicious software by themselve
On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 03:54:31PM -0500, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> > On Feb 3, 2025, at 3:40 PM, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >
> > ... On top of that: A lot of those LLMs are build on theft at an epically
> > large scale. They
On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 07:08:32PM -, Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote:
> I am an old mainframe guy. I could give you my COBOL deck of cards or the
> compile listing. You could pour through the code looking for
> nefarious/malicious code. I then hand you the object deck. You have no idea
> if
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 12:12:17AM +, donald donaldwhittemore.com via
cctalk wrote:
> I don’t trip and fall. I perform gravity checks.
And isn't it reassuring to notice that nobody has turned off the gravity
by accident?
SCNR,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is
On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 08:44:29AM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 2025-01-23 8:15 a.m., Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 12:52:49PM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote:
> > > On 2025-01-21 10:54 a.m., Paul Koning wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Uh, what? How would the earth surface
On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 12:52:49PM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 2025-01-21 10:54 a.m., Paul Koning wrote:
>
> >
> > Uh, what? How would the earth surface gravity be that much different?
> > "Citation needed" as Wikipedia would say.
> >
> > paul
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto
On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 09:15:54PM +, Frank Leonhardt via cctalk wrote:
> On 19/01/2025 15:37, ben via cctalk wrote:
> > On 2025-01-19 6:12 a.m., Adrian Godwin via cctalk wrote:
> >
> > > I like to parse the 'artificial' differently. It's not AN artificial
> > > intelligence - a manufactured e
On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 02:44:52PM -0700, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 2025-01-19 2:15 p.m., Frank Leonhardt via cctalk wrote:
>
> > While we're at it, biological science had clearly been unable to create
> > life. Not even a single cell. And I've no reason to believe we're about
> > to see a breakt
On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 06:03:49PM +, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 1/19/25 09:39, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote:
>
> > What happened to them? They're everywhere in academic papers. They've
> > become an easy way to get published. Nowadays they make up so many bio-
> > inspir
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 02:17:22PM -0500, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> > On Jan 18, 2025, at 2:13 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > He said, that the computerized version was more adroit at spotting decay
> > and could perform periodontal charting from radiographs wi
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 10:36:57AM -0500, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
>
> A little humor for the group.
>
> Among my other "legacy" systems I also have and still fool around
> with a bunch of TRS-80's. Believe it or not, the Z80 based TRS-80's
> were among the systems for which a version
On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 05:28:35PM -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> > On Sep 10, 2024, at 4:31 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Sep 2024, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> >> Wow, someone paid $56k for a MITS ALTAIR. And $945k for an Apple 1. Not
> >> to mention
On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 06:40:42PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> I forgot to mention that as soon as it had been scsnned, the document was
> shredded.
>
> Occasionally they screwed up and shredded documents before scanning.
Maybe you could have interested them in acquiring a shrinter, for
On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 10:25:08PM -0400, cz via cctalk wrote:
> > By the way, the earth is round...
>
> I'm glad we can agree on this. Of course the Earth is round.
>
> It's also hollow.
Well, everybody who watched the documentary "Iron Sky: The Coming Race"
knows that, of course.
SCNR,
Ale
On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 08:08:04AM +0200, Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote:
> On 29/08/2024 23:28, Mychaela Falconia via cctalk wrote:
> > Specifically: I am potentially willing to donate my equipment and/or
> > my cash only to those who are Pureblood, meaning UNvaccinated.
>
> I assume you are a
On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 07:09:58PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> > More here:
> > > https://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0114/audiophile_ac_outlets.htm
> > > If I knew that this stuff wasn't real, I'd figure that it was an April
> > > Fool's prank.
>
> On Wed, 8 May 2024, Sella
On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 08:13:20AM +0200, Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote:
> On 08/05/2024 05:53, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
> > [1] Apparently there's a slogan on the wall of the QUAD workshop
> > 'Ohm's Law rules here. Oxygen-free cable is not required'
>
> That would have been back when Qua
On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 12:15:47PM -0500, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote:
> my ears would never be good enough to notice any difference
>
> For what it's worth:
>
> First, in general, there are so many apparent reviews of so many products, it
> is hard to believe they are all scams. How can th
On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 08:54:53PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 5/6/24 20:25, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/134706639303
> >
> > include a basic feature for rewinding rental DVDs before returning them.
> >
> Of course, you need a pure silver AC cable for th
On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 02:45:50PM -0500, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
> Cycle accurate emulation becomes impossible in the following circumstances:
>
> * Branch prediction and pipelining can cause out of order execution
>and the execution path become data dependent.
