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kentn
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response 234 of 252:
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Dec 31 01:51 UTC 2020 |
ISB Alto Reed, sax player in the Silver Bullet Band, passed away today,
aged 72.
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papa
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response 235 of 252:
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Dec 31 02:23 UTC 2020 |
resp:234 He had a great name for a sax player. R.I.P.
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papa
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response 236 of 252:
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Dec 31 02:50 UTC 2020 |
resp:234 Oh, he did the sax solo in Turn the Page! That was awesome.
Not to be confused with the similar and also awesome sax solo in Gerry
Rafferty's "Baker Street" played by Raphael Ravenscroft.
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tod
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response 237 of 252:
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Jan 1 15:30 UTC 2021 |
Alto was also in the Blues Brothers
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kentn
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response 238 of 252:
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Jan 9 01:01 UTC 2021 |
Retired LA Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda bought the farm. He was
93. R.I.P.
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tod
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response 239 of 252:
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Feb 10 13:56 UTC 2021 |
LAsorda
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kentn
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response 240 of 252:
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Jul 28 23:32 UTC 2021 |
Well, darn, Dusty Hill, bassist for ZZ Top died at age 72.
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ball
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response 241 of 252:
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Sep 25 12:47 UTC 2021 |
I'm sad because NetBSD/amd64 no longer supports my
ancient (rescued from the scrap shelf several times and
pressed back into service) dual-core Atom 330 board (Intel
D945GLF2). I think they have moved the installation image
to UEFI/GPT.
As a possible replacement, there's the Chaco Canyon NUC,
which has a dual-core Celeron N3350, 4GB RAM (soldered) and
an M.2 SSD. They seem to be $350..$400 new though and that's
money I could spend on a Detroit Bikes Sparrow. :-)
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papa
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response 242 of 252:
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Sep 25 23:13 UTC 2021 |
resp:241 I think your Atom board has been and will continue to run on your
TLC rather than support from NetBSD. :)
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walkman
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response 243 of 252:
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Sep 27 00:07 UTC 2021 |
#241 Why not try 32-bit version of Ubuntu or Debian? If you are ready to
retire it, there's nothing to lose.
If you are looking for a good low-cost machine with a small footprint,
you might also want to look into running NetBSD on an older Mac Mini.
They are excellent. I have a few of them around the house serving
different purposes. One runs Ubuntu Server and rarely needs any
maintenance, and the other two just run the Ubuntu Desktop but sometimes
I boot Tails with USB. I do get the attraction to BSD. I'm sure you
could run that on the intel Mac Mini too.
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ball
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response 244 of 252:
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Oct 2 02:09 UTC 2021 |
Re. #243: They're 64-bit boards that used to happily run
NetBSD/amd64. They can run Linux but that's not what I'm
looking for. I'll find something.
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papa
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response 245 of 252:
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Oct 4 03:30 UTC 2021 |
ISB the old crackpots on Backtalk are probably right. :(
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walkman
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response 246 of 252:
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Dec 3 16:30 UTC 2021 |
"Let them eat cake."
This is the state of journalism:
Why inflation can actually be good for everyday Americans and bad for
rich people
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/economy/inflation-good-bad-winners-
losers/index.html
They declare that anything other than their bold-face lies and
manipulation is "misinformation" while also declaring that the working
poor benefit from inflation. It's more insidious than dangerous as we
all fall further into the void.
Have you tried communicating with people in the real world?
For most, reality is defined by propaganda outfits like CNN.
They will literally pull up a phone and "fact-check" you by using Snopes
when they hear something they don't like.
In the meantime, mainstream news, television and music is literally
cancer. Promoting pedophilia, suicide, class division, violence, theft
and dystopia and calling it entertainment. "This is your new reality."
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tod
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response 247 of 252:
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Dec 4 20:27 UTC 2021 |
It's a jimmy savile world out there
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walkman
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response 248 of 252:
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Nov 19 03:43 UTC 2022 |
Aw rats.
R.I.P. Robert Clary aka Corporal LeBeau, real life Holocaust survivor.
96 is a great run.
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tod
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response 249 of 252:
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Nov 22 19:54 UTC 2022 |
We should all live that long. Very nice, imo.
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papa
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response 250 of 252:
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Nov 22 23:51 UTC 2022 |
R.I.P. Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr., architect of IBM's OS/360 and author
of "The Mythical Man-Month". - Nov. 17, 2022.
I thought he had passed away decades ago. It would have been possible for us
to cross paths during my stint in NC 1988-1991.
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tod
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response 251 of 252:
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Nov 23 04:23 UTC 2022 |
I was in NC 1990-1992. I also enjoyed IBM 360 (and Magnuson) a million
years ago. Frank Farmer FTW.
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papa
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response 252 of 252:
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Nov 23 22:18 UTC 2022 |
That makes two near-misses with greatness during my NC sojourn. ;)
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