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foone , 2 months ago to random

using a floppy disk image creating tool to create a virtual floppy disk image using a file that I had to load off a floppy disk, so I can put it in a VM and turn it into a PCX, then put that on a real pentium-60 windows 95 PC

sometimes I think I'm going backwards

foone OP , 2 months ago

it didn't work so I made it into an ISO

gsuberland , 2 months ago to random

so as for why the PuTTY P-521 bug happened: they wrote the implementation in September 2001, which is a month before Windows XP was released. Win9x had no good random number generator APIs, so they came up with an alternative trick using SHA512 to generate deterministic but non-predictable nonces. but, of course, SHA512 outputs are 512 bits long, not 521 bits, and they just left the other 9 bits at zero, which resulted in this problem. the code was not reviewed since, so it never got fixed.

foone , 2 months ago

@gsuberland ah, one of the downsides of targeting old OSes: you have to build your own versions of APIs, and you might get it wrong. Whoops.

luna , 3 months ago to random

alright I've got a new take on the the GIF/JIF debate:

GIF is pronounced with a hard G — if you pronounce it JIF then I'm going to obtusely assume you're referring to the JPEG Interchange Format

foone , 3 months ago

@luna my terrible take on the gif/jif debate is that JPEG is "Jay-pheg".
The P stands for "photographic"!

foone , 3 months ago to random

I finally lugged my Highscreen SkyTower AT tower up to my office. This machine is beautiful, even when it's yellowed and dusty and grimy and rusty.

foone OP , 3 months ago

@hennichodernich found an advert for (almost) this exact model!

https://radiosocial.de/@hennichodernich/112050921975858783

foone OP , 3 months ago

I paused it to implement some tmux nonsense so I could actually make this bot if I want to, which made it slow down.

So now it's estimating it'll be done August 15...

2028

foone OP , 3 months ago

it has somehow sped up to the point where it thinks it'll finish within the next 2 hours, despite having only copied 2.48% (51mb) of the drive. It's getting an average read rate of 510 bytes a second

foone OP , 3 months ago

I wonder if I could adjust the IDE timeout without having to recompile my kernel

foone OP , 3 months ago

I made a program to scrape the status from ddrescue, just in time for it to error out and drop the drive from the bus:

Copied 52400 kB of 2048 mB (2.48%) at an average rate of 501 B/s. ETA: 1h 27m

foone OP , 3 months ago

I was able to do the trick I did before where I repeatedly reset the SCSI host device until it is recognized.

the problem is that it keeps falling right back off the bus when I try to run ddrescue

foone OP , 3 months ago

sdb: detected capacity change from 2111864832 to 0

awww, my bytes are gone

foone OP , 3 months ago

oops. I accidentally hotplugged the hard drive

foone OP , 3 months ago

I dunno why this drive isn't working

foone OP , 3 months ago

ok I'm officially giving up on this drive.

I was able, in the end, to capture about 54mb of the drive. 2.48%

foone OP , 3 months ago

I was able to get info and find out that this machine hosted this website at some point in 2005:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040325064945/http://www.windowsacademy.net/

foone OP , 3 months ago

I realized I need a serial mouse to reinstall NT4 onto this machine. but that shouldn't be a problem, right? I've got a whole drawer of old mice, I just need to grab the first serial mouse out of there.

This was the first one I found.