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Re: Anyone else use their machines for productive things?

in Milliways
I was using a Pentium II laptop to type papers in college, and I graduated in 2015. There's something magical about those old laptop keyboard, isn't it? FWIW, my college laptop (2010-2015) was a Pentium 3 Dell Latitude C600. I did a lot of my typing on it... though not anywhere as much as on my …

Re: Anyone else use their machines for productive things?

in Milliways
I was using a Pentium II laptop to type papers in college, and I graduated in 2015. I bought a new laptop for college, but it was the one I made a ridiculously long post about in the "hardware you wish you'd never bought" thread . The big problem was the keyboard only lasting three months, but I …

Re: SATA to IDE adapters

You can also increase the speed in hardware. If you apply GND to the 46 pin of the B76ZZ0041 chip. Is that chip pin-compatible with the JM20330? If it is, pin 46 is PDIAG, and grounding it on my JM20330-based converter didn't change anything. I even tried connecting the FXDMA pin to 3.3V and …

Re: SATA to IDE adapters

I have a SATA to Slim IDE 50 adapter based on the B76ZZ0041 chip. On Linux (Lubuntu), it works in UDMA6 mode with the setting libata.force=80c. On Windows 7? Unfortunately, only UDMA2. The southbridge is VIA VT8235. Note that on Linux it operates in UDMA6 mode through the Slim IDE connector (!!!), …

Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

in Milliways
I need to switch VM software. VirtualBox randomly crashes with the same segfault (blaming different CPUs every time, but otherwise identical text in dmesg), but only when the VM is left idle (not the active window) for a long period of time. I can find people getting similar segfaults immediately …

Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

in Milliways
Meanwhile, I'm on 12/1. I should check fiber availability again, but I seem to live in an area that's even more screwed than usual in ISP choices. There were two votes for municipal broadband (one being over 10 years ago and the other being in the last local election), and this town is the only …

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