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| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-04, 00:46 in Windows 11 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
 Post: #961 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Remember when MS said Windows 10 would be the last Windows ever, and instead you'll get experimental upgrades every year? They of course lied. Enter Windows 11, shipping "late 2021" I already hate it. Most likely you won't be able to run it on your current Win10-capable PC unless you bought one in the last 5 years (Intel 8th gen or later, or any AMD Zen except for Ryzen 1xxx series!), and has a TPM 2.0 module (be it physical or baked into the firmware). BIOS legacy boot is gone (good riddance~!), it's UEFI or nothing, but it also means Secure Boot is mandatory this time. There are workarounds, of course, but why bother? 32-bit-only versions are GONE too (even on ARM!), so maybe it's finally the beginning of the end for Win32... A Microsoft account logon is mandatory for Home editions, because your non-techy family members are too dumb for having personal computers these days, according to the entire IT industry. The UI as expected has been severely infected by the "I'm too poor for affording a real Mac" UXtarded webshits - if you like me hated 8 and/or 10, you'll certainly have very frequent rage-inducing moments with 11's vomit of a GUI. On the "positive" side (is there any positive out of modern software these days?!), Windows 11 will be a free upgrade for those of you already running licensed Win10, because MS finally got the memo that pretty much nobody pays for Windows anymore. I'm glad Windows has been relegated to "legacy stuff" in this house (not being a AAA++++ gamer really helps). I haven't booted any of my Win7 installs more than twice this year, anyway. But then, that's me, I'm a dinosaur whose last new PC is about to turn 9 years old, I'm not the target, yadda yadda yadda, so feel free to post your impressions about the latest turd coming out of Redmond! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-04, 15:15 in Windows 11
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Dinosaur
Post: #962 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by creaothceann Actually, for Windows to boot in UEFI mode (Secure Boot or not), GPT has been mandatory since Windows 7, at the very least. And nope, your Haswell is too old for Windows, according to MS. There are workarounds for that (it involves mixing Windows 10 setup media with Windows 11 images or something), and of course, if you're an OEM and have a very convincing business case to ship unsupported configurations with Windows 11, MS will waive the requirements for you. In the meanwhile, large parts of Windows shell are now UWP aka bloaty web garbage: https://twitter.com/violetasiii/status/1410507599376793601 Back when MS used to be good ol' evil M$, at least they shipped fast native applications, but I guess their highly capable C/C++ coders are retiring at a accelerated pace, and all they can find is webshit these days :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-07, 10:50 in Upcoming game announcements/news (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #963 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Nintendo officially reveals the highly rumored Switch https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendo-officially-reveals-the-oled-model-nintendo-switch-console.590943/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mHq6Y7JSmg $349,99. Oh, you DO live at Eurozone? That will be 349,99€ for you then! Your extra $20 over the base model gets: - A slightly bigger OLED display (7") - An Ethernet jack on the dock - Twice the internal storage (64GB!) - The very same old dated Tegra chip, and the same amount of RAM The original Switch and Switch Lite models will still be offered for sale along the "Switch (OLED model)" (official name). While teraflops fanboys scream NINTEND00000MEDZ for the eleventy billionth time ("Just get a PS5/XSX, people!!!!"), Nintendo officially extended its License To Print Money™. You want one (or three), don't lie yourself. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-08, 01:19 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #964 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
