Category: Miscellanea

I’ve been playing with Windows 3.x on Dosbox and Dosbox-X – the S3 drivers found on Vogons have not worked for me. I don’t know if these work, but it is possible to get the original first party S3 drivers via archive.org:https://web.archive.org/web/20090611100530/http://www.s3graphics.com/en/drivers/legacy_software_archive.aspx#id_765drv

This blog is pretty much dead, but I use it as a notepad mostly for recipes these days. If you like any of these, feel free to reuse them, and consider sending me a shout out on my twitter @nkedel This came out really thick, and perhaps a bit too salty – unsure what to… Continue reading Chili, a questionable success

200ml room-temperature water 200g bread flour (gold medal; am out of King Arthur) 1/4 tsp breadmaker yeast Run on dough cycle without pre-warm (next time try sourdough starter cycle) ~3 hours ferment including the rise part of the dough cycle 120ml tap-cold water (try warm next time) 200g bread flour 100g white whole wheat flour… Continue reading A breadmaking success

I’ve been making Macaroni and Cheese to roughly the same recipe of my mom’s since high school, and the result have been inconsistent. I tried making a creamier and less caserole-y version for Nadia compared to my usual-of-late proportions, and I thought I’d record it here. I realized I had recorded one set of proportions… Continue reading Macaroni and Cheese proportions

One of the odd things about having kept this up for ~15 years is that there is plenty of old stuff I don’t remember it all, like: https://www.cubiclehermit.com/archives/482 For the record. I do not now, and I have never owned an iPod or Zune. I’ve owned three MP3 players: [….] I keep hoping that battery… Continue reading Spelunking my own blog

Out of curiosity, I decided to run some quick (and non-repeated, largely unscientific) benchmarks of a Gentoo (-march=native,etc etc) OpenJDK/IcedTea build vs. actual Sun/Oracle JVM builds. Interestingly, the Gentoo builds are slower. Unsurprisingly, the JVM gets noticeably faster across versions from 1.6->1.7->1.8

Apropos of nothing, but awesome in a “I didn’t know that” sort of way: http://johnfinnemore.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/two-of-kind.html: This is nice. In 1899, Winston Churchill was 25, an aspiring politician, and the author of a couple of books. He was not, however, the most famous Winston Churchill around. That was the now largely forgotten, but at the time… Continue reading A confusion of Churchills…

IO9 posted a nice homage to older porn parodies (back before they were just “This Ain’t (insert original film’s name here)” or “(insert original film’s name here): An XXX Parody.” The Greatest Science Fiction Porn Movies of All Time: 1961-1991