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Dot matrix printers are cool again. The slow speed, the low resolution, that continuous tractor feed paper, and most importantly the sound. When a dot matrix printer starts printing it sounds like business. Something important is being archived in ink. I ve been looking for dot matrix printers for a while, bought an Okidata Microline 320 [ ] The post Fun with Dot Matrix Printers. Meet my Okidata…
Can you get any nerdier than creating custom floppy disk labels? There was a geek hierarchy meme that went around the internet many years ago. It ranked groups of geeks by who considers themselves less geeky than… I m pretty sure floppy disk label making would rank close to the bottom of that list. But I [ ] The post Remastered Warcraft Floppy Disks appeared first on ericslog .
I own four old ThinkPads now. I blame the algorithm. It really doesn t take much, watch one nerdy video and suddenly your whole feed is people doing cool things with old laptops, and a few weeks later you re scrolling eBay looking for one, or four. So let me be clear, I m not pretending I was [ ] The post I Went down a Thinkpad Rabbit hole! Why? appeared first on ericslog .
You might get tired of reading about floppy disks way quicker than I’ll get tired of sharing floppy disk content, I’m almost sure of it. Since I’ve been working on my Failing Sectors project, my work-in-progress website project whose entire purpose is to be slow, break down, and wear out floppy disks and drives, I’ve [ ] The post Verbatim Datalife Color MF2HD Floppy Disks Still A Work of Art…
So I ve been messing around with this floppy project for a while, and it s been an up and down adventure. I put up my first test project, and it failed to do what I wanted, to read the floppy every page load. And that was one of many show stoppers, I ve said many times I [ ] The post Floppy Disk Website Project appeared first on ericslog .
Still deep in the homelab adventures. Learning more every week and keeping these machines, some new, some old, some really old, humming in the background has been its own kind of reward (and pressure) I’ve also been working on the other machines out in the garage. Even the ones already running, some are web servers [ ] The post Making time for Homelab Adventures appeared first on ericslog .
I ve been using Obsidian lately. They call it a second brain. Maybe it is. What I know is this: it s a Markdown editor, which means everything is raw text. No hidden formatting, no bloated files that only open in one program. Just text I can open anywhere, edit anywhere, and keep forever. Here s how I [ ] The post Moving My Entire Life To Obsidian appeared first on ericslog .
The bench is a mess. I’ve been buried in the P6T build, finally making progress, then of course I got sidetracked watching homelab videos on YouTube. Next thing I know, I’m thinking… maybe I should make my own. Not just a quick update—an actual build video. That’s when I realized, filming a build adds a [ ] The post ASUS P6T Build Update: It’s Finally Happening appeared first on ericslog .
Since I’ve been spending the last few months with all my free time at a command line, pretty much all text mode, I knew I needed to spice things up with some old ASCII art. I actually planned on requesting it from a still-producing/releasing artist, but everyone’s old and everyone’s busy. So I decided to [ ] The post Ascii art. appeared first on ericslog .
Ok, I got tired of how ericserv.com looked, so I gave it a quick visual overhaul. Since I have netstats running, the next version will be much geekier. Tonight was just a quick fix because this page was one of the first things I put up when I started building my homelab. I keep learning, [ ] The post Ericserv 2.0 appeared first on ericslog .