A couple years ago I got a reply to a Craigslist ad I had posted looking for 90's and 00's era computers people were looking to get rid of. This guy said he used to run a small website starting around 1995, and had a couple "SUN servers" taking up space in his storage unit that he'd love to get rid of.
He was a bit of a curmudgeon, going on about how his business partner screwed him out of a "seven-digit payout" when his domain eventually got bought by some Japanese company. But a minivan rental and some elbow grease later I had a whole pile of hardware that he was all to happy to be done with: A Sun SPARCstation 20, a Sun ULTRA 1 Creator, an Axil Ultima 1 (a third-party Sun clone), an gorgeous amber Wyse CRT terminal, and a few other odds and ends.
I wrote a more detailed list on my blog [1], but so far all I've managed to do with them is get the drives out and cloned and the ULTRA 1 running (an involved process as the internal BIOS memory lost power long ago, wiping such transient properties as "what is my MAC address".
I was excited to read about cool hardware including a gorgeous amber Wyse CRT terminal, and disappointed that there were no pictures whatsoever on the blog post.
Love those terminals, was just thinking about looking for one!
I remember that the programmable MAC address feature occasionally came in handy when dealing with recalcitrant / braindead software ‘entitlement’ schemes vendors would occasionally require.
I absolutely adore the terminal. It appears to have several VT-compatible modes, so should be very usable with modern Linux. Except I don't have the accompanying Wyse keyboard with the appropriate setup keys required to switch compatibility modes. Gotta trawl ebay for one one of these days...
A couple of other people in the thread are using it too apparently. They're the Microsoft TROCR models. You do need a moderate amount of software to deskew, process, and segment the image before handing it to the model but after that it's typically extremely accurate in my experience.
Setting up my software online and monetizing it is next in the queue after my current side project. Although I haven't checked the model licenses.
Try again with 4o through the ChatGPT interface. Since I am getting very good results. I don't think gpt 4 was multimodal like gpt4o so must have used some other methodology?
I've used some third party tool on Windows, too. I've even tried disabling tabs in Firefox so that I could mix and match the “native” ones, but it didn't really work out.
I have - I've used IPFS to archive the channel of a creator I like (in true data-hoarding fashion).
It is neither convenient nor especially easy. It's mostly managed by a home-grown bash script that uses yt-dlp to archive videos, organized by playlist, and then update a IPNS key.
I plan on writing up a blog post about it at some point, if there's interest. I mentioned the project to the particular creator's fan discord (the creator doesn't participate with the community at all themselves) and there was a surprising amount of backlash from the community leaders. Most of the concerns revolved around the notion that I was somehow stealing ad revenue from the creator (despite my explanations that IPFS is not at all a convenient platform for video consumption). I might take the IPFS node off of the public network to circumvent this worry, and only peer with other parties interested in archival of that specific channel.
He was a bit of a curmudgeon, going on about how his business partner screwed him out of a "seven-digit payout" when his domain eventually got bought by some Japanese company. But a minivan rental and some elbow grease later I had a whole pile of hardware that he was all to happy to be done with: A Sun SPARCstation 20, a Sun ULTRA 1 Creator, an Axil Ultima 1 (a third-party Sun clone), an gorgeous amber Wyse CRT terminal, and a few other odds and ends.
I wrote a more detailed list on my blog [1], but so far all I've managed to do with them is get the drives out and cloned and the ULTRA 1 running (an involved process as the internal BIOS memory lost power long ago, wiping such transient properties as "what is my MAC address".
[1]: https://sidneys1.com/retrocomputing/2022/06/03/retro-roundup...