https://hracka.org/~logout/ WWW version of my gopher log. Original version can be found at gopher://i-logout.cz/1/phlog/ en https://hracka.org/~logout/?2026-06-18_fifteen_years This gopherhole is fifteen years old today, just wow! I briefly used the Gopher in the mid-1990s, when I first connected to the Internet. Sadly, that was the period of the protocol's rapid decline and the equally rapid rise of the World Wide Web. 2026-06-18_fifteen_years Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:34:56 +0000 https://hracka.org/~logout/?2026-06-12_ftp_a_way_of_distributing_files_too_ancient_even_for_gopher In all my years using Gopher, it never crossed my mind that there is no official way to link from Gopher to FTP. I can understand why there are no means to link to the World Wide Web in RFC 1436, since it dates back to March 1993, and the first RFCs... 2026-06-12_ftp_a_way_of_distributing_files_too_ancient_even_for_gopher Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:34:56 +0000 https://hracka.org/~logout/?2026-06-03_rss_for_web_version_of_this_phlog One of the posts on the web version of my phlog[1] was recently featured in Vermaden's Valuable News[2], which resulted in roughly thirty times the usual amount of traffic. That got me thinking that the web version could use an RSS feed, in case anyone wanted to follow future posts as well. 2026-06-03_rss_for_web_version_of_this_phlog Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:34:56 +0000 https://hracka.org/~logout/?2026-05-28_entering_short_waves Seven years after passing the exams and receiving my amateur radio licence, I finally took the plunge into the world of shortwave bands. Back in the old days getting into HF either meant either being skilled enough to build your own gear, or having a spare heap of money, 'cause shortwave equipment was anything but cheap. 2026-05-28_entering_short_waves Thu, 28 May 2026 12:34:56 +0000 https://hracka.org/~logout/?2026-05-20_changes_in_my_desktop_computing_in_2026 In 2026, two major things happened in my desktop computing so far: 1. I built my first desktop PC since 2001, that could be considered at least somewhat modern and not just a toy for occasional tinkering. 2026-05-20_changes_in_my_desktop_computing_in_2026 Wed, 20 May 2026 12:34:56 +0000 https://hracka.org/~logout/?2026-05-18_my_little_anniversary_gopher_challenge In exactly one month, it will be fifteen years since I launched my gopher server, at the time the only one on the .cz domain. Over the years, I've sometimes had more, sometimes less time to dedicate to gopher, but the server has been here the entire time, running steadily and serving some content. I'm not writing this to boast, but... 2026-05-18_my_little_anniversary_gopher_challenge Mon, 18 May 2026 12:34:56 +0000 https://hracka.org/~logout/?2025-12-15_a_full_time_job_for_an_i586_in_2025 For years, I've been running an old PC Engines ALIX.2 router as a machine dedicated to backups. Every day at 5 AM, it would quietly connect to my server via SSH, back up /var/www/html, /var/lib/mysql, and /var/gopher, and then go quiet for the rest of the day. When I decommissioned my physical server and moved to virtualization... 2025-12-15_a_full_time_job_for_an_i586_in_2025 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:34:56 +0000 https://hracka.org/~logout/?2025-09-17_a_brief_downtime_and_what_caused_it As you may have noticed, my Gopher server was offline for a couple of days. This was caused by me, moving all the content from an Intel Atom-based dedicated server in the OVH datacenter in France to an AMD EPYC-based VPS here in Czechia. 2025-09-17_a_brief_downtime_and_what_caused_it Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:34:56 +0000 https://hracka.org/~logout/?2025-02-17_a_somewhat_brutal_bongusta_cleanup It's the second half of February, the new year is not so new anymore, and that means it's time for the usual Bongusta list cleanup. This time, it was a bit brutal. At the start, the list contained 78 phlogs. Even though I removed only phlogs with broken links and... 2025-02-17_a_somewhat_brutal_bongusta_cleanup Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:34:56 +0000 https://hracka.org/~logout/?2024-08-07_ancient_audio_formats When microcomputers in the 1980s got enough computing power and could start making sounds beyond beep-blop-beep and variously modulated sawtooth signals, several formats for storing sampled audio bitstreams emerged. Some time ago, I came across a few of them, and this text is kind of a summary of what I learned. Maybe someone else will also find... 2024-08-07_ancient_audio_formats Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:34:56 +0000 https://hracka.org/~logout/?2024-06-18_thirteen_years Today it's thirteen years since I installed Gophernicus on my VPS and started this gopherhole. The top-level menu went through several redesign attempts through the years, but it still remains more-or-less the same as in 2011 and has been visited more than 116000 times since. 2024-06-18_thirteen_years Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:34:56 +0000