Maniac Netflix original show

In this show, Season 1, Episode 2 there are sets with some classic systems.

I'm wondering if in the latter one, with the terminals if that is the one which called me trying to buy a quantity of terminals some time ago.

This was called to my attention by a poster on the cctalk list,  Stéphane Tsacas.

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TV show Maniac (available on netflix), S1E2 @28.48, at least a PDP 11/40,
11/05 or 04, RX01, PDP-8, and 2 Data General Eclipse, DEC doc binders, and
maybe an IBM front panel and more.
See
https://imgur.com/a/L3iA9CD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniac_(miniseries)

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Here are some stills I grabbed.  There is probably some test equipment in the upper panels above the aircooled IBM cabinets.  They seem to be 3480 tape racks, probably in 9303 cabinets.

If I had to guess I'd say the IBM system is a 360/40, but I'm sure more practiced eyes will comment.

The panel with the repeated similar arrays of green blink'n lights have what probably are SCSI drive racks in each.  Probably chosen for the aesthetic of having a grill on each.  At a later scene one of the actors comes up and talks to it like it's some sort of person, and it talks back.

Will have to see how many episodes there are.  This was dropped as a 10 episode block on 18 Sep 2018 according to the epguides.com site about the series.

The grabs below may not preview well, but if I don't mark them to show original size, they can't be brought up unscaled.  These are from a 1080p video in the VLC player.

closer view of eclipse.  Something dec upper right shelf

Eclipse systems to either side

360 panel on the right, IBM air-cooled to the left.

The guy is talking to the thing here

Terminals in this shot outside the pod

Best shot of fthe right en, with PDP8, PDP11, and eclipse systems

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imagemagick / convert error when converting a group of jpgs to a pdf. introduced as an inconvenience / bug

The latest set of security updates on Ubuntu seems to have jacked up the imagemagick settings.

Have to do the change suggested in the following tip from Ubuntu questions.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1081695/error-during-converting-jpg-to-pdf

Problem:

Each time I want to convert jpg file to pdf by this command

convert *.jpg pictures.pdf

I have this error message:

convert: not authorized `pictures.pdf' @ error/constitute.c/WriteImage/1028.

 

Solution as of Oct 7 2018

 

This problems comes from a security update: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.13
Someone reported it as a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/+bug/1796563
As a temporary fix, I edited /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml and changed the PDF rights from none to read|write there. Not sure about the implications, but at least it allows me to get things done.

 

copy original, comment out, then edit copy to add read|write

this is from version 6.  Version 7 combines them into a single statement for pattern= clause.

  <!-- <policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="PDF" /> -->

  <policy domain="coder" rights="read | write" pattern="PDF" />

Another reference

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52998331/imagemagick-security-policy-pdf-blocking-conversion

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windows 10 configuration and setup

Timeline disable

Settings -> Privacy -> Activity History-> clear
   Let Windows collect my activities from this PC
   Let Windows sync my activities from this PC to the cloud

Under “Show activities from accounts,” turn off the toggle switch for all your accounts.

Disable this so pages don't pop up in history when you are switching around.  No way to suppress this, so disable it the only way.


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SpaceX

https://www.spacex.com/news/2018/10/07/saocom-1a-mission

video on youtube
Saocom 1A SpaceX

Video of the launch from about first stage separation and re-entry burn.

I'm leaving this here, as this is what blogspot does with a video.  view on youtube link above.
Blogspot's video apparently is useless.

A few photos of the MECO and first stage separation maneuver.

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