Le sigh. Â I knew I should have wgetted it or even rsync’d it.
oldlinux.org is down.
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Sorry for the outage.
But the people I rent this VM from have had troubles. I know it kind of feels like that week long blogger outage all over again…. 😐
But I do like these guys in that they are far more open & honest about what is going on.
For the two or three people that care, their report on the outage is here.
Since we are running on some kind of USB dongle it is a hint that more outages are about to be ahead… I guess the hint here is to BACK UP!… So, let’s hope this Uncle Joe’s EZPC OCB is going to work.. !
The ‘cisco’ music on hold.
In the off chance you want your asterisk phone switch to sound like a cisco…
Turns out it’s by Darrick A. Deel and Tim Carleton, and it’s called Opus Number 1. It was recorded in Tim’s garage sometime in the late 1980’s. Â Darrick works for cisco so it found its way into cisco’s call manager.
Phew that was interesting, wasn’t it?
*UPDATE* For those of you interested, a stereo copy has been located! I have more information here!
Picture of the PDP-1 team
I found this on Microsoft… Gordon Bell‘s page.
Sad to think the PDP-1 really shifted us away from the mainframe, but DEC couldn’t just wrap it’s head around the micros. Oh and remember the computer is behind the people, yes *ALL* those cabinets.
OS/2 4 on Virtual Box…
Looking at hup.hu, it’s a pretty popular subject (hit wise)…
I’d imagine it ought to be as simple as slapping in some diskettes and away you go. Â But personally I find the video speed of OS/2 on virtualbox to be horrific. Â But at the same time it runs all the 386 friendly versions so…. It’s the ‘best’ and only solution for OS/2 1.0 onward….
I would imagine you guys could post issues…?
I’ve run it on Virtual PC 2007 ‘ok’ although the combination of SIO & Hyperterm uploading or downloading from a ‘shared drive’ always leads to Hyperterm crashing like crazy.
I’m not sure if that is even anything to really write home about.
But don’t write off using Qemu to run OS/2.
using screen as a terminal emulator
I had no idea you could do this, but on OS X (and pretty much anything else I imagine) you can just execute something like
screen /dev/tty.usbserial 9600
And it’ll open up like a terminal program @ 9600 baud on that TTY serial device!
What a quick save!!!!
Some follow up on Stacker
From my OS/2 experiments before I roll it out…
- It only supports FAT.
- Maximum of 2GB ‘compressed’ drives
- Swapping drive letters assumes 1 disk 1 volume
- You create the compressed disks in DOS
So, since I’m thinking of BBS space, I can leave part of the disk uncompressed for zip’s then the compresses partition for databases & doors.
I guess the thing to keep in mind is that 1991-1994 2GB disks were not in the hands of your average user.. And the idea of using that much storage seemed crazy. It’s a shame they did that deal with Microsoft and basically got pushed out of the market. It’s a shame that the OS/2 product doesn’t actually run on OS/2, nor support HPFS. The idea of bigger disks, and long file names would have been nice.
Oh well I guess that is how the older stuff dies out.
World Of Warcraft has gone “free”…
Good lord like things could possibly look any worse!
The end of humanity
I don’t know what even overcame me as I read the news on thinkq, but I’m already thinking of backing out. LOL Â But it’s now “free” to people for the first 20 levels. Â But who would want to quit at level 20 and not go all the way to 87?
Oh the humanity.
For anyone crazy enough you can join HERE (Europe) or HERE (United States), HERE(Korea), HERE(Chinese)…
Oddly enough no links for Japan.
Anyways don’t say I didn’t warn you but…. The full install is also some 10GB! Â Good luck you people in capped areas.
terraria networking
Personally, I couldn’t care less about Terraria, although it reminds me a bit of Zelda III back in the day, but it does have this multiplayer capability. Â But it never mentions the TCP port. Â Well the default port is:
7777
And if you have an Apple airport network, a teenager that needs to have ‘cut off times’ and sits 2 levels of NAT in, you’ll have to forward TCP 7777 all the way to their computer. Â It’s not the end of the world but UPNP doesn’t work in nat-nat scenarios (thankfully) but the blasted game doesn’t mention when setting up a network game, oh by the way you’ll need to NAT TCP 7777.
Oh well that is all.
Well I pulled the plug on the old place….
So now this is pretty much vacant…
If anything it’ll be interesting to see the ‘google’ fallout as I know I was indexed here, but pretty much everything I wrote showed up from the old site. Â Oh well worst case I can always restore the backup.
But I’m also keeping ‘virtually fun’… I spent too many years on that one to just let it lapse out for someone to google poison the thing.
Anyways I also started to add some generic info pages on OS’s and emulators… At least it’ll be a somewhat better way to find the latest builds of Qemu or what is the current release of whatever OS…
I should have done that a while back, but as they say no better time then the present.