[Coco] looking for latest toolshed location

Sun Dec 1 19:10:12 EST 2019

On Sunday 01 December 2019 17:48:16 Michael Miller wrote:

> On the one hand, I am terribly sorry to hear that your PC (literally)
> caught fire, but on the other hand... now is the perfect time to be
> buying a new computer and it will likely cost you less and net you
> more than you would expect. In particular there are fabulous deals to
> be had on 2nd gen AMD Ryzen CPUs (Microcenter was selling BNIB with
> CPU Cooler R7 2700X CPUs for ~$130, for example). If you want even
> better performance for a bit more money, the Ryzen R7 3700X is
> extremely potent.

I wound up going with Intel this time as I've never been able to get 
really good latency-test figures out of amd stf. But I didn't climb the 
ladder that far, only to a 6 core, 65 watt I5 for a bit over $230. 
Potentially 3x faster than the slow phenom I've been running for the 
last 12 years.  Thats quite a bit faster than I run at my age (85) now 
anyway. LOL.

Blew the budget on memory though, 32GB in 2 sticks, so I could fill the 
other two slots for 64GB. An Asus 390 something mobo, lots of usb-3.1 
and 6 sata ports. The only thing I lost was IEEE-1394 for my semi-hi-def 
handi-cam. So I may have to raid somebodies NOS for a pci-e firewire 
card. Paid a bit extra for 3 day delivery. Maybe I'll have it running by 
the time they put a new aortic valve in, in mid December, the old man 
and his DM-II is catching up with me. OTOH, I've made the reaper blink 
twice now in the last 6 years now, so I'm on a roll.

Now I'll have to update my network switch too as this mobo's gigahertz is 
10x faster than the M2N-SLI-deluxe board that burned up was. There is 
always the next slow thing in any system.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
> Sent: Sunday, December 1, 2019 1:29 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] looking for latest toolshed location
>
> On Friday 29 November 2019 21:02:25 Mark J. Blair wrote:
> > > On Nov 29, 2019, at 5:00 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > What I am upset about is not drivewire, but sourceforge's hiding
> > > of the src for nitros9.  And I'm not talking about that dated
> > > tarball sourceforge shows you, but won't let you have but the
> > > tarball those dsk's were made from.
> >
> > How is the source hidden? If I'm not mistaken, the latest NitrOS-9
> > source can be browsed at:
> >
> >   https://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/code/ci/default/tree/
> >
> > And to get a local copy of the latest source and its full history of
> > changes back to April 4, 2002, install mercurial and type:
> >
> >   hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code nitros9-code
>
> I likely have a script that does that allready, but I have bigger
> problems here Mark, my main, does everything linux box caught fire
> friday about sundown, bad enough I had to use a fire extinguisher to
> put it put. Stunk up the place something terrible. Just today I
> recalled I had and elderly Dell 745 that I had pulled off my G0704
> milling machine due to a blown pci bus driver, so as I'd removed the
> drives to save them from the cold shock of wheeling that huge tower
> out to the back porch to get rid of the odor of burning mobo, I
> extracted the Dell from the midden heap in the garage, made the sata
> cables reach the 2 drive pocket in the dell, brought the dell in an
> propped it up on the box my heart pacemaker monitor came in.  Got an
> intel cpu, old & slow compared to the quad core phenom, but it did,
> after a couple a couple false starts and a couple of e2fscks over the
> 3TB of drives I did put in, manage to get booted, so at least I have
> email flowing.
>
> Talk about withdrawall.
>
> But now maybe I can get online and get enough stuff ordered to rebuild
> the tower. Motherboard, more modern mutlicore cpu, and enough memory,
> well north of $600 I expect. This may be running the same boot file,
> but its 5% of the speed of the phenom. Only 2Gig of ram, the phenom
> had 8. I've got 4 other machines scattered about the place, all
> running metal carving machines, but the only one I've tried running a
> browser on was the rpi4 and theres not even a stool to sit on there.
>
> > Once you have your local source tree clone, you can run "hg pull"
> > and "hg update" as needed to get new changes. The clone command
> > above is shown at the web page I linked to above, but that may not
> > be obvious if you don't know what to look for ahead of time. The
> > most recent NitrOS-9 commit I see there is dated 2019-11-16.
>
> None of that except the tree of individual files has been visible to
> me.
>
> > > On Nov 29, 2019, at 2:45 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Typical M$ behavior, and I read someplace that M$ has bought
> > > sourceforge.
> >
> > I believe you're thinking of github. Microsoft bought github a while
> > back. I'm one of the raving anti-MS folks who moved his repositories
> > from github to gitlab in response, but I probably over-reacted. As
> > far as I can tell, MS hasn't gotten around to breaking github yet. I
> > tend to distrust SourceForge because of things they've done in the
> > past, and I'd be pleased if NitrOS-9 and its friends moved to github
> > or gitlab,
>
> So would I, as log as github stays unbroken. I can do a git clone of
> linuxcnc, sub one file that hasn't been committed yet, build it from
> scratch and install it, all on the rpi4, in under 2 hours.  Whats not
> to like?  The rpi4 will use a bit less that 3G of swap on a 2G rpi4,
> so thats not exactly a std build, but thats what we do isn't it? ;-)
>
> > --
> > Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
> > http://www.nf6x.net/
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>