sinza

sinza, 2 months ago to retrocomputing

My old Microsoft Product keygen written in #VB6 works!

I just tested it with FrontPage 98, and the generated key (not the pictured key, it uses an 11-digit key) worked. 🥳

( https://gurney.dev/posts/mod7/ by @daniel has more about the algorithm at play: my program would not have been possible without their documentation of the Mod7 Algorithm used by 90s Microsoft.)

#retrocomputing #retroprogramming #VisualBasic6 #VisualBasic

sinza, 8 months ago to random

I am very impressed with #w3m

I like that I can see images in tmux in console.

I'll try to stick to that for web browsing.

sinza, 2 months ago to usenet

What platforms were used in the 80s up to about 1993 or 1994 for Internet servers? It can be #FTP, #Gopher, #telnet, #USENET, the #OldWeb, or anything else that was on the Internet in that era.

My research indicates Solaris was very popular for web servers until Linux took over, and so I suspect it (and SunOS before it) was very popular for the Internet in general, but I'd like to hear from anyone with this sort of experience.

#retrocomputing

sinza, 2 months ago to random

#OpenBSD tip:

You can remove all packages with

pkg_delete $(pkg_list -mz) && pkg_delete -a

Edit: @solene has informed me of a cleaner way to do what I was trying to accomplish:

pkg_delete -X

Please do this instead. 😅