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Actually the above historical stream is incomplete. I actually started on a homebuilt 8080 in 1975 (No OS. Load from cassette tape and execute memory 0x0100), and happily used it for years.) The OSX Macs have been a great platform for my programming uses (once professional and now hobby)...

Definitely not. It uses an ATX sized MB, but no way is it standard. And the CPU(s) is not even on the motherboard. It is in a tray below, which would also have to have the upper enclosure cut out for an ATX to fit. I would love to find a case for the 2019 Mac Pro. That would be a...

The quality of the cases looks good, but they are all glass paneled from what I can see. And showing up at my local programmer roundtable with pictures of a gaming box would get me booted out to the street. But seriously, I specifically do not want a glass paneled box. In fact, EVERY box on...

Interesting that you should suggest that. I have two older Cheesegraters just hanging around for no reason, and my first thought was to take one apart and examine just such an idea. The power supply would be no problem. An ordinary PS would fit ok, but the backside connectors on the Atx...

I had forgotten about System76. Had one of their laptops back in the stone age. Have some good looking stuff. And still looking. Later Edit. The Nebula 40 is a good looking case. Probably will get that after some more research. I would almost buy one of their desktops, but the one...

The latest MacOS security updates have destroyed any reasonable chance of using it as an independent developer, even in hobby mode, so I have deprecated my little M1 to nothing more than a secure access to my financials and casual surfing. I have moved all of my coding and daily activities...

I program (now) in only three languages. 8080 assembler, C and Perl and I am too old to learn another, and since my coding is strictly for a enjoyment now, I have no reason to branch out. I use an old Apple Cheesegrater that is solid as a rock with Debian, 12 cores of Xeon and plenty of...

Well, I only need the AMD64 version, and as I said, I have the entire distro already on a server. All I need is the updates for that CPU family. I wouldn't bother, except that the purchased repro quickly becomes useless as programs are updated. On my main programming desktop, that doesn't...

Well, I already have the entire repos. Just want to keep it up to date without purchasing a new flash drive every few months or, as I said, overrunning our bandwidth limits. As to the need, I do a lot of base installs for various (mostly) youngsters at the school. And as for myself, I do a...

I'm trying to read the f... stupid manuals, but so far I haven't found one that quite points me into the right direction. ChatGPT usually can get me pointed to the right direction on various projects, but so far that Artificial Advice pointing is over a cliff into the tarpit. Years ago, in...

Since Sarge 3.1. About 2005. Before that it was Redhat 7.x to 9.0. And previous to that was some version of Slackware but just on a leftover machine as I tested this new OS. (And downloaded on a half-speed dial up connection to floppy disks, no less. I would say that times have changed.)...

Been on Debian since version 3 - Sarge, as I remember. I always install the absolute minimum Debian system, checking only the single box for basic system utilities. After the boot, then I can install only and exactly what I want and need. By purchasing a flash drive with the entirety of the...

I started out on Mainframes in about '68, and of course, we looked down on minicomputers as mere tinkertoys. The idea of just walking into the computer room and running a compile program on an IBM 360 without bowing to the IT Acolytes in charge was not even a valid thought. Batch processing...

You had a company that actually used Win 2.x? That was a long time ago, but my employer put it on about 10 machines for use. As I was already an "old timer" hacker (1975 Altair, believe it or not) I got the chore of setting them up. Unfortunately, while I had a lot of fun with them, they...

I have a pile of 1 TB ssds, but nothing special. Just off the shelf Amazon stuff that I have used for years. The NVME was just a "behind the locked glass cabinet" purchase at Micro Center and the PCI card from Amazon. The speed is impressive, but certainly not something that I needed or use...

As a matter of fact, I decided on a Ryzen 5 5600, which turns out to have all the horsepower that I need. It has a integrated GPU, but I found a cheap dual monitor GPU that is Radon based, and gives me good 4k output. With a new and huge tower case and large slow fans, it looks like it will be...

If I make any technical comments on Windows, it would just be trolling as I have not used Redmond software since XP days. That being said, I do not understand why a user would put up with advertisements on their own desktop, be told that this or that utility cannot be turned off on a machine...

A good idea in certain circumstances, but remember what a modern phone does (or at least, used to) when it can't see a tower. It cranks up the power and tries again. Then up some more and so on. I put my phone in one of those super magnesium briefcases once (iPhone 8, or maybe XS) and when...

Back in the RedHat free days and system boards without I/O, compiling your kernel was a common need to get various adapter cards working. But as Linux became essentially PNP, my skills moved from hacking to using. Just recently, I realized just how much inside knowledge I have forgotten. So...

I am attempting to build my own Distro using Linux From Scratch, not because I have a dislike of Debian, but it looks like an interesting project. (*Note "attempting" equals "I have just started and am reading the voluminous documentation very carefully.") I usually don't try something of...