Wow, that was fast. People may remember my idea behind #BoxyBSD? Temporary jails for testing and debugging? It got immediately abused for spamming etc.!
Now, I’m running a friendly beta test within the #BSD Community (primary #BSDCafe & BSD fans) for free small sized hosted #VMs / #Jails (IPv6 only).
The first system is already full. Let’s see how this will be (ab)used?! Maybe, the next stack will start after Easter.
Currently working on my „Free temporary #FreeBSD VM“ service. A service where you can just drop your ssh key and immediately get returned an #IPv6 address of your own instance which will be present for 12 or 24 hours for testing, debugging and playing around.
What is the current state of #BoxyBSD? Everything looks good so far and currently I’m running 50x 512MB RAM free #FreeBSD#Jails (#VMs). It turned out, that this might be too less RAM for several things...
Opt #1: 50x 512MB
Opt #2: 10x 2GB
Opt #3: 4x 2GB, 6x 1GB, 20x 512MB
It will go live on https://boxybsd.gyptazy.ch soon but not more this year due to vacation where I will be on digital detox.
@tayledras@noiq And yes, I think a lot of that stuff is extremely #bloated because if we need #Virtualization for seperation, there are many other options ranging from #BSD#jails to user privilegues usually [#Apache2 / #httpd runs as daemon/service under it's own user with near-zero privilegues!] and even #VMs can be done with #QEMU / #KVM more elegantly...
Seperating #Compute and #Storage does make sense - but only for medium to big businesses with their own Systems.
@tayledras@noiq As a matter of fact, I did help a fmr. client/employer to move their #Servers and #VMs inhouse again amidst escalating costs...
Turns our it's cheaper to invest 8 digits once to reduce the hosting bills from 6 to 4 digits espechally since they ain't having short-term & highly fluctuating loads that justify the cost.
I mean, I know cases where that does apply and in these cases it's worth paying €€€€ to do #livestreaming on a #CDN like #dacast / #Akamai, but that's an exception.
I am very much looking forward to working my way through this 3+ hour interview with Dave Cutler that Dave's Garage put out last week. According to Cutler's wikipedia entry he hates Unix, I'm guessing by extension Linux too. It is his Moriarty, as the entry says. I'm curious if they cover any of that. #windows#vms#history#ComputerHistorywww.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1Lq7…
This is a blog post version of a talk I presented at both Ubuntu Summit 2022 and SouthEast LinuxFest 2023. I cover why one might want to use VMs, application containers, or system containers, I talk specifics about VM hypervisor types, how application and system containers work, and when I think it's appropriate to use each technology.
@pervognsen@steve@cr1901@regehr The VAX/VMS kernel and a fair amount of VMS userland were written in VAX BLISS, and in VAX MACRO-32 assembler.
That implementation shifted with work to allow C in the VMS (later OpenVMS) kernel, and the remaining portions of BLISS and MACRO-32 in the current kernel are now far much smaller.
VSI still maintains BLISS and MACRO-32 compilers for OpenVMS on Alpha, Itanium, and x86-64.
@dosnostalgic VAX/VMS circa 1978 used to boot with PDP-11 RSX-11M compatibility mode available and a fair chunk of the apps in the early VAX/VMS versions were RSX-11M apps running in compatibility mode.
The VAX-11 boxes supported PDP-11 instructions in hardware.
You could run your existing PDP-11 RSX-11M apps directly, too.
That all ended at VAX/VMS V4.0 (~1984), and with then-new VAX models after VAX 8600.
VAX 8600 was originally to be named VAX-11/790, but marketing marketed and dropped the -11 with the “architecture for the ‘80s”.
PDP-11 RSX-11M compatibility mode became a separate product, and the PDP-11 instructions were emulated, and the -11 was dropped from VAX.
Technically, an LSI-11 console processor booted RT-11 from the 8” console floppy which then booted the VAX-11/780 (organizationally within he hardware, the VAX was an enormous LSI-11 peripheral) which ran VAX and PDP-11 instructions and which could run simh emulator to emulate PDP-11 running RT-11. If the LSI-11 failed—as happened on a couple of occasions—the VAX could continue to run. Just not reboot.
The approach Apple used for migrations with Rosetta and Rosetta 2 was far smoother.
Yeah. Fun times. When it all worked.
There are shenanigans in newer boxes too, but they’re usually somewhat better hidden.
Liebe #ITBubble und #Selfhosters: Wie macht ihr das? Einfach #TrueNASSCALE und dann dort die #VMs und #Docker Images (#Nextcloud) laufen lassen oder lieber #Proxmox und dann #TrueNas mit PCI-Passthrough laufen lassen? Bei mir läuft die erste Option seit einem Jahr und bin semi-zufrieden. Würde gerne zur Proxmox Variante wechseln, weiß aber, dass das von TrueNAS nicht offiziell unterstützt wird. #itsupport
#Emacs has always felt a bit scary or unapproachable. This goes back to hearing about it college, when people were probably talking about it on #VAX#VMS systems.
Meanwhile, I generally enjoy #Markdown syntax. It is comfortable, and similar to the way I wrote #email and #notes in #PlainText ever since those college #VAX#VMS days.
I'll never be asked to contribute to his #obituary but he was the best #Social#Engineer I ever knew and I think he'd have been pleased to hear that -- So if he faked his death just to get that out of me, you are still a bastard, Mr Mitnick!
I've built a PoC #mp4 meta tag editor for the #browser in vanilla #javascript that pretends to run in a #crt#terminal. Pretty stupid combo, I know :-) But I had a lot of fun building it!
(It's meant to be used with #m4a#audio files but seems to work with video too and it requires a browser with the File System Access API enabled.)
:fediverse: Now that there are so many people here, maybe there's a chance:
🖥️ In the 1990s, I used a #MicroVAX II with a #DEC#VT320#terminal like the one shown here, but with an original black plastic case for both the monitor (white monochrome) and keyboard as sold new by the vendor (Evans & Sutherland).
🔎 Has anyone ever come across one of these with the black case? Surely some of these rare models were saved from the landfill.