Saw this on hacker news. This kid is my new hero!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk
>>53748880
Could it run Minecraft in 144fps?
>>53748880
> hurr durr i plugged a whole bunch of stuff together give me karma
fucking moron with faggot hair
>kuckowsky
Wow, three posts in and the walls are already drenched in jelly.
>>53748880
thread music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R4sBnbp33U
>>53748880
HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WITH IT. Congratulations you read a man page and plugged some shit in. This is basically /g/ with their *pi running their kodi servers
>>53748973
> "oy vey, look how few shekels I paid for this computer!"
Meh...I would have been more impressed if it was a mainframe from the 60's or 70's.
Call me when someone finds / buys / gets working a Cray-1.
>inb4 someone posts the little model with an FPGA chip that emulates a Cray-1
>>53748986
HE DINDU NUFFIN?
>>53748880
what are the specs of this?
>>53748986
yep, this is pretty much the new "nice clock, Ahmed!". I fucking hate the tech media.
>>53749134
AMD FX 9590 in Quad SLI
ITT: jealous faggots that can't comprehend most of what he did to install his mainframe.
>>53748986
What are you talking about? He managed to set it up which was a feat in itself.
The most difficult part was probably moving the thing.
>>53749357
>implying reading redbooks on os/400 is 'hard'
w
e
w
>>53748880
how fast can it
AVERAGE TWO INTS IN C ACCOUNTING FOR OVERFLOW AND NEGATIVE VALUES
what a fucking faggot
that thing gotta cost at 220v 30A a lot of shekels to run. Not worth it in any case.
>>53749486
>>53749608
>>53749619
>>53749631
>>53749638
>>53749650
Why does this "presentation" exist?
>>53749678
> why do people do things I don't?
Why would you even post this horseshit?
>>53749678
maybe because he's presenting his journey of installing a mainframe
>>53749669
He probably leaves it unplugged really. The ratings are more of a maximum anyway.
>>53748973
Sound like some Pole were trying to make his name more murrican
>>53749697
It's an honest question you nigger. I want to know if this is one of those things Americans are required to do at CCs or if it's some other avenue for random people to post their busybody shit which apparantly has enough people actually listening to compile slides for.
he even browses the net using a text based browser :^)
>>53749732
Sweet, I have to do this more often with my PC! Maybe, just maybe, I'll save some energy considering these wall vampires. The video is TL;Didn't see, but let me guess, he installs a mainframe, and he's making a presentation of the boring process he went through, he's a real innovator that one.
>>53748880
let me know when he does something with it
you know it's gonna be some gay shit
>>53749768
tl;dw version
>kid likes old computers
>starts collecting a fuckton of old computers
>parents are pissed
>one day he sees an auction for an old mainframe
>bids on it before he even realizes what he got himself into
>even his friends tell him its a bad idea
>wins auction
>goes to the place
>realizes he can't move it because it weighs a ton
>has to break it up into parts and get his friends to help him move it
>makes two trips one for the parts and the other for the actual chassis
>when he gets the chassis to his parents house he realizes he can't fit it in the basement
>his dad has to dig up part of the basement wall to make it fit
>reassembles the mainframe in the basement
>realizes the thing isn't really compatible with his electricity
>one friend tells him how to plug it into single phase(not optimal, still can't reliably run at 100%)
>gets the thing powered on
>realizes it needs all kinds of hardware which he didn't have
Eventually he installs CentOS and later SUSE on it. Then he SSHs into SUSE and uses lynx to browse like two websites.
>>53749923
Pretty fucking stupid kid, eh?
He should be ashamed, not proud of this. What's wrong with him? "I'm too stupid to figure out what a mainframe is, better make a presentation of how stupid I am for internet fame"
>>53750015
What? He's just an aspiring electrical engineer that collects old shit and decided to get and set up a mainframe.
There isn't much you can do with it because it's a pile of junk in today's standards, but the fact that he was able to get it running for a relatively low price ($350~), considering that the mainframe was 1000x more expensive 10 years ago.
>>53750015
He did apparently get it working after buying a bunch of parts for it but he was still missing things apparently and considering the power situation I doubt he's using this thing for anything. It's a lot of work for a hobby.
>>53750015
"I will never have the motivation or courage to just do what the fuck I want, and it makes me mad"
Look inward, stop projecting, learn, and get better anon. A life of jealousy is no life at all.
>>53750055
And I'm an aspiring billionare with an 8 inch cock, I don't make videos about how I my lemonade stand had a negative cashflow.
