#retrochallenge 2022/10

[nixmcretro]

Docker, GeoCities Search, and RetroChallenge 2022/10 Results

Where to start with the last few days. Why not here! The RetroChallenge 2022/10 results are in. Looks like I nabbed the Grand Prize. Not too bad. 💁‍♀️

[nixmcretro]

TrueNAS Tinkering

Sometime in October 2022 during RetroChallenge 2022/10 I started to tinker with TrueNAS Scale. I’ve been on the search for more storage for a while now. Well not more storage, but a way to store my data reliably. I learnt about magical things like ZFS, RAIDZ2, spinning rust, HPE MicroServer Gen8, modern hard drive error rates and more! Fast-forward to today and I now have a cool mesh, 64 TB of…

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RetroChallenge 2022/10 - GeoCities Rebuild on Dial-up at 28.8k

RetroChallenge 2022/10 – GeoCities Rebuild on Dial-up at 28.8k

That’s right, we doubled the speed to 28.8k, but it’s still only 28.8k… maybe that’s why the video is four hours long. Haha! Or maybe it’s because I was searching for the perfect Evangelion midi. I do need to find some new SoundFonts! We were using the Spirit Viper V.34 external modem on the client-side. These were distributed by Mike Boorne Electronics Pty. Ltd. in the mid-1990s. Apparently a…

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RetroChallenge 2022/10 - GeoCities Rebuild on Dial-up at 14.4k

RetroChallenge 2022/10 – GeoCities Rebuild on Dial-up at 14.4k

Now this is an interesting one. I entered in the RetroChallenge 2022/10 to see if I could bring the GeoCities Archives back to life again, but using the scripts built by despens in 2012/2013. The goal was to use hardware from the era running the OS it was originally built for. And what can I say, if I was better at installing dependencies, it probably would have happened sooner. Regardless, it…