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Model 100 floppy disk on a NEC PC-8300? (lemmy.one)
 

Since they are both Kyocera machines, would the Model 100's floppy drive work on the NEC machine? Did it have a floppy of it's own?

Of BIOS and UEFI: A shim?? in c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 1 points 4 months ago

I think I read this is how HP supplies their "no OS" machines - a very thin Linux with a VM running the FreeDOS fullscreen.

Of BIOS and UEFI: A shim?? in c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"UEFI does have a legacy compatibility layer" And this is how one may have a "system firmware" that allows both. Could DOS be made UEFI compatible maybe by loading a .sys driver or maybe by replacing io.sys with one that made use of UEFI?

I wrote a python script to backup my home directory in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 3 points 4 months ago

My system came with Python3 installed. Debian 12.

I wrote a python script to backup my home directory in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 1 points 4 months ago

Ah, Improvements!

I wrote a python script to backup my home directory in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Looks like a line by line translation from the python. Will you use it to backup your home directory?

Of BIOS and UEFI: A shim?? in c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Actually, I do have a quite usable FreeDOS running in DOSBox on my Linux machine, but it's not quite the same as running DOS / FreeDOS on the metal. Getting floppies to work as seamlessly as they do on a machine meant for DOS for example.

Of BIOS and UEFI: A shim?? in c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Linux for example will boot easily under both UEFI and BIOS - but I suppose that is because Linux does not ask anything of either once it is running.

I wrote a python script to backup my home directory in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

@droolio@feddit.uk I see what you're asking. You’re wondering if, instead of storing a duplicate file when another backup set already contains it, I could use a hardlink to point to the file already stored in that other set?

I have a system where I create a backup set for each day of the week. When I do a backup for that day, I update the set, or if it’s out of date, I replace it entirely with a fresh backup image (After 7 backups to that set). But if the backup sets became inter-dependent, removing or updating one set could lead to problems with others that rely on files in the first set.

Does that make sense? I am asking because I am not familiar with the utilities you mentioned and may be taking your post wrong.

I wrote a python script to backup my home directory in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Especially one that lets you know how long it's been since you took time to run a backup, keeps track of which set of backups could be updated, and which should be refreshed, and keeps a log file up to date and in .csv format so you can mess with it in a spreadsheet?

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Of BIOS and UEFI: A shim?? (lemmy.one)
 

I have a laptop that will not allow anything but UEFI and I must run FreeDOS.. (or one of many other OSes that wont boot via UEFI)

Is there a UEFI Bios shim? UEFI thinks it is an OS, but It loads the BIOS boot block and runs it?

Is that even possible?

I wrote a python script to backup my home directory in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 3 points 4 months ago

That's ok Like any landing you can walk away from. Any code that runs to spec is good, much could be better.

I wrote a python script to backup my home directory in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 14 points 4 months ago

Yeah, no problem... I started out with just bare rsync - but I did the backup infrequently and needed my notes to know the command. Then I wrote a simple shell script to run the rsync for me. Then I decided I needed more than one backup, redundancy is good. Then I wanted to keep track of the backups so I had it write to .backuplog then that file started getting dated (every time I run a "sun" backup the record of the previous one is useless) so Finally TaDa! loci is born.

I wrote a python script to backup my home directory in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 30 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It's also to help me learn python. And it works for me. : ^ )

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I wrote a python script to backup my home directory (codeberg.org)
 

Loci is a python script that can backup a directory to a server using rsync - It keeps track of the backups that have been done. Multiple backups may be kept. Rsync is used to handle the backups so only the needfull is copied and single files can be recovered from the backup if needed. loci -b tag : Backup under the tag given (I used days of the week)

loci -l : List backups showing those tags unused, backups that are needed, and backups that been run more than 5 times. I refresh these.

loci -r tag : Refresh a tag's backup - delete the files under that tag and backuplog entries to prepare for a fresh backup using loci -b

~/.backuplog a file in .csv format that keeps track of backups done.

~/.config/loci/settings Settings file. Fully commented.

