I tried a different approach at estimating the disk activity and I think I finally got it right (after almost 10 years … 🤦).
Demo, booting a Windows 2000 VM: https://movq.de/v/1400544cc6/2kboot-ratterplatter-2.mp4
(For this purpose alone, I put a couple of mini speakers into my PC case, so that the noise comes from the right place: https://movq.de/v/a3b2dc0932/speakers.jpg)
The results aren’t too bad, but this thing can’t be super accurate due to the huge I/O caches that we have these days. For the video, I dropped the caches before booting Windows, otherwise you would have heard almost nothing.
FWIW, if you don’t know it yet, this is the equivalent for proper keyboard sound: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
I tried a different approach at estimating the disk activity and I think I finally got it right (after almost 10 years … 🤦).
Demo, booting a Windows 2000 VM: https://movq.de/v/1400544cc6/2kboot-ratterplatter-2.mp4
(For this purpose alone, I put a couple of mini speakers into my PC case, so that the noise comes from the right place: https://movq.de/v/a3b2dc0932/speakers.jpg)
The results aren’t too bad, but this thing can’t be super accurate due to the huge I/O caches that we have these days. For the video, I dropped the caches before booting Windows, otherwise you would have heard almost nothing.
FWIW, if you don’t know it yet, this is the equivalent for proper keyboard sound: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
yarnd/ERSION@OMMIT go1.23.4 (+https://.../twtxt.txt; @username)
ERSION? OMMIT? 😅
yarnd/ERSION@OMMIT go1.23.4 (+https://.../twtxt.txt; @username)
ERSION? OMMIT? 😅
But yeah, I sadly have to agree with @bender. 😢
But yeah, I sadly have to agree with @bender. 😢
$reasons I have to compile it myself now – and, boy, that is one heavy program. Takes several minutes to build. 😳
$reasons I have to compile it myself now – and, boy, that is one heavy program. Takes several minutes to build. 😳
I guess that’s a sign.
I guess that’s a sign.
@lyse I remember WebKit having a similar list, but I can’t find it right now … 🙈
@lyse I remember WebKit having a similar list, but I can’t find it right now … 🙈
But I do use it quite a lot. Although, I don’t really use it as a social network (as in: following people). I follow some tags like #retrocomputing, which fills my timeline with interesting content. If there was a traditional web forum or mailing list or even a usenet group that covered this topic, I’d use that instead. But that’s all (mostly) dead by now. ☹️
But I do use it quite a lot. Although, I don’t really use it as a social network (as in: following people). I follow some tags like #retrocomputing, which fills my timeline with interesting content. If there was a traditional web forum or mailing list or even a usenet group that covered this topic, I’d use that instead. But that’s all (mostly) dead by now. ☹️
about:compat in Firefox.
Lots and lots of workarounds for specific websites.
about:compat in Firefox.Lots and lots of workarounds for specific websites.
Oof.
Oof.
It would turn this
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/a0.jpg
into this
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/a1.jpg
or this
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/b0.jpg
into this:
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/b1.jpg
🤔
It would turn this
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/a0.jpg
into this
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/a1.jpg
or this
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/b0.jpg
into this:
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/b1.jpg
🤔
If only those things weren’t so damn expensive. I just checked the prices and simply burst out laughing. 😂
If only those things weren’t so damn expensive. I just checked the prices and simply burst out laughing. 😂
> Although, most software I use is decentish in that regard.
Is that because you mostly use Qt programs? 🤔
I wish Qt had a C API. Programming in C++ is pain. 😢
> Although, most software I use is decentish in that regard.
Is that because you mostly use Qt programs? 🤔
I wish Qt had a C API. Programming in C++ is pain. 😢
People are less and less exposed to “low-level” details like this. There was also this story in 2021 about the concept of a “file”: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
People are less and less exposed to “low-level” details like this. There was also this story in 2021 about the concept of a “file”: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
I don’t intend to do much with Win95. I just want to be able to boot it, if I want to check how certain things worked or looked in that version. The purpose of this really is to be an archeological digsite.
[](https://movq.de/v/9200de7e24/a.ff.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/9200de7e24/b.ff.jpg)
I don’t intend to do much with Win95. I just want to be able to boot it, if I want to check how certain things worked or looked in that version. The purpose of this really is to be an archeological digsite.
[](https://movq.de/v/9200de7e24/a.ff.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/9200de7e24/b.ff.jpg)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iwS3EflIck
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPfjDyItz9U
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iwS3EflIck
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPfjDyItz9U
$TERM variables. Leave $TERM at whatever value the terminal itself sets and use an appropriate terminfo file for it. If there are programs misbehaving, they probably blindly assume XTerm and should be fixed (or have XTerm as a hard requirement). If you try to fix this on your end, it’ll likely just break other programs. 🥴
$TERM variables. Leave $TERM at whatever value the terminal itself sets and use an appropriate terminfo file for it. If there are programs misbehaving, they probably blindly assume XTerm and should be fixed (or have XTerm as a hard requirement). If you try to fix this on your end, it’ll likely just break other programs. 🥴
inoremap <CR> <Esc>:r!date +"\%F \%T"<CR>A
What’s the end goal here? 😅
inoremap <CR> <Esc>:r!date +"\%F \%T"<CR>A
What’s the end goal here? 😅
Jokes aside, I like IaaS as a middle ground. There are IaaS hosters who allow you to spin up VMs as you wish and connect them in a network as you wish. You get direct access to all those Linux boxes and to a layer 2 network, so you can do all the fun networking stuff like BGP, VRRP, IPSec/Wireguard, whatever. And you never have to worry about failing disks, server racks getting full, cable management, all that. 😅
I’m confident that we will always need people who do bare-bones or “low-level” stuff instead of just click some Cloud service. I *guess* that smaller companies don’t use Cloud services very often (because it’s way too expensive for them).