Posts by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
(DIR) Post #AboNDUvgnqeKbS3fkm by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-11-14T22:44:59Z
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Who'd have thunk I'd feel the need to set up a filter for unixtime some day.(Ok, I'll definitiely need one for the overflow day.)
(DIR) Post #AbwPoQYuIg1oNVQ0um by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-11-18T19:30:54Z
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Anyone remember those?You'd strap in your tower PC case when you were about to lug it over to the next LAN party...
(DIR) Post #Ac567t5SDgq7gjHdRI by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-11-19T16:59:45Z
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I wonder if I still have backups somewhere of my email setup for the Atari ST with Hermes UUCP and Okami... (And any mails from that time.)
(DIR) Post #Ac567uky0pdkrliIme by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-11-19T19:37:07Z
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My main backup media were: ZIP disks (but the one ZIP drive I still have is only borderline operable) and DAT tapes (I have a bunch of DAT drives, but when I tried one of them the last time, it had sticky drive rollers).Oh well...
(DIR) Post #Ac567vYb2JL5Lgvw8m by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-11-22T19:26:28Z
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I just now noticed that I have no idea where my external ZIP drive even is... But I do have a G4 PowerMac with an IDE ZIP drive.Now how do I eject a media that isn't recognized by MacOS X 10.4 🙄
(DIR) Post #Ac59Jaa59NEZd8sfNQ by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-11-22T21:39:44Z
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...when you don't have the correct SCSI cable: Didn't find one with 50pin HD connectors on both sides, so I used an external SCSI case with centronics-style connectors as a passthrough between two 50pin HD to centronics cables...
(DIR) Post #Ac9DxZmKjITFAqm1kO by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-11-24T20:59:22Z
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It's been quite some time since I've last seen this...I still had a 98LITE folder in my ancient downloads collection with all the files. For some reason it didn't want to run directly off the CD image I created (didn't find a file by its shortened ~8.3 filename), but the problem was gone after copying all files into an installation directory on the harddisk. I initially booted off a FreeDOS floppy with CDROM driver.(Still waiting for things to fail - never tried the Windows 98 installer from FreeDOS, but we'll see...)
(DIR) Post #Ac9Dxac5crs3lMzMQ4 by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-11-24T21:01:30Z
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Ah, yeah, that was quick...
(DIR) Post #Ac9DxbPMffHoEC2iDw by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-11-24T21:20:33Z
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So now I sourced an MSDOS 6.22 boot floppy image with HIMEM.SYS (and an IDE CD driver).It didn't like the HDD file system created by FreeDOS, so I'm starting from scratch (good thing the floppy image also has xcopy.exe)...
(DIR) Post #Ac9DxcHbQ0fgwPQ1lQ by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-11-24T21:24:13Z
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I suspect my VM has too much memory for DOS 6.22 and things fail...
(DIR) Post #Ac9Dxd36ZOfXJjdxo0 by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-11-24T22:11:23Z
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Oh well, why didn't I search for an Windows 98 install boot disk right away? Now with 512MB RAM and a working installer...
(DIR) Post #Ac9Dxe10yeaiJXfoBc by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-11-24T22:35:48Z
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...here we are, Windows 98SE with a W95 start menu.
(DIR) Post #Ac9DxephwB8mqlOICW by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-11-24T23:48:45Z
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Ah! I was wondering why even the emulated PCnet32 network card was not being found, but the SoftGPU driver docs have a fix: Seems like W98 doesn't detect an PCI bus during installation, and you have to force the Plug and Play BIOS Device to PCI in the device manager, even if Windows thinks it's incompatible.After that, everything suddenly shows up...See https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu#pci-bus-detection-fix
(DIR) Post #AcQwPJOCxMNU7fqMdc by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-12-03T13:17:32Z
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@mjg59 @emmy As did the initial version of OS/2 Warp 4 (the CD was not bootable).
(DIR) Post #AcRLPMAx5xUlcNlGuu by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-12-03T17:41:39Z
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On the topic of monitoring... Useless audit message of the day:[2046] 18:40:17 2023-12-03 level: 6 "Authentication failure notification." Yes?Who?From where?Which protocol?:flan_eyeroll:
(DIR) Post #AcRLPOjlZUX1Yw46SW by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-12-03T17:46:36Z
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Ah, so, maybe it's SNMP?
(DIR) Post #AcRLPVjJZZKVFYuLE8 by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-12-03T17:49:27Z
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Hrm. Seems like the switch has forgotten about the SNMP community my monitoring uses?Yeah, probably mostly shows how often I look at that data...
(DIR) Post #AcfkvfYwf5mYgAAWC8 by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-12-10T16:44:39Z
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@mttaggart Our local university ran an unsecured dialup PAD which you could call into, and then that had a telnet command to connect to any host on the internet.Someone provided me with a shell account somewhere. I probably mostly used ckermit on DOS or OS/2 as a terminal program at that time?(...at least if you don't count Mail and News via UUCP as "Internet access".)
(DIR) Post #Acfmzb8zES4c2d1myG by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-12-10T17:07:20Z
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I didn't know someone made these Dallas RTC replacement boards at some point, and I can't find a listing on eBay currently (the link from forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/ds1742w-nvram-rtc-replacement-for-sgi-fuel-tezro-o350.964/ does not seem to exist anymore).This seems like a better solution than cutting up old Dallas modules in order to disconnect the internal battery and wire up an CR2032 instead.Does anyone know where to get something similar?(Image lifted from the above forum thread.)#retrocomputing
(DIR) Post #Acw8LdYtFB6UxzAaWG by galaxis@mastodon.infra.de
2023-12-18T13:46:10Z
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NetBSD has been broken on the hpcmips platform for any release after NetBSD 7...On my WorkPad z50, recent kernels (past about NetBSD 9) won't find PCMCIA devices. There also seems to be some general problem with binaries built for the vr41xx MIPS CPUs causing segfaults.There's a NetBSD developer interested in finding out what's wrong, but I really don't have the resources (and patience) for the required testing all by myself.So is there anyone out there with one of the supported machines (WorkPad z50 and NEC MobilePro seem to have been reasonably common in the West) and some time to spare to run NetBSD test kernels and report back results?Full hardware list is at https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/hpcmips/supported_machines/The old netbsd-hpcmips mailing list was deemed too low-traffic a couple of years ago, and all discussion about these systems is now on port-mips: https://www.netbsd.org/mailinglists/#port-mipsI last tinkered with this a couple of months ago myself, see this thread for example: https://mastodon.infra.de/@galaxis/110010960760322991#NetBSD #hpcmips #retrocomputing