>>53749738
pic related
this is a Pole
>>53750066
Now imagine if he put that money and energy into something actually groundbreaking, like supporting and gearing up for VR or star citizen
>>53750158
EDIT: I don't actually have 8 inch cock, I'm just aspiring to have have one.
>>53750112
Well when we are all anonymous you'll never know how successful other posters are. Don't mistake other posters to be in the same situation you're in.
I have followed my dreams, met amazing people all over the world, am in my dream job and in good health. My life's pretty good.
But I don't go buying stupid shit and brag online how stupid investments I make.
Instead I shitpost on peruvian basket weaving websites while I work and collect hourly pay.
>>>/reddit/
fucking hipster trash
how can anyone sit through 45 minutes of this faggot talking?
and why is this now a presentation topic?
i mean, i'm all for tinkering and having fun and digging up old computers and making them work again
but what kind of progressive inclusivist society are we living in when anyone who does something can go and give a talk about it and this is now celebrated like some kind of fucking achievement?
just so that the faggot hipsters at reddit and the shareosphere have something to link bait with?
I FUCKING HATE THE MODERN INTERNET AND WANT TO KILL EVERYONE FOR MAKING IT LIKE THIS
>>53750346
He's one of those stupid fucking millenials that confuse being eccentric about your weaknesses and failures with "confidence".
>Because we're all equal and just because you're a loser doesn't mean you shouldn't constantly open your fuckhole ;^)
Goddamn the bitter tears of impotent rage in this thread. Kid's just got a hobby, restoring old mainframes. Why don't you all just fuck off back to AMD vs. Nvidia circlejerk threads?
>>53750390
Nothing wrong with sharing his experiences with the world. Not like he's bragging about installing Arch like certian fags around here like to do. I watched the whole thing, it was interesting.
>smart kid does something cool purely for fun
>gets asked to do a talk on it and is nice enough to do so
>/g/ has an autistic meltdown
>>53750532
more like
> kid doesn't know what he's doing
> luckily he's a good googler
> "he must be godlike prodigy coder"
> /g/ calling him out
no news, why would anyone make a post about this
>>53750504
Did you remember to take a selfie while you typed up that post? Don't forget to share it facebook later!
>>53750591
He's probably the fag in the video.
>>53748880
why is this such a big fucking deal
pretty neat, at he's not like most kids who'd give up after failing to find the start button
>>53748880
A real shame he didn't install MVS or VM/370 instead of an OS you can install on your fucking phone.
>>53748986
kodi isn't a server
>>53750487
nobody cares that he has a fucking hobby
why is everyone acting like his hobby makes him a special snowflake?
why do a presentation on it? there is no fucking point
>>53750595
Just fucking kill yourself.
> ITT, bitter faggots who don't realise the post counter is giving away their samefaggotry.
Just think, all the time you have spent cutting this guy down could have been spent learning something new. Oh well.
>>53750504
I'm against that too, but at least /g/ is a relatively secluded forum. I remember reading long ago about a guy who built an entire CPU from basic logic circuits. He spent something like a year soldering everything together, even made a nice faceplate with lights and switches for the registers akin to an old 8800. He didn't go around and give talks saying look at how cool I am (as far as I know). He just put it up on a personal website. He also hosted a single web page on a tiny HTTP server running on Minix on his homebrew CPU.
So, I'm not railing on the faggot in the OP as much as on the whole online culture of "Check out this.." and "Here's what..." and "You'll never believe..." that allows some snot-nosed faggot to give a 45-minute talk to what I assume is at least a somewhat sizeable audience about a pet project that doesn't affect anyone but makes people who have marginal interest in tech think that what he's doing is a YUGE FUCKING DEAL.
>>53750591
> "he must be godlike prodigy coder"
literally nobody said that except you and the other spergs
>>53749669
He said the idle load was surprisingly low in his talk.
>>53750663
He was asked to do the talk, don't blame him for the clickbait title.
>>53750688
Then I blame the people who asked him and the people who made the link and the people who made me a bitter cynical asshole.
>>53750724
You chose to be a bitter cynical asshole. But you can also choose not to be.
>>53750173
Or he could continue doing what he's doing because it's a fucking hobby
>>53750751
hard to agree with that when you're a fatalistic determinist who believes that free will is an illusion we keep alive so that the world makes sense
>>53750786
>>53750751
I mean, I can be in states where I choose not to be, but those are few and far between lately.
