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He/him. I've tried to move all my socials to the Fediverse (see name), but I'm told I need to be here, too.

#FreeBSD and #OSS enthusiast with a craving for retro (mostly PC) hardware. Four kids and a wonderful patchwork family.

http://floppy.museum/
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@[email protected] @ltning.bsky.social · Nov 17
So I'm also here, now. Saving the space for when I can run my own PDS on #FreeBSD. If you've already done so, reach out to me! In return, I promise to post details here if I get it off the ground.
Meanwhile, enjoy some random pictures from my #retrocomputing adventures. Check out my museum (in bio)!
Me (well, my chest) wearing three floppy disks - one 8 inch, one 5 1/4 inch and one 90mm - hanging from a lanyard around my neck. Also wearing a burgundy-red Brewdog Saint T-shirt. :) OS/2 Warp 3 running a few Synchronet BBS nodes. Dimly lit makeshift rack with a 486 motherboard with CPU and various expansion cards in the upper half and the screen and keyboard on a shelf below. Running OS/2 and Novell Netware. Picture of two LED-equipped oversized floppies hanging on my wall.
ltning.bsky.social
This should probably have a trigger warning. #Memtest #Retrocomputing #BadRam
Memtest86 5.01 reporting loads of memory errors. Yay.
July 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
ltning.bsky.social
How about a risk assessment of EU businesses using US-owned cloud solutions now that Trump has shown he'll break any deal - even those made by himself? "Safe harbour" agreements between EU and US are now effectively worthless, and Musk wants your data. #privacy #USpol #EUpol #PII #NoDeal #Cloud
February 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
ltning.bsky.social
Is foul language allowed here? Because I have nothing else to offer.
larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social Larry Pfeiffer @larrypfeifferdc.bsky.social · Feb 2
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum up at NSA. /1
February 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
ltning.bsky.social
A #NetBSD story in three pictures. See weirdr.net/snac/ltning/... for details.

#retrocomputing #runbsd #bsd #unix
Kernel messages from NetBSD 10.1 on an AMD 486. Panics due to low memory after showing interesting sound cards detected. No correlation I'm sure - only including to brag. Screenshot from NetBSD installer unpacking base.tgz at a whopping 600KB per second. Console screenshot. Plaintext 80x50 mode, with screen(1) running htop(1) and neofetch(1), split horizontally.
January 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
ltning.bsky.social
Playing #MonkeyIsland 2 and drinking #beer. The #MT32 chugging along playing the absolutely awesome soundtrack. #retrogaming for the win - and it's even better on real hardware. :D
December 28, 2024 at 9:00 PM
ltning.bsky.social
#Overclocking time! Can a 286 run at >25MHz? Indeed it can! With a custom clock generator, some extra cooling, fast RAM and chipset, this old hero reaches new heights :) >18fps in #Doom (github.com/FrenkelS/Doo...), >11 in 3DBench, and plays #tracker music all night on the #GUS!
#retrocomputing
Copper heat sink and fan covering a Harris 80286-25, Cyrix 287XL+, RAM and "Solutions" chipset (C&T NEAT clone) in the background. Norton SysInfo gives a score of 23.6, while a 386DX-33 scores 35.9. The classic Superscape 3DBench shows a score of 11.2. Custom clock generator from MiGron, the All_Clk. Mounted in the place of the original 50MHz crystal. It has a 25MHz crystal and is jumper for 2.5x, giving a 62.5MHz clock. The CPU runs at half of that.
December 8, 2024 at 1:42 AM
ltning.bsky.social
@luigithirty.bsky.social Scrolled your profile a bit and saw references to edm2.. You into tcp/ip coding in DOS perchance? I've got this DOS IRC server (ngircd) that I suspect is leaking some resource or other .. but I don't know the first thing about debugging it myself.
November 17, 2024 at 4:04 AM
ltning.bsky.social
So I'm also here, now. Saving the space for when I can run my own PDS on #FreeBSD. If you've already done so, reach out to me! In return, I promise to post details here if I get it off the ground.
Meanwhile, enjoy some random pictures from my #retrocomputing adventures. Check out my museum (in bio)!
Me (well, my chest) wearing three floppy disks - one 8 inch, one 5 1/4 inch and one 90mm - hanging from a lanyard around my neck. Also wearing a burgundy-red Brewdog Saint T-shirt. :) OS/2 Warp 3 running a few Synchronet BBS nodes. Dimly lit makeshift rack with a 486 motherboard with CPU and various expansion cards in the upper half and the screen and keyboard on a shelf below. Running OS/2 and Novell Netware. Picture of two LED-equipped oversized floppies hanging on my wall.
November 17, 2024 at 2:56 AM