LATEST NEWS (29-Sep-25)
Wow, it's all happening. Something went wrong with the routing on my webserver, and it was no longer reachable from the Internet. I ran around like a hysterical chicken, blaming lots of companies, but ignoring modifications that I'd made with the webserver configuration. That is, I think that I did - I have no idea what changed and whether it was my fault. To quote Zaphod Beeblebrox, "Oh well, forget it, then..."
The text that was here before...
The networking problems continue. Yesterday I didn't step on the router, but the Zyxel mains networking adaptors switched off, disconnecting the main Ethernet link. I have had these adaptors installed for over a month and they have been fine, but yesterday there may have been a mains spike, causing them to switch off. I have installed surge protectors. Anyone accessing brooknet.no-ip.org on early Friday evening may have noticed a weirdly-modified version of the Apache 2 default page, which I used to check that I could serve a page from a Virtualbox host. Here is a 'tarball' of the files, so you can see the horror for yourself. I was going to put a video of a session here and may do later, but I was delayed by my phone's storage running out and had to back everything up. It's now a bit of a mess.
Other things: I have been looking at old Amiga Format coverdisks and was impressed by the Tower of Babel demo on Coverdisk 11. There's also a demo version of AMOS and it was good to see that again. I need a manual. I had a pirated copy of AMOS in the early 90s (I expect that many people did) but of course, it didn't have any documentation, so I had no idea how to use it. These days I could probably find the original manual on archive.org. There's a manual for AMOS Professional and I found a site with hints on programming with old computer languages: Retro Game Coders.
More news: I've had so much trouble with running a webserver from my home system, I'm going to copy everything to Fastmail and run it on there. Everything is set up - I just need to copy the files over and point brooknet.no-ip.org at it. I'm not going to do that now, although the imap.cc site exists in case this one goes down again.
List Of Miscellaneous Stuff
- Raspberry Pi 'Pi-NoIR' infra-red camera (login as 'guest', 'guest')
- A static camera image, for old web browsers (page periodically refreshes)
- A time-lapse video of the camera footage.
- timeanddate.com clock, on a page of its own
- offline -> TinyMCE Javascript-based editor
- Site policy/disclaimer
Other stuff
- Site FAQ
- My projects page
- My contact details
- Index of indexes (new!)
- Site news/history (old!)
- My YouTube videos
- A local page with YouTube links
- Site map
- Network services available
- Freeserve website mirror (old!)
- The website that was here before this one
- My old website (local)
- My old website (Internet Archive)
- The archive of my current website
- ... and the archive of the old site, brooknet.no-ip.com.
- A plain (non-CSS, and old!) version of this page
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