Well, the operating system itself isn't fully done yet, but at least I finished the logo for the #WHY2025 badge operating system.

Introducing #BadgeVMS, an actual Virtual Memory System for the #hacker camp!

I hope you don't like #POSIX too much. There's no POSIX where we're going. (Or at least not a lot of POSIX)

A Historic Photo: Torvalds and Gates Together
When #Linux met #Microsoft: a historic photo of Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates standing side by side for the very first time.

https://linuxiac.com/a-historic-photo-torvalds-and-gates-together/

From the hell is freezing department. #azure would be not existing without Linux.

And this fuels also the joke that the relationship between #WNT and #VMS is the same as between #IBM and #HAL.

This was in my #Facebook #Memories today...

An odd mix of two worlds. A letterpress logo block for DEC, with the older 70s and 80s square "i" dot.

Hey #Chemnitz, #Leipzig und Umland Bubble,

die IHK Chemnitz hat eine Petition gestartet, welche den weitestgehend zweigleisigen #Bahnausbau und die durchgängige Elektrifizierung der leidgeprüften Strecke #RE6 zwischen Chemnitz und Leipzig fordert.

Das größte Problem der Bahnstrecke ist ihr größtenteils eingleisiger Ausbau. Wenn Verspätungen auftreten (durch technische Probleme an den Gleisen oder Fahrzeugen oder einer anderen Störung) können diese meist lange nicht wieder aufgeholt werden. Da die Fahrzeuge immer wieder auf sich warten müssen.

Deshalb klickt das bitte…
ist an den sächsischen Landtag gerichtet

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/ausbau-bahnstrecke-chemnitz-leipzig-jetzt-sicherstellen

Aww, my oldest domain name hicom.org was 33 years old yesterday.

It was the only VAX System that Kevin Mitnick ever had a legitimate account on, he lasted less than a week.

Sitting here thinking about how many hours of my life I've spent sitting in front of green text on a black terminal.

What do you miss in #Proxmox or #XCPng?

My customers often told me, that when migrating from #VMware based setups, they would miss something like #DRS. As a result I published #ProxLB as a load balancer. Now, I do the same for #DPM and also some other things. What do you miss or what stops you or your business from switching to Proxmox or XCPng?

Your VAX in a Cloud is Ready - For many people of a certain age, the DEC VAX was the first computer they ever use... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/28/your-vax-in-a-cloud-is-ready/ #retrocomputing #openvms #dec #vax #vms

Over the past months we have interviewed some of the people involved in the #ARDC, a series of #VMs hosted at the servus datacenter; we have also traced the history of #AMRO, Art Meets Radical Openness, and the general radical media art context in which #servus.at was born and still operates.

All this material is now collected in a fancy magazine called "Artists Running Data Centers", which we'll get fresh off the press tomorrow and present at STWST on Tuesday, December 17th at 7pm.

Two fucking years later - I STILL have not got a OpenVMS enthusiast license

And I have applied three times.

Will Damron's read of the audiobook of Cliff Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg" is excellent.

While the book is required reading or listening as a historical record for anyone interested in Information Security, it's a thoroughly enjoyable thriller. Though much of the technology mentioned is familiar to folks who are thinking I'm about to call them old, it's unsurprising how much remains painfully pertinent today, yet pleasing how a few things have improved significantly given only a few decades.

While some library networks such as the DoD MWR will keep you waiting months for one of their few copies, Fairfax County has unlimited copies of the audiobook.

I hope @AndresFreundTec is keeping good notes on his adventures with xz/liblzma.

Another day, another OpenVMS Community submission...

Third time I am trying, but still not accepted.

I wonder why..

Long gone, DEC is still powering the world of computing - Enlarge / A DEC VAX 8350 with cover removed. (credit: Adamantios)

... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1967053 #digitalequipmentcorporation #features #alphaaxp #tech #dec #vax #vms

Hummm... My old adversary, #KevinMitnick died.

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!

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/technology/kevin-mitnick-dead-hacker.html

So, new #Introduction, such that I have something to pin to my #Profile.

I’ve always loved #Technology. First our #Commodore64 and #Atari2600. Later, #MUDs and #Gopher on a remote #VAX / #VMS.

I was a #Webmaster for a mom-and-pop #ISP in #Ohio in the mid-#90s. We ran it out of our garage. Because you could do that then.

I learned nearly every relevant tech skill I have when I was 14 at that #ISP. #Linux, #Mac, #PC. #Networking, #Telecom. #Bash, #Perl, #HTML. #SysAdmin, #TechSupport. And on.

I've already done an #introduction, but I'm gonna toot some of my #interests in the hopes of growing my #Mastodon network of contacts. I'm primarily a #softwaredev mostly working on #opensource stuff, but

Stuff I know about (at least competent at):
#opensource #foss #floss
#Ruby
#Puppet
#VMS #OpenVMS
#Linux

Stuff I want to learn, or learn more about:
#Ansible
#golang
#rust
#robotics

Tipps und dazu noch ein freies Template für Freunde von #Virtualisierung, hochverfügbare #Cluster, #VMs, #LXC und #Cloud Computing.
#Proxmox auf #VPS #Root #Server, #pfsense, #NAT, #WAN, #LAN #iptables #docker #portainer

https://blog.jbvfx.de/2022/04/proxmox-ve-auf-vps-root-server-pfsense-nat-wan-lan/