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Simulating a UUCP Network with 4.3BSD SimH Images
(github.com)
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Attacking the Nintendo 3DS Boot ROMs
(arxiv.org)
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9y ago
It might not even be that. I presume that kind of code used to be written with pen and paper, a compilation cycle almost prohibitively expensive. When you sit down and just design a piece of code for hours as to not waste your compilation c
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9y ago
UNIX has been doing that for the past 40 years until AT&T ripped troff out of standard UNIX installations. Look into groff and possibly heirloom doctools. It's fairly difficult to learn and the default macro packages on most instal
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9y ago
Truly, this is the modern-day equivalent of setting up UUCP.
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Signify: Securing OpenBSD from Us to You (2015)
(openbsd.org)
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Why does APT not use HTTPS?
(whydoesaptnotusehttps.com)
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Jamais vu – a 1.0.0 TrustZone code execution exploit on the Nintendo Switch
(reddit.com)
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The Tiny Unix Tools: the shortest implementations of common Unix tools
(aiju.de)
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Teaching an old IRC dog some new tricks
(virtuallyfun.com)
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9y ago
This is UNIX V7, aka Seventh Edition UNIX, from 1979. The source code can be found on: 1. any distribution tape, V7 ships with its own code, 2. online, e.g. on http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr&#x
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9y ago
I did know about \r moving the cursor back to redraw an entire line, but I never looked into ^H or other cursor manipulation characters for some reason. Progress bars just kind of never came up in the things I do (which is mostly daemons an
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Teaching an Almost 40-year Old Unix about Backspace
(virtuallyfun.com)
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Fixing on a standard language for Unix manuals (2009) [pdf]
(usenix.org)
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9y ago
> solving the CAPTCHA just gives you another, and no matter how many you solve it keeps refusing to search They even have a patent on that: https://www.google.com/patents/US9407661
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9y ago
You can broaden the scope to console hacking in general. Even if drama's your thing, you probably won't last more than a few years.
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On the Security of Unix (1979) [pdf]
(a.papnet.eu)
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Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System (1977)
(lemis.com)
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Fork() can fail (2014)
(rachelbythebay.com)
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9y ago
Because "-include" is a non-standard[1,2] extension. "include" is standard POSIX behavior[1] but (1) does not seem to support wildcards and (2) errors if the file does not exist, which it never will on initial build. Fro
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9y ago
If you're interested in build systems, you may find djb's redo concept interesting, as implemented in https://github.com/apenwarr/redo/ for example.
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> Clang, gcc and many other C compilers support it. Add that and a "-include *.d" line in the Makefile and you'll have great dependency support. Doesn't that sacrifice portability, though? Is this method portable betw
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When hardware must „just work“ (2015) [video]
(youtube.com)
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9y ago
See https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/12/15/thinking-about-doing-som... The miner thing is on the right sidebar, won't mine until you actually authorize it to run.
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I started picking apart the kernel and had a bunch of failed reboots because of it in my V7 installation. I'm fairly certain the LCM wouldn't be thrilled by that idea. That said, this is the first I've heard of the LCM and I&
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In case anyone wants to undertake the journey of learning ed(1): https://www.nyx.net/~ewilli/edtut.pdf is a fairly good resource to get started.
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Re: [Groff] man pages (tangential to Future Redux) (2014)
(lists.gnu.org)
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That was OpenBSD, not FreeBSD.
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About the security content of iOS 11.2.2
(support.apple.com)
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Unix Text Processing (1987)
(oreilly.com)
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