https://github.com/SteamDatabase/steamdb.info-issues/issues/718 ... THERE IS STILL HOPE IN MANKIND!? My legit bugreport didn't got inmediately dismissed with a routine "use Chrome/latest Firefux or GTFO", instead it got a quick fix. Live, into the production site, in just a few minutes. Please tell me I'm dead and the universe just imploded, pretty please? Ah no, I'm alive, and for the first time ever, I feel respected and appreciated as an user! (Sure, I also got the not-so-routine "Seamonkey devs should get its game together and update" instead, but hey, I'll take whatever I can get!) Plenty of webshit is breaking left and right on Seamonkey due to all those new shiny additions to one of the worst programming languages ever (nope, that's not PHP. Not anymore!). The solution? Backport piles and piles of code from later Firefox releases. Fun. Unfortunately I can see the remaining SM devs feeling the burnout, as dealing with this gargantuan task is a nightmare of epic proportions... and all for what, for a never ending game of chasing shiny because Google and Silly Valley!? Fuck, we now have websites implementing IE-specific bugs in 2021. Case in point: Western Digital's warranty checker, which is now broken on Seamonkey because recent Firefox releases finally caved to implementing a very IEsque bug from 18 years ago, and of course the webshits at WD just had to have fun with it. Ah well, another reason to NOT buy anything from those dicks - their products suck anyway :/ Oh, and implementing THAT specific behavior on Seamonkey (which also affects other browsers, and it's a bug that you should NOT rely on, unless you're a webshit!) most likely WILL break addons. What the hell is wrong with webdevs nowadays!?!??!?!?! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-08, 20:51 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #965 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I get that supporting "older technologies" can be a burden (hello IE!), buuuuut.... why is the rationale to jump onto every newest shiny piece of tech/fad the very minute it gets released? What happened to the KISS principle? I'm still waiting for a reasonable, non-biased answer to the "why Google WebComponents®" question, for example. Instead... we now get more sites that used to work perfectly on nearly every browser under the sun to break in anything that isn't Chrome/"latest Firefox" for no good reason at all in a matter of months, maybe even weeks. Like GitHub/GitLab, or WD's warranty checker form. Oh, and webshits promptly dismissing me with the dreaded "just use latest Chrome/Firefox". I mean, 32-bit PCs and Windows XP eventually have to go away, but why overcomplicating the already complicated web standards? Is it a sort of extreme sport that makes those webshits feel eternally young? A very convoluted way for ensuring job security for life? Boredom? Revenge against the world? I never thought there would be the day I actually hated computers and tech in general, but here we are :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-09, 23:44 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #966 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Modern compilers are nothing short of amazing. But the problem is that developers are switching from highly efficient native code to hundred-megabyte JavaScript abominations running on a JIT engine often trying to do impossible things to struggle achieving 60FPS on a 1080p display for a chat app. We have the tools, it's simply that for many people (and corporations), developer time costs Money™, and hardware is usually cheaper than developer time for them. This is why few people bother optimizing their code these days, because the next generation of computers is just around the corner. We end users get the short end of the stick instead. It's a bubble that for the good of everybody, I HOPE it explodes soon... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-13, 22:39 in Instant messaging (cr)apps (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #967 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I'm now on Telegram. Kill me now. But at least I've installed the client from F-Droid, setup their 2FA (made a password), used this to add my account to Pidgin, and found that over half of my phone contacts are already there... including the TV repair guy I had visited ONCE. Sure, Put-it-in is watching my messages (in good companion with Xinnie and half of Silicon Valley), but my phone is assholeware-free, AND I can use my Real Computer™ running Third Party Native Applications™ on top of my cellphone. I'm zen... for now? Expect moar bitching to come Soon™! (insert preemptive "fuck you Moxie" here) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-14, 19:59 in Instant messaging (cr)apps
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Dinosaur
