Notices by tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)

@joho

FidoNet was designed to be totally center less, with nodelist creation done at multiple nodes including all of them. But it got detoured by powermad region coordinators because of design flaws and my naivety. Oh well! Lol.

(Joho: imagine if each nets nodelist fragment was (more and less) a post in an echo conference... The echo would have been a nodelist.)

My scheme was much stupider though. I didn't think of the above til later

@pixelfed @evan

So I'm in a hotel lobby with my Pocket Reform (lol, don't ask) and the WiFi problem was just signal strength, solved. Known problem. Tl;dr will upgrade to a311d when home.

Lol, had to apt get g++ and Arduino.

Compiled ntvcm, and am now able to run WordStar on Pocket Reform, which I assume is everyone's true goal.

@foone

Aren't you off by one? What is this, BASIC?

Anyone have the resources to read this half inch 1600 bpi tape from 1987?

It's a backup tape of J. M. Hill's (Univ of AZ, Astronomy) FORTH drive, dated 20 sep 1987.

Probably nothing earth shattering on the tape. Seven inch reel with 2 cm (thickness) on it, probably one megabyte.

Even raw block dumps would would be ok.

No idea what hardware it might be from. Probably not hard to figure out.

I don't need the artifact back.

Ok -- digiKam is EXCELLENT photo management software. I've got about 10 hours in on tagging, which is just tedious but straightforward and necessary work.

I'm doing all my "road trip" photos first, about 1600. I feel like I know them better now and some tests of locating things is a big success.

A lot of care has gone into data integrity. Built in code for migrating and exporting databases. This is lovely stuff. I'm now a huge fan and kinda awed that this is free software.

@liaizon @mntmn

Neato! I just bought a Reform, hasn't arrived yet.... From Crowd Supply. And a pocket on back order! Indulgent and have to cough up a way to pay for it, lol.

We are not in a good place.

The Onion parodied more or less the cruelest thing you could say, then CBC actually said it.

Stolen from Lemmy.

@calculsoberic @48kRAM
And the cookies agreement.

I have a few early 60's semiconductor catalogs here....

https://www.sr-ix.com/Archive/solid-state-datasheets/catalogs.html

@xerz @bitsavers