davefischer

joined 1 year ago
[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

Been on a Fritz Lang binge over the past few weeks: Spiders, Spies, Metropolis, Woman in The Moon, Testament of Dr Mabuse. I've seen the original Dr Mabuse too many times to feel like a rewatch right now. M is next, and I wasn't quite in the mood for that this weekend.

Taking a break with the 6th Terminator flick ("Dark Fate").

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

If the package manager on your old PC is keeping copies of everything it installs, just copy all of those packages over and go through the package manager on the new PC. Look under /var/cache

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I saw him perform this in the mid 90s. Very fun.

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

An email of all html is an unwanted email 99% of the time. Occasionally, I save it, and open in lynx. (When a web site emails a security code.)

Attachments are more of a hassle, because I frequently need those. Save to a temp file, "munpack file", examine extracted files.

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In 1990 I was running a very tiny Unix clone at home (Coherent on a 286 PC w/ 1 meg ram) and... I don't remember if I couldn't get a standard reader to compile on that or what the problem was, but anyways - I wrote an email/usenet reader for my own use.

33 years later, I'm still using it to read my email every day.

Also, I think I've had my pasta strainer since the 90s.

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Late 90s Macedonian flick "Goodbye, 20th Century".

Santa scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBWqVaI_gfk

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

The Suns (E4000s) want a 12A circuit. The SGI wants 2 x 16A + 14A for the disk arrays. (Not that either draws nearly that much, of course.)

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In 2009 I bought a lot of 10 late 90s Sun servers (1997 machines upgraded a few years later with better CPUs) for $300. Original list price about $2.5 million. After fixing a few problems and swapping parts to max out half the machines, I kept a few as my compute servers, and traded the rest for SGIs. An Onyx for the museum, and a small (one 6' rack) Origin-2000 for myself.

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Jellyfish. A bit... enh?

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Physical. Paper or fiche!

Image

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I think leftists ranting about not voting for Biden in the general election at the moment are just blowing off steam, and when election day comes, everyone on the left will remember 2016 and vote blue.

 

I try to make a list of the best things I read at the end of each year. This was what I came up with last january.

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