Post: #968 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Whoever at Telegram had the great idea of putting those stupid moronic animations for braindamaged kids (read: "stickers") as the starting point for new chats ("type some text or touch the sticker to say something") should be sent to Siberia too. Knock off that shit, people. We're not preschoolers, "stickers" are nothing but useless noise! Thankfully this is a non-issue with Pidgin, as it doesn't support stickers, and will never support stickers (hopefully). They were a moronic idea back in the MSN Messenger era, and still remain so, 20 years later. Not everybody using a chat application is a deranged teenager girl, folks. Oh, cleaning up the contact list (because I totally need to talk to that TV repair guy again, that most likely even forgot that had Telegram installed) is of course undiscoverable mystery meat navigation. On the official/FOSS clients, you're supposed to open a chat, tap the profile picture, then look for the "Delete" option in the "three small dots, formerly known as hamburger" menu. Shit UI/UX everywere. GUD JORB, GUYZ! In the meanwhile, there are no non-Electron Matrix clients for Android, it seems. Looks like those guys really don't want other nerds (much less normal people) using their nerd-friendly network, of fucking course. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-16, 14:27 in Upcoming game announcements/news (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #969 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
And here is the true Switch killer, by none other but Valve! Steam Deck - 15W Zen 2/RDNA 2 APU - 16GB DDR4 RAM - 64GB eMMC or 256/512GB NVMe SSD, plus UHS microSD slot on all models - 7" LCD (not OLED) touchscreen - Built-in controller, including gyroscope and dual trackpads - It Runs Linux® - actually Arch-powered SteamOS 3.0 with Plasma, and Proton for those pesky AAA+++ Wintendo games (Yes, you can wipe Linux and install Windows, but WHY?!) - A lone USB-C port which also offers DisplayPort output - IT HAS A HEADPHONE JACK! - Starting at $399 for the base 64GB model, up to $649 for the top-of-the-line 512GB model with antiglare glass and carrying case Shipping starting December 2021 in select countries. No, you can't just preorder one yet. Instead, there is a reservation quota for each of the initially supported regions - you give some money to Valve, and when the time comes, they'll actually let preorder yours. Of course, that's totally to prevent scalpers. My predictions: It will flop, because it's Valve. Just like Steam Machines and the Gabenpad. Also, I wonder why they ditched Debian for Arch... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-19, 01:24 in Instant messaging (cr)apps
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Dinosaur
Post: #970 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
My few interactions with Discord communities thankfully have been through IRC, via dedicated bridge channels/bots. If your "server" doesn't offer a bridge, it doesn't exist to me. And of course, Discord still bans 3rd-party clients and forces you to use their bloaty webshit (complete with Electron abominations if you want "standalone" crapps), so yeah... nope. My sanity is worth way more than "being social". And yeah, pure IRC communities are largely dead by now. Rizon is a cemetery of dead channels, and the recent implosion of Freenode ("prince of Korea", HA!) basically killed the largest remaining dedicated IRC community (yes, there is Libera Chat, but... many people is never coming back) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-19, 21:11 in Instant messaging (cr)apps (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #971 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I decided to register a Matrix account as a sort of "plan Spoilers: Matrix failed the Granny Test™. HARD. Harder than Elon Musk crashing memecoins on a smug-powered Boeing. Step 0: install a client. There are no Debian .DEBs for purple-pidgin, and I'm not in the mood of the "make && make install" dance. Luckily purple-pidgin is on Ubuntu repos, so I took their source packages and rebuilt them on my Debian - easy as pie. Step 1: pick a homeserver. Since Matrix is fully decentralized and federated (unlike your average cellphone vomit), you need to bring your own "homeserver", There are a few lists online, and I ended picking one at random from this one. Of course your granny will stop right here, and stick to WA instead. One more thing: for now, choose your homeserver wisely, as you can't change it once registered (you'll have to dump your account and make a new one). From what I understood, "account portability" is on the TODO list for Matrix devs, so don't get your hopes high :/ Step 2: make a new account. On nearly every PC application of yesteryesterday you just register an account at some website, then logon with that on your client. On cellphones, you need to give your crapp of choice your phone number, and you're done. On Matrix... oh boy. You're supposed to register either from your client or online. Guess what you can't do on Pidgin... that's right, it means you gotta use another client, or a web client. OK, fine, let's go the web client way--- Your browser can't run Element