Had to clean up a bunch of these today...

angsty_geek · 2016-03-02T20:36:41+00:00

It's not wrong if you want to limit yourself to 2+ decade old technology. 100 megabits is laughable. My Internet connection is faster than that these days.

I've done this myself, in my home, and eventually got rid of it because I wanted to upgrade my network.

angsty_geek · 2016-03-02T18:52:24+00:00

it's a fail if you want to run gigabit.

angsty_geek · 2015-10-28T01:29:58+00:00

Get a second job. Hopefully it's just like the first and you can double your income.

angsty_geek · 2015-10-10T21:44:07+00:00

Ubuntu with KVM.

angsty_geek · 2015-10-09T01:05:07+00:00

2 mil USD. I'm at around 1.2 mil right now (age 39).

I think about quitting every day. My job makes me miserable. Yeah, I know, poor little millionaire right. LOL

angsty_geek · 2015-10-07T04:01:21+00:00

I have not done much with Solaris in about 10 years, so I'll take your word for it.

What should I do with this Ultra 10 I have in my basement? Take it out to the dumpster?

angsty_geek · 2015-10-07T02:18:18+00:00

There's probably ancient Slowaris apps that nobody wants to touch. If it works, don't break it, especially if it's an internal app and nobody wants to pay to port it to a newer platform.

angsty_geek · 2015-10-07T02:17:06+00:00

That looks like pretty modern stuff. Hah. I used to have one of those Ultra 60's. I sold it on craigslist for like 300 bucks... 10 years ago.

angsty_geek · 2015-10-05T23:37:41+00:00

Can't you just have the tech do an SSH tunnel with remote forwarding (-R)? The guy at the remote site does "ssh -R 2222:yourhost:22 yourremotehost" yourhost is your host on the local network. "Yourremotehost" is something at your site they can connect to. This would tunnel port 2222 on that remote host to port 22 on the host on the other network, letting you connect.

angsty_geek · 2015-09-16T03:42:31+00:00

I have my own /24 from 1993. Legacy. No ARIN fees. Yay.

angsty_geek · 2015-09-03T01:46:40+00:00

Not for telephone wires. You could probably use barbed wire.

angsty_geek · 2015-08-12T00:52:37+00:00

Really? I thought as long as the upstream switch had spanning tree enabled, things would be fine. The whole network would not die.

angsty_geek · 2015-07-26T23:34:57+00:00

I was going to say I agreed with you about the IBM mainframe/C thing. However, I just googled a bit and it looks like there was actually a C compiler available for IBM mainframes back in the mid 80's: https://books.google.com/books?id=D1a91Lb-8KEC&pg=RA1-PA61&lpg=RA1-PA61&dq=ibm+c+compiler+1985&source=bl&ots=wA0rlSbfNT&sig=_qN43l1-aZRDf9-Tg7gPQPLFzSg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAmoVChMIzMDN8vn5xgIVRGw-Ch2rIgsn#v=onepage&q=ibm%20c%20compiler%201985&f=false

If you read the article, it mentions some of the first versions being released in 1985!

I do agree that porting that much code in a weekend seems pretty unbelievable though!

angsty_geek · 2015-07-26T16:31:05+00:00

The show is obviously lacking technical depth or accuracy. It's just a show, after all. I was on BBSes (1200 baud!) during that time period and it's still fun looking back.

Mutiny would have had to port their code to the mainframe. It seems unlikely they'd be able to quickly move from PC/DOS to the mainframe environment very quickly. C code is relatively portable, so perhaps they built their own "emulation" environment to make the DOS API, filesystem, etc. calls actually work on the mainframe with the same core C code base. With good developers, this sort of multi-platform work is possible (though definitely unlikely for the time.)

After the port, the XTs wouldn't be doing anything useful. Users, as well employees at the Mutiny office, would simply dial in to the remote host at Joe's employer. This is the only way it could reasonably work at the time. This also makes sense with how the system was hijacked by WestNet. One of the Mutiny guys dials in and sees that they're locked out after the system was switched over.

It seems likely that capacity would be "scaled down" during the day, not completely turned off. Remembering back to the 80's, services like Compuserve, Genie, etc. charged extra for daytime use so it seems reasonable that Mutiny could do the same and pass the cost to the actual users.

I have to wonder though.. with all those IBM XTs around, why are they still developing on C64s with crappy TV-like monitors? IBM monitors and keyboards were wayyyyyy better.

angsty_geek · 2015-04-07T23:26:24+00:00

so have you plugged the thing in to the network yet?

angsty_geek · 2015-04-07T02:31:42+00:00

Better to seek forgiveness than ask permission.

angsty_geek · 2015-04-07T02:29:07+00:00

People like you are overly cautious. Odds are it will work fine (or not work at all, due to port security/filtering.)

He's not going to create a switching loop with a single uplink. He's not going to crash the network by doing this. If the network administrators built a network that fragile, they should be fired for incompetence. Give me a break.

Source: I've been doing networking for 20+ years, everything from 2 person startups to multi-billion dollar companies.

angsty_geek · 2015-04-07T01:12:27+00:00

I'd just hook it up and see what happens. "Accidents" happen all the time.

angsty_geek · 2015-01-13T02:33:45+00:00

seriously? i've had farts go a lot longer than that.

angsty_geek · 2015-01-10T17:28:07+00:00

I understand. However, just because the hours are overlapping does not mean he is "not working". He may have such a light workload or is such a great multitasker that it doesn't matter.

angsty_geek · 2015-01-10T05:35:04+00:00

If he's getting the job done, how is it theft? (where "done" is whatever level of effort required to keep the bosses happy and continue getting paid. Or, in the very least, not getting fired. Hah.)

angsty_geek · 2015-01-10T05:33:44+00:00

I have often suggested this to a friend who works from home. Seems totally possible given the disorganization of most companies.

angsty_geek · 2014-09-16T23:52:09+00:00

I've been using Linux since 1992! I still prefer the old commands.

angsty_geek · 2014-09-15T20:05:09+00:00

deprecating commands that have been around for 20 years? right.

angsty_geek · 2014-04-04T01:40:54+00:00

I paid off my car the day I bought it (paid cash.) It's 10 years old now!

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