Preface:
ITT Albright talks about his experience building a computer. I'm sure some of you folks (like one of my college roommates) are already well-familiar with the process and could do it in your sleep, in which case you'll probably get no more amusement out of this thread besides whatever humor could be extracted from the accounts of my mistakes. So the purpose of this thread is to give an account of this experience for those who have not done so, but are considering doing it for the first time, as I did.
Why?
In college, I got an English degree. Just a bit of advice to anyone working or planning to work toward an English degree: Reconsider. A degree in basket weaving would be more practical, as many people are willing to pay for baskets. Not so many (in America, at least) are willing to pay for English.
While in college, I worked part-time for three years doing tech support for the school's computer labs. Since doing anything with the English degree didn't pan out, I thought going back into the tech field would be nice, but it turns out I'm unqualified (at least on paper) for any "real" tech jobs. So I decided to work toward getting a certification called A+ Core. This covers a lot of info on the workings of standard PC hardware and software; some common, some rather esoteric and/or antiquated. Anyway, many of the sources I saw about the test recommended having a computer we could take apart and examine whilst studying. That, combined with my desire to have a PVR but disgust at monthly rates TiVo and its ilk charge (I didn't need to pay a monthly rate to program my damned VCR!), led me to the decision that it was time to build my first computer.
I can remember Gnome 1.x... it was the shiny new desktop that came with Red Hat 6.0...
Complete with the first version of Enlightenment.
I used it for a while at first, but ended up moving back to KDE (1.x IIRC)... Gnome/Enlightenment just wasn't my style in the end.
No one's taking your thread seriously because no one cares. You spent hours typing that up but we all know what a micro ATX case is.
>>23... And you needlessly bumped this thread, instead of letting it naturally sink to the bottom.
Well done! claps sarcastically
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>>25 is encouraging someone to needlessly bump this thread, instead of letting it naturally sink to the bottom! What a troublemaker...
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Hi, everybody. I am >>28's cell phone. Nice to meet you.
I am writing this message via Imode.
My owner did a stupid thing again. He has bumped this thread.
I have to apologize to you guys for him. I really mean it.
bump lmao
shitty thread, tripfag
It should be Linux/GNU or just Linux, not GNU/Linux. Prove me wrong.
>Protip: You can't
honestly, it should just be called linux.
I mean really, what exactly do these mythical corelibs that compose GNU do anyway? Their all in reality very small programs that run ontop of linux.
You could just cut them out and almsot little to nothing will be lost, as GNU is even more replaceable then linux.
Hell, theres already 50 thousen versions of the same posix standard libs that act just like GNU, GNU is absolutely fucking nothing.
And don't go giving me that shit about grub, grub is a bootloader and there are also simularly hundreds of those, likewise bash, theres fucking hundreds of shells.
GNU is disposable garbage and the faster linux disposes of that autistic bloat the better.
I welcome the systemd apocolypse.
I don't recommend copulating with a wildebeest.
Remember those wacky early 00s amd athlon xps?
I had one. I just got 8 extra fps in QIII and because of overheating got my CP burned. AMD was shit. Then I bought intel pentium 4 2ghz and still use it to this day.
Fuck unstable ATHLON
All desktop chips are shit. If you think you need to overclock your processor, the rest of your machine is probably shit, too. The first laptop I ever bought had a 1.6GHz Turion (MT-30), and it ran circles around the 3GHz Pentium 4 desktop that my dad bought a year later, and used less than a third the power (25W vs 89W).
this thread aged well
Is there any clear disadvantage to using an old version of windows (xp, vista, 7) over windows 10? Are there any workarounds for those disadvantages?
Outside of MS propaganda about OH NOES SCARY HACKERS (when Windows 10 has destroyed more of my data with nonconsensually forced reboots than any virus or hacker ever did), the main practical issue you'll have is that newer software might not work depending on what version of the compiler it's made with. This is how they try to force you to "upgrade".
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Did you try pouring hot soup into the charging port?
install gentoo
craving explorer
Use youtube-dl senap
I was uninstalling wine and then it started uninstalling a bunch of important packages. Now i can't download gnome again. I NEED GEDIT.
Also i don't NEED the gnome DE as i am using XFCE. i just need gedit because i can't find any other text editor that supports saving in shift_jis...
Does anybody know how to fix this?
