Busy Days and Ryumin's Dome // 18-11-15
So I've been rather quiet lately, although not inactive!
At work, we have thrown^Wmoved out an old piece of equipment, a
Univex500 e-beam evaporator. It's not easy, to move over half a ton of
solid steel when the feet and wheels of the equipment are old. Wonder
whether anybody wants the thing for free: it's really old, and I have
decided not to disconnect the electronics rack from the machine,
because we would have had to document everything, and there have been
generations of people tweaking and installing additional stuff. And the
cables are old as well, so they might even break when you move them too
much.. This thing will require somebody with a lot of time and love
initially, if it should live again. But, it worked quite well up to the
end of its active life in our lab! We will replace it with a new system
that has arrived this week, and which has about the same weight, so
moving it will also be a little challenge, again.
Privately (not family, which of course consumes a big chunk of time),
I've been mostly occupied with setting up [1]Ryumin's Dome which is
part of the [2]Circumlunar "universe", a fun project started by
solderpunk, bringing together a couple of people interested in small
Unix systems and Gopher. I have a [3]presence on circumlunar.space, and
solderpunk has begun adding subdomains.
The Dome is a purely git-accessible gopher publication server, i.e
users can push/pull the gopher git repo, and pushing immediately
updates the published files. Restricted interactive access using
git-shell is also available, and so I've been learning a bit about less
usual stuff in git.
Today is the [4]Day of the Imprisoned Writer. Text and ideas must
always be free!
.:.
References
1.
gopher://dome.circumlunar.space/
2.
gopher://circumlunar.space/
3.
gopher://circumlunar.space/1/~yargo/
4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Imprisoned_Writer
