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Found at: sdf.org:70/users/jirka/Phlog

Jirka's Phlog
March 2024

That's the end...

Old tech

Fedora 38 (finally)

February 2024

Tangara

Analog stuff, mostly

Weather

Gemini PDA sans camera

On the SGI now

Usual situation

Computing in 2023

Alive

December 2023

Making 3D stuff

Arduino robot adventures 1

Cycling in snow, 2023 edition

November 2023

SGI, BASIC, OPL and so

October 2023

Blackbird: RAM update

Biking

State of my computing: October 2023

September 2023

Tetgen, admeshview on ppc64le

SSH on Mac OS 10.4

RISC-V on MNT?

iMac G5 WiFi

August 2023

Brakes! What brakes?

Modern WWW browsing on IRIX

Forgot to replace batteries

July 2023

Speed of computers

New SIM, new phone

Working late

Sinclair A-Bike

(No) Old Computer Challenge

Agfa Click II

Analog challenge

June 2023

Status report

May 2023

Status report

April 2023

Tar, gzip and date in file name

March 2023

Summer time again

Gave up TWTXT

No computing on Sunday

MNT Pocket Reform

NetBSD and SC

Lynx

Stuff changes

Film Cameras

Spring is here!

February 2023

Debian + Arduino IDE + Inkplate

MNT Reform 2 summary

iMac G5 on WiFi

MNT Reform 2 OS Update

January 2023

I use smartfone now!

MNT Reform 2 once more: RTC battery

MNT Reform 2, nm-tui and EDUROAM

MNT Reform: third round of impressions

Thinkpad longevity

MNT Reform: second round of impressions

For first time in 2023

Hardware overview 2022

MNT Reform 2: first impressions

December 2022

Sharp Zaurus SL-C3200

DOS emulation on old UNIX systems

On Fedora 36

Full POWER

SGI Indigo R3k back in bussiness

Overeaf + Git

Back to normal

End of season

More on social networks

November 2022

Mastodon account deleted

Ubuntu Touch OTA-24

Folding bicycles

Gopher and social networks

Love updates: Ubuntu, OpenGL, IOT instruction

October 2022

Batteries, again

On the IRIX again

BQ Aquaris battery

Smartphone vs card vs paper

September 2022

ROOPHLOCH failure

Where thing works

New battery for the GPD Pocket

August 2022

Train journey with smartphone only

Makefile and .SUFFIXES

GPD Pocket battery continued

TeX, LaTeX, tool and compatibility

Computers, workflow, calendars

Vacation

July 2022

Alive, on Indigo, reading Gopher

July report

Slow Phone

Sunday mix of texts (health, bikes, computers)

June 2022

Telnet, DISPLAY and other 1990s memories

Strange stuff (UC-2000)

Seiko DATA-2000

May 2022

New bike (another one)

Ubuntu Touch, GPRS, HotSpot

MC400 or MC600

Off-line once more

SGI, demos and such

Pocket Gopher

April 2022

Nostalgia?

Favorit bike

On Indigo again

Holidays biking

Batteries (Org II)

100km per week

Palm IIIx battery saga continues

March 2022

a2ps

No Esc on keyboard

Winter/summer time change again

On SGI again

Linux at work

La Rosta

PDAs now

Not enough RAM

SGI O2 in 2022

Night cycling

February 2022

Closed

Biking uphill

Apple IIe adventures

Palm IIIx batteries change

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

todo.txt

Weekend without computing

Ubuntu 18.04

Headwind

New screen for IIe

January 2022

Dynamo, finally

One Palm is enough

Palm IIIx revival

Dynamo lighting

WWW browser for 8086

Year 2021: geocaching

Year 2021: cameras

Year 2021: computing

Cleanup

December   2021

SGI in use

Off-line

Shared bikes

Flat batteries

Old SSH troubles

MNT Reform keyboard

Changing habits

November   2021

NoViCoGE post 2

SSL again (NoViCoGE post 1)

