Posted in retro, Uncategorized, vintage on Nov 16th, 2024
[photos: flickr – Vintage dial-up modem teardowns] [photos: flickr – Analog telephone adapters] For several months I’ve been buying old popular models of dial-up modems from the 1990s to test how they fare over VoIP connections along with different analog telephone adapters. To my great annoyance maybe a quarter of them didn’t include an AC […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2024
This is my second Petcube Bites and after a few years of operation it stopped dispensing treats. Treats started getting jammed between the rotating loader head thingy and the slot loading to the launcher chute and I’d have to empty it out and pick out the offending treat, only to have it jam the next […]
Posted in Uncategorized, vintage on Aug 26th, 2024
This is part of the project to connect my Wildcat! BBS to a retro X.25 network, but it also applies more broadly to “reverse telnet” operation of a Cisco router where you telnet/ssh to a router at a given port to access a serial device hanging off of the aux or a terminal line. I […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2024
Many years ago I was out of the country turning up a new site. Along with racks of servers we had a pair of cabinets shipped to us that contained Cisco 6509s, patch panels, with 300+ ports pre-mounted, pre-cabled, and tested from our main US site. This was a weeks long project and we were […]
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, 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 […]
