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what does it look like to work in dysfunctional IT? How about retrocomputing or video games?

also offering up some hot takes on programming despite discovering decades ago that being a programmer is best left to others.

liberal user of CWs; trying to atone for over a decade of Twitter ruin.

The country flags above show which countries in the world I've been to.

NO LONGER yakkoj on Twitter.

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Party like it's 1998!

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>Installing 105181-39...

Ouch

I have a maintenance update I applied before this patch cluster, and that brought the kernel (which is what this patch is patching) from nothing to 105181-05

yakkoj, to random
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Mission Implausible

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man I'm glad I set up the old NAS for the old computers

The sun4m is about to get access to a lot of Solaris packages over NFS (via automount, since Solaris 2.6 ships with that!)

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Also the "openssl" packages had "sparc" and "sparcv8" versions.

Hopefully the sun4m I have is SPARCv8 (it should be; it was made during that time)

My sun4c is definitely SPARCv7, so no multiply/divide instructions

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>openssh 9.7 package for sun4m, Solaris 2.6.

WHAT THE F

I'm about to find out how utterly SLOW key negotiation is on the sun4m

They have somewhat-current OpenSSL, too.

I just wanted to find gcc and binutils so the sun4m has a C compiler. Got way more! :oD

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Flip phones need to have a way to put a "hang up" noise in the call under certain conditions just before disconnecting. Make a recording of a Western Electric phone being slammed on-hook (remember when you could do that and make a call afterwards?) and use that as the "hang up" noise when the phone senses it's being "slammed" :oD

https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/112588895900338346

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I was thinking of buying an off-brand battery to power the lawn mower...

>Project Farm video on counterfeit batteries.
>Internal short test results in lithium fire.

Yep, that's the end of that idea. While the batteries I was looking at weren't "counterfeit", they were made of the same cheaper materials and probably had compromised safety, and for Li-ion, it's important the safety not be compromised

So at least that's where a small part of my $200 for the genuine battery is going :oP

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OK, putting the sun4m back together to see why Solaris 2.6 won't talk over le0

If it works directly hooked to a laptop, but won't work with the same cable and switch the sun4c works on (although that le0 is AUI to an ethernet transceiver; this also worked on the Cisco 2511), I won't be surprised :oP

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I think I may have found the problem

I put the sun4m back together, and when I was connecting cgsix1 which was on SBUS, the whole thing moved back

And the mainboard was no longer plugged into the board with all the connectors at the back.

So I made sure that was reconnected. One satisfying POP later, the SBUS card fit better than it ever did, no longer sliding up.

It was connected enough for Solaris to see the link, but probably not enough to actually send anything.

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oh it STILL won't talk

running a snoop tells me I have traffic coming in, so Solaris install ballsed something up :o/

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RIP le0 on the sun4m

I stuffed the qec from the sun4c in and manually plumbed qe0 and ifconfig'd it, unplumbed le0, and now I'm on the network.

It means the transmitter on le0 is hooped. I might be able to find something that plugs into the MII to restore it (though if the chip's transmitter is busted, that won't help)

WHY DO ALL MY 30-YEAR OLD ELECTRONICS BREAK DOWN ON ME

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Wait... Sun actually "syncs" the time from the FILESYSTEM at startup?

So that's the reason for those "preposterous" messages and "CHECK AND RESET THE DATE" if something's sufficiently amiss

To be fair, the system had to get the time from somewhere if it wanted to compare the TOD clock to something!

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Also, there's a "clock.c" per arch because they used different parts per arch

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Any day it rains this time of year is a good day

I see the radar with squall lines and it sounds outside like the radar's right

Bring it on... Any day I don't have to dump potable water into the ground for a half hour is also a good day

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Man rebuilding the DS-420+ really sped backups up. The backup of the Time Machine sparsebundle used to take HOURS, and now it's much quicker.

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oops, forgot to give "--delete" to rsync

Glad I caught that early

99 blocks of crud on the disk
99 blocks of crud
Run the backup, move things around
100 blocks of crud on the disk

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>PetSCII Robots Arcade upright build.

It's a PROPER upright, with a marquee, side art, kick panel art, control panel, bezel...

One thing you'd need a proper wood shop for!

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Wonder if I can make an "ifconfig" script that will run the real ifconfig if it's on the system, else run "ip -br a"

I think it's doable, and it'll keep the cursing down when I "ifconfig" and hadn't installed net-tools yet

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possible on Mastodon or anywhere "follows" exist:

>A huge swarm of locusts followed you.

🎶A huge swarm of locusts is following me
There isn't even anything good on TV...

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>SMB on macOS.
>one user works; a new user doesn't.

Oh goody...

Source is macOS Sonoma. Target is Synology (DSM 7).

That first user is my Time Machine user. It works fine even after I enabled SMB signing.

The new user is one I created in DSM and gave access to one shared folder. Finder doesn't accept the password.

Of course, I can't prove it because no valid logs are available.

I'll bet samba on Linux server will work. It'll have LOGS, at least!

<Samir> Piece of shit...

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Pretty sure Finder is the fault. I can test that from Linux!

YES, Finder is the fault. smbclient from Linux worked fine!

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macOS does have some logs, but none of them are useful. It spews a bunch of NeXTisms at me, and tells me the access was denied, but not why

It didn't have to be this way. :o(

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@autolycus funny you should mention NFS. If Apple breaks that, I'm SCREWED

It's already bad enough they replace /etc/auto_master every update

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>javascript promises.

Is "I promise to use a language I have a chance in hell of understanding without 17 frameworks" a valid javascript promise?

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