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Linux file server as a tailscale router node? (lemmy.one)
 

Would it be unwise to make my file server (SSH only) machine (also runs a Minecraft server, And From time to time runs RSTS/E under simh) a tailscale router node to allow my traveling notebood access to the network when I am away?

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Disk space - Is it time to clean up yet? - Reccomendations (lemmy.one)
 

root@cube:~# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 116G 41G 70G 37% /

Is it time to clean up?

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GitHub - pentalive/FPTiny: Floating Point Tiny - an RPN based language for writing programs in (github.com)
 

Floating Point Tiny is an RPN based esoteric language and is the big brother to Tiny (an integer version.) The source and documentation are available at https://github.com/pentalive/FPTiny

"Floating Point Tiny" does not quite roll off the tongue as well I would like. A better name would be appreciated.

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[Solved] Minecraft on an i5 with 8gb of memory? (lemmy.one)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by waspentalive@lemmy.one to c/minecraft@sh.itjust.works
3 comments fedilink
 

[Solved Empirically] I have loaded this up on my machine and I seem to be getting good frame rates, but I am working under Fluxbox, a really light weight window manager. I would like to run KDE instead. It's a little heavier. Will that make a difference to Minecraft? Will minecraft work better if I am running with a server on another machine? (logic would say that with some portion of the work happening on that other machine the client should not need as much processing power)

Or is it just useless to worry about all this?

--Update Ok, I have re-installed the machine on KDE and tried it both against a server and a local game and both seem to run just fine, just an occasional double place but not a big deal.

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Linux user wants to check out BSD - May I have a recommendation ? (lemmy.one)
 

I am a long time Linux User, KDE user. I want to try out BSD, but I am having a hard time getting it installed.

I tried the latest version of FreeBSD but it seems to come without X or Wayland (Or any of the other graphical bits) and I can't seem to get the graphical part working.

Nothing yet has been done with the machine, so, if anyone can recommend an easy-to-install - that works out of the box in full graphics where I don't have to mess with modelines like 2001. I would love to try an OS where there are not too many cooks in the kitchen.

I will be installing it on a Lenovo Ideapad.

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Samsung Baloney? (lemmy.one)
 

I just got a notice from Samsung that they have new a new Privacey policy. When I get to the policy page it is blank except for a "Accept new policy" and text saying I must accept the policy to see it. I clicked the button - then that screen closed. What?? no policy? BTW - this was not sent as a normal text and does not show up in messages.

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On Digital Picture Printing (lemmy.one)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by waspentalive@lemmy.one to c/photography@lemmy.ml
5 comments fedilink
 

Hi fellow photographers!

  • Do you render your digital pictures on paper (print)?

  • Do you use a printer in the home for it?

  • What printer do you use?

  • What printer would you recommend with cost vs quality in mind? (8.5 x 11 prints would be fine)

  • Do you send your pictures to a commercial printer?

  • Do you goto the nearest Staples or Walmart and use the printers there?

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HTML to Print anyone? [Solved Thanks!] (lemmy.one)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by waspentalive@lemmy.one to c/technology@lemmy.ml
9 comments fedilink
 

{Solved Thanks}

Would there be any interest? header tags are used to make table of contents, anchor tags create Index entries, all the formatting tags (tables, un-numbered and numbered lists etc) do basic print formatting. All the bold/underline/italic also render to paper. Sort of like a poor man's TeX.

Has anyone done this?

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Advice Request - Lens question (lemmy.one)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by waspentalive@lemmy.one to c/photography@lemmy.ml
7 comments fedilink
 

First, please let me apologize for my lack of proper vocabulary. 😃

I have a Canon EOS R50 with the stock 18 to 45 lens.

I need a stronger telephoto capability, to take bird pictures, the moon, get that lone oak tree out in a field etc. There are devices that one can place between the lens and the body to <>, right? Would it be better to get one of these or to buy another whole lens? I am assuming the adapter would be less expensive. Money is a factor. (isn't it always?)

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