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Just a quickie, about an upgrade I made yesterday. Well, it was not an upgrade like we do all the time, it was an upgrade involving some screwdrivers and some hotline maintenance. And by hot I mean 250V AC live wire, not the kind of hot you might enjoy.… more »

Last time I promised some additional trees, however, I ran into something meanwhile which is probably worth describing. The fact is, believe or not: I'm just now typing this very blog on my very Commodore Plus/4. Don't believe me? … more »

In this series we are looking for still valuable ideas from the popular literature of BASIC for 8 bit computers. We implement them on a retro machine for fun. Then we do it on a modern language. Finally we look for interesting (mostly mathematical)… more »

Building the new storage server is a major pain in the neck. I had so many issues, problems, regrets I never had before. Just to buy the 6TB disks caused so much trouble even a young Jedi had to feel it from across the Galaxy. So first I bought a 6TB… more »

Well, this is a follow-up. Some RAM modules arrived, I installed them and now checked the statistics about NUMA. And remember, I know very little about the subject, so take this with a grain of salt... So I got the RAM from China to my house in 8 days,… more »