I've got a ton of video, all of it garbage, about making a dumb shelf and backplate for my "retro things Isolation Network" that I'm trying to get down to like 20 minutes.
I think the thing to do is watch it all through, then make notes and then go back and execute the notes rather than try to do it one at a time as individual tweaks.
To manage this I'm gonna try and use my internal Wiki with a link on the homepage to like my Blog Notes category so I can go update stuff as I watch, then check them off as I complete them.
We'll see. I just want to put up the dumb "Switch in a Monitor!" video so I can do the really cool stuff of "How I am securing this since no one else talks about this stuff.
But since I've been working on this in the last two days:
My NeXTStation started hanging at the ROM Monitor check screen. I know this has happened before and I know I changed the iSCSI image but I think the real answer was something stupider than that.
This would be a way cooler demo if I had a second machine, like say a NeXTStation which was just working awesome like 3 days ago. I think I gotta just fire up the 95 PC what am I even thinking here duh.
I just replaced my webserver hardware up to the hard drive. I suspect this thing's problems aren't hardware but you never know and it's easier than moving everything.
I dropped one of the very nice thumbscrews from the monitor while I was wrangling cables. It's in the room somewhere. But if you've ever worked in a datacenter you know that a lot of the stuff you drop is just gone into the rack somewhere and you'll never see it again.
Bonus points for nice and beefy but non-ferrous objects. So if I could hit 'em with a magnet they'd probably be super easy to find.
NeXTStation status updated to Dead. All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again
My stupid thumb is still bleeding after cutting it on Friday. I've lived with much worse without going to a doctor don't you worry. It could probably use like a stitch or something. I should figure out how to do that.
I've updated all my tools and unit tests for the video no one ever makes about how they actually do the work of dealing with their Retro networks.
Argh. I've got so much stuff to build and I just want to get at it already instead of wasting time editing nonsense that didn't even really work out!
