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| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-04, 19:44 in Internet numbers bragging thread
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Dinosaur
 Post: #1141 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Movilnet 3G, in one of those rare times when I actually get it working: Surprisingly similar to the 3M DSL I currently have with CANTV (y'know, the one that is broken and it's not getting fixed because I'm on a techie blacklist of sorts and under no circumstances they shall take my bribe money, it seems?). Of course UL and ping is meh, but I'm surprised of the decent-ish DL speeds... but then I'm getting what is basically baseline HSDPA performance, despite the phone (my KrapOS Blu, which currently has been doing the duties of bringing some sort of Internets to this house) claiming HSPA+ service. Also, I guess Ookla hasn't gotten the memo: as of 2022 Movilnet and CANTV are now separate state corporations... but then Speedtest reports that my public IP comes from a range usually used for CANTV DSL subscribers, not cellphones. I guess the "separate" bit is only on paper, as divesting assets and infrastructure in a bankrupt communist country is easier said than done. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-05, 11:38 in Post websites you can't believe are still online, v2.0
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Dinosaur
Post: #1142 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by desudesu Nathan Lineback hasn't submitted himself to the PC police yet! 1) The guy has not removed that much, if anything. I don't remember having ever seen anti-IE/MS banners with Nazi imagery, tho (and I've been visiting his place for nearly two decades!), but you need to take a look at its rants/opinions page to see that he hasn't toned down his opinions AT ALL - it anything he has gotten more blunt/acid since the smartdevice age started with full force because he has just grown highly disappointed with modern tech, just like me. 2) Didn't noticed he finally got rid of the <BGMUSIC> tags that no modern browser supports anymore :/ (and yeah, people abused of autoplaying crap so that's what we can't have nice things anymore). At least his site still targets old browsers (no HTTPS sekuritah theater, broken HTML that won't validate ever, absolutely NO JS, minimal CSS) 3) The guy does not use social media, much less any of those Javashit social crapps (aka Discord, which nobody should use either), so I'm not sure why he should cater their site towards ToS that won't even apply to him... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-05, 14:51 in Cartoons, imported
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Dinosaur
Post: #1143 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by desudesu And on today's Hackernews frontpage: https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/everything-is-anime https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31983343 Europeans in particular had some fine productions of very animesque design, like the Italian-made WinX Club. Magical girls, fairies, witches, tight costumes, big colorful eyes, sparkles everywhere, and even schools for magicians and the like?! Where do I sign!??!?! If this came out from any Japan studio instead from RAI/Rainbow, I wouldn't have noticed the difference :P Sadly, Viacom/Nick bought the franchise about a decade ago and threw the early seasons into a live volcano - the official versions now allowed for distribution of those are some heavily abridged 1-hour TV "movies". Oh, and the Latam Spanish dub is now lost forever, too. So instead of having ufotable or whoever is the biggest anime studio right now among the nerdddom coming up with some badass Bloom, we get... nothing :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-06, 15:53 in Delivering internet media is still a giant clusterfuck.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1144 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Use Debian™ Most distros intentionally avoid patent-encumbered codecs, even today - this was one of the many reasons I ended leaving Fedora (having to use potentially distro-breaking 3rd-party distros just to watch a video is a big no-no to me nowadays). I guess OpenSUSE follows the same legalese BS, but thankfully sanity prevailed on other distros - the MPEG cartel despite being overpowered, can't sue every single Linux user in existence (that would be very bad PR), and in the case of Debian, patented BS like H.264 is supported by the stock repos since Wheezy (2013!) Compiling from source is always an option - but I've been there, and would rather not go back, ever. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-06, 16:04 in Post websites you can't believe are still online, v2.0 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1145 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by desudesu Ooooh, interesting. I guess that he got one of the following: 1) Some German user concerned that Nazi imagery may get his site banned in Germany. 