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Is This An Old Folks Home?

Started byFarley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks>
First post2026-11-02 23:08 +0000
Last post2026-11-06 15:59 -0500
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  Is This An Old Folks Home? Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-11-02 23:08 +0000
    Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-03 02:51 +0100
      On the on-topicness of tape drives (was: Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-04 23:47 +0000
        Re: On the on-topicness of tape drives Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-11-05 04:14 +0000
          Re: On the on-topicness of tape drives c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-05 17:29 -0500
            Re: On the on-topicness of tape drives Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-11-05 22:52 +0000
              Re: On the on-topicness of tape drives c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-05 19:11 -0500
                Re: On the on-topicness of tape drives Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-11-06 02:41 +0000
                  Re: On the on-topicness of tape drives c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-05 22:31 -0500
                    Re: On the on-topicness of tape drives Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-06 20:51 +0000
            Re: On the on-topicness of tape drives Beej Jorgensen <beej@beej.us> - 2026-11-06 05:59 +0000
              Re: Tape Drives Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-06 06:18 +0000
    Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-02 21:08 -0500
    Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-11-03 02:26 +0000
    Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com> - 2026-11-04 09:55 +0800
      Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-03 22:14 -0500
        Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-11-04 03:54 +0000
          Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-04 06:21 +0000
            Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2026-11-05 20:40 -0500
              Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-05 21:52 -0500
                Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-06 14:28 +0100
    Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? Beej Jorgensen <beej@beej.us> - 2026-11-04 19:15 +0000
      Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-11-04 20:38 +0000
        Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-04 23:51 +0000
        Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-11-05 17:48 +0100
          Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2026-11-05 16:56 +0000
          Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-05 20:55 +0000
    Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2026-11-06 12:23 -0500
      Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-11-06 19:25 +0000
        Re: Is This An Old Folks Home? "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2026-11-06 15:59 -0500

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#95239

From"Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Date2026-11-06 14:28 +0100
Message-ID<nl62v5Fl7kmU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#95221
On 2026-11-06 03:52, c186282 wrote:
> On 11/5/26 20:40, TJ wrote:
>> On 2026-11-04 01:21, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>> On 2026-11-04, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:


>> Guess that makes me really old. I was drafted during the Nixon 
>> administration, and assigned to run a HP 2116 minicomputer system at a 
>> research facility. When I got there, it was using a couple of 7-track 
>> tape drives, and was booted up with a strip of paper tape. Soon after, 
>> it was upgraded to a then newfangled "moving head disk drive" that had 
>> one fixed disk and one bay for cartridges about 15 inches in diameter, 
>> and a revised boot program eliminated the paper tape boot procedure.
> 
>    Hey, STATE-OF-THE-ART !  :-)
> 
>    Kinda miss the drive units with the
>    removable platters. Do NOT pull them
>    before they stop spinning, saw the
>    result of that once !

Please tell!

> 
>    Odd fact, had a tour of a US submarine in
>    the mid 80s ... the sonar niche had a "mini"
>    and one removable-platter drive. Probably
>    officially specced a decade before. Govt/mil
>    stuff is often like that. The Apollo/LEM
>    spacecraft were already well behind the
>    curve when it came to computer shit ... but
>    it'd all been specced, set in stone, in the
>    early 60s. "ROPE MEMORY" for the LEM !

It is a big problem to maintain those for years, if they are 
industry-obsolete when they start service.

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.
        ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺.

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#95122

FromBeej Jorgensen <beej@beej.us>
Date2026-11-04 19:15 +0000
Message-ID<11cg087$v5s2$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#94962
In article <18e45d18dce2f904$1893$2999836$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>,
Farley Flud  <ff@gnulinux.rocks> wrote:
>Ha, ha, [snip] ha, ha!

I do wish more people, young and old, would comply with RFC 1855.
Everyone should give it a (re)read. :)

-- 
Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall | beej@beej.us

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#95131

FromFarley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks>
Date2026-11-04 20:38 +0000
Message-ID<18e4f20ec4823882$11498$2998393$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>
In reply to#95122
On Wed, 4 Nov 2026 19:15:19 -0000 (UTC), Beej Jorgensen wrote:

> 
> I do wish more people, young and old, would comply with RFC 1855.
> Everyone should give it a (re)read. :)
>

Usenet is beyond doubt superior to all of the fashionable web forums
that are controlled by single entities and heavily moderated (i.e censored)
and also data mined.

But it seems that Usenet, or at least a lot of formerly popular groups,
is no longer used for free discussion but only only to alleviate the
loneliness of decrepit old-timers that can't find anything better to
do with their empty time.

Please keep all posts on topic and refrain from assuming that Usenet
is your personal taproom.


-- 
Gentoo/LFS: Is there any-fucking-thing else?

