What do you want to crash today?
After I published the first part of this post and removed the HTTP to HTTPS redirect, I became aware of a detail that I d forgot to mention and a new issue that arose from that. As I said, at the start of the mass blocking, I had blocked off the major cloud providers, that was Continue reading "FAO RSS feed subscribers part 2"
If you subscribe to the RSS feed of this blog, please ensure that you re fetching the feed via HTTPS, and not relying on the HTTP to HTTPS redirect on my web server side. To help the entities that are very keen to fetch every single file on this domain and across the web, I m going Continue reading "FAO RSS feed subscribers"
Coming to the end of last year, I bought a few new additions to the toy collection as Christmas presents for myself. Some Palm PDAs (Vx, m515, Tungsten E), new revision of the MNT keyboard (4.0), new CPU module for the Reform with 32GB RAM. Everything arrived in time for playing over the Christmas holiday Continue reading "2025 The story so far"
The Juniper SRX100 devices were discontinued back in 2013 and reached the end of software support back in 2019 which means you can find them going for really cheap these days.The SRX100 shipped as 2 models, the SRX100B 100H, the 100B being the 512MB RAM low memory model and 100H being the higher memory Continue reading "Restoring a memory license on a Juniper SRX100H"
I entered the rabbit hole when I managed to get hold of a 20 iMac G5 (iSight) a while back.This model had a very short life span at the time. Announced October 2005 and discontinued around February 2006 when successor Intel based models were announced. Supposedly these systems can actually support 4.5GB RAM by installing Continue reading "Western Digital SSDs and legacy Macs"
My storage solution for many years has been WD Passport drives going from 2TB to 4TB and mirroring a pair in a ZFS zpool as a bonus. The 4TB storage filled up eventually and I was looking to increase capacity. It turns that 2.5 USB HDDs currently available reach 5TB at most and I wanted Continue reading "TerraMaster D4-320 DAS"
Needed a break after the linker gymnastics and Perl support history. With everything setup I wanted to cover some other points which I found along the way. Since the last post I have been able to get the Intel build of Tiger installed on a system, leaving just 10.6 PowerPC beta. Having access to the Continue reading "From Mac OS X 10.2 to macOS 10.15 pt 2"
With the announcement of autoconf 2.72e release candidate I wondered how extensively I could test on legacy Mac OS X and so went off getting things together to install as many versions as possible across a bunch of old machines. End result is that I now have an OS X test lab composed of everything Continue reading "From Mac OS X 10.2 to macOS 10.15 pt 1"
When I wrote up the previous post, there was a couple of points which I forgot to cover and since then a few more things have come up on the same subject that I want to go over here as a follow up. I ve been carrying on with the package building since the previous article Continue reading "Portable Legacy Part 2"
I assembled my Reform almost a year ago. This post is about how thing have gone on with the Reform since then. When I assembled the laptop at the time, I refrained from making any changes and just assembled the system as instructed. The change I had in my mind was to toggle the switch Continue reading "My MNT Reform almost a year on"