# old day (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover old day. Page: Feed: --- ## [FIELDS OF DREAMS](https://journeyswithjay.substack.com/p/fields-of-dreams) _2026-08-16 · Jay Gillespie · Journeys with Jay_ I sometimes drive by the locations of old baseball fields, diamonds that I once played on as a kid. ## [SONG STUDIO #7 - "SHE LOVES ELVIS BUT SHE DON'T KNOW THE BLUES"](https://journeyswithjay.substack.com/p/song-studio-7-she-loves-elvis-but) _2026-08-15 · Jay Gillespie · Journeys with Jay_ Slowing down the pace of America. ## [the knot of unfinishedness](https://tugbakibar.pro/the-knot-of-unfinishedness/) _2026-08-12 · tugbakibar · tugba's blog_ our brain is constantly trying to finish the things we leave unfinished. unfinished work, broken appliances, unresolved feelings, conversations we never had, things we keep putting off because we don’t know what to do with them. they pile up. one by one. until, at some point, they turn into a knot. i realized this during the times when i started doing those “empty your mind onto paper” exercises.… ## [The End of an Athlon](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/) _2026-08-10 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ When I was researching the mess related to strange and poorly documented CPUID bits in the Athlon MP and XP processors, I had to swap a lot of CPUs. This was uneventful in most cases but only most. When I Continue reading ## [CHAD TRACY MANAGES TO SUCCEED](https://journeyswithjay.substack.com/p/chad-tracy-manages-to-succeed) _2026-08-09 · Jay Gillespie · Journeys with Jay_ Six, two, and even. ## [i rarely feel a sense of accomplishment](https://tugbakibar.pro/i-rarely-feel-the-sense-of-accomplishment/) _2026-08-03 · tugbakibar · tugba's blog_ i've noticed that some people are genuinely able to celebrate their achievements, both the big milestones and the small moments: graduations, marriages, anniversaries, reaching a goal... for me, it's different. when i finish something, my reaction is usually just, "okay, great. that's one less thing occupying my mind." it feels more like clearing mental space than achieving something. the moments… ## [JOURNEYS ON THE T](https://journeyswithjay.substack.com/p/journeys-on-the-t) _2026-08-03 · Jay Gillespie · Journeys with Jay_ There was a time when the T was the most convenient way to travel around Boston, a simple and affordable public transportation system that used inexpensive tokens in order to ride the train. ## [SONG STUDIO #6 - "THIS TOWN CENTER"](https://journeyswithjay.substack.com/p/song-studio-6-this-town-center) _2026-08-01 · Jay Gillespie · Journeys with Jay_ Original music written, produced, and performed by Jay Gillespie ## [like the old days](https://tugbakibar.pro/like-the-old-days/) _2026-07-28 · tugbakibar · tugba's blog_ a friend i met online and followed on instagram years ago reached out to me after finding my blog. i haven't been on instagram for more than a year now, and she didn't have my phone number. i was genuinely so happy to get her email. it felt like the old days, when you reached out to people through email, tumblr, or whatever else was around at the time. she told me she's visiting istanbul, so… ## [NOT READY TO GIVE THESE SHOES THE BOOT](https://journeyswithjay.substack.com/p/not-ready-to-give-these-shoes-the) _2026-07-26 · Jay Gillespie · Journeys with Jay_ I recently prepared to mop a mudroom, a small entry-area with a bench seat positioned under a large front window with three lower compartments each containing a basket holding spare shoes. ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VwJ1VKjOynCZ) _2026-07-26 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [SONG STUDIO #5 - "IT WAS JUST YOU AND ME"](https://journeyswithjay.substack.com/p/song-studio-5-it-was-just-you-and) _2026-07-24 · Jay Gillespie · Journeys with Jay_ Original music written, produced, and performed by Jay Gillespie ## [Maximum Overkill](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/maximum-overkill/) _2026-07-24 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ A reader pointed at the 1992 game Comanche: Maximum Overkill by NovaLogic as a possible unreal mode user since the original game release was known to be problematic. I examined the game and found no unreal mode usage, just a rather Continue reading ## [CABS WILL NOT BE PUSHED TO THE CURB](https://journeyswithjay.substack.com/p/cabs-will-not-be-pushed-to-the-curb) _2026-07-19 · Jay Gillespie · Journeys with Jay_ Taxis are an institution that I never thought would change during my lifetime, a definitive part of the fabric of the city. ## [i think i've exhausted one phase of my relationship with cinema](https://tugbakibar.pro/i-think-ive-exhausted-one-phase-of-my-relationship-with-cinema/) _2026-07-19 · tugbakibar · tugba's blog_ back in the day, in one of my philosophy classes, we were given a list of films organized by different areas of philosophy. i started borrowing two films a week from the university's film center and worked my way through that list. that's how i discovered directors like kieslowski, tarkovsky, bergman, richard linklater, michel gondry, david lynch, kubrick, wim wenders, truffaut, jim jarmusch, lars… ## [A SHORT HISTORY OF AMERICA'S TWO-PARTY POLITICAL SYSTEM](https://journeyswithjay.substack.com/p/a-short-history-of-americas-two-party) _2026-07-12 · Jay Gillespie · Journeys with Jay_ “I’m anti-political parties. I don’t understand how in a country of 200 million voters, we only have two political parties. We have eight kinds of Coke but only two political parties.” — Jon Stewart ## [there is this way i love](https://tugbakibar.pro/there-is-this-way-i-love/) _2026-07-11 · tugbakibar · tugba's blog_ it keeps saying to me: go deeper. past the surface. past the layers. reach the core. and every time you think you've reached the center, keep going. ## [there is this feeling](https://tugbakibar.pro/there-is-this-feeling/) _2026-07-11 · tugbakibar · tugba's blog_ i can't quite dig into it. it is just there. it has intensity, but at the same time it feels very light. it is gentle, yet brave; quiet and always reaching. at least, that is what i hear when i listen closely. it keeps saying to me: expand. expand to the worlds beyond your own. all the way to the edges of the world. and then a little farther. ## [cannot read one book at a time](https://tugbakibar.pro/cannot-read-one-book-at-a-time/) _2026-07-09 · tugbakibar · tugba's blog_ i want to stick to one book at a time, but i just can't. i keep telling myself i'll pick one and see it through. i never do. instead, i end up reading three or four books at the same time. i usually have four books in rotation: the current book club pick a fiction novel a classic and a non-fiction book some days i crave the mental challenge. other days i just want to get lost in a story, so i… ## [BASEBALL NEEDS TO TOUGHEN UP, NOT THE PLAYERS](https://journeyswithjay.substack.com/p/baseball-needs-to-toughen-up-not) _2026-07-08 · Jay Gillespie · Journeys with Jay_ The 2026 Red Sox season has been plagued by a series of bizarre, phantom-style injuries while baseball trends toward what has become a less hard-nosed game with potentially diminishing interest. ## [freedom has always been the place where my heart feels most at home](https://tugbakibar.pro/freedom-has-always-been-the-place-where-my-heart-feels-most-at-home/) _2026-06-28 · tugbakibar · tugba's blog_ my mother used to tell me she'd find me standing on the balcony in the middle of the night, simply looking out into the world. i was also told that when i was only two years old, i quietly walked out of the house and made my way to my aunt's home without anyone noticing. later, whenever i went outside to play with friends, i would always wander off on little adventures. even as a child, i remember… ## [Non-Custodial Crypto Gateway (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/EF0Zd8RLiIMw) _2026-06-28 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto, automated fee handling, and trustless escrow with real-time settlement. ## [trying to making sense of things](https://tugbakibar.pro/trying-to-making-sense-of-things/) _2026-06-24 · tugbakibar · tugba's blog_ that is what drives us to write. once thoughts and feelings become words, they start to make more sense. ## [self-criticism creates stress, not change](https://tugbakibar.pro/self-criticism-creates-stress-not-change/) _2026-06-23 · tugbakibar · tugba's blog_ according to flynn skidmore, you can’t change through self-criticism. this idea strongly resonated with what i already had in mind, and i want to share his explanation of it: when we criticize ourselves, our nervous system perceives it as a threat. it triggers a survival response: fight, flight, or freeze. in this state, the brain is no longer focused on growth, but on safety. that’s why we often… ## [Win16 