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Merry Christmas (belated)

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It’s been… a long day.

And the near end of 2011.  I’ve been busy this end of year so I must appologize for the lack of content this time of year.  I’ve succeeded in a goal of creating far more content this year, although I’m not all that sure just how… long lasting impact I guess that is left to be seen.

Looking at my top queries I can see that people being driven here are looking for things near & dear to me… such as

  • Qemu 1.0 MinGW on Windows
  • SegaCD on old school hardware (yeah!)
  • Resetting wifi passwords on MacOS … I’d assume its in the control panel, but now that I’m on AMD I’m Mac less. sorry.
  • Snoopy Calendars
  • C++ On Windows Penalty Box.. … LOL Windows isn’t OS/2 1.x there is no ‘pentaly’ box, but both NTVDM & DosBOS provide a pretty snazzy MS-DOS environment.
  • Windoom! (Yippie, add in Win32s!)
  • trade wars…
  • Qemu SCSI … touch & go…
  • NetBSD Qemu SPARC … if you had a real SPARC would you run NetBSD?  I wish I could load the 64bit stuff, but… talk about fringe of a fringe.
  • WAMP … Fun, free and FAST hosting on Windows

I suppose all in all these are good things, as I’ve touched on all of this stuff this year.

Now after the blogger failure of last year, I’m glad my superglobalmegacorp.com is going, and going strong! …

I’m not sure where 2012 will be taking me, but looking back last year to running Zork/Dungeon on the IBM 370 Mainframe, I can only hope in a nostalgic way that next year is filled with some good 68000 fun.

Best wishes to all, and to all a goooood night!

Jason

Forget your wifi password?

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it’s been a long and challenging 24 hours as I got back from Vacation to find my internet connection cut off from a ‘known outage’… And after all that fun, and actually walking thru some techsupport hell from Charter I found out two fun things….

Charter doesn’t like Belkin routers, and will mac filter them from time to time.. But it is easily fixed when they have you put in the MAC of a PC to connect, then just clone the thing.  The paranoid in me cannot help but think that they want to associate some MAC address with me, for some weird reason…

The other being that I could *NOT* remember my WAP password to save my life after having to disassociate myself from my wifi network.

Luckily there is Nirsoft’s “wireless_key”

Oh well such is life, I’m just glad I took an extra vacation day (like it matters….) but hell it sucks when the teleco is down hard.

So why would my ISP want to know a MAC of an inside machine?  I sure hope me running YaCy for a full 24 hours wasn’t some kind of driving reason behind this….

I’ve been out on vacation

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it’s been a long long while since I’ve had one… And considering the whole ‘job’ thing… I may as well take one.

It’ll be business as usual come Friday…

In the meantime the SEGA games for the iPhone/iPad are pretty neat! Check out Altered Beast, Phantasy Star II, and Sonic!

I suppose in some way its sad SEGA is still selling stuff from 1988, on the other hand, it is cool they are selling them for $2.99 USD or less.. If only they’d make something interesting and new…

One day I really should do something about ipv6…

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But the one thing that did drive me nuts was using /64’s everywhere… even p2p (that’s point to point!) links where even a 3rd host is impossible.  I mean it is incredible to have 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (2^64) addresses per network, but to use 2 out of the 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 just seems insane!!!

Luckily I’m not the only one that shares this opinion, Jeff Doyle does as well.

Long story short: Give up your ipv4 mentality, and just get used to it.  ARIN is pushing people to /64 things like T1/E1/J1 connections.

Just got reddited…

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Well my server still seems up so that is good…!

 

Notice the traffic peak?

A little digging around and I found the article from the logs  (well more like an avalanche of logs!)

MS's protected mode OSes as of year 1990

Which just seems… Odd.  Of all the things, it’s an old post about Windows 3.0.  No mention of Xenix or OS/2 the other protected mode OS’s of 1990…

But I can’t complain over 600 visits beyond the norm is a good thing.  Too bad nobody stuck around for other pages.

I guess the challenge is for me to make the site more…. compelling to read? I know I’ve been far too terse  the last few years.  Oh well.  One interesting thing is that last night the amount of SPAM actually dropped! … The RSS traffic picked up so we shall see how/if popular this gets… lol

VMLimited….

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What about people who want to leverage the ‘cloud’ for ancient/legacy systems..?  No doubt I’d imagine there would even be a call for that kind of thing.  I mean hell I still run Exchange 5.5 at home, are there other people/companies that would want to continue running their old software, but instead of doing it a home, run it in a real data center?

Anyways, I’m looking forward to Proxmox / VE 2.0, they’ve even dropped a beta.

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 RIP

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I guess it really comes as no surprise, his declining heath has been anything but a secret.  Like him or hate him, he shaped the industry into what it is today, and of course gave us the NeXT, saved apple, and forced developers both hardware & software to bend to his vision.

 

 

iPhone on sprint!

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Or more so that is what I heard, as I cannot see anything…

Then a few more minutes of banging the refresh key…

Wow a SMP phone.  It is crazy how much computing power you can carry around in your hand!  I guess the cool thing about the iPhone 4s will be the whole ability to talk to it.  What is weird is that although all the processing for this is on the internet, they wont make the function available for the regular iPhone 4.  But this is such an Apple maneuver.