Cool Personal Homepages #1
I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week until I don't. So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 1: THE CYBER VANGUARD http://cyber.dabamos.de/
Notes (Microblog)
Kristall browser
I recently stumbled upon Kristall - "a browser without support for css/js/wasm or graphical websites. It can display user-styled documents in several formats, including gemini, html, markdown, … provided by a server via gemini, gopher, http, finger, …" As it supports not only Gemini & Gopher, but also HTTP/S, it's a nice way to view a stripped down version of the web. 💙
https://kristall.random-projects.net/
(Kristall)
apod.nasa.gov
The good news is: Sites like this one still exist. 💙 https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
Plus! for Chicago95
And there's Chicaco95 Plus! 😅 You've got to love it!
https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/tree/master/Plus
(Plus! for Chicago95)
PS: I wrote a blog post on Chicago95.
Perl for the XXI-imum Century
use Lingua::Romana::Perligata; #Perl for the XXI-imum Century
"If you have to ask "Why?", then the answer probably won't make any sense to you either." 😅 https://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html
PS: Damian Conway, the author of this package, also wrote "Object Oriented Perl" (Manning, 1999), a programming book I really enjoyed! https://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html
Viktor Klemperer - LTI
Diese Ausgabe der LTI ("Lingua Tertii Imperii", Sprache des Dritten Reiches) habe ich vor etwa 20 Jahren aus einem Schrank in der Schule geklaut. Behandelt wurde das Werk nicht. Es hat mich nachhaltig beeinflusst - vermutlich mehr als jedes andere Buch. Brandaktuell..
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTI_%E2%80%93_Notizbuch_eines_Philologen
(Viktor Klemperer, LTI)
TIL GNU units exists
Did you know there's GNU units? That's something for the daily toolkit.
https://gnu.org/software/units/
(GNU units)
Reposting from Mastodon
I'm going to repost many of my original posts from Mastodon here. I think that's probably the best use for this notes section, which I haven't touched otherwise for a few months now..
Windows98 Upgrade - childhood dream
When I was a kid, I wanted Windows 98 so bad that I dreamed that an Upgrade CD (in such a cardboard case) was included as a gift with a pack of kitchen roll my mum bought. Needless to say, I was very disappointed when I woke up.. Luckily, my uncle gave me a 32MB RAM upgrade for my 11th birthday and installed his copy on the family PC. Good times. :-)
(Windows98 Upgrade CD-ROM in a cardboard case. I stole that photo from an ebay auction.)
Might and Magic
Oh my.. Yesterday I stumbled upon Good Old Games, a distributor that licenses and sells old video games. I bought the Magic and Magic series (part I - VI) for EUR 2.49 .. and maybe a feeew other titles. ;-) MM4 and MM5 (which, if installed together, form the "World of Xeen") were the first games my cousins, uncles, dad and me played on PC during the early nineties.
The games on GOG are optimised/ pre-configured for modern operating systems and contain lots of extra material like digital copies of handbooks, maps, etc. pp. that were shipped with the original boxes. The fact that many of the titles are available in german, too, lowers the barrier for my eight years old son.. So I'm pretty exited wether he likes ANNO, The Settlers or Baldur's Gate.. :-)
(Screenshot of Might and Magiv IV)