> * Cache memory. It can
On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 12:05:32PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 2024-04-07 5:57 a.m., Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote:
> > On 4/6/24 5:37 PM, Mike Norris via cctalk wrote:
> > > Additional
> > > I would like £5 beer money for this one please!
> > > Writing Open VMS Alpha Device Drivers in
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 05:02:10PM +, Alessandro Mazzini via cctalk wrote:
> Sorry if I intrude... now is no more possible to obtain hobbyist licenses for
> vms ??
Not for OpenVMS/VAX, that stopped more than a year ago. IIRC you _can_
get something like[1] it for OpenVMS/amd64 from VMS Softwa
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 03:58:00PM -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>
> I distinctly remember a comment from a DEC customer at DECUS: "When I'm at
> DECUS, I always seek out the people wearing t-shirts, because I know they are
> the ones who know what they are talking about."
Reminds of som
On Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 12:49:43PM +1000, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
> To be completely honest, Electrotechnology students with 415v DC bench
> supplies and HV caps all learnt very quickly not to catch something when
> somebody threw it to you.
Old electricians wisdom: "Be wary of honking grea
On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 07:16:38PM -0400, KenUnix via cctalk wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> So what actions are we supposed to take??
Laugh, say "nix try", ignore that phishing attempt and move on with life.
> I was going to go to the cloudflair link but got a message that this was a
> dangerous site!
Do
On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 07:47:35PM -0500, Cory Heisterkamp via cctalk wrote:
>
> > On Jun 3, 2023, at 7:12 PM, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk
> > wrote:
> > So the Mercedes T model was (at least in Germany, the manufacturers country)
> > never called a "station w
On Sun, Jun 04, 2023 at 11:39:08AM +0200, Harald Arnesen via cctalk wrote:
> Fred Cisin via cctalk [04/06/2023 02.50]:
> > On Sun, 4 Jun 2023, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> > > So the Mercedes T model was (at least in Germany, the manufacturers
> > > country)
> > > never called a "station wagon" be
On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 03:03:43PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> > > But, there is another problem.
> > > None of the auto makers still make "Station Wagon"s!
>
> On Sat, 3 Jun 2023, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> > Not quite true. VW makes the "Variant" version of the VW Golf and
> > Merced
On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 12:25:48PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 2023-06-03 11:46 a.m., Alexander Schreiber via cctalk wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 02:33:07PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> > >
> > > But, there is another problem.
> > >
>
On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 02:33:07PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>
> But, there is another problem.
>
> None of the auto makers still make "Station Wagon"s!
Not quite true. VW makes the "Variant" version of the VW Golf and
Mercedes still makes the "t model" of the C and E class, all of wh
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 05:01:34PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> What is the bandwidth of a station wagon full of 1TB Mcro-SD cards hurtling
> down the highway?
$BIGNUM.
But the latency is going to be orders of magnitude worse than the
station wagon full of tapes, so there is that. Also,
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 04:26:56PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> > > > I think I will just convert file sizes to lengths of paper tape for
> > > > comparison:
> > > >
> > > > 1K 102.4"
> > > > 10K 85'
> > > > 100K 853'
> > > > 1M 1.6 Miles
> > > > 10M
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 12:22:53PM -0500, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
> In 1981 when i got my first 5MB hard disk drive at work (I had to write the
> drivers for the OS myself) I was able to put all or my source code,
> binaries, executable, applications and the operating system and not fill
> half
On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 07:17:54AM +0100, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 8:47 PM philip--- via cctalk
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > USB interfacing is hard, but SD cards are a lot simpler. So use a card
> > > reader thing to transfer the files to an SD card and design an
> > > int
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 12:30:52PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 5/25/23 10:06, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote:
> >
>
> > The way SPARK works is that you have code and then can also provide
> > proofs for the code. Proofs are you might expect are *hard* to write
> > and in many cases
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 07:34:19PM -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> > On May 25, 2023, at 6:29 PM, Christian Kennedy via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 5/25/23 12:30, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> >> ...and we still get gems like the Boeing 737MAX...
> >
> > I get your point, b
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 02:47:06PM -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> On 2023-05-25 5:52 a.m., Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
> > ...
> > It is not unheard-of for classic PCs -- even ISAbus ones -- to have
> > 10Mbps ethernet. Most, if not all, 100Mbps ethernet ports will fall
> > back to t
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 02:50:49PM -0500, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote:
> On 10/20/22 20:15, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
> > Sigh...
> >
> > Yet another American seler who doesn't understand how simple overseas
> > shipping is.