>>53750655
Have you ever been to an informal convention, like defcon and the like? Its all this. People go to see other people with like minded interest speak about topics and projects they do for fun. Relax
>>53750390
The kid is 18. Most 18 year olds are only interested in sex, weed, and hip hop. Did he do anything revolutionary? No. Did he do something difficult for someone his age to accomplish? Yes. I'm 34 years old and can't handle Ubuntu. If nothing else, his determination is impressive.
>>53750825
You'r banging your head against a wall, these people getting asspained in this thread are here ironically just to feel like a "special snowflake" all secluded and against the mainstream discussion.
Its just a case of 4chan Contrarians taking themselves too seriously.
>>53750863
>I'm 34 years old and can't handle Ubuntu.
Anon, I'm 28 and I JUST figured out how to do loops in Python and C. Don't feel bad.
>>53748880
1.5/10
Didn't show boypussi
>>53750863
dude, good for you, but thing is that some people on /g/ do systems maintenance and planning for a living. I deal with projects akin to this all the time. Not mainframes particularly per se but integrate old shit into new infrastructure. This shit is really nothing. Anyone could do it. Why is this hackernews-worthy is beyond me.
Just because its not impressive doesn't mean its not mildly interesting.
So many autists here
>>53750994
so then why don't you just ignore it? if you don't like a thread don't click on it? or better yet hide it? whats the point of preaching? the majority demographic on the internet are people who have a very limited grasp of tech ofcourse the news sites/blogs are going to pander to them.
It is all hell and fire but tell me how does your irrelevant ass think it can change or amount to a fucking shite.
you'r just not a big enough demographic to tailor the content for, if you'r smarter than the rest act like it and filter your content without getting asspained.
based prince of /g/ triggering autistic man children on an online Indonesian pictogram forum
>>53751041
Did I hit a nerve and/or are you having a stroke?
>>53751147
No i just hate people who like to ride a high horse and then make a mockery of themselves acting just as juvenile as the rest.
>>53751173
Kill yourself
>>53750655
How many kids buy one ton mainframes as a hobby?
Most kids ask mommy for a new iphone or thinkpad. Mainframes are rare and mainly an old guys game. It's different so people find it amusing or interesting.
>>53751183
No :^)
> all this buttblast over things other people do.
I'm gunna start posting pictures of this guy and his toy all over /g/ just to trigger you basic faggots. This is gold.
>some kid interested in technology does something neat to have fun
>/g/ is assblasted
Keep bitching about smartphones you'll never afford you consumerist faggots
>>53751085
>online Indonesian pictogram forum
>not Tibetan vacuum cleaner enthusiast forum
Get with the times senpai.
>>53751376
> unsure if madder about wasted nesquik or the retardedly built laptop with an almost impossible to replace keyboard.
>>53751173
atleast I'm not a namefaggot, special snowflake
>>53751215
if autism could speak
>followed instructions and read a bit of documentation using google
eckdee I'm a genius :P
>>53751419
My namefagging is just a response to the Indian hate. pic related.
>>53751444
It can, and it got trips. I know you guys get excited by numbers, enjoy the moment man!
Now please, tell us more about how much you hate this guy for doing things you can't.
>>53751376
Anon hold on I think a bit of nesquik just dropped all over your keyboard you gotta get that cleaned man
>>53751395
I'm not sure why you would be mad about the nesquik thing only a couple of nigs worked their ass off for that in the fields
>>53748880
Whos this semen demon?
>>53750898
>>53750863
21 here, you guys make me feel better.
>>53751470
>hurr durr restoring a mainframe is just as easy as installing autism linux on my chinkpad!
Kill yourself.
>>53751590
only a little bit harder
So basically he just bought one of the mainframes posted on /g/?
>Buys vintage micros when he way 17
So basically me, but I have 9 months to get my hands on a mainframe?
What's impressive about that?
Get shit running on it nuigga, dam.
>>53751630
>>Buys vintage micros when he way 17
Fuck, meant mini's.
Micro's? What's wrong with this kid?
>>53751630
>>53751645
>Nova 4
Okay, now I'm impressed.
Lucky fucking guy.
>>53751630
Enjoy your underage b&
The Mainframe, It's real, coming to theatres this Friday.
>>53751551
>a couple of nigs worked their ass off for that in the fields
If they work hard are they really niggers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEN4hcZutO0
>>53751664
I'm 18, you can't math.
18years 354 days - 9 months.
>>53748880
kid looks like a fag
I bet he posts stocking and skirt photos here on /g/
>>53749084
>Call me when someone finds / buys / gets working a Cray-1.
Crays are all over the place in museums, especially the Cray-1 which was immensely popular and probably the least special among older supercomputers.
