I have a P166 under my desk and once in a blue moon I try to run something on it.

My biggest obstacles are that it doesn't have an ethernet port and that it doesn't have BIOS USB support (although it does have a card with two USB ports).

I've managed to run some small Linux distros on it (I'll definitely try this one), but, you're right, I haven't really found anything useful to run on it.

EVs have breaks, suspensions, and tires like all cars. A responsible owner should have his car checked out once a year.

That's just magical thinking.

And Ethiopia couldn't get US$5 billion loan for a dam to service 60 million people.

The world is sick.

Just last week I was tasked with configuring an automated happy birthday email.

It feels worse to know that it's just an automatic message and that the person who supposedly signed it doesn't even know who you are.

Work is just work, don't expect anything more than that.

This wouldn't be legal in my country unless all the apartments had one owner, because the telcos have a monopoly on communications.

The law says one person can't stretch a cable over to his neighbour, because they would need a licence for that (although if you did do that, who would know?).

My parents shared coaxiale television for years with the neighbors. Technically illegal but there is no way to know with analogue television.

I think our phone lines must work differently, the entire infrastructure is owned by one company (BT) who must lease it to other companies. So they can do things like this, as everyone needs a router at the end to access it and that's how they charge per customer.

There is a separate cable network, again one operator (Virgin), who don't lease it out.

It's funny how close an early PC was to the 8-bit machines: you had BASIC in ROM and a cassette interface.

You could even use a TV!

I have made the mistake of calling the early PC 8-bit, lolol...

Yes, it reminds me of an Apple ][ computer, with the major difference being the Apple had the video sub-system on board, and the PC locating that on a card.

I often wonder how things might have played out had the Apple ][ computers used one slot for video... or, had IBM chose to do it the Apple way.

Apple computers all sort of gravitated to the onvoard video despite a few cards being made. It was just enough, especially when the later models included 80 column text.

I ran my first PC on a TV. Same as the Apple and Atari machines.

Fun times.

Cool. I remember getting one such disc in a music magazine in the 80s. It occured to me then that you could maybe put software on it, but I never saw this implemented.

At this point, if I magically became filthy rich, I would invest in tools that facilitate migrating from Oracle to Postgresql, including Apex.

In college we had a network of Sun workstations and some of the machines had only 8MB of RAM, IIRC. This was in the 90s.

Then again, the X desktop was really minimal and I would use them mostly to code in C using a terminal.

My logs tell me that Google ignores my robots.txt.

Isn’t it somewhat likely that a lot of shady crawlers pretend to be a google bot with their user agent?

If you check the ips they belong to Google.

Plus if you run adsense google with ignore crawler rules and visit the page from google ips and from some shady ip. Wonder if it is the same for sites using Analytics.

Gotta dig -x to find out if they really are from Google

I was going to say, this is an absolute win for everyone with a personal site they have been trying to prevent Google from crawling if true.