jns @jns@hackers.town

The DECSTATION board now has some memory - not really enough to do much of anything useful - but enough to determine whether or not the board works, in theory - I just have to hack up a power connector and a video cable and we'll see if it works! - But first! Let's measure out all the caps we can find, and make sure none are shorted. ;; At some point, I'll put up a page on my gopherhole on some of this stuff, and some current instructions on how to get Ultrix up and running in simh. Happy Hacking!

Insert found in IRIS universe (the magazine of visual computing) - a nice physical zine full of SGI goodness.

Random crazy idea of the day: Drawing sprites on a grid and calculating the byte values by hand is kind of like some arcane occult numerology shit where you add up all the numbers to get to something meaningful - you could reverse this and start with a bunch of auspicious numbers and reverse them into sprites.

Forget DAS BOOT....
have MAX BOOT instead.

(Was talking on irc with @cat about 𝒶𝑒𝓈𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓉𝒾𝒸𝓈 and remembered the time i decided to photograph my boot because it looked neat in the blacklight - the ratio of aesthetic to mundaneness of the subject depicted is way way off here haha)

https://toobnix.org/w/aNgzFbyiu9xgdXqHY8ma8N

Hacking the gibson in VR...

I made another video showing the progress on my game engine.
This what a couple of weeks of not having to work a dayjob gets you... it's alright i guess, haha 🙂
It's really fun to use in VR now, although the UI controls need a lot of improvement yet. And obviously we need many more columns to float around in. The idea I had was that each 'column' could be a different remote machine, with each of the terminals on the column being an ssh session.... or something.... open for ideas! All the code is here: https://linkerror.com:11175/Eternal/Eternal

Code problems got you down?

Forget your worries!!

This magic solution will make it all go away! The principal engineers hate it!

Simply keep refactoring everything until you forget what the original problem was!

The company I worked for up until today, only recently rebranded itself a "security company" only to be bought out by a company who's first and only wikipedia entry is about how they got pwned. (although that's the least of the problems with the new overlords) - Needless to say, I quit. Officially a digital hobo now! - More detailed rant on gopher here -
gopher://gopher.linkerror.com/0/phlog/2022/20220718

This morning, I noticed the various computers in the room, combined with the noise of the airco is creating a soothing pulsating hum which sounds like a meditative ॐ.