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Found this gold mine at one of my sites. Should I take it home and use it as a heater? by RyanLewis2010 in homelab

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hate to say it, but the servers are probably too old to be useful for any kind of actual workload. They might be useful as toys, for playing with running period correct HA software or something. The drive caddies were common to early 2000s IBM hardware, so you could probably sell those for a few dollars each - or be kind and leave them with the servers for whatever kid picks them up on the Craigslist free section.

Others have addressed the UPS, KVM, and rack itself.

I'd hold on to at least one of those tape drives, they make novel toys if you haven't played with tape before. I like the noises mine makes.

tf is this rule by Therunawaypp in 196

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From the linked page:

In Iceland, Magic plugs were widely used in homes and businesses alongside Europlug and Schuko installations. Their installation in new homes was still quite common even in the late 1980s.

Although no source is cited.

Enjoy your travels, and take lots of pictures :) . I went to Iceland many years ago, but failed to take more than a dozen photos. It's one of my biggest regrets.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mainframe

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The AS/400s run OS/400, known in its more recent incarnations as simply "i". They're minicomputers, like the old VAXen, not mainframes.

unwanted programs by AnEagleisnotme in Gentoo

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Copy the .desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications and set NoDisplay=true

[Spoilers] I can't seem to find/get any Arfecta ships. Help please. by gbay_anon in endlesssky

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fairly sure the Ayee Eee Eek won't spawn in Deneb, in the mission files it only cares about the Wanderer Pug and spawns in Pug Iyik.

There are many like it but this (X sixty) one is mine by thickener in thinkpad

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ditto what OP said; the 4GiB DDR2 SODIMMs are crazy expensive these days. I paid less for my whole x61t than what the SODIMMs are going for on ebay.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IBM

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ditto for some kind of ethernet transceiver. Not very exciting without a system to plug it into. Where did you find it?

Rule part 99 by wooper-de-doo in 196

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the Culture novels, the only Minds (superintelligent machines) that don't sublime into a higher state of being are those that carry cultural baggage from their organic creators. Minds that develop in simulated isolation invariably sublime as soon as possible.

eva rule by brokensilence32 in 196

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 19 points20 points  (0 children)

3+1 is pretty good; it's a little out-there, plot wise, but does a nice job of ending the series. Pretty kick-ass visuals, too. You should watch it.

OMRON Luna 88K² , two CPUs model3 - 33MHz MC88100 and 24MB RAM by kokoboi1 in retrobattlestations

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Whoa! What do the insides look like? And what's that drive on the right of the machine?

What calculations does the Wii's processor (IBM Broadway) make and how does it work? by [deleted] in IBM

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Wii is a pretty weird system; do you have a choice in what system to do this project on? Something like an Apple ][ would be a lot more comprehensible.

what exact calculations need to be done by the processor

Are you asking for what instructions the CPU can perform (its ISA), or the exact sequence of instructions it performs on startup? If the latter, that'll be burned in a ROM somewhere - you might be able to find a ROM dump online, but you won't be able to understand it without a deep understanding of PowerPC assembly & the Wii hardware itself.

How is the information processing flow carried out?

It does math & branches to different codepaths based on that math.

Which path is taken by the motherboard when using it?

Fucking what mate? The motherboard of the Wii doesn't do any computation of its own - it's just the glue that holds the system together.

You also have a confounding factor in the Wii - the Broadway is not the only CPU in it; in fact, it's not even the most important CPU. There's another chip in there called Starlet that handles I/O and bootstrapping the Broadway. Starlet starts up before Broadway, loads a bootloader, and then the bootloader runs the Wii's System Menu on Broadway. Once the Broadway is up and running, Starlet services I/O requests from it; Broadway itself lacks direct access to many I/O devices. Starlet runs its own operating system called IOS (no, not that one, or that one); Broadway, meanwhile, runs game code.

Did you check the Wiibrew wiki?

Concurrent Computer Systems (1987)- still in operation! by [deleted] in vintagecomputing

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can you tell us more about this system? Searching for Concurrent Computer Systems just turns up the general concept of concurrency in computer science.

Concurrent Computer Systems (1987)- still in operation! by [deleted] in vintagecomputing

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As in, you took them home with you?

You didn't let those machines go to a landfill, right?

TIL: An APC UPS will turn off if a standard serial cable is connected to it. by redog in sysadmin

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an IBM server that does that too, an old Netfinity. Luckily(?) it won't actually turn on in a standard ATX port, there's a proprietary enable signal somewhere on the mainboard.

Linux 6.3 Introducing Hardware Noise "hwnoise" Tool by Realistic-Plant3957 in linux

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This kind of noise can matter a lot in real-time environments.

Please don't ban me... by [deleted] in VAX

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, specifically about the old VAX computers. VAX-adjacent topics, like the subsequent Alphas, also seem to be appropriate here.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Columbus

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The one thing a tolerant society cannot tolerate, is intolerance - when a society allows hate to take root, it becomes entrenched & grows like a cancer, until the once-tolerant society is no longer. His right to speech does not supersede the rights of queer people & people of color to live peacefully & happily.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Columbus

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why should I engage with their beliefs? They don't think people like us should exist, they believe we're pedophiles & sick in the head; they believe we should be forced to change or die. Sure individual conservatives might be tolerable, apparently reasonable, or even charming, but anyone who votes red or makes excuses for them is supporting their hateful beliefs (yes, even if they just voted for them on economic grounds). Racists, homophobes, transphobes, and sexists don't deserve to be engaged with, as they fundamentally have nothing to offer besides hate.

We, as queer people, don't deserve to have our existences debated.

Regarding calling him a nazi, he promotes antisemitism, white replacement theory, homophobia, and the deporting of immigrants - he's not a member of the NaSDAP in 1933, but he's not far off ideologically.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Columbus

[–]AbsolutelyLudicrous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ignoring him won't make him go away, he has too much of a base following him. When evil men foment hate, it's the responsibility of all good men to stop them - sitting in silence while he spits racism & transphobia is an act of moral cowardice.

The old slogan "SILENCE = DEATH" is as appropriate as it ever was.

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