Notices by Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org), page 25

@pamela

I still have not quite come to terms with my failure to realize my ambition to write a Z80 assembler for my Timex Sinclair 1000.

One little trick I had to learn here: I was trying to run the tower from an SSD. Used the default disk stuff for the Ubuntu installs on it, and on the laptop I hauled out of mothballs. The problem here is that means the exact same volume group name is on both, and they conflict when I pulled the tower's SSD and tried to mount it on the laptop to copy stuff over.

So, I had to get the UUID from vgdisplay, and then use vgrename.

One of the keys to all this is that the small form factor desktop I had been using had no provision for driving multiple monitors. Hmm, let me see ... Optiplex 745. This review I found is from December 2006.

So, yeah. It had a good run.

So, anyway, I've got the $PARENT of all rsync's running right now to effect my pivot away from the tower that failed to rise to the occasion (I got a tower because I wanted something I could add a USB 3 adapter in).

So, that's going to take a while.

And, you know, I try not to be a hater about JS/ES and heavy web apps, but when I load up Google Maps and all the fans just start losing their ever-heckin' minds going full bore, well, hmm.

Just to give you an idea, we're talking replacing Core 2 Duo's with i5's as much as 7 years old. Some of the Core 2 hardware is still serviceable, but that tower ... not so much.

I'm back to doing what I had done a while ago: Replace the laptop, demote the laptop to standby mode for a while, then press it into use on the desktop. Was lucky to have cast offs from others in the house so I could press something else into the burner laptop role.

I've managed to beat down the urge to get new/different hardware into the house recently, since we have enough older stuff that I haven't quite exhausted all of them for my 'upgrades'. (It's still an upgrade if you move from older stuff to old but less old stuff.)

I did have a stretch of bad luck with this tower I bought used--tried to use it but it just kept crashing. I think it's a bad video card, but I'm not going to chase my sunk costs on that one.

Technical Glitch Again Delays 1st Commercial Launch of Rocket Lab's Electron Booster

Rocket Lab's Electron small-satellite launcher will have to wait a bit longer to take to the skies on its first commercial flight.

https://www.space.com/41009-rocket-lab-electron-commercial-launch-new-delay.html

@bobstechsite I am always really wary of anything that's the new hotness, especially with web technologies, because devs seem to want to chop and change everything when a trendy new technology comes along.

That is partly why I still use WP even though it's a bit shit, and Django even though it's not ideal for a lot of stuff. It's been around for a long time with very few breaking changes.