>
>
> Oh, we understand, we really do. We also get really tired
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 08:44:41PM -0500, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:
> On 10/21/2022 4:55 AM, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 12:15:02PM +1100, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Yet another American seler who doesn't understand how simple overseas
> > > shi
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 10:36:58AM -0400, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
> Don't be pedantic. You know what I mean.
>
> Anyway, in the US, there are *significant* barriers to cross for
> people taking your land.
Owe the local government a few bucks in unpaid tax? They steal your
house (well,
Hi,
I've got Sun Fire V100 that I'm pretty sure at some point in time
actually worked, since I loaded the board with the maximum amount
of memory supported (2G).
Now, however, when powering on, the LOM comes up but upon issuing the
poweron command the main CPU apparently doesn't, all I get is eit
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 06:15:21PM -0400, J. David Bryan via cctech wrote:
> On Friday, August 13, 2021 at 17:23, Alexandre Souza wrote:
>
> > Is any kind of standard, recomendation, group, mail list, to discuss
> > the subject?
>
> I am not aware of any. I started with Al Kossow's basic recomm
On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 04:22:52PM -0400, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> Ah however in the door pocket there is a letter stating that if Paul ever
> got tired of the system or the museum closed that I would come and pick it
> up again.
>
> Done this a number of times. It kind of gets old, but I re
On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:01:22AM +0200, jos via cctalk wrote:
> Yep, Europe was also active at the time.
>
> in the UK around 1960 the Argus 200 was developed to control the Bristol
> Bloodhound anti-aircraft rocket. This computer was one of the very first
> transistor-based control computers.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:18:56AM -0500, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> > Attempting to pull in this thread a tad, there are relatively simple
> > measures that can be taken to bring a private mail server into compliance
> > with gmail, Amazon, Microsoft level mail server protocol and
> > authenti
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 08:08:43AM -0700, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>
> > Years ago us SGI hobbyists were able to talk to SGI about this and a huge
> > problem SGI had with any kind of hobbyist
> > license for IRIX or turning it free is it's fully of licensed 3rd party
> > stuff. But maybe now
On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 09:13:40PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 9/2/19 7:37 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Sep 2019, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> >> Anent that--Google does have a search language of sorts:
> >> https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators
On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 02:43:38PM -0700, Adam Thornton via cctalk wrote:
> I did have a case where the Pi I was using as secondary DNS/DHCP and as the
> secondary backup server (using USB spinning disk) destroyed its SD card.
>
> But then it turned out not to be the load at all. No matter what I
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:37:49AM -0400, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> I've used the SCSI2SD with great success with vintage DEC computers.
> On QBUS machines, both vax and pdp-11, it has worked with Emulex UC07, TD
> systems Viking, Andromeda SCDC and the DEC RQZX1 controllers.
> I have used
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 04:28:54PM -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 07/25/2018 02:56 PM, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>
> > Of course there are. Since both SD cards and µSD cards have identical
> > electrical and protocol interfaces, those adapters are just passive pieces
> > of plastic and wires. In
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 10:54:26AM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 07/22/2018 09:05 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> > Throughout this whole thread, I've been tempted to say that you get better
> > data fidelity if you take a green magic marker and mark the edges of the
> > disk...
>
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 08:06:24PM +0200, Carlo Pisani via cctalk wrote:
> thus DDS4, LTO2, DLT: which is the best tape?
If you even remotely care about your data, stay far away from DDS.
In a previous job we used DDS3 tapes as system backup and restore
tapes (since the machines could boot from th
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 01:17:08PM -0400, Ethan via cctalk wrote:
> > I know of no RAID setup that can save me >from stupid.
>
> I use rsync. I manually rsync the working disks to the backup disks every
> week or two. Working disks have the shares to other hosts. If something
> happens to that dat
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:26:53PM -0300, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> On 2018-03-27 10:05 PM, Ali via cctalk wrote:
> >
> >
> > Original message
> > From: Fred Cisin via cctalk
> > Date: 3/27/18 5:51 PM (GMT-08:00)
> > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 11:06:29AM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 02/05/2018 10:20 AM, Mark G Thomas via cctalk wrote:
>
> > 2) Many of the chips were failing to program because my Batronix
> >programmer apparently requires more current than my USB port provides.
> >This surpr
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 06:38:10PM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, TeoZ wrote:
> >Hard drives NEVER keep up. Bragging about how many DVD's (90's technology)
> >you can store on current HD means little to people who have ultra HD
> >Blueray videos that take up to 100GB of s
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 05:49:20PM +, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk wrote:
> Ben asks:
> > Just how big is the server?
> > As a wish list, I've always wanted that as a offline set of DVD's for the
> > common stuff.
>
> The bitsavers archive is 267 Gbytes.
>
> So at 4.7G per DVD, it comes out to alm
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