Notices by penguin42 (penguin42@mastodon.org.uk)

@LaF0rge It's so much easier to read isn't it? (Says he not knowing Latin, but having done a little Perl in the past)

A while ago, I think it was @mos_8502 that mentioned diode matrixes as old ROMs, I think with a picture of an old computer board.
The thing with Diode matrixes is you could make them yourself - here's one my dad made probably in the late 70's, holding morse code for his callsign and common phrases (probably a CQ etc) - I've not decoded it yet.

#retrocomputing #hamradio

@n8 No, don't know that.

I've just watched the film Darkstar for the first time; very odd film...
It's got to be partially inspiration for lots of things; the trope of interacting with the computer in the computer room , the trope of starting with a communication from Earth that explains everything. etc
(This was desperation of using my free trial month of Prime...)

@jmorris cream first, then jam.

@dick_turpin It's pretty fucked up; Southport is relatively nice compared to it's neighbouring seaside town of Blackpool; not quite just pensioner level, but not a *complete* shit hole; or at least it wasn't.

@dick_turpin Yeh it's a while since I've been, I'm thinking 2010ish, but it was still reasonable; they did lose their amusement park to a shitty more basic one, but still it has that nice town centre and gardens and stuff.

@pro @anonicus @sun Single socket AMD server processors will take 3TB
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/h13ssl-nt

@jmorris I wouldn't trust a PSU that came with it, but the hub itself, meh there's not much to them, so worth a go.

I've posted my dad's tower on eBay; please spread it to any amateur radio/comms/lighting/etc people you might know in the UK who might have the means to collect it!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305596764048

#hamradio

@lanodan @neil Yeh that 11% suddenly find they should next time.

@mjg59 I remember Ted Ts'o mentioning in a talk the problems he managed to find due to his single apostrophe.

@clacke You might want to add ANDF; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_Neutral_Distribution_Format

@jmorris In the UK we're also 240v, it's very rare to see 3 phase inside a normal house/garage. US 3-phase is much weirder, they have wildly different 3 phase voltages in different places.

@Natanox @ryanc Because it's not really a 'security' type of error; it's a patch/tooling mistake that led to a duplicated line of code (maybe just a typo in an editor??); so it depends what the 'security people' looked at; maybe they looked at the intended patch, or the algorithm, and they would have been happy.

@thomasfuchs I think I only saw those once or twice; I think the shell is pretty much the same as one of the Olivetti models (since Acorn was owned at that point by Olivetti). I seem to remember there was something about them having a particularly nice LCD modulation hack for the time.
(We did have Linux on these old 26bit ARMs, so it should be able to boot on one of these if anyone could figure out the LCD..)

@clacke They're now selling 'Johnson's Baby Natural Powder' here which is corn starch with perfume.

@clacke Hmm now I'm confused since I only see my vote on that vote; a problem I've not seen before.

@gsuberland IMHO it's more broken than that; it's not the vendors logo that's the problem (they can do that at image build time); it's that there's a way to replace that logo - e.g. for your company to do it when they buy you a laptop or for you to do it.

@craigmaloney @sil I've got the Panasonic KX-TGC223E DECT set with 3 handsets (The '3' in the model' is the pack size). The base station has a button for play for the answering machine. It says it has Nuisance Call block - I don't know if that's a general 'unknown' set though. See: https://www.panasonic.com/uk/consumer/home-phones/telephones-with-answering-machine/telephones-with-triple-handsets/kx-tgc223e.html

I'd say it's OK, but the audio quality isn't great. I believe BT also do their own brand DECT sets, don't know if they're any different.
My mum manages to use it fine.