Public access? - HECnet

25 Sep 2013

On 2013-09-25 01:33, Sampsa Laine wrote:
On 24 September 2013 22:30, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk
<mailto:mark at wickensonline.co.uk>> wrote:

      I'll mirror whatever we come up with on http://hecnet.eu as a static
      page, can't see given our pace of change that it's going to get out
      of date quickly!

      Hecnet.eu has been a bit I unreliable lately as I've moved over to
      the mikrotik router but it should be fairly stable now and my
      interest in dec kit is waxing again.

      Mark

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  On 24 Sep 2013, at 21:26, Johnny Billquist <bqt at
softjar.se       <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
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> On 2013-09-24 22:07, Brian Hechinger wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:01:06PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>
>> Yuck. While I won't prevent someone from doing this, regularly      
scraping
...
 >> that file, hoping for a standardized, usable
format, seems       optimistic
...
    and heavy. :-) 
 Yes, we keep trying that. It keeps failing. :) 
 Yes. Also, it would be nice with a little more massaged       information about
public resources. Assembling something from
      one-liners really isn't what I was thinking of.
...

>> Seems noone have such a web resource around, so I guess I'll       drop
the
...
    idea for now. 
 I can offer up a web server. It's FreeBSD though. :) 
 As far as that goes, I could do that on RSX...

>> There was someone who (for a while?) tried to have a network       map
around.
...
 >> Is that still up somewhere? It would be even
nicer to get something
>> superimposed on a real map.
>
> I'm still going to be working on it. It's been sitting on the      
sidelines
...
 > waiting for Paul to get NICE support written into
his DECnet       stack he's
...
 > written in python. The current mapper works fine
so long as it's       only
...
 > DEC OSes involved. Cisco (and Rob's router)
break it and I       haven't found
...
 > a good solution to that while trying to run it on
VMS (there are       some
...
   limitations
such as paramiko not working on VMS).

 I will get back to it. I promise. :) 
 Ah.
 Well, yes, it's a nice project. Would be neat to get it working       more
completely.
...

       Johnny

If people follow a standard CSV format surrounded by tags, converting that to a HTML
list/table is like 10 lines of Python, max.

It was not what I was looking for, but feel free to do it anyway.
Also, it's probably not even 10 lines of code in IND to do the actual parsing of such
lines. A little more to do the basic layout and headers of a page. But like I said, that
kind of a page was not what I was thinking of.

Oh well. No worry. It was just an idea I had. Since people on comp.os.vms was looking for
alternative sites with public access VMS with guests, I was thinking about if HECnet could
be it.
But essentially, this is people who might be looking for machines with certain versions of
OS, certain hardware platform, looking for certain tools, or cluster setups, or possibly
other interesting resources available.

Since it seems the general public are having a hard time keeping such resources available,
and it would seem that there are some here who are pretty good at it (or so I'd like
to believe), maybe getting more users and usage could be a cool thing. But it might be a
negative thing as well, so I'm not going to pursue this anymore right now.

	Johnny

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