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r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

Maybe the plan is to remind people that https://www.haiku-os.org is a thing

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Sep 29, 2001

MacOS 8 is still the best one



At least linux lets you revert to a non-trash look, with modern windows and macos you're stuck with whatever flat spaced out garbage look the product managers decide is this years fad :mad:

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

i still have nightmares from the years i had to maintain a bunch of old hpux servers

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

the built-in LVM SAN disk management was horrible
the HP ServiceGuard cluster software was a misconfigured nightmare
none of the servers had ever been patched
you were stuck using ancient shells
things improved a little in 11.31 but most of these were running 11.11

the previous admin I took over from couldn't even get backspace working in the lovely terminal emulator they used and had to ctrl-c and start over each time he made a typo in the shell, it was a total shitshow and painful to watch him work
I got gnu screen and bash installed on most of them in an attempt to keep my sanity
I don't want to talk about it OK

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

vxvm and dmp is great, wanna fight about it

solstice is probably worse than lvm though, i'll give you that

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

Last year I had to janitor a HPUX box again and it made me hysterical. A boot mirror had a failed disk and the old UNIX guy who was actually supposed to know this stuff refused to do anything about it.

http://wiki-ux.info/wiki/How_to_replace_a_LVM_mirror_boot_disk

versus

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000019180

although really if the people who made these computers had made it a sane design, you should be able to pull the disk, insert a blank new one and have it rebuild everything automatically as long as there's no previous data on the new disk
i swear they made these things as obtuse and time consuming as possible so their specialist engineers could charge $500/hr to drink coffee and stroke their beard because no customer would dare touch it on their own

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

Apple hasn't exactly made it difficult to steal macos, It feels more like they have some gentlemans agreement with Microsoft not to compete in the generic shitbox market

The EULA states:
"you are granted a limited, non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at any one time."

and that's why they include extra apple stickers in the box when you buy a mac. Just make sure to slap one on the case of your hackintosh :colbert:

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

what would you even dial with a modem nowadays

install something more appropriate like windows 98

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Sep 29, 2001

el dorito posted:

this is the linux desktop thread

I need linux desktop opinions

http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net

ur welcome

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

Obviously that lady is a Microsoft employee and it's a blatant hit piece trying to tarnish the image of their competition :tinfoil:

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Sep 29, 2001

most Sound Blaster hardware was actually pretty decent for the time, especially the EMU10k DSP series on the Live and Audigy once you combined it with the third party kX drivers for windows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc8XGxNrvp4

In the early 90s Creative bought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mu_Systems and from the chipset names it sounds like they handled the hardware designs well into the 2000s

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

If you buy an old G5 tower, gut it and stick a PC motherboard in there to hackintosh it, does it still count as an apple branded computer for licensing purposes?

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

the 2016 macbook pro really needs to eat a hamburger

that thing is so thin and flimsy you'd think the world had an aluminum shortage

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

thin laptops are not nice when you start to sacrifice things like modular components and, you know, screws

it would be perfectly fine if they made a 13 and 15" version of the macbook for idiot executives but kept the older unibody design for people who want large batteries and actual functioning keyboard and cooling solutions

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

enjoy your expensive paperweights in a year or two i guess? :shrug:

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Sep 29, 2001

the real reason i'm upset is that i'm still using my mid-2010 macbook pro because i don't want to replace it with something worse

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

just pull the plug, show the machine who's boss

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

nvidia too ashamed of their garbage spaghetti code to let anyone else view it :colbert:

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Sep 29, 2001

Tankakern posted:

open source projects should add "no public showing of anime" to their code of conduct

this isn't going far enough, linux should be made incompatible with anime and kernel panic immediately when it detects it

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

thank god microsoft had the foresight to make windows a linux so we have something to switch to when ibm ruins redhat

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Sep 29, 2001

I'm converting all our enterprise servers to hannah montana linux next week

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Sep 29, 2001

Linux/2 Warp

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Sep 29, 2001

why limit yourself to crummy text games when your terminal supports sick sixel graphics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SasrQ7pnbA

