The same night I did repairs on my Core 2 Duo Mac mini, nicknamed “Lion” I found out there was a bit of an issue with my other Mac mini, the Core Duo system I used as a basic file host and affectionately dubbed “Miniserv” for its role as a Mac mini “server.” In this …
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Trump Lost. Fucking Deal With It.
I generally try not to get too political here, but given that 2020 has been one hell of a year on virtually all fronts I figured now is as good a time as any to just kind of let loose with what I’ve been wanting to say on this subject. That is, the way the …
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I Have No Idea How This Screw Got Here
Yesterday I took one of my Mac mini’s (Lion, for those curious) to work again so I could do a bit of a deep clean on it. Something was rattling around in it and I didn’t want to turn it back on (it’s been out of use since the Spring) without getting whatever it was …
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Some (Digital) Cleaning
Guess who just found out they have email’s dating back 15 years? Yeah, me. I took some of the little free time I’ve had in the past few days to clean out all of my email archives. I’ve been letting things build up for too long, and am wanting now to take a pro-active role …
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In Case You Can’t Tell, XadaraCast Is Kind Of Dead Again
Ya know that podcast project I keep bringing back, doing a few episodes of, and then suddenly not working on again? Well, we’re at that cycle where I’ve all but given up on it again. It’s been that way for a while, but I’m only now writing about it. Watercress and I recorded a whole …
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Why Run A Bulletin Board System In 2020?
It’s a question that most anyone who at least has a cursory knowledge of the subject will inevitably ask, in some form, when the topic if brought up of running an old fashioned Bulletin Board System in 2020 — why? Why would you spend the time and energy for something so primitive; a concept of …
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It’s Been One Hell Of A Week
File this as another one of those “yeah I haven’t written anything in a while” entries. Yeah, it’s been a week since I last published anything here, but let’s be serious — it’s been, as the title suggests, one hell of a week. Last Tuesday was election day here in the United States and while …
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Server Relocation And Dial Up Access Testing
I took a bit of time yesterday to do a long overdue move of my Dell PowerEdge server. It had spent the past 5 months or so in the living room, humming away, holding files and serving up Final Zone BBS. The server has finally been moved to a closet where it can now hum …
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What’s Coming For November 2020 On Xadara
I can keep this one pretty simple – the goal for November is “stay the course.” I feel October, while a little delayed on getting going, was really a good return to regular writing for me. This past month has also marked a bit of a return to video content, but specialist stuff for now. …
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I’m A Phreak
In the past few months, along with my growing interest in the pre-world-wide-web internet and, before that, bulletin board systems I’ve also have a very related interest in the telephone system of yesteryear. At the time, it was in some ways the largest machine ever made by humanity and when you really get into just …
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A Nice Memory Upgrade For My Mac Pro
Last week I had a 4 gig memory module fail on my Mac Pro, dropping me from 24 gigabytes to only 16 gigabytes of memory – the additional lost 4 gigs being due to memory being in pairs on Mac Pro systems – the loss of one 4 gig module meant I lost access to …
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I Had A Memory Module Failure On My Mac Pro
This morning before work I was using my Mac Pro for, well, Mac Pro things. By that I mean watching stupid junk on YouTube and checking on my BBS. I’ve not actually turned the system off in a week, and had been doing some reasonable work on it before and was curious; just how was …
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Final Zone RSS Feed Importing Is Live. Neat.
File this under “crap that only I’ll actually care about” but after a bit of a rough night waiting for some help with code that just refused to work, I’ve got RSS feed importing go on Final Zone. This post will function as a partial test of this functionality. I know it’s working, but I’ve …
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Image Consolidation – An Annoying Inevitability Of Running A WordPress Website
I’ve spent some time the past few weeks changing out the locations of a great many images here on Xadara, moving them from sub-folders on the site into the main WordPress image gallery. This is, of course, something you would think I would have just done anyway – it’s how most people run WordPress based …
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I Had To Re-Enable Mandatory HTTPS On Xadara. I Hate It.
Just as the title says, I’ve had to re-enable mandatory HTTPS on this website. I didn’t want to, I’d rather have let the site be reasonably accessible from older computers lacking modern encryption, but at this stage, given how things are with the internet on a whole this just wasn’t feasible. The problem I was …
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