xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-09-09, 12:05:

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-09-09, 11:27:

You actually stated a while back you were an Arch fanboi but it got too much for you....

Nah, an update broke my system. It didn't get "too much" 🤣

And just like that, Arch wasn't worth it anymore. My curiosity about "how GNU/Linux/Xorg" works was satisfied.

I'm am truly sorry for your loss. Maybe Temple OS would be more fitting for you use case....😉

Nothing was lost, except some time to switch distros.

That's the beauty of Linux.

Suggesting TempleOS means your are not a true believer of the church of Saint IGNUcius. What a shame.

xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-09-10, 07:09:

Nothing was lost, except some time to switch distros.

That's the beauty of Linux.

Suggesting TempleOS means your are not a true believer of the church of Saint IGNUcius. What a shame.

No it looks like it fits in to your routine beautifully.

Originality isn't really your thing is it?

Got anything useful to post in this thread or are you just going to be like a puppy and just react to my posts?

I am ill so I have some time for retro stuff. Today I made composite mod for ZX Spectrum 48k+ from scrap yard, installed OS8.6 on my beige G3 and then put HDD to fat PS2 a played Rule of the Rose for he first time. What a nice day 🙂

I received a new addition to my collection today - a Dragon 32 computer. Bought as "Untested", but thought I'd have a gamble since the price was better than what most of these sell for lately.

First thing I did was to open it up, disconnect the power connector from the motherboard and then test the output power from the power supply & AC adapter with my multimeter. 0v, it was dead! As I'm in the UK I thought I'd check the fuse in the plug and discovered that the fuse was missing. I replaced the fuse and then I checked the output DC voltages from the motherboard ribbon cable side, all present and correct: 12V, 5V & -5V.

With the correct voltages being output, I reconnected the power supply to the motherboard and powered on the computer. It didn't boot, just displayed an orange screen full of @ symbols.

Luckily I've done some research in advance, as well as experiencing the Dragon/CoCo emulator and this screen usually happens if the ROM isn't present or not working properly. So I removed the socketed ROM chip, sprayed both the chip and the socket with some electric contact cleaner and reinserted the ROM. Turned the computer back on and the Dragon breathes fire once again, booted straight into BASIC!

The computer needs a thorough cleaning, but I've given it a light cleaning for now and have pretty much spent the day loading & playing games from a CASDuino. A few teething issues to look at with the CASDuino, since some games don't appear to want to load, but the majority of stuff has been fine.

Took a case from a friend which originally stored some low end Celeron G530 on a MSI H61 mobo. It's a bit futuristic (even has a Win7 Home Premium COA on the sidepanel!) but it will make a nice case (JNC built so I can swap sidepanels like crazy) for my ASUS P2B based machine.

Nothing low-end about SandyBridge Celeron 😁
I remember running whole RHCE/kvm lab on one of these ... with 16GB of RAM.
Don't give it away. It would make excellent high-end Windows XP system with GTX 750 Ti.

I only took the case, I let him have the board, as I didn't have any need for it (I have a i3 540 which is enough for any "modern" needs, besides my main i5-3470 machine) and also it didn't have RAM. I do have to get a FX-4100 board he found at the trash (and I wish I would be joking) and see what can I do with the CPU (the mobo has some broken traces, but just for the lulz I'll probably power it up and check if it POSTs 🤣)

Tested a few old fashion computer operating systems on my Shuttle Xpc. After that installed a thing with a gui or something called Xwindows, which is really slow. Every time it boot up it displays a line mention "Specter mitigation is successfully loaded" in white lettering. Then comes up this bright red wallpaper with a text box and the words "username" above it. About two inches below that is a couple of sentences in black lettering. The top sentence says Press F1 to select session. The bottom sentence says "For more options: man slim.

I've spent many hours trying to find out who the hell this slim man is. So I don't no what to do next. I've been to that ex-planet Pluto on a seahorse but still can't find the small man fellow :(o sigh. I have a history of network support and reside in Silicon Valley.

Can some one tell the slim man to get hold of me so I can sort this issue out. Thank you most kindly in advance.

slim is the name of manual. It meant you type man slim when you log in and read it.

Yeah, I did few play with linux awhile ago but it takes too much work to get any distributions usable. And too many distributions choices over whelmed me.