FUCK THIS SHIT! Of course Seamonkey is not Chrome or "latest Firefux", so I'm navigator non grata, and since nearly every homeserver only offers Element, it means the web way is riiiight OUT. It also means at this stage I'm pretty much forced to register from another client, then dump it once I've got my account. This is LAME. After reviewing a list of clients and hearing some recommendations, turns out there is one on Debian repos fit for the task: nheko - it's native (Qt 5), even! At this stage my level of blood rage is rising fast to "boiling" levels. Your granny already died twice yet she is still firmly on WhatsApp. Oh, and even after resorting to nheko, I still got punished with hot ReCaptcha hell. Lovely. Step 3: Find some real people to talk with! Someone sent me a link to join a room. Those are unusable on Pidgin, instead you want the Room ID (a string that starts with "!" and may end with ":name.of.some.homeserver"). Except that the one I got didn't worked on Pidgin... and for that matter, neither did on nheko (I still haven't uninstalled it despite having braindamaged cellphone UI on desktop, for troubleshooting). Instead I had to be invited by someone else - the invite way works fine on Pidgin! Dunno why the room ID didn't work, and of course your granny won't be talking with anyone else anyway - she already died twice while trying to figure out Matrix! Long short story: Matrix is a disaster even among nerds, and fucking hopeless for normies. I guess I'll keep Telegram for normies, and Matrix for... who knows? At least it's awesome to be back on Pidgin... if only they had an Android version... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-20, 18:10 in Dear modern UXtards...
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Dinosaur
Post: #972 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Places like MercadoLibre do exactly the same shit: - Static HTML for rendering the pages, which works even with JS off (but NOT inside NOSCRIPT tags!) - Plus a unhealthy big blob of JSON (we're talking of several hundreds of kilobytes just for a product listing page) for re-rendering the pages with their abomination of homebrew JS framework I learned this the hard way when I was having the unexplained CPU hogs on Seamonkey - turns out this malpractice breaks all hell loose in browsers' rendering engines and JS engines (in the case of SM, handling of timers and the NS-era throbber got involved, IIRC), for no good reason at all. JavaScript is one of mankinds' worst mistakes, make no doubt of it. And now, deranged nerds funded by unlimited VC money are trying to rewrite the world in JavaScript, one module at a time. $DEITY have mercy of us... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-21, 00:36 in Instant messaging (cr)apps
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Dinosaur
Post: #973 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
The difference between IE and Chrome is that IE was actually horrible and nobody liked coding for it, but Chrome appeals to the new generations of hipster webshit, so developers embrace it with tons of love. And broken Javascripts that somehow work there. In other news, TIL Telegram has usernames, so no need to disclose your phone number to random strangers if you don't really want! Except that "tomman" (and my other usual variations of it) were already taken! Fortunately, my backup nick ("dilworks") was not, so any username that is NOT that one is NOT ME!. This is not a problem on Matrix, because not only phone numbers are not needed, but they are completely unsupported! In fact, you don't even require a valid email, so write down that password safely! (Fortunately my nick wasn't in use on the homeserver I ended picking, the aptly named "nerdsin.space") Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-24, 00:46 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #974 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
SeaMonkey 2.53.8.1 is now shipping - it not only fix some breakages for those dinosaurs still using email, but also brings some security backports from recent FF versions too. And for the first time in ages, the team fixed autoupdates - you can now let Seamonkey update itself! (In my case, it... hung, but not before placing the update in place - a quick SIGTERM to the hung seamonkey process brought sanity back) GO GO GO GO! And for those webshits that still insist into releasing broken GoogleScript®: die in a fire, choke on a dick, step on a Lego... just go away and leave our computers alone. SeaMonkey, Waterfox, and even *gasp* Pale Moon aren't "OLD BROWSERS" - they're ALTERNATIVE BROWSERS - learn the difference, you morons! Better yet: switch to another work line! Ruining computers for the present and future generations doesn't qualify as "Information Technologies". Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-28, 03:30 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #975 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/2f72237a4230410a888acbfce3dc0864/lessons-learned-from-15-years-of-sumatrapdf-an-open-source-windows-app.html I fucking love this guy (no homo). "Small and fast - pick both" While multiplatform software is nice, I don't mind having different codebases which take advantage of the native host platform the most, even if we end with very different UIs between Windows/Linux/Mac/cellphones/TVs/whatever. But instead, we got systemd haters and the Electron/Javascript frat boys, where "platform-specific" is considered to be a lethal sin :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-07-29, 00:29 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Dinosaur
Post: #976 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Debian 11 "Bullseye" will ship in August 14th, 2021 - that is, in two weeks! The libglvnd reverse dependencies bug on buster-backports remains open (yay deep freeze~), same as on the libcurl3-gnutls bug. Hope those two get fixed after release, but I'm not holding my breath... At this stage, I'll be moving to Bullseye Soon™, so these should become irrelevant for me in due time. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-08-04, 20:07 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #977 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
https://onemileatatime.com/news/frontier-passenger-duct-taped/ This self-entitled "I-am-richer-than-you" dickface twat has ensured that his next flight will be IN CARGO, tightly packed on a pallet. From what I've reading lately, people is going freakin' insane inside airplanes on 'murica since the pandemic start. Let's keep those no-fly lists ballooning, pretty please - the fact you can pay the airfare doesn't imply you can behave like a dick in a flying tube surrounded by other human beings! Thankfully I'm not a flight assistant :) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-08-06, 01:28 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #978 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Aaaaand I've found the perfect airline for this twat: https://onemileatatime.com/news/worst-boeing-737-landing/ https://avherald.com/h?comment=4eb4e975&opt=0 That's how you land a 737 Like A Boss in one of the trickiest airports in the world... NOT! The plane is literally telling them "we're gonna crash, you idiots!", yet... amazingly they managed to land it in one piece! Furthermore, the very same plane was back in the skies by the next day, so I guess they're lucky to be alive and kickin' - this 737-300 was built in Boeing's BUILT TOUGH™ era. Apparently this class of air insanity is commonplace in Indonesia (thrashing 737s there seems to be a longstanding tradition), so if you ever see a Indonesian (PK) registration on your next flight... RUN, RUN AWAY! Even if the flight isn't on a MAX! But for our dear self-entitled "My parents are richer than you" dickface twat, I guess he can afford buying all of Indonesian cargo airlines with his mommy & daddy's cash, and having great flights on those :) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-08-08, 04:59 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #979 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
A thunder just fried my DSL modem... and the network card on Saki (a cheapo SiS 900) where said modem was plugged. On a SATURDAY NIGHT! Nice sparks, and an instant kernel panic, followed by no boot. Uh-oh... Thankfully nothing else got fried, and after removing the dead NIC, Saki went back to life (this is the third NIC that gets fried on this setup, and it's always the WAN one. The Intercable deep fryer memories never go away...) So while I wait until tomorrow to borrow a modem (and until Monday to spend $25 on a new modem, money I could use on food instead!), I need to sort out the "dead network card" scenario. Fortunately I have a bunch of NICs on my pile of random ISA/PCI cards. Buuuuuuuuut.... - Two of them are gigabit Realtek NICs. Not detected by BIOS, so no joy. I guess gigabit is too new for the 430VX chipset :/ - Two of them are of the ubiquitous Realtek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet junk, which are supposed to work with pretty much everything with a PCI slot, and maybe some brains. Except that apparently mine are of some later revision which won't work with old PCI controllers. Bummer :/ - One of them is a 3Com 3C509B, which is only 10Mbit, and even worse, while it DOES support Full Duplex (Big Fucking Deal™ for DSL modems), its support predates auto negotiation, involves arcane ethtool invocations, and the driver README explicitly tells me to not even bother forcing things to work, because Horrible Things™ can and WILL