so i have a broken chumby classic (ironforge 1.8: http://files.blueocty.com/hdwedocs/IRONFORGE_MX21_V1_8_FINAL.pdf ). in some sort of fashion, there was a short in a power rail somewhere (i suspect DC in and ground, but i'm not sure if so, or if that was indeed the root cause) which blew a diode and some buck regulators. i have now replaced all those parts and checked that all voltages (5v, 3v3, 1v8) are correct and the unit does power on however never functions beyond a white screen
spitballing appreciated
perhaps i have not introduced this part of the net to PonderSlab; this is a Thinkpad T61 from around 2006. it's got a Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, a 250 GB SSD that I added myself, and it's currently running FreeBSD 15.1 because I got bored.
It's more usable than I expected it to be in this setup; there's some things I have not figured out yet, but it seems comfortable with LXQt.
i wish this resulted in a working binary, but there is apparently a 20 year old known issue that prevents this from compiling under FreeBSD
Something I occasionally think about, and then proceed to be horrified to my core, is this:
A Raspberry Pi 4 *vastly* outperforms an Amiga 4000. Or a Symbolics XL1200. Or an SGI Octane. A typical microSD card is *much* faster than a Seagate Cheetah Ultra320 SCSI HDD you might have found in a high-end Unix workstation back in the day.
But the Pi 4 is barely able to run modern-day office software or browse the mainstream web. The microSD card is mostly considered a slow piece of junk (which it very likely is, though for other reasons than its performance).
What the fuck are we even doing here?
i think i have multiple friends who look exactly like this guy (and may have been one of them at some point myself)
So (cough) remember how I said I needed to quit taking in more Golfshrine inventory? I packed up the shelf contents into boxes? ...That just got a bit more complicated, because I somehow still took in more inventory. Acquisitions and news in this month's update:
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