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Re: hub or switch?

I tried this once as my switch only had 4 ports, my router had only 1, so I used extra nics in a linux box to add more connections. It did eventually work but it really put me off linux and indeed the linux ethos which had attracted me in the first place - it can be hard to get this kind of thing …

Re: Embedding "zoomable" images?

Its dependent on the web server - Wordpress has tons of plugins and extra features, one of which is auto resizing of images on the fly. 'BBCode' by itself doesn't do those things. What is happening with that URL: http://133fsb.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/dscn1340.jpg?w=600 is that the server running …

Re: 80286 relic

Wow, that's a real giant. Discrete logic chips everywhere! Four seperate clock generators. I would have said it was XT or earlier, but the fact is has 16bit ISA slots means it clearly isn't. A proper dinosaur that one is! For comparison, here's what that same spec board (286 + 6 ISA slots) turned …

Re: parallel port passthrough

A programme in Dosbox on Windows on VMWare on a host OS (be it Windows or Linux) wanting direct access to the physical parallel (via USB) port of the host computer? Four layers of hardware abstraction - I really can't see that working very well.

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