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1990s PC to go

A friend texted my today that this is standing on the street around the corner, I called my wife and she immediately left the house to pick it up. I'm just.. 💕 okay? 😅

(the sign says "to take away - works - just removed the HDD")

A desktop PC and CRT from the 90s era standing on the street with a sign 'to take away - works - just removed the HDD'

(published 2024-10-09)


Cool Personal Homepages #17

I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 17: SinusPL https://sinuspl.net/

Screenshot of the website under sinuspl.net.png

(published 2024-10-09)



My first Linux distribution

I'm yast installing the first Linux distro I've ever used; SuSE Linux 6.0. It took me a week to get X running back then on my 14' CRT. Really exited to see how this works out now.. Please make sure that CD number 3 is in your drive! ..and "Have a lot of fun..."

Screenshot of the SuSE Linux 6.0 setup program

(published 2024-10-09)


Cool Personal Homepages #16

I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week until I don't or unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 16: Computers Are Bad https://computer.rip/

Screenshot of the website under computer.rip

(published 2024-10-09)


Text-based distributed monitoring

Is there any text-based, ideally distributed monitoring software out there? I want a TUI that shows me (e.g. with green/red highlights) the reachability of hosts (simple ping checks) while I'm doing network maintenance. Like a really simple, curses based nagios? It would probably look like a bloomberg terminal.. (I know this wouldn't be too hard to implement.. but I can't believe it's not already out there...)

Screenshot of a Bloomberg terminal

(published 2024-10-09)


Away from keyboard

At work we've just begun migrating a few thousand workloads to a new datacenter facility and besides that I'm barely using computers right now. These time-outs just come and go. Meanwhile I leased a 500m² garden and cheerfully dig into this shit. And of course the roof of the summer house there is leaky.. 😉 So.. don't mind me not reacting to your comments and new followings, I'm just outside wearing my straw hat! 🙃

A garden with a summer house

(published 2024-10-06)


Cool Personal Homepages #15

I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week until I don't or unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 15: yyzkevin https://www.yyzkevin.com/

Screenshot of the website under yyzkevin.com

(published 2024-10-06)


SimCity2000

sometimes I completely lack the motivation to do anything.. but then there's SimCity2000! 💙 There's a patched version that runs under Win10/11 with native resolution.. which is nice. http://jlsksr.de/ftpd/ in the "oldgames" directory!

Screenshot of SimCity2000 running natively under Windows11

(published 2024-10-06)


Cool Personal Homepages #14

I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week until I don't or unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 14: https://starbreaker.org

Screenshot of the website under starbreaker.org

(published 2024-10-06)