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Well, I have been wanting to participate in the DOS fun and games this week, but on account of a wicked backache the last few days I have not been up for much until today.
I did try to pull some old DOS files off of some ancient hard drives, but it turns out these drives are so old I cannot read from them with a USB/IDE adapter. So, I tried installing the in my Pentium MMX, only the OS I have on that machine isn't booting (and I had to use an old CRT monitor because it has a built in VGA cable and my VGA cable is tied up elsewhere at the moment, but this monitor starts scrolling when I get past the POST screen, so it's really hard to use. And apparently, I cannot just boot off a CD drive because the IDE channel doesn't seem to like having a hard drive AND a CD drive on it (even if the HDD is jumpered to master and the CD drive to slave). So I give up on that front for now.
(The other "channel" of IDE connectivity is taken up by the pair of old HDD drives, so I can't put the CD drive there. The evidence seems to point to those drives functioning together as a single drive).
Also, it seems like OpenBSD doesn't like my USB Floppy drive, so getting data off the floppy's I do have may not be so easy.
My plan for tomorrow is, when the Wii to HDMI adapter arrives, to either:
1. Install Dosbox on the Wii.
2. Install Linux on the Wii and - if that works - install Dosbox-x on top of that and configure it to load that all up on boot.
If I can do the latter, maybe I can get some basic network access in DOS - which I understand is not available in the "standard" Wii DOSBox.
If I can get either option working, then it will be on to finding free/freeware software to run to on it, as an well as to put my Commander Keen collection onto it.
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ChatGPT Can Not Say "Bryan Lunduke"
Move over David Mayer, Lunduke joins the list of names which OpenAl will not display. Here's how this was accomplished.
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Mozilla Executive Pay Doubles as Loss of 80% of Revenue Looms
"Mozilla has shifted much of its work toward Al" as funds directed towards African "Digital Justice", "Queer Youth Inclusion", & "Digital Activism for Young Feminists".
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The futility of Ad-Blockers
Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.
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openSUSE says "No Lunduke allowed!"
Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.
Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣
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Apostrophe(') was not Frank Zappa's first album. Over the years, he did many albums in many different styles. Always the comedian, but so talented and his band, The Mothers of Invention were fantastic. This is a great place to introduce a newby to Frank's work. This is also my number one album to test a new stereo system or component.
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe(')
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