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

Posted on 2021-09-20, 21:41

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Plugged a dollar store "gaming mouse" into my main laptop, I have hammered a Verbatim cheapy to death over 3 or 4 years, and got fed up with it's glitchy buttons. It's the Dollarama "Tech 1" brand. Initial impression is that it was very light, but that's not entirely a bad thing for strain in long …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2021-09-20, 21:35

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Gummy bears and other yummy things.....

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Re: How low can you go with modern, user-friendly Linux?

Posted on 2021-09-20, 20:01

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Did a few tests on a number of distros yesterday between yard work . Layiung grass seed, putting down scoria plus lime stone chip in the garden and other tings like that. NEC PowerMate VT with 64 megs of PC100 ram CPU is a socket 370 Celery 800 Xandros 2 installed fine. Devuan Jessie install fine. …

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Re: Which operating systems work on i586?

Posted on 2021-09-20, 17:44

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I'm not playing your game. I'm tired. Go troll somewhere else, please. Or send PMs to the people you want to annoy. It's your decision. I'm not trolling at all. But you can believe that ifit makes you feel better. And I have certianly not sent any PMs to annoy anyone on vogons so so you can cut …

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Re: Web browser market share over the years.

Posted on 2021-09-20, 06:52

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Bruninho wrote on 2021-09-19, 22:09: RIP Netscape, best browser I have ever used. Here's an interesting read https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/ … ook/netrev.html

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Re: Floppy Drive Lubrication

Posted on 2021-09-20, 05:50

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I hear vasiline is good for lubricating ones floppy.

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Re: Can it be done?! Should it be done?!

Posted on 2021-09-20, 01:57

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I must say my last 486 cost a huge amount-3onz pasos came with monitor, speakers, kb, mouse and original OEM software. And OI had to make a round trip of 100kms to get it. Man I was ripped off.

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Re: Can it be done?! Should it be done?!

Posted on 2021-09-20, 00:20

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by Caluser2000

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Why not ask for a pony too? Why would you want a multi-core CPU to run DOS or Windows 3.1 on? Neither type of software supports that the multiple cores, huge amounts of memory or hard drives you are proposing. Full DOS sound: so what sound card do you emulate ... will it be the SB 1.0/1.5, SB 2.0, …

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Re: Which operating systems work on i586?

Posted on 2021-09-19, 22:30

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by Caluser2000

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Jo22 wrote on 2021-09-19, 11:00: Oh boy. Please stop talking to me. Please. I take it that was directed at that Nathan fellow? There is a saying " Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" .

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Web browser market share over the years.

Posted on 2021-09-19, 22:02

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by Caluser2000

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Here is a video showing the web browser market share over the years. Enjoy...😉 https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comm … share_19942021/

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Re: Case Orientation and heat pipes or have my heat pipe failing?

Posted on 2021-09-19, 20:06

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by Caluser2000

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darry wrote on 2021-09-19, 19:59: Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-09-19, 19:12: You could scrounge heat pipes from a suitable old donor i7 laptop or similar possibly. Or even better, find a Pentium 4 based system with a heatpipe and put said system out of its misery before scavenging it for anything of …

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Re: Case Orientation and heat pipes or have my heat pipe failing?

Posted on 2021-09-19, 19:12

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by Caluser2000

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You could scrounge heat pipes from a suitable old donor i7 laptop or similar possibly.

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Re: Which operating systems work on i586?

Posted on 2021-09-19, 10:40

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Oberon could run on late 20th century PCs, too.. "Native Oberon has small hardware requirements: 133 MHz Pentium, 100MB hard disk, VESA 2 graphics card with resolution minimum of 1024x768 pixels, optional 3Com network card. The basic system runs from one HD floppy disk, and more software can be …

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Re: How low can you go with modern, user-friendly Linux?

Posted on 2021-09-19, 06:50

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by Caluser2000

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Just did a automated installation of q4os. Went through and installed except for Xorg. q4os defaulted to the text login prompt. I didn't see the default log user on q4os's site at all. Did a quick search on the interweb and found out it was adminq and logged in easy enough. Ran Xorg -configure and …

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

Posted on 2021-09-19, 00:52

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by Caluser2000

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Repaired the back boundary fence to stop it squeaking/moving in the high winds we have been having lately.. It was annoying, especially at night trying to get some sleep. Use a piece of that ever so handy item called a wire cloths hanger. There's over a 101 uses for these things. Now the fence is …

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Re: How low can you go with modern, user-friendly Linux?

Posted on 2021-09-18, 21:33

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by Caluser2000

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Actually, I am running the latest version of Debian on a PII 400MHz with 192MB of RAM. I am using the Q4OS distro with the Trinity Desktop (https://q4os.org/index.html). They claim it can go as low as 300 MHz and 128MB which seems plausible. The system is surprisingly responsive, even the …

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Re: How low can you go with modern, user-friendly Linux?

Posted on 2021-09-18, 13:56

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by Caluser2000

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Really? You really need someone to call you out when you are being a dick on this very topic itself, and you are also wrong to boot? You call out bullshit? So do I, and here’s some of your bullshit right here. Why, here’s the earlier thread about firefox ESR… https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p= …

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Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-09-18, 10:19

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On a site note, MenuetOS wisely dropped 32-Bit support many, many years ago. It's now entirely made of x86-64 assembly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MenuetOS And it added supported for multiple cores, too. The 32-Bit Kolibri OS doesn't support that, for example. "The GPLv2-licensed KolibriOS is a …

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Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-09-18, 10:02

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On a site note, MenuetOS wisely dropped 32-Bit support many, many years ago. It's now entirely made of x86-64 assembly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MenuetOS And it added supported for multiple cores, too. The 32-Bit Kolibri OS doesn't support that, for example. "The GPLv2-licensed KolibriOS is a …

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Re: How low can you go with modern, user-friendly Linux?

Posted on 2021-09-18, 07:10

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by Caluser2000

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Ah yes, runs on pure douchery, and an answer from someone I didn’t ask. And a screenshot with no helpful information. I expect no less. So it is official. You have no idea what you are talking about Linux. Yeah, Obviously I need to question you knowledge of lInux when a question about a web browser …

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