Shane McRetro

Mac Web Browsers from the 90s and HTML/0.9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn0RECnBTg8

Mac Web Browsers from the 90s and HTML 0.9 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn0RECnBTg8)

Here I was thinking I had an 11 minute voiceover but I misread the timeline. I’ll never use a script, I’m … Continue reading

GeoCities Downtime – WD Blue SA510 1TB WDS100T3B0B Failure

Back in late-December, and I’m talking right on 31st December 2022, GeoCities crashed hard. All thanks to poorly written firmware by Western Digital. Firmwares 52008100 and 52015100, I’m looking at you!

The hardware failure of the the WD Blue SATA … Continue reading

Miss Melody ES688 – ESS AudioDrive 688 Capacitor Replacement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU2rRy1BW78

Miss Melody ES688 – ESS AudioDrive 688 Capacitor Replacement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU2rRy1BW78)

Recently I had the joy of being able to replace the capacitors on a Miss Melody ES688. The poor thing had … Continue reading

Capacitors Manufacturer Tier List Ranking

I’d previously linked to this list at Tom’s Hardware for my Cisco SPA. I was lucky that my capacitors were even on the list. It’s occurred to me that many do not even make it to tier 4…

I … Continue reading

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 … Continue reading

Cisco SPA8000-G4 8-Port IP Telephony Gateway – Recap Overview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRzDQn9LpF0

Cisco SPA8000-G4 8-Port IP Telephony Gateway – Recap Overview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRzDQn9LpF0)

Good old Su’scon capacitors. Where do they sit? Tier 4, the lowest of the tiers. If Tom’s Hardware capacitor manufacturer tier … Continue reading

Horizon Forbidden West (2022) Live Stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2v8C6uGGds&list=PLLJI5UKuYtwVteLvwP8B0uXJnmWb9fQcz

Shane McRetro's Horizon Forbidden West Livestream! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2v8C6uGGds&list=PLLJI5UKuYtwVteLvwP8B0uXJnmWb9fQcz)

Firstly, I would like to give a hats off to the developers. This game did not crash once on my PlayStation 4 slim and … Continue reading

dd Progress Bar in Mac OS

I’ve been using dd to clone some disks on occasion recently, usually when they are non-native to Mac OS and let’s be honest, Mac OS isn’t Linux and Linux isn’t Unix. They all have some things in common though. And … Continue reading