Mike Winiberg
@mfwiniberg.bsky.social
almost retired IT Professional - started on punch cards, used most technologies over time, still fiddling on Windows and Linux out of interest!
Likes art, music, reading, writing, walking and all things scientific.
Plays organ, used to play recorder!
Likes art, music, reading, writing, walking and all things scientific.
Plays organ, used to play recorder!
I had one of those - still got a couple of CD-I discs for it!
October 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I had one of those - still got a couple of CD-I discs for it!
We went to Battle today - lots of oaks, no acorns!
September 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We went to Battle today - lots of oaks, no acorns!
Got tons of them here - literally!
September 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Got tons of them here - literally!
Quite so. Very good article. Sums up my 'feelings' about AI in essence: it's another tool, the trick is for you to use the tool, not the tool to use you for 'its' or another's ends.
As I said in our debate elsewhere - there are some good uses for "AI" (not that such exists of course).
As I said in our debate elsewhere - there are some good uses for "AI" (not that such exists of course).
September 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Quite so. Very good article. Sums up my 'feelings' about AI in essence: it's another tool, the trick is for you to use the tool, not the tool to use you for 'its' or another's ends.
As I said in our debate elsewhere - there are some good uses for "AI" (not that such exists of course).
As I said in our debate elsewhere - there are some good uses for "AI" (not that such exists of course).
Never encountered one of those, but i have a (still working) 200LX.
A friend still uses a PSION II every day.
A friend still uses a PSION II every day.
August 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Never encountered one of those, but i have a (still working) 200LX.
A friend still uses a PSION II every day.
A friend still uses a PSION II every day.
Maybe there's a market here for off-the-shelf systems like this for the non-technical but I am (almost) retired now so won't be pursuing that! /end
July 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Maybe there's a market here for off-the-shelf systems like this for the non-technical but I am (almost) retired now so won't be pursuing that! /end
Certainly not for the faint of heart or non-technical, but remarkably liberating for all that - my 'cloud' cost have dropped from over £300 per year to £24. My internet costs are effectively 0 as my mobile contract includes unlimited data - when at home I piggy-back on my friend's starlink! /3
July 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Certainly not for the faint of heart or non-technical, but remarkably liberating for all that - my 'cloud' cost have dropped from over £300 per year to £24. My internet costs are effectively 0 as my mobile contract includes unlimited data - when at home I piggy-back on my friend's starlink! /3
I now also host my own email and contacts etc (dropped Google workspace) and files (a la Dropbox but using NextCloud) and media server. To make this completely independent of the internet carrier service requires me to rent a cloud hosted mini-pc to act as an endpoint, but that is a proxy only. /2
July 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I now also host my own email and contacts etc (dropped Google workspace) and files (a la Dropbox but using NextCloud) and media server. To make this completely independent of the internet carrier service requires me to rent a cloud hosted mini-pc to act as an endpoint, but that is a proxy only. /2
I've always self-hosted a number of things, but decided to move everything to my own servers recently when I was finally able to get access to a reasonable speed internet feed (only 12 years after such was first promised by Openreach who can still not provide this here, 50 miles from London). /1
July 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I've always self-hosted a number of things, but decided to move everything to my own servers recently when I was finally able to get access to a reasonable speed internet feed (only 12 years after such was first promised by Openreach who can still not provide this here, 50 miles from London). /1
There are a host of wonderful founts out there - and also a huge collection of absolutely dire ones.
I can't help feeling that if Comic Sans had been designed by, say, Frutiger, rather than MS that the tirade against it would be somewhat less! 8)
I can't help feeling that if Comic Sans had been designed by, say, Frutiger, rather than MS that the tirade against it would be somewhat less! 8)
July 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
There are a host of wonderful founts out there - and also a huge collection of absolutely dire ones.
I can't help feeling that if Comic Sans had been designed by, say, Frutiger, rather than MS that the tirade against it would be somewhat less! 8)
I can't help feeling that if Comic Sans had been designed by, say, Frutiger, rather than MS that the tirade against it would be somewhat less! 8)
Got two of those, plus accessories, sitting in my cupboard. Excellent little machines.
