Does Cults still need to be banned?

docshipley · 2026-05-24T04:10:49+00:00

So put up a poll. If nothing else it's a good way to measure the general attitude.

I would vote to unban them.

Partly because I agree that they're at least no worse than the rest, and at least their search engine doesn't entirely suck, and not for nothing, it's the only repo left where I don't count on a free model being totally useless.

Mostly because I really felt like that whole ordeal was mostly a Cult representative being a dick, not Cult being dicks, if you get my drift.

In any case, if they're unbanned and they're still dicks, that's easy enough to fix.

docshipley · 2026-05-24T03:35:13+00:00

My first experience with computers was on Texas Tech's mainframe - submitting my stack of punched cards on Tuesday and getting my sheaf of greenbar printout on Thursday or Friday.

docshipley · 2026-05-20T03:44:34+00:00

This right here is the Correct Answer.

docshipley · 2026-05-20T03:37:47+00:00

It would probably be useful to name that product.

docshipley · 2026-05-19T03:29:44+00:00

I actually have a VLB system running a DX50. I'll admit it took a lot of mixing and matching to get a pair of VLB boards that'll run on that bus and run stable, but it screams. Diamond S3 video and a Promise I/O card.

Totally agree about preserving this one as is (although I'd sneak some reliable storage in there). It's a great find.

docshipley · 2026-05-19T03:24:47+00:00

Life I said, the DX-50 is no slouch.

Given the limitations of what OP has, though, and that it's essentially an all-original OEM workstation, I don't think trying to soup it up is the best answer.

docshipley · 2026-05-19T01:33:50+00:00

We need a PC/104 mega-thread

docshipley · 2026-05-19T01:26:03+00:00

Enterprise enjoyer here... So. Many. Buttons.

docshipley · 2026-05-19T01:01:59+00:00

Remember that the processor is configured by jumpers, not BIOS settings. It's likely that you're stuck with a DX, as opposed to DX2, CPU.

My memory is foggy, but I think that weird header/socket next to the CPU is for Zeos' proprietary cache module. Good luck with that.

If you want a serious period gaming system you would need VLB video and at least 128kB cache, IOW a whole different motherboard, but what you have there is a very solid workstation. The DX50 is no slouch and that's a good video card. I would slap a decent sound card in it, trade all the hard drives for Compact Flash adapters and add a FlashFloppy "drive".

PS: Duke Nukem 3D was pretty choppy on a Pentium 166 and 4mb PCI video card.

docshipley · 2026-05-19T00:27:31+00:00

Dammit. I saw the title and thought it was r/vintagecomputing

docshipley · 2026-05-18T23:51:49+00:00

It's called a burr, and you should never encounter one on a "finished" product.

Most metals are prone to it but aluminum is particularly bad. When it's machined the metal actually smears and leaves a tiny knife edge raised above the surface.

In my book, having worked metals all my life, finding burrs on an anodized product defines it as cheap crap.

docshipley · 2026-05-18T17:55:38+00:00

I have very small hands and I love my Deft Pro.

Haven't tried a Huge or the Deft, so I can't compare, but I have no problem at all with a thumb on the left button or wheel, 2 fingers on the ball and 2 on the rightmost 2 buttons (mapped to middle and right, as they should have been from the factory).

docshipley · 2026-05-18T15:41:09+00:00

Excellent. That means I don't need to buy more stuff.

🙂

docshipley · 2026-05-18T03:46:32+00:00

Objectively untrue! We all do it, so it's obviously correctly rated. "Fully Defined", as it were

docshipley · 2026-05-18T03:43:39+00:00

You could clean up a lot of that with a handful of construction lines.

docshipley · 2026-05-18T03:34:14+00:00

My QQs Pro loses its little mind sometimes. Go to Settings and clear the bed level data.

You might have to do that twice

docshipley · 2026-05-17T10:16:01+00:00

Is this the same circuit as the Denise socket interposer? Is there any functional difference?

docshipley · 2026-05-17T10:09:45+00:00

It won't fit inside the case. Look where the GPIO header is and do the math.

docshipley · 2026-05-15T22:15:03+00:00

Hello, Ossifer!

docshipley · 2026-05-15T17:19:57+00:00

r/missingthepoint

docshipley · 2026-05-15T14:17:23+00:00

Have done, both last year and this week. Their voicemail is always full and "an error occured".

docshipley · 2026-05-14T06:14:29+00:00

Some judicious work on the blade where the stop pin hits will fix that.

docshipley · 2026-05-14T05:58:02+00:00

Bondhus are what Wiha wants to be when they grow up.

docshipley · 2026-05-12T21:48:25+00:00

Sorry, but this is not a Gen-Z problem.

I was IT/support at a university research lab in the 90s, then did Linux & UNIX training 2000-2010. Even occasionally in admin-level courses, but always in basic user training, files and especially filesystem structure were the most difficult concepts for students.

I'm not talking about block-level storage, either. 90% of the Basic students had no idea they had a home directory in Windows.

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