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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ip6li @heiseonline nein.

Wenn ich die @BaFin wäre würde ich jenen #Technologiestack von #Microsoft wegen #CloudAct als unzulässig erklären da im Zweifelsfalle nicht die #ITsicherheit und #Verfügbarkeit geschäftskritischer Systeme und Vorgänge gewährleistbar ist!

  • Gab gute Gründe warum #OS2 lange bei #Banken genutzt wurde und warum die #SLES & #RHEL zeitgleich bei RZ-Infra nutzen!

Hintergrund: Ich hab auch schon fürn Zahlungsdienstleister als IT'ler gearbeitet. Die #BaFin verlangte u.a. reproduzierbar wiederherstellbare IT-Infrastruktur von Null + Backups!

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

#WasFehlt: vorgeschriebene #Kindersicherung bei #Koaxialkabel|n und #Kabelsanschluss-Dosen...

Denn so sieht das aus wenn ein [mutmaßliches Nachbars-] Kind mutmaßlich ne Büroklammer in ne Kabeldose klemmt:

Wenigstens ne Art Abdeckkappe wie bei Herdanschluss wäre 1NICE!

Und ja, #SharedMedia wie #GPON / #XGPON sind nur was #Funkstörungen angeht weniger problematisch als #DOCSIS-#Kabel!

#technikeristinformiert
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

How OS/2 flop went on to shape modern #software
#Windows3 beat #OS2 because #IBM insisted that OS/2 ran on #80286, which crippled the new #OS. IBM's determination to serve its customers with 80286 PS/2s, and keep a promise, resulted in OS/2 being a failure. That is what allowed #Microsoft #Windows to gain the upper hand.
Soon after Windows 3.0 turned out to be a hit, OS/2 NT was rebranded as #WindowsNT. Even ardent Linux enthusiasts must concede Windows NT did quite well. go.theregister.com/feed/www.th

The Register · How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern softwareBy Liam Proven
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ClemensG

Gerade eine Auftragsbestätigung unseres damaligen Computergeschäfts in die Hand bekommen. Spannend, welche Teile damals in die von uns gebauten Rechner reinkamen vor genau einem Vierteljahrhundert. Z.B. ein AMD K6-2 mit 300 MHz. Oder ein RAM Riegel 64 MB. Alles ausreichend für unsere damaligen Lieblings-Betriebssysteme OS/2 und Suse-Linux. Hach ...

#OS2 #Linux #AMD #1999

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faraiwe

Some folks think I am some sort of #Linux worship fiend.

Nothing further from the truth; I simply admire that, in an age of near absolute #enshittification of most commercial software, the whole #FOSS thing seems to prove itself, time and time again, as a process (community created, refined and supported) that generates Things That Work. Because their objective IS to make it work, not generate "value for shareholders" and help CEOs buy their fifth yacