Goodbye Chrome! After at least 10 years of using Google's Chrome almost exclusively as a browser, I'm moving back to Mozilla Firefox. It's not like I haven't known Chrome is only there to collect data from me, but in the past it's been semi reasonable about it. That is, not…

DOOR32.SYS Socket Sharing A common theme in "modern" (lolololol!) BBSing when it comes to doors is the DOOR32.SYS format and socket file descriptor sharing. Basically, a board dumps out a DOOR32.SYS file with the first line (comm type) set to Telnet (2), and the 2nd line (comm…

A quick tale of pkg woes: Ran into a odd thing tonight when attempting to update packages on my Mac Mini BSD box: ~> sudo pkg update Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... Fetching meta.txz: 100% 944 B 0.9kB/s 00:01 Fetching packagesite.txz: 100% 6 MiB 677.5kB/…

Quick blurb: I've started an "Awesome List" of retro computing. Will be mostly focused on 80's-90's computing. In the era I was mostly a DOS kid, but I did work with Apple and C64/Amiga as well. With that said, the list is open to PR's and anything relevant can…

Quick and dirty blurb: I needed to batch convert a bunch of source files from tab indentation to spaces. Sublime Text 3 does this well, but doing one at a time sucks... This can be handled easily with a console command: Open up the file(s) you want to convert…