Recent content by 3lectr1c

I think the old pictures were lost in the XenForo migration. I asked wthww about this last year and he said they did all they could to merge as many of the earlier images back in but some just weren't possible to merge without manually going through each one. The period where images go from...

I think the worst of it was late 2020-early 2021 when I believe the forum was being fully self-hosted by wthww? Don't quote me on that. They had a lot of trouble with power outages, some ISP issues, and a few database problems. There were around 9 downtime incidents between July 2020 and...

I think it takes some real acrobatics to twist the host not doing their job around to still blame the admins. 68k staff certainly isn't perfect, I'll be the first to say that (see page 2 of this thread), but blaming them for this problem is quite unfair. They HAVE switched hosts multiple times...

And as expected, after all this hullabaloo, it's back, just as the staff said it would be a few days ago. You can read their message here: https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/2026-03-24-to-27-hosting-network-outage.51941/ Sounds like the host really dropped the ball.

You get about one of these a year. People always panic, it always comes back up, and then it happens again the next year. I'm not a network guy, but from what I've read on their explanations after the fact, it's always some frustrating and random issue that's out of their control to handle, and...

How hard is it to find reliable web hosting? I swear there’s been something like this with every provider they have used. I’ve never had a problem like this while running my own website. Some luck.

ThinkClassic :)

It will be back. It always does.

There's like two annoying people there and the rest are some of the best and most knowledgeable people I've met. I wish they'd just deal with the couple pretentious sarcastic people so we'd all have less trouble. I've reported the one worst offender's posts probably half a dozen times over the...

I can't believe it, but it's true! It looks like browsing the modern web on PowerPC isn't dead quite yet. https://powerfox.jazzzny.me/2026/01/28/powerfox-for-powerpc.html PowerFox is an FF-based browser released earlier this month with a target platform of Snow Leopard. Just a couple days ago...

Woohoo! Nothing better than two of my favorite forums getting a classic interface in the same week :)

Ditto! I think the site right now is in the best place it's been in years, it's been great to see.

It's no problem. The main reason I took those photos is to get high-quality shots of each machine online for people to reference and use. I've been meaning to add a note to the collection pages to tell people they're public domain.

Active Matrix became "TFT" in marketing and specsheets over the course of the 90s into the early 2000s, as it became less important to differentiate between Active and Passive displays. "Active Matrix" and "Passive Matrix" sound better in marketing, are less technical, and are easier to remember...

I know for sure that the LCM is directly compatible. I'm not sure about the backlight. @techknight may be able to confirm. With regard to LCDs - Active Matrix just means that each pixel's state is actively controlled, in contrast to passive matrix which is expected to remain in the last set...