the old DEC VTs are useful though. a 2U terminal server, one VT320, and 32 CAT 5 cables with RJ-45->DB 9 adapaters and I can run 31 headless servers off a single 12" monitor and a single keyboard.
1981ish hardware controlling 2002ish systems. Those things have no clue what a mouse is. If the shell needed a mouse or color or any of those other things, I'd have to go and get real monitors, keyboards and mice or each machine. Think of the increase in space, heat, cabling, and complexity!
A good multimeter (digital or analog, your call, each has its advantages), and a good logic probe.
The multimeter is good for simple diagnostics (checking the power supply, checking a circuit for shorts, and troubleshooting analog inputs). The logic probe can make or break a project. This is assuming its mulitple chips and not a single FPGA>
All my license keys have a termination date of 08-JUN-2005, plus termination date is one of the prompts when running LICENSE REGISTER. I do admit I'm not using a commercial VMS license though. From one of my license paks:
The thought of having your operating system "expire" on you if you don't pay a renewal fee (the ultimate DRM concept) is rather frightening, to say the least. I think that would actually be something disturbing enough to your average person to get them to consider alternative operating systems.
DEC/Compaq/HP have been doing that for years. If you let your VMS OS and application licenses lapse, the system locks you out. You can only login on the system console, the network stack won't load (due to expired license), and any licensed apps won't run. Its been done before, is being done, and will continue to be done for quite some time.
Although one should not rely on security by obsecurity, it helps a bit. I run CVS on netbsd/pmax, WWW on Apache/VMS/Alpha, SMB on Openbsd/Sparc, Firewall on OpenBSD/sparc64. Except for the sparc64, none of these are "popular" platforms - assuming one of the OSS packages has an exploit, the odds of having an exploit that works on OpenVMS is a lot slimmer than a functional exploit for Linux/x86. This is not a production network, but an experimental/historical network of machines I run for fun in my spare time. I try to run the most recent version original OS, with as much GNU tools as needed for functionality/security.
No problem. I didn't get a chance to file a bug report since someone dug up a qfe card and I didn't have time to screw around with the system to get the data to do so.
The sbus bme (bigmac) cards don't seem to work at all on ultrasparc. Tried to move a firewall on a sparc5 to a U1 and the nics wouldn't work in the U1. The other caveat is some sbus nics need a userspace tool run in securelevel 0 to change their MAC addresses.
Old news. It was in the campus paper at RPI 2 weeks ago that the RIAA was in the process of subpeona'ing students identities for filesharing. At that time, according to the paper, the school had been notified of 20 impending requests, and from what I've heard, that number has increased dramatically since then.
People were complaining one of the servers I run didn't have enough disk capcacity, so I promised them I'd upgrade it to larger hardware. Since the box is in the office with the users (not my choice), I borrowed an old VAXStation from a friend (it was a huge one on wheels, see here for an example. The real box was moved elsewhere for the day. The older folk found it extremely amusing, the younger folk were bewildered compltely by it.
Nope. I just did a fresh XP SP2 install and a 95 reinstall (not by choice). 95 I had to enable file sharing by hand before I could connect, the XP box i was able to connect to \\127.0.0.1\c$ out of the box. The NT series was designed for the corporate LANS where it made sense for the admins to be able to remotely access, networking was more of an after thought to 9x, hence the difference.
On Win9x, you have to explicitly enable Windows File Sharing. On NT based machines (NT4, 2K, etc, etc), the root of each drive is shared full access to the Administrators group by default. The share names are $. So, unless I was dumb enough to go into Win98, go to the Network control panel, click file and print sharing, check the little box saying I want to let others access my files, click ok, reboot to let the new network settings take effect, then go and explicitly share a folder as c$ and explicitly give full access with no password, I deserve what I get.
In the beginning, there were movies, and they were full frame and life was good. Then came TV. It took the same ratio as full frame and life was not good for the studios since there was one less difference between TV and the movies. Along came widescreen with its promise of "More picture than TV" and life has not been good for us ever since with pre-rerecorded media.
Back in the Dark Ages (98-00), when I did the online content for my High School, I just used a simple frameset. Pick an issue, the headlines with in a column down the left, the article was on the right. I wasn't allowed any active content on either server or client, so that was the best compromise at the time. It worked well enough.
Images of checks is a new thing. My parents bank has been returning cashed checks to them for years. The only difference is its electronic now instead of paper.
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the old DEC VTs are useful though. a 2U terminal server, one VT320, and 32 CAT 5 cables with RJ-45->DB 9 adapaters and I can run 31 headless servers off a single 12" monitor and a single keyboard.
1981ish hardware controlling 2002ish systems. Those things have no clue what a mouse is. If the shell needed a mouse or color or any of those other things, I'd have to go and get real monitors, keyboards and mice or each machine. Think of the increase in space, heat, cabling, and complexity!
