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Saturday, September 3, 2022

[01:22:59] @ CrystalMath hi sushi-chan

[01:23:49] @ CrystalMath sushi-chan: soon i'm gonna need to build a wall

[01:24:51] @ CrystalMath sushi-chan: well, i also need to take down a wall to replace a leaking sewage pipe

[01:24:59] @ CrystalMath sushi-chan: but more importantly, i'm gonna build a wal

[01:25:00] @ CrystalMath *wall

[01:25:02] @ CrystalMath after that

[01:25:33] @ CrystalMath sushi-chan: i know walls, i know the best walls, believe me

[01:26:04] @ CrystalMath sushi-chan: you passed the GED right?

[01:26:13] @ CrystalMath yay

[01:27:04] @ CrystalMath congrats on the new machine linuxuser

[01:27:42] @ CrystalMath linuxuser: i need to build one too

[01:27:48] @ CrystalMath linuxuser: aside from a wall

[01:27:54] @ CrystalMath linuxuser: not sure what to do first

[01:28:03] @ CrystalMath linuxuser: but the machine i'm gonna build is gonna be from 2010s parts

[01:28:06] @ CrystalMath hi foxy

[01:28:42] @ CrystalMath linuxuser: 2010 was the best time, screw UEFI

[01:28:48] @ CrystalMath BIOS forever

[01:29:06] @ CrystalMath linuxuser: why do you need to multiboot several linuxes?

[01:29:10] @ CrystalMath :P

[01:29:40] @ CrystalMath Icedream: i prefer DOS partitions

[01:30:05] @ CrystalMath linuxuser: i always use MBR, except on floppies

[01:30:15] @ CrystalMath also, i need a board that supports floppies

[01:30:18] @ CrystalMath should mention that

[01:30:33] @ CrystalMath Icedream: i use it on all of them :P

[01:30:37] @ CrystalMath some are FAT32, some are ext2

[01:30:43] @ CrystalMath some have different partitions

[01:31:26] @ CrystalMath Icedream: there are firmware bugs on this board

[01:31:30] @ CrystalMath related to hardware support

[01:31:45] @ CrystalMath namely, if all the RAM cards are faster than DDR 1600

[01:31:49] @ CrystalMath it won't enter setup

[01:31:58] @ CrystalMath for some reason

[01:32:32] @ CrystalMath Icedream: no it's just a problem with the setup interface

[01:32:43] @ CrystalMath Icedream: everything works, but it won't enter setup

[01:32:49] @ CrystalMath Icedream: unless i plug in a slower RAM card :P

[01:33:00] @ CrystalMath at least 1

[01:33:29] @ CrystalMath linuxuser: journaling shmournaling

[01:33:57] @ CrystalMath Icedream: yes, but that lets me enter setup

[01:34:44] @ CrystalMath Icedream: the one DDR 1600 i have isn't working properly though

[01:34:57] @ CrystalMath Icedream: i should get more of those

[01:35:14] @ CrystalMath Icedream: i just plug it in to use the BIOS setup screen

[01:35:15] @ CrystalMath :P

[01:36:23] @ CrystalMath Icedream: the board allegedly supports 1866, but i guess not quite

[01:36:33] @ CrystalMath Icedream: anyway, screw that, i don't need 1866, why did i even buy it

[01:36:42] @ CrystalMath Icedream: when one of these breaks, i'm getting DDR 1600

[01:36:56] @ CrystalMath Icedream: i use 150 MB RAM

[01:37:03] @ CrystalMath Icedream: but the machine has 16G

[01:37:32] @ CrystalMath sushi-chan: you were once afraid of spiders?

[01:37:42] @ CrystalMath sushi-chan: hate can easily turn to love and vice versa

[01:38:28] @ CrystalMath Icedream: oh, i *can* use the full 16G

[01:38:31] @ CrystalMath Icedream: i just don't

[01:38:35] @ CrystalMath i love oldschool stuff

[01:38:43] @ CrystalMath so i created a CDE-like interface for myself

[01:39:18] @ CrystalMath Icedream: i based my interface on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR7G-wIm-e8

[01:41:36] @ CrystalMath Icedream: btw for my version of CDE, i used the FVWM window manager, and the color schemes are copied from windows 95

[01:41:53] @ CrystalMath Icedream: i really love the windows 3.1 look, but windows 95 had better colors

[01:42:04] @ CrystalMath Icedream: in any case, i'm firmly stuck in the 20th century

[01:42:25] @ CrystalMath but sushi-chan you have no 20th century spiders :(

[01:43:41] @ CrystalMath Icedream: i also installed a win95 in a VM

[01:44:12] @ CrystalMath Icedream: well dosbox is better for that

[01:44:39] @ CrystalMath Icedream: well QEMU is the VM software and it's not very good with PIT timings

[01:45:17] @ CrystalMath Icedream: bochs kinda gets it right but bochs always has this weird problem with its interface

[01:45:26] @ CrystalMath Icedream: no matter what interface i build bochs for, it has SOME bug

[01:45:37] @ CrystalMath bochs with Xlib has these random CPU stalls

[01:45:42] @ CrystalMath idk what the hell is going on

[01:45:54] @ CrystalMath bochs with gtk sometimes just loses the display randomly

[01:45:58] @ CrystalMath and you have to restart it

[01:46:03] @ CrystalMath a few tries and it has a display

[01:46:08] @ CrystalMath otherwise it's just a transparent window

[01:46:28] @ CrystalMath Icedream: so every bochs interface has a different bug

[01:46:44] @ CrystalMath Icedream: i choose the bochs interface build based on which bugs i prefer

[01:47:26] @ CrystalMath Icedream: on windows 95 i can use Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 to browse the Information Superhighway

[01:47:39] @ CrystalMath Icedream: isn't that amazing?

[01:48:44] @ CrystalMath Icedream: do you also like to browse the Information Superhighway?

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