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The can of worms we opened when we learned of the server switched off after eighteen years and ten months' service is still wriggling, as a reader has contacted us to tell of nearly 30-year-old laptops still in service.
Reader "Holrum" says he has "a couple dozen Toshiba T1000 laptops from the mid [1980s] still fully functional (including floppy drives)".
The T1000 was introduced in 1987. [...] The machine was one of the very first computers to use a clamshell form factor. [...] It also offered a rather archaic LCD display, as illustrated.
[...]The machine ran MS-DOS 2.11 on a ROM [and] came with a colossal 512kB of RAM [...] and a single 3.5-inch floppy drive.
Holrum says the T1000s are taken offline every few years for just the few minutes required to replace the NiCad batteries and give them a clean before they are returned to duty as process monitoring terminals.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday February 15 2016, @08:26PM
I post from whichever keyboard I'm at, most of the time behind the same router, but some times on a cell phone, and sometimes while traveling, so the IP would change on rare occasion. But then I always log in.
Other than that, I agree, something like that for ACs would be great. I wouldn't even bother to hash it. Just append the IP in cleartext behind the name.
The excuse they use is that they are too lazy to log in, yet with every browser remembering passwords and logins for you, we know that is nonsense. Its simply that they want to engage in drive-by-posting of flamebait and insults.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @09:43PM
Or perhaps they believe that the content of the post is more important than the name attached to it.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by frojack on Monday February 15 2016, @11:42PM
Or perhaps they believe that the content of the post is more important than the name attached to it.
Funny how that content tends to be insults and trolls most of the time, and also its equal parts funny and sad how they seem to think those insults and trolls are "important".
Lets face it: That dog won't hunt. If you have something important to say, you don't write it on a paper towel drenched in piss that you throw at some passer-by.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @11:48PM
Does the minority define the whole?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @11:44PM
'Fess up, dude: You had a 900 number some years back and called yourself Miss Cleo. [wikipedia.org]
Clearly, Soylentils don't need to respond to your posts--you already know what they're thinking.
You're obviously psychotic^W psychic.
...and, clearly, everyone's motivations are all the same.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday February 16 2016, @04:27AM
Appended IP address is not a good idea if they need to remain anonymous and are on a fixed IP address. Some would be very easy to ID. Also kind of a mess for readers (did I reply to AC 106.223.01.01 or AC 106.202.01.01 ??)
But how about... number each AC sequentially for a given story, and keep track as needed behind the scenes. So what we'd see out here in userland would be posts by "Anonymous Coward 0001" etc. where the number is good ONLY for that story.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Tuesday February 16 2016, @07:20AM
I don't think "need to remain anonymous" enters into the discussion.
They can create a persona used for nothing but SN if they want.
The idea isn't to dox them, its to make them wear the feces they throw as they drive past.
At least gewg_ and OriginalOwner sign their posts, but that only solves a portion of the reputation management issue.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DNied on Tuesday February 16 2016, @11:06AM
The "anonymous modifier" takes care of that: set it to -6, read at threshold 0 and you'll never see ACs. Set it to a less extreme negative value and you'll only see ACs that get modded up.