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I was thinking about something similar recently: if you bought a US govt purchased laptop like the ruggedized Dell Latitude I saw, would it be less likely to have Intel's IME enabl…

They bought back the leases; how much did the lease cost originally, and how much work was done on the project? Those are the only important questions

Took me a while to remember that Raku is the "Perl 6" followon to the still-supported Perl 5, though it has morphed into a very different language.

https://man.netbsd.org/ldconfig.8 states that it checks the contents of /etc/ld.so.conf - what is the default configuration of that file when it is installed? Is it empty?

It likely would have been based on the PowerPC-based ThinkPad like laptop they produced which also ran AIX (IBM's version of Unix). like these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPa…

There are plenty of scanners that do not destroy the book being scanned. Here is one, I am sure there are many others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9LcTZU-HHI

Desktop use is probably the best option for daily driver, since almost everything on the motherboard has support, most likely.

To get 10Mbps of Ethernet, they would bond together 7x T1s on the SONET side...

As mentioned, it is a "large enough company" already; they have full time sysadmins running things. Adding another rack beside the VMWare cluster, managing any storage/networking i…

An experimental/homebuilt of similar but not exactly the same design, the Dyke Delta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyke_Delta of which about 50 have been built, has its pilots repo…

The EUV lithography process and other pieces that comprise what ASML sells was developed with US government funding, and it remains encumbered by that. The US government thus has v…

The placement of the Krone pack in the photo at link, makes me laugh: it would never survive in the USA, given the way truck drivers drive and the bumps and curbs etc. that trucks …

Management listened to the siren call of "it's easier and cheaper". Now they still have to pay for the same senior sysadmins they were told they wouldn't need anymore, but, with th…

OpenVMS ran on the Itanium also; wonder how far it could get in booting?

EPIC is Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing; nothing to do with the AMD trademark word, EPYC.

If it was just recognizing license plates that would be fine. However it fingerprints individuals by running a Bluetooth and WiFi connection to capture your phone or laptop’s Bluet…

The RAID5 write hole is not present in RAIDZ1 I believe.

Taylor Swift just used how many tons to get married?

Agreed, I just wanted to point out that it is still around!

There are newer versions of M/MUMPS around and some of them are open-source such as YottaDB https://yottadb.com/ and Reference Standard M https://gitlab.com/Reference-Standard-M/rs…

It’s tough to find them on eBay; I wonder what the right search terms are?

For a change of pace in Russian authors, I would recommend the newer "Jamila" by Chingiz Aitmatov, 1958.

A friend met with Oracle salesdroids (his company has spent a few million with them in the last few years). They told him everything is oriented towards AI, to the point that other…

IIRC it was Greenspan that didn’t mean to, but did disclose the use of gold swaps, so even if there is all the gold that is claimed to be in Fort Knox, the question of who owns the…

Two years ago I paid $60, CASH, no co-pay, no insurance, for X-rays of my hips. They were all digital and I got the interpretation (which was included) before I had finished drivin…