Posts by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
(DIR) Post #B4jTYOH0rIS3W6pKsK by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@mwl Very very fuck. I am sick to my stomach right now. Don't know what to do with this information.In desperation I started writing an email to the Foundation, but will sleep on it; I don't want to burn too many bridges until I fully understand where this came from, if it is final, what it actually means, etc.But for fucks sake...I started looking at making an #evi port to replace Vim everywhere - and I'm not even a bloody Vim user!
(DIR) Post #B4xBLmsD0VSP5NVM6S by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@emaste @mwl I agree the statement that FreeBSD is "slopware" is misleading - and it dilutes the term to the point of being nearly meaningless. But the "policy" linked is very much relevant, and I suspect the two commits may - in their simplicity - fall on different sides of the "line in the sand" that distinguishes between what is, and what isn't, acceptable. It could also be a matter of labelling in this case (making both commits fall on the same side of that line).Whether code from external projects (llvm, zfs) should be subject to the same standards as core itself is a matter of some debate; the cost could be prohibitive if they are tested the same - but if they are not, then can we be sure the licensing holds?And in the end, who decides if a piece of code is significant enough to be copyrightable, and therefore possible to apply a license to? IANAL, and neither are other contributors likely to be, and that is kind of the point. And even if we all were, I'm sure we'd disagree on all kinds of things anyway :)
(DIR) Post #B4xBLnPB1vpQjcvgUS by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@emaste @mwl That is my point. Finding bugs is something LLMs are good at (but the training data is a problem, but not in scope here). Actually producing code - which cannot be copyrighted and thus licensed - is a different thing.
(DIR) Post #B532Ba7nokRC0ocJDU by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@mwl Will you be covering Banyan Vines instead? Or, if you're a wuss, Novell NetWare?
(DIR) Post #B58OG4VTyB1UBF2Sno by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@mwl I'm sure you're very sad about this turn of events. Your readers are clearly not as smart as you seem to have assumed.Also what is a "pointy-clicky operating system"? I may or may not be insulted on several of my computers' behalfs..behalves...fucking engrish
(DIR) Post #B6EAQaVjeCLVj3YJ84 by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@Markus Hey there! I've had a bit of trouble with FrogFind on IBM WebExplorer/2 because of the Content-Type header you (sometimes?) return. If the charset=utf8 is added, that browser refuses to render the file and rather offers to download it. I've solved this by throwing a proxy in the mix, but that's somewhat impractical. Anything you can do? :)
(DIR) Post #B6EkUM3avQE4PEU9Gi by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@scott @vga256 I've been playing with the idea of a telegard bbs running on os/2 for a while .. any of those out there? My current one is on synchronet/2 but ...
(DIR) Post #B6IEHH8XUHPFTrMCy8 by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@Markus Hey, I just tried with WebEx 1.1h, and it still complains about the same thing :-/Never mind, I was using .com. Which isn't fixed (obviously).However I have another problem - I don't think WebEx is providing a Host: header, so all I get is "Hier ensteht eine neue Internetpräsenz..." with links to 1blu :)
(DIR) Post #B6IEHHPCUKjYJX9VwG by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@Markus Check this out ;)
(DIR) Post #B6KYWfVLYbuAncYw1g by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@stefano That's why I always install one of these babies in my machines!!!! :D
(DIR) Post #B6KYWfvE0Oba5sfbMW by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@TomAoki @stefano I use them to attach drives >504MB to my retroboxen. I know XTIDE is a thing, but there's a charm to these old clunkers. :D
(DIR) Post #B6KYWgKkTV1PN2bz96 by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@wec SCSI wipes the floor with IDE any day of the week. But since I absolutely cannot stand the whine of real HDDs (I know, I'm an impostor) I usually go with CF cards - or the occasional ZuluSCSI or whatever for the more beefy builds. :)
(DIR) Post #B6KYWgdXLe3CJJOzQm by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@wec Got an OS/2 Warp3 machine running Novell NetWare server: One EISA SCSI controller (plain Adaptec right now; the batteries on my Compaq RAID controller needed to be snipped off) with a ZuluSCSI; one VLB IDE controller with a (fast) CF. It's a 4:1 ratio in actual transfer speeds.Since the machine is just a 486DX50 there's no big point in going full UW SCSI on that thing, but I'm pretty sure I could go well beyond straight Fast SCSI.
(DIR) Post #B6KYWgzW1vdDPTgXgm by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@wec That's NetWare for OS/2. Paravirtualization anno early-90s. It is a piece of work, indeed. It runs the file server for my BBS and various other old machines.Fun facts you already know, but that I can wake up at night thinking about: Disk devices are handed to NetWare wholesale, and has to be managed there (partitioning and all) - but the actual I/O is handled by OS/2. This as opposed to network cards, which have drivers loaded directly in NetWare. There's a special "loopback" driver for both that allows OS/2 and NetWare on the same machine to talk to each other without needing a (pair of) physical cable(s).
(DIR) Post #B6L2ELpwwKWJDINgqu by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@wec A picture speaks, etc.
(DIR) Post #B6L2EMCdZyfULezoDQ by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@wec Hah yeah, that would be fun. I keep looking for dual 386 or 486 systems but never found any. Got plenty of pentiums but that's hardly a challenge..I hear 2.11 supports 64 CPUs but IBM was only ever able to test with 32...I know - there are some good screenshot tools. I just picked this one from my library and cut out the surrounding - the full pic is the whole rack. Something like this. Should take some new pics, there's a lot of new Lego installed these days. Including one of NCC-1701-D's shuttle craft.
(DIR) Post #B6L2EMg3oaChoulJ4q by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@wec That is hideously fantastic. I spent some time trying to compile #snac on OS/2 a while back, but in the end I had to give up. I hope to pick it up again one day... Someone knowing what they're doing might get it done in 20 minutes, using EMX or kLibC or whatnot. I got to the linker step..
(DIR) Post #B6MpYflJepeLiLUe9I by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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To all you #OS2 lovers out there: I'm firing up a new fediverse instance solely for the purpose of posting OS/2-related pictures: Screenshots, pics of your OS/2 machines, OS/2 paraphernalia, OS/2 memorabilia, OS/2 just-about-anything.#Retrocomputing #NerdpornI have two questions I'd like answered (no, "why" is not among them); the first here, the other in the replies.First one: Which domain should I use? I've registered two, which to use?
(DIR) Post #B6MpYfxiuhZgKpIYUK by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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Check out the thread for the second poll. And chime in with any ideas you might have!My intention that any #OS2 nut can have an account and post their pictures and brags. If anyone wants to come aboard as co-sysop, I'm hiring! ;-)RT: https://pleroma.anduin.net/objects/40e7a877-c9ad-49d5-8a96-fdf592edffb1
(DIR) Post #B7hahxX2MyuoHuFwRc by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
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@opensourceopenmind This is the case with several high-visibility RCE bugs of late. There's a vague blurb about requiring ASLR to be disabled "or bypassed" - but not knowing what bypassing ASLR entails or the likelihood of that happening, it's really hard to assess whether I should be dropping everything or if I can wait until the grey matter is actually awake. The bugs are bad enough. I hate the sensationalism on top. @ju @cwebber