On 2013-01-17 16:49, sampsa at mac.com wrote:
The problem with PHONE is that you can't see a centralised directory of the whole network and who's on.
I tried to write a script on a Linux-DECNET box to get such a directory but it broke something on BQT's systems.
Broke and broke... You managed to spam my logging. For some reason you managed to trigger logs for trying to access machines that were not up, if I remember correctly...
Johnny
IM's are slightly different, as I'm sure you're aware.
The benefits to phone are:
- You are notified when your buddies log on, anywhere on HECnet
- You can control who can message you (i.e. buddies only)
sampsa
On 17 Jan 2013, at 17:46, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On 17 Jan 2013, at 10:38, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote:
El 17/01/2013, a les 16:09, sampsa at mac.com va escriure:
Any interest in this type of service, i.e. something like Jabber/Gtalk but over DECNET?
Aren't you reinventing PHONE? ;)
Only insofar as to use it on an actual phone I hope. ;)
Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
jg at jordi.guillaumes.name
HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES
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|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
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On 01/17/2013 05:01 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
I'd agree with OS X being unusable now. I spend a lot of time
tweaking it and making it bend over backwards to do what I want.
Often involving using Terminal.app exclusively with a bunch of X
apps. ;)
That's how I've always used graphical workstations...as a way to
get a buttload of terminal windows. (that's what they were pretty
much FOR in earlier times!)
I know it's probably of little consequence, but I use an app called
iTerm2 in OS X for terminals. It does a good deal better job of
handling multiple terminals, reusable bookmarks etc. than Apple's POS
Terminal.app ever did.
Yes, it's very good. I used it a lot of the time.
OS X does what I need it to (mostly desktopy Internety stuff) so I
keep it. I used to double it up as a UNIX platform for compiling and
running OSS stuff too but I dropped it and used Debian and
derivatives on other x86 hardware instead - it just does more with
less for less.
That's why I moved. The desktoppy stuff works very well in the Linux
world now as well.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 17 Jan 2013, at 21:23, Dave McGuire wrote:
I'd agree with OS X being unusable now. I spend a lot of time
tweaking it and making it bend over backwards to do what I want.
Often involving using Terminal.app exclusively with a bunch of X
apps. ;)
That's how I've always used graphical workstations...as a way to get a
buttload of terminal windows. (that's what they were pretty much FOR in
earlier times!)
I know it's probably of little consequence, but I use an app called iTerm2 in OS X for terminals. It does a good deal better job of handling multiple terminals, reusable bookmarks etc. than Apple's POS Terminal.app ever did.
OS X does what I need it to (mostly desktopy Internety stuff) so I keep it. I used to double it up as a UNIX platform for compiling and running OSS stuff too but I dropped it and used Debian and derivatives on other x86 hardware instead - it just does more with less for less.
--
Mark Benson
http://DECtec.info
Twitter: @DECtecInfo
HECnet: STAR69::MARK
Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts.
On 01/17/2013 04:26 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I should try OpenIndiana I hate Sunacle Solaris with a passion.
;)
I love it, but I can no longer, as of just recently, get patches.
Sunacle refers to post-Oracle. :p
Uh, yeah, I figured that out. ;) I'm running post-Oracle-acquisition
Solaris.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 17 Jan 2013, at 16:23, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 01/17/2013 04:18 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I should try OpenIndiana I hate Sunacle Solaris with a passion. ;)
I love it, but I can no longer, as of just recently, get patches.
Sunacle refers to post-Oracle. :p
(Does anyone have an account I can use? I'll be good, I
promise...need it kinda badly)
In server roles, I agree 100%. For workstations, it's Linux all
the way with me nowadays. Since I can no longer get fast-enough
SGI hardware, Apple has fucked up OS X so badly that it's (to me)
unusable, and Oracle's Solaris is just so neolithic in its
desktoppy stuff, it'll take a great shift of stuff to move me off
of Linux. When I switched to it from OS X on the desktop 1.5 years
ago, my productivity pretty much tripled. (admittedly most of that
is due to the type of work I do though)
What did you run on your SGI gear?