Memory Management](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/win16-memory-management/) _2026-06-05 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ This is a kind of knowledge base article which resulted from attempts to understand exactly how memory management works in 16-bit Windows. It is not exactly undocumented, but it is also not well documented; even before Windows 3.0 appeared, the Continue reading ## [Learn Something Old Every Day, Part XXI: VGA Memory Access Is Complicated](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xxi-vga-memory-access-is-complicated/) _2026-05-08 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ Last week I had another run-in with VGA emulation, and like last time, the cause was very likely the generally woefully inadequate VGA documentation. The VGA is not, all things considered, a particularly complicated piece of hardware. It has no Continue reading ## [ICAT and Watcom](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/icat-and-watcom/) _2026-05-07 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ Some time ago I embarked on a minor retro development project related to this post. For convenience, I decided to do the development on a Windows host machine and (obviously) test in a VM. For C code compiling, and linking, Continue reading ## [When Networking Doesn’t Work](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/when-networking-doesnt-work/) _2026-05-04 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ Last week I spent far too much time trying to get my Windows 11 machine to talk to an antique Tyan SMDC (Server Management Daughter Card) IPMI module over the network. At first, I tried Tyan s own old TSO (Tyan Continue reading ## [Learn Something Old Every Day, Part XX: 8087 Emulation on 8086 Systems](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xx-8087-emulation-on-8086-systems/) _2026-04-24 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ Not too long ago I had a need and an opportunity to re-acquaint myself with the mechanism used for software emulation of the 8087 FPU on 8086/8088 machines. As mentioned elsewhere, the 8086 CPU (1978) had a generic co-processor interface Continue reading ## [Learn Something Old Every Day, Part XIX: Athlon XP May Be Athlon MP](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xix-athlon-xp-may-be-athlon-mp/) _2026-04-20 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ Quite a while ago, I acquired a dual-socket (Socket 462 aka Socket A) board for the Athlon MP, AMD s first entry into the multi-processor/multi-socket market. Over the course of several years, I spent quite some time searching for the board Continue reading ## [Mystery CPUID Bit](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mystery-cpuid-bit/) _2026-04-17 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ Yesterday I had the opportunity to test a recently acquired Athlon 1200 CPU (Thunderbird core, ceramic PGA package). I dreaded the first boot-up attempt because I have had rather bad experience with slightly newer Palomino and Thoroughbred OPGA processors a surprisingly Continue reading ## [Learn Something Old Every Day, Part XVIII: How Does FPU Detection Work?](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xviii-how-does-fpu-detection-work/) _2026-03-28 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ This post ended up being much longer than originally intended because halfway into writing it, I found that 286 and later CPUs don t behave the way I had assumed they would While investigating a bug related to a program using Continue reading ## [Zuverlässiges Hosting, Domains, Server (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/q58xzqcg6J4H) _2026-03-28 · **Sponsored**_ Zuverlässige Infrastruktur, niedrige Preise und skalierbare Server für deinen Webauftritt. ## [Impromptu trip to the UK, starting work](https://turtlesparadise.bearblog.dev/impromptu-trip-to-the-uk-starting-work/) _2026-03-26 · turtlesparadise · Turtle's Paradise_ I spent two weeks in the UK, deciding to take advantage of what may be the last free time I get for a while before my new job starts. It was fun! I got to go for a walk in the Cotswolds, watch my brother perform at an open mic night, have a lot of nice meals out with family and friends. I ate a lot of marmite and fish paste :) Coming back was stressful - my social media blew up with tales of ICE… ## [Bitfield