johnklos

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by johnklos 4y ago
Treating multi-user separation as unimportant or unworthy of consideration is a Windows-centric view. It's common, just as Windows is common,
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by johnklos 4y ago
Not all security works in your oversimplified Windows-centric ways. Since we're not building a VM per user on multi-user systems, we do care about security of the programs we install.
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by johnklos 4y ago
Neat, but books are not in MY terminal because burgr isn't publicly available.
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by johnklos 4y ago
Aside from wifi chips, you haven't mentioned anything that Intel does that the person to whom you're responding hasn't mentioned. Support chips go with CPUs, and integrated video is also part of their CPUs. What "enterpr
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by johnklos 4y ago
Part of the problem with the whole Itanic ecosystem is that Intel never spend much energy trying to improve gcc, instead improving and pushing their own compilers.
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by johnklos 4y ago
It's all over the history. For instance: "As part of the roadmap to phase out Alpha-, MIPS- and PA-RISC-based systems in favor of Itanium-based systems at HP, the most recent AlphaServer systems reached their end of general availa
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by johnklos 4y ago
This reminds me of a quote from fortune(6): The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him. -- Jim Samuels Intel spent billions of dollars trying to make Itanic a th
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by johnklos 4y ago
"Here's how I did this thing." "You don't need to do that thing." How do you know?
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by johnklos 4y ago
Not sure if you're being serious or if this is one of those silly, "why not Rust" responses that are becoming a trope... Read the article, and you'll see the most glaring reason: Rust doesn't have an interpreter. Al
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by johnklos 4y ago
Yep. It's compromised. This is the link from Google : https://governor.ar.gov/news/video-super-bowl-nfl-a16.html It automatically redirects to: https://black-devil-1516.blogspot.com/2023/02&#x
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by johnklos 4y ago
The default for BIND is to only allow recursion on local networks, not just for anyone. I'd be very surprised if other popular DNS software simply openly recurses for anyone.
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by johnklos 4y ago
You don't need that much memory to make use of memory management. In many cases, using memory management can help to save memory, but that's another discussion. Obviously you don't need to use MODE32 if you don't use mor
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by johnklos 4y ago
Since people know about it, and turn it on only when they want to use it, it's not a problem. Had the move to the m68020 and m68030 included mandatory memory management, then old tasks could've all been run in the first 16 megs an
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by johnklos 4y ago
I love when someone figures out the detailed reasoning behind why some things are the way they are. Sometimes I go down those rabbit holes myself and never figure it out, but when I do, it feels so good! Just as reading articles like this.
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by johnklos 4y ago
"Right now our provider is getting DdoS'ed, so my employer is not reachable by mail, web etc." "our" here might suggest that your provider is also your employer's provider, and that your employer is not reachab
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by johnklos 4y ago
1.a) How did NetBSD lean too far in to "of course it runs NetBSD"? It seems that you think that NetBSD developers have a finite set of time and energy, and using some of it in one place removes it from another. This is, of course,
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by johnklos 4y ago
Wow! Thank you :D I've been looking, but every time I've searched for anything like "DVR", I get boxes to record surveillance camera feeds. This is expensive, but may very well be worth the money. Thanks!
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by johnklos 4y ago
Neat! It'd be nice if there were consumer-ready hardware for something like this. I know a few people with VCRs (yes, in 2023) that still record to tape from their digital receiver and play back over composite. I'm amazed that you
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by johnklos 4y ago
It has the maximum of 6 gigs and a nice SATA SSD. It really does most things well, and I continued to use it for so long in large part because I didn't have anything better, and in part because it has a good amount of screen real estat
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by johnklos 4y ago
He is! Yes, his browsers have made quite a large number of older systems usable again. His work is amazing :)
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by johnklos 4y ago
It's enlightening to see what can be made to work on modest hardware and what can't (or, rather, shouldn't). For instance, if my slightly older laptop can't load a web site without taking many seconds of billions of inst
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by johnklos 4y ago
NetBSD 10.0_BETA. I'd expect a 50 MHz '030 to be faster than a 33 MHz one ;) But running newer ssh and sshd means more expensive default ciphers. I can speed it up a bit by being more deliberate about the choice of cipher, but I w
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by johnklos 4y ago
This made me smile :D You know, I'm still running servers with many of the same accounts that were there twenty years ago. Your home may still be on one (with the password disabled, obviously). Write me directly and let's see! My
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by johnklos 4y ago
Back when Fry's Electronics was still around, they had a sale on old AMD MSi AM1 motherboards and Athlon 5350 quad core 2 GHz CPUs (APUs) for $45 or so for a set. I bought quite a few, and now I regret not buying more. At 100% CPU load
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by johnklos 4y ago
Running sshd on a 33 MHz m68030 (OpenSSH_9.1), and connecting to it from a modern(ish) machine (OpenSSH_8.1p1) takes about six minutes to complete when the system is otherwise idle. Right now it's busy with lots of http requests due to
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by johnklos 4y ago
What an interesting time in Intel's history! The Pentium 4 was an attempt to win via marketing (look! 3.06 GHz!) and features (look! SSE2!) rather than by pure performance. Not only was Intel competing with AMD, but they were competing
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by johnklos 4y ago
Now if only they took security seriously... A few years ago I reported a problem to them that they told me wasn't a problem. For many years their IPMI hardware would automatically switch to the primary motherboard ethernet interface if
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by johnklos 4y ago
The Pinebook Pro is well supported by NetBSD (not sure about OpenBSD), and it can take eMMC, at least. It's quite affordable, battery life is excellent, and my Pinebook feels pretty rugged. It has a six core RK3399 and 4 gigs of memory
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by johnklos 4y ago
There are lots of people in the comments here who appear to not get it. This isn't about replacing a contemporary computer with something old. It's about the usability of a decent OS on very modest hardware. One of the systems on
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by johnklos 4y ago
Reminds me of creating a wireless access point using an old 80486 laptop and a ORiNOCO Bronze wireless card, a pigtail and an antenna. It was for one of the first free public wireless networks in Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan, New York,

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