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Downsizing.
Most of the equipment was used for training. No selfishness.Posted 03-01-2016 at 05:01 AM by peonuser -
Downsizing.
Plenty of folks out there that don't have the re$ources for any computer, (let alone a new one).
Considered donating old equipment?Posted 02-03-2016 at 10:22 AM by Habitual -
Bye proprietary.
Not using mint, but you could be right aboput the alias. the data is just an old fashoined text file.Posted 07-04-2015 at 04:33 AM by peonuser -
Bye proprietary.
Is "weather" a binary or data file vs text file? The "-a" flag is to process such files as if they were text files. If it is already a text file you shouldn't need the "-a" flag.
I wonder if you have grep aliased to "grep -a" on your Mint install and maybe that is why it works both ways there?Posted 06-16-2015 at 03:56 PM by MensaWater
Updated 06-17-2015 at 03:20 PM by MensaWater -
Still running slackware.
Slack on the Rpi. Need to check that out. Almost bought an eee, but my budget prevented it. Coud is the way to go, but do not want to ge dependent on it.
Bsd is cool. Like that you can do an install OpenBSD from just a floppy. Pxeboot to web server to do the install is fun also. Have an old machine with 5.4 that I never really looked at. Time to replace that with 5.7.
old script Version 5.6 - i386 (need to update to 5.7)
dhcp net0
kernel -n img http://static.netboot.me/memdisk-iso iso
initrd -n img http://ftp3.usa.openbsd.org/pub/Open.../i386/cd56.iso
boot imgPosted 06-03-2015 at 11:39 AM by peonuser
Updated 06-03-2015 at 11:49 AM by peonuser -
Still running slackware.
I have a graveyard of old machines at my house that have seen less activity lately with my increasing usage of cloud technology, but I'm pretty certain that the majority of them would boot up (pxe ftw) to the OpenBSD installer and be able to contribute to my network in some way. Just a few days ago, in fact, I booted up an old Dell laptop (Celeron, I believe) and installed OpenBSD on it so it could serve as a smokeping latency tracker. Works like a charm.Posted 06-01-2015 at 01:21 PM by rocket357 -
Still running slackware.
That is pretty slick, very motivating. Though not as old, I am thinking of putting a stripped down installation of Slackware on my old Asus EEE PC 2g Surf netbook and running that as a Mozilla sync server server. After that I will put Slackware ARM on my raspberry pi and set up a samba server. Just have to get a self powered external enclosure for a few of these 2TB SATA drives I have laying around.Posted 05-31-2015 at 08:04 AM by mralk3 -
Happy Hollidays!
Yep. Netbsd will install a system from floppies with the help of the internet!
Merry Xmas.....Posted 12-21-2014 at 11:23 PM by peonuser -
Happy Hollidays!
Merry Christmas Back At You rocket357 and peonuser.
Eggnog season is my favorite time of the year for this 6 foot 7 inch frame.Posted 12-18-2014 at 08:49 PM by rokytnji
Updated 12-18-2014 at 08:51 PM by rokytnji -
Happy Hollidays!
Isn't it the most absolutely wonderful thing to see an old machine, long since "forgotten" by mainstream OS vendors, brought back to life with a bang by an OS like Slackware or one of the BSD's? I really love seeing my 400 MHz UltraSPARC serving network requests on my home network.
And Happy Holidays to you and yours as well.Posted 12-16-2014 at 11:52 AM by rocket357 -
Thinking of my favorite martian.
Cool...Posted 07-30-2013 at 09:02 PM by peonuser -
Thinking of my favorite martian.
I misread the title. I thought it said, "martini."Posted 07-26-2013 at 04:02 PM by vmccord -
Thankful to be alive.
Thanx for the kind words.Posted 05-03-2013 at 11:16 PM by peonuser -
Thankful to be alive.
Glad you are better.Posted 04-22-2013 at 10:41 AM by vmccord -
Happy holidays!
Sounds like a fun holidays indeed :DPosted 12-05-2011 at 12:50 AM by Web31337 -
Graphics to text.
True. It has been so long sine I set it up. I think I had to install at least the cacalib.Posted 07-28-2011 at 02:20 PM by peonuser -
Graphics to text.
aalib
cacalib
aaxine
lots of other programs based on those.Posted 07-28-2011 at 12:27 PM by lumak -
Scrabble.
Cool!Posted 07-22-2011 at 09:23 AM by peonuser -
Scrabble.
I did something like this for WordWhomp on pogo.com. If you aren't familiar, the game is simple: you get 6 random letters and you have to come up with as many real words as possible in a (short) amount of time. I wrote an AutoIt script to automate playing the game (lame, I know haha) by reading a word list (sort of like what you're doing) and entering those keystrokes automatically. Once it had a good list of words for a set of letters, it wrote out a temp file of those words and used it in the future.
That was a fun little project...you're absolutely right, the only limitation is the imagination.Posted 07-21-2011 at 03:46 PM by rocket357 -
computobot
Cheap camera with low batteries in low lighting. When I get everything bolted down, I will take another picture where there is better lighting.Posted 07-19-2011 at 08:56 AM by peonuser