Daily Blog #55 · 4:08am Sep 18th, 2017
Quick, someone give me a small loan of $230!
Random Fact: Java SE 6 U0, AKA Java/JRE 1.6.0, is apparently one of the last versions of Java to actually live up to its name as "i586-compliant", according to the installer names. There's the x64 version, and the i586 version. Every version of the i586 build I've tried past the original SE6 crashes upon launching a jarfile complaining about CMOV, which is an i686 instruction.
Thoughts and Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mah birthday's in a week.
Seriously, I've been bent on the idea of pushing computers to their literal absolute physical limits for years now. Don't question why I've been trying to play Minecraft and run Youtube off of a computer that wasn't even from the same millennium as those two.
I read an article once about mining bitcoins using an old IBM mainframe from the 60s. guess how long it was calculated to earn anything? A year? Two? Nope. The entire freakin' age of the universe times 40,000.
Source for the above: Bitcoin mining on a 55 year old IBM 1401
I find it amusing how Windows 10 is advertised as "the best windows yet", and still crashes in certain occasions where I've gotten Windows XP to run circles around. For example, I was building a sleeper PC using spare parts my friends gave to me, and decided to dual-boot Windows XP and Windows 10. Windows XP worked flawlessly, save for a lack of drivers for sound and internet access, but Windows 10? That immediately BSOD-ed after first boot. And this was using a disc that I had recently burned, verified, and tested working in a different system.
I don't remember why, but I used to have a thing for peeling off and collecting the branding stickers for the CPU model in computers. Like, I'd go to a thrift store, peel off the Windows, Intel, AMD, and other various sticker-badge things off of the cases, and stick them onto a piece of paper. Oddly, I still have that paper, though now it's used for keeping track of product keys for various software.
It'd be funny if some super-high-end computer manufacturer decided to create a boring beige-box computer just for the sake of making something bland for once.
Speaking of beige, my keyboard is getting very yellowed from being in existence for longer than I've been alive.
5-button mice are very nice, even if the company that originally manufactures it doesn't exactly exist anymore as far as its original form goes.
Darnit, Micro-Innovations, you went from making pretty freakin' nice keyboards and stuff to being what pretty much amounts to a tech support company. What happened?
Speaking of which, I'm pretty sure that the Micro-Innovations company that currently exists isn't the one that used to exist. Their original website has been up for sale for years, and their current website doesn't mention anything about their past as an accessory manufacturer.
I'll end this blog off here.
what would the repayment rate be on that loan, cus i COULD loan you, for once i appear to actually have spare dosh
also i like your attitude towards technology
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Nah. I'm good. That's just the usual random remark that I put on my daily blogs.