PreInternet01

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by PreInternet01 4y ago
Yes, my own mail server for 100-or-so domains with a few hundred users in total, which has been running in its current incarnation since around 2005 (and with 3 or 4 different setups before that, going back all the way to a UUCP node in the
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by PreInternet01 4y ago
> I've yet to come across a service that can't be disabled with the 'sc' command line utility Well, meet WinHttpAutoProxySvc... > sc config WinHttpAutoProxySvc start=disabled [SC] OpenService FAILED 5: A
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Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation(nullpt.rs)
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by PreInternet01 4y ago
Ah, yes, my old nemesis, WinHttpAutoProxySvc... For years, on both Windows 10 and 11, this has had the habit of randomly spiking the CPU core the service is running on to 100%, in some kind of busy-loop that's effectively preventing an
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by PreInternet01 4y ago
You might also enjoy "Misused English words and expressions in EU publications": https://www.eca.europa.eu/Other%20publications/EN_TERMINOLOG...
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by PreInternet01 4y ago
No, it's definitely not Informix, Progress, Magic, or anything else commercially available that I'm aware of, although it does have all the "sure, let's disaggregate a single record across 26 files" hallmarks of a &
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by PreInternet01 4y ago
Fair question, although the basic answer should be obvious: the users still need access to the data! So, the question becomes more like "why not upgrade", or more specifically "why not migrate the data to something that is no
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by PreInternet01 4y ago
That is an excellent question, one I should investigate using a VM clone one of these days. The accounting data is frozen in time, so it should not be affected, but if the system starts refusing logons or just crashing, that would not be
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by PreInternet01 4y ago
Yup. SCO OpenServer 5.0.something, for some partner's accounting department. Neither the OS nor the application software have been updated since the late 1990s, but if it works, it works, I guess... (to be honest: the application softw
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by PreInternet01 4y ago
Not sure what you mean by 'limited coverage in popular media', but here's what I saw about this subject in the last 48 hours: The Guardian (UK): https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/
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by PreInternet01 4y ago
Yup, good times. Of course, nowadays, the "intercept anything, do with it whatever you like" mindset is, at best, a security nightmare, and in any case an adware vector. "Hey, you just had an read error on your Seagate device
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by PreInternet01 4y ago
Well, it used to be "Abort, Retry, Ignore", an error message which was displayed by (MS|PC)-DOS upon I/O errors. Abort: kill the requesting process. Retry: jump back to the entry point. Ignore: return as if the request was OK