Software Sojourner
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SRE, SWE ... the further adventures of Drew Derbyshire, Software Engineer.
Saturday, June 7, 2025
QOTD (1995 edition)
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Today's example of how 1980s-1990s era BSD fortunes have not aged equally well: Dreams are free, but you get soaked on the connect time....
Friday, December 27, 2024
Out With the Old, In With the New
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I go way back with music on Apple devices; I owned multiple iPods going back to the iPod classic (Click Wheel), ripped 600+ physical CDs, a...
Sunday, September 29, 2024
A Software Safari in the Land of Intel
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I think I seriously Crossed the Streams … and I liked it. My favorite Tetris game is from the ~1990 MS Best of Entertainment Pack for Window...
Saturday, August 31, 2024
It's a disk drive, but …
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In the early 1980s when I first started working full time, I was in operations. I occasionally reorganized disk packs, which made me very aw...
Thursday, August 29, 2024
A Pinball Wizard For the New Millennium
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I've mentioned before that I've had a series of machines dedicated to arcade games running MAME. The current setup includes a Raspbe...
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Arcade Emulators, Redux
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Back when I owned an iPad 2 (acquired ~13 years ago), I bought Atari's Greatest Hits and also a Atari Arcade stand with a joystick. Th...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
They Live!
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TL;DR: New Raspberry Pi toys are alive after a month of torture. My two new Raspberry Pi 5 units are alive! They are in Argon ONE v3 cases w...
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