I believe its been tried before. Do a google search on "drum memory". Was slow, even for its day.
A good multimeter (digital or analog, your call, each has its advantages), and a good logic probe.
The multimeter is good for simple diagnostics (checking the power supply, checking a circuit for shorts, and troubleshooting analog inputs). The logic probe can make or break a project. This is assuming its mulitple chips and not a single FPGA>
I'm also not using a time limited evaluation license like the grandparent mentioned. I've got a personal use license which needs yearly renewal.
The thought of having your operating system "expire" on you if you don't pay a renewal fee (the ultimate DRM concept) is rather frightening, to say the least. I think that would actually be something disturbing enough to your average person to get them to consider alternative operating systems.
DEC/Compaq/HP have been doing that for years. If you let your VMS OS and application licenses lapse, the system locks you out. You can only login on the system console, the network stack won't load (due to expired license), and any licensed apps won't run. Its been done before, is being done, and will continue to be done for quite some time.
It looks like it belongs at home in one of these: - something that legitimately needs multiple 6" blowers for cooling.
Although one should not rely on security by obsecurity, it helps a bit. I run CVS on netbsd/pmax, WWW on Apache/VMS/Alpha, SMB on Openbsd/Sparc, Firewall on OpenBSD/sparc64. Except for the sparc64, none of these are "popular" platforms - assuming one of the OSS packages has an exploit, the odds of having an exploit that works on OpenVMS is a lot slimmer than a functional exploit for Linux/x86. This is not a production network, but an experimental/historical network of machines I run for fun in my spare time. I try to run the most recent version original OS, with as much GNU tools as needed for functionality/security.
No problem. I didn't get a chance to file a bug report since someone dug up a qfe card and I didn't have time to screw around with the system to get the data to do so.
The sbus bme (bigmac) cards don't seem to work at all on ultrasparc. Tried to move a firewall on a sparc5 to a U1 and the nics wouldn't work in the U1. The other caveat is some sbus nics need a userspace tool run in securelevel 0 to change their MAC addresses.
You need at least a U2 to run Solaris 10. U1 isn't supported.
So that's why they keep dragging their feet on Longhorn!
Once the agreement expires, they can go and do everything they wanted to do for the last 5 years for user lockin.
A lot of monitors these days have usb hubs built into them. So there is keyboard and mouse, leaving the spare port on the back for the printer.
Maybe that had a bad experience with the other DCL
Why, SCO Unix, of course.
Old news. It was in the campus paper at RPI 2 weeks ago that the RIAA was in the process of subpeona'ing students identities for filesharing. At that time, according to the paper, the school had been notified of 20 impending requests, and from what I've heard, that number has increased dramatically since then.
People were complaining one of the servers I run didn't have enough disk capcacity, so I promised them I'd upgrade it to larger hardware. Since the box is in the office with the users (not my choice), I borrowed an old VAXStation from a friend (it was a huge one on wheels, see here for an example. The real box was moved elsewhere for the day. The older folk found it extremely amusing, the younger folk were bewildered compltely by it.
Nope. I just did a fresh XP SP2 install and a 95 reinstall (not by choice). 95 I had to enable file sharing by hand before I could connect, the XP box i was able to connect to \\127.0.0.1\c$ out of the box. The NT series was designed for the corporate LANS where it made sense for the admins to be able to remotely access, networking was more of an after thought to 9x, hence the difference.
On Win9x, you have to explicitly enable Windows File Sharing. On NT based machines (NT4, 2K, etc, etc), the root of each drive is shared full access to the Administrators group by default. The share names are $. So, unless I was dumb enough to go into Win98, go to the Network control panel, click file and print sharing, check the little box saying I want to let others access my files, click ok, reboot to let the new network settings take effect, then go and explicitly share a folder as c$ and explicitly give full access with no password, I deserve what I get.
In the beginning, there were movies, and they were full frame and life was good. Then came TV. It took the same ratio as full frame and life was not good for the studios since there was one less difference between TV and the movies. Along came widescreen with its promise of "More picture than TV" and life has not been good for us ever since with pre-rerecorded media.
Remember the old marketing logo "Nothing sucks like a VAX"?
The press release is from March, 2004. On the other hand, its going to be interesting to see if the campus links here can survive the slashdot effect.
Back in the Dark Ages (98-00), when I did the online content for my High School, I just used a simple frameset. Pick an issue, the headlines with in a column down the left, the article was on the right. I wasn't allowed any active content on either server or client, so that was the best compromise at the time. It worked well enough.
Images of checks is a new thing. My parents bank has been returning cashed checks to them for years. The only difference is its electronic now instead of paper.
SNET no longer exists - they were bought out by SBC a few years back. Service has gone downhill dramatically since then.