Recent content by wthww

Hello all, This maintenance period is now complete. Here's what happened during this maintenance: 1) The underlying hosting stack was updated to the latest os/web/php versions. 2) The attachment data was migrated back to local storage from the linode s3 bucket. 3) Forum data was rebuilt in...

Hello MLAers, I'll be bumping the forum software and underlying stack to their latest versions the weekend of 2025-05-09 through 2025-05-11 in Pacific. During this time the site will bounce back and forth between being online and offline. Please join us in the IRC at irc.68kmla.org in channel...

Hello all, I'm happy to report that email for the site was restored today, and you should all be getting notifications again! Woot! Thanks, //wthww

Alright guys, enough is enough. I'd ask everyone to take a chill pill, and act with humanity and understanding. Tensions are high for everyone, including the family in this case. Death leaves a wide wake. Thanks, wthww

I just want to be really clear here guys -- please treat Tony's family with the utmost respect. This could be one of us some day. Frankly, as someone who knew Tony, and appreciated him, I expect anyone that has dealings with his family to be 100% above board. If it comes out that there has been...

Hello All, Just wanted to let you all know that over the upcoming weekend (starting 11/25-11/27) we'll be taking care of some routine care and feeding of the web stack the site runs on. This includes: Upgrading the underlying VMs to the latest distro provided php/nginx/etc. We are currently on...

Unfortunately this unit didn't come with a heatsink, which I had thought would be OK until I realized the heatsink from the OEM CPU module cannot be reused. So I need to figure out how I'm going to mount a generic heatsink like this one safely and permanently. Some other folks suggested...

Hello all, We've recently had some drama revolving around an ex-member creating sock-puppet accounts to evade being banned and disrupting the site. I wanted to take a second to talk about how we handle ban-evasion and in general how we moderate. 1) The ex-member was banned ten years ago for...

As promised, attached phone pics. This came to me by way of Poland, so if the seller recognizes the item, I'd be pleased as punch to leave positive feedback on the forms!

I snagged one of these on eBay a couple months ago for a very reasonable sum as I recently got a C500 from a friend. I think it's finally time to test it out :) Will take some pics and let y'all know how it goes. Likely my best random eBay catch in a while. //wthww

This is really cool, I love it!

Hello All, In the course of being an administrator for a site like the MLA, for as long as it has been around, you sometimes have to deliver bad news. It is with the greatest respect, and sadness, that I would like to inform you all Tony Diaz, a pillar of the Apple ][ and Mac communities has...

Hello All, I figured I'd make a quick how-to for my own reference and to make this a little easier for folks who may want to emulate a powermac on Linux. This will be a step-by-step for each distribution, starting with Arch because I use it daily. This will be a WIP where I add sections for...