Alexander Bochmann @galaxis@mastodon.infra.de

Ok, I had to chuckle over this 2017 post of mine that I randomly found while looking for something else:

About a year after writing about getting rid of my last UUCP link, I ended up with a new one for mail and Usenet that feeds into my slightly patched cnews installation (and still is active now). It doesn't use bsmtp for mail transport though, just the standard old rmail... Not that there's much to transfer these days.

The internet at work: Neozeed writes about MacFlim, which displays preprocessed video snips full-screen on an 68k Mac (https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2021/04/02/presenting-macfilm/).
The MacFlim page has descriptions about a couple of demo videos, the last of which reads "Coastermelt [..] I couldn't resist, this pure genius, and one of my favorite youtube video" - so I'm now watching a 2016 video about disassembling and reverse-engineering USB BluRay player firmware in order to make it do something else: https://youtu.be/UTUYl-2g-r4

The OS/2 museum blog is looking for a copy of the Microsoft LAN Manager Network Device Driver kit targeted at NDIS 2.0 (DOS and OS/2): http://www.os2museum.com/wp/ms-lan-manager-nddk-anyone/

Anyone around here with a copy?

#retrocomputing

I was aware that Ivanti had previously soaked up a bunch of enterprise solution software companies in the IT asset- and service management realms, but I missed they bought both MobileIron (MDM) and Pulse Secure (SSL VPN, formerly Juniper Pulse) at the end of last year?

That's going to be interesting, as there is at least some overlap in functionality between those two companies. Or is it just another agglomeration that's going to explode as soon as the investors are fed up?

#infosec

There certainly is some good reason why systemd-resolved chose to synthesize a name for gateways in local routing table (and they threw in an additional myhostname NSS module doing the same for good measure), but I'm not sure I can be convinced this is a sane idea under any scenario I can currently come up with?

(Yes, I'm aware this has existed for a long time, but it hasn't crept into any of my system configurations yet, so it's good to know what to fix in the future.)

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdNSSMyhostname

I somehow completely missed that the Shadowserver Foundation had lost their (substantial) sponsoring from Cisco last year, and had to move their gear somewhere else, plus find the money to do the move and keep up the infrastructure: https://www.shadowserver.org/news/the-data-center-move-all-the-gory-details-and-extras/

#infosec

Uuuughhh, looks like I'm getting wrecked completed by the summertime shift this year... Have a hard time getting started in the mornings this week, and I've actually had to take a nap around 1830 in the evening today and yesterday....

Blue sky outside, btw...

Oh come on, it's 2021. Why would I need a browser extension to upload files to your support site?

(NetApp now has at least three upload tools for attachments to support cases - one for small files, this one for larger files, and the old large file upload tool that's accessible from a small "this doesn't work for me" link below the new upload form.)