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Saying goodbye to my Oldschool GodBox

2009-06-04

I didn’t take proper pictures of all the parts I gave away. A couple of 486s, including one with a mixed ISA, PCI and VLB motherboard, with tweaked L2 cache. Heck, I even had a Gravis Ultrasound Plug and Play with a pair of 4MB SIMMs.

Lots of hard drives, a couple of cases, boxes of cards including some formerly-expensive modems.

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Search

2009-05-31

dead, file utilities, projects, search

This was wholly obsoleted by find_tools.sh (and find_tools_media.sh)

/tag/search

Fix “first frame is no keyframe” videos

2009-05-17

dead, HOWTO, Linux, misadventures, projects

A misadventure to fix a video to stop its console error messages. Unsolved.

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dirwatch

2009-05-16

abandoned, commandline software, dead, file utilities, freeware, glances, Linux software, open-source software, Ruby software, software

Software > Ruby > Files >

https://web.archive.org/*/www.codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/dirwatch/

Apparently it requires sqlite – but gem is fucking insane and locks my system up trying to update.

nice -n gem install sqlite

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Exporting YouTube subscriptions as an RSS OPML file

2009-05-16

abandoned, dead, HOWTO, internet, port, projects, RSS, YouTube

(port) > YouTube > RSS > YouTube RSS feeds >

I thought YouTube didn’t do RSS any more, but Brad left a comment with details. They are untested.

Abandoned
- YouTube removed official RSS access.

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Whisper

2009-05-10

abandoned, commandline software, dead, freeware, glances, internet software, liked, open-source software, Ruby software, software, weblog software, website software

2016-12-15 – It seems this project has been abandoned and perhaps the entire author is gone.

Software >

http://web.archive.org/web/20150213122315/http://masanjin.net/whisper/

A Ruby blog. Very simple and fast and cool. Makes micro-mailing lists: Comments are done via email!

I learned about it through sup‘s blog (all-thing.net is apparently gone)

http://web.archive.org/web/20101102144701/http://all-thing.net/label/whisper/

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Backing up a WordPress.com blog

2009-05-09

archivism, dead, HOWTO, projects, WordPress

WordPress >

2017-08-02 — Exporting through the WordPress panel is not reliable and is broken for large blogs.
- I use PhpMyAdmin and dump the entire table as an SQL file.
2015-12-10 — My concerns are no longer valid.
- It’s easy enough to FTP-download the images, and re-upload them to a new place.
- Exporting and importing the “WordPress eXtended RSS” (WXR) file is trivial.
- A simple XML file is small enough that there should be no file size concerns.

While there are export and import features in /wp-admin/export.php, I did some thinking and research to learn that there some issues with the functionality.

Importing a large database is non-trivial
There is no file/image backup-and-restore
Changing URLs requires setting changes or database editing

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Software > Web browsers >
Internet security >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.torproject.org/

Tor can be thought of like a secure proxy.

I experimented with it during my research on Replacing Firefox.

UPDATE: Tor has been subverted for some time. I know when and how, with confirmation, but not by whom.

It must not be used for high-level security requirements (governmental, military, international) and probably even mid-level requirements (corporate, police). Little people using it as a proxy are fine.

Don’t do anything illegal with it if you’re within three degrees of a Bad Guy. So.. don’t use it for anything illegal. Remember that PRISM records everything, so that, once flagged, you can be found retroactively guilty (even by association) for past internet usage.

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