happen. Suck! - And the final two ones are two more ancient PCI Realtek junk, specifically the good ol' 8029AS. Old enough for having coaxial ports and only 10Mbit, but new enough for having RJ45 jacks AND Full-Duplex mode (that you can't really control, so let the card autonegotiate and hope for the best...). Except that none of this pair of cards wanted to work! The BIOS enumerated them, lspci told me I had Realtek Ethernet cards, but the ne2k-pci driver didn't even wanted to touch them, much less initialize them! Long short story: I had to change the "PCI interrupt mode" from level-triggered (the PCI standard on well, nearly everything!) to edge-triggered (WTF!?) - after that, this ancient driver could finally drive the equally ancient cards that have been pulled from (literally) a pile of trash! So yeah, I now need to hit the flea market for finding an old-enough PCI Fast Ethernet NIC that actually works with OLD machines, and that, y'know, actually works! In the middle of a deadly pandemic, in a city with the worst flea markets EVER, and with a bunch of sleazybags that want greenbacks for moldy hardware. But then, it's that or MercadoLibre and $5 shippings for $2 cards :/ (And I still have to buy that DSL modem, too!). In the meanwhile, I HOPE those ancient NE2K clone cards behave with whatever DSL modem I get, and that I don't get any bizarro behavior from the rest of Saki after having switched PCI interrupts to "not the standard way". But the rest of the hardware doesn't seem to care, for now! And let's hope that the DSLAM port didn't got zapped too, otherwise to the dark ages I'm going back, after only 9 months of getting my phone line fixed :/ (both the wired and cordless phones still work, amazingly!) tl;dr: fuck CANTV and its complete lack of lightning protection. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-08-08, 17:54 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #980 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Loaner modem arrived. The 10mbit card? It Just Works™, surprisingly. Still, it won't be staying there for long, HOPEFULLY. UPDATE: Bought the new modem (a TP-Link TD-8616). $45. OUCH! This modem used to be half that, but TP-Link discontinued it in late '19 (mine was made in January '19), so all the units in the market are new old stock, and heavy price speculation ensued (it's that or some noname sketchy DSL modems which clone even TP-Link box art designs!). One year warranty (unlike routers, for which TP-Link still back Venezuelan-sold units with a full 5-YEAR warranty), which means TAKE CARE OF YOUR INVOICE, and ensure your retailer prints the correct serial number on it, otherwise your warranty will fall back on the MFG date... which means mine is already out of warranty if it were due to that fact alone!. Unlike the last time I had dealt with a TD-8616 (~4 years ago), this one came ready for CANTV out of the box (no need to setup VPI/VCI values, modulation, etc). Trendchip chipset (which hates shitty phone lines, unlike Broadcom or ancient Conexant stuff), so slow to boot and sync, but rock solid performance if your line is stable. Finding a good modem was easy (but pricey). Finding a vintage-friendly NIC isn't. Went to the local flea market, but China Pest™ killed that. Random seedy dude with a table full of totally not stolen broken cellphones sent to a nearby computer/electronics repair shop, which was surprisingly open at noon, in a lockdown week! Yet another seedy-looking dude got me some RTL8139D (but with a 5V PCI connector, not one of the later universal ones that Saki hates to death). Forked out $5 (ouch!) in cash... just to notice that the card had burnt tracks near the RJ-45 jack. Immediately went back to the store and made the guy scavenge into all his junk for finding something else. After ~15 minutes of search, guy cames with a RTL8169 Gigabit card, the ones that Saki had already rejected. So... nope, got my $5 back and went home - this RTL8029AS will have to do for the I've had very bad luck with so-called "universal" PCI cards on vintage hardware. That extra key 99% of the times means I will have failure trying to get those working on any Socket 7-era board (The only universal cards I've had luck with on Saki were the couple of that AS/400 IBM-branded AMD PCNet NICs... of which I lost one to the Great Hardware Loss of 2014). These cards are SUPPOSED to work on both 3.3V and 5V PCI slots, but I guess some Chinazi OEMs can't get assed to properly validate their designs on a wide variety of hardware, especially for something as a commodity like network cards are! (Almost) noone is trying to shoehorn a PCI GT710 on a Pentium MMX, but I expect better from some bottom-of-the-barrel Realtek NIC! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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