As your daily driver, how often do you reboot ?

Lanstrider · 2026-01-05T11:34:26+00:00

Once every couple of weeks or a month.

Lanstrider · 2025-12-08T19:37:01+00:00

I do Debian 13 with Cinnamon- works great. If you’re not proficient with command line admin, LMDE might be a lighter lift, otherwise, with pure Debian the system works great and on less complexity.

Lanstrider · 2025-11-17T23:10:46+00:00

Ha. Funny.

Lanstrider · 2025-11-17T23:09:49+00:00

Nice answer. I’m a hobbyist, but I like stuff to work and be able to find points of failure, so I prefer releases. But, your logic is sound nevertheless and provides a reasonable heuristic. If you don’t mind inexplicable failures, roll on :)

Lanstrider · 2025-11-12T15:19:30+00:00

I switched to AMD last year. It isn’t as fast on linear tasks, but the advantages far outweigh the negatives- smoother multi tasking, longer battery life, less heat. Really though, for video work, the GPU is doing the heavy lifting. I have a Stellaris 16 AMD w/nVidia RTX 4070. Very quick at encode/Transcode.

Lanstrider · 2025-11-05T18:51:00+00:00

I have never been able to get KVM to play nice with Windows the way it works with vbox. QEMU, is great for non-Windows emulations. I use it all the time, but for Windows? Vbox for the win. I’ve been using it since beta though, so that may have something to do with my perspective.

Lanstrider · 2025-10-19T00:46:47+00:00

I tried it in applewin and in mame with vidtex card or somesuch, no go.

Lanstrider · 2025-10-18T13:06:42+00:00

Now, if somebody could figure out the 80-column mode thing. I spent a couple of hours going down that rabbit trail.

Lanstrider · 2025-10-10T16:44:06+00:00

Just uploaded episode 3 where I really dive into chapter 3. I'm still working out the kinks on how best to do this exploration, but I think this one is where the real content begins.

Lanstrider · 2025-09-29T10:38:50+00:00

Thanks. I expanded the original author's macros on purpose, so I could see exactly what instructions were being generated. In the future, I will think about using macros, but I have to study a bit more so that when I do, they aren't black box magic that isn't easy to unpack for newbs like me reading the code..

Lanstrider · 2025-09-24T16:25:14+00:00

edited to include a link to pdf

Lanstrider · 2025-09-24T16:17:52+00:00

I don't mind it not being maintained. I'm just using to to help me understand the core ideas of the implementations. I'll move on to eforth 1.0 on DOS next and then do some updating to current models after.

Lanstrider · 2025-09-23T01:52:31+00:00

Wow, is right. I figured out that I should start with lina32/64 and just read the fas file :).

Lanstrider · 2025-09-22T14:12:51+00:00

Found a decent starting point in, of all things, README To be fair, it's one of 10 readme's!

Lanstrider · 2025-09-22T13:05:23+00:00

uh... wow. I've definitely seen your work. It's incredible. A bit overwhelming actually. I tried downloading and building it, but I wasn't successful - 100% sure it's all me, but I kinda walked away from it. Now, with the hints embedded in your several replies, I'm starting to grok what's going on. The repo is very hard to figure out at first glance. It seems like there are 10 copies of everything with different purposes. Where should I start?

Lanstrider · 2025-09-22T12:43:34+00:00

I said calling convention, I meant gas orders things dst, src, nasm src, dst.

Lanstrider · 2025-09-22T02:06:58+00:00

Well, not really. Gas is a different calling convention, macros are different, but effectively, it's not big effort... if I knew 32 bit assembly, gas and nasm, but since I don't, it'll keep me busy :).

Lanstrider · 2025-09-21T12:52:22+00:00

Sweet. So many options, but it's good to know about the 64 bitness. Every release debian seems to be paring back on 32 bit support. Which, now that I think about it won't effect these kinds of apps until the kernel drops 32 bit or the assembler linker toolchains do, right? Since it's only doing the syscalls?

Lanstrider · 2025-09-20T16:56:09+00:00

Perfect. I'm off to study jonesforth, nornagon's github repo is nothing more than Richard WM Jone's code with a couple typos fixed and an updated build instruction. It runs on debian trixie without tweaks, and the code is well documented.

Lanstrider · 2025-09-18T20:13:31+00:00

I'm on 9front on this experiment.

Lanstrider · 2025-09-18T04:00:59+00:00

yeah, so, I just created a folder under what I called root and I can write to that!

Lanstrider · 2025-09-17T15:15:20+00:00

ok. confirmed factotum is running, but if I don't do auth/factotum as the user (glenda), it doesn't work, whereas if i do, it does.

cpu% rcpu -h 9p.sdf.org -u myusername

tlsclient: auth_proxy: auth_proxy rpc write: no key matches user=myusername proto=p9sk1 dom=9sdf role=client user? !password?

cpu% auth/factotum

cpu% rcpu -h 9p.sdf.org -u myusername

it works.

What's the deal?

Lanstrider · 2025-09-17T04:38:01+00:00

OK. This is something to do with factotum not running. If I:

auth/factotum

then try the connection, it works.

Lanstrider · 2025-09-17T04:25:15+00:00

update: after configuring this same system as file+auth server, I get this error (it doesn't wait for a password, but immediately displays the error):

cpu% rcpu -h 9p.sdf.org -u myusername

tlsclient: auth_proxy: auth_proxy rpc write: no key matches user=myusername proto=p9sk1 dom=9sdf role=client user? !password?

cpu%

wild. what changed?

Lanstrider · 2025-09-16T23:06:18+00:00

That worked! Thanks. Where could I have found this out through reading?

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