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(DIR) Post #AjpGKEoktoWSoeNfqy by ltning
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@chewie Yeah .. ArcaOS is nice. Not quite the same though. Warp 3 was the pinnacle.
(DIR) Post #AjpGX4Oix2fYGQK7n6 by ltning
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@chewie not saying this has been easy. Fighting it I realise where my youth went.
(DIR) Post #Ajrmm8MG5xWDjuJiqm by ltning
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The box is busy installing #NetWare updates. This is a 386-class machine (486DLC at the moment), so it's struggling quite a bit. Still, gets the job done. And when it's "only" doing file serving, the OS/2 UI is perfectly responsive and usable. Next step is to replace the #SoundBlaster 16 CT1770 SCSI controller and ISA Promise DC200 cache controller (see pic) with a combo VLB IDE+SCSI controller, and the 3Com 3c509 10baseT NIC currently assigned to #Novell with a 100baseTX 3c515. #retro #os2 #wheredidmyyouthgo
(DIR) Post #Ak8FscSL5z8wVPxvNo by ltning
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Fuck I'm tired of reading and arguing* with people who blame the #crowdstrike outage on diversity hires and hiring practices. It's so disgusting and speaks volumes about what kind of trash much of the IT industry is made up of.If I never hear about the virtues of the so-called meritocracy again - from people who wouldn't stand a chance if faced with a level playing field - it'll be too soon*brought that one upon myself, but holy hell I can't shut up when it's shoved in my face..
(DIR) Post #Ak9SBr9W4WiwCD3oZ6 by ltning
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@carnage4life I've been called so many things - including racist - for arguing that DEI is a good thing and *not* the reason any of this happened. If anything, I'd argue that companies doing DEI right and for the right reasons are more likely to make good choices in other areas too. All the yelling about DEI being "a disaster" seems to be coming from people who are secretly afraid they wouldn't make it if faced with a level playing field. And most of them would probably be right.
(DIR) Post #AkA3UNu0kBQRHhVRc8 by ltning
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@marcus No worries. The #floppy #museum is still up. It was the brand-spanking-modern load balancer/firewall in front of it that was not quite healthy. Booted that one now. Old>New. :D(Sorry for the tagging)
(DIR) Post #AkBWLm4Mc7pRSYYTa4 by ltning
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@makdaam I did not know this. Now I do, and it paints last week's incident in a very different light. Software bugs and bad engineering turning an x-ray machine into a death-ray machine? That's almost up there with ghosts on your ICBM radar.
(DIR) Post #AkFnVN9YaAT2vqzDEm by ltning
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@jenniferplusplus First order of business is to find appropriate imagery for http://http.cat .
(DIR) Post #AkJ8vjzIzGWbnFUAiG by ltning
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So.. After a few - no, a lot - of snags and bugs and corner cases and compromises: #Novell #NetWare 4.2 (which is really 4.11 with some make-up) for OS/2 running on a 486DX50 EISA-based machine. Networking is by a pair of 100Mbit network cards (one for each kernel personality), while main file storage is on a #ZuluSCSI connected to an Adaptec 2742-controller.For the occasion I also built a new "rack", with dedicated console for the machine. Next up - #IPX-ify all my #DOS machines :D#retro #retrocomputing #supervisorhero
(DIR) Post #AkMK5lw0HmrLhGo64W by ltning
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@VulcanTourist What kind of nudge are we talking about? How about the promise of immense satisfaction once you get that first client connected? ;)All I can say is "go for it" - and maybe we can kickstart a new world order - where everyone speaks IPX/SPX? :D Ping me if you run into trouble or need advice..but hurry while my memory is still fresh...Also, what kind of VLB interface cards? Network? I'm only aware of the BOCALan, with an AMD 10Mbps chip on it - which is a massive waste of a VLB slot, not to mention the card/drivers are absolute garbage..
