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Merry Christmas (2024)!
$happy $holidays, friends! We have a special card just for you:
http://www.tolaris.com/xmas/xmas2024.php
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Merry Christmas (2023)!
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http://www.tolaris.com/xmas/xmas2023.php
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Merry Christmas (2022)!
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http://www.tolaris.com/xmas/xmas2022.php
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Merry Christmas!
Our card is back for 2021! $happy $holidays, everyone! We have a special card just for you:
http://www.tolaris.com/xmas/xmas2021.php
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Merry Christmas!
After a few years away, our card is back just in time for 2019! $happy $holidays, everyone! We have a special card just for you:
http://www.tolaris.com/xmas/xmas2019.php
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Site back online
Services on tolaris.com are back online after being down since late November 2018. Part of the problem was hardware failure, which I solved by moving to Google Compute Engine. But I also needed to apply long-overdue updates to the OS (Ubuntu 12.04 precise to 18.04 bionic), deprecate some older applications (Gallery, Piwigo), and catch up on our Christmas card!
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Meet Mango, my new travel router
I am about to leave on a business trip, which means I once again have to deal with hotel WiFi. I don’t like WiFi in hotels for two reasons – they almost never provision enough network capacity, and they usually have some kind of irritating captive portal system.
Captive portals often have frustrating limitations, like only allowing a small number of devices on the same login, or regularly requiring those devices to login again to the portal. On top of that, hotel WiFi often uses AP isolation (preventing clients from talking to each other directly) or other issues that make Google Chromecast not work. And finally, configuring all my devices to use the different WiFi settings in each location is tedious.
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Retropie MegaDrive
After creating my own Retropie, I built another one as a surprise gift for my friend Mark. Behold, the MegaPie!
The parts list is the same as in my last post, but using a Sega Mega Drive skin.
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RetroPie: all your classic video games in one tiny box
About a year ago, I built my own RetroPie, a Raspberry Pi retro gaming machine that runs just about every video game published more than 10 years ago. Perhaps you’d like to build your own?
Here is how I built mine. I use it to run games from the Arcade (MAME), Commodore 64, Famicom and Famicom Disk System, Game Gear, Game Boy (+ Color, Advance), Neo Geo, NES, PC Engine (+ CD), Sega Genesis/MegaDrive (+ CD, 32X), Sega Master System, SNES, and Vectrex. But it supports many more.
