Are the usb disk device names changing?

And… the 1980 adaption of Lathe of Heaven is fantastic. (There’s also a remake I refuse to acknowledge.)

Are there any VHS decks that will allow digital transfer without writing a DVD?

Edit: Found it! There are MiniDV / SVHS combo decks with digital out via firewire. Pricey though.

This was a long time ago, so I don’t remember the exact details, but…

A couple went as a pair of penguins. And they had a half-dozen friends dress up as National Geographic photographers, following them around.

(Oh, this was probably when March of the Penguins had just been released.)

I’ve got about 50 books “saved for later” on amazon. I expect to have the spare cash to buy them all sometime soon.

Roadside Picnic has gravitational anomalies, but they’re very small, don’t move, and are caused by abandoned alien artifacts.

Raspberry pi in a Cisco WIC card form factor.

I collect old computers (mostly high-end 90s servers: Sun & SGI, but also some older things like that decwriter & tektronics graphics terminal) and I help run a computer museum, so I frequently have things on loan from the museum - either stuff I’m working on, or photographing.

I had this on loan from the museum a few years ago to get V7 Unix (circa 1979) running on it:

Flyers & silkscreened posters by friends.

Yes, although the thing on my desk is just an x-term & media player, so “desktop system” doesn’t mean that much…

Mostly video performance (1080 vid stuttered badly, while it plays fine on the same machine under linux.) & compatability. (Not that I want to run a browser on my x-term, but it would be nice to have as a fallback option. Can’t install anything recent.) Oh, and extended attributes in the filesystem. I REALLY like being able to add name=val tags to a file. It’s immensely useful. That might be my favorite feature of linux? Funny.

Also, I was in the midst of switching from Solaris to Linux on my server, so it just seemed like a good idea to run the same OS on the desktop.

Gabe Serbian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpYhctLdCVk

Old droid & Maemo Leste?

(That’s what I use.)

VERY simple. Time & node:

HH:MM node%

Except in the xterm I keep open for dealing with my camera. That’s time & last-word-in-cwd:

HH:MM dir%

Sometimes on a cellphone I will use battery charge percent:

BB%

And when I’m su’ed it’s just:

root%

Yup. Tried that, doesn’t work.

My only concern is if there’s an ssh key on there. If you’re clever ahead of time, every phone has a new ssh key that can be trivially disabled on the far end.

Peanuts go well with chocolate, and I sometimes use them in a stew, but for snacking, they’re nowhere near as good as pistachios or cashews.

I do a lot of photography for a museum. In documenting historic artifacts (as in journalism) you’re not supposed to do any post processing. Not that I’d use a phone camera for those photos, but it’s an issue as those features creep into more serious cameras.

I was talking to someone about the 70s flick Jesus Christ Superstar and I accidentally revealed the verdict in the trial of the main character at the end. OOPS! (I won’t mention it here.)

Void here too. I was mostly Solaris & OpenBSD for many years, Void is the first linux I’m happy to run on my main machines.

I realized I was going to be comfortable with Void when I saw in the docs that to config the network you just “put the commands in rc.local”. Ha ha. Yes, that’s how you’d do it in 7th Edition Unix! Back to the basics.

Also…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnV_vfy-Dqs