IRIX, of course.
Wheeeeeeeee.
For server roles I personally prefer FreeBSD, but that's just a
matter of the fact I feel comfortable working with it.
That's great and all, and it's a great OS< but it's a really shitty
match for SPARC (and Alpha) hardware. It was shoehorned into place on
both platforms, something that never should've happened.
Ahhh, yeah. Most of what I do involves PCs, so that'd be why it's my preference.
I'd agree with OS X being unusable now. I spend a lot of time
tweaking it and making it bend over backwards to do what I want.
Often involving using Terminal.app exclusively with a bunch of X
apps. ;)
That's how I've always used graphical workstations...as a way to get a
buttload of terminal windows. (that's what they were pretty much FOR in
earlier times!)
I once bent windows in to letting me run Cygwin apps from cmd.exe. I can't function without a terminal that functions at least somewhat like a UNIX. ;) (command-wise)
I seriously get lost using a GUI file manager. ;)
Yeah, I don't see how anyone deals with that.
I only use it for large drag-and-drop of dissimilar files.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 01/17/2013 04:18 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I should try OpenIndiana I hate Sunacle Solaris with a passion. ;)
I love it, but I can no longer, as of just recently, get patches.
(Does anyone have an account I can use? I'll be good, I
promise...need it kinda badly)
In server roles, I agree 100%. For workstations, it's Linux all
the way with me nowadays. Since I can no longer get fast-enough
SGI hardware, Apple has fucked up OS X so badly that it's (to me)
unusable, and Oracle's Solaris is just so neolithic in its
desktoppy stuff, it'll take a great shift of stuff to move me off
of Linux. When I switched to it from OS X on the desktop 1.5 years
ago, my productivity pretty much tripled. (admittedly most of that
is due to the type of work I do though)
What did you run on your SGI gear?
IRIX, of course.
For server roles I personally prefer FreeBSD, but that's just a
matter of the fact I feel comfortable working with it.
That's great and all, and it's a great OS< but it's a really shitty
match for SPARC (and Alpha) hardware. It was shoehorned into place on
both platforms, something that never should've happened.
I'd agree with OS X being unusable now. I spend a lot of time
tweaking it and making it bend over backwards to do what I want.
Often involving using Terminal.app exclusively with a bunch of X
apps. ;)
That's how I've always used graphical workstations...as a way to get a
buttload of terminal windows. (that's what they were pretty much FOR in
earlier times!)
I seriously get lost using a GUI file manager. ;)
Yeah, I don't see how anyone deals with that.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 17 Jan 2013, at 15:50, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 01/17/2013 03:42 PM, Brian Hechinger wrote:
On 1/17/2013 3:39 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
It does look promising. The guy working on SPARC support has run it
on an astonishing array of systems. His last release was a LiveDVD,
because he hadn't finished the installer yet. He was supposed to have
finished that recently but hasn't; it's evidently taking longer than he
expected.
He's one guy with a job and a life. It's amazing he's done what he has
so far!
Actually from what info has been floating around, he has neither a job
nor a life, outside of his work on OI. If he pulls it off, with the
installer, we'll owe him a great debt of gratitude.
I should try OpenIndiana I hate Sunacle Solaris with a passion. ;)
He was supposed to release his installable code about three weeks ago,
but didn't...not sure why.
I really need to get to trying to get OmniOS built for SPARC.
I couldn't really "lose interest" on this end; Solaris does
*everything* around here, whether I'm interested or not, and whether
Oracle is sleazy or not.
I'll run something Illumos based over anything Linux based any day of
the week.
