The Blog

OpenRA - Command & Conquer: Red Alert

Nix McRetro // 12th November 2023 // Gaming

Silos needed. I used to love Command & Conquer as a teenager. My Athlon 500 MHz sure did clock a few hours as did Andrew’s PC. While his PC wasn’t as fast as mine, it was my gateway to getting my own PC. Then came Red Alert 2 and the... Continue reading

52nd and Final Blood Donation

Nix McRetro // 7th November 2023 // News, YouTube

A few months ago I decided I was finished with donating blood. A few things went into that decision. The way our blood service ran in Australia. Australia collected plasma locally as well as importing plasma-derived products made from overseas donations, including paid donors. That difference in how donors were... Continue reading

HPE MicroServer with TrueNAS SCALE - Clunking Hard Drives

Nix McRetro // 4th November 2023 // Guides, News, YouTube

I have been listening to my three or four drives go clunk, clunk, clunk for the best part of a year. Initially I thought it must have been something in TrueNAS as these drives, WD Red Pro 16TB - Model WD161KFGX, were silent while running badblock scans on them. Someone... Continue reading

Nix's Brains! MRI Scan - October 2023

Nix McRetro // 3rd November 2023 // News, YouTube

The latest update in a series of updates it seems! Recently I had the fun of being injected with a gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent. The gadolinium is bound in a chelate; once injected it changes the magnetic properties of nearby water and can make blood vessels and some tissues or... Continue reading

GeoCities Archive Retired, Dockerisation Abandoned

Nix McRetro // 24th October 2023 // News

GeoCities Archive Retired, Dockerisation Abandoned

There’s something about waking up at 3am every morning that just gives you that extra bit of time to blog. Today we’re touching on what happened to my GeoCities Archive. A while back I had an idea to dockerise my Apache-based web server. There wasn’t much point in having a... Continue reading