Recent content by cheesestraws

what a weird and parochial statement to make

Yup, as @bibilit says, you'll be fine to work on the low voltage stuff, including the drives. I appreciate your caution.

Nope, AUI stuck around for ages after twisted-pair was standardised, for thicknet and thinnet use (which were current standards at the same time)

this behaviour is on specific cards that were designed/released before 10BaseT was fully standardised in 1990, and which generally have both AUI and 10BaseT ports. Autoneg is backwards-compatible to that first standard, but cards that do not strictly follow that standard are apt to get confused...

One of the projects in my backlog is a five-port ethernet switch that just has a physical button next to four of the ports for 'auto' or '10/half', for old computer hobbyists who want to be able to set this but don't need the overhead of a real managed switch. At the moment all my community...

Yeah if you have that option do this

You've probably already checked these, but just in case: You have the EtherTalk software installed and known working? It's not just that the OS install has broken Ethernet? This isn't one of those cards that needs 10/half is it? If you have an old hub, sticking it between the card and your...

that's rather nice! Good stuff.

this is why this machine is fun, nearly everything about it is unhinged. even the design of the hinges (har, har)

The docking port, which is an interesting beast. In the mode where it talks to a mac, it's multiplexed PDS; I don't know if that's what's going on here.

using actual data gathered from users and doing an investigation into the problem that results in a piece of automated tooling? that's crazy talk, we should all just follow the advice of some randomer on the internet pulling opinions out of their dvd drive (I didn't know about the shell...

lucky you. also, methodologically, "works for me" is a terrible reason to advise someone to do something, though i appreciate it can be difficult to tell the difference between an opinion and an empirically grounded truth

because it mangles partition and boot information, and is generally a bad idea. this is how all those mangled images on mac garden get made. please don't add to them, or advise other people to.

imgburn on windows is the easy way. Using dd can be more of a pain because you have to make sure you have the right partition, especially for bootable disks. Using disk utility for bootable CDs is a good way to get mangled images, don't do it.