2) Some PC asshole bitching about "OMG UR A NAZI!!!" However, those Nazi banners weren't the only ones removed (there is another, a "Gates is Hitler" button): look for "Get Microsoft Internet SHIT - With a picture of IE 4 in its natural state.", and that one is gone too from the current page. But he also changed fonts and got rid of the background red image sometime around 2011, where said anti-IE "nazi"/"shit" banners were silently removed too (and the page has stayed that way since). Others were rearranged, and a single instance of "fuck" got censored. However, the Copyright Mouse™ button is still there, and I consider Disney to be as dangerous as nazis, so I wonder why that one still survives... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-07, 22:48 in Delivering internet media is still a giant clusterfuck.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1146 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I live in a country which has never recognized software patents, so fuck the MPEG cartel :P But then, every cellphone I've owned since 2007, and at least 3 of my GPUs shipped with hardware H.264 decoders, so I've paid more than enough to the MPEG-LA mafia in their pile of bullshit (seriously: I get that video codecs are hard to develop and get them right, but don't let frickin' lawyers who have yet to learn how to turn on a computer to be the gatekeepers to any kind of tech!) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-07, 22:58 in Internet numbers bragging thread
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Dinosaur
Post: #1147 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
To cap off this tour through our craptacular cellphone connections, and since I still have like 100MB of data to burn before the plan allotments reset, here is Digitel "kinda-4G": DL: Only on benchmarks you get "reasonable" speeds... for a DSL 15 years ago! For 3G this is lowend. For LTE this is PATHETIC! UL: PATHETIC! Somehow the thing didn't dropped back to 3G, but I suspect test results would be similar. Plus, Digitel blocks any external DNS server that isn't 8.8.8.8 (don't come up to me with that D'OH! bullshit, please), and I heard that they're even worse than CANTV when messing with other online services (FWIW, Digitel IPs are even blocked on 4chan, from what I've heard here). Also notice that Speedtest now lists DL/UL latencies on the tests, and oh god, those results are absolutely painful! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-08, 00:17 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1148 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Lennart Poettering joins Microsoft HATEBONERS AT FULL BLAAAAAAST!!!! NEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRDDDDDDDRAAAAAAAAAAAAAGEEEEEEE!!!! Time to get off the Internet, turn off the modem, and go walk outside. Those comment threads must be more radioactive than Chernobyl's core. On the flip side, Microsoft SystemD For Workgroups coming soon™ No, I'm still NOT touching a *BSD in this lifetime. I'm too old for the nerdrage. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-08, 00:25 in Cartoons, imported
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Dinosaur
Post: #1149 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Yu-Gi-Oh Manga Creator Kazuki Takahashi Passes Away at 60 Apparently his body (with snorkeling gear) was found floating on a coast. RIP. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-09, 00:21 in Delivering internet media is still a giant clusterfuck.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1150 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I don't watch videos online these days (save for some very rare exceptions, and for those I just use youtube-dl as I believe that videos do NOT belong to web browsers, but to actual media player applications), so I can't really recommend any site, aside of a generic "if it does DRM, stay away" warning. I wish I could go back to the era of just selfhosting our shit, but people would come with "muh discoverability" crap, which is basically "I can't watch TV if the algorithm doesn't tell me what to watch because I'm dumb/lazy" - we had search engines back in 1997, and people were discovering places by then without herculean efforts! Also, fuck social media too. Internet was a MUCH better place before Facebook and friends arrived to ruin everything :/ Yes, I'm old enough to have spent roughly two thirds of my life online, get off my lawn, blah blah blah... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-09, 00:26 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1151 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Canada just had its "oh shit, we've got upgraded to CANTV-tier service!" moment today: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/rogers-communications-services-down-thousands-users-downdetector-2022-07-08/ How does it feel to be a Venezuelan for a day, where not only your fancy bank cards and hipster buttcoins are completely useless because there is a oligopoly of shitty telcos ruling your country networks? And no, cash won't save you either if ATMs and bank branches are offline too. Maybe we should go back to bartering for buying groceries. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-10, 20:44 in Weird things you did to overcome limitations (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1152 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
