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Óli Gneisti (English)

Many years ago a man wrote a funny reply to a a Twitter thread pretending not to understand the whole Vietnam-analogy of Star Wars. You could tell he was joking just by opening his Twitter page and scrolling through his older tweets.

Since then I've seen countless people sharing screenshots of that thread making it seem that this joker was being completely serious and clueless.

This bugs me every single time I see it. It is a lesson in not believing every screenshot you see posted on social media but more importantly it shows how de-emphasizing links has corrupted information sharing on the web.

#SocialMedia#ScreenShots#Facebook
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IrishMASMS

Ok, I spent yesterday afternoon trying to get #RAID configured on my #lenovo #ThinkPad #P70 - to no success.

I found this video youtube.com/watch?v=AyCC1NGe8a of the similar #p50 and configuring #RAID which shows the #BIOS interface but my P70's only show the "non-raid physical discs" I do not have an option for RAID volumes. Note I have upgraded the BIOS to the most recent version on lenovo's web site. Any thoughts?

I have attached 2 #screenshots of what the BIOS displays - I'm trying to configure the RAID on the two 512GB #NVMe sticks.

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Screenshot of a Lenovo ThinkPad P70 BIOS, showing the RAID configuration screen with RAID enabled and M2 selected
A screenshot of a Lenovo ThinkPad P70 BIOS showing the Intel RST RAID configuration page, with no ability to configure RAID but devices listed as non-RAID physical discs
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Blake Patterson

@bitnacht Good point, re: the busy bee.

As for the spinning disc (or "beachball"), it got its start in NEXTSTEP as a greyscale spinning magneto-optical disc rendering indicating the system is busy / data is loading, which was seen quite often on the early NeXT Cube, as it came with no HD but only an MO drive, and it used that drive for _swap_, if you can imagine...

That spinning disc became color when NEXTSTEP gained a color display on later hardware, and from there it evolved into the spinning "beachball" we know today (macOS being structurally based upon and evolved from NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP).

EDIT: Oh, I think I misread - you are talking about the busy mouse pointer icon in Windows, I think. I'm not sure of its specific history. Apologies.

NEXTSTEP OS loading screen showing spinning magento-optical mouse pointer icon indicating that the system is busy
Shot showing the evolution from NEXTSTEP's color spinning MO-disc to the curretn macOS spinning beachball indicating system is busy
#macOS#NeXT#NEXTSTEP
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