(DIR) Post #AkUgTSEuungrov1y6K by ltning
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#iOS 18 #beta being beta.. #uxfail
(DIR) Post #AksKSMmAD0u5O4hCm8 by ltning
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@decryption Remote driving? Not sure what I trust less - that or self-driving ..
(DIR) Post #AkvX1vagXeKGQIvjLU by ltning
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@rubenerd [x] OS/2 Work Place Shell
(DIR) Post #AkwGqfg5xbdlmE1zCC by ltning
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@rubenerd Well, those you listed were all worthy ones, in their own right. You could only list four, so I will not hold it against you. I will also not laugh hysterically at anyone who would prefer any of them - even over the WPS. (But I will, quietly, pity them.)
(DIR) Post #Al8abtXHowEPxKg8Gm by ltning
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Another #Floppy #Museum and #BBS update!TL;DR: The BBS is now served from the Novell server, and I've crammed a Novell client onto the http://floppy.museum/ floppy disk so it also runs a BBS node!Long story:For a while now, my BBS has been down because of corruption of message files, in turn caused by incompatibilities between OS/2's SMB implementation and that of #Samba. And since the latter has dropped support for old clients entirely, I had to do something to not only revive, but ensure the long-term survival of my BBS.In my previous post on the subject, I bragged about my #OS/2 and #Novell #NetWare server. It's now serving most of my retro gear, including the machines that run my BBS nodes. I'm hoping this solves the problems I've had running multiple #Synchronet nodes.And just for kicks, I managed to free up even more space on the floppy disk that the Floppy Museum boots and runs from, and squeezed in a Novell client. After a bit of fiddling to free up some RAM, I got a BBS node running, too! So now it has an HTTP server, an FTP server, an IRC server *and* a BBS node! All on an old 286. Beat that, The Cloud!So fire up your Telnet clients and connect to floppy.museum, port 23!(For anyone interested, the math challenge you get when connecting is a piece of nginx+lua code, you can find it here: https://github.com/ltning/telnet-challenge-proxy)#retrocomputing #retro #286 #butwhy
(DIR) Post #AlCQbU6Y9RvIAnB6h6 by ltning
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@tara Can I ask .. what's the way to go for container orchestration on #FreeBSD nowadays? Nomad isn't really something we want to touch anymore, after H*shi's recent douche moves..?
(DIR) Post #AlCUcQ6WuSWHs9s1RI by ltning
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@tara Yea I've been looking at some of that. What I guess I'm missing is what Nomad did - the actual orchestration of a "swarm" of jails. Cattle, not pets. Deploying, spinning up, draining, spinning down, etc. of several instances of a service or whatnot. With network plumbing and the works. We have all the parts, I'm looking for something that has the parts assembled..
(DIR) Post #AlCffLksdRkwkSLMS8 by ltning
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@tara Sadly, my $dayjob is asking for this and it's most certainly something that is necessary. On the positive side, if there are serious efforts to build something nomad-like, we might be willing to throw a bit of "encouragement" at such a project. It would potentially save us a low five-figure amount every month if we could do this on our own, existing hardware instead of the current solution, which is a cloud service starting with an A..
(DIR) Post #AlIYWHoiNGanCIcyxM by ltning
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@justine Sounds about right. Or you create the new pool and dataset, set the properties you want (compression, encryption, whatnot), and then cp/rsync data over. You'll lose historical snapshots but you get your data (re-)compressed and possibly encrypted. There's a pam module which unlocks your zfs dataset (if you have one for your user) upon login which I find super nifty.
(DIR) Post #AlIdlrzIfrEBUepSyW by ltning
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@justine pam_zfs_key.so is the PAM module. Needs to be in /etc/pam.d/login, both 'auth optional' and 'session optional'. Add 'homes=<pool>/<dataset>' to tell it where your homedirs live. Note that you can't SSH to your box unless you've logged in locally at least once, perhaps unless you tell sshd to use PAM and passphrases. Your user password and dataset password should be the same. I see no foot cannons here :D