mesrik

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by mesrik 11mo ago
>Unfortunately for HP, its workstations (the ones OP acquired) weren't nearly as popular with universities and developers as Sun Microsystems', so you tended to find HP-UX in commercial production—larger servers, more workload,
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by mesrik 11mo ago
Sure it is, if you have installation disks. Those are bog std ISO9660 with rock ridge -overlay extension. Which is just hidden file on CD top directory, which maps those silly uppercase ISO naming conventions with file version, and Linux sh
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by mesrik 11mo ago
The Berkeley Automounter Suite of Utilities also known as am-utils did similar arch/platform local and remote mount tweaks commonly quite easily. https://www.am-utils.org/ The am-utils "amd" known as its runn
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by mesrik 11mo ago
HP-UX general support seems it is EOLd by end of this year. Extended, apparently very pricey, support will last till 2028. It would be nice if anyone having still contacts they could ask if HPE would be willing to relax at least parts of HP
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by mesrik 11mo ago
That is true, sw licenses were a major nuisance. As they usually are. Not just where to get one, but in time, to keep track of those and secure so that proof of purchase was not lost before deployment and include final delivery. HP product
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by mesrik 11mo ago
IMHO, HP-UX had hands down best written man pages I've ever seen any UNIX commercial or free. And I've been working quite many with. All man pages were well written, nicely formatted easy to read and almost all came with often val
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by mesrik 11mo ago
>As someone who deals in breach data this is a simple regex to strip out. Sure it is, but at least you do get later, post leak, a slight chance find out where leak originated. Data stealers seldom strip out that +extension part before th
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by mesrik 11mo ago
It was the "Great to see _some_ 3letter guy into this" underlined some that. It felt bit like s/some/random/g perhaps would apply when reading it. Intentional or not by writer. It made me long and write my comment.
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by mesrik 11mo ago
Hah, what a coincidence this post is. Just last week I had to open first time alarm clock with green 7-segment display. Because I accidentally dropped it while vacuuming and antenna cord broke as it was so firmly under picture frame holding
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by mesrik 11mo ago
>Great to see some 3letter guy into this AFAIK, djb isn't for many "some 3letter guy" for over about thirty years but perhaps it's just age related issue with those less been around. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by mesrik 1y ago
Anyone else find it odd that C99 strftime() %F and %T equivalents did not make it later revisions ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 ? https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/chrono/strftime Man page strftime shows, %F Equiva
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by mesrik 1y ago
AFAIK calling DNS root the "." is quite recent phenomenon. I'm fairly old guy who did work with DNS about 35 years before retirement and what I recall from the beginning when I was reading my first copy of DNS and BIND somewh
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by mesrik 2y ago
Hi Ken, Nice article. While reading I remembered that I watched some time ago the Oral History of Gary Davidian and he was quite bit involved with microcoding. And if I were you I would try asking him if he could be able to give you some id
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by mesrik 2y ago
By far most nuisance for me has been that Linux distros that ship with wheel GID different than it's BSD side 0 (zero). Debian hasn't been shipping with wheel group by default, but Red Hat and many its descendants it's GID 1