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[ed is the standard editor voice] Debian is the universal operating system

 Wed Apr 01 10:11:31 +0000 2020

wh why does it say there's two NICs
is it counting the modem, too? but that's just a modem? but maybe?

no way to know, of course, since the persistent names are as unhelpful as ever

 Wed Apr 01 10:20:52 +0000 2020

oh.. what i thought was a modem is apparently a sundance 10/100 nic, which says it's full-duplex 100M despite being 4 pins only

 Wed Apr 01 17:56:35 +0000 2020

with debian installed, nothing can stop this beautiful deployment!

 Wed Apr 01 18:00:17 +0000 2020

the card not showing up could, I guess :/

 Wed Apr 01 18:02:15 +0000 2020

seems a half-gig of non-ram in the first 4G, but I can't see a good correlation between this and the memory checking speed during POST so no idea

what'd an old computer be without broken ACPI? better yet: linux panics with "attempted to kill the idle task" with cmdline acpi=off!

 Wed Apr 01 18:21:45 +0000 2020

Tried a DKMS e1000e driver from https://github.com/koljah-de/e1000e-dkms-debian, to no avail; unsurprisingly, since it didn't even show up on the bus.

Put it in my dad's hardware-eating PC to see if the card was bum – it wasn't, showed up in d-i, with the interfaces, even.

 Wed Apr 01 18:34:18 +0000 2020

Thought maybe the slot was dead, so stripped his 1030 (which looks very dumb without the long bracket), and got greeted with (2)

another good time ruined by DRM :(:(

 Wed Apr 01 18:42:21 +0000 2020

hOLY FUCKING SHIT I DID IT

 Wed Apr 01 23:56:55 +0000 2020

intel-microcode having newer microcode than the BIOS tipped me to try HP's site again, and after some convincing I managed to wrestle 1.24 from its grasp; the download for FreeDOS is a windows self-unpacking zip, so good luck if you have a FreeDOS machine like this one was ig?

 Thu Apr 02 12:59:08 +0000 2020

likewise with the microcode update, though that was the newest 1.06, so the microcode from the BIOS is still a3 instead of the newest a4 :/

a 1982-2016 copyright date-span is definitely not something you read every day tho

 Thu Apr 02 13:06:19 +0000 2020

the one thing it *did* fix though is the "FullBoot" POST taking immeasurably long (it still slows down toward the end but I'm choosing to ignore this)

 Thu Apr 02 13:14:20 +0000 2020

Trying to: do an HTTP request to a server at 192.168.1.250/24 from 10.whatever/8, same physical network, NAT in place

Laptop A, Windows, LAN: headers arrive, body doesn't, hangs forever
Laptop A, Windows, Wi-Fi: works
Laptop A, d-i, LAN: works
Laptop B, Windows. both: works

???

 Thu Apr 02 21:24:59 +0000 2020

transitioning to achieve maximum vampire efficiency

 Thu Apr 02 23:17:00 +0000 2020

softłer.jpeg2000

 Fri Apr 03 07:50:01 +0000 2020

cat: screams at my door at 8am so I wake up and grant entry
that very same cat, not three minutes later:

 Fri Apr 03 13:40:37 +0000 2020

Today in Rust: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/2279

this is my second issue against rustup, and second time my configuration is unsupported (first time was during the laptop mentioned above, something about not having SSE)

 Fri Apr 03 15:19:39 +0000 2020

you jest, but https://crux.nu/doc/handbook.html#Package-Guidelines-Directories

 Fri Apr 03 17:00:04 +0000 2020

ever wonder what happens when your kernel can't execute your init? I did. turns out it tells you it can't execute the fifty inits it tries and gives up because it can't execute any of them

 Sat Apr 04 14:04:45 +0000 2020

oh, the space station! my first thought was mir as in world, which, given the "and, recently, a Wayland compositor" on the wiki page, still doesn't seem that far off lol

 Sat Apr 04 16:34:34 +0000 2020

paclage (now x32 as well, where possible) https://debian.nabijaczleweli.xyz/README

 Sat Apr 04 20:07:20 +0000 2020

""you are little baby, gmail autocomplete. watch this" — GH 2020" — @wubscale

 Sat Apr 04 23:35:25 +0000 2020

FreeBSD 12.1 does *not* support x32 Linux binaries, sadly

 Sun Apr 05 21:54:45 +0000 2020

(might be because FreeBSD doesn't support x32 at all, according to arch(7), but finding that took me a bit)

 Mon Apr 06 02:35:32 +0000 2020

upgrade your U400 to an R700 with this one weird trick!

