A nerd nostalgia thread of possible #RetroComputing interest:
From 1993-1994, I was a “technical assistant” in the RF Engineering department of #Comcast#Cellular. Back then, Comcast was a scrappy regional cable #TV operator making its first foray into #mobile telephony, not the multinational #telecommunications and media behemoth we know today. (1/6)
Before moving to greener (and higher-paying 🤑) pastures, one of my two big "technical assistant" projects for #Comcast#Cellular was upgrading the engineers' Sun #Unix workstations from the #BSD-based #SunOS 4 to #SVR4-based SunOS 5 (#Solaris 2), and from #NIS / #YellowPages to NIS+.
In hindsight, it was a bad idea to make both changes at once, but I was a kid entranced by novelty and not yet very considerate of my users during the inevitable downtimes. (3/6)
Also noticed that #DNSCrypt provides a large amount of binary distributions for #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #DragonFlyBSD, #Solaris, among several other OSs, plus many architecture-specific binaries. That is really nice! Next thing will be deploying it on the beastie server.
I may just admit to myself that I'm unlikely to really use some of the old #Sun#SPARC#Solaris kit like this Ultra-10 again. A lot of them have had the onboard (not trivial replaceable) battery due so they've lost the memory of what their MAC addresses were ...
Nice, since the #Solaris <rpc/auth.h> declares user2netname() as taking a 'char [MAXNETNAMELEN + 1]' argument, gcc 13 complains if you pass a 'char [MAXNETNAMELEN]' to it:
When Casper was designing the rough equivalent in #Solaris, the least privilege system, he tried to prevent this. For instance, PRIV_FILE_DAC_WRITE won’t let you write to a file owned by UID 0 unless your euid is 0 or you already have all privileges (equivalent to root access). https://mastodon.social/@vegard/112365131001894332
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Interessantissima disamina delle traduzioni italiane – e non – di Solaris.
Anche io comprai la nuova edizione di Sellerio proprio perché credevo che la traduzione della Bolzoni (il cui vero nome era Ewa Zaniewska Bolzani) non fosse basata sull'originale polacco.
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Come nota personale mi viene in mente quell'utente di Reddit che preferiva leggere sempre le traduzioni in lingua inglese, perché, secondo lui, erano intrinsecamente migliori di quelle italiane.