Notices by 🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑 (brouhaha@mastodon.social), page 2

@ryanc
There exist not-terrible ones?

A decade ago, I had a colo rack at Hurricane Electric in Fremont CA, and was very happy with them.

@fesshole
"You're not getting my Bud Light."

I might eventually try to get FreeBSD 1.1.5 or a tiny Linux running on it. The first iteration will likely have only about 4 MiB of fast (10 ns) static RAM.

Initially the only I/O will be a serial port or two, but I'll add an interface for an SD card if I can get as far as booting from flash into a monitor.
Has anyone written an open-source x86 (386 or newer) 32-bit protected mode boot/debug monitor for bare metal?
There won't be any secret motherboard/BIOS vendor binary blob code doing sneaky stuff in System Management Mode, and they didn't have the secret Management Engine (ME) crap back then either.
#Pentium #x86 #boot #debug #monitor

I just created EDA devices/symbols/footprints for Socket 7, as used by 90+ MHz Pentium, Pentium MMX, some Pentium Overdrive, and some other vendor's processors, based on the spec in Chapter 17 of the 1997 edition of Intel's _Pentium Processor Family Developer's Manual_ (order number unknown).
I'm thinking about making a homebrew Pentium (P54C or P55) system, by which I mean, not using a purchased motherboard or an Intel chipset.
#retrocomputing

@MisuseCase @inthehands
Thanks to globalization, now the ideal that companies everywhere strive for is to have no employees AND no customers.

People called Romans, they go the house?

@steter
The Blues ain't about feeling better; it's about making other people feel worse.
– "Bleeding Gums" Murphy

@fesshole
And?

@fesshole
Thirty days hath Septober, April, June, and No Wonder, All the rest have peanut butter, Except my grandmother, she has a little red tricycle.

@steter
So what rights are they taking away from us now?

@fesshole
Give a man a gun, and he'll rob a bank.
Give a man a bank, and he'll rob the world.

🎶 He's come undone
We didn't know what he was headed for
And when we found out what he was headed for
It was too late
He's come undone

He found an enemy who was strong within
And when he found out he couldn't win
It was too late
It's too late
He's gone too far
He's lost the war
He's come undone

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@fesshole
I had s manager 25ish years ago who banned the use of electronic devices in his meetings, for the very same reason.

TIL:
Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg chose the atomic symbol "Pu" for plutonium as an inside joke. It became common usage before the discovery was declassified, so the symbol was never formally standardized by IUPAC.

When I was young, I never would have imagined someday being excited to watch a name being taken off a building.

I'm surprised that Trump isn't holding an event at Four Seasons Total Landscaping rightt now to try to distract us from this.

I have this strange feeling that there should be more diagonal bracing, but that would be irrational.

They should auction the removed letters for charity. (Provided it is a REAL charity, not a scam like a Trump foundation.)

I've never before wanted to be up on scaffolding with a big damn angle grinder.