 Tue Apr 07 01:02:31 +0000 2020

serious question are my cats gay

 Wed Apr 08 16:16:39 +0000 2020

oh okay great i was worried

 Wed Apr 08 17:14:33 +0000 2020

scrolling down on the mouse in QEMU does nothing, as it should(n't)
scrolling up yields this kernel vomit

 Wed Apr 08 22:43:35 +0000 2020

correction: happens in both direxions, but I was too slow downward

 Wed Apr 08 22:49:25 +0000 2020

if i had a dollar every time I heard that…

 Thu Apr 09 12:05:26 +0000 2020

that sundance bussy too small for my jumbo frames 😩

 Thu Apr 09 13:01:36 +0000 2020

plugged in an Dell 2x1G PCIe x1 BCM5720 NIC
got five beeps for pre-video memory error
literally what the fuck

 Thu Apr 09 20:03:17 +0000 2020

🇽

 Fri Apr 10 13:28:37 +0000 2020

my mom lugged a computer home from work, and oh /baby/ what a time (note the W7 rescue CD glued to the bottom); had to pull this triangular(!) amber(!) 2xRS-232(!) PCI card to add Wi-Fi; dual-core Pentium at just under 3GHz apparently??

 Fri Apr 10 13:33:49 +0000 2020

ugh, hit a bug with grub2's grub-probe not understanding FAT16 w/4k sectors earlier and now I can't reproduce it in qemu; grub's filesystem detection strikes again or am i just cursed? tune in next week for the computer show!

 Sat Apr 11 12:46:55 +0000 2020

started out as typewriter thing, def good for clarity tho
mostly died out due to how The Web™ treats whitespace unfortunately

 Sat Apr 11 15:38:23 +0000 2020

oh good i think this is https://bugs.debian.org/709097 but worse because it wouldn't detect at all, fun

 Sat Apr 11 15:56:01 +0000 2020

looked at a webpage that used WebGL2 and my gpu melted so thats fun

 Mon Apr 13 01:03:57 +0000 2020

it took 3.5 hours but i have a working gpu again (i think); love to computers

 Mon Apr 13 02:09:18 +0000 2020

not sure if more annoyed at wasting a night and good gin on this or splitting my finger on the – stuck and untouched since 2015, going by the date on the HDD – 6-pins :vv

 Mon Apr 13 02:46:46 +0000 2020

vacuuming out the cpu fan has made it be higher and therefore severely more annoying, one lesson there, folks

 Mon Apr 13 03:31:06 +0000 2020

spoke too soon, it's still fucked :v

 Mon Apr 13 16:42:04 +0000 2020

dwink (dyke twink)

 Mon Apr 13 19:18:46 +0000 2020

would you rather (a) plug the NIC before the kernel takes over and have the BIOS five-scream about a pre-video memory error, or (b) after and just have it not enumerate? so many choices! such a high-quality platform!

 Mon Apr 13 23:50:01 +0000 2020

spent another day trying to, first, update the firmware, to no avail (something DRM-related, Dell good); then convincing the rp5700 pos to maybe not scream; hotplugging some random wlan card works, a BCM5725 doesn't; i recant saying computers are fun, lake them all

 Mon Apr 13 23:56:40 +0000 2020

GPT Hard Disk Drives
In the Harry Potter font

 Tue Apr 14 02:24:24 +0000 2020

in a moment not unlike that before my very birth, I posted to a goddamned forum; in 2020; the post editor was full of backend renderer errors; end me https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Business-PCs-Workstations-and-Point-of-Sale-Systems/Adding-BCM5720-NIC-to-rp5700-five-beeps-but-RAM-is-good/m-p/7551431

 Tue Apr 14 03:03:15 +0000 2020

booting with acpi=off panics immediately after the idle task is killed; adding noapic gives me... this when the card is hotplugged; kernel is building; life is good

 Tue Apr 14 16:30:38 +0000 2020

mmm mnyes tired cat

 Tue Apr 14 21:37:30 +0000 2020

To have 96GB of RAM is to ascend beyond mortal limits; my ARC cache is full; I'm compiling two linuxes in tmpfs. Swapping is an echo of an era twice forgotten.

