Thanks to my Internet provider at home (PLDT) just recently implemented a shitty forced NAT infrastructure I could no longer host my own web server as global IP addresses provided by the ISP are no longer public, so nothing from the outside world can connect to my router whatsoever and this explains why my website suddenly became inaccessible to everyone last week... No. I did not pull a nekochan. What a way to start Christmas eve for me.

This was absolutely devastating to me after finding out about it as I was planning to do more with my setup in the future. But thanks to my ISP's changes it has been made impossible for me, or it would cost me a lot just to be able to get a real public IP which is not really worth doing as the whole point of being able to host shit all by myself was being able to do it 100% free of charge with virtually no rules or limits aside from bandwidth and the monthly Internet bill.

Fortunately, Raion/Kazuo Omura of IRIX Network offered to host my website with zero strings attached on his servers and are most likely REAL servers and not some cheap SBC with a external USB hard drive acting as a server. I decided to take the offer as its pretty much the most practical way for me to get my website online again. Took me a day to migrate and configure stuff to get my site running again and Lameguy64 is now back online! Possibly with better download speeds especially if you live in the US.

I'll miss hosting my own stuff with my humble little makeshift server comprised of a Raspberry Pi Model B and a 500GB external USB hard drive. It was quite novel running your own server despite the annoyances of having to update the domain name whenever a power outage occurs or the global IP changes. At least my website and most of the stuff is back online including the SVN repositories and down times would be less frequent now as the IP of the host is permanent and I don't have to worry about power outages. It'll take a day or two for me to get the FTP back up as of the posting of this message.

Last week, I got a new piece of hardware from 1999 to early 2000s, a Toshiba Libretto ff 1100v.



Its a sub-notebook (or netbook) from Toshiba's Libretto line of very small (for its time) laptops, most known for packing a complete multimedia hardware setup (sans a CD-ROM drive) and a fairly beefy CPU for its time (a full fat Pentium MMX) in such a tiny package. This particular Libretto model was only sold in Japan.

I bought this laptop for just 200php (roughly around $4) from some local surplus store and is by far the smallest vintage laptop in my possession. It didn't come with a charger so I had to use some pin header connectors with the plastic removed, so I can stick it into the charger pins of the laptop. Conveniently, the polarities are labelled.

I've also gone through the trouble of attempting to rebuild the battery, as I would like it to be able to run off batteries again. The rebuild process involves replacing the cells in a parallel manner so the smartass controller in the battery pack won't loose power, otherwise the battery would probably brick itself and render it useless.

(that is my character on the wallpaper btw, art commissioned off of murnintheair)

...And it now holds a charge!


Unfortunately, it doesn't last very long on battery despite charging up to 75%. I believe its due to the first two cells on the right not holding much of a charge anymore, as they were salvaged from a failed attempt at fixing a cheap RC helicopter last year and both cells ended up leaking (the first one on the right had it worse). This was mostly a test anyway and I'll be replacing the old ones with brand new cells, as well as tidying up the wiring so I can put the cover back on.

Expect a dumb video of this laptop to be made soon, but I want to do a video of this thing first, to make fun of people spending hundreds on expensive upscaler hardware for their fancy new 4K TV:


Things have been going pretty slow lately due to life and shit getting in the way as per usual...

I just upgraded the little RPi based server that hosts this very website with a 500GB laptop hard drive which replaces the USB thumb drive as I feel spinning rust is less likely to corrupt without warning than flash memory knowing from experience. Not sure what I'm going to do with this significant increase in storage but its nice to have ready I suppose.

Just testing an image upload on my news blog system... That's my stupid head btw (and no, I'm not a useless shadow person).

I've wanted to be able to easily post news and updates of my stuff so I actually spent some time developing my own blog style system from scratch using PHP and good ol' MySQL. Its a very simple system but I think its better than using some existing solution that is likely bloated as heck and my Raspberry Pi based server would likely struggle hosting it and I have full control over it as well.

I could just create a social media account on Twitter or Twatblr but I wanted to take things a step further and create my own very own blog from scratch that I host myself. The advantage of this is I can literally post whatever I want as I'm not restricted to any ToS conditions because I'm literally running the service that hosts this website which means I can pretty much do whatever the hell I want. Unless the service that hosts my domain would notice me posting explicit hentai on my page in which they'll nuke my domain, if they actually check what's being hosted on their domains.

Anyway, all site and project news will be posted through here.