Pitfalls](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/bitfield-pitfalls/) _2026-03-20 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ Some time ago I ran into a bug that had been dormant for some time. The problem involved expressions where one of the operands is a bit-field. To demonstrate the problem, I will present a reduced example: #include stdio.h #include Continue reading ## [DOS Memory Management](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos-memory-management/) _2026-02-27 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ The memory management in DOS is simple, but that simplicity may be deceptive. There are several rather interesting pitfalls that programming documentation often does not mention. DOS 1.x (1981) had no explicit memory management support. It was designed to run Continue reading ## [Health Insurance](https://turtlesparadise.bearblog.dev/health-insurance/) _2026-02-08 · turtlesparadise · Turtle's Paradise_ In January, my health insurance became inactive. I only learned this when I got billed full cost for a smear test ($350). I called the insurance company, and then I called the State. Two people tried to add me onto my husband's 'household', both times it got denied (computer says no). Many hours were spent on hold, as the people on the insurance helpline tried to figure out what was going on. The… ## [Snow, gambling](https://turtlesparadise.bearblog.dev/snow-gambling/) _2026-02-03 · turtlesparadise · Turtle's Paradise_ We went to a casino resort at the weekend. I have never been to a casino before, and I went mostly for the ambience (and research, since my current fanfic project has a character that gambles in it). It was fun! I mean, the slot machines are terrifying good at eating money, and it is a little scary seeing all the little psychological tricks they apply to get you to put in more and more (the… ## [Reading update](https://turtlesparadise.bearblog.dev/reading-update/) _2026-01-31 · turtlesparadise · Turtle's Paradise_ I recently finished The Will of the Many which was one of those door-stopper fantasy novels that are a million pages long. It was okay--a page-turner, but nothing particularly original. It also felt very YA, despite the fact the author was trying so damn hard for it not to be. I liked it enough to request the sequel from the library, at least. I have just started reading Audition , by Katie… ## [Stop stealing my time](https://turtlesparadise.bearblog.dev/stop-stealing-my-time/) _2026-01-27 · turtlesparadise · Turtle's Paradise_ I am currently job hunting. I have done a lot of job hunting in my life. For one reason or another I have cycled through multiples jobs and several periods of unemployment. It has always sucked, but it has never sucked this much. First, you see, you must apply. The days of uploading a CV/resume are over. You do need to upload your CV--but first you need to tailor it specifically to the job, make… ## [Cracking DXP and SXD](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/cracking-dxp-and-sxd/) _2026-01-16 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ There are situations where software is available only in the form of a floppy image. This goes especially for historic hardware drivers and patches, which were often distributed only in the form of floppy images. This method was quite popular Continue reading ## [A 100 Year Old Consul Typewriter?](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/a-100-year-old-consul-typewriter/) _2026-01-09 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ Spurred by a discussion about Polish keyboard layouts, I tried to find more about the history of Czech keyboard layouts. Unfortunately, finding actual documents turned out to be very difficult. What I did find is that prior to the current Continue reading ## [NetWare Pure IP on DOS](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/netware-pure-ip-on-dos/) _2025-12-10 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ It is fair to say that Novell struggled with moving from the IPX protocol to TCP/IP. Of course a big part of the problem was that IPX worked extremely well on LANs and IP brought absolutely no advantages for basic Continue reading ## [The good old days](https://turtlesparadise.bearblog.dev/the-good-old-days/) _2025-12-04 · turtlesparadise · Turtle's Paradise_ I realise that, one of the reasons older people are so prone to saying 'the good old days' is