I'd rather see someone blogging about a 2 or a CDC system.
>>53749084
>>inb4 someone posts the little model with an FPGA chip that emulates a Cray-1
KAWAII!!
>all the retards ITT who think setting up a mainframe in a home environment is no different from regurgitating a wiki page into a shitty used business laptop
Considering the shitty treatment most of these systems receive after being shitcanned, the power requirements and the amount of specialized proprietary software required to run them, I'll give him some more points for at least talking a good game, I want to get an S/390 or z some day myself.
>>53748880
He is pretty cute, would have loving consensual gay sex with him on top of the mainframe.
>>53748986
Setting up a mainframe is an accomplishment. They're horrendously outdated piles of shit.
>>53749761
>required to do at CCs
Community College? Often times they better prepare people for IT work than universities. At no point during your school career would you touch a mainframe in the US.
>>53749747
>1500 bogoMIPS
Haha, even my 5-year old CPU beats that huge piece of crap$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) II X3 455 Processor
cpu MHz : 2100.000
cpu cores : 3
bogomips : 6622.36
Why post in this thread if you are just pissed? If this had been a member of the /g/ang you all would have been talking about how cool this was. We all know you are so leet that this is beneath you and everyone else should be ashamed by actually doing something instead of shitposting, you don't have to keep telling us.
>>53749761
Colleges are mainly textbook work and writing papers and stuff. This guy just did this for fun there's no real point behind any of it.
>>53748880
>faggy hair
>wow mom i plugged parts in and got it working!
who cares
>>53748880
So, what does one do with a machine like that?
>inb4 screenfetch
>>53752300
>We all know you are so leet
Wow, I haven't heard anyone say this in about 15 years.
>>53752253
Holy shit, a eee box from 2007 that draws 30 watts doubles it in speed.model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz
bogomips : 3216.05
>>53750786
>>53750801
How do you see the screen past how severely tipped your fedora is.
>>53749157
> AMD
> SLI
>>53752253
>>53752414
Mainframes are not supercomputers, y'know
>>53752253
From 2009:processor : 0
model name : AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor
cpu MHz : 2205.460
cpu cores : 4
bogomips : 4410.92
>>53752486
Wait, this can't be right.
The IBM z890's from 2004, right?
The EEE Box B202's from 2008.
That's a fucking behemoth, a $300,000 monstrosity, drawing 6,500W, vs a little fuck off box for $300 that draws 30W 4 years later.
>>53752253
Hell my SBC comes close, but that's rather irrelevant. One should expect such a thing given the decades difference in agecat /proc/cpuinfo
system type : JZ4780
machine : imgtec,ci20
processor : 0
cpu model : Ingenic JZRISC V4.15 FPU V0.0
BogoMIPS : 1202.58
>>53752253
>>53752414
>>53752487
>>53752598
>bogus, meaningless indication of processor speed
Pretend it says "this number doesn't mean shit" instead.
>>53752253
What year is this mainframe from? I have an old 1095 Mhz Celeron laptop from around 2001 that supposedly gets 2190.78 bogomips. I would post it but I can't post from the laptop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_zSeries
Would you at least mind reading this, retards?
At least the comparison to other servers part
>>53752253
>>53752414
>>53752487
>>53752598
False alarm everyone
>A direct comparison of System z servers with other computing platforms is difficult. For example, System z servers offload such functions as I/O processing, cryptography, memory control, and various service functions (such as hardware configuration management and error logging) to dedicated processors. These "extra" processors are in addition to the (up to) 141 cores per frame.
>>53748880
Some claim of being Mustard Race, but this dude is undeniably living it. So what's he gonna do with it?
>>53752791
Rice the desktop and post screenfetch.
Fucking faggot
He should just rent a VM like any reasonable person
>>53749608
>30A @220v is 6.6kVA
>@12cents KWH ~$.75/h excluding cooling
>24 hours a day
>~30 days a month
>=$500+ a month operating cost
Such smart
so cool
>>53752993
You are unbelievably retarded
>>53748880
Now the big question is:
Can it run Crysis?
>>53748973
>>53749738
Funny thing is that in Polish language "kuc" (a pony) is a word commonly referring to IT guys because they stereotypically tie their long hair in a ponytail.
>>53753092
Nobody give a shit about Poland.
>>53748880
Now we have to find out RAM and IO bandwidth on that big pile of metal. It could still put our systems to shame.