In server roles, I agree 100%. For workstations, it's Linux all the
way with me nowadays. Since I can no longer get fast-enough SGI
hardware, Apple has fucked up OS X so badly that it's (to me) unusable,
and Oracle's Solaris is just so neolithic in its desktoppy stuff, it'll
take a great shift of stuff to move me off of Linux. When I switched to
it from OS X on the desktop 1.5 years ago, my productivity pretty much
tripled. (admittedly most of that is due to the type of work I do though)
What did you run on your SGI gear?
For server roles I personally prefer FreeBSD, but that's just a matter of the fact I feel comfortable working with it.
I'd agree with OS X being unusable now. I spend a lot of time tweaking it and making it bend over backwards to do what I want. Often involving using Terminal.app exclusively with a bunch of X apps. ;)
I seriously get lost using a GUI file manager. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 17 Jan 2013, at 15:45, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
On 1/17/2013 3:24 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On 17 Jan 2013, at 15:05,hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote:
Two Linksys WAP54G units, that's what I'd do. The WAP54G is fairly old so may be cheap on EBay.
But you're not a Linksys fan, are you?
No, but from what I've recently learned, MoCa is going to be a great solution and I think it's what i'm going to go with.
I ran a wifi bridge many years ago when I lived in Philly. Never worked well and then the school across the street put in a bajillion million watt APs that used EVERY FUCKING AVAILABLE CHANNEL and my bridge just stopped working completely at that point.
That's when I was introduced to MoCA. 100mbit and solid. Also, latency is much lower than wireless.
Also, very cheap (looking now, NIM100s are $15/each on ebay but I paid $5/each for mine) and at least here in the US coax is almost guaranteed to be in place in pretty much every house so you rarely even have to do any major wire pulls.
I should probably have asked my friend who works for a local cableco instead as I lost the bid on the one. ;)
At least I got a lot of 2 I'm not patient when it comes to networking.
-brian
On 01/17/2013 03:42 PM, Brian Hechinger wrote:
On 1/17/2013 3:39 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
It does look promising. The guy working on SPARC support has run it
on an astonishing array of systems. His last release was a LiveDVD,
because he hadn't finished the installer yet. He was supposed to have
finished that recently but hasn't; it's evidently taking longer than he
expected.
He's one guy with a job and a life. It's amazing he's done what he has
so far!
Actually from what info has been floating around, he has neither a job
nor a life, outside of his work on OI. If he pulls it off, with the
installer, we'll owe him a great debt of gratitude.
He was supposed to release his installable code about three weeks ago,
but didn't...not sure why.
I really need to get to trying to get OmniOS built for SPARC.
I couldn't really "lose interest" on this end; Solaris does
*everything* around here, whether I'm interested or not, and whether
Oracle is sleazy or not.
I'll run something Illumos based over anything Linux based any day of
the week.
In server roles, I agree 100%. For workstations, it's Linux all the
way with me nowadays. Since I can no longer get fast-enough SGI
hardware, Apple has fucked up OS X so badly that it's (to me) unusable,
and Oracle's Solaris is just so neolithic in its desktoppy stuff, it'll
take a great shift of stuff to move me off of Linux. When I switched to
it from OS X on the desktop 1.5 years ago, my productivity pretty much
tripled. (admittedly most of that is due to the type of work I do though)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 1/17/2013 3:24 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On 17 Jan 2013, at 15:05,hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote:
>Two Linksys WAP54G units, that's what I'd do. The WAP54G is fairly old so may be cheap on EBay.
>But you're not a Linksys fan, are you?
No, but from what I've recently learned, MoCa is going to be a great solution and I think it's what i'm going to go with.
I ran a wifi bridge many years ago when I lived in Philly. Never worked well and then the school across the street put in a bajillion million watt APs that used EVERY FUCKING AVAILABLE CHANNEL and my bridge just stopped working completely at that point.
That's when I was introduced to MoCA. 100mbit and solid. Also, latency is much lower than wireless.
Also, very cheap (looking now, NIM100s are $15/each on ebay but I paid $5/each for mine) and at least here in the US coax is almost guaranteed to be in place in pretty much every house so you rarely even have to do any major wire pulls.
-brian
