It was late Wednesday afternoon, I was at work. It was boring. Sniff, sniff. Allergies? Hopefully. Fast forward 24 hours. Fever! I was under attack by a foreign body. Temperature peaked at 39.5°C at which point I ruled out allergy … Continue reading
Category: Linux
The GeoCities Rebuild Worklog
This is the original, updated and mostly complete worklog for my GeoCities Reboot at http://geocities.mcretro.net.
1st October 2021
Retro computers need websites to visit. That is what this project is … Continue reading
Cloudflare CDN v2
Those who are long-term subscribers would remember way back in 2016 I tried to migrate to Cloudflare. I have been hesitant to migrate from my little home server to the big world wide CDN web. That move was made, again, … Continue reading
Let’s Encrypt Certbot Domain Listing Order
Honestly, I didn’t realise this, but it turns out the first domain listed when running Certbot becomes the main domain on your ssl certificate. By rejiggering the order I was able to have mcretro.net displayed proudly.
sudo certbot --apache… Continue reading
Netscape 1.0 in Windows 11
Well that was unexpected. But I guess it’s good to see Netscape 1.0 working under Windows 11. That’s pretty impressive! Alright, maybe “working” is a little subjective but good on Microsoft for keeping legacy code around forever. Not always a … Continue reading
Onions, Great with All Websites!
See that little purple “.onion available” note? Thanks to the work by the Tor Project here they’ve got a way to present clearnet (normal) internet sites to route through tor at the click of a button. Of course this has … Continue reading
Ghost Publishing Platform on the Raspberry Pi
I decided to have a look around for an alternative to WordPress. I must admit I do have a tendency to do this from time to time. Anyway, enter Ghost. No php, just pure js built for the new … Continue reading
The Good Old Switcheroo
What’s this we have here? The HP Stream 11 – an ultra portable laptop with a decent keyboard for AU$215. That’s US$164 at the time of writing. With that said, it is outdated and ultimately not really suitable for everything … Continue reading
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