the difference that is no difference makes no difference
So after getting monitor output working on these old computers the next challenge is loading stuff. Generally, just about every game and application ever released for these old platforms has been ‘captured’ and is available for download. In the case of the Electron, the actual audio for tape loading of various games has been captured. […]
So I’m going through some kind of ‘retro computing’ urge at the moment. Sure I’ve used emulators, and I also have a Terasic DE-1 that can run as an Amiga or an old 8 bit Atari, but for whatever reasons its all ‘not quite the same as the real thing’. So I’ve collected my old […]
So I was at my parents recently. My old Atari 800XL was in a cupboard, so I dug it out to see if it still worked. It did, and so I was quickly playing Star Raiders again. I wasn’t much of a gamer when I was younger, but I did spend a lot of time […]
So I gave up on that inctel mini-itx i5 I had. It had some weird problem where it was unreliable to turn it on (imagine yourself turning the off/on switch multiple times over an hour before it suddenly starts up again). I still look at the array of tiny pcs inctel have on their aliexpress […]
So I’ve been using various laptops at home as ‘servers’ for many years. Up till recently this was an old Thinkpad R60, upgraded to a core 2 duo CPU, stuffed with two 500GB drives and some external drives. I used it for KVM VM’s and as a DLNA server amongst other things. It satisfied my […]
NetworkManager is one of those things in the linux world that many SysAdmins hate. It’s a bit like your mother-in-law; it means well but is really really irritating. On any new system I set up, the first thing I do is get rid of it, and just use the old-school config files way of setting […]
I haven’t posted for a while about my Scientific Linux 6.0 setup on my Thinkpad R60. It all kind of goes well. However SL 6.0 is kind of old, 6.1 has been out for a while and 6.2 is on the horizon (UPDATE: Ooops, I see its now out!). So I thought I’d upgrade to […]
So I’ve had Scientific Linux 6.0 64 bit on my Thinkpad R60 for a while now, and for the most part it has been fine. But one thing that has really annoyed me is that everytime there is a kernel update, I notice that the laptop fan is stuck on (when the system is essentially […]
So, as per my previous post, I was searching for an upgrade path for my Thinkpad R60 virtualistation server running Debian Lenny. I’d tried upgrading to Squeeze a few times … and didn’t like it … always reverting back to Lenny. So after trying a few different distros/virtualisation hypervisors (using a spare disk), I settled […]
So, my main virtualisation machine here at home is a Thinkpad R60 running Debian Lenny, with KVM as the virtualisation engine. This has been my main ‘server’ host for over a year and a half now. I have quite a few VMs on it, but most are for testing out stuff, so there is only […]
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