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#95144

FromNuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
Date2026-11-04 23:51 +0000
Message-ID<11cggdm$14knq$3@dont-email.me>
In reply to#95131
On 2026-11-04, Farley Flud wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Nov 2026 19:15:19 -0000 (UTC), Beej Jorgensen wrote:
>
>> 
>> I do wish more people, young and old, would comply with RFC 1855.
>> Everyone should give it a (re)read. :)
>>
>
> Usenet is beyond doubt superior to all of the fashionable web forums
> that are controlled by single entities and heavily moderated (i.e censored)
> and also data mined.
>
> But it seems that Usenet, or at least a lot of formerly popular groups,
> is no longer used for free discussion but only only to alleviate the
> loneliness of decrepit old-timers that can't find anything better to
> do with their empty time.
>
> Please keep all posts on topic and refrain from assuming that Usenet
> is your personal taproom.

(No, this is the *tape*-room.)

... why didn't you set Followup-To: to a group discussing hypocrisy?

-- 
Nuno Silva

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#95164

From"s|b" <me@privacy.invalid>
Date2026-11-05 17:48 +0100
Message-ID<nl3q9bFa0fhU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#95131
On Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:38:16 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:

> Please keep all posts on topic and refrain from assuming that Usenet
> is your personal taproom.

'netcop' and 'self-proclaimed moderator' come to mind.

-- 
Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae.
		- Julius Caesar

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#95165

FromRobert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net>
Date2026-11-05 16:56 +0000
Message-ID<slrn11epda6.s0e.spamtrap42@one.localnet>
In reply to#95164
On 2026-11-05, s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:38:16 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:
>
>> Please keep all posts on topic and refrain from assuming that Usenet
>> is your personal taproom.
>
> 'netcop' and 'self-proclaimed moderator' come to mind.

Please don't feed the trolls.

-- 
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

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#95174

FromThe Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Date2026-11-05 20:55 +0000
Message-ID<11ciqgb$1votj$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#95164
On 05/11/2026 16:48, s|b wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:38:16 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:
> 
>> Please keep all posts on topic and refrain from assuming that Usenet
>> is your personal taproom.
> 
> 'netcop' and 'self-proclaimed moderator' come to mind.
> 
I thought Farley was plonked. Seems to have nym shifted
Re plonked


-- 
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, 
that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Jonathan Swift.

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#95243

From"Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com>
Date2026-11-06 12:23 -0500
Message-ID<11cl2ds$2nskj$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#94962
On 11/2/2026 6:08 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

> Is this group an actual GNU/Linux discussion forum or a sordid
> home for decrepit old folks and faltering has-beens?
> 
> I don't want no useless info on pre-historic tape readers.


So why no SSD?


> I, and many others, want cutting edge philosophy on GNU/Linux/FOSS.
> 
> Otherwise, go bury yourselves, grandpas.
> 
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!


Any OS benefits from an SSD.

-- 
Joel W. Crump

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#95246

FromFarley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks>
Date2026-11-06 19:25 +0000
Message-ID<18e58b384ec1d4b9$3648$2902356$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>
In reply to#95243
On Fri, 6 Nov 2026 12:23:08 -0500, Joel W. Crump wrote:

> On 11/2/2026 6:08 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
> 
>> Is this group an actual GNU/Linux discussion forum or a sordid
>> home for decrepit old folks and faltering has-beens?
>> 
>> I don't want no useless info on pre-historic tape readers.
> 
> 
> So why no SSD?
> 

The reasons were explicitly stated many times already.

Perhaps the surge of endorphins that you experience with each
dildo that slides up your ass has caused you to forget.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Degenerate sodomite.


> 
> Any OS benefits from an SSD.
>

None whatsoever.

Unless, for you, SSD = Self-Satisfying Dildo.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Degenerate sodomite.


-- 
Gentoo/LFS: Is there any-fucking-thing else?

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#95254

From"Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com>
Date2026-11-06 15:59 -0500
Message-ID<11clf3j$2sudm$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#95246
On 11/6/2026 2:25 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

>>> Is this group an actual GNU/Linux discussion forum or a sordid
>>> home for decrepit old folks and faltering has-beens?
>>>
>>> I don't want no useless info on pre-historic tape readers.
>>
>> So why no SSD?
> 
> The reasons were explicitly stated many times already.
> 
> Perhaps the surge of endorphins that you experience with each
> dildo that slides up your ass has caused you to forget.
> 
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
> 
> Degenerate sodomite.
> 
>> Any OS benefits from an SSD.
> 
> None whatsoever.
> 
> Unless, for you, SSD = Self-Satisfying Dildo.
> 
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
> 
> Degenerate sodomite.


I saw Linux on a four-core machine with a SATA SSD, and on a 
six-core/12-thread and a four-core/four-thread both with NVMe storage, 
it matters plenty if one wants more than your unserviceable rig.

-- 
Joel W. Crump

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