Cheers,

pentiumspeed wrote on 2021-09-11, 23:24:

slim is the name of manual. It meant you type man slim when you log in and read it.

Yeah, I did few play with linux awhile ago but it takes too much work to get any distributions usable. And too many distributions choices over whelmed me.

Cheers,

Ah? What is Linux? What has that got to do wrt this old fashon computer operating system? I don't know what you mean by login. And would I find the slim man after I did that?? That is what I want. Where do I type man slim bit on the desktop? Thanks for responding so quickly. Much appreciated....😉

And what is this "Specter Mitigation" thingy. Is it stopping that crime syndicate from getting in to my computer ans selling my porn collectoin? My freind Maxwell told me not deal with because they are dangerous. He's a really smart guy and has a pet dog called Skooby. I may have heard of him.

Yeah, it's the Blofeld character, he's getting brave again now that James Bond is retiring, haxx0ring ur b0Xen, but they weaponised slender man and rebranded him to slim as a counter or something.

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-09-12, 00:03:

Yeah, it's the Blofeld character, he's getting brave again now that James Bond is retiring, haxx0ring ur b0Xen, but they weaponised slender man and rebranded him to slim as a counter or something.

Wow they must be serious. I'll go an inform Tin Tin,Big Ears and Noddy. Golly has gone on vacation for a month to Never Never Land. I might give Tinker Bell a ring on the dognbone and ask here to pass the info on to him as well as Peter Pan.

I'll see you all later. Need to feed and water the seahorse ready for it next journey. See ya soon!

Spectre Is correct spelling and this was detailed 2 or 3 years ago on Anandtech website.

Not just this, there are another called Meltdown, and few several others that had to be mitigated with time in bios firmware and half in hardware and software layers at first and eventually roll into "future" processors which is will be in of many reasons these latest computer that Windows 11 requires.

No, there is none in software mitigations. It had to be done in hardware to prevent these.

Cheers,

I'm back! The transport is fed and watered. The Chief of CONTROL popped over and we had a conversation under a cone of silence I can't tell you what it was otherwise I'd have to shoot you and the seahorse. Tinkerbell rang back and told me she had passed on my message. Apperen tly Crock and Captain Hook are quite willing to help out which is great. They sent. Flipper on a recon mission . Skippy is in constant communication with Flipper. Apprnenty CHAOS is now in on the act now. Things are not going to be pretty. Spy and Spy from MAD teamed up with CHAOS a couple of years ago. Postman Pat and Mr Plod have just turned up so I have to go.......

pentiumspeed wrote on 2021-09-12, 03:08:

Spectre Is correct spelling and this was detailed 2 or 3 years ago on Anandtech website. […]
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Spectre Is correct spelling and this was detailed 2 or 3 years ago on Anandtech website.

Not just this, there are another called Meltdown, and few several others that had to be mitigated with time in bios firmware and half in hardware and software layers at first and eventually roll into "future" processors which is will be in of many reasons these latest computer that Windows 11 requires.

No, there is none in software mitigations. It had to be done in hardware to prevent these.

Cheers,

If you has done a bt of reasurch you would know Meltdown, the two of them and Spectre variations pof the same exploit.

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-09-08, 18:41:

Installing Lubuntu 10.10 on my AMDk6-2 400 rig with 256megs of ram. Why? Because I bloody well can.....😉

Just out of curiosity: what do you use an old Linux distro for? I understand using old Windows for games, but what can you run on an old Linux that you can't on a new one? honest question.

Tried to salvage a file from a friend's floppy dated all the way back to 2003. Scandisk, chkdsk, NDD all failed, only Diskfix from PC Tools partially made the disc readable (barely). Still keep getting messages like either "Sector not found reading drive A" or "File Allocation Table Bad" (sigh). I wouldn't expect the "fixing" result of .chk or .fix files could be useful.

aha2940 wrote on 2021-09-12, 14:50:

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-09-08, 18:41:

Installing Lubuntu 10.10 on my AMDk6-2 400 rig with 256megs of ram. Why? Because I bloody well can.....😉

Just out of curiosity: what do you use an old Linux distro for? I understand using old Windows for games, but what can you run on an old Linux that you can't on a new one? honest question.

Old linux stuff runs on current linux the same way DOS programs run on Windows 10 command prompt.... not at all if they use anything too much more complicated than standard console output or a basic text mode.