Marek Behr
@behr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and head of Chair for Computational Analysis of Technical Systems (CATS) at RWTH Aachen University. One of the (many) directors of […]
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Another attic find: 12-inch Apple PC Compatibility Card from 1997. Includes Pentium 166 MHz CPU with serial and parallel ports, and a special video cable to switch between Mac and Windows displays. Apparently, I would have to downgrade my PowerMac G4 to MacOS […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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January 15, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Another attic find: 12-inch Apple PC Compatibility Card from 1997. Includes Pentium 166 MHz CPU with serial and parallel ports, and a special video cable to switch between Mac and Windows displays. Apparently, I would have to downgrade my PowerMac G4 to MacOS […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
January 11, 2026 at 10:26 AM
And yet another constant end-of-the-year thing is preparing and sending an annual report to our institute's friends and alumni. This is of course best done before everyone leaves for the break. This year, the alpaca picnic graced the cover.
December 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
And yet another constant end-of-the-year thing is preparing and sending an annual report to our institute's friends and alumni. This is of course best done before everyone leaves for the break. This year, the alpaca picnic graced the cover.
The other predictable end-of-the-year thing is posting here, on Mastodon only, my latest Wordle stats. It was said that nobody wants to see such things. That may be true, but tradition is a tradition.
December 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The other predictable end-of-the-year thing is posting here, on Mastodon only, my latest Wordle stats. It was said that nobody wants to see such things. That may be true, but tradition is a tradition.
There are just few predictable things about the end of the year for me. One of them is definitely reading Dave Barry's Year in Review.
https://davebarry.substack.com/p/the-year-in-review
https://davebarry.substack.com/p/the-year-in-review
The Year in Review
I am so sorry.
davebarry.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
There are just few predictable things about the end of the year for me. One of them is definitely reading Dave Barry's Year in Review.
https://davebarry.substack.com/p/the-year-in-review
https://davebarry.substack.com/p/the-year-in-review
Replaced leaking capacitors on another Mac LC 475 board. I’m beginning to like it! Not a dramatic improvement, but the speaker crackle is gone.
#retrocomputing
#retrocomputing
October 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Replaced leaking capacitors on another Mac LC 475 board. I’m beginning to like it! Not a dramatic improvement, but the speaker crackle is gone.
#retrocomputing
#retrocomputing
With retro-computing projects on hiatus, I post a photo of an attic object. It came with surplus MicroVAX II, and is a Q-Bus board from 1992 labeled Super SRCC. With a 68020 and Xilinx FPGAs, it seems to be a co-processor.
Included tape had code for radar […]
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Included tape had code for radar […]
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October 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
With retro-computing projects on hiatus, I post a photo of an attic object. It came with surplus MicroVAX II, and is a Q-Bus board from 1992 labeled Super SRCC. With a 68020 and Xilinx FPGAs, it seems to be a co-processor.
Included tape had code for radar […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Included tape had code for radar […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
There should be a dedicated word for this: Thinking about asking Siri a question, imagining the resulting disappointment, and deciding not to ask after all. As a frequent iOS user, I experience this several times daily.
#appleintelligence
#appleintelligence
September 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
There should be a dedicated word for this: Thinking about asking Siri a question, imagining the resulting disappointment, and deciding not to ask after all. As a frequent iOS user, I experience this several times daily.
#appleintelligence
#appleintelligence
Don't we just love MS Outlook? Never mind that the message deceivingly invites you to switch to "new" Outlook, which apparently has fewer functions than the old one. I'm so happy to have to use this abomination only in order to remove attachments which Apple Mail is not able to remove.
#mastoscience
#mastoscience
September 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Don't we just love MS Outlook? Never mind that the message deceivingly invites you to switch to "new" Outlook, which apparently has fewer functions than the old one. I'm so happy to have to use this abomination only in order to remove attachments which Apple Mail is not able to remove.
#mastoscience
#mastoscience
What a beautiful illustration from the MacsBug Reference and Debugging Guide, from 1993. I always wondered where the high memory is!
