Pellet heads!! What's up today?

We have nasty weather coming....Teens F for low temps....A quick cold then Freezing rain and maybe a touch of snow....
Decided to drag out the Generator and fire it up to make sure things are good to go....We always run the fuel out of it when we are done with it....

4000 watt HARBOR FREIGHT unit....Been a great gen set....The kids bought one for their travel trailer and it was good...so we got one.....

I never trust any of these gas ones ....even after running them dry after use.....When the weather folks start talking snow/ice I always fire the unit up and run it a bit.....Then run it dry......

So if we lose power we will have heat......


Arrrrrgh....

I hate ice storms....

 

Me too.

 

21.1 LTS Vera allowed me to toss the scaled software emulation in Virtual Box 7.04 Sam.

 

Whenever you talk like that, it seems like a foreighn language to me!!

 

It is,so it should.

 

I agree! Anything computer related that he talks about goes right over my head. I’m always amazed at his knowledge of such things given his (ahem) age. I tried to deal with COBOL and Fortran in high school but it was all in vain. When the PC came along during my career I had to self learn in order to survive the rapidly changing technology…..hats off to you STB!

 

The computer tech sure changed everything.......Seems that today....everything has to have a computer connected to it....

Sure hope some clown does not start connecting the computer to the TOILET......NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....A bridge too far...

I got into computers in the early 90's Win 3.1 was just out and my folks bought our daughter a i486 machine.
The machine quit a week after we got it......The owner of the shop that built the beast died and were were left in the lurch...

I grabbed up some computer books and never looked back......Fixed the machine (Failed memory chip)

Lived through Win 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, VISTA and 7.......At this point I was sick of Win and started looking for something better.....Ended up Bolting the camp and getting onboard with Linux
Tried a few distros of Linux and ended up with Zorin 7 ....then Zorin 9 and recently updated the machine to Zorin 16.2

Never looked back......

Never really got interested in programming language......

 

me too

 

I got my first computer in the 80's, an Atari 800XL. Programs on cassettes. My inlaws got me an external floppy drive for Xmas so I could run a couple programs I wanted (EA's Pinball Construction Set and Battle Chess). That floppy drive was $250!
From there into the 90's went from a 8088, 640k memory (who'll ever need more right Mr. Gates) Packard Bell. Then I got into building my own systems (remember Computer Shopper the NY phonebook-sized monthly) a 286 system, a 486-33 with a VGA video card, to AMD's K586, up through all the Pentiums, over to AMD Phenom, back to Intel (6700k, 8700k, 9900k) and to my current AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. About every video card made all this time as well from Voodoo 3 to my current Radeon RT6900XT with dual 32" 4K monitors.

DOS from 3 to 6, Windows from 3 to 11, Quarterdeck's DESQview, GeoWorks, QEMM386 memory manager, etc. Various Linux distros over the past 12 years , currently dual boot Win 11 (rarely) and Arch Linux.

Throw in tablets, installing custom ROMs on cell phones, Chromebooks, home networking, remote access and building, repairing , maintaining computers & networks, being the tech guy for a large group of family & friends over the last 30 years. Ain't much I haven't seen over that time.

Notice there wasn't anything in there about not enjoying it


sam

 

Or installing upgrades that bust half of your stuff. That folks is why you backup, and backup some more. I got my start in 1969 with disk monitor 2.2 at USM on an IBM1130 I can still run things on that system using an emulater on this box under Windows 11 PRO or Linux. In fact I can run old IBM Mainframe operating systems.

 

Go to's are Harmful said someone (CRS you know) anyhow his name starts with a Dijkstra.

 

Made it to -16F up here today, now is -25F and dropping, but snow quit. Not much snow.

 

You can keep it. Not great for us with cold air induced asthma.

 

holy chit!!! STB is right, you can keep it! lol

 

saw in a forecast that from Friday night through next Wed it's supposed to be in the mid teens at night and mid 20s during the day around here. Gonna bring in some doug firs tomorrow and Friday morning while it's 50* outside give the P43 a good cleaning.

sam

 

R60 attic a month ago.

 

I started on DOS machines at work. At the same time my parents sent me an old tape cassette using computer, but without any type of training I had no idea how to do anything but use the math and chess programs. Work upgraded from DOS when Win 3.0 (yes, the buggy precursor to 3.1) came out. 3.0 was buggy and frustrating IIRC. I was styling when I bought a used 386DX (from a small business - I think I paid $600 which was a lot of money back then) with "massive" ram at 16mb and Win 3.1. It even had Word Perfect and Lotus on it. I never wanted to build my own, and a programmer I'm not but I can figure out most issues that crop up so I don't have to have anyone else do repairs.