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title: brainshit
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---
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Brainshit is my oldest website; a French blog that I initially made as part of
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a PHP tutorial, then that grew into a collaborative blog with 200 articles
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from me and a friend I met on Habitica.
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Started in 2009, it got two full rewrites, three migrations, three name changes
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and four domain changes. After moving around on various free hosting services,
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I decided to self-host it, at first on a Raspberry Pi Zero-W, then on an Intel
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NUC named Carthage. It is now hosted on [mountain](./mountain.html), and is a
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part of the [cybrecluster](./cybrecluster.html).
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title: Cybrecluster
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---
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The Cybrecluster project aims at linking my different websites in a manner
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akin to a webring. It was imagined during the summer of 2020.
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## Sites
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* https://brainshit.fr/
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* https://tilde.town/~lucidiot/
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* https://envs.net/~lucidiot/
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* https://breadpunk.club/~lucitoast/
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## Goals
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* Increase the visibility of all of my projects
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* Lighten the load on [mountain](./mountain.html) by trusting other tildes
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* Increase my involvement in tildes
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* Encourage both a visitor and me to browse all of my websites
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* Reduce my fear of abandoning a particular website
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## My computers are my tools
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When I designed this project, my French blog was hosted at home on `carthage`,
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an Intel NUC, using Ubuntu Server, Docker, systemd, Apache, PHP, MySQL, and
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the server was also providing other services such as Nextcloud, HedgeDoc,
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TinyTinyRSS, a NuGet package server, and a LAN-only WebDAV server, all behind
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a nginx reverse proxy with a separate container to handle Let's Encrypt
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certificate renewal. All of those containers were managed using Docker
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Compose.
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Handling this structure was pretty complex, as I get very quickly frustrated
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when it comes to most modern deployment tech. I realized over time that this
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is not what I want to do. I do not want the "Cloud". If I am going to
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self-host, then it should be by my rule, by how I think computers should run.
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Feeling constantly annoyed at my own server's setup, feeling unable to make any
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process on a project that relates to this server because of its state, just
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means I need to change the way I run my server.
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I like the tilde culture, in which we turn random, "soulless" computers in the
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cloud into cozy places. Into safe places where I feel like I can grow, I can
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thrive. So I wanted to have a server that gets closer to that.
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I still want to self-host; I like being able to see my equipment just by
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turning my head, having access to it even when my internet connection is down,
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or hearing a very quiet fan noise at night. But I also want to get involved
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in tildes, and I have an account on three tildes already; I want to publish
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everywhere and not look dead. I was putting some stress on myself because I
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really wanted to do something, I do not want those accounts to be a waste.
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The last thing I want to do to any tilde is to make it waste resources.
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I solved that dilemma, and started seeing my server in a better light, by
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imagining the cybrecluster.
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## Rules
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After getting a little further into this idea, making it clearer in my mind,
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I defined a set of rules.
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* **Be simple.**
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* Start small
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* Plan often, but plan small
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* Remove unneeded abstractions
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* **Be resilient.**
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* Backups
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* Write documentation for my projects
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* Reuse existing systems, formats and protocols
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* [Archive](https://archive.org) things
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* Monitor my server, sites, services
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* **Be active.**
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* Learn what I need, not just for the sake of learning
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* Create what I want, what I enjoy
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* Publish what I can
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This sounds rather close to an [integrity report](./integrity-report.html).
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## Actions taken
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* Stopped the NuGet package server as the projects that relied on it went stale
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* Migrated to envs.net's TinyTinyRSS instance
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* Stopped my TinyTinyRSS instance
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* Stopped the PostgreSQL database that powered the TinyTinyRSS instance
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* Migrated my files from Nextcloud to Syncthing
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* Migrated my calendar and contacts to [Framagenda](https://framagenda.org)
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* Stopped my Nextcloud instance
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* Migrated my HedgeDoc files to some .md files in a Syncthing folder, using
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envs.net's HedgeDoc instance when I need multiplayer text editing
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* Stopped my HedgeDoc instance
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* Set up Alpine Linux, nginx, certbot, MariaDB, PHP 7, Munin and Syncthing on
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[Mountain](./mountain.html)
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* Migrated my WebDAV server to Mountain
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* Migrated my French blog to PHP 7
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* Migrated my French blog to Mountain
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* Stopped all Docker services on Carthage
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* Migrated all my Syncthing folders to Mountain
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* Sold Carthage to a friend at a fair price
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* Added a Cybrecluster banner to all of my websites
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* Started posting about my tilde projects on my self-hosted French blog
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## Actions to take
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[This blog article](https://brainshit.fr/read/240) introduces the cybrecluster
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to my French audience and describes the actions to take regarding
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[Brainshit](./brainshit.html).
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* Create a "decentralized monitoring": each server (mine, or a tilde) checks
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on the others, and reports their status on a status page and an RSS feed
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using [mod_servicestatus][mod_servicestatus]
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* Maybe self-host a [DAViCal](https://davical.org) instance, as Framagenda's
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operator, Framasoft, encourages moving away from its platform into smaller,
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more decentralized hosts
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* Make my French blog into a static site
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* Remove PHP 7 and MariaDB from Mountain
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[mod_servicestatus]: https://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/servicestatus/
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title: integrity report
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---
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I have been very interested with [James Clear][clear]'s idea of changing one's
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habits using the environment, instead of only relying on self-discipline.
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His book [Atomic Habits][atomic], a longer version of his blog posts, was an
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interesting read.
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Although my interest in productivity decayed over time as I realized how trying
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to always do my best, to always be productive, to always be efficient, made
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things less enjoyable, less relaxing, and that I needed to take care of myself,
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I still do sometimes follow some of the tips and move things around the home to
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try to make small changes in my behavior, sometimes with success.
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James Clear used to publish what he called [integrity reports][reports], in
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which he stated some business-y _Core Values_ and looked at how he followed
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them.
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I tried this method by reflecting on over 200 core values suggested in random
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lists all over the internet; did I feel like this was what defined me? After
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writing around 60 pages in my journal just to reflect on that, I came up with
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my first, and only, integrity report:
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* **Accomplishment**
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* Motivation: Do I have routines that enable me to make progress?
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* Completion: Do I have projects to finish before I start new ones?
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* Meaningful Work: Do my projects have a use, a meaning, for myself
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or someone else?
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* **Self-Respect**
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* Authenticity: Am I myself?
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* Happiness: Am I allowing myself to be happy with my current self?
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* Spirituality: Am I paying attention to my sensations and feelings?
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* Self-Confidence: Am I confident in my abilities?
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* **Creativity**
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* Learning: Am I learning, practicing new things?
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* Craftiness: Am I imagining, creating new things?
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* Consistency: Am I imagining and creating new things regularly,
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no matter the quality of the results?
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Applying this report helped me drop many projects that I was doing but did not
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either enjoy or had a set goal for. I did not want to waste them, so I made
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some of those ideas [public](//tilde.town/~lucidiot/ideas/).
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I did not officially drop these "rules" yet, although I now disagree with
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having a business-y approach to my life and some of my own life rules have
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changed. The [cybrecluster](./cybrecluster.html) philosophy is now closer to
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how I think daily.
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[clear]: https://jamesclear.com/
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[atomic]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121378-atomic-habits
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[reports]: https://jamesclear.com/integrity
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title: mountain
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`mountain` is an Acer Aspire 7220 running Alpine Linux at my home, and
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hosting my [French blog](https://brainshit.fr). It is also part of my group
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of Syncthing devices, to make sure there is always one device ready to receive
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another's changes, for near-instant online backups.
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It is named after one of the sectors in Code Lyoko; my previous server was
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named Carthage after the Fifth Sector. I plan on naming my next devices after
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the other sectors; Desert, Forest and Ice.
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I am considering hosting some other small services such as Gopher, Gemini, or
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Finger. I however want everything to only be purely static; if it does not
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fit in a Git repo, it does not get into my server; Syncthing is the only
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exception.
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A WebDAV server is also hosted there, although it is only exposed to my LAN;
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I use it purely to make transfers between my IBM ThinkPads running old Windows
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versions and my Linux systems easier.
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title: tools
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some interesting tidbits of technology that I need to try
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* [fd](https://github.com/sharkdp/fd)
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* fzf
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* ripgrep
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* [ag](https://geoff.greer.fm/ag/)
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* [rlwrap](https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap)
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* replacing coreutils with busybox
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* wdiff
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* [moreutils](https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/)
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## seal of approval
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some interesting tidbits of technology that used to be on the above list,
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then that I tried and enjoyed
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* dict
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title: warrior
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A ThinkPad T42 with a Pentium M and a Radeon 7500. The goal is to get
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Windows 98SE installed on it, to deprecate the virtual machine that I
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sometimes use for nostalgia purposes.
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The setup is far from easy and backups are being done by archiving
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the entire drive on `falcon`, my main desktop, via an IDE-to-USB adapter
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I bought specially for this project.
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If it truly fails, I might end up installing Windows 2000 SP4 on it instead.
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## Setup checklist
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* Setup
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* Ethernet driver (`apps/setup/setupbd/w98-ws32/setupbd.exe`)
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This was copied over to the laptop from a ThinkPad X23 running Windows XP
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over infrared, at about 8kbps, as neither Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Ethernet or USB
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worked, and I was not equipped to try RS232.
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Beyond this point, files are copied via a WebDAV server hosted on
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[mountain](./mountain.html).
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* 7-Zip 7.20
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* DirectX 9.0c
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* Radeon 7500 via devmgr (`driver/9x_inf`)
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* Screen configuration
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* intel-mobo
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* `isapnp.vxd` not found (CD unavailable)
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* 2 reboots, including one hard reboot
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* Reinstallation of the PCI ISA Bridge driver
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* IBM Battery MaxiMizer
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* ThinkPad Audio
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* 2 reboots
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* 2 manual actions to point to the CD
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* 2 file conflicts: overwrite existing files
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* ThinkPad HotKey Features
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* ADI Audio
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* Overwrite all conflicts with the other driver
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* ThinkPad UltraNav
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* ThinkPad UltraBay
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* ThinkPad Hibernation Utility
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* Intel SpeedStep
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* Screen (INF file to configure in the display settings)
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* 56K modem
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* Windows Installer 2.0
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* DAEMON Tools 3.47
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* Internet Explorer 6 SP1
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* Opera 9.64
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* TightVNC 1.3.10
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* RetroZilla 2.2
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* eXeScope 6.50
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* Windows Media Player 9 Series
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* Windows Media Player 10 (98MP10FR)
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* 1 file conflict: overwrite
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* Paint Shop Pro 9
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* Animation Shop 3
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* ***[Position of current backup]***
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* ~~Office XP~~ Windows protection error
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* ~~Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise~~ Windows protection error
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* ~~MSDN 6.0~~
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## To-do
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* Try [Unknown Devices](http://halfdone.com/ukd) to find the missing drivers
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* Retrieve `msimg32.dll` from Windows ME for Opera
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* Try to copy the 98 VM's disk, then install the drivers
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* Install Microsoft Train Simulator
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* Install SpeedFan
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* Consider other Office versions?
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* Test USB support on a different OS
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