Daily Blog #65 · 4:38am Oct 6th, 2017
Hmm... I should probably update something, shouldn't I? Oh well. I guess that's what happens when midterms come 'round.
Hmm... I should probably update something, shouldn't I? Oh well. I guess that's what happens when midterms come 'round.
WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA?!
Random Fact: Rice Krispies Treats are literally just the cereal doused in some marshmallows and glaze.
Apparently, some late revisions of the AMD K6-2/3+ had limited support for CMOV. Just enough that it barely worked, but apparently not enough to function properly without severe instability. No wonder why the K6 line is "i586 compatible", at the same time as being a "6th generation processor".
You probably don't know how annoying it is to realize that 95% of all modern software no longer works on an older computer that you have.
Random Fact: Linux has thousands of variations, or "distros".
First day of Robotics was today. Hopefully the freshmen who joined aren't gonna abandon ship after picture day like last year.
Besides that, today was overall another meh day.
I gave up on trying to enjoy my weekend for this week.
Random Fact: Comcast is literally so poorly received that they've won an award for being the worst company in existence.
Haha. Internet issues!
That sudden realization when you realize that there just might be a rare model of the K6-3+ family that supports CMOV...
Random Fact: Though many distros have long-since abandoned i586-class processors, there's still a small handful that remain supporting it, both due to the necessity to be small and quick, and due to the nature of the distros as being the "lightweight linux" versions.
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I finished ‘listening’ to American Idiot today. It’s a pretty good album, I’m a sucker for concept albums and Rock Operas, so I was bound to like this one.
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.
LEDs work by using an electroluminescent material and a low current, as opposed to conventional bulbs, which utilize a thin filament and a high current.
Technically, with plenty of work and practice, one could theoretically convert a traditional lightbulb into a working vacuum tube. It’s already been done before, and certain people have gone one step further, and created vacuum tubes from scratch, using nothing but glass, wires, and mesh.
Rule: Nothing stalkerish. (No addresses, phone numbers, etc.)
I am the darkness, I am the light, I am your worst fear... I AM YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AND UNPAID BILLS!!!
Tell your friends about your birthday party when you have a bit more privacy, or else the entire class will want to go.
Random Fact: Linux was once called "cancer" by Steve Ballmer, a former Microsoft CEO. Fast forward now, and you can now run Linux on Windows using an app produced in conjunction by Canonical and Microsoft. Canonical develops Ubuntu, which is by far one of the most popular and well-known Linux distros.
Don't you love it when you get shot on accident by your NPC sidekick who was targeting some rats but hit you instead?
Just like before, these are getting more and more uncommon as I'm finding myself breaking up my day into separate blogs. Either way, let's just get on with in. :P
Hoo boy, it's one of those weekends.
Random Fact: Windows XP was the last version of Windows to support running without ACPI support, and was also the last version to (unofficially) run on the i486 platform, using the Pentium Overdrive chip for i586 capabilities.
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CAN YOU SAY, FEEEELS?!
No random facts today.
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I watched a do not cry challenge. I failed.
Generally, if you ask me, I'm pretty sure that I've teared up at anything that contains a loss of something personal or of significance to a character.
Internet's gone to crap again, so yeah. On the bright side, my singleplayer survival world in Minecraft has gotten a massive bump in overall progress!
That moment when childhood finally catches up with you...
Random Fact: Even though there's hardly anything that currently uses the full bandwidth of PCIe as of yet, PCIe 4.0 is already rolling out, and 5.0 is in the works, both of them greatly increasing the bandwidth. Again.
There's Discord, and then there's... Discord.
Random Fact: Before the rise of smartphones, Qualcomm was a small-time chip maufacturer. Now they're an up and coming rival to Intel and AMD.
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As per usual, daily internet outages are back with the school year in full-swing.
Today pretty much all but confirmed that I'll be leading a sizable chunk of the school robotics team.