Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 13 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 13 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

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February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]

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February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]

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@mike

Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.

Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.

I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.

I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine

13 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

I got ALL THE THINGS from Amiga to iPad talking to each other in sync. MIDI is amazing, it really is.

Anyway, Norman was right. I did need a 303.

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 15 hours ago

15 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Today's minor job - put a label on these somewhere with the serial number visible on it because if I do have one die in the server it'll be a fun game figuring out which one to pull out.

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 1 day ago

1 day ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Over a year ago I put a pair of cheap 1TB NVMe SSDs into each of the three servers in my little cluster, primarily to act as caches to improve storage performance.

They cost three times as much now, so I've pulled them out of the live setup because if any fail I'm not going to replace them at current prices and I'd need to reconfigure the whole thing at that point anyway.

I can use these much better as a single disk array I think, and keep a couple on the shelf as spares. Maybe that'll keep things online until either prices come down or we revert to a hunter-gatherer civilization.