Application compatibility for Windows 95 crashed a cash register
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June 10, 2025Posts from today
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Updating SMTP relay in postfix
On a server that I help to maintain, it has postfix installed for emailing results of cron jobs and other status updates. This was set up to relay through SendGrid as they had a 100 email per month plan and we send out significantly fewer than that. Unfortunately, SendGrid are retiring their free plan, so I had to move to a new service and picked SMTP2GO and so had to update the postfix configuration. As… continue reading.... Take me to this post.
June 10, 2025Converting a Microsoft XNA 3.1 game to MonoGame
In this post I describe how I took a Microsoft XNA 3.1 game from 15 years ago and converted it to use MonoGame on .NET 8 in just a few hours... Take me to this post.
June 10, 2025CodeSOD: The Pirate's Code
We've talked about ASP .Net WebForms in the past. In this style of development, everything was event driven: click a button, and the browser sends an HTTP request to the server which triggers a series of events, including a "Button Click" event, and renders a new page. When ASP .Net launched, one of the "features" was a lazy repaint in browsers which supported it (aka, Internet Explorer), where you'd click the button, the page would render on the server, download, and then the browser would repa... Take me to this post.
June 10, 2025pfSense Firewall Config: My Settings with Screenshots – Part 2
Let’s pick up right where Part 1 left off: pfSense Firewall Appliance Unboxing. Continue reading...... Take me to this post.
June 10, 2025