A few blackouts later, I've had my first fan failure on my Compaq "Fine, time for some lube"... except that this is a Sunon MagLev from 20 years ago (Compaq/HP OEM part, even!), there is no obvious points to oil since this isn't your El-Cheapo™ junk-bearing crapola. After destroying some plastic, it was evident that I had no choice but to swap fans. My only replacement was a crappy 8x8cm Foxconn (the Sunon is 7x7, while the standard gutless wonder PSU fan is 6x6), so no way to properly fit on the Compaq case fan screw holes (which are made for 7x7 fans). "Well, a single screw will have to do"... except that after plugging things again, the replacement fan wouldn't spin either! Hmmm, this replacement IS known good, and not seized. Something weird is happening. On a hunch, I decided to try the case fan on the CPU fan header on the mobo, and lo and behold - it spins! So apparently the case fan header is now dead. Yay Compaq. This shitty supermarket special motherboard which is beyond picky with RAM sticks and whose USB ports are on border between life and death has now lost a fan header too, in which is a first to me. Even better: after unseizing it by hand, the Sunon fan was also spinning full jet blast when powered from the CPU fan header! Apparently the chassis fan header has been acting flaky, as I had clearly noticed irregular spinup/spindown sounds since I had installed the fan a month ago. Nope, this mobo doesn't have any kind of fan speed control whatsoever (nothing on the BIOS, and while there IS a sensor chip, it's one of those unsupported forever by lm-sensors), so I guess fans here aren't simply getting enough juice. Once again, yay Compaq. OK, so I guess I'll have to power this fan directly from the PSU. But instead of splicing cables with no soldering and garbage adhesive tape, I found a rather uncommon 3-pin to Molex fan adapter on my pile of cables. But I wanted to use the Sunon in the meanwhile: it simply sucks harder (no pun intended!) than the puny Foxconn, it's a perfect fit for the Compaq case, and I don't mind unseizing it every now and then. Except that this one has a 4-pin fan connector, which fits nicely on 3-pin headers but not on my adapter cable! Splicing time? Oh hell no. Take a sewing needle, take note of the pinouts (yellow-red-black), carefully push the pins through the openings on the plastic connector, swap connectors, insert pins, call it FUCKING DONE. (I had to tape the extra 4th pin to not short out things inside). This is Soviet Venezuela - you can't simply go outside and buy a new computer fan (unless of the craptacular 6x6cm variety), and MercadoLibre is a fucking ripoff so ghetto way it is~ And unlike that long gone PCChips M535/8, I don't envision this Compaq PoS lasting another 15 years (despite having less than two thousand hours on the clock) - quality is simply nowhere to be found :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-11, 17:54 in Computer Hardware News
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Dinosaur
Post: #1153 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Well, all Intel needs to do to ensure the success of their new GPUs is to bundle each with a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator, of course! Now you can fly an A380 on your A380 YO DAWG~ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-11, 22:07 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #1154 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.13/ GO GO UPDATE NOW GO GO GO~!!! > Adding initial optional chaining [...] Sweet! (this is the hideous ?. operator that breaks the other half of the Web not broken by Google WebComponents™) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-12, 14:16 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1155 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Pepsi: BREATHTAKING Design Strategy (PDF) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32064324 Apparently this advertising nutcase charged PepsiCo $1M for that big load of BULLSHIT... that even failed to sell more sugary water to the masses! Instead, the 27-page design document obviously tells that someone was having some coke instead. "Golden Number" "Gravitational Pull of Pepsi" "Pepsi Universe" ...WTF. But then, this is the same Peter Arnell that also nearly wiped out Tropicana from the market with his $35M pointless empty rebranding that basically told consumers that their beloved orange juice didn't existed anymore. Fortunately this asswipe was fired from his own company not long after that, and he even recognizes his work is full of shit. Unfortunately the virus is still at large: for example a certain Colombian soda (Postobon) I drink from time to time just unveiled it's cellphone-esque minimalist label redesign, and IT FUCKING SUCKS - it went from a design that I could clearly identify from old '90s magazine ads (when noone imported that stuff to Venezuela) to... some bland webby minimalist crapola. Dear advertising/marketing asswipes: my beverages are NOT iPhone crapps!!! KNOCK IT OFF!!! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-13, 00:04 in Computer Hardware News
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Dinosaur