#retrocomputing
#retrocomputing
July 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
What a beautiful illustration from the MacsBug Reference and Debugging Guide, from 1993. I always wondered where the high memory is!
#retrocomputing
#retrocomputing
Not sure if anyone has used @BlueSCSI this way, but here it is: Apple Interactive TV (1995 vintage) is booting from a 7.1 disk set up previously in PB 520c, and being controlled via Timbuktu remote desktop. That also uses BlueSCSI network interface.
#retrocomputing
#retrocomputing
June 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Not sure if anyone has used @BlueSCSI this way, but here it is: Apple Interactive TV (1995 vintage) is booting from a 7.1 disk set up previously in PB 520c, and being controlled via Timbuktu remote desktop. That also uses BlueSCSI network interface.
#retrocomputing
#retrocomputing
My wired connection has (supposedly) IP obfuscation set to off. And yet, unless I turn off iCloud Private Relay completely, it does hide the IP, leading to all sorts of problems accessing university services. How long ago was the Private Relay introduced?
#sotiredofbugs
#grumpymonday
#sotiredofbugs
#grumpymonday
June 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
My wired connection has (supposedly) IP obfuscation set to off. And yet, unless I turn off iCloud Private Relay completely, it does hide the IP, leading to all sorts of problems accessing university services. How long ago was the Private Relay introduced?
#sotiredofbugs
#grumpymonday
#sotiredofbugs
#grumpymonday
I thought I'll use built-in Outlook support tool to nag MS about a) senseless prompts to update time zone (from Brussels to Berlin, adjustment of zero hours), and prompts to disable auto reply whenever one has the audacity to open Outlook while on "vacation" […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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June 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I thought I'll use built-in Outlook support tool to nag MS about a) senseless prompts to update time zone (from Brussels to Berlin, adjustment of zero hours), and prompts to disable auto reply whenever one has the audacity to open Outlook while on "vacation" […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
May 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I could not write better about the Friday circus in the White House than Timothy Snyder:
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-war-trump-chooses?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Maybe the greatest value of that televised event was to give us a bit of an insight into toddler's mind, to […]
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-war-trump-chooses?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Maybe the greatest value of that televised event was to give us a bit of an insight into toddler's mind, to […]
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March 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I could not write better about the Friday circus in the White House than Timothy Snyder:
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-war-trump-chooses?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Maybe the greatest value of that televised event was to give us a bit of an insight into toddler's mind, to […]
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-war-trump-chooses?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Maybe the greatest value of that televised event was to give us a bit of an insight into toddler's mind, to […]
Reposted by Marek Behr
January 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A LinkedIn post by Yan LeCun (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yann-lecun_hey-europe-you-want-a-vibrant-tech-industry-activity-7299096239625695232-ORyx) is making waves. It's ostensibly about the chance EU has in poaching US scientists. But it's really a simplistic put-down of the EU landscape […]
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February 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
A LinkedIn post by Yan LeCun (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yann-lecun_hey-europe-you-want-a-vibrant-tech-industry-activity-7299096239625695232-ORyx) is making waves. It's ostensibly about the chance EU has in poaching US scientists. But it's really a simplistic put-down of the EU landscape […]
How did I miss that there exists a Severance TV show podcast? Covering both seasons? I had to search for it on a whim while preparing for a trip, if you believe it...
#severance
#idontconsumeenoughsocialmedia
#severance
#idontconsumeenoughsocialmedia
February 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
How did I miss that there exists a Severance TV show podcast? Covering both seasons? I had to search for it on a whim while preparing for a trip, if you believe it...
#severance
#idontconsumeenoughsocialmedia
#severance
#idontconsumeenoughsocialmedia
The mysteries of MS Exchange: On MacOS Sequoia, I cannot see my Exchange calendar. But I can see delegates' calendars for the same account. On the iPad, I see my calendar, but not the delegates'.
#retrocomputing
#retrocomputing
February 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The mysteries of MS Exchange: On MacOS Sequoia, I cannot see my Exchange calendar. But I can see delegates' calendars for the same account. On the iPad, I see my calendar, but not the delegates'.
#retrocomputing
#retrocomputing
January 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM