Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Today literally marks one year since my hypertension crisis diagnosis. I made it.

I had gone in for mystery bruising that seemed related to the painful sneeze the week before, not for heart-related suspicions.

Wikipedia find of the day: Volkswagen Original Part number 199 398 500 A, a currywurst.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_currywurst

I spent the morning throwing a whole bunch of wrenches in the works. (No one wrote how many icons a #Commodore #GEOS icon table can have, so I trialed and lots of errored it. The answer is 31 icons.)

The trouble with '80s vintage home computers is the dearth of Y2K patches.

Happy 1922, everyone!

This hour marks one year since the single most painful sneeze I have ever experienced, a sneeze that ended up saving my life. I'm still here.

Good morning and merry Christmas, folks!

What feeling is worse than spotting errors just a few hours after uploading? Not being able to fix them until the next day. Yeah. Fixed now in clearly marked edits.

This took entirely too long to write up, so many times longer than actually doing it, but here it is!

GELI Encrypted USB Backup in #FreeBSD 13: https://thornton2.com/unix/freebsd/geli-encrypted-usb-backup.html

Merry Litha to southern hemisphere friends!

Good morning and merry Yule, everyone!
I'm working and very busy today.

Today's achievement: Reliably backing up my #FreeBSD systems using full disk encryption onto a USB hard drive that's also using full disk encryption.

Making periodic #ZFS snapshots automatically: https://mwl.io/archives/2140

Sending those ZFS snapshots to the backup disk: https://www.ccammack.com/posts/back-up-zfs-to-a-removable-drive-using-zxfer/

I had to add "objsetid" to the list of -I exclusions in the zxfer command to work around a bug it has.

#Commodore - Am I imagining things? Does the Hitchhiker's Guide to #GEOS really forget to describe the GraphicsString routine?

Nothing gives me that Layer 1 energy like a can of fresh roasted RJ-45 connectors!

oops:
... & [if I'm not,] grab the byte at COLOR_MATRIX on startup instead.

The lesson I'm taking from this is, if I use colors, check if I'm in v1.2 or later, & grab the byte at COLOR_MATRIX on startup instead.

This lesson brought to you by geoAssembler & geoLinker resetting colors to default, & deskTop 2.0 repairing colors only for the disk directory pad area.

deskTop 2.0 doesn't repair screen colors after an application quits, but it does after a desk accessory quits.

#TIL The variable "screencolors" wasn't in #Commodore #GEOS v1.0 (& that geoAssembler crashes in v1.0). There's nothing like trying to use your test program on a black-on-black screen. I don't have a v1.1 d64, but v1.2 works as documented.