Post: #1156 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Yet another logo-and-website speculative execution vulnerability that nobody but warfare actors would exploit: Retbleed https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RETBLEED Mitigating Retbleed in the Linux kernel required a substantial effort, involving changes to 68 files, 1783 new lines and 387 removed lines. Our performance evaluation shows that mitigating Retbleed has unfortunately turned out to be expensive: we have measured between 14% and 39% overhead with the AMD and Intel patches respectively. I have a word for you security researchers: FUCK OFF. Seriously, we know, our computers are broken... but nobody is buying ME that supoosedly invulnerable rig, so stay the hell away from making my machines much slower than they already are, all because of theoretic lab attacks that nobody does in real life (no, my machines are not targets for USA/China/Russia despite how much I hate them, thanks). I'm starting to seriously hate security researchers with a passion. Go hack a Playstation or something actually useful! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-13, 17:47 in Internet numbers bragging thread
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Dinosaur
Post: #1157 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I'm $60 poorer, but FINALLY the CANTV Mafia™ reached to me, and got back to Ye Olde DSL~ ...as miserable as ever, but I'll take it. For now. (apparently there were plenty of charred wires in the path between me and the cable locker, so yeah, blame our commie electricity corporation too) I heard the fiber craze finally arrived to my town, but: 1) Starting at $35/mo for 10/10M! (I currently pay ~$10 for 3/0.75M DSL+phone, with asstacular quality) 2) No provider covers my zone yet. 3) None of those providers are CANTV or the mobile incumbents, but a bunch of startups, so quality is unknown. However, I HOPE my copper days have a good end, Soon™ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-13, 22:06 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #1158 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
True to its word, Xiaomi is rolling out Android 12 (well, their bastardized MIUI fork) for the baseline Redmi Note 11: https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_redmi_note_11_gets_miui_13_with_android_12-news-54842.php https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/android-12-miui-13-0-2-0-sgcmixm-is-out-post-your-experience.4462795/ But... so far only insiders, early birds, and people desperate enough to plug their phone to a Windows PC to run Xiaomi's flasher app are getting the 2.7GB upgrade. Hopefully by the time my phone gets it, they should have ironed out the kinks. But it's a smartphone, and Android gets shittier with each major release, so I expect intense hate when the install day comes out. For now, instead I just got a ~400MB MIUI 13 "security patch" here - this one took like 20 minutes to install, and "only" added some Korean preload bloatware (com.boundax.koreapreloadappinstaller - Google spies on everybody but they conveniently have no results for that, except for a lone XDA thread wondering about the same... and with this post, there will be two results!) that should be safe to nuke. So yeah, my phone is about to become shittier, I guess. On the flip side, it feels AWESOME to finally have a cellphone which hasn't been abandoned by its OEM after unboxing it! Android 12 is now real, and I suppose Android 13 will happen too on the Redmi Note 11. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-14, 17:36 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1159 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Since all I've have around me is broken hardware, it means I need to keep patching things more than usual. This Compaq supermarket special blew two of its four USB ports: the rear ones are unusable, and since all ports are wired to the same USB hub IC (because Intel ICH0/1 only have two ports, so Compaq ended splurging a extra cent on a Texas Instruments hub instead of an extra OHCI/UHCI controller), I guess it's just matter of time for the remaining front ports to die. USB is a must for my routerbox (printer sharing, emergency boot/backup device, and of course, cellphone tethering), so I went looking around for the cheapest USB controller card I could find locally, which 99% of the times it's a VIA UHCI/EHCI card which is ho-hum at best. Starting point: MercadoLibre sellers will sell a new card for $10-15, plus $5 shipping. Fuck that shit! And of course, nearly every computer shop in my city has closed down, or switched to selling cellphones. None of them had USB cards anyway. Even worse, store clerks were basically ignorant of PCI devices that aren't video or network cards - to them I was like speaking Esperanto! So nope, that won't do - what about our trusty computer junkyards AKA repair shops? Luckily I find a noname all-black VIA-based EHCI 5-port card. Unluckily, the guy wanted $10. A honest Lincoln and four 5-bolivar notes later reached a compromise point (~$7,50) for some untested card. Fortunately the card Just Works™, so I guess I didn't wasted my money. BUT! Not everything is milk and honey: this IS Compaq we're talking about, and when you pair shit hardware with bottom-of-the-barrel parts, the results are interesting: - The Compaq BIOS won't recognize devices plugged to USB addin cards, as it only expects to initialize those plugged to the onboard Intel/TI hub. So if those ports die, you're now limited to PS/2 keyboards for booting (and for whatever reason, the current GRUB setup I've got here will NOT continue if it doesn't detect a BIOS-initialized keyboard, so headless operation is pretty much impossible for now) - Not all ports on the card work at USB2.0 speeds: only the outermost ports do - the center ones only work at USB1.1 speeds. Dunno about the internal port (there is one in a very awkward position). - Of course the Compaq BIOS is too old for USB booting, so I need to rely on a bootdisk for that - I've been using Plop Boot Manager for cases like this, but once again, this Compaq+VIA combo is not a walk in the park: * Onboard Intel+TI ports: Plop won't even recognize mass storage devices plugged there! * VIA USB2.0 ports: hangs with blank screen * VIA USB1.x ports: Boots! But USB keyboard stops working :/ At least Debian behaves as expected with noname generic USB cards, despite the guy at the junkyard telling that "I don't have the drivers". Dude, why would you even want a driverdisk for a card that has been supported by any half-decent OS released in this century!? It's USB - you just Plug. And then Pray. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-24, 20:50 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1160 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Now that my DSL is alive (and I'm $200 poorer after footing the bill for the power surge carnage), it's time to move on and prepare the upgrade path for this Compaq box o' hell: here are my two paths: 1) Preserve the current install from Saki (RIP), and dist-upgrade all the way: Jessie->Stretch->Buster->Bullseye. SHOULD be safe, but messy given that many things have changed since 2015. 2) Start from scratch with latest Debian release. I have plenty of spare PATA HDDs, plus it would be a good refresher of my server setup skills. So 2 it is - a new machine, a new beginning. BUT! Since this is my routerbox, it means I'll be offline during the setup, without a way to research anything at all should shit hit the fan. Fortunately we're in 2022, and I have something I didn't had two decades ago: virtual machines! I created a machine with a setup as close as possible as my Compaq. Of course it means I can only match RAM, HDD, and input devices, so I went with a 184MB, 2GB HDD VM for testing. Insert the Debian netinst+firmware CD, aaaand... *BOOM*  Hellooooooo, software bloat~! Apparently having to support every wretched setup out there (from crypto paranoid nutters to weirdass server-class hardware to people wanting to install Debian into exotic filesystems), plus years of software "progress" has taken its toll on Debian Installer, but since they're so nice, I'm downgraded to "low memory mode". In this mode, the installer: - Can't guarantee setup success. - Will not load most setup modules, including ext3/4 support, or many drivers... but will give the user the option to manually load the required ones. - Will not load locales either, so installer will only run in English, and will deliver a "C"-locale setup, if it manages to finish. So... uh, these are my notes for such an special setup, for the moment I decide to fully commit and perform the bare metal setup on my Comcrap box: * The modules you will definitely want are: choose-mirror (to select a Debian mirror to download packages from), mbr-udeb (do I really need it?), nic-modules-KERNELVERSION-ARCH-di (you want your network card to work, right?), partman-ext3 (without that one, you'll only be able to install to ext2 partitions from 1998). * Setup may be a bit unstable, and fail without warning. But then, VirtualBox has been acting quite wonky today, so maybe either I need a RAM check or finally ditch Orrible® software... I had to attempt setup TWICE, but hopefully that won't be the case on bare metal! * When partitioning, don't forget to create a swap partition! Slow swap on vintage PATA drives is better than nothing, and the installer will activate it as soon as possible as it IS needed if you want your setup to not get aborted by the OOM-killer! * When tasksel starts, you only want the defaults, that is, base system utilities and SSH server. * Oh, setup finished successfully? OK, time to fix up stuff before we start installing packages! - Login as root, or use "su -" - the dash is important as otherwise you will have no access to /usr/sbin in your path! - dpkg-reconfigure locales. For now, your only locale is the useless "C", so go and enable glorious es_VE.UTF-8. - Reboot. But before, edit root's .profile and remove the lines enforcing C locale for root as Debian Installer ran in - Oh, we now have a Spanish locale-- WTF, my Ñ's are mojibake instead?! Suck! Well, the proper way to fix that is editing /etc/default/console-setup. No need to reboot, but won't harm either. - We're done. Proceed with the setup of remaining services (Samba, dhcpd, BIND, ...) as usual. You should still have some free RAM at the end of the day (as long as you don't do adblocking with BIND) Also: I suspect I won't be maxing out RAM on this supermarket special Compaq anytime soon: Posted by Intel ® 810E Chipset: 82810E Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (GMCH) datasheet So 128MB DIMMs should be fine as long as they're 16Mx64, and 256MB DIMMs are Russian Roulette? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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