So we have serious snowfall here today, and temperatures well below freezing. It's currently -4.5C, with temperatures expected to fall through the day. We have over 13cm of snow and it's still falling.

I was really curious what all this falling snow would do to our antenna performance, right? Because we've known this has been coming for days. And ( Read more... )

After posting that previous bit of antenna wankery, I had a thought that maybe I could gain a little more signal by bulking up the reflector on the back of the UHF antenna from a thin wire grid to a continuous foil reflector using ordinary aluminium foil backed with plastic for stability.

Being an outdoor antenna, the reflector needs to be thin wire ( Read more... )

i've been involved in an archiving project that involves reclaiming email messages from the 1990s

it's involved lot of new c code

because it has had to ( Read more... )

Remember that iNTEL64 nonsense I came up with? The Cartridge Computing System, from an alternate-history where cartridges never stopped being a thing? And of course I built one, partly because I like physical artefacts from alternate universes, but mostly to solve an actual problem.

Anyway, the primary 'cartridge port' has been a separate external ( Read more... )

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Remember that silly idea that actually solved a problem?

Well, if we're going to live in a world where cartridge-based computing systems are still important, there will obviously be branding, now won't there? I was having a hard time with it until I realised I just wasn't 80s-ing it up enough.

I have solved that problem.


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Introducing the new Intel 64 cartridge-based PC system! Done with work for the day?


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Anybody have an old Win98 USB mass storage device driver? I've set up an real Win98 box on the machine that used to be door.murkworks.net - it's a P166 from 1996 and accordingly hilarious. I have USB running on it, but not drivers for USB disk drives, and I want that working, in no small part because the non-lulz non-vintage-games part of this ( Read more... )