that they see, first hand, how much changes and how much is lost. Technical/scientific progress is generally a good thing. Look at this graph on child mortality and tell me things were better back then. Microscopes and germ theory, vaccinations, modern medicine, antibiotics... amazing and wonderful… ## [Wait here. No, wait here!](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/wait-here-no-wait-here/) _2025-11-11 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ While working on a hobby project, I set up an OS/2 MCP2 (Convenience Package 2 for OS/2 Warp 4) virtual machine with a debug kernel and an expectation that I d reboot the VM a lot. I was disturbed to find Continue reading ## [Life admin continues](https://turtlesparadise.bearblog.dev/life-admin-continues/) _2025-10-23 · turtlesparadise · Turtle's Paradise_ Two more pieces of progress on the move: firstly, I got a job (a seasonal retail job, so not life changing, but income + routine + meeting new people is all good) and secondly, I had my 'new patient appointment' with my 'Primary Care Provider'. This was an experience. They spent an hour with me. In the UK, you're lucky to get 10 minutes if you're sick. They were also very proactive. I got all my… ## [Dog Sitting](https://turtlesparadise.bearblog.dev/dog-sitting/) _2025-10-14 · turtlesparadise · Turtle's Paradise_ I spent the weekend dog sitting. It was actually extremely nice to be in an apartment by myself (well, with a dog, two fish, and a lizard). Outsie of dog walks, I also watched Hazbin Hotel and promptly became obsessed. I applied to five jobs today. I'm feeling a little burned out on job hunting. So much of it is junk job ads or jumping through tons of hoops. ## [The OS/2 Display Driver Zoo](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-os-2-display-driver-zoo/) _2025-10-14 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ I have recently explored (again) the possibility of writing a high-res display driver for virtualized OS/2. But I ran (again) into a dizzying array of possible solutions, each with its own advantages and a good deal of drawbacks. OS/2 display Continue reading ## [Reflexive Wizards](https://turtlesparadise.bearblog.dev/wizards-and-reflex-dick-francis/) _2025-10-07 · turtlesparadise · Turtle's Paradise_ The house I'm living in is full of books. All kinds of books, from all over the place. It means I am reading a lot. I finished Everything's Eventual by Stephen King. Some good stories, the best two were The Road Virus Heads North and 1408. (Mild spoilers ahead) Fear is a strange thing. The Road Virus is not a complicated story, but it taps into a primal fear I have, of the approaching… ## [Porch time](https://turtlesparadise.bearblog.dev/porch-time/) _2025-10-05 · turtlesparadise · Turtle's Paradise_ One of the great (and under-rated) things about America are porches. I am sat out on the porch as I write this blog post. The sun is out--it's meant to get up to 29° today, but at this moment it's a perfect 16°. I came out after I woke up, with my cup of tea, and my current book (Everything's Eventual, by Stephen King). While I was sat out here, half reading and half looking at the trees, a little… ## [Messy Mastering](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/messy-mastering/) _2025-09-29 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ Large companies like IBM, Microsoft, or Novell typically had a well defined process for releasing software on floppies. More often than not, files were not directly copied onto a physical floppy; instead, a tool was used to create an image Continue reading ## [8×19 Text Mode Font Origins](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/8x19-text-mode-font-origins/) _2025-08-15 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ I was recently made aware of something that I had noticed before, but never paid much attention to. Consider this screenshot of a BIOS POST screen: VGA text modes usually use 720 400 resolution and 8 16 fonts (expanded to 9 16). The Continue reading ## [More than Two Hard Disks in DOS](http://www.os2museum.com/wp/more-than-two-hard-disks-in-dos/) _2025-07-22 · Michal Necasek · OS/2 Museum_ Investigating the rather odd behavior of the Microsoft OS/2 1.21 disk driver led me to Compaq and their EXTDISK.SYS driver. While experimenting with various setups, I realized that DOS versions older than 5.0 do not support more than two hard Continue reading