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William D. Jones
@cr1901.bsky.social
At some point, the hard disk platter became my secondary drink coaster. But I still use it :)!
October 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This thread seems to have taken several turns ._. ...
July 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I haven't climbed this in maybe 20 years...
May 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We need to return to the good ol' days of 320x240 or less :D.

(More seriously, I can tolerate this. Also it's an interesting time capsule.)
April 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
0.1-10Ks/sec. Indeed it's slow. But accuracy is sublime if you measure the RC constant to sufficient accuracy. Unfortunately, I seem to only be able to measure to about ~2% of the actual value. Also temp variations don't help.

A curve fit produces better results (ignore the top right, see alt txt).
April 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Fun Fact:

If you beat Star Fox (SNES) and spend 15 minutes on the The End screen, a flute jingle that's a remix of the level clear/credits music will play :D.

@dylancuthbert.bsky.social and @carlngraham.bsky.social, you should be proud :D! The game stands the test of time 30 years later.
February 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sentinel now supports the LiteX ecosystem, which makes it easy to generate SoCs for well over 50 boards (I've tried ~5 successfully).

github.com/enjoy-digita...

Give it a try on iCEBreaker:

```
python -m litex_boards.targets.icebreaker --cpu-type sentinel --build
```
February 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Source and release now available :D!

github.com/cr1901/terat...
February 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I have implemented a plugin for Tera Term (teratermproject.github.io/index-en.html) that implements the Serial Flash Loader protocol used by LiteX firmware (github.com/enjoy-digita...).
February 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
#lazyweb This music came from an old flash parody called on Newgrounds called "Windows RG". I downloaded it from here: github.com/fluffeon/Win...

Anybody know what the piece of music actually is?
February 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
@carlngraham.bsky.social Before and After Cache
February 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
And I JUST finished putting this back together, damnit!

(Answer to what's wrong is in the alt text.)
January 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
3.6 star review average?
Hours: Open now?

Oh boy!! Let's plan a field trip!

(Got removed from the Superfund list 2 months ago: www.nj.com/gloucester-c...)
November 29, 2024 at 5:04 PM
TIL about the "nose boot", introduced by the Xerox Alto. Ya know CTRL+ALT+DEL/three finger salute? What if you needed all 10 fingers plus your nose to (re)boot the computer?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_A...
November 25, 2024 at 3:32 AM
It's 5pm at the Lobster House in Cape May, NJ. That's right! It's @steveklabnik.com Blog Post Reading Time :D!

steveklabnik.com/writing/when...
November 20, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Friends who chatted with me on hellsite and Fedi should recognize this landmark from my avatar :D.

Here's an alternate view without me :)!
November 20, 2024 at 9:54 PM
End of the line.
November 20, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Cool, image support. I didn't even need to write a line of decoding :P.

(Real talk, should prob learn JPEG, but every time I try to grok DCT I fail... is it like DFT, 'cept Oops All Cosines?)
October 25, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #46,746!

Huh, at least wrt social media, I'm "leading edge". What a concept :o...
September 16, 2024 at 11:05 PM
I have made a release of the monitor switcher application. It should work on ARM/x64 Apple, x64 Linux, and x64 Windows (though I've only tested the last one). An installer is provided for Windows. Give it a try, and hope you save seconds of your life :D.

github.com/cr1901/swmon...
May 27, 2024 at 4:54 AM
Happy 5.25" #FloppyDisk Day, everyone :D!

I should install Xenix at some point on my 286...
May 25, 2024 at 11:44 PM
The tradition continues unabated on my IBM 5150 (monochrome monitor) :'D!

Thankfully, my IBM PC AT (color monitor) doesn't seem to celebrate...
December 31, 2023 at 5:53 PM
It's starting to be a New Year's Eve tradition for me to test my vintage machines and discover a wonderful new world of errors (also, there's a bad DRAM chip somewhere according to the full memory test)...

Ahh well, I willingly celebrated the tradition this time.
December 31, 2023 at 4:46 PM
It's a Lobster House night. Time to read a @steveklabnik.com blog post!
November 16, 2023 at 10:37 PM
Reskeet with something you own that most people don't.

I believe this is a Microscience HH-1050. I don't remember the exact model number.

I didn't want to open it, but IIRC the head was stuck to the platter and couldn't move. The drive (mostly) works last I checked after some PCB trace repair.
August 29, 2023 at 4:02 PM