Norcal Spotted and BS Thread

Band of brothers is next.

 

News flash. That is probably about the only thing it's good for.

 

Plus aesthetics

 

Thanks Mars!
It actually helps a lot when it's very bright and sunny out and wheeling In to a shit spot. It manages to blind the hell out of you and some how you forget about bashing into things

 

Oh yeah, good for blinding too.

 

I'm now an open source software engineer, and I mainly use Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS daily.
I never really got into Arch much... I still have some old Gentoo systems, and I also play around with Debian forks like Raspian, but my core is certainly not Windows.

 

So if need be hand sanitizer works great as a fire starter gel. Just saying

 

Somewhere along the road, MS CEO said they were going full linux. Which I thought was pretty funny.

 

Huh...Warn acquired Factor 55

https://expeditionportal.com/warn-acquires-factor-55/

 

Arch was great because it gave you free range on what packages got installed. If you didn't need it you didn't install it. That kept it super light compared to other distros. Back when memory actually cost money that mattered. Now, not so much. It's also one of the hardest distros to learn your way around. That made it appeal to me. Why use a GUI when you could learn CL? In recent years I just want a working distro that's got all the bells and whistles in the GUI. Mints where I ended up.

 

Gentoo was my solution to only getting what I wanted.
The stage 1 install would fit in a diskette, and you then downloaded, unpacked, installed, and configured each package you wanted; networking included.

This drive apparently has one of my stage 2 installs on it.




853MB HDD! Hahahah

 

Truth! My buddies and I used to set our hands on fire with that stuff

 

... seriously; if you have pics, post 'em!

 

I was never into Arch. Some flavor of Ubuntu or RHEL and configuration tools. All machines had pretty much the same configuration. Fix one, you fix them all. Configurations could be unique. Important machines shits the bed? No problem, hardware replaced, push the button.
Our environment was mostly EDA/CAD tools and those were only ever stored on storage arrays. Actually, the vast majority of our computing environment, including desktops, were standardized and remotely configurable-except laptops, we could never get their owners to do the right thing.

 

Just squirt a puddle in your cupped hand and set on fire. The heat will tell you when to flick the rest of it off

 

Also these games pre-dated smart phones...

 

Mocking up some drawers for the fridge and misc camping supplies

 

Polaroid!

 

Somebody got a pro deal on Nemo gear. lol

 

We each have our sleeping bags and sleeping pads from them, my pillow, and our tent for backpacking. Pretty much a walking billboard