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Journal Journal: It is 2025 and Slashdot doesn't support IPv6?

Journal by grub
I've been migrating all my stuff to IPv6 because I'm retarded and felt like (another) winter project.

So I have a Debian VM that is IPv6-only for testing things out, general browsing, etc. and see that Slashdot doesn't support IPv6? One would think a tech site would have been onboard with this years ago.

Comment Re:Windows/NT ! From the makers of edlin! (Score 4, Interesting) 167

by Jeremiah Cornelius (#65065213) Attached to: How the OS/2 Flop Went On To Shape Modern Software
Some quibbles: IBM prevented 32-bit OS/2 for 80386 not from bad planning, but an internal struggle to keep 32-bit PCs from biting into the AS400 mini computer business, and there were internal wars for the board approvals.

This was the end of the line for Gates's frustration with IBM, as OS/2 took resources from projects he and Balmer were convinced would take off. Publicly claiming that upcoming Windows 3.0 would not be "Presentation Manager Lite", MS still death-marched developers to produce the release, while devs allotted to IBM sat on their hands or did code reviews for IBM managers. Win 3.0 Program Manager kicked ass on Presentation Manager, it was definitely not "lite" - and it ditched all the heavy-baggage of IBM SNA requirements.

"OS/2 NT" is a bit misleading. Late in the endgame of the IBM/MS relationship, Gates discovered that Dave Cutler was being cut away from DEC, with a recalibration of Prism and the future of Alpha. Cutler had begun a 64-bit microkernel evolution of his VMS system. OS/2 3.0 was on the boards, still dragging MS resources and tying up IP. Gates hired Cutler to build an alternative, skunk works kernel from his Prism design work, with the hope of porting the Windows System 32 layer with dependencies etc. When the last bitter contract work was delivered for IBM, Cutler and the Windows team ground out the hard work of delivering their kernel, TCP stack, and Windows 3.11 port —Windows NT.

Most of this stuff is well-covered in Carroll's "Big Blues" along with Zachary's "Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT". I had a small part at the NT launch in Moscone Center, working for a ghost-writer on the Sybex NT book that launched at that event

Comment Re:Slashdot Ad Blocking Extra Broken (Score 2) 40

I'm probably the lowest UID still occasionally active on Slashdot. It's a habit, that I'd be sorry to see go. This site is still my first pinned tab in Firefox.

Hell, I still even check things out on https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Feverything.blockstacke..., even though they are throwing me an expired cert right now!

Remember Blockstackers?

Comment Here's the Guardian posting an arse cover. (Score 5, Insightful) 155

"It was a failure of technology" copout for incompetence and negligence. The Guardian is up for this ride and will pay for the gas.

Multiple people "detected the shooter" for nearly a half-hour, including the whole unit of police, operating out of the same building that shooter Crooks had taken position.

Comment Re:Will they ... (Score 1) 86

This is why there have been attempts to package Rosetta2 to run on Asahi Linux. That has been kind of stale for a year. Apple did good work to make any Intel binary run in a M-series Linux ARM VM on their virtualization.

I have run a lot of Linux hardware since the 90's. With a couple of beta niggles, I've never had any workstation smoke like the M1 or M2. Kinda have high hopes for the new Snapdragon Surface.

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