>>53748880
UHHH> ERRR. UHHH. A-a-a-a-a-a-a-
ummmmmm - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
fucking sperg can't talk without stuttering for a fucking second.
then we have the retards in the comment section claiming "GREAT PRESENTATION SKILLS"
L O L !
>thread about actual technology
>people shitpost throughout the thread.
god /g/ is a shitty board
>>53750346
Mother Fucker just because you don't like it doesn't make him dumb. Some of the best hobbies are ones that yield almost nothing of impressive value.
If it does, you're chained to it instead of coming back on your own will. It becomes a monotonous source of income that you will never find the same joy in when you first started.
I enjoy writing but fucking shoot me if I ever get a profession forcing me to churn out pieces weekly or even annually.
The kid is over its head and has dumped a lot into this project with no real goal other than personal growth. No one is saying hes brilliant but his desire to learn is pretty fucking commendable. I don't know why you need to drive that stick up your ass any further then it already is.
>>53748880
>Saw this on hacker news
>This kid is my new hero!
fuck off leddit
>>53752219
SAT flop detected
>I'm using it to play GTA 5 mom
>>53748982
Can anybody identify the film from the start of that clip?
>babby's first defcon
>LOL I CAN COMPUTER
K, that's cool
>>53750112
Nice strawman
>>53752219
>tfw i went to film school
>had to spend 2 days teaching everyone how to use the renderfarm
>even had to do certain things over the terminal
>tfw an artfag has touched more "mainframes" than you
>>53750825
Most defcon talks are of shit that is actually cool, or engaging, or even remotely interesting
This kid brought an old computer in, bragged abour how much of a hassle it was to restore, and thought all this deserved a presentation
This is literally normie shit of the tech world
>>53748880
Reported for viralling yourself, fucking shill
Who even types a post like that
>>53753956
His post was clearly engineered to be inflammatory. god how new are you...
>>53749678
It's a presentation to a community that enjoys this sort of thing. If you aren't into it, don't watch it. The kid has killer presentation skills for his age, and it was sure as hell nostalgic to watch.
>>53749084
I'm not going to lie, if I had a lot of space I would get a modern Cray setup.
Not even a "supercomputer," I'd stuff modest desktop guts into it, I just love that it's a computer that's also furniture.
>>53754082
>I just love that it's a computer that's also furniture.
Can you actually use it as furniture? I've always wondered that when I see pictures of them and I didn't take the time to look closely at the one I saw in real life several years ago (sadly I don't remember what I went to look more closely at instead).
>>53754199
Either yes or this asshole is endangering millions of dollars of equipment
Which is always a possibility
>>53750655
You're the only jackasses making him out to be a "special snowflake". This is what happens at a convention, people share their experiences with their hobby. You shitposters have some sort of gut reaction when you see a kid talking about tech.
Go back to Linux Tech Tips or battlestation threads and argue about something there. Better yet, get yourself a hobby and go to a convention.
>>53749157
Kek
>>53753912
I'm guessing you've only seen the defcon videos posted online. There are plenty of talks with ~10 people audiences that are damn similar.
The last DefCon I went to was in '09, and there was a presentation by an 11 year old who made a little-tykes cluster computer and used it to crack a WEP address. It wasn't educational, nor did it contain much information, but it was great fun to watch.
There was another talk by an old lady (honestly, she had to have been over 80 years old) show off her bitcoin mining rig and how her grandson convinced her to join the hobby.
Both of those talks were fun, and they're just about the most mainstream thing you could find at a tech convention, aside from watching somebody "build" a computer.
Compared to those talks, this guy had an interesting presentation. I guarantee every other talk at this convention was similar, but because this one was from a kid using old tech, shitposters are posting en masse about how he isn't a genius or how boring this presentation was. Nobody's making the assertion that this kid's a genius, and you don't have to watch it! This wasn't posted on emergency-broadcast channels, it didn't interrupt your daily lives, it hasn't gone viral, it's literally just a standard convention-style presentation.
If this talk is getting anybody close to having a heart attack, you should sure as hell stay away from just about any convention. For a convention talk, this was pretty damn good. Most are difficult to sit through without feeling the awkward tenseness in the air, or having the presenter mumble through the first half.
>>53754199
>>53754220
You can use it as furniture, they have an old cray at EPFL, kids would always be sitting on it.
>>53754420
>and there was a presentation by an 11 year old who made a little-tykes cluster computer and used it to crack a WEP address
>little-tykes cluster computer
You know that you can't make a post talking about something like that and not at least give us any information past that. What exactly was this computer built out of?
>>53752342
Apparently you do, enough to respond.
