{"id":11286,"date":"2024-08-07T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T22:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=11286"},"modified":"2024-08-07T08:09:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T22:09:24","slug":"random-short-take-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #96. I&#8217;m pouring one out for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/in-memory-of-geordie-guy-to-help-helen-and-patrick\">Geordie Guy this week<\/a>. Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s been a tough week, but in what can only be considered excellent news, someone has gotten Windows NT 4 working on a few Apple PowerPC variants. Would you want to do that? Of course not. If you&#8217;re looking to run NT 4, you&#8217;re much better off finding some nice beefy <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DEC_Alpha\">DEC Alphas<\/a>. But it&#8217;s always nice to have the option. You can read more over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/07\/17\/windows_nt_on_powermac_g3\/\">The Register<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And in more good news, JB found out recently that <a href=\"https:\/\/cheeseburgergothic.substack.com\/p\/finally\">7-Eleven stores in Australia are going to become more like 7-Eleven stores in Japan<\/a>. Hooray!<\/li>\n<li>But it&#8217;s not all good news. Nicholson has published <a href=\"https:\/\/thenicholson.com\/the-problem-with-10gbps\/\">an interesting article on some of the problems<\/a> with 10Gbps. &#8220;Networking speed is a luxury for people who have tigers on gold leashes, and we needed to save money somewhere&#8221; may be my new favourite quote.<\/li>\n<li>You want more bad news? Fine. Tom Andry <a href=\"https:\/\/avgadgets.com\/why-hdmi-has-been-horrible-for-consumers\/\">dives into why HDMI has sucked and continues to suck<\/a>. I&#8217;ve had mixed experiences with HDMI over the years, but I can confirm that it&#8217;s not always been smooth sailing, despite the advertising to that effect.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not all bad though. Found yourself struggling with sudo on Debian? Vivek has you covered with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberciti.biz\/faq\/how-to-install-and-configure-sudo-on-debian-linux\/\">this comprehensive guide<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Talked yourself into building your own NAS but don&#8217;t know what case to use? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.briancmoses.com\/2024\/07\/migrating-my-diy-nas-into-the-silverstone-cs382-with-help-from-the-icy-dock-expresscage-mb038sp.html\">this post<\/a> from Brian Moses.<\/li>\n<li>In PR news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaseweb.com\/en\/\">Leaseweb<\/a> recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaseweb.com\/en\/press\/releases\/leaseweb-launches-Object-Storage-in-Canada\">launched an object storage solution<\/a> in Canada. Read more about what&#8217;s on offer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaseweb.com\/en\/products-services\/object-storage\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In other PR news, Pure Storage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20240729348697\/en\/Cerabyte-Secures-Strategic-Investment-from-Pure-Storage-to-Enable-Sustainable-Immutable-Data-Storage-Solutions\">is investing in Cerabyte<\/a>. This company is doing some cool stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, and I&#8217;m a little late to the party, I just wanted to call out Jetpack for being a bunch of pumpkins and wanting me to <a href=\"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/support\/jetpack-stats\/\">upgrade my stats plan<\/a> because I run a &#8220;commercial&#8221; site. If you think I want to pay $12.99 a month to see different numbers from those that Google and my hosting provider give me you&#8217;re wildly mistaken. And sod knows how I qualify as commercial (unless it&#8217;s for posting GoFundMe links for people who are dead or dying) but you can seriously get fucked. Sorry for swearing Mum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #96. I&#8217;m pouring one out for Geordie Guy this week. Let&#8217;s get random. It&#8217;s been a tough week, but in what can only be considered excellent news, someone has gotten Windows NT 4 working on a few Apple PowerPC variants. Would you want to do that? Of course not. 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