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BaronBS said:
I'm not Maltese. Rum is life.
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Uh, Okay. I see.
BaronBS said:
F... them.
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Yeah, I know. But that's one of my personal construction sites I have to work on.
For that I'm really grateful for the things you said.
Thanks for that.
BaronBS said:
How?
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Frankly, I don't know. (And I highly doubt it would make any sense.)
I simply had some fuzzy memory that in the late 90s there were software available (Beowulf?), used to connect several PC to build a cluster. And I believe one computer science institute of one university even realized one with 256 commercial PCs from "supermarket"...
This always fascinated me - even if I don't have the slightest idea what I shall do with such. Anyway without a certain number of identical computers (as a student been happy to afford just one) it makes no sense whatsover.
I simply do have absolutely no experience on that at all.

I just wanted to end with a joke.

Back to work for me.
 
%pupil -sceptical said:
Yeah, I know. But that's one of my personal construction sites I have to work on.
For that I'm really grateful for the things you said.
Thanks for that.
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(m)

%pupil -sceptical said:
Frankly, I don't know. (And I highly doubt it would make any sense.)
I simply had some fuzzy memory that in the late 90s there were software available (Beowulf?), used to connect several PC to build a cluster. And I believe one computer science institute of one university even realized one with 256 commercial PCs from "supermarket"...
This always fascinated me - even if I don't have the slightest idea what I shall do with such. Anyway without a certain number of identical computers (as a student been happy to afford just one) it makes no sense whatsover.
I simply do have absolutely no experience on that at all.
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Hmmmm, I saw some people doing this to mine crypto. But with better machines then the ones I have.

%pupil -sceptical said:
I just wanted to end with a joke.
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“Ohh, now I see! NOW I get it! Now the pieces are falling into place…”​

%pupil -sceptical said:
Back to work for me.
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Oh, me too. My shift starts in 28 min.
 
BaronBS said:
Don't use the G word, it is offensive. The name of this holy instrument it is The Bass.
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Even if you call it a bass, it still has a G string...

And besides, the word 'Bass' confuses the hell out of me... because it also is used to refer to the cello, as in this picture of a bass orchestra...
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One more example of how same words can mean completely different things depending on who you're talking to. Even the word 'workstation' can have varying meanings. In one place, 'workstation' means a 'computer with beefy specs like a Xeon Phi and 128 GB RAM', and in another, it can mean 'A standard-issue desktop computer with an i5 and 8GB RAM'.
 
astyle said:
Even if you call it a bass, it still has a G string...

And besides, the word 'Bass' confuses the hell out of me... because it also is used to refer to the cello, as in this picture of a bass orchestra...
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The internet needs a "Joke" tag. This is a joke I got from Davie504 ;-)
 
astyle said:
Even if you call it a bass, it still has a G string...

And besides, the word 'Bass' confuses the hell out of me... because it also is used to refer to the cello, as in this picture of a bass orchestra...
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One more example of how same words can mean completely different things depending on who you're talking to. Even the word 'workstation' can have varying meanings. In one place, 'workstation' means a 'computer with beefy specs like a Xeon Phi and 128 GB RAM', and in another, it can mean 'A standard-issue desktop computer with an i5 and 8GB RAM'.
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I am an professional violinst. I am playing on the G-string all day long :)
 
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Malta is a nice place. Only too hot for me in the middle of the summer. I like the northern adriatic too... trieste. They sent me there once to ICTP... I loved the town and the harbour.?

Nice setup. Good to see the thinkpad. I like your bass, and I like those optiplex boxes too! So what was your country before europe, baronbs???
 
blackbird9 said:
Malta is a nice place. Only too hot for me in the middle of the summer. I like the northern adriatic too... trieste. They sent me there once to ICTP... I loved the town and the harbour.?

Nice setup. Good to see the thinkpad. I like your bass, and I like those optiplex boxes too! So what was your country before europe, baronbs???
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[Joke]Nice try government agent[/Joke] ;-)


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Mine is a bit more boring. Some thinkpads (classic keyboard only, X200/201's), a thinkvision LT2452p monitor, iiyama 2K 32" monitor, new shenzhen N100 mini pc, 16GB ram/2TB nvme ssd, with headphone amp next to it under the headphones, the lenovo M93p in the foreground which I just bought and will be a new project, and a cup of coffee. There's also a barely visible lenovo M91p i7 16GB system unit under the desk at the right. There's another M91p at the left side of the desk underneath, another LT2452p monitor, and an APC UPS and gigabit switch, that you can't see, you'll have to take my word for it. You don't want to see a photo under the desk, believe me, even I'm scared to look under there. No bass or g-word at the moment! Most of the time right now I'm just using the big iiyama monitor with the N100 mini pc, and a couple of the thinkpads in other rooms. I've got cat 6 cable to the other rooms.
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I left my thinkpad collection in my old country. I brought the T430 with me, and my parents are bringing a x40 in a couple of months. Gave a x220 to a cousin for him to use in college and sold the rest to another friend that also collect thinkpads. Did you corebooted any of them?

Edit: Malta is hot during 10 months, chill for 1 and cold for 1.
 
BaronBS said:
“Ohh, now I see! NOW I get it! Now the pieces are falling into place…”
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???
...you were blind, but now you see...
Sorry, I am living in Switzerland for too long.
This rubs off on one.
Some things cannot be avoided, even if you try hard to not get integrated.

People say we germans are humorless. They are right.
But they never been in Switzerland.
If you tell swiss a joke, or make a punchline, they stare blank at you until you tell them it's a joke.
Then they laugh politely, and restrained.
It even does not have to be a joke at all. Just say it was - laughs.

Irony and cynicism do not exist. Don't try it. It will not work.
You will only get blank stares, even if you tell them it was ment funny.
Sarcasm will at most be understood as a deadly personal offense, only. Never ever use this!

So, if you ever come to Switzerland, and a swiss tells you a ...'joke' - they are always very funny all the time; they communicate in drolly, clever punchlines, only - you always have to laugh politely, and restrained.
Even when the joke is stale boring, which it will.
'ha ha' - too few. 'HaHaHaHa!' - way too much. 'Hahaha.' - perfect. So, and so only.
Always!

For a swiss there is one, and only one explanation not to laugh about a joke:
You didn't get it.
Since swiss are a very polite, and humble people don't want to make others feel bad by outsmarting them with their cleverness, you will get it explained in detail until you laugh.

And absolutely never ever burst out laughing loudly.
Even when you heard a good joke (by some non swiss), don't!
That's worse than farting, or peeing in public.
Belching is okay. If nobody laughs.
 
%pupil -sceptical said:
???
...you were blind, but now you see...
Sorry, I am living in Switzerland for too long.
This rubs off on one.
Some things cannot be avoided, even if you try hard to not get integrated.

People say we germans are humorless. They are right.
But they never been in Switzerland.
If you tell swiss a joke, or make a punchline, they stare blank at you until you tell them it's a joke.
Then they laugh politely, and restrained.
It even does not have to be a joke at all. Just say it was - laughs.

Irony and cynicism do not exist. Don't try it. It will not work.
You will only get blank stares, even if you tell them it was ment funny.
Sarcasm will at most be understood as a deadly personal offense, only. Never ever use this!

So, if you ever come to Switzerland, and a swiss tells you a ...'joke' - they are always very funny all the time; they communicate in drolly, clever punchlines, only - you always have to laugh politely, and restrained.
Even when the joke is stale boring, which it will.
'ha ha' - too few. 'HaHaHaHa!' - way too much. 'Hahaha.' - perfect. So, and so only.
Always!

For a swiss there is one, and only one explanation not to laugh about a joke:
You didn't get it.
Since swiss are very polite, and humble people don't want to make others feel bad by outsmarting them with their cleverness, you will get it explained in detail until you laugh.

