The PlayStation 5 is big. Very big. Beyond it’s early 2000’s internet gateway look (seriously, it does look like an unused piece of networking kit that’s sitting in my closet right now) the overall size of the machine is pretty massive, especially when you compare it to the predecessor, the PlayStation 4. It also looks […]
If you’re a gamer you’ve no doubt heard that soon after the launch of the new Xbox Consoles, the Series X and the Series S, problems were reported primarily with the optical drive of the Series X but also, in at least one case I saw on twitter, the fan of the Series S. Naturally, […]
As a reasonable follow up to my last article about me realizing I’m a bit of a phone phreak living in the wrong time period, I thought it’d be cool to upload this little snippet of audio I recorded. In this case we have a 1-800 number that, when dialed, gives you the Japanese “this […]
In the past few months, along with my growing interest in the pre-world-wide-web internet and, before that, bulletin board systems I’ve also have a very related interest in the telephone system of yesteryear. At the time, it was in some ways the largest machine ever made by humanity and when you really get into just […]
Last week I had a 4 gig memory module fail on my Mac Pro, dropping me from 24 gigabytes to only 16 gigabytes of memory – the additional lost 4 gigs being due to memory being in pairs on Mac Pro systems – the loss of one 4 gig module meant I lost access to […]
This morning before work I was using my Mac Pro for, well, Mac Pro things. By that I mean watching stupid junk on YouTube and checking on my BBS. I’ve not actually turned the system off in a week, and had been doing some reasonable work on it before and was curious; just how was […]
Last night I spent several hours working on a bit of a code project. The idea was to create a custom RSS feed of posts from Xadara which would import into my Bulletin Board System, Final Zone. It was a solid enough idea, but something I knew, with my relatively amateur coding skills, would be […]
I’ve kept Adobe Flash installed on my main machine for far longer than I probably should have. I don’t quite know why, but I guess I just wanted to still have it available just in case. Blame my desire for Anyway, Flash has pretty much needed to update every damn day or, at least, every […]
Today the United States Department of Justice and 11 states (Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana) filed an antitrust suit against Google, with the focus being it’s domination of the internet search market. I’ve been saying for years Google has been ,quite simply, a monopoly. They have their hands far to […]
That feed function I mentioned earlier is pretty neat, importing entries here on Xadara into my Bulletin Board System, but it has one MAJOR problem – it doesn’t import them WELL. By that, I mean it does a bit of a poor job in properly importing the excerpt of the post and thus has some […]
For the past few months I’ve spent an incredible amount of time working on my own bulletin board system, or BBS. That’s right, a major project I’ve spent many days on has been my own implementation of an otherwise obsolete online communications method and it’s been one of the most fun things I’ve worked on […]
Gaming is, very clearly from this site, a major hobby of mine, at least in the context of it’s very important to me. I actually don’t play games as often as one would think – I spend quite a bit of time working on various projects and rarely actually find time to sit down and […]
A few years ago I got bit by the “BBS” bug – a phenomena among some of us in the vintage technology scene to hunt down and experience the pre-internet culture of Bulletin Board Systems. Contrary to popular belief, these services are still alive and well in the 21st century, albeit adapted for and living […]
Right, I’ve spent pretty much all of June taking a break – as my buddy Prince Watercress put it, kind of a “lost weekend” situation, but an intentional one of me just not caring about writing stuff. I’ve put out a few things here and there, but have otherwise been slacking very intentionally, resulting in […]
Yesterday Sony finally showed off the design of the PlayStation 5 and all I could think upon seeing it was that it looks nothing like the developer systems which everyone seemed to think the actual hardware would resemble. In two entries I covered this subject. In January I wrote “No, the PlayStation 5 is not […]