Please no troll
>>2
dye
>>1
open terminal and enter:
$ sudo su
# apt install gedit
What are the best settings for archiving imageboard threads with HTTrack?
-O /dev/null
shit
wget is better
Let's share thoughts on linking Activitypub with filesystems!
I think FUSE is a great way to do this.
I'm looking at getting the /api/v1/ files from Pleroma which can be HTTP GET translated into filesystem first.
TRON is the Japanese and worldwide computer project from 1984.
TRON has been started by Dr. Ken Sakamura of University of Tokyo.
DO YOU KNOW TRON ?
can anyone show me what TRON is?
>>60
An elaborate Japanese hoax, an operating system that doesn't actually exist.
>>61
i realy don't get it...
it seems like TRON is realy exist...
>>62
Just try to find somewhere to download it... You can't, because it doesn't really exist.
>>63
then, is it just a concept and/or an architecture?
>>64
TRON is just a specification, but there is a tron-conforming open source os-skeleton available. Skeleton means it lacks code for communicating with processor and memory, if I remember correctly. It does have the higher-level interfaces and some drivers ready as well as the real-time time-allocation stuff.
Also, you already have an I(ndustrial)-TRON system if you have a Japanese camera or car.
This is the current project's web site: www.t-engine.org
So, TRON isn't 'non-existent' as some people seem to believe.
> it lacks code for communicating with processor and memory
well, that sounds really useful.
>>65
is there any tutorials to implement it?
and can you give the os-skeleton's download link?
http://www.t-engine.org/download/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=123
This is the main source. There is also t-microkernel and some packages I don't really know about. If you want to get a t-kernel running you should know your target system's memory management support and the type of processor. It's possible, but if you can do it you can just walk in to some software company and ask for a job. I haven't found any 'ready-to-go' source packages.
In August 12th of 1985, Japan Airline Boeing 747 crashed into the forest. Official story is that the top rudder broke off. What was interesting is that U.S. Army stationed nearby were the 1st to arrive. Official story is that the Japanese government needed to save face and so they ordered the U.S. to back off. The truth is that back in the U.S. of A, they passed a law banning Japanese Operating Systems for computers. 80's was booming with Japanese electronics in the U.S. It was strategically important to not allow any foreign entity to have a monopoly on computer information. Microsoft won with their OS and we all know that there's a backdoor to the OS for the NSA to peak into. Well guess who was on board on the ill fated airline. . . All 17 programming engineers that were involved in the Japanese TRON OS was on board that plane. Because this happened so long ago, not very many Japanese, especially the young ones that don't even remember such crash ever happened in their back yard, know of this.
I have a problem, and hope someone here can help -
Recently I got a Apple Ethernet LC Twisted-Pair [ethernet] card off of ebay for my antiquated LCIII in hopes of using that thing as a server.
In preparation to do so, I updated to OS 7.5.3 (clean install) so I didn't have to use the bloated install of OS 7.1 already on the HDD.
Here's my conundrum - despite appearing to physically work (LED lights for link, etc) MacOS gives me an error whenever I try to make that network card my Appletalk device, and refuses to get an IP addr. when I hook it up to the Internet.
Neither OpenTransport or MacTCP will resolve to an IP, and the associated Appletalk (Appletalk and Network, respectively) Control Panels refuse to use the ethernet card as an Appletalk device.
Any ideas?
Don't buy crap off of eBay?
Seriously, you're going to be hard-pressed to find an answer for this one. I'd try a highly popular Mac forum, like MacWorld's forums, and hope there's a neckbeard there who routinely networked LCIIIs in their day.
Just curious, what exactly are you going to serve from this thing?
serve potato chips
>>4
Static html crap, maybe some files.
Also, thanks for the advise, I'm off to Macworld to seek help there.
>Static html crap, maybe some files.
According to EveryMac, this thing didn't ship with a hard drive bigger than 160MB. And according to >>3, you haven't upgraded it. That's not a lot of data; you might as well just sneakernet with a Flash drive or something. I guess I still don't get why.
Unless you're just doing it for geek points, in which case I'll say no more.
tcp/ip plugin or no work
try 7.5.5 it comes with it
get a machine that can run a/ux and use that instead.
Have you tried reinstalling? Works just fine for me on High Sierra.
>Recently I got a Apple Ether.........
Kill yourself applefag.