dsXLII · HackerTrans

I really thought this thread would be about this. I recently tracked down a copy of the CD, specifically to see if I could export these pre-gap tracks. (No luck so far, but I've only tried modern stuff; I probably need to look for a more retro drive and ripping software.)

dsXLII

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Volume. 1GB of data per day is rounding error. If you have tens of thousands of servers, each generating hundreds of gigabytes of data per day, tail -f and grep don't scale especially well.

dsXLII

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If you carefully review the other volumes, you'll find a series of clues that, when combined, yield a map that leads you to the lost volume 5. It just says "told you cartography was awesome" over and over for 400 pages.

dsXLII

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In 1995 or so, I wanted to play with something not-Windows, but wasn't yet advanced enough in my degree to have access to my school's AIX setup. Bought a Slackware disk set, and a BSD (probably FreeBSD, honestly don't remember), took them both home. Slackware had drivers for my weird non-IDE CD-ROM drive, the other one didn't, and it's been nothing but fun since then.

Without Slackware, I would not have learned how to build a web server, wouldn't have learned about UUCP (which thankfully I haven't needed to use in about 20 years)... basically the entire course of my life would have changed.

(Entirely random aside: I returned the opened BSD disks for a full refund. Remember when you could do that without them assuming you copied the disks?)

dsXLII

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"we need to talk about parallel universes" always gets me

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