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Sep 29, 2001

hifi posted:

i'll always laugh at korn shell

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Sep 29, 2001

the only real problem with virtualbox is that it's impossible to get the stench of Oracle out of it

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

Can you give the CPU inside the VM a silly fake model name or will OSX refuse to boot if it doesn't recognize the model

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Sep 29, 2001

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

hackintoshes are stupid and terrible

nothing named “Mac Pro” will ever be “affordable”, I don’t think you understand the purpose of the product

It doesn't have to be affordable, it just has to not be poo poo
I'll gladly pay an arm and a leg for an updated cheese grater mac pro tower that's just a workstation motherboard with socketed cpus and memory and a fuckton of nvme disk slots


Hey ratbert, what happens if you install parallels or virtualbox inside the OSX vm? Does it handle nesting virtualization?
Running windows through parallels in full screen mode on a mac is such a nice experience I don't think I'd be willing to lose out on it.

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

It's not pirated though? You install it from an unmodified Apple image :confused:
Just make sure your computer has an apple sticker on it somewhere so you're not in breach of the license agreement

I'm not a huge enough nerd to audit the source code of Clover and FakeSMC but I highly doubt there's anything actively malicious in there.
I'm sure you open up some new security holes for local code but if anything you are probably safer running on an obscure combination of hardware and random emulated EFI drivers with a tiny install base than you would be on highly standardized computers where the attacker can develop their exploit on a 100% identical machine.

I guess none of it matters after apple inevitably switches to ARM laptops in 2020 and entirely refuses to run unsigned code

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

at least the evil hacker pirates let you look at the source code

https://github.com/kozlekek/HWSensors
https://sourceforge.net/p/cloverefiboot/Clover/ci/experimental/tree/

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Sep 29, 2001

2019 is the year of linux on the cooktop

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Sep 29, 2001

I think if Microsoft threw a couple billion dollars at the WINE project you could end up with a pretty spectacular Linux Subsystem for Windows

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

I really want to support AMD but they are still getting completely stomped by nvidia on graphics performance :(

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mesa-183-end&num=4

At least I had an excuse to buy a couple midrange RX cards to get freesync on my arcade cabinet build and out-of-the-box graphics support on my mojave hackintosh

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Sep 29, 2001

high end TV sets from late 2018 and going forward usually support freesync, variable refresh has become a part of the latest HDMI standard!

It's partly great because it should make for a smoother gaming experience on big TV displays, but it also means that you will get perfect scrolling and the ability to sync with odd CRT refresh rates when emulating old stuff in retroarch and mame

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

I hope AMD pulls an amazing chipset design out of their hat for the next generation of consoles because nvidia really needs the competition.

Monopolies suck!

...I should buy some more ryzen processors

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

the thing i hated the most about hpux was that you had to mknod almost all the device files for LVM yourself, there was very little automation and lots of places you could screw it up and lose data

One of my fondest memories from work was scrapping a whole row of unix racks around 10 years ago

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

someone should bring back CairoDock, Beryl and Compiz

it was peak linux desktop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QokOwvPxrE

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

someone really needs to make a vr tracked keyboard and mouse
it wouldn't even be that hard, just add some ir dots around the edge for the oculus cameras to see

i hate having to peek down through the nose hole in the oculus to find my keyboard all the time

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

it seems the problem is kernel 5.0, not 420

https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=154757848629375&w=2
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-On-Linux-5.0-Workaround

sounds like the zol team are close to a fix anyway

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

at least it doesn't get stuck forever

there should really be some sort of mechanism to ctrl-c out of those hung jobs. I guess there would be a problem with jobs running in parallel but a keyboard shortcut to both decrease and increase those timeout counters on the fly would be pretty neat

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r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

because then China is gonna start selling cheap knockoffs on aliexpress obvs

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