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tmn007··on What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)
This is a bit of history in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1466
tmn007··on Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server
if you started with sendmail (and sendmail.cf) then postfix was alright
tmn007··on Early Bitcoin Investor Roger Ver Charged with Tax Fraud
I remember getting the cisco compatible switch optics from Memory dealers. Heaps cheaper than Cisco- $5 an optic compared to $1000.
tmn007··on A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024
We are seeing all the unix forwarders setup a decade+ ago are dead in the water now (have to be replaced with mailing list software)
tmn007··on I'm skeptical of low-code
I was involved with a project to decomission a low code on premise platform (Sharepoint 2013). What we found was there was a lot of user enthusiasm to create stuff but when the platform was end of life and had to be decomissioned the users enthusiasm melted away.

The "IT" dept had to spend a fortune re-validating the user requirements for the various applications, documenting and then converting them into a new platform. Obviously a lot of feature creep and previously accepted bugs (no longer accepted now that responsibility was no longer theirs).

A lot of the applications were frankenstein efforts from people over the years - lots of dead code no longer used, no docs etc. As others have mentioned people create mission critical stuff for their project or team, and then leave or be away on extended leave and it breaks etc.

tmn007··on Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow
Hard reboot on those old Sun systems usually meant a dirty filesystem and telling off by the admin as they needed an fsck
tmn007··on U-2 pilot's selfie above China's balloon taken over Missouri
Unlikely as the u2 is not armed
tmn007··on Atlassian says recent data leak stems from third-party vendor hack
According to Envoy CEO the Atlassian API key was compromised. Not saying how.
tmn007··on Disassembling an Amazon Blink Mini camera
I have a bunch in the roof cavity to monitor for roof rat incursion. They have been going for about 3 years now.

I found the Blink camera was the best for a battery camera in terms of startup on PIR detection. In comparison my newer Eufy and Arlo cameras take a second or two (sometimes more) and have much less battery life.

The downside on the Blink is that you have to buy high end lithium AA batteries

tmn007··on Map of the Internet
My Australian IP is listed as North America.
tmn007··on UK Government scans all web servers hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities
That is just government though. However I'm sure ACSC is scanning all known AU websites...
tmn007··on An old Encyclopaedia Britannica is a work to cherish
I grew up with the physical set. My parents even lashed out on the micropaedia and macropaedia 12 book set. Which had very handy articles beyond the normal Britannica. It was like having the internet in those days.

In retirement my dad took to correcting the Britannica- ie fixing facts or crossing out entire debunked articles.

tmn007··on Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died
Still use bc
tmn007··on Pandora Papers: is the world’s biggest leak the world’s biggest cover-up?
Maybe there will be a leak from the leak
tmn007··on NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup
15 years ago when I was changing jobs one of the roles was Sun Microsystems - which I liked the company but the role was to suggest and be embedded in a company and embed Sun products into every project (and I assume prevent competitors). Did not take it.
tmn007··on CSIRO's Data61 Dismantles SeL4 Team
Only to make up for lost funding due to economic downturn from covid19 https://www.innovationaus.com/csiro-gets-a-459m-budget-lifel...
tmn007··on (Red Hat's) 5 useless Linux commands
I use bc all the time. Just me I guess.
tmn007··on Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US for 870 days
Most countries don't give the USA carte blanche access to their citizens criminal history unless it is in their interests to declare (I base this on observations of people who have past criminal convictions yet still get ESTA approvals and travel to the USA). However, the USA may have become aware of something that they previously were not aware of.
tmn007··on DikuMUD 3 Is Released
Me too. Learnt a lot about Unix, c, networking and compilers getting it working in 1992.
tmn007··on VirtualBox 6.0 released
Be careful about VirtualBox Extensions which is non free on commercial environments. Oracle is hunting non compliance and VB provides them with lots of telemetry.
tmn007··on How 2K Killed Irrational Games
http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/1998-September/0352... has all the good sauce on papl
tmn007··on How 2K Killed Irrational Games
I think it is closed now.

I worked at an isp which serviced their CBR office with a 128k isdn then upgraded to a "2 mbit" PAPL link (a niche product where you used 2 or 4 pairs of directly connected copper which bypassed the exchange).