Sparc IPX @sparcipx@mastodon.sdf.org
fortysomething, Canadian 🇨🇦, cycling enthusiast, blogger/phlogger, SDFer. Brews lousy coffee. Rediscovering Urbanism, leans heavily to the left-of-centre.
Slept in until 8:30am. Opened the living room curtains and looked at the gorgeous blue sky, the nature scene before me, and said to myself, "So much trouble just waiting to be caused!"
Dialing a BBS at 14.4. There aren't any dialup BBSes in my area, so I called long distance.
Saw two words I haven't seen in years:
NO CARRIER
Sigh, just like the good ol' days...
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I burned a few apps to ISO_9660 CD using my XP laptop, only to find there were no unarchivers on the Duo other than Stuffit Deluxe 3.5, which unarchived NOTHING.
Tracked down a Legacy System Software CD online, burned it, and eventually managed to install OS 8 and the 8.1 upgrade. Had to grab the Iomega drivers off my OS 8.5 CD, after which I was able to use all the Mac apps I had on Jaz disks.
System died and took the HD with it. Started from the beginning and an hour later:
Specs on the Powerbook 280c, for reference:
http://lowendmac.com/1994/powerbook-duo-280c/
Vintage Mac users will know my struggle.
It took a great deal of nerding to get my 1994-vintage Powerbook Duo 280c running, upgraded, and loaded with apps I need.
No floppy drive, no ethernet, no Localtalk, no IR. No terminal software for null-modem transfers. Predates USB.
Wouldn't read an external SCSI drive from another Mac, or my Zip and Jaz drives. I got it to detect a 1x Apple CDRom drive kludged into an external SCSI enclosure salvaged from a tape drive.
What did I do?
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I just stuffed a rag into a glass bottle of water, lit, and threw it.
I call it a Molotov Mocktail.
I spent the morning of the last official day of my holiday playing Viewpoint on my Sega Genesis.
I like the game in spite of the horrible slowdown, but can't help thinking how much better the game would have been if it had been released on the Sega 32X add-on instead.
Kudos to the Boston Pizza near us for making our daughter's fifth birthday party fun!
A new mastodon instance for the (english speaking) #OpenStreetMap community! It's under construction, but might be a nice place for #OSM people!
A mirror of the OSM twitter account: @openstreetmap
"don't forget to like and subscribe" spiel but it's the four essential freedoms Show more
Hey folks, please refresh my memory. Is there a FOSS workalike to Evernote?
Cripes, is amiga.org STILL down?! It's been a month already!
Ok, cycling gods, I can take a hint. I'll put the folding bike on hold for now. Dragging the road bike out tomorrow.
Calling it a day. Patched Felix’s rear tube, pulled a piece of metal out of the tire and ensured tire was clean of debris, reinstalled everything, and went for a ride.
Two blocks away, the back end wobbled... and the tire was flat again. Walked home. Front wheel flopped and the bike fell over, landing on my Bar-Ista cup holder and bending it to shit.
Don’t have the patience to do any further work.
While dragging Felix out of my bike shed to install his new headlight, I discovered two things:
1: The front brake calipers are too long, and the front brakes don’t even touch the rim.
2: There’s at least one wasp nest inside my shed. Took care of one but they’re still coming and going. Am waiting til dark when they’re all dormant.
Rooting for Belgium!
Oh yeah! Snagged the last copy of the final issue of Boneshaker magazine at Chapters!
As it turned out, the laptop bike pannier I bought is too small for each of my three main laptops (Presario 2100, Gateway 450SX4, and Powerbook Lombard).
However, it's PERFECT for my older Powerbooks (5300, 1400, and Duo 280c). I've been looking for an excuse to use these more often...
Oh sweet, Canada Post just dropped off some bike goodies for me: my laptop pannier and headlight for my folding bike!
No one knows my sadness.
