I decided to do the long overdue upgrade from Debian oldstable to stable on the home machine turing. Unlike earlier debian sarge -> etch upgrades even the XFree86 to Xorg upgrade went completely flawless. So I tried some more upgrading and went from a Linux 2.4.35.4 to a Linux 2.6.25.4 kernel. With some rounds of kernel recompiling I got everything working again, including complete acpi support which I never got working with 2.4 kernels. Somewhere around 2.4.32 acpi support just gave lots of kernel events (while this motherboard was still running the home server gosper. Later 2.4 versions just told me the bios was too old for proper acpi support. It's an Asus P3B-F motherboard and google searches indicated that the overload of events is just a known bug. Upgrading the bios did not help and made another problem appear: a shutdown turned into a reboot so I downgraded it again to the version with working shutdown.This was the first mainboard I bought (in 1999) with working acpi which I once used to scare Henk van de Kamer by just pressing the power button of the pc. Back then you carefully shut down the machine and acpid was brand new. So I'm happy acpi and everything is working again and this is a good reason to put more time into 2.6 kernels and try to get that working on all machines at home.
With 2.6 I ran into a few things I already saw on building it for the wardrivingbox such as the speaker driver being separated (it gets very quiet without it). New to me was that /etc/modules.conf generated by update-modules from modutils is not actually used with 2.6 kernels. The 2.6 version uses files in /etc/modprobe.d/. Copying settings for modules to that directory suddenly made drivers like bttv work again. I also had to give specific settings for the soundblaster card which was autodetected in 2.4. It is an ISA card, so back to good old io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1.
The remaining issue is that the network card does not stay on for wake on lan.
2007-12-18 (#)
Het bestaat nog en je kunt het nog aanschaffen: Telix modem communicatie software voor DOS en Windows.
2007-12-15 (#)
Op zoek naar heel wat anders (natuurlijk) kwam ik wat schermen tegen van het BBS die ik ooit gemaakt heb op (gezien de datum in een van de schermen) 12 Januari 1995 (nu bijna 13 jaar geleden). Grappig om die schermen weer eens terug te zien, ik weet dat ik toen veel tijd stak in de ontwerpen van de schermen. Schermen BBS Koos z'n Doos.
2007-06-25 (#)
A websearch on the name of my old bbs yielded a page in England where listings of BBSes outside the US are gathered, to augment those at http://bbslist.textfiles.com/. Jason Scott is good at gathering BBS history, but decided to focus on the US. So, Koos z'n Doos is listed in BBSlist, Netherlands, other and I updated the wikia page for Koos z'n Doos.
2007-06-07 (#)
Microsoft Working On 'Vista: Kitchen Edition' gives me a Back to the eighties feeling when the home computer was going to help organize the recipes in the kitchen. All sing along with Hey, hey, 16k (flash, audio) remembering those days.
2007-01-03 (#)
Found this gem:"Media hysteria about e-mail stalking and the threat to children on the Internet"in The Best and Worst of 1994 and Predictions for '95. Some things haven't changed in 12 years, it's just called "MySpace" now. Source: Nothing To Say: The Internet Year In Review - 1994.
2006-03-22 (#)
Toch maar eens de Geschiedenis van BBS Koos z'n Doos proberen vast te leggen voor ik het helemaal vergeet. Herinneringen uit de oude doos zoals het aanschaffen van een 14k4 modem (woah! de snelheid!).
2006-03-09 (#)
From the CBC archives: A 1993 news program about A network called 'Internet'. Found via telecom-digest.
2005-11-21 (#)
This weekend I got around to watching the first bits of the BBS documentary (see, it only took 4 months to find time for it). Lots of wonderful stuff to remember from the past, such as getting to the point of buying a faster modem (from 2400 to 14k4! the enormous speed!). As the dvdset itself recommends not watching all of it at once, I'm taking my time and using the memory function of the dvd player. And in the normal wardriving results news: Friday and Saturday: 1872 networks seen, 319 new to WiGLE with gps. Current ranking: 10266 discovered networks with GPS (66th), 3093 networks this month with GPS (18th, there are a lot of very active people at wigle)
2005-06-28 (#)
You may be a child of the eighties if . . . . .. contains too many things that sound familiair. A Dutch version might even be scarier.