Caz @caz@computerfairi.es
- My project
- http://bitbang.social/@windowsarchive
- My Archive.org
- https://archive.org/details/@aeong
34 she/her.
Joined Nov 2022
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Seeing as my birthday passed, it's about time to update my bio and make a new intro.
I'm Caz! I'm a transwoman in her mid 30's. My main hobby is archiving old software. I joined mastodon to help explore my identity and help rebuild my soul so I can understand more of who I am as a person. I hope to get into more artistic hobbies in the future!
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So, kids, what's the moral of the XZ story?
If you're going to backdoor something, make sure that your changes don't impact its performance. Nobody cares about security - but if your backdoor makes the thing half a second slower, some nerd is going to dig it up.
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It's April 1st. That means it's time for me to log off of the Internet for the next 24 hours.
My autism and this day do not mix well.
But now that that's fixed, I just need to get some other Windows operating systems installed and I'll hopefully be good to go. Other good news is that the Windows Archive's big software pack is almost ready for an update!
My main testing rig gave up the ghost. I ordered a replacement motherboard and this past week or so I've been troublehsooting the silly thing, as it kept freezing on me.I finally figured out that it was a setting I selected when installing chipset drivers. No turbo mode for me I guess.
Those of you who follow the Windows Archive project might have noticed the hiatus. This partially because all of my testing equipment has been either inadequate or broke. (Continued in replies: 1/3?)
>Someone witnesses any piece of media that's weird and shitposty.
"Wow, that reminds me of Tim and Eric!"
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I know there's BOINC but can we PLEASE have the SETI@home Classic Screensaver back? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home#/media/File:Setiathomeversion3point07.JPG
#seti #boinc #space #astronomy #screensaver #retrocomputing #aliens #ufo
I found a cool site dedicated to archiving information and software for the Franklin Bookman, one of the first ereader-like devices.
https://bookmanarchive.com/
#retrocomputing
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Gatorade is just fancy kool-aide that's socially acceptable for adults to drink.
Don't @ me.
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Power Macintoshes G4 in Anthracite, Ultraviolet, Deep Sea, and Cherry.
Seeing as my birthday passed, it's about time to update my bio and make a new intro.
I'm Caz! I'm a transwoman in her mid 30's. My main hobby is archiving old software. I joined mastodon to help explore my identity and help rebuild my soul so I can understand more of who I am as a person. I hope to get into more artistic hobbies in the future!
Journey to replace Windows 98 Rig 3/?) figured out where legacy USB support is, found out the previous mobo owner disabled hard drive detection for some reason, figured out one of my hd's died, found a good cf card instead, and now windows 98 is installing!
Journey to replace my broken 98 rig (part 2/?): More troubles. My USB keyboard works in bios settings, but stops working when my cdrom boots up an installer. However if I use a live installer like KollibreOS the keyboard works again once it fully boots into the operating system. Unfortunately my only ps/2 keyboard is dead, and I can't find any USB compatibility mode settings in the bios.
Journey to replace my broken 98 rig (part 1/?):
My new motherboard came in the mail. By some bizarre fuck up, the label for power switch was labeled completely wrong in the motherboard, but somehow right in the manual. At least it powers on now!
Sometimes when you test software on a virtual machine, you don't touch it for a while and forget what you installed. What the fuck am I looking at?
Specifically the ibmpc section, currently not interested in acorn stuff, I'm looking for a Windows 95 program.
Do any of you know where a backup of demon.co.uk's FTP server may be?
#retrocomputing
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RIP TO A REAL ONE #akiratoriyama i have to post my favorite dbz thing of All Time that got embedded into my psyche in early tumblr years.
I have 3 computers capable of burning CDs:
1. A Broken Pentium III Dell that goes through power supplies like water filters.
2. A Powermac G4 that currently cant recognize it's hard drive
3. A Thinkpad T430 that despite everything I put it through, it always turns on and does it's thing as long as it has an SSD.
Guess which one I almost always have to rely on to burn a CD?
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A message in the executable of the PC port of Trolls (1992):
#DOSGaming
- My project
- http://bitbang.social/@windowsarchive
- My Archive.org
- https://archive.org/details/@aeong
34 she/her.
Joined Nov 2022
