Neuromancer

Meant that as what about they could store.

Why I know. Go play it and you’ll see how they did it.

I am curious who said. You know am audio take will create a great experience.

Using a tape drive is crazy when you think about it. It was slow…. This wasn’t the big tape cartridges. It was a standard Audio tape. Not sure why they could store but it was all sequential

I think it was just a limit of how quick everything ran back then. Also, this was an IBM system that was checked, double-checked, and triple-checked because it was a mission-critical system. IBM used to be known for quality hardware. Hard to imagine because they are such a crap company now but that was the equivalent of a google back then.

My first pc had a tape drive.

It isn’t a disk driver since the OS is not loaded yet. It is the hardware identifying each disk in the SCSI chain. Not sure what else it was doing walking the bus much I know finding all the disk was the longest part.

I think mine takes like 2 minutes. It’s ten years old. I’ve putting off upgrading to the cost of videos cards

I will date myself. These machines had a lot of memory as well which added to the slow reboot. I think it was 16 gigs.

The r series for IBM took forever. The p series was faster but was still slow

The more disk you had, the longer it took. It walked the scsi bus which took forever. So if you had more disk. It took even longer.

Since everything was remote, you’d have to call hands and they weren’t technical. Also no cameras since it was the 90’s.

Now when I restart a vm or container. I panic if it’s not back up in 10 minutes.

In the old days some of the servers took at hour to reboot. That was stressful when you couldn’t ping it at an hour.

This is my favorite one I’ve seen about it so far

It’s the functionality that’s patented. It’s not the code. Code is copyrighted.

Boot to command line. You have to install the nvidia drivers. Don’t turn on the gui until you get it working. Crazy I had the same issue several years ago

Nvidia card?

It uses Bluetooth to unlock the car but remote it uses internet. The app is how you remote lock the car. It doesn’t under blue tooth for that. It uses the internet.

Did you go try it on your Tesla ? That’s exactly how it works on mine.

It doesn’t. The app needs it. The phone does not. If you want to unlock using the app. You need internet connectivity. Go try it. I just did and it works fine on my 2019 model 3 as I don’t have coverage where I park.

Thats what I said. I’ve had a Tesla for years. Only the app requires the internet

The smart card or phone don’t. The app does.

The physical key is a smart card. The size of a credit card

They didn’t ever touch the open source code. They’d just open a bug or feature enhancement. Why it annoyed me so much. I believe open source is best when everyone contributes something. Either time, money, or something of value.

I worked at a company that had an open source policy. They wanted to use as much open source as possible but didn’t want to contribute back in any way. I explained to them that’s the antithesis of open source. If they find a bug, they should be willing to try to fix it or at least help fix it. Now all the code they wrote internally was closed source.

I’m fine with closed source projects but don’t use open source and just leech from it. Eventually people will stop or bugs will never get fixed. Everyone needs to chip in either money or time.