From 33 to 35

October   2021

Not so NoViCoGE

PSIONs talking

SCSI troubles

So long TenFourFox

New CommsLink cable

Bike update

September  2021

No POWER today

O2 RAM upgrade

BQ

Sinclair

August 2021

SGI O2 in August

PSIONs: MC600 and Org2

DOS vs SIBO

Kermit and 200LX

Holidays

PSION Series 3 Spell Checker

Testing the "new" PSION MC400

July 2021

Gemini PDA (re:RPoD)

Running O2

GP2X F100

DeaDBeeF

"New" PSION MC400

Bikes

Not a retro challenge

Phones

.plan

Too much e-mails

Summary of June

June 2021

XTerm: Shift+Insert

BlackBird usage during lockdown

Nothing special to report

May 2021

X11 degradation

Why I have to keep i386

PCMCIA

US Robotics PILOT

NIT in 2021

Telneting to KA10.DE

UT Tablet on stand

On Zaurus (for a moment)

Ubuntu Phone use (2016)

Task switching

GNU Octave Files as Executables

BibTeX files from online sources

Floppy on Mac

Too much Organiser IIs

SGI Indigo R4k in works

Z88 to PC

Brompton bikes

April 2021

BASIC elsewhere

Some BASIC programming

Elektronika UKNC

Outage

Saturday

FrogFind!

Too much British stuff

Travel setup

Bike tuning

Use old computers for fun and profit

Psion goodies

TFF Today

Snow

Reader view

How to start with Z88D

March 2021

Many thanks for TenFourFox

BASIC for all

SGI IRIX today

CSTUG Saturdays

UKNC issues

Cycling...

Z88 as typewriter

First use of 5.25"

Indigo + floppy

Working floppy on SGI Indigo

Palm backup issues

Ubuntu Touch News Update

Ubuntu Touch News

Apple IIe adventures

First bike ride this year

Repairs, repairs... without success

February 2021

UKNC software (1)

8bit troubles

Z88 slots

PDP-11 once more

Spreadsheets - who cares?

Forced to de-Google

Pocket Office, 1980s style

Cleanup

January 2021

O2 is back

Fedora 33 ppc64le

Crazy January

No valid boot device

Palm vs modern Ubuntu

Blackbird upgrade (2)

Hardware setup - early 2021

December 2020

Happy new year to all!

O2 no more

Sitting and reading

Z88 after some time

Cables, cables

Radeon temperature

EDC/gear update

RAM2E

Blackbird upgrade

Temperature conversion

Downtime

9front KerTeX

reMarkable 2 in use

New round of Apple IIe attempts

9front audio

9front on bare metal

It's December!

November 2020:

Playing with Plan 9

9front

Playing with GPUbench

CD is not DVD

GPUbench

reMarkable and WWW

Backups on Palm

Printing

MNT Reform vs MacBook

reMarkable2

End of year

RAM erased

New pen (actual one)

IRIX, MP3 and so on

October 2020:

Hinv tool for Linux: inxi

Weekend

Conferencing on a PowerBook?

CD paper labels

Four GB of RAM

Pebble smartwatch

Wristwatches

UGREEN

Z88 computing

How to print Remind calendar

September 2020:

Just for reference - my xorg.conf

Week Log

SiEd testing

Conference week

Summer retrocomputing summary

Editing texts from AlphaSmart on Indigo

ROOPHLOCH 2020

Week Log

ROOPHLOCH 2020 failure

Random news from O2

August 2020:

Simplification. Or not?

AlphaSmart stuff

In search of cheap Intel Mac

SCSI2SD + Indigos

SCSI2SD v5.5

New (old) camera

New computer room

MC400 serial link

Sun Ultra 20 revived

Still no luck with Stowaway

July 2020:

SGI Indigo R4k/100

Kermit for IRIX 5.3

No fun with Ultra 20

Z88 screen/keyboard protector

Centro usage report

New PeeCee

R61i upgrade

Fun with Sun Ultra 20

SGI Indigo2 fail

Sun Ultra 20 reborn

Sun Ultra 20 R.I.P.

