Computer Log

This is what you do, when you have too much time on your hands. Post stuff that in the grand scheme of things isn’t that important. Anywho…

This guy posted a nice video about the PDP-10, he described it as a mainframe.

In looking at the comments. I noticed a comment where some guy disputed this. Saying “NOBODY ever called ANYTHING made by DEC a mainframe.” He was so sure he was right the he emphasized it using caps. I have spoken!

I knew DEC called it a mainframe, and went looking for proof. And I posted this link. Here is the pic just in case the link goes missing.

Many hours later, I got a Notification (signified by the bell) that someone had replied that “DEC ran ads for the PDP-10 where they described it as a “personal mainframe”. I’m thinking duh, I posted a link to the ad hours before. The whole reason YouTube sent me that notification is because I replied to the original comment. However my reply was gone. It seems pretty obvious that he saw my link.

I went through something similar months ago and did a little digging. And I satisfied myself that sometimes YouTube removes comments with links because of possible spamming. Except I noticed as you can see below (by the blue URL) that someone else commented with a link. So I’m thinking, It seems that YouTube for whatever reason doesn’t have a problem with links in these comments. So I posted my link.

So where is it?

I did find a record of my comment (but not on the topic page)…

But if you do the math it appears that their comment was made an hour before mine. However, if so… why did I get a notification AFTER I posted my comment. That’s when they send you new notifications. WTH?

As an early riser it suddenly became apparent to me that Redshift isn’t working. So I thought I’d try running it manually, with redshift -l lat lon &. The screen started redshifting on and off. But I noticed this message “Could not connect to wayland display, exiting. Failed to start adjustment method wayland”. Trying next method.” and it just kept redshifting on and off it never exited per the &. Does that mean Linux Mint changed the default to wayland?

This comman, says no…

bill@bill-MS-7B79:~$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
x11
bill@bill-MS-7B79:~$

I remember in the past you could choose to try wayland at login. See here.

Googling, suggests it’s a bug. Found this on redshifts github page…

[bug] Could not connect to wayland display, exiting. Failed to start adjustment method wayland. #888

The above “bug” is closed. However, this one is open

Could not connect to wayland display, exiting. #897

Anywho, it’s early and github’s page is white and it’s hurting my eyes. So I’ll look at it later!

Here!

They said “there may be an issue with your Internet connection”.

Uh, yeah, I unplugged the equipment freeing up 2 electrical outlets, because… I canceled my service yesterday. You told me I would be disconnected at 11:59PM… remember?

Canceled AT&T Uverse Internet, spoke with Josselyn. She was polite. She said I’d receive an email, I assumed my bellsouth.net email would be canceled, but she said no as long as it’s active.

I told her a AT&T Territorial manager stopped by a few weeks ago and told me I should be paying $55/month instead of the $70/mo they’ve been charging me. She said she could offer me the same deal. So they’ve been overcharging me $15/month for 14 months. Didn’t say anything about refunding me the extra $210.

I’ve been a Bellsouth/AT&T customer for 30+ years. My dad worked for BellSouth and retired from AT&T. It’s a little sad. But then I’m saving $20 a month, so I’ll get over it.

Various interesting top like monitoring programs… atop, btop, bpytop, htop, bashtop, glances

atop

btop

bpytop

htop

bashtop

glances

This is going to sound so obvious in hindsight. I mean duh!

However you receive the gateway and are excited to set it up, so you follow their expert directions. They suggest you put this in or near a window. I put mine on the window sill. In setting it up they tell you the Wi-Fi password is on the back. Well guess where the back is?

Facing the window!!!

So for 10 days, anyone standing outside the front of my house could see the password. Likely didn’t… likely no one bothered to look… but still. It’s behind glass and a screen, so it’s not like a neon sign. I could have put a piece of tape over it, which I now have.

They should have put this info on the bottom.

Now I need to change the password… maybe? I’m so lazy.

For Verizon Gateway. Replaced too short 30′ cable with too long 50′ cable. I don’t know what’s wrong with my brain lately. Although I did have painful sinus surgery a few days ago. Still I feel like I’m missing a step or two lately. At least there’s enough slack at both ends so if feet get caught up in it, hopefully it won’t cause damage to the connection ports. Speed is what’s expected.

Day 6. 100 Mbps is my plan.

Secured Verizon gateway to window sill with two large zip ties.

Ordered longer Ethernet cable and Linux compatible USB Wi-Fi adapter.

New Wi-Fi adapter failed. My fault, I took it for granted that it would work, it clearly says on Amazon that it’s incompatible with Linux.

I’ve seen reviews with faster speeds. However I choose 5G Home which only states 100 MBPS download. So with Ethernet cable, I’m getting what was stated.

New Ethernet cable… pass/fail.

Pass…

Fail, evidently because my idea of 30′ is less than the cables 30′. Actually as I think about it the measurement was my fault too. I measured from the device around the wall. obviously I needed to drop down 3-4′ to the ground first, to run along the baseboard then up from the baseboard 3′ to the computer.

However as a test I just ran from point A to Point B (across the floor), and you can see it is a descent connection.