nticompass's comments

On: Ted Turner has died

[nticompass]

Last night on AEW Dynamite [1], Tony Schiavone and Sting had some very nice things to say about Ted Turner. I didn't know he'd died until then. They both talked about how Ted started WCW and how he defended pro wrestling when certain execs wanted to cancel it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bXSILHvWe0

On: Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

[nticompass]

When I saw "Sun Ray", the first thing to come to my mind was clabretro :)

On: Auto Polo

[nticompass]

Can someone add this as a new game mode in Rocket League?

On: Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

[nticompass]

I didn't have a PostScript file, so I had to find one. I downloaded the test files from here: http://users.fred.net/tds/lab/postscript.html

Minus the colors, they worked and look pretty good.

[DonHopkins → nticompass]

It did a nice job on the classic NeWS "PostScript for Poets" t-shirt!

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/pictures/teesh...

On: UnixPC – Why did it fail?

[nticompass]

I love my AT&T Unix PC. I picked it up from someone on craigslist in 2018. It's fun to use and to see what computing was like before I was born.

I don't know too much about the machine's history or its place in the market, but to me it's a neat machine.

On: Your hex editor should color-code bytes

[nticompass]

I used to use wxHexEditor and that had a feature where I could select a section of the file and highlight it in a color. When I was working to decode a certain file format, I used that to color-code different sections of the file and it was super useful. Those color-codes were stored in a separate file so you could load them back in.

On: Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive

[nticompass]

This was one of the first - if not the first - CD I bought for myself, using my own (allowance) money! I was probably too young to listen to it, but blink-182 is my favorite band and I listened to this CD so many times that I pretty much memorized all the stupid banter between tracks.

I also liked sharing certain tracks with my friends when they came over...

On: X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

[nticompass]

Sorry, but Twitter is only for bots now. Real humans need not log on. /s

That being said, I assume that it flagged the amount/frequency of likes or whatever other activity and thought it was suspicious. Probably used Grok to do that and it obviously isn't good at that.

On: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

[nticompass]

There was a PPC version of Windows NT, and yes someone put it on the Wii!

https://github.com/Wack0/entii-for-workcubes

See also: https://gbatemp.net/threads/windows-nt-ported-to-wii.667959/

[zymhan → nticompass]

That was it, I knew someone ported an OS to a Wii recently, thank you

On: I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

[nticompass]

This is awesome! I can't wait to plug in my Wii and give it a try myself.