Knowledge base

Last modified: 2025-09-05 15:31

Miscellaneous stuff worth knowing.  Some of it is general interest; some of it is just notes to myself.

• Recipes
  • Pancakes
  • Tacos / burritos
  • Quick 100% rye bread
  • 3 pound bread
  • Skillet cornbread
  • Cornbread loaf
  • Pizza
  • Pasta
  • Vinegar pickles
  • Fermented pickles
  • Noodles
  • Hot oil
  • Bean soup
  • Popcorn plus
• Interior painting and wallpaper removal
• uBlock Origin Chrome migration tutorial
• Old sound cards, DOS & Linux configuration
  • ISA
    • Gravis UltraSound Rev. 2.4 Setup
    • Gravis UltraSound Plug & Play Setup
  • PCI
  • Playing MIDI files to OPL3, GUS, EMU8000, ES137x, or EMU10K1 on baremetal DOS
  • Playing MIDI files to OPL2/3, EMU8000, or EMU10K1 on Linux/ALSA
• General hardware
  • ISA chipsets for ATX motherboards
  • One-liners of PC configuration wisdom
  • PC component incompatibilities
  • Gateway Tabor III front panel pinout
  • Nvidia AGP extremity
• P4 motherboards with ISA slots
  • Legend QDI PlatiniX 2DI-AL
  • DFI G4V620-B-G
• DOS games
  • Classic DOOM Versions, Ports, and Remakes (for the PC)
    • Hardware to run Vanilla DOOM
  • Apparent bug in DOOM's DMXGUS instrument mapping process
  • DOOM Setup
  • Duke Nukem 3D Setup
  • Table of instruments used in Doom music
• DOS compilers
  • QEMU config for running DOS compilers
  • DJGPP
  • GCC IA-16 toolchain (tkchia)
  • Open Watcom C/C++
  • How to install a DJGPP CVS snapshot (outdated)
• DOS and Windows
  • General configuration notes for DOS, W98SE, and ISA-era BIOS
  • An empirical comparison of candidate DOS kernels (98SE, ME, FreeDOS)
  • Archaeological dig of Ellis drivers
  • Windows 98 SE on a P4 PC
  • Windows 98 SE and FreeDOS on Wildcat Point
  • Windows 98 SE VM on x86_64 Linux host
  • Curse of the Large PATA Drive
  • Windows 7 installation notes
  • Windows 10 installation notes
• Partitions, bootloaders, and booting
  • Starting over:  clearing partitions
  • Booting DOS and W98SE from Grub2
  • LILO's infamous "inconsistent partition table" failure
  • From Grub2 to LILO:  Booting Qubes
  • How to boot a floppy when there is no floppy
• Linux
  • Configuration notes and bloatometry of KDE Plasma 5
  • Automatic 2/5.1/7.1 volume levelling with PipeWire (EndeavourOS)
  • Automatic volume levelling with PulseAudio
  • Dvorak Latin-1 extended keyboard for Linux-Emacs
  • Illegal instructions, invalid opcodes, and Slackware
  • X-Regressions dot ARRRGH
  • Gigabyte hugepages
  • NIC problems
  • Extreme I/O slowdown with PAE kernel
  • Ubuntu installation notes
  • Command-line WiFi configuration
  • Help installing Octave (linux-generic)
  • Use of CPU bandwidth provisioning feature (single-core)
  • The 4G/4G split under Slackware
  • Slackware install optimization
  • Accessing track 0 of a CD
  • How to:  Linux RAID autodetect (no initrd)
  • How to create a sandbox using the device mapper
  • Running 2.6.27 kernel, udev, Slackware 12.1 with 8 MiB RAM
  • Promise EIDE4030PLUS meets libata
• Vintage Old PC rebuilds
  • Fax server
  • Baby AT Pentium
  • Pentium II slim tower
  • DFI 486
  • Prescott PC
• Inventory
  • Haswell

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