February 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Got two of those, plus accessories, sitting in my cupboard. Excellent little machines.
Given the licensing changes for Action Pack users that have just been introduced, and hence the possibility that long-standing installs of various things may stop working without warning, WINE may indeed become of much more significance!
January 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Given the licensing changes for Action Pack users that have just been introduced, and hence the possibility that long-standing installs of various things may stop working without warning, WINE may indeed become of much more significance!
Indeed. I was planning to close my GW account having almost (after 4 years of trying) retired!
I run my own Nextcloud / domain mail server (postfix/Dovecot), accessed through CGNAT via a Wireguard reverse proxy, hosted on a £2 a mth VPS with a public IP. Provides everything GW does!
I run my own Nextcloud / domain mail server (postfix/Dovecot), accessed through CGNAT via a Wireguard reverse proxy, hosted on a £2 a mth VPS with a public IP. Provides everything GW does!
January 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Indeed. I was planning to close my GW account having almost (after 4 years of trying) retired!
I run my own Nextcloud / domain mail server (postfix/Dovecot), accessed through CGNAT via a Wireguard reverse proxy, hosted on a £2 a mth VPS with a public IP. Provides everything GW does!
I run my own Nextcloud / domain mail server (postfix/Dovecot), accessed through CGNAT via a Wireguard reverse proxy, hosted on a £2 a mth VPS with a public IP. Provides everything GW does!
No one here but us critters!
Hopefully more will come along soon.
Re servers: I host my on-site email, web and nextcloud behind a mobile/starlink connection (ie no public IP). Requires only a basic hosted VPS plus FOSS. Cost less than $3 per month + link. Happy to chat if helpful.
Hopefully more will come along soon.
Re servers: I host my on-site email, web and nextcloud behind a mobile/starlink connection (ie no public IP). Requires only a basic hosted VPS plus FOSS. Cost less than $3 per month + link. Happy to chat if helpful.
January 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
No one here but us critters!
Hopefully more will come along soon.
Re servers: I host my on-site email, web and nextcloud behind a mobile/starlink connection (ie no public IP). Requires only a basic hosted VPS plus FOSS. Cost less than $3 per month + link. Happy to chat if helpful.
Hopefully more will come along soon.
Re servers: I host my on-site email, web and nextcloud behind a mobile/starlink connection (ie no public IP). Requires only a basic hosted VPS plus FOSS. Cost less than $3 per month + link. Happy to chat if helpful.
Hmm, makes me wonder how long you would have to wait for anything to make it through the filter...
8)
8)
January 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hmm, makes me wonder how long you would have to wait for anything to make it through the filter...
8)
8)
Indeed. I wrote an air/sea pax booking system using only terminals, based loosely on BA's Galileo. Very efficient, even for non-typists. When I left that co. they switched to a GUI system. The staff complained; how inefficient and slow it was working with the mouse etc - that's progress I suppose!
January 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Indeed. I wrote an air/sea pax booking system using only terminals, based loosely on BA's Galileo. Very efficient, even for non-typists. When I left that co. they switched to a GUI system. The staff complained; how inefficient and slow it was working with the mouse etc - that's progress I suppose!
Welcome - as a frequent user of GWR services, your account on X is one of the few that keep me using that otherwise increasingly unpleasant site. Might finally be able to move away entirely.
November 22, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Welcome - as a frequent user of GWR services, your account on X is one of the few that keep me using that otherwise increasingly unpleasant site. Might finally be able to move away entirely.
Now that is impressive - given how hard it is to detect neutrinos!
November 15, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Now that is impressive - given how hard it is to detect neutrinos!
It was well ahead of its time. I am using some software on Windows 11 that was originally developed for the Amiga!
Directory Opus
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November 15, 2024 at 6:54 AM
It was well ahead of its time. I am using some software on Windows 11 that was originally developed for the Amiga!
Directory Opus
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