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.
Oh wow I'm loving these themed tags - for #ScreenshotSaturday this is my Sun Blade 150 workstation running Solaris 10u8 showing off the #sgug homepage! It's a very reliable if boring machine due to its use of commodity parts and architectural decisions like using an IDE bus over a SCSI bus