~~~ _ _ ___ _ _ ~~~
~~~ | || | / _ \ | || | ~~~
~~~ | || |_ | | | | | || |_ ~~~
~~~ |__ _| | | | | |__ _|~~~
~~~ | | | |_| | | | ~~~
~~~ |_| \___/ |_| ~~~
file not found
About
Kurt Weiske's other blog. Retro tech enthusiast, photgrapher, and systems guy. Blogging like it's 1999. Static blog generation, talking tech...
Subscribe
Subscribe to a syndicated RSS feed.
Links
realitycheckBBS
kataan.org
Contact
mastodon
tilde.club
Blosxom weirdness
I just realized that going back and editing one of the text files
Bloxsom uses resets the modified-by date and puts it at the top of the
list.
posted Tue, 04 Jul 2023
permanent link
Another day, another editor
Playing with .vimrc files for the first time in ages. Looking for a nice
medium contrast theme. Nano is another editor I haven't used in a
minute. I seem to recall a way to have nano auto-wrap long lines, as it
is now I need to hit alt-J to wrap the whole file.
tilde.chat, the IRC server shared by the other tildes has a fun trivia channel - I'm keeping it running in the background when I work.
On the retro front, I just processed a request for a Fidonet node number from a sysop running a mailer he wrote himself, running on OpenVMS. That's got to be a first, especially since he's writing his mailer from scratch.
I have a couple of friends who ran obsolete, orphaned hardware from a time when computers weren't so boring.
One of them rescued a MIPS-based Windows NT 3.51 system and ran a web site on an old version of IIS for many years past its practical life. Another ran AI/X on an IBM PowerPC desktop system and ran his web site on that for years.
My foray was running a Sun SparcStation 2 with 48 megabytes of RAM. I used that system as a development box and a backup to a Sendmail bastion host for years, reading mail from Exchange in PINE.
posted Tue, 04 Jul 2023
permanent link
I've forgotten more....
HTML than I remember. I've been hand-hacking my blosxom template and
adding inline CSS - and it's been a good 15-20 years since I did this by
hand. When did Allaire Homesite come out? 1997? 1998? I worked at the
company that bought Allaire and killed Homesite within months of the
company purchase, to prevent Homesite from taking sales from their much
more expensive tool.
I wondered why they bought it in the first place...
I miss the old web - the hand-hacked, non-federated, non-social
networked web. This is my stroll down memory lane.
I remember trying blosxom when I'd first heard of it, probably about the same 1997-1999 timeframe? It seemed like that's when I remember the first tilde pages and the first web sites owned by real people. I don't think I ever got it running in production, it was probably a little too soon. My first blog attempt was hosted on a Linux box at my house, the content was written on Blogger, and back then, blogger could FTP the static files to your web server. I'd use a Windows app like w.bloggar to write the entry, upload them to Blogger, and Blogger would upload the files to the linux server sitting next to me.
Seemed a little roundabout, but we were happy to be able to serve web pages at all, let alone do it efficiently.
posted Tue, 04 Jul 2023
permanent link
Second Post
Not logging onto tilde.club as much as I should, I should really be avoiding social networks at all costs[1].
I do like tildes, they're a nice throwback to local social nooks. Dial-up BBSes had a different kind of flair,
one where one sysop was the creative force. With tildes, each personal page is its own creative outlet.
They're
Just noticed that blosxom doesn't do anything with hard returns, so I guess flowing paragraphs is were it's at.
[1] except @poindexter@tilde.zone, that is...
posted Mon, 03 Jul 2023
permanent link