PM 6100

SGI Indigo R4k plans

PeeCee error

10-4-Fox

Centro and OBEX

Universal solution

Centro vs Tungsten W in few sentences

Centro progress

First anniversary

Centro!

June 2020:

SHARP EL-508A

Made in Japan

POWER news and olds

Lynx for Mac OS X (easy way)

HP TouchPad keyboard troubles

Notebook/laptop for meetings

Once more

m68k->PPC->x86->ARM?

Battery life when off

Brandy on Pi

MIPS: R10k vs R3k

Running Brandy BASIC on IRIX

Porting Brandy BASIC to Indigo

BBC BASIC on IRIX

System time

Too old computer

Cambridge Z88

Computing for now

May 2020:

Evernote on Mac OS X 10.5.8

HP Touchpad SW summary

GNU Octave AND plots

UT Progress

Kitchen computer

At work

How it is

Geocaching on Ubuntu Touch

Crazy day

UBports OTA-12 update

Palm device drivers

Speed of Octave (2)

LR41

Speed of Octave

SiPix A6 news

Compatibility (Octave)

TouchPad progress

HP Touchpad as a desktop

No luck (another case)

Libertine

Printer stuff

IRIS Indigo with Netscape

MC400 and p3nfs

Ever note

RSS feeds

MC600 software

Rain

Siag Office

April 2020:

Blackbird and Logout

Evening on IRIS Indigo

Psion Series 3 FAQ

Tired

Software Update :-(

PDF, annotations and ppc64le

Organiser II summary

CASIO DC-E700 and DC-E8000

Battery Life

MC600 + Org2

OPL Coding

Blogging (not only phogging) from Indigo

They won :-(

Organiser II for shopping

Coffee - re:Boris Shminke

Previously Unused Stuff

PSION Organiser II emulator/IDE

PSION II Emulator on DOSbox

Drivers michmach

PocketC on ReactOS on Fedora

MK-90 on ReactOS on Fedora

PSION II OPL

PSION II Comms Link/USB

AlphaSmart Testing

iMac G5 keyboard

GoType keyboard

Battery life

Standing desk (7)

AlphaSmart Dana hack

Psion 3a with keyboard

Bicycle ride

Different versions

Saturday

Standing desk (6)

Floppies + PSION

March 2020:

Animated GIFs on R3k

New old laptop

Soldering

Snow

ODROID XU-4 Update

Differences

Second phone

Numworks and POWER

Links on OS X

No more WiFi on Ben

TRGpro tuning (2)

Home office after one week

Keyboards

G4 vs G5

Workflow: Changes and additions

GLUT on MacOS X

TRGpro tuning

Working from home

Git for non-program text files

lynx --nocolor

PocketBook Basic 613

R.I.P. iPhone 3G

Corona preps

Even newer keyboard

New backpack

J-Pilot today

Running SGI O2

Standing desk (5)

Standing desk (4)

Standing desk (3)

Serial-USB

Gemini PDA update :-(

February 2020:

Standing desk (2)

Standing desk attempt

TRG Pro: first impressions

Changes: jirka.1-2-8.net

Saturday

Even newer keyboard

Palm OS + Bluetooth Keyboard

Tungsten W + PalmPix

Aceeca + Software

Elektronika BK 0010-01

January 2020:

Another GPD Pocket failure: update

Another GPD Pocket failure

Aceeca Palm PDA32?

Alarm clock failure

January 1st

PF 2020

December 2019:

Some OpenPOWER computing

Citizen Stiletto

Tungsten W usage notes

CPU and RAM Usage

Trip to Prague

Reading

Palms, palms, who cares?

Whis week

Stuff, duplicity

Palm, Mac

November 2019:

Nokia N900

Ortek keyboard driver for Palm sdf.org:70/users/jirka/Phlog/ORkey.prc

Palm T|W external keyboard

POWER9 in use (11/2019)

Out of memory

Modern absurdity

Just some thoughts

Links 2 (Re:Visiblink)

Desktop vs laptop vs ..

