Despite moving most of my place-of-work’s computing into the cloud, I still rent an ancient computer for less than $1/day to host several of my projects, including this blog.
It’s been pretty stable, but since I have been gently pushing the hardware, the network card has been failing and starting...
Devuan update to Daedalus didn’t go without a few minor bumps; all services current.
It’s been several years since I’ve been active here; my blog has found it’s way into an extended hiatus for years at times.
Before social media was so popular (this from of my blog dates back to 2003!), we used to do our own thing and assume that others would find a way to syndicate it if they wer...
I go out of my way not to post personal things, but one of my oldest, dearest friends passed today during a minor surgery.
I met him in 2004, and we were good friends ever since then. Heck, I still have an HP 2100 printer he gave me (after he accidentally broke mine). We went through the ups and d...
Today, in 1994, a literal backbone of the internet was turned off.
UCBVAX was one of the more common western backbones for UUCP mail, before the internet was on 24/7 – mail would hop through it to get to the final location. Email worked differently then. You’d tell it how to get there, kind of lik...
Just a precursor: This isn’t quite ready, and the way their service works is really, really abhorrent. It’s.. Ugh.
Anyhow,
I’m working on an OpenBSD compatible format for this service, but the data it sends is really bizarrely formatted, broken, and beyond Linuxism in it’s design. It’s awful,...