>>53754584
To be honest, I don't remember, but I'm sure it's online somewhere. I know his parents had a hefty hand in it, and it all fit into a pretty small filing cabinet. It was at one of those hotel-talks at The Riviera.
His talk was almost entirely about how much fun he'd had and how his parents foot the bill.
Since it was in '09, I'd wager that he just used a bunch of Athlons. The main point was that it wasn't a professional build, just a bunch of inexpensive used parts that he had fun with.
If you really are interested, I'd be down to look around the house for some pictures and we can try figure out what he was running
>>53754926
>I'd wager that he just used a bunch of Athlons
Damn, I thought by little-tykes you meant they found a way to build one out of those toy laptops or something.
>>53754983
Oh, no. I was just being dramatic about it.
>>53752253
>>53752414
>>53752487
>>53752598
>>53752688
You realize the "bogo" in bogomips stands for "bogus", right? It's literally a metric of how many millions of times per second a CPU can do nothing, and even regular MIPS are a shit metric for comparisons between architectures.
Like AS/400s, System zs (and mainframes in general) aren't built to be fast for general purpose computation, they're built for ultra-reliable operation on a lot of shit at once with uptimes of 10-20 years.
>>53752993
>fuck hobbies, learning, and exploring new technologies, that lessens your ability to mindlessly consume as cheaply as possible!
>>53754082
> I'd stuff modest desktop guts into it
But shit, that takes out half of what makes the equipment so incredible.
Cray was a fucking genius, and every single aspect of that freaky hardware had a purpose, from the curved frame designed to maximize speed by minimizing the communication distances between components to the "bench" design that held the ingenious cooling system that defined the system even moreso than the computation hardware itself.
Honestly though, if I ever made myself a mini-cray, the T3Es are pretty damn neat looking.
>>53749923
So rich kid does something stupid and now get's praise?
>>53755424
>rich
Old tech isn't expensive if you aren't a retard and know how to talk to people, and most big iron collectors get their shit for free. Mainframes and minis are so massive that they're unsaleable to all but a small niche of serious enthusiasts/collectors with the ability to run them.
>>53755310
I'm well aware
>>53755424
>rich kid
He didn't spend that much on the computer, according to the video he spent $340 for the computer and the additional equipment necessary to get the thing to run. In his presentation he talks about how little he purchased a lot of the old computers he collects for and how there were easier ways that he could have got his mainframe up and running faster if he wanted to spend more money on it.
>>53754561
I go sit on it whenever I can.
>>53749084
>gets working
Good fucking luck with that.
>>53754069
>The kid has killer presentation skills
Are you fucking autistic?
> "uhh umm uhh"
his presentation was practically /r/cringe material (x-posting it here)
>>53748880
I find thing like this annoying. Sure the kid deserves credit for doing something big and unusual, but so do hundreds of others I have met.
Nobody invites me to give a talk about setting up my computer to boot 40 different OS. Which took some effort to teach myself as when I started I didn't know what Linux, command line or root was. It was 2 months of "ok got this to work" then "what the heck kind of error is" with stuff like "format FAT 16 not detected"
>all this jelly
>all this whit knighting
>all this cock sucking
ffs people
What the fuck does one person want to do on a mainframe?
>>53756867
To post a speccy
> Cool mainframe Connor. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.
>>53756467
You probably aren't part of a community where you would talk with any of these people. Sure, you could invite yourself (put your name on a speaker list at a con), but this guy probably knew at least 3/4 of the people there
>>53757025
lol thats even more cringeworthy
>>53756894
>White kid who enjoys technology
>getting invited to whitehouse for "enjoying" technology
pick one
>>53757025
Ya, not really a community person despite being a nice and friendly guy.
Really need to meet more people, but now that I work night shifts I don't see anyone.
Seriously I have seen only 3 people in the last month, all of whom are coworkers whom I rather not talk with about such things as I got to keep distance in this work environment.
>>53757046
if you find being interested in technology and enjoying it with others cringeworthy then why the fuck are you here?
>>53757144
know the feeling, forums and mailing lists can be pretty good places to meet people though, especially with shit like this
>>53748880
What a waste of money and time.
Would have been better off buying multiple old dell power edges and a rack from Ikea...
>>53757262
so he could waste even more power on hardware that isn't nearly as interesting or useful?
>>53751718
no, but good luck convincing these neets of that
>>53757144
I feel ya man. Networking is half the battle, I wouldn't have my current job if I weren't lucky enough to have been friends with a hiring manager for my company through a forum.
My best advice would be to give answers to questions on forums. You end up talking to other people who answer those same questions. You end up meeting people with similar levels of experience as yourself that way, and those same people can help get a job you're qualified for.
>>53757046
What?
If only we could replace every audience member with bitter /g/ shitposters instead of the people there who are clearly interested in old mainframes and what it would take to bring one back to life. They could boo and call him a faggot. It'd be wonderful.
>>53750655
Somebody liked it enough to invite him to give a presentation at that conference.
>>53757218
Different person, 4chan and IRC are the only places I talk to people. I like being social just not irl, I don't know why, don't think I'm autistic or anything I'd just rather talk in text than on the phone or face to face.
>>53756406
>/r/ cringe
>even knowing the name of a reddit page
YOU HAVE TO GO BACK
>>53758005
I even plan on cross posting some of the gold here to /r/4chan for karma ;^)
>>53757965
Find IRC channels that aren't full of swearing if you're looking for jobs or Linkedin connections.
The channels with 4chan-like banter have gems but you find more respectable and often times well known people on the more public friendly channels
>>53753518
Not every state takes the SAT, I got a full ride to a university based on my ACT score. Their computer science department turned out to be a joke.
>>53753858
A render farm is not a mainframe fucktard.
>>53758051
>;^)
>I'm hacking into the mainframe
ITT: people thinking installing Ubuntu on their shitty consumer computers is as hard as configuring a mainframe.
>>53748880
So did the flooded basement kill it or not?
>>53748880
$237 for a computer that sold for $350000 is a good buy no matter how you look at it.
>>53748880
I bet he's gonna buy an AIX workstation next.
>>53749145
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>>53760802
I'm strongly opposed to mainframes for anything at this point, but these. Skipped around in this video yesterday, I'm impressed, mainframes are hard to get working in 2016, especially for some 18 year old working off of ancient documentation and pictographs.
>>53750863
>The kid is 18. Most 18 year olds are only interested in sex, weed, and hip hop.
except for the part where that's bullshit
>>53748880
His machine has 520.00 bogomips.
My i3-3220 have 6585.08 bogomips.
ITT: A bunch of people in their 20's feeling threatened by an 18 year old who undertook a pretty massive project and was able to successfully complete it.
Y'all need to calm down, you guys wouldn't be half as salty if it was the same video with some 30 year old talking about it.
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>>53756230
Did fucking Stanley Kubrick design these? Man they look so cool.
![IBM%20face%202[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/58VqO7o.jpg "IBM%20face%202[1].jpg")
>>53762175
You've got it backwards.
>>53762260
Cray designed Stanley Kubrick?
>>53762286
In the flexh.
![hqdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/FdWimi5.jpg "hqdefault[1].jpg")
This guy plays with mainframes all the time. Don't see him in the news
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChjPKH7dFtc2EtLwrqznZFg
>>53762323
Lots of those people are pretty involved in their own insulated communities, it's also not very often you see people that young doing it, most big iron collectors are 40-something greybeard types who started hoarding surplus from work.
I didn't understand some of that presentation, but it seems being into mainframes means getting cucked by IBM and other companies (whatever that $175/mo thing was etc)
Why has
Why has no one created a modern Plan 9?
>>53762475
>>53762487
9front
>>53762453
"Mainframe" was another word for IBM once
>>53762323
This kid isn't in the news. You're the one treating this kid like a "special snowflake" or whatever it is you guys are saying.
I'm willing to bet that the youtuber you just posted is also part of an enthusiast community, and likely has given talks about his progress.
That's all that this is. It's a kid who is part of an online community, and that online community came together for a conference to show off their projects.
>>53762140
Damn, you're right
Thanks Dr. Phil, another case solved!
To all the people talking bad about the kid, go fuck yourselves!
Windows and OSX here on /g/ are always flamming that Linux is hard to configure, and linux users complain about software that you can't configure correctly.
IMAGINE DOING THAT IN A FUCKTON OLD MAINFRAME YOU COCKSUCKERS!
>>53763160
>IMAGINE DOING THAT IN A FUCKTON OLD MAINFRAME YOU COCKSUCKERS!
For what purpose? I like to do things (i.e. work) with my computers.
>>53748880
>18 year old kid does something that 99% of people on /g/ cant and never will be able to do
>mfw all the aspies coming out of the woodworks to try and rationalize their shitty neet lives by throwing personal attacks at this kid
>>53763248
then stuff like what he did is not for you
but it doesn't change the fact that it was an amazing feat
the purpose was to get it running and use it
Wouldn't mind a full size tower case that looked like that
>>53763294
>the fact that it was an amazing feat
Oh yeah using google is difficult in 2016 I forgot
>the purpose was to get it running and use it
Ok. Use it for exactly what?
Leave show and tell to the kindergarteners.
>>53763279
it's not that anyone can't do it, it was $350 for a fully working system, even on welfare most people could budget for that.
the problem is they lack any kind of motivation, unless it can be ordered and shipped in a box without any human interaction these NEETs don't stand a chance.
>>53763592
>Oh yeah using google is difficult in 2016 I forgot
you have no idea what you're talking about if you think you can just google your way to set an old mainframe like that.
>Ok. Use it for exactly what?
Doesn't matter. The purpose was to get it running and be able to use it. He said it himself that he'll use it to learn more stuff, and his hobby is to collect and tweak old computers.
I don't care if he doesn't use it for its full potential
I'm just happy that he's taking good care of it.
>>53757059
>not getting the meme joke from akmed the clock boy
shiggydiggy2k16
>>53763592
there's no wiki to spoonfeed you instructions to properly run an set one of these systems up, let alone figure out how to run it in a poorly ventilated basement without immolating
it takes a lot of research and motivation for a random shithead teenager to pull it off
>Ok. Use it for exactly what?
it's a computer, dipshit, what the fuck do you think? run a public terminal system, develop applications, explore the environment and learn some skills that stand a chance to land you a pretty sweet career in an industry that desperately needs you
>>53749923
he's like /g/ but he spent money
>/g/ installs a server OS like BSD
>figures out how to use some "artsy" (useless but praised with abstract "design philosophy" retardation) software like dwm and vim on a local instance of X
>goes back to windows/OS X three weeks later
Interesting but a better use of his time would be to seek out old copy machines on ebay and scan the hard drives. I think most companies forget that each copier has a hard drive, so they most likely aren't erased when they get tossed out.
>>53748880
Get a haircut you hippy faggot
>>53749678
I find it a fascinating exploration of the difficulties involved in getting archaic computer technology up and running again. Young man's work is commendable.
>>53750015
When this machine was new it took men who rightfully had the nickname of technical wizards to get it up and running. There is an incredible amount of complexity to this setup.
This kid can use this presentation to guarantee himself a future in the business.
>>53763665
>he thinks money is the issue here
cute
>>53762934
>Ur armchair psychologist lol
Nigga, half the posts are salty about how 'other people do this stuff but nobody cares, just cos hes 18, jeeze everyone's retarded fucking stupid ughhh'
>>53764279
>reading comprehension
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>>53757935
all this samefagging and whiteknighting
>>53764786
> I *still* can't handle the fact this guy is capable of more at 18 than I ever will be
> better give the thread I hate a bump.
It's been 24 hours faggot, get over it.
>>53748880
nice clock ahmed
>>53761897
>these pointless numbers are different I'm so cool
>>53752463
SLI is literally the actually definition of the technology. ShillVidia just doesn't use an edgy name like crossfire like GayMD does
>>53762323
>SGI Octane
>>53765366
No, SLI is an Nvidia technology. You are thinking of "multi-gpu", but there is always something that makes it work, be it SLI or crossfire or some other algorithm.
>>53765727
>SLI is an Nvidia technology.
no, nvidia got SLI from 3dfx
>>53766077
And is therefore Nvidia's
>>53749084
I'd be more impressed with a PDP-10. You could fill a book with the amount of history made on those machines.
>>53753092
Thanks for that. So IT guys are cucks in Poland too.
>>53753518
It's cheaper to go to CC first then transfer to a uni to get your Bachelors/Masters. Also the SAT doesn't matter when you transfer because they want to know your college GPA and not your HS one.
>>53749357
I can't comprehend why he did it.
>>53750055
>the fact that he was able to get it running for a relatively low price ($350~)
You aren't including the cost to get it into the basement that his mother's husband had to pay.
>>53750786
Scott, is that you?
>>53767575
What? He dug some fucking land out of the basement. What's the fucking cost?
HOW FUCKING SLOW IS /G/ THAT THIS SHIT THREAD IS STILL HERE HOLY FUCK
MODS REMOVE THE NORMIES
I enjoyed the presentation.
>>53767455
Because he's the absolute madman.
>>53768055
>normie
fuck off >>>/r9k/
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>>53764220
Why is everyone ITT acting like this guy is bringing a fucking T-rex back from the dead? That thing's not very old, only about 12 years at the very most.
