@girlonthenet Where are they based? IIRC CCheques haven't really been a thing in the wild here in .no since the early 1990s or thereabouts. I suppose they are still technically valid but nobody ever uses them here.
Something "new" to explore on the workbench today: a 1995 #Apple#Macintosh#Performa 630 in the "DOS Compatible" variant. It’s a bit of an oddball machine from Apple‘s otherwise quite bland (in my opinion) beige era. It has both a regular 68040 Mac and a full 486/DX2-66 PC inside. Should even be capable of running Windows 95 alongside MacOS 8! Thanks to a very generous donation from @markuspooch I’m going to get to play with it. Thank you! #InTheLabDoingStuff#RetroComputing#VintageComputing
@janbeta@markuspooch The first generation PowerMacs which would have been predecessors to this also had an option for an expansion card that was a full blown PC on a card running Windows (3.something if memory serves).
The one we had was for a while the fastest Windows machine in the house.
What platforms were used in the 80s up to about 1993 or 1994 for Internet servers? It can be #FTP, #Gopher, #telnet, #USENET, the #OldWeb, or anything else that was on the Internet in that era.
My research indicates Solaris was very popular for web servers until Linux took over, and so I suspect it (and SunOS before it) was very popular for the Internet in general, but I'd like to hear from anyone with this sort of experience.
@sinza During the 80s, likely VAXes running some BSD variety, also some Sun kit. Moving into the 90s, some sort of TCP/IP was available for more systems, but still BSDs or derivatives mostly. Linux only really started catching on later. And notably ft.cdrom.com, the download site back then, was one (rather beefy for its time) FreeBSD box.
Sure. Among these, the app that takes up RAM should be… Twitter.
(Sometimes I do wonder if there are still lingering weird ARM-specific issues in #macOS, since I hadn’t had these dialogs on Intel in a long time, despite having half the RAM. Something in Cocoa, maybe?)
@chucker assuming this is not a fake, I would suggest the user try loading the site in a web browser. it might even appear incrementally less fugly in that case
I just saw a post that referred to ChatGPT as "Mansplaining as a service", and it is so wonderfully correct - instant generation of superficially plausible yet totally fabricated nonsense presented with unflagging confidence regardless of topic without concern, regard or even awareness of the expertise of its audience :D #chatgpt#mansplaining
Wow, TIL near where I grew up in France, high-speed rail (the TGV) caused tangible reduction in passenger air traffic. The budget airlines shut off the routes as soon as the TGV started running, unable to compete. The larger airlines kept trying for ten years, but eventually gave up as well. Turns out, 2-3 hours on a comfortable train that drops you in the middle of town is better than faffing around in airports, despite the trip time being just 1h.
@danderson There are bits of Europe that could do with more high speed rail too.
My local example (Norway) is the Bergen - Oslo stretch. ~500km, by slow train ~7 hrs, while flying BGO-OSL with luck you go city center to city center in about 4 hrs. Something like TGV would beat that for sure if competitively priced. Current train prices are at least 2-3 times flight prices for that stretch.
(And I am sure friends in Trondheim will say TRD-OSL is roughly the same on all counts)