And so 2011 comes to a close. Many neat things have happened and we’ve lost many important people this year.
Let us take count of what we have and what’s to come.
Happy 2012 everyone. 365 to go.
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New hardware and cleaning
I have acquired a Commodore 64. No, an old one. A breadbox. Complete with a whole bunch of stuff, software, printers, accessories, etc.. I might add it to the computer museum page at some point, but I just don’t really have the attention span to do that. It works, kinda. Power supply is wonky. Going to build a custom supply out of two wall warts and some determination, then we’ll see how well it works.
About the museum: Now that I’m at the new place, I have much more room for equipment, and because it’s in the basement on a concrete floor I can acquire much heavier stuff without worrying about the house collapsing.
I’ve cleaned up the computer room/museum, too. Here’s what “clean” looks like. Trust me, it was a nightmare about 5 hours ago.
This is what it looks like, August 2011, in "tidy" mode. You don't want to know what "messy" mode is.
A little behind…
I do have some updates to apply to i7, but I’ve been busy tonight. Encoding some movies and burning with DVDFlick for gifts, installing Win98(!), MacOS X Snow Leopard and Ubuntu 10.04 on VMWare, plus doing some research on video transcoding.
Also – work on the file server, and replacing door knobs.
FUN! ahem…
Still alive…
Life is insane now.
I’m making a note here: I’M DISTRESSED!
It’s hard to work on this thing after work.
I am still alive and I want to complete the theme, but I have no energy after work the past few weeks – that’s kinda how my job goes. I get a few weeks of quiet and I have energy to work on the theme, and then I have a few weeks of INSANE and I barely have enough energy to feed myself and crawl into bed.
Don’t worry, I am committed to getting all your suggestions into the theme, get all the bugs fix, get out of beta and release on time.
Oh, and the cake is not a lie – it’s just so far afield it’s difficult to see right now.
ROFLCoptor, you are so fun.
To the person who used my contact form with the name “roflcoptor”:
I am not entirely certain the purpose of your message. You sent me a message giving me the WHOIS information for the Inanis.net domain (that anyone can find), then taunted me by giving me a “Tor” IP address like you were trying to hide where you were (which was 66.230.230.230 based in California – likely fake because of the repeating numbers). You gave your email address as a Mailinator address (M8R-lc06bv@mailinator.com) so you presumably couldn’t be tracked.
By the way: My contact script gave me a different IP from the one you said was your Tor IP. This IP, which I am going to presume is either your real IP (or your Tor address rolled while you were typing your message ) which is 94.23.44.129, which originates in France.
In any case, I still don’t know the purpose of your message. You wanted to show me information I already know? You were trying to extort something from me using information unsuitable for the purpose? You were trying to get my real email address for spamming purposes? Maybe I’m being a bit presumptuous, but I think I’m safe.
Not sure what you were going for, but at the very least, I found your reference to ROFLCoptor amusing.
Two points for you.