Tag Archives: howto

Hacking the Pioneer DVL-909 for Multi-Region

Posted on January 17, 2023 by Reverend

This is one of those posts that documents something I’ll forget as soon as it’s done. I’ve already written about fixing the power supply and skipping discs on my Pioneer DVL-909 combination Laserdisc/DVD player, both fixes allow me to enjoy … Continue reading →

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The Other Multiregion in My Life: Pioneer DVL-909

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Reverend

When I think about it I’m very much a multiregion kinda guy. I hail from humble NTSC Long Island roots (region 1) but find myself in the Italian Alps living a very PAL (region 2) existence. I mean even this … Continue reading →

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Reclaim.Rocks Mastodon

Posted on November 25, 2022 by Reverend

It was only a matter of time at the pace I’ve been going with setting up Mastodon instances that Reclaim Hosting would get its own snazzy server, and that day was Wednesday. I streamed the setup so that I would … Continue reading →

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Copying Files between Environments in Reclaim Cloud

Posted on September 1, 2022 by Reverend

I’ll be submitting this guide to Reclaim Hosting’s support documentation to illustrate how to move files between environments using the Reclaim Cloud GUI. I discovered this trick while migrating a Ghost instance in Reclaim Cloud from one environment to another … Continue reading →

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Installing Manifold on Reclaim Cloud

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Reverend

Have I mentioned it’s container month at Reclaim Edtech recently? Well, it is and that means I’m playing with installing apps, or even re-visiting apps we’ve already gotten running, which is the case here. Tim Owens already documented the process … Continue reading →

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Discourse in the Reclaim Cloud

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Reverend

What’s old is new again. In 2015 I wrote about Reclaim Hosting experimenting with the next-generation forum software Discourse using a multi-user Docker setup. We use Discourse for Reclaim’s Community forums and I’ve grown to love the software.* What’s more, … Continue reading →

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Building a Line Wobbler Clone with Twang

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Reverend

In my previous post I wrote about being transfixed by the Line Wobbler at the Video Games exhibit that runs through February at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.  In this follow-up I’m going to try and document how Tim, … Continue reading →

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Displaying Distributed Comments on the Hardboiled Blog

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Reverend

One of the nuts of aggregating mother blogs that was tough to crack for a long while was showing the number of comments on posts that were syndicated in. Almost two years ago  Martha Burtis cracked that nut for ds106. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Best tutorial for adding Custom Menus to WP Themes

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Reverend

I’ve been slowly trying to update as many themes as possible in UMW Blogs for the custom menus feature, and a Google search can be hit or miss in terms of howtos. In my experience thus far this tutorial is … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive howto for digitizing LPs

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Reverend

photo credit: amy_b I thought this was pretty cool, the Internet Archive blog has a recent post on the process they follow to digitize vinyl. And they share this information all in the name of preserving and distributing ephemeral culture. … Continue reading →

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