And absolutely never ever burst out laughing loudly.
Even when you heard a good joke (by some non swiss), don't!
That's worse than farting, or peeing in public.
Belching is okay. If nobody laughs.
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A Swiss guy was rolling on the floor laughing when I casually mentioned that I had a chocolate cake with beer in Vienna's airport. I later read that this combination is something that Germans don't find strange at all, unlike the Swiss. That was back in 1990s... ?
 
You see: Not a single "thumb up" by any swiss guy.
If I had written such a thing about germans, which I could (and possibly another day, in another thread I may will) I would get lots of thumbs up - from germans.
Which proves my point.
astyle said:
A Swiss guy was rolling on the floor laughing
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Of course they are.
With all our swiss friends we have lots of fun.
They are also not really less funny than germans.
It's simply another kind of humor. More sensitive, delicate, subtle.
While german humor is mostly way more like with the sledgehammer.
More offensive, sometimes even aggressive, more cynicism, and by far way more sarcasm.

I wish all the swiss guys here a nice national holiday (August 1st)
 
Tor Browser from quarterly packages for 14 (1400097) mixed into latest packages on FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT (1500023). Plus:
  • a theme
  • four extensions, two of which help to combat Google's attempts to enforce advertising.
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Free from advertising, free from the sponsorship stuff.

I don't expect the combined countermeasures to be effective forever. I'll enjoy them whilst I can.


Yes, a mixture of quarterly and latest:

Code: 
% pkg info -A tor-browser
tor-browser-13.5.a9_1:
        FreeBSD_version: 1400097
        build_timestamp: 2024-09-06T11:26:11+0000
        built_by       : poudriere-git-3.4.2
        cpe            : cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:tor-browser:13.5.a9:::::freebsd14:x64:1
        no_provide_shlib: yes
        port_checkout_unclean: no
        port_git_hash  : 854c13714
        ports_top_checkout_unclean: no
        ports_top_git_hash: 59d8804dc
% uname -mKU
amd64 1500023 1500023
%

If you have any concern:

forums.freebsd.org

Installation and Maintenance of Ports or Packages

Installing and maintaining the FreeBSD Ports Collection or FreeBSD Packages (i.e. third party software).
forums.freebsd.org forums.freebsd.org

Thanks
 
Ocarina of Time™ … I like the sound of that. Even better, I'm told that "… Horses also have affection, without it being full the horse won't listen to you and will be harder to control, making it crash into things or go off course. …".

If ever I tire of the Cath pretence, I might slip into Legend of Zelda mode. Either that, or (a better fit for the forums) I'll become a partially affectionate horse with a preference for off-course comments :)
 
Cath O'Deray said:
What's the black box?
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It's a headphone amp from a UK company called canford audio, they do a lot of studio and broadcast quality kit, these little amplifiers are made by them to (I believe) BBC specification. https://www.canford.co.uk/CANFORD-PC-HEADPHONE-AMPLIFIERS

Of course it's not an external DAC so you're still listening to the intel chipset DAC, but it has proper drive capability for high impedance headphones and uses high quality analog design. I haven't taken mine apart, but I expect it uses a couple of reasonable op-amps. I had one lying around so I thought I may as well use it. Sound quality is very good. Of course you really want a nice linear regulated power supply to go with one of these, but at the moment I'm using a crappy switch-mode brick, it still sounds pretty good. :) And with freebsd I can set up 'bitperfect' mode audio and play uncompressed FLACs to make the most of the intel hi-def audio dac, eg see https://cneira.github.io/posts/bitperfectsoundfreebsd/
 
DrJuanNadie said:
… Some people tend to focus their attention to the left, …
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I'm that way. Top left, that's where the Apple menu is found, and so on.

I have Plasma and Firefox (now with native vertical tabs) configured for the broadest overview to the left, greatest focus to the right.

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I don't often use HeadingsMap, it's very useful for:
  • navigation
  • a proper view of heading levels.

BR 271477 for heading levels across the main website www.freebsd.org.

freebsd-doc PR 421 for outdated STABLE at Get FreeBSD.
 
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