Tungsten W wireless

October 2019:

Tcl/Tk (2)

QEMU+ReactOS+x2x

New Stuff

New Printer!

Tcl/Tk Starpacks

Drakware PS2USB Adapter

Tcl/Tk

Palm Screen Backlight

Thinkpad R500

Tungsten W Cases

BASIC REM for Notes

GPD Pocket vs. Pocket 2: external screen

Tungsten W without Czech Fonts

Nothing to Report

September 2019:

Mastodon Habits

Palm OS 4 + Internet = ?

Battery Indicator

One Pebble Less

Small Victory

PDA/Mobile OS and PIM

Re:Jynx, Palm OS questions

Palm IIIc Question

Tungsten W Thoughts

BlackBird Update

Indigo: Time To Upgrade?

Holidays (sort of)

Tungsten W <--> Linux

Palm Tungsten W

Stability of URL

Random Thoughts

I Am Idiot

Old Palm Journal

ReactOS and QEMU

CPU Heatsink

My Desk (September 2019)

Autumn Is Close

August 2019:

Firefox

About Grumpy Old Men

Old Palm III

RSS Feeds

Palm Pixi Plus Broken

9V Rechargeables

Mess, err, I mean Linux

Otter Browser/ppc64le

Modern Linux (and FireFox)

PSION Organiser II

No New Devices for Some Time

Palm PDA Keyboard

IP Messenger -> iptux

Workflow

Port to Gtk - but to what one?

BlackBird Boot Times

BlueTooth?

July 2019:

Ghost In Box

Gopher vs WWW on Bad Connection - Who Wins?

Blackbird In Use 2

Blackbird In Use 1

Blackbird Update 11

Blackbird Update 10

Holidays, N800 and so

Blackbird Update 9

Remote plotting via XTerm

Gnuplot on Tektronix

N800 Is Back!

IBM POWER Adventures

June 2019:

Blackbird Update 8

Blackbird Update 7

UnderPOWERed

Blackbird Update 6

Some Recent Thoughts

Blackbird Update 5

Desktop Environment

May 2019:

Blackbird Update 4

HTML->Palm

Off-line

Blackbird Update 3

Workflow

Casio DC-E700

"New" Palm and PalmPix

Suicide Attempt of Mozilla?

Ubuntu Touch and Convergence (again)

April 2019:

Memory Usage

GUI -> Mess

Palm AddressBook

Bike Ride

Ubuntu Touch (UBports) OTA-8

Fog and Rain

Escaping the Cult of Mac

Blackbird Update 2

FVWM -> 4Dwm, part 4

brutaldon.online

FVWM -> 4Dwm, part 3

My current .fvwm2rc file

How People Take Notes?

FVWM -> 4Dwm, part 2

FVWM -> 4Dwm

March 2019:

Random (Palm) Notes

Failures Update

Failures for Saturday

Slowdown

Palm Pixi Limits

Trains

Phones

SGI Octane

No Luck Once More

WriteRIGHT

pstoedit

No Luck with Some Things

Web Browser

Alarm Clock

Clie Update

February 2019:

Bookmarks

Random Notes

GPD Pocket Battery

Text from Zaurus to Palm by IR

Batteries, batteries

That old PC

Palm TX Case

Blackbird Update 1

Silence Is Golden

Audio CDs

!11-PDP eht ni deppart m'I !pleH

PalmPix Once More

Desktop vs laptop vs ...

Thunderbird @250 MHz

VGA, HDMI, USB and other mess

Palm T|X - Further Steps

January 2019:

Palm T|X

Annoying Noise

Direct Sunlight

RAM sizes

Color scheme on UX50

More About Clie UX50

New Phone

Writing on Pocket Devices

BQ M10 OTA-7 Update

AIX Progress

Pens in 2018

Calculators in 2018

8 GB

Pocket computing in 2018

Laptops in 2018

Vim is great

Desktops in 2018

Devices convergence and segmentation

Moscow Nights

Moscow Nights Data File

December 2018:

Indigo 2 install (another attempt)

Metro (Palm) and i-Metro

Gemini Hub (Re:Xiled)

Problem with the REX

Sentio Superbook

No luck with Palm Pilots

TRG Pro on-line?

IR on by default?

Infrared beaming is great

REX: hands on

Remind -> Palm (naive way)

TRG Pro on eBay

November 2018:

REX

Gemini PDA complete

Raptor

From Russia with Zaurus?

Indigo 2 non-progress

More analog/offline stuff

SDF Image Gallery

Gemini PDA update expected

PalmPilot Personal updates

Pilot 5000

64-bit?!

UX-50 (Re: RPoD)

Palm III vs. Palm Pixi

New Phone: one step back

October 2018:

Mac + Palm: update

Without notebook: update

Without notebook

My current workspace (MeshTV on Indigo).

New phone - but which one?

Artificial Intelligence (sort of)

Palm Pilot with OS 1.0

Palm OS 1.0

Mac + Palm: first attempt

Too much active Palms

Android...

PowerBook apps

Palm Pilot upgrade with new IR port

Z88

September 2018:

FireFox

Benchmarks

Gopher pages update

Palm Pilot Personal -> Palm III

Reading Technomorous.eu with Netscape 3.01

Gemini PDA Case

Barcelona

August 2018:

Nice article about old Palms

Firefox issue

New SGI Indigo2

Summer set of hardware failures

Screen shot: what I'm doing during the holidays

My "new" Zaurus 5500

July  2018:

Screen shot: Agenda App on Gemini PDA (downscaled)

Git server @sdf

New PSION Series 3a

Gemini PDA vs actual PSION

June  2018:

Gemini vs Pocket

Gemini PDA: first impressions

Gemini PDA shipped

Order locked

Failures

PSION Printing

May  2018:

Nekochan.net no more

Screen shot: my new PowerBook G4

New battery for PB G4

NumWorks

Trains in Central Europe

More POWER

Via Ferrata 2018

Hardware

April  2018:

TtH: (La)TeX to HTML

New LCD

MS-DOS Programming (in C)

New watches

March  2018:

Unsorted Notes

New Stuff (non-computer)

par

Train

IRIS Indigo: Gopher + MP3 (33MHz CPU)

Keyboard

February 2018:

EDC

January 2018:

Palms

pdf2png

My workstations in 2017

Hats

My portable stuff in 2017

VR3 battery life

iPhone->iPod

Spectre

Pebble + Ubuntu Touch

HNB

Netwalker Screenshot

Netwalking (Sharp Netwalker)

December 2017:

VR3: more info

Sharp Netwalker

SDF in color

XMCD

Obscure X11 tools

November 2017:

From desktop to VR3

Agenda VR3 vs Palm III

New Agenda VR3 PDA

FireFox 57

Random notes

Exhausted

MP3 on 33MHz MIPS CPU?

Random stuff

October 2017:

How ordinary user solves problem with Android

Gutenberg (Guttenberg)

Simple 3D tool

Again and again

Workflow

CF Ethernet

.netrc

Failures, updates and so

GeminiPDA on video

SGI Indigo keyboard converter

For those few readers

GPD Pocket: upgrade

September 2017:

Fan noise

Failures, failures...

Printer failure

New Backpack

Floppies

eFunda.com

Browsing on SGI Indigo/IRIX

Zaurus and USB pen drive

Gemini PDA in metal

Printing

Use of small laptop

Remote FireFox on IRIX

Zaurus and Qtopia Desktop

Remote Firefox

August 2017:

GPD Pocket Progress

HP TouchPad

GUI response

GPD Pocket!

Psion Sheet -> Unix SC

Psion<->UNIX

DopeWars in terminal

Cleaning (apps)

DiddleBug

Login shell

GTA04 once more

GTA04 and NanoNote

PalmImage and TinyViewer

PalmImage on IRIX

GTA-04 Phone still alive (sort of)

Can't set tod clock

Flickr

Running SGI Indy

Slovakia

July 2017:

OpenMoko

HW vs SW Calculator

X260

Mini Indigo

LaTeX

read-notepad

Salzkammergut

June 2017:

My Focus No More

Palm Pilot Hotsync Cable

IRIX Indigo + MC

Software Unification

First Bike Ride

Non-x86 workstation? :-(

30 years of SDF

Pal Smartstrap for Pebble

Palm III Color Pack

Palm III Color Pack

Fossil Wrist PDA troubles

Vim Outliner (TVO)

Train

Fossil with screen off

May 2017:

SILO library

IRIX Indigo + XFig

CalculiX on IRIX problems

From man(1) to paper

CalculiX on IRIX

iPod Nano as a watch

XFig Lives! (sort of)

IRIS Indigo upgrade (3)

Fossil Wrist PDA

IRIS Indigo upgrade (2)

IRIS Indigo with FSN

Iris Indigo upgrade (1)

Using MC600 as laptop

Exodus (Ubuntu Touch)

Itanic is sinking

New Technomorous.eu

Browsing Technomorous.eu with IRIS Indigo

Browsing Technomorous.eu with Ubuntu Touch phone

Browsing Technomorous.eu with Palm and Plucker

Some more IRIS Indigo software

Few computer-free days

April 2017:

Fossil progress

Z Shell

Fossil Wrist PDA

todo.txt and todo.sh

Unexpected Finds

Damned Lies Once More

IRIX Nirvana

Modern Vim and Latin2

X61s and SSD

Ubuntu Touch No More

New Toys (for work)

March 2017:

Stability vs Innovation

Evening Computing

More BASIC (for Palm PDA)

Some BASIC (internal forces on a beam)

Mouse

Ubuntu Tablet and Big Screen

PalmORB

My Actively Used Devices

My Pebble No Longer

February  2017:

Tcl/Tk Compatibility

Best Convergence Device ;-)

O2 troubles

Desktop Keyboard

ORG2 Emulator (for Linux!)

New toy (O2)

Purse for women PSION 5

Prince of Persia (sort of) on calculator

USB interface for old Casio calculators

They just started...

Divergence

January 2017:

MuPDF (on IRIX)

iOS vs Android (just a fun)

Internal Speakers

Got a Palm Pilot Professional

Bywater BASIC and IRIX 5.3

Cameras Usage

Relaxational computing

StayOnTop + XMMS

December 2016:

Another hardware failure: Agenda VR3

FVWM (2.4) on Ubuntu

One keyboard less

Strange behavior

State Archives of Assyria

Pocket Clamshells

Ubuntu Touch OTA-14 and more

Doing something in wrong way

Data transfer problem

So Pebble is gone

MatView and ParaView on Ubuntu Touch

Lies, damned lies and...

November 2016:

Typical Linux Illness

No computer in living room

Dual SIM Phone Life

Battery Life

Augmented Reality (and a non-related joke)

Sony Clie PEG-UX50

Notebook List

Twibright Registrator

TetGen on IRIX

Old vs New (reliability)

Pebble Time 2

Power Mac 6100 once more

Bluetooth Keyboard preferences

Net Slug (NSLU-2)

October 2016:

Drop Box Down

That (not so) old MIPS

Swap

Jorno Bluetooth Keyboard

WD My Passport Wireless

No Sheep Shaving on IRIX

PROM battery for IRIS Indigo

Power Macintosh 6100 Failure

Right stuff for tasks? (PDAs)

IRIS Indigo adventures

September 2016:

Psion MC600 troubles; Relativity of speed

PSION Series 3a battery life

Ubuntu Touch OTA-13

Stowaway ThinkOutside Sierra

Shared display on IRIS

Side effects (related to the Indigo)

IRIS Indigo

Maemo4 nostalgy

August 2016:

Introduction and PalmPix

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