Hey George!
I couldn't have said it better. On that note, here is a playful MSG sent fr the newest x86_64-lilmikii-linux-gnu host toy, known to fidonet as "Little Mikey's Brain". It is small, uses little power, but plays with the BIG boys I like it.
Life is good,
Maurice
... Ne sceal man to ær forht ne to ær fægen.
One should not be too soon fearful nor too soon joyful.
Hey Maurice! I'm struggling with a failing cable modem here.
Not fun.
Hey Maurice! I'm struggling with a failing cable modem here.Seriously? ... or are you just having 'fun' with me?
Not fun.
Much weirdness happening on cable these days although I can't say I've encountered a failing cable modem ... yet.
2400 baud modems or just 300 ? :=)
udp querys make the whole service degraded mode
google ipv6 is brokken, fuu no one realy cares
Hey Carol!
Hey Maurice! I'm struggling with a failing cable modem here.
Not fun.
Seriously? ... or are you just having 'fun' with me?
Much weirdness happening on cable these days although I can't say I've encountered a failing cable modem ... yet.
Life is good,
Maurice
... Fidonet 4K - Sweet Sixteen Penguins of the Apocalypse.
Hello Maurice!
02 Sep 2022 17:24, Maurice Kinal wrote to Carol Shenkenberger:
Hey Maurice! I'm struggling with a failing cable modem here.Seriously? ... or are you just having 'fun' with me?
Not fun.
2400 baud modems or just 300 ? :=)
Much weirdness happening on cable these days although I can't say I've encountered a failing cable modem ... yet.
bigger problems is when eu tld nameservers have one ipv6 that does not respo to udp querys make the whole service degraded mode, but the sky is not faili here yet, google ipv6 is brokken, fuu no one realy cares
Regards Benny
... too late to die young :)
One of the ports went bad.
I got a new one. It was 7 years old. Anyways, no more rental
bill for the old one!
I know that feeling
there are some areas which are just completely "hiroshima'd"
We got lucky over here on the east coast in daytona though.
Hey Charles!
I know that feelingIt is a well travelled road. Word on the street claims a wrong turn at Albuquerque is the likely cause.
there are some areas which are just completely "hiroshima'd"The barrier islands looked like that from the footage I've seen thus far. Whole neighbourhoods gone with only the footings
to stand as evidence that there used to be a house there.
We got lucky over here on the east coast in daytona though.Which explains the no news from that direction. We never get to hear about the one(s) that got away without a scratch.
Life is good,
Yea, have a good friend called bugs who always says he should
have turned left there.
yea, a friend of mine who is in ft myers has a 2 story house...
well... 1.5 now... half the bottom floor is mud.
I don't know if you can share pictures through here, but if you
email me i can send you a couple.
Hey Charles!
Yea, have a good friend called bugs who always says he shouldSome people never learn. I am guessing that is why Elmer says, "Kill da wabbit!" ... which won them an Academy Award if I am
have turned left there.
not mistaken - "What's Opera Doc?". As a bonus Metallica has a version of the song.
yea, a friend of mine who is in ft myers has a 2 story house...I saw quite a few of those. Also tons of standing water everywhere including main floors. Doesn't look good from this angle
well... 1.5 now... half the bottom floor is mud.
despite the fact we're at a level four drought (the highest level) in this neck of the woods. Last year around this time it
was flooding.
I don't know if you can share pictures through here, but if youI don't have your address. Sharing pictures (jpegs and the such) via a fidonet echoarea has been talked about before and I
email me i can send you a couple.
think is doable. Netmail attachments would likely be the easiest way to accomplish this.
Re: man's most serious activity is play
By: Maurice Kinal to Charles Blackburn on Wed Oct 05 2022 15:51:12
Hey Charles!oh i'm sooo going to have to look up that metallica bit now.
Some people never learn. I am guessing that is why Elmer says, "Kill da wabbit!" ... which won them an Academy Award if I am
not mistaken - "What's Opera Doc?". As a bonus Metallica has a version of the song.
I saw quite a few of those. Also tons of standing water everywhere including main floors. Doesn't look good from this angleyea arcadia is still pretty much underwater but i must admit, they're doing very well considering. el jefe in his blue n white jumbo is supposed to be there this afternoon so no doubt will be all over the news tonight.
despite the fact we're at a level four drought (the highest level) in this neck of the woods. Last year around this time it
was flooding.
I don't have your address. Sharing pictures (jpegs and the such) via a fidonet echoarea has been talked about before and Iyea, I suppose I could UUCP one in here (wouldn't be the first time LOL) but that may be frowned upon considering the amount of bandwidth it would take up.
think is doable. Netmail attachments would likely be the easiest way to accomplish this.
anyway....
thefbobbs at gmail dot com
regards
===
Charles Blackburn
The F.B.O BBS 21:1/221 618:250/36
bbs.thefbo.us IPV4/V6
DOVE-Net FSX-Net MicroNET USENET
yea, I suppose I could UUCP one in here (wouldn't be the first
time LOL) but that may be frowned upon considering the amount of
bandwidth it would take up.
I don't have your address. Sharing pictures (jpegs and the such) via afidonet echoarea has been talked about before and I
think is doable. Netmail attachments would likely be the easiest way toaccomplish this.
yea, I suppose I could UUCP one in here (wouldn't be the first time LOL) but
that may be frowned upon considering the amount of bandwidth it would take up.
anyway....
Hey Charles!
yea, I suppose I could UUCP one in here (wouldn't be the first
time LOL) but that may be frowned upon considering the amount of
bandwidth it would take up.
Would you prefer x-modem over a tcpip connection?
yea, I suppose I could UUCP one in here (wouldn't be the first time LOL) but
that may be frowned upon considering the amount of bandwidth it would take up.
anyway....
I'd suggest uploading pics to places like susepaste.org (no annoying ads!) ..and simply sharing the resultant link in
echomail.
im actually quite partial to zmodem8k and used to do a lot with
sealink.
saved my old man and me multiple 4+ hour (one way) drives just to
put a disk in and copy a new binary LOL
sealink version for SCO Openserver and that helped tremendously
I'd suggest uploading pics to places like susepaste.org
(no annoying ads!) ..and simply sharing the resultant
link in echomail.
yea but that's the easy way out lol
Hey Charles!
im actually quite partial to zmodem8k and used to do a lot withFor at least the last two decades - and then some - I have been using binkd for fidonet file transfers including official
sealink.
MSGs liked this one, although this particular point is using ssh to transfer to the mothership -> "Little Mikey's Brain",
1:153/7001.0. It's ip address is in the regular nodelist. It compares favourably to ftp transfers although I haven't tried
lately as I currently don't have ftpd running on "Little Mikey's Brain". That would be the winner if something like graphics
is ever needed in fidonet exchanges.
saved my old man and me multiple 4+ hour (one way) drives just to
put a disk in and copy a new binary LOL
At that time had access to multiple remote 9-track tape drives. They were roughly a half hour walk from where I lived at the
time. Anyhow the mainframe didn't have any compatible programs to copy to what passed for a PC back then. However I could
telnet from home but without actually bieng there to swap tapes and the such made living so close extremely attractive at
the time. Exabytes on Sparc stations changed the game for me and my usage of Linux later on brought it all together.
sealink version for SCO Openserver and that helped tremendouslyI never played with SCO. Solaris is where I cut my unix teeth ... in a time and a land far, far away.
then i go back to good ol' laplink and a parallel cable or if
it's from my main pc, a serial cable.
SCO Xenix running on a compaq deskpro 386
at the time i never got on with solaris
I'd suggest uploading pics to places like susepaste.org
(no annoying ads!) ..and simply sharing the resultant
link in echomail.
yea but that's the easy way out lolAh.. OK. I forgot that it's not supposed to be easy, but leet
and geeky. LOL
Hey Charles!
then i go back to good ol' laplink and a parallel cable or ifplip and slip. Just like mom used to make.
it's from my main pc, a serial cable.
SCO Xenix running on a compaq deskpro 386An alpha would have been more impressive methinks ... mind you compaq bought them out ... just before they got bought out by
hp. So much for that idea.
at the time i never got on with solaris
You and many, many others. My excuse is there wasn't a choice as the sparc's came preloaded with solaris and it was never my
dime. On the plus side I learned c while I was at it. Before that it was f77 on vax/vms. I haven't done fortran since moving
to linux despite the fact the plan was to port some f77 source using g77 installed on a 486. Back then Slackware
3.something.or.other was the clear winner. 32-bit pci cards were just starting to make an appearance then.
found my copy of slackware 2.3 CDROM circa 1995, and it still works :D
Hey Charles!
found my copy of slackware 2.3 CDROM circa 1995, and it still works :DOf course it does, it's slackware.
The earliest version I can find is ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/slackware/slackware-iso/slackware-3.2-iso/slackware-3.2-install.iso but they have pkg's etc
in a directory for 3.0, ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/slackware/slackware-3.0/. No 2.x anywhere that I am aware of
although I am sure someone, somewhere might have 2.x versions available. I have a couple boxed sets from "Walnut Creek" but
they are both 3.x versions. I could find out but I see the computer club has all the 3.x releases available.
If you want me to dd it i'd be happy to do that.
I have a bunch of other stuff too.
Hey Charles!
If you want me to dd it i'd be happy to do that.That would be fantastic. Let me know what I need to do to get it.
I have a bunch of other stuff too.All the releases prior to 3.0 but if not then the only CD version of 2.x will definetly be of interest here.
it'll probably be too big to send via zmodem on my bbs
Hey Charles!
it'll probably be too big to send via zmodem on my bbs# ls -alh Slackware2.3.iso
# -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 636M Oct 9 22:03 Slackware2.3.iso
Looks good from this angle. I haven't tried it yet but I have some old CD's I should use up.
Thank you. I owe you one.no worries
if i remember right it's not a bootable cdrom (but i could be wrong),
but it does have all 15 installation disks there off hand
I haven't tried IPV6 yet. It's barely aavailable here but it looks
like Verizon Fios may make it an option for home users.
Hey Charles!
if i remember right it's not a bootable cdrom (but i could be wrong),
$ file -b /mnt/archives/slackware/slackware64-15.0-install-dvd.iso
ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data (DOS/MBR boot sector) 'SlackDVD' (bootable)
As expected the slackware64-current-install-dvd.iso is bootable whereas;
$ file -b /mnt/archives/slackware/Slackware2.3.iso
ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'SLACK_0695_1'
No love there. :-/
Not exactly expected it to be bootable considering the very first bootable cdrom I ever had was on a p1 laptop which was later than slackware-2.3. I won it in a bet that I could get
power management working and stable on it.
but it does have all 15 installation disks there off handI loop mounted it and it looks like it is all there. Thank you again.
not to mention a DVD which wasnt around really in 95 :D
DD never barfed on anything
Hey Carol!
One of the ports went bad.
That's the story of my life. :-/
I got a new one. It was 7 years old. Anyways, no more rental
bill for the old one!
I hear you. In my case I am still renting but the latest one is only a few years old and thus far hasn't given me any grief other than when there is an outage usually due to wind damage to the infrastructure. Speaking of which, any damage your way due to the latest storm? It looks like Florida will be down for awhile.
Life is good,
Maurice
... Fidonet 4K - Sweet Sixteen Penguins of the Apocalypse.
Hey Charles!
not to mention a DVD which wasnt around really in 95 :D
Thank goodness. I never really liked CDs and all DVDs added was greater capacity with no additional assurances that the
spinney disk of plastic isn't entirely useless over a relatively short lifetime. Mind you the plastic will be long after
this civilization has burned out. Back around 1999-ish I thought flash disks (compact flash) would be the ultimate install
source. There were CFdisk -> ide adapters but not hotswapping other than the usb ones which at the time weren't bootable.
DD never barfed on anythingI've seen it bog down on some bad CD/DVDs to the point of having to kill the process. If you allow it to, dd will try for
days to make a copy. Persistant little bugger.
file -b /usr/bin/dd
ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for
GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped
"ttylinux of the 21st century" thingy
Lost a shed and fence work due tomorrow.
Not too bad otherwise.
we all know the ultimate was "disk-On-Chip" (i have a few lying
around here somewhere :D)
I can beat that :D
# file dd
dd: ELF 32-bit LSB Executable 80386, dynamically linked, stripped, no debug
the real size is 16744 bytes
Hey Charles!
we all know the ultimate was "disk-On-Chip" (i have a few lying
around here somewhere :D)
I have one (M-Systems) with a missing pin that waas the root/boot for one of the few "ttylinux of the 21st century" thingy I
was playing with 20 some odd years ago. Speaking of which, what about the disk-on-module? I had a couple server motherboards
that had that interface but never bothered. If I am not mistaken it was one of Intel's ideas.
I beg to differ;
the real size is 16744 bytes18680 bytes for a 64-bit version. It isn't from coreutils though. ;-)
Disk on chip, disk on module is pretty much the exact same thing
circa 1995 SCO Openserver 5.0.7 build
18680 bytes for a 64-bit version.Yea that's not too bad either
Disk on chip, disk on module is pretty much the exact same thingNot quite. One looks like a bug with roughly 16 legs (pins) which is the disk-on-chip made by m-systems whereas the
disk-on-module looks like a usb flash disk except isn't. Both are eol as far as I am aware.
i have legit keys and isos for OS5.0.7, Xenix which i have on a set of floppies as that's what I used to work with. tru64 should be pretty interesting to play with and yea i run them with qemu.circa 1995 SCO Openserver 5.0.7 buildThat is what I thought ... other than the year except I couldn't really say much for SCO one way or the other. True64 would
be something of interest to me. That should run in a qemu virtual alpha. I plan to look for an iso for it once I get
everything settled down with my latest 'upgrade', mostly glibc-2.36 driven.
18680 bytes for a 64-bit version.
Yea that's not too bad eitherYep and right up to date to. The reason it is so small as it isn't as feature full as the coreutils version.
what I meant was they are both pretty much the same thing in that
they're solid state "flash drives".
the other is a "Cartridge" with a regular IDE connector.
i have legit keys and isos for OS5.0.7, Xenix
as long as it reads right at block level who cares
"ttylinux of the 21st century" thingyActually it was called "flash-ttylinux of the 21st century" thingy.
agre to your self again ? :)
agre to your self again ? :)The few, the proud, the brave ... wellllll maybe not all that proud
but definetly few and brave.
can't email to t-online.de so fucking what ?
dont need a homepage for using smtp protocols
can't email to t-online.de so fucking what ?Why would anyone want to do that?
dont need a homepage for using smtp protocolsWho says that you do? Errrr ... what's a homepage?
german imprints law, if your mailserver is anon you cant mail
german telecom servers
google .well-known security.txt :)
until some germans wakes up
german imprints law, if your mailserver is anon you cant mailI ran into that problem a couple decades ago with someone at a german university. Their servers wouldn't accept email from anonymous.
german telecom servers
google .well-known security.txt :)Maybe later when I get bored.
until some germans wakes upShhhhhhhhhh ... nobody wants that! ;-)
not so many beers drinked while sleeping :)
admins in t-online.de drink and drive servers at the same time
mostly
Hey Carol!
Lost a shed and fence work due tomorrow.
Not too bad otherwise.
We never got any news from your direction so I was figuring it couldn't have been too bad. Like they say, no news is good news.
Life is good,
Maurice
... Fidonet 4K - Sweet Sixteen Penguins of the Apocalypse.
Mostly been on work travel a lot.
In fact, I was gone shortly after this and got back to 2 dead
systems. Grr.
Hey Carol!
Mostly been on work travel a lot.
I used to do that in a former life ... errrr when I had a life is probably m accurate. :::sigh:::
In fact, I was gone shortly after this and got back to 2 dead
systems. Grr.
Because of the storm? So far things have been okay here :::knock on wood::: and I have yet to lose a system to a storm. I am the usual suspect when it comes to killing systems. :-( Mind you this latest build that I am usaing we speak, has been working great as of late. I am still able to produce a half-decent system when I put what's left of this old grey matter to the tas
Beats me how much longer it will hold on but I am certainly not complaining much. Every day is a bonus in this neck of the woods.
Life is good,
Maurice
... Fidonet 4K - Sweet Sixteen Penguins of the Apocalypse.
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