machines
Yes, I am a complete computer geek. I admit it. I love to collect old
hardware and see what sort of cool useless things I can do with it.
I am a total sucker for auctions, garage sales, and places like
Wacky Willies (PDX),
Weirdstuff and
Halted.
If you're curious, you can read
about jammed.com & a bit about the machines
that power it & check out some very old pictures
of these beasts.
various links that i am bad at maintaining
- infrastructures.org, home of
Bootstrapping an Infrastructure.
When I first read this in early 2001, I was very impressed. The author
had neatly codified nearly everything I had done or attempted to do in my
years of being a Unix sysadmin. The only thing that was new to me
was using version control on config files.. which now seems like a 'Doh!'
moment.
- The personal telco project,
a PDX-based effort at setting up a community wireless network, much
like the Freenets of the late 80's and early 90's.
"Personal Telco is a grass roots effort to empower people to build
the infrastructure through which their data flows." Preach on, brother!
- I love my Apple //e.
Unfortunately, this is not my original //e --
I bought this one for $50 from Invalid Media
back in '92-'93. I wrote some nifty
prefix scanning
tools for the Novation AppleCat on this system.
- Own a Radio Shack model 100? You know, the kind that can
run for 20 hours on 4 AA's?
The Model 100 Users Group
is a great source of information. See also
Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 pages
- Looking for used Sun equipment?
This guy has an annoying
web design, but has pretty good prices on used Sun stuff. If you're
in the Bay Area, though, you'll probably want to hit
WeirdStuff Warehouse for tons
of nifty old stuff -- from Suns to SGIs to VAXen to HP's to Macs to
PCs to racks to modems to interface cards to monitors to printers
to bid sales ($39 seems to be the sweet spot) .. they rock!
Also cool, but not quite as big is Halted.
- Useful tools
for Sun workstations
- Having trouble understanding what Microsoft
actually means when it uses words like "innovative"
and "embrace-and-extend"?
The
Microsoft-English Dictionary is here to help.
- obsolyte.com -- Hey,
I'm not the only one who feels
this way!
- In the mid '90s, Netscape helped shape the future of the Internet,
but it was a little program called slirp
that actually did the grunt work of getting us poor shell-only kids
in on the action. SLIP & PPP connections were hard
to come by back then, mostly because of the administrative
(oft bureaucratic) resources
required to allocate and manage additional IP addresses. Slirp let
us sneak around the bureaucracy and turn our Unix shell accounts into PPP
connections. Psuedo-nodage was ours!
- DSL reports. Useful site
if you're in the market for xDSL.
jwa$ cd ..