nineteen999

Beginning with ME (Management Engine) firmware version 11 (found on Skylake CPUs and newer), Intel utilizes a customized version of the MINIX 3 microkernel operating system.

Somewhat ironic Postfix has a record of no root/RCE in the default install, where opensmptd hasn't (CVE-2020-7247). Time will tell if it stays that way.

Or Bach.

I didn't say I was any good at them! Just like my text editor.

That's actually funny, because I play both.

I consider my vi/vim skills to be extremely minimalist subset, and probably horribly inefficient, since they were developed to work accross a broad range of UNIX systems (SCO, Solaris, HP-UX, OSF, AIX) and I rarely add anything to my vim configs on top of that other than syntax highlighting.

But I'd still rather use it than just about any other text editor, just for the simplicity of that muscle memory alone. I have way more stuff to keep in my head than I have room for and I can't afford to expend more than about 0.0001% of context on a text editor.

Back in the 1990's I was fond of it for the community spirit, the attention to detail, the way things "just worked" even it had a particular take on some things. Over time it felt like it became burderned with design-by-committee decisions, maintainers leaving and abandoning packages faster than they could replace them, and just a bit too political.

Fedora is upstream for RHEL, which is absolutely dominant in the server space some sectors that require enterprise support.

Yeah perhaps learning UNIX API's and Rust at the same time doesn't lead to a drop in replacement ready to be shipped in major distributions. Who whould have thunk it.

This is obvious within about 3 seconds of opening the article, noticing it's filled with coloured M&M's, and closing it again.

A different "network-aware" concept of this was "aide", that allowed the checksums to be stored on a server, for mutiple clients. [1]

Had some drawbacks compared to using offline media of course, but in day to day operation on an air-gapped network it had its uses.

Also worth knowing is the "-V" (for very parameter) of rpm.

[1] https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFNmwFpyB3E&t=7s

Oh. My. God. Will the LISP community ever stop MOANING? It is the consistently most depressing, woe-is-me wailing in the entire IT segment.

You guys are depressing.

Once you've taken most all of the other subsystems out of NT (which they pretty much have), all you're left with is is the crapload in the Windows subsystem.

Im a 3D artist not a pixel artist but I've had these Saint11 tutorial series bookmarked for a while:

https://saint11.art/blog/pixel-art-tutorials/

My own retro 8-bit inspired VT100 terminal emulator called 8btty, mostly running Claude Code, either native build or integrated into the Unreal Engine 5 interface.

The "gimbal lock" on a 2D sphere didn't clue you in?

And you can also argue that that's overengineered (the original NT design docs were posted on here a while ago), that the UNIX model (while much more primitive and simplified) has proven more successful in the real world, and that the original "clean, overengineered" NT design has been buried under a progressively bigger truckload of crap year upon year and is no longer as clean as it once was.

Yeah was thinking exactly the same thing.

You don't want to work for IBM unless your life is already over. Been there, done that, never again. It's depressing as hell. Your manager doesn't understand what you do, and they think that once your contract expires you'll be sitting around for weeks waiting for them to renew it.

Stratus VOS ran on a bunch of non-x86 hardware, i860, PA-RISC, 68000. It wasn't Windows (UNIX admin with a modicum of Stratus VOS experience in production, back in the day).

Exactly. The exact opposite of the people flogging internet widgets running on a bunch of AWS instances running Arch/Ubuntu/Cheap distro of the week. Unfortunately that contingent is massively over-represented here on HN.

Im surprised how often this question is asked by people who really have no clue and refuse to do even the most basic research on a company.

Also they overflow into your seat when you're on a plane flight. And the smell.

As somebody who administers several large DB2 clusters all linked together with multiple replication modes (HADR, SQLREP) for an emergency services communication platform, I can confirm this. It's pretty damn rock solid even on Linux these days.

Though I don't know for sure whether this is a side effect of their neurotype or of their societal treatment.

You omitted "self-reinforced stereotype" from that list.

You don't think customers are going to figure that out by talking to each other and comparing prices on the spot?

Do you ever talk to other humans IRL?

The prices are literally marked on the shelves.

They may have meant .exe

Which is pretty much how morals are decided these days, especially for the non-autistic / "neurotypical" population

Give it a break. Nothing isolates "neurodivergent" people from the rest of society faster than treating neurotypical people as a morally inferior out-group.