Posted in retro, Uncategorized on May 25th, 2024
[photos: flickr – 1995 Tape backup pulls] Data has been recovered from my 1995 backup tapes! After badly mangling one of my three QIC-80 backup tapes trying to repair it to make it readable, I gave up before I screwed them up even more. Finally a couple of weeks ago I contacted Dmitry Brant, who […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 24th, 2024
TL;DR so awesome, so much room for activities I should have done this years ago This is such an exciting game-changing, lifestyle change! I moved my desk! Ever since I moved in years ago into my small apartment my desk has always been in my bedroom, where in my place in Redmond it had been […]
Posted in rant, Uncategorized on May 13th, 2024
(Rant warning) TL;DR I gripe at how complicated it gets and offer no solutions. I really do like what Let’s Encrypt offers. Just getting there figuring out what options work and don’t work is work. I don’t know how the muggles manage it. TL;DR 2: HTTP-01 was out because of internal sites. DNS-01 was the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2024
The pandemic, work from home, and layoffs have put a damper on my driving. I would easily put 15-20k miles a year on the truck, in Feburary 2022 I hit 380,000 miles, and I just rolled 389,000 miles, so 9k in 2 years. I figured I’d pass 400,000 by now. I also now have my […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 9th, 2023
I guess sometimes you have to challenge your assumptions and just try things. For years and years at home and and in Oklahoma I have been running Hurricane Electric’s Tunnelbroker tunnels to get IPv6 to my networks. At the time when I set them up, everything said the 6in4 tunnel (specifically IP protocol 41) wouldn’t […]
Posted in Uncategorized, vintage on Nov 16th, 2023
This year’s project has been running a vintage DOS-based bulletin board system like I use to run in 1995 before I started my ISP. I’m running Wildcat! 4.20 Multiline 10, the same as I did back then, except now under Windows 7 32-bit instead of Windows 95. It has real US Robotics Courier modems that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 4th, 2023
Vandenberg Space Force Base (f/k/a Vandenberg Air Force Base) in southern California is where most west coast rocket and missile launch activity happens, dating all the way back to the 1950s. Lately people may know of it as where SpaceX launches payloads on Falcon 9 and ULA launches Atlas and Delta rockets. It’s also […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2023
If you’re like me and care about IPv6 and want an analog telephone adapter for your BBS, you want a Cisco ATA 191/192 instead of a Cisco SPA 121/122. I forget why I bought the SPA 122 after I bought an ATA 191 and needed more ports, I guess to compare them or the 122 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 5th, 2023
I’ve long had a /48 from Hurricane Electric (HE)/Tunnelbroker for my IPv6 connectivity for servers I run at home and for general end-user purposes. I’ve also had Xfinity for years which has native IPv6, but never have used it for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I assume it’s a dynamically allocated prefix subject to change […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2023
About once a year I get the itch to work on family genealogy of the Wann/Cox/Christy families, especially when I’d go back home over the holidays and have access to old photographs. I guess it appeals to my need to review and organize data, and to keep track of who is who. It’s mostly casual […]
