Stephan Sokolow @ssokolow@qoto.org

Did I really forget to show the "XP pretending to be 98SE" side of my server's icon set? I can't find one in my timeline... oh well.

I've been on other things this week, but here's the complete overview.

As you can see, 10.4 isn't beyond proof-of-concept for the same "small sizes for older OS, bigger sizes in a different style for newer OS" trick I used for XP vs. Win7 and I'm currently just reusing my Win7 icons for Linux.
#retro #retrocomputing #windows #icons

I've started to polish up the classic Mac OS versions of my retro fileshare icons. #retro #retrocomputing #windows #icons

...if anyone wants it, the tool is a shareware thing Icon Archiver in "Large Family" view mode.

...though the actual editing work mainly involves ex-shareware-now-freeware named Iconographer and Graphic Converter 5.x pending me discovering how to edit icons in Netatalk-flavoured AppleDouble resource forks directly on Linux so I can use GIMP for layers and select-by-color.

...and the .ico files for my retro fileshare now have higher-resolution versions for Windows 7... with the sizes carefully chosen so that XP will pick the dithered 98SE-originated 48px and below while Windows 7 will switch to the smooth ones at any size above that.

I wound up having to slice, dice, and redraw Windows 7's Libraries icon to get the kind of folder art I wanted to use for a base.

#retro #retrocomputing #windows #icons

...and now some retro fileshare icons for the OSX 10.13 side of my Intel macs... or really any mac that prefers SMB.

Most were just done by making a silhouette in Inkscape & feeding it to folderify-v2, but Mac_PPC and Win7 were hand-done, OSX_PPC required hand-tracing to get that gloss, and DOS required some trickery because folderify-v2 strips padding. Win9x is probably going to need to be redone by hand for the same reason. #retro #retrocomputing #macos #osx #icons

I've continued to work on the icons for my retrocomputing fileshare. Here's the current state of the icons for the Samba side of things.

#retro #retrocomputing #windows #icons

The urge hit me and I decided to create some nicer icons for what my /srv/retro looks like when viewed from my Power Mac G4 through Netatalk.

I'm a perfectionist, so I'm sure I'll go back to fine-tune things like that win16 icon later. I have an SVG source for the logo, so I can tweak the size to fix it hanging a little too low.

(`serials.zip` is password protected keys for stuff I paid for. `UNSORTED` is temporary.)
#retro #retrocomputing #macos #icons

...but yeah. As an end-user, all I can say is "you KNOW when something is written in Kirigami because it's got that nagging ugliness to it that you lack the UI design skill to diagnose, but you can sense".

Does anyone have any tips for reducing Debian's initramfs boot time beyond `MODULES=dep` and `COMPRESS=lz4`? I don't care enough to take on having to manually run a new kernel build every time an update comes down, but I'm having trouble finding an equivalent to Archwiki's "mkinitcpio/Minimal initramfs" page which explains what further customization hooks there are.

(I'm setting this thing up as an sccache node, so there's no GUI and it's running unattended-upgrades, but that doesn't mean I can't try to get the boot times as low as maintainably possible. I've got another one I might have to resort to running Archlinux on to get boot times appropriate for my "fake the Weecee I can't afford to build by using a fullscreen 86box" idea.)

#linux #debian #initramfs #boot #optimization

For fun, I decided to theme up my retro LAN's file server to match the OS each folder is for.

I decided to do the Mac 68k stuff first, and I got a little carried away with seeing what I could do without relying on CSS, so what you see is an interesting mix of "tables for presentation" plus role=none and aria-hidden=true to absolve my sins. Now to retro-test it.

(Please excuse Firefox's flaky pixel positioning when rendering the fan-made Chicago and Monaco TTFs.)

#retro #html #mac #macos #web

Since the PCManFM developer I'm talking to seems unwilling to consider this, I might as well post it here so at least *someone* can get some insight out of it.

Here's an interesting thing to ponder.

Why the heck is a prop "office computer" from the end of a 2020-season episode of Mayday/Air Crash Investigation/Air Emergency/Air Disasters running a version of Windows 9x with modded MacOS 8 titlebars and scrollbars?

I've been using COVID as an opportunity to deep-clean the couple of used Unicomp buckling-spring keyboards I snagged at a good price as spares (since they don't make standard US104 layout anymore) and I noticed that one of them not only had the separate keycaps and keystems, but that it had a whole bunch of different colors of keystems, so I decided to have some fun putting them back in.

(Yeah, the keys that are always one-piece designs are yellowed. I'll order some replacements eventually.)

A little bit of a counterproductive phrasing to use for a single link to a site that's otherwise known to be trustworthy, don't you think, YouTube?