hints & tricks in no particular order
25/09/2010
I recently acquired a floppy drive emulator. I can't say I have too much free time to play with such useless things, but I had the strange desire of getting one of these beasts. I did have trouble setting up some virtual images -- as there are not any predefined formats in the tools provided. I ended up with this […]
21/09/2010
I recently got a hand on two "computosaurs". Both are PC compatible, running at respectively 200 and 400 MHz. As I started my digital life with a 4 Mhz processor I'd tend to say 200 MHz PC are not completely obsolete yet... But for a day to day usage it seems they are! Which OS can run on them? Windows is clearly out […]
07/09/2010
I recently installed Pan, a newsreader for Linux that's quite good and stable, but a bit old. As a consequence, it doesn't handle SSL. Fortunately, it is possible to use a third party tool, stunnel, to do the hard work instead. First: sudo apt-get install pan stunnel4 To install both applications. Next: edit […]
05/09/2010