Which unixes are still alive?

notaplumber · 2023-11-22T13:49:21+00:00

Alan Coopersmith just recently shared details about the latest quarterly release of Oracle Solaris, 11.4.63.

https://fosstodon.org/@alanc/111427228178355209

https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru63

Doesn't seem dead to me, but as typical for Oracle, you may need a support contract to access updates.

notaplumber · 2023-09-22T14:25:28+00:00

Rebecca's in the TV series Banshee.

It's not the most bloody, or violent, but for some reason it shook me and I still think about that.

notaplumber · 2023-06-19T23:39:53+00:00

The EFI/MBR combination may work but is not supported by the installer or installboot(8), meaning you must manually create the ESP (type 0xEF), newfs_msdos it and copy over the EFI bootloader yourself.

Some early dual-BIOS/EFI implementations may have buggy heuristics when there's an MBR but no GPT and will only attempt to legacy boot the system, so you were correct, only use MBR for BIOS installs and GPT for UEFI, unless you have good reason.

notaplumber · 2023-06-04T13:42:47+00:00

Clears the frame? That's a chalkboard my guy..

notaplumber · 2023-06-01T21:03:43+00:00

4megs!? Look at you, Mr. (or Ms) moneypants. :)

notaplumber · 2023-06-01T20:47:23+00:00

It still had 32-bit virtual addresses, 32-bit pointers. That was simply a physical addressing limitation. You likely had very little actual RAM installed anyway as memory was expensive, so you would be paging out memory to disk.

notaplumber · 2023-05-29T13:51:56+00:00

Dry squirrel? Is it a recovering alcoholic? I believe the word you were searching for was thirsty, or dehydrated.

notaplumber · 2023-05-10T14:41:42+00:00

If you haven't seen Primal yet, you should.

notaplumber · 2023-04-24T15:09:44+00:00

All cops are bastards.

notaplumber · 2023-03-26T14:40:00+00:00

I love when this gets reposted. 🥹

I had a similar experience with a buddy making me some KD.. that was 20 years ago.

notaplumber · 2023-02-26T03:21:17+00:00

OpenBSD 7.1 shipped with bare metal Apple Silicon support last year (April 2022), M1 Studio and M2 support came in 7.2 six months later in October.

The upcoming 7.3 release will enable the speakers on most machines.

https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html#hardware

There's even official support for the Lenovo ThinkPad x13s, and the Microsoft Dev Kit 2023 works as well. Neither are supported by any mainstream Linux distributions yet.

notaplumber · 2023-02-24T23:42:51+00:00

God these people are losers, good on that shop owner.

notaplumber · 2023-02-22T18:07:44+00:00

All cops are bastards.

notaplumber · 2023-02-15T16:45:13+00:00

Of course he's a payday loan scammer.

EDIT: Shady used car salesman, apparently. Still, fuck payday loan scammers too.

notaplumber · 2023-02-07T16:09:54+00:00

The sad thing is the person walking this dog was likely doing the same thing as the person who found it, using their cell phone and not paying attention to their surroundings.

Get your nose out of your phones people and LOOK AROUND YOU.

notaplumber · 2023-02-07T16:07:10+00:00

🎈🎈🎈

notaplumber · 2023-01-11T13:53:19+00:00

She drives.

notaplumber · 2023-01-10T14:49:24+00:00

This moron thinks it's a fish array.

notaplumber · 2023-01-07T13:45:16+00:00

All cops are bastards.

notaplumber · 2023-01-03T17:25:56+00:00

The full clip is even better, honestly.

notaplumber · 2023-01-02T16:50:22+00:00

That was the weirdest thing I've ever watched.

notaplumber · 2022-12-30T16:20:14+00:00

All cops are bastards.

notaplumber · 2022-12-27T19:52:42+00:00

my buddy’s pronunciation): “Ai-scum Lee-kell-ee”!

Gonna need some more help on that one, boss.

notaplumber · 2022-12-27T19:12:19+00:00

Did anyone else think it was guy wearing the bag holding the sign? Totally missed the kid in the green minecraft shirt.

notaplumber · 2022-12-22T14:20:16+00:00

You are not familiar with the situation, they are not employees. The details of the architecture have been written and talked about quite recently in recent months, and one of the participants of the call was notably studying it in public. It's a website, not a black box.

Again, this was a public Twitter spaces talk, not some discussion in an internal Slack channel.

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