I finally did it and moved to a more appropriate "home realm" for a #FreeBSD enthusiast. Thanks @stefano for offering this!
Moving followers worked flawlessly, restoring all my settings was pretty quick, but of course all my old toots are left on https://techhub.social/@zirias 🙈
So I guess I'll introduce myself here by writing a little thread, adding a few of my works that someone might find interesting. But first a bit of "who am I":
I'm a "professional" software architect/developer (mostly #dotnet platform in the day job), FreeBSD hobby-admin and ports committer, #C64 fan (and occassionally coder and even musician), and apart from computers also interested in music (playing a few instruments myself), traveling, cooking, sometimes sports, sometimes politics ... but probably won't toot about any non-technical stuff (or, very very rarely).
One of my "dream projects" (maybe after retirement 🙈😁) would be to create yet another :commodore: #C64 OS. One that works on a vanilla unextended machine.
There are quite a few around of course. To make something meaningful, you have to think about what could give #retrocomputing enthusiasts an excuse to use their breadbin once in a while 😏
I think it should just support very basic #Internet service clients, like Email, IRC, BBS (via TCP), ... of course this means to require one hardware extension (apart from your obligatory floppy drive): Some #ethernet (or wifi) hardware. There are a few around, so "drivers" for those would be needed.
This sets the baseline of features required. Multitasking will probably be unavoidable (clients need to be able to do stuff "in the background", like e.g. respond to IRC PING messages). There's already a LOT of complexity attached to that requirement. You'll need an executable format with relocation info, and a program loader doing the relocation on startup of a new process. You'll need a concept how to deal with the tiny hardware stack (partition it, relying on apps not to overflow? copy it around on each context switch?). You'll need a concept how to dynamically allocate memory (probably just page-wise). And so on.
A windowing system IMHO makes no sense at all on that machine. The UI should focus on text (maybe a set of virtual consoles?). Support for GUI apps might be possible, but then only "full-screen". 🤔
My desktop computer is 10 years old, and the CPU just isn't up to it anymore. I don't want a gaming system, but I don't want a overprices bottom of the range tat either.
I need something that will run #Debian, drive a 4K screen, be fine for editing pictures in #gimp, and doesn't need much local storage, that's what 1Gig #Ethernet and #NFSv4 is for.
Some of the small form factor PCs looks sensible, e.g. Bee-Link. Suggestions?
Ethernet lesson 2 for the day. Kinking solid CAT6 most certainly will break conductors. Luckily, this was at the end of the run next to the wall. #Ethernet
Reconnecting my office with Ethernet, and find one of the Ethernet cables I was using labeled "ROUTER TO SWITCH" has only pins 1,2,3 and 6 connected. 🙃
The new patch cables I ordered apparently are long overdue.
(Appears this is a 10BASE-T or Fast Ethernet cable, LOL)
EDIT: They are all spoken for. The ethernet card is spoken for.
More #Newton accessories. PC cards, #free to a good home! 2 and 32 meg flash cards, Dell crosswords, 28.8 modem, and 10 mbps #ethernet card with dongle. #RetroComputing#Game#Apple#ethernet
I learnt something about serial connections the other day.
I want to make it so my TV automatically turns on and off with my HTPC. Since almost no desktop GPU supports HDMI-CEC I needed to look for another solution. Turns out the TV has a fully documented serial interface which allows me to control it, so I bought an FTDI usb to serial adapter.
Unfortunately, both the TV and the adapter have male connectors (pins) so I bought a gender changer as well.
Turns out, serial is kind of a mix between USB and Ethernet. Most of the time, it was used to connect a PC to a modem. But in my case the TV counts as a second PC. And if you want to connect a PC to another PC via serial, then you need a special crossed over "null modem" cable. So yeah, I ordered one now.
The linked article is an excellent primer around Ethernet in the modern era.
The only thing I could add on the basics side, is why Ethernet is actually a twisted pair of cables. The twist alleviates the possibility of EMI (electromagnetic interference) inf ...continues
HELP! Outdoor electric, internet, & water... to a cabin 20 metres from house.
For the log cabin in my friend's garden, she needs to do cabling (internet, electric, water).
We just aren't sure what cables to get, or considerations like how deep the trench needs to be, & if the cables are going to need a sturdy tube to run through, etc.
Can anyone give us advice on any or all of this? :ablobthinkingeyes:
First completed Ethernet drop. Haven't yet tested it to make sure it works. I have some questions about the angle of entry of the CAT6 to the back of the patch panel, too. #Ethernet#wiring#disasterremodeling
I set up some shiny new virtual machines mostly for #ReproducibleBuilds on a #HoneyCombLX2 packed with 64GB of ram and 16 cores of modest ARM compute power...
only to be stumped on the networking.
The virtual machines were set up to use macvtap via virt-manager in the same way as several other machines... no network.
Today I tried using a USB ethernet adatper. Worked like a charm!
My remaining shielded CAT6 is calling to me. "RUN ME TO THE ATTIC... Run me to the shower... Run me somewhere in the backyard... Run me everywhere!" LOL. #Ethernet#Dreams
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