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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 1d

You must be very fond of them to tolerate that sort of slur.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 2d

Literally my first though on reading the post.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 6d

It does seem like it was only a few years ago.

RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 7d

Personally I'm looking forwards to your one women show reboot of singing in the rain.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 7d

I did play around with Caldera due to its Netware support, that took an unexpected turn a few years later.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 7d

I had to walk into uni, as unfortunately there was no Internet access in hall when I moved in, so download my slackware floppy disk sets. We also used to benchmark machines by how many days it took to compile the kernel.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 9d

Oddly the games you're bringing have a much wider colour pallete than mine this time.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 13d

Personally I'm fine with with it killing that form of AI. The verison that weaponised copyright violation, against the creatives that produced the work originally can frankly die, and that would be a net positive for society.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 15d

Personally I like a good (and short) intro sequence, however I feel for any new viewer to a channel that intro sequence probably wastes their time a little, and might cause them to click away.

RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 17d

That's a chunky PC !!

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 17d

Is there no longer a playexpo after party ?

RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 18d

This video has taken a long time for me to put together. However I think it might be the first time a Kubernetes cluster has been used to provide file/print services to a BBC micro using Econet. youtu.be/-Hs55amrFW0?...

Because we can: Retro Stuff on Kubernetes

YouTube video by RetroBytes

youtu.be

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 18d

For which platform and CPU arch, or are you building it for every CPU arch you are running Linux on ?

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 20d

You are officially moved in once you get broadband, and have stopped trying to work out which room of your new house gets the best mobile signal. In my case the answer was half way up the stairs to the attick.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 23d

In a week where I've been feeling a little bit old, this in no way helped 😅

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 23d

As someone who is oftern travelling back in the small hours, after having done a gig, the idea of this appeals massively. A place where me and my fellow night owls can sit and have a slice of pie together.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 25d

Someone is going to have to take a CRT monitor with them, and possibly a spare CRT monitor given the luck most of us have with moving CRTs.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 26d

Oddly Kubevirt dispite being based on libvirt, which supports emulating IDE, it's self blocks you from using IDE emulation. Netware's sata support seems to be fairly broken, too. Hence emulating an lsilogic scsi card.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 26d

no longer producing drivers by and large. Unsprisingly there are no virtio drivers for netware. So emulating an rather old scsi card it is then.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 26d

Creating a new NetwareVM has proved a little bit more tricky than initially I hoped. I wanted todo a fresh install of Netware 6.5 as I wanted to see what the last version of netware was like. However it's an awkward OS driver wise, as it support some more modern hardware, but 3rd party vendors where

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 28d

You know there is something very baddly wrong with a given society, if anyone things they should and could get away with this sort of stepping over the bounds of acceptable.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · Sep 21

Capturing a lighting strike in a photo has a low probability, but getting two chickens to stand next to each other and pose for a photo, thats the marcellus part of this photo.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · Sep 19

Oh nice, it's a fine explanation.

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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · Sep 19

It's a nice view, and hopfuly will remain that way.

RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · Sep 19

I bought a few copies of that magazine in the dim and distant past. Those multiformat cover disks where an absolute marvel. Was it Rob Smith who did a cracking video on how those worked ?

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