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  • Running a Commodore VICE emulator on a remote Ubuntu Linux machine with Xfvb

    The Challenge I want to have a Commodore 128 VICE emulator start up, run some arbitrary BASIC code, and get a snapshot of the output. There are a few settings configurable from the command line to accomplish this: +sound (without this option you will get and error “pa_simple_new(): Connection refused” because you’re *probably* not going…

  • DKIM for Cloudflare and Fastmail

    After creating the CNAME fm#._domainkey records in Cloudflare DNS Management, I was still getting “DKIM is not configured”. Initially I thought it was a TTL issue on the DNS records… After playing around with dig fm1._domainkey.DOMAINNAME TYPE CNAME I went back to check the settings on the CNAME records: I went in to edit those…

  • Running Linux on a Mid-2009 MacBook Pro

    [I’ve had decent luck with the iFixIt replacement batteries (Amazon affiliate link) for extending the lifespan of 3 different Macs, Linux or not] Apple and their aggressive EOL/EOS policies I have had an old mid-2009 MacBook Pro (2.26Mhz, Core 2 Duo P7550) that got left behind at macOS 10.11 (El Capitan). I’ve already gone through…