Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

This is incredible. There's a CMD SuperCPU for sale on eBay right now. Bidding started at 99 cents, and it's now up over $2,000. https://www.ebay.com/itm/CMD-SuperCPU-Accelerator-Super-CPU-Creative-Micro-Designs-Commodore-64-128-C64/142951092910

The SuperCPU is a Commodore 64 accelerator in an oversize cartridge. To put the bids in perspective, from 1997 to 1999, CMD was selling them for $199 without RAM expansion (which this one seems to be) up to $379 with the maximum of 16 MB.

Voter registration deadlines are coming up rather quickly. If you think you're already registered to vote, double-check & make sure, because voter registration purges are actually happening.

If your response is, "If voting actually changed anything, they'd make it illegal," then everything every state has done since Shelby County v. Holder (gutting the VRA) should assure you: It does, & they are.

Or don't vote, young people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0e9guhV35o

A link for context helps. :/ https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS

But I thought 640K was enough for anyone! :V

Seriously, the MS-DOS pre-2.1 sources being in a repo is pretty nice.

The service manual also told me to remove screws hidden by the DVD drive, with detailed illustrations, but without telling me to remove the DVD drive first.

I got this manual directly from HP themselves, and now I'm doubting its accuracy.

The removal of really tiny screws should not involve the use of really hefty pliers. Who designs these things?

HP hid screws underneath two of the Little Rubber Feet, and their service manual tells me to pry them off.

I am repairing a computer, and the service manual instructs me to basically destroy its LRF-compliant desktop interface.

The AC in my server room seems to be working pretty well.

The early history of Windows file attributes, and why there is a gap between System and Directory: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180830-00/?p=99615

There's more CP/M legacy in Windows than you may realize.

LB: Rumor has it that, shortly after the worm Morris wrote unexpectedly raged across what was the Internet at the time as malware, not as the benevolent potentially bug-fixing worm he wanted, someone got root on Morris's system & changed his login name from rtm to rtfm.

Related: If you want to follow log files that are rotated, regularly or on reaching a certain size, use `tail -F` instead of `tail -f`. The difference is that -F tells `tail` to reopen the file if it's truncated or deleted/moved and recreated.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
tail -F \
/var/log/maillog \
/var/log/messages \
|
while read -r line
do printf \
"\033[38;5;%dm%s\033[0m\n" \
$(($RANDOM%214+17)) \
"$line"
done
#
# Follow log files, showing each
# line in a random color.
# Needs a 256-color terminal,
# works best on dark/black
# backgrounds.
#