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[Linguofreak]

The saga of trying to find a Linux distribution with a 2.6 kernel that will run on 1995-era hardware continues.

Slitaz looked promising, but the kernel on the install disk needs a Pentium II.

Debian's default initrd is missing or doesn't load the proper hard disk drivers for the root device. For a bit I thought I had the needed driver pinned down and could modprobe it in at the initramfs fallback prompt, but now I'm not so sure: a device file is created for the drive, but not for any of the partitions on it.

And as of Monday my schedule will have a ton more real life packed in to it...

Argh.

 

[C3PO]

Who knew, Danish power outlets are the cutest!

Actually......

The hospital version is my favorite. :thumbup:

 

[kamaz]

This thought has occured to me today after having spent two days working on an add-on:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Truer words were never spoken.

 

[kamaz]

The saga of trying to find a Linux distribution with a 2.6 kernel that will run on 1995-era hardware continues.

I'd try to start with a distro from the era and then compile a new kernel...

 

[MaverickSawyer]

:rofl:

 

[kamaz]

 

[Codz]

Reminds of that nuclear missleer Q&A.

On one alert, the equipment that cools our communications equipment broke. Capsule temp spiked up to about 101. I spent that one in my underwear...

 

[Spacethingy]

 

[PeterRoss]

On one alert, the equipment that cools our communications equipment broke. Capsule temp spiked up to about 101. I spent that one in my underwear...

Bah... Some military guy told me how they were getting pneumonia when walking out of box truck which was heated to +60°C by working equipment into the fresh +30°C air of a Central Asian day.

 

[MattBaker]

The hospital version is my favorite. :thumbup:

My favorite one is a standardised one...

Seriously, I don't know how many converters I own from going to other countries and having a laptop with me. Makes you wish Tesla was right about delievering all power wirelessly and not a crazy old man.

 

[C3PO]

My favorite one is a standardised one...

Seriously, I don't know how many converters I own from going to other countries and having a laptop with me. Makes you wish Tesla was right about delievering all power wirelessly and not a crazy old man.

You wouldn't if your life depended on some hospital equipment, and the cleaner plugged in a defective hoover and blew the fuse.

 

[MattBaker]

Never worked in a hospital but I'd assume (proper) hospitals have life-sustaining measures on another power circle than the rest. Or some kind of backup or something. I hope.

 

[Urwumpe]

Never worked in a hospital but I'd assume (proper) hospitals have life-sustaining measures on another power circle than the rest. Or some kind of backup or something. I hope.

Yes. But if you don't use power plugs, that are incompatible to the power plugs for the rest of the hospital, the inevitable will happen. Somebody plugs in a bad vacuum cleaner and bang, there goes the life-support. Or plugs out the O2 supply for cleaning the room.

 

[Ghostrider]

And that's why Mr Cleaner will always be followed by a dude in black, with a garrote.

Dude. In black. With. A. Garrote.

 

[C3PO]

Yes. But if you don't use power plugs, that are incompatible to the power plugs for the rest of the hospital, the inevitable will happen. Somebody plugs in a bad vacuum cleaner and bang, there goes the life-support.

Exactly! It may be an inconvenience for you until the day you need hospital equipment that works.

There is a similar system for IT systems.

 

[Athena]

Going for IT in College, and apparently...somebody "sponsored" me and got a 30% discount in tuition fees...:woohoo:

 

[Urwumpe]

Going for IT in College, and apparently...somebody "sponsored" me and got a 30% discount in tuition fees...:woohoo:

Congratulations! Here only 2% of all students get a stipendiate.

 

[MattBaker]

To be fair here only one state pays tuitions and that's done in October, too. If you don't have to pay for university all your costs are what you use. 600€ for living is much easier to come up with than $2000 for college.

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Reaction to seeing the Holiday Special: Wow, George Lucas wrote the script to that? To THAT? That script? Wait, this had an actual script?

The two movies Lucas was least involved with: Empire strikes back and the Holiday Special. Not sure where that leaves us.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Reaction to seeing the Holiday Special: Wow, George Lucas wrote the script to that? To THAT? That script? Wait, this had an actual script?

The two movies Lucas was least involved with: Empire strikes back and the Holiday Special. Not sure where that leaves us.

I guess everybody is allowed one day to forget to put their pants on. But only one, and you have to wear underwear.



After a great struggle, I almost have my first purposeful GUI program working in SFML:

But the blasted time handling is skipping whenever passing an hour, although seconds & minutes work fine. Long story short: the thing can work for times under an hour, but it goes screwy at anything above that.

I guess my new alarm clock will have to wait for now. On the upside, the program is very hard to shut off when ringing the alarm, which is a very good feature for an alarm clock IMO.

I wonder if it would be possible to run it as an Orbiter plugin...