 Wed Apr 15 00:14:19 +0000 2020

tried the buster kernel, got the link training line; fun!

 Thu Apr 16 00:56:41 +0000 2020

rofl

(I'll still try it tho, бет)

 Thu Apr 16 02:37:51 +0000 2020

(potentially) the last photos of this card alive

the light's baller tho so can't complain

 Thu Apr 16 15:23:39 +0000 2020

it does help to tape over the right pins >_<

 Thu Apr 16 15:31:31 +0000 2020

in "fixing" (chkdsk /f, so on boot), Windows happily thrashed both FATs on the 4k-per-sector 100M boot partition – saying it's 2k/sector and 2G in size – allthewhile having the gall to say that it "probably isn't a Windows XP disk"
grub didn't like this; fsck gave up; fun was had

 Thu Apr 16 23:28:55 +0000 2020

orb

 Fri Apr 17 18:51:56 +0000 2020

also pigs, as is their seeming wont; lots of tiny ones, too, but this old compact lacks both the glass and the sensor to shoot them right

 Fri Apr 17 19:01:52 +0000 2020

cat, pigs, pigs (baby)

 Fri Apr 17 19:04:16 +0000 2020

got the "lol" part right though, innit

 Fri Apr 17 19:12:56 +0000 2020

>from nabijaczleweli:no_posting_society_has_progressed_past_the_need_for_posting

i should probably sleep

 Sat Apr 18 02:24:49 +0000 2020

baby pigs
they're very fast

 Sat Apr 18 13:04:40 +0000 2020

secret pig!!

 Sat Apr 18 13:06:44 +0000 2020

secret pig (but later and slightly less secret)

 Sat Apr 18 14:51:23 +0000 2020

very cute how pigs wag their tails, all animals should have this (yes I'm salty I don't have a tail)

 Sat Apr 18 14:56:35 +0000 2020

baby pig go zoom

 Sat Apr 18 15:05:09 +0000 2020

orb (full-frame)

 Sat Apr 18 15:08:52 +0000 2020

hehe bums

 Sat Apr 18 16:30:43 +0000 2020

didn't realise pigs could be spotty before

 Sat Apr 18 16:57:26 +0000 2020

мммыес handsome pig

 Sat Apr 18 18:10:42 +0000 2020

omg tail go wag

 Sat Apr 18 18:13:09 +0000 2020

chrumk

is there a situation i can pet a hog in without the risk of being trampled and eaten? :/

 Sat Apr 18 18:16:43 +0000 2020

shhh she SNEAKIN'

 Sat Apr 18 18:25:39 +0000 2020

hunter//hunted

probably the other way around at that size but i believe

 Sat Apr 18 18:33:43 +0000 2020

:з

 Sat Apr 18 18:34:45 +0000 2020

baby pig fun pit

 Sat Apr 18 19:44:36 +0000 2020

its baby time !!

 Sat Apr 18 19:49:09 +0000 2020

:)

 Sat Apr 18 19:55:02 +0000 2020

to be free like a pig, to bonk with a small furry snout!

 Sat Apr 18 19:56:49 +0000 2020

zoom!

 Sun Apr 19 20:36:43 +0000 2020

baby pig committee judging a circle of turned soil, ca 2020

 Sun Apr 19 20:42:09 +0000 2020

stripy pig mosh spot

 Sun Apr 19 20:49:28 +0000 2020

HOW does a pig jump so high !!!!!!!

 Sun Apr 19 20:51:10 +0000 2020

turbopig

woulda bin less shit if i could hold a camera right, but, well

 Sun Apr 19 22:35:14 +0000 2020

sometimes a family is just 20 pigs of varying sizes and that's very cute imo

that's all for the good pigs i have from two (logical, three physical(?)) days ago

 Sun Apr 19 22:51:19 +0000 2020

that, indeed, worked – so far as booting the board with the card inside, anyway

it usually just got to OpROM download and halted just after printing the message, sometimes mashing Ctrl-S would open the config menu, but I couldn't find any regularity to it

 Mon Apr 20 16:54:24 +0000 2020

funnily enough, *disabling* OpROM download (I think it's just from the onboard NIC, but it's not clear either) on the board yielded this OOM message, bus 20h device 0 is the card

 Mon Apr 20 16:59:07 +0000 2020

the next "obvious" (read: I found the b57udiag tool on Broadcom's site and was fucking around with it before DGroves cursed me with his knowledge) step is to disable all features there's options for – UMP(?), IPMI, MultiBoot Agent/PXE, Alert Standard Format, and Wake On LAN

 Mon Apr 20 17:18:34 +0000 2020

in an all-unforseen turn of events, this works even less! as far as I understand it (and other computers behaved), OpROM upload from the card is disabled. this doesn't stop the screen on the PoS system flashing black briefly during the download time, and halting thereafter :)

 Mon Apr 20 18:52:01 +0000 2020

last thing i could think of, after two weeks of attempting to plug in a fucking NIC, is to turn that plethora of TLAs back on as well as reenable the OpROM download, the NIC (and the interrupt for it), and SERR# generation in the BIOS

and woULDN'T YOU FUCKING KNOW IT

 Mon Apr 20 20:12:22 +0000 2020

additionally, the onboard NIC can be managed from the OpROM menu from the card, which is neat
the card NICs have a Main Menu since they also support iSCSI boot, but the onboard goes straight to the MBA config, which is very nice (and shows more polish than I was expecting, tbf)

 Mon Apr 20 22:38:56 +0000 2020

boot menu looks like this – the entries are sadly not functional, my best bet for the strings is Config column in the b57udiag output, but, looking back at it now, I don't think that's a match?

booting any of the two prints this and hangs (Ctrl-Alt-Del works tho, so improvement)

 Tue Apr 21 01:56:03 +0000 2020

new photos courtesy of the cat having woken up; interestingly, Comprehensive Configuration Management (OpROM config menu)'s version seems to be closest to iSCSI Boot's?

 Tue Apr 21 02:20:41 +0000 2020

Dell's updates are cursed self-extracting shell scripts for RPM systems only(?), which kinda work on their CentOS live image – they extracted, barely, but applying said that system was "not a supported configuration".

Same thing for dell-system-update package, just took longer.

 Tue Apr 21 02:26:53 +0000 2020

though, granted, maybe shouldn't have expected it to work that well with the wallpaper set to have a fuckoff orange "Support Live Image is running on unsupported hardware" box

"supported hardware" was in that case a server line I (unsurprisingly) don't have. all to update a NIC?

 Tue Apr 21 02:33:33 +0000 2020

the two compatible files were a 5720-1.39 EEPROM/BootCode which was what already was on the card (plus b57udiag said it was incompatible?) and a 20.6.50 MBA, which was also already on the card

which means that this was all a colossal waste of a ~couple~ days in itself :v

 Tue Apr 21 02:39:47 +0000 2020

there's also HP's updates for the onboard NIC, which come with (a) ancient b57udiag, (b) some sort of Broadcom WinFWUpg.exe program that (b1) can't init on my desktop and (b2) requires your PC to run windows.. this machine came with freedos,, (c) has the same 8.08 version of ASF,

 Tue Apr 21 02:47:22 +0000 2020

and (d) has the EEPROM for the wrong card – filename "5761tm1.40", the onboard NIC is BootCode Version "5755-v3.29"

what is a vendor, but a waste of time?

 Tue Apr 21 02:55:31 +0000 2020

more fun quirks!

with acpi=off noapic, kernel picks up the platform slot numbers, so the interfaces become ens2f[01]; /sys/bus/pci/slots/ has 0/ (empty) and 2/ (NIC)

without (so with ACPI), that doesn't exist, and the persistent names are enp32s0f[01] (for bus 20h. I think?)

 Tue Apr 21 03:15:00 +0000 2020

I think it's got something to do with the pciehp driver (or one of the "ACPI BIOS Error (bug)" kernel messages :v), I'll have to diff the journals tomorrow ig; it's early and there's another cat on me

 Tue Apr 21 03:20:33 +0000 2020

no U.S.

society has progressed past the need for the U.S.

 Tue Apr 21 12:32:58 +0000 2020

how

 Tue Apr 21 16:14:28 +0000 2020

during these last few Situation™ weeks I've thought about writing a VCS and running my own e-mail, and it looks like people are doing it too so it seems like a usual spectre

if I see people talking about using debbugs as a forum softłer, though, well,

 Wed Apr 22 01:43:24 +0000 2020

classic cargo

 Wed Apr 22 13:46:15 +0000 2020

Patched the C code md6 FFIs to and went to look if there was any updates to the crate.
forgot it's mine :v

 Wed Apr 22 13:56:43 +0000 2020

oh, it's a Clang 11 thing apaprently https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/md6-rs/issues/1

 Wed Apr 22 14:15:55 +0000 2020

I'm not saying I cried a little bit, but I did cry a little bit

 Wed Apr 22 21:21:48 +0000 2020

sunny cat!

 Wed Apr 22 22:38:08 +0000 2020

I'd go for "cute" over that

 Wed Apr 22 22:39:16 +0000 2020

 Thu Apr 23 00:17:53 +0000 2020

shady cat!

 Thu Apr 23 00:30:42 +0000 2020

, massively out of focus; fuck

 Thu Apr 23 00:32:56 +0000 2020

 Thu Apr 23 11:12:08 +0000 2020

dunno! i have a diff i just plain don't understand — https://gist.github.com/nabijaczleweli/778f09faef6541cd11d42b50701a5e1e#file-journal-working-acpi-no-acpi-no-date-diff — it's fine! I'll possibly revisit it at some point in the future and it'll seem obvious; whether that's a potential good thing or a bad one? well,

 Thu Apr 23 19:16:13 +0000 2020

Runtime error 213 at 000D:0260

the executable is dated Nov 1996

all readme.txt says database must be R/W and path can have spaces but not ł

the probability of the 5 megs (3 zipped), so probably three floppies surviving is left as an exercise to the reader

Runtime error 213 at

 Sat Apr 25 00:04:01 +0000 2020

dude, what if the screen origin was like center-left when you switch back to the Basic display adapter driver because the AMD one fucked off as soon as the card was remotely involved ..

 Sat Apr 25 11:13:40 +0000 2020

UPDATE: another image and installing Windows 3.1 in DOSBox later there IS a solution which works on SystemTL 1.50d – https://github.com/otya128/winevdm, a port of Wine's Win16 to Win32, except, unlike Linux Wine's native winevdm, it actually works! And is floppy-sized, instead of multi-gig.

 Sat Apr 25 17:09:06 +0000 2020

[take these blue pills voice] here, push to this repository

 Mon Apr 27 20:11:06 +0000 2020

metadata says 2020-04-28 06:13:17

 Tue Apr 28 14:25:55 +0000 2020

local cat does not see the omnipresent it

 Tue Apr 28 14:59:23 +0000 2020

i admire VVV's work in general, but this screensaver.. truly a timeless piece i adore with all my heart

 Tue Apr 28 18:10:03 +0000 2020

didn't expect to crash qemu today but there's always a first time i guess

 Wed Apr 29 01:34:28 +0000 2020

earlier

 Thu Apr 30 14:56:07 +0000 2020

later (but still earlier)

 Thu Apr 30 14:57:02 +0000 2020

moon

 Thu Apr 30 14:59:20 +0000 2020

cool sun today

 Thu Apr 30 19:43:35 +0000 2020