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I'm getting a 503 at the moment. So if you get that too, it's not only you.

In all honesty, the old Mac systems were "interesting" in the calling conventions and memory management was also rather unusual. But it worked, from time to time I still fire up the basilisk with an old image. The GUI was a lot better than windows, they had actual style guides. That is something...

I'll just drop off the kids and head to the train station tomorrow morning. There was no ticket for me, and I had no space in my schedule anyway. Maybe in the afternoon on the plaza at the entry, depends on several things...

Are you there?

Still have two, great book stands and they still work. Even Word! In 128KB! I'll keep an eye open for this project, OpenStep still has a place in my heart.

The truth will come out when he is called for an exchange of opinions with a PHB. You know, when they expect you to come in with your opinion but to leave with the one of the boss? That will be the moment to put the money where the mouth is, and maybe he will come out with his own one. Who knows?

... and often the cache memory of the CPU, leading to abysmal performance and lots of questions like "how does that code full of function calls be faster than my linear heap of template code the compiler can optimize perfectly?"

I'd say it has been fixed. Little annoys me more than a page of videos all starting to load, when using a mobile connection (which I do a lot).

I did a build of current RTEMS these days to evaluate it for $JOB, and it is interesting what happened in the last years. Thanks for making me dig it out of my swapped out memory areas 😎

Careful, DragonflyBSD started the same way. And since it did not care about anything non-x86/x64, it's use base is a fraction of others.

Core memory was gone when I started to push bits around. My first contact was hangman on a zx80, memories lost in the fog of the past...

Don't give those #@!$%!!! and ideas...

Merry Christmas, and may there be peace and happiness for all.

Xkcd had a calculation about the bandwidth of a container ship loaded with containers full of micro-sd cards. Do not underestimate the sneaker network.

Yeah, playing quake on that link really took the 🍰

One practical advice: take a USB drive with hundreds of 1MB random data files to someone you need to exchange important things. Use these as one time pads. According to my knowledge, one time pads are secure.

$JOB has me on debian plus xfce. Or windows, which I use as a VM switcher. Otherwise Haiku on the eeepc, and FreeBSD everywhere else (since 7.0) when an update hosed my Linux by shredding glibc. Never looked back. Well, maybe for a snigger.

And remember rule #0: do not post while drunk.

About 5m away from my current location there is a catalog peddling 4kbit ram chips which will enable you to build big ram extensions easily and cheap. The 16yo me is looking at the "modest" in disbelief.

Ohhh, I can smell what the CCC will have to show at the congress. This is gonna be great. Last year "Someone" (as if nobody would guess) placed spyware on the phones of Kaspersky people, only to see the exploit chain (with 0days) burn up in public.