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An IRC client in your motherboard

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Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by doubled112 »

tsurba wrote: post #66

Nice! I would like to someday finish writing an OS for my IRC bot that is still running. Maybe the most useless comment but: that non-linear mouse movement (aka acceleration) is the very first thing I turn off when I boot up a new OS. It literally hurts my hand somehow. For example linearmouse is free for Mac. For Windows you can just turn off acceleration. For Linux its easy, obviously. Using mouse acceleration stop…

I don’t change any mouse settings, so I’m not sure what the default is, but I can still accurately click parts of my screen that are covered.

I think you’d get a feel for it either way. Like how the throttle pedal in your car (probably) doesn’t map to a speed.

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by toast0 »

nucleardog wrote: post #60
contingencies wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, all it takes on modern hardware for PXE boot to occur on hardware failure is the BIOS boot order setting. As PXE inherently trusts the LAN, and a LAN may have VLAN support, you can assign a default VLAN to the port which equates to the PXE server you want. The PXE server can further configure by client MAC prefix, DHCP-assigned IP mapped to physical port number or similar. Configured systems can report stat…

Well shit, glad I stumbled on this comment. Thanks for posting. Biggest gripe with my home lab setup is managing when something does or doesn’t PXE boot. Plug anything in and PXE boot it and it wipes the drive, does a scripted Debian install chained to an Ansible playbook that eventually installs k3s, discovers the rest of the cluster, and joins itself to it. So 0-click and 10 minutes from plug in to node in the clus…

Per mac dhcp probably works. Also, per mac pxe config... I have pxe for general use that is just a menu, but for my test machine autoboots my hobby os.

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by Biganon »

ijijijjij wrote: post #32
backspace_ wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This does not include ssl support? How much does this limit the number of irc nets that you can connect to?

I never seen an IRC server that only support SSL.... I don't use many networks nowadays though... I only know of one channel that supports encrypted DCC transfers though.

Many channels have a flag to only accept users connected through SSL

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by pests »

minusLik wrote: post #55

> “Why”? What kind of question is “why”? Because low-level applications like this were promised when UEFI was introduced, that's why. UEFI's creators went even as far as to dream of replacing the Linux-based Internet-only mini-OSes of some vendors which could be accessed by pressing a certain key during boot (though I don't remember what they were called).

Those were the quick view / quick boot festures that old Dell and the likes had. Usually booting into some bars ones productivity apps.

I did see a video on YT that did a deep dive into this. I beleive you are correct they were originally stripped down Linux or other custom OSes but then eventually switching to UEFI apps before falling okay of favor.

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by Out_of_Characte »

doubled112 wrote: post #71
tsurba wrote: post #66

Nice! I would like to someday finish writing an OS for my IRC bot that is still running. Maybe the most useless comment but: that non-linear mouse movement (aka acceleration) is the very first thing I turn off when I boot up a new OS. It literally hurts my hand somehow. For example linearmouse is free for Mac. For Windows you can just turn off acceleration. For Linux its easy, obviously. Using mouse acceleration stop…

I don’t change any mouse settings, so I’m not sure what the default is, but I can still accurately click parts of my screen that are covered. I think you’d get a feel for it either way. Like how the throttle pedal in your car (probably) doesn’t map to a speed.

My main gripe with nonlinear mouse movenement is that it breaks learned behaviour if you do it faster. This is why most gamers use raw linear mouse data.

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by jwoglom »

pests wrote: post #75
minusLik wrote: post #55

> “Why”? What kind of question is “why”? Because low-level applications like this were promised when UEFI was introduced, that's why. UEFI's creators went even as far as to dream of replacing the Linux-based Internet-only mini-OSes of some vendors which could be accessed by pressing a certain key during boot (though I don't remember what they were called).

Those were the quick view / quick boot festures that old Dell and the likes had. Usually booting into some bars ones productivity apps. I did see a video on YT that did a deep dive into this. I beleive you are correct they were originally stripped down Linux or other custom OSes but then eventually switching to UEFI apps before falling okay of favor.

I think this might be the video you're talking about, in case anyone is also interested in a brief history of quick boot operating systems and UEFI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssob-7sGVWs
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