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by anthk
Sun Jul 21, 2024 12:31 pm
Forum: Blogs
Topic: Daily driving a G4 TiBook: brain dump
Replies: 1
Views: 3056

Re: Daily driving a G4 TiBook: brain dump

On the compiling speeds, try installing ccache. Then run it like make CC="ccache cc" CXX="ccache c++" when you run make for something.
by anthk
Thu Jul 11, 2024 7:29 pm
Forum: Old Computer Challenge
Topic: 2024 plans
Replies: 56
Views: 69913

Re: 2024 plans

On daily comics, you can always print them with netcat against an IP printer. Good idea, but wait for it, my only printer is a dot matrix :lol: But will remember that should I ever get a real printer Install imagemagick and ghostscript. Then: conver stripcomic.png -colors 2 -resize 320x240 cave.ps ...
by anthk
Wed Jul 10, 2024 4:27 pm
Forum: Old Computer Challenge
Topic: 2024 plans
Replies: 56
Views: 69913

Re: 2024 plans

I am doing 1989, it is around the time I got a UNIX system at work. I will set up OpenBSD on an old Laptop to emulate that old system.With that said, once it starts I will have no access to any GUI applications since I never even knew X existed until a few years later.Here is my OCC 4 gemini capsul...
by anthk
Mon Jul 08, 2024 9:36 am
Forum: Old Computer Challenge
Topic: 2024 plans
Replies: 56
Views: 69913

Re: 2024 plans

Honestly though, if it was "emulate a dialup connection" I would be more interested in the limitation. Just spending an hour a day is a lucky day for me, as I've got a newborn in the house. Once you've been participating in that challenge for 6 months straight it you realize that it's not...
by anthk
Sun Jul 07, 2024 6:09 pm
Forum: Old Computer Challenge
Topic: 2024 - what is everybody doing?
Replies: 21
Views: 22771

Re: 2024 - what is everybody doing?

As my specs are a GB of RAM based n270 ATOM netbook (with ZRAM), and a GL 2.1 card,I already run some OCC challenge daily.Thus, I thought about using wondershaper, an internet bandwith limiter/throttler for Linux.Currently, I ran it as sudo wondershaper wlan0 128 64 so it mimics an ISDN line. As my ...