Hello gophernauts and occ participants! | |
The rest of the week went off without much incident, although I | |
did try some additional things. toot still wasn't working for me. | |
After this closes, I will spend some time determining if it's the | |
particular build, memory or bandwidth constraints that was causing | |
it. I remembered after the previous entry that I was going to try | |
newsraft instead of snownews, since newsboat needs rust to | |
function. Similar issues as with toot. | |
Since the challenge is in some ways similar to last year, the | |
workflow was pretty comfortable, save for fancy webpages that | |
netsurf or lynx can't deal with. The additional limitation of | |
bandwidth is what caused me to shy away from the internet for | |
general web entertainment. No javascript and modern features is | |
one thing, but time to establish a TLS session and load a typical | |
webpage on 38 kilobaud is an exercise in patience, one that made | |
me seek other forms of entertainment once I had my fill of irc, | |
netnews and email. | |
I ended up finishing a library book, On Tyranny by Snyder, and | |
started a new library book Burning Chrome by Gibson. By the | |
weekend I was looking at my thinkpad for a refresh. I did indulge | |
in modern computers and network to download and write the images | |
to USB. It turned out that yes, it was a partitioning issue that I | |
was having starting with OpenBSD 7.2 upgrade, and that a mild | |
repartitioning seems to have solved that problem. Gentoo got wiped | |
out as well but I needed to refresh that anyways. I did use the | |
slow computer to set up the desktop for distcc duties so I didn't | |
completely abandon OCC. | |
Anyways, it was a fun challenge. I'm quite happy to see all the | |
activity on IRC and it's been a nice place to hang out during the | |
challenge. Some of the lessons I learned, especially with the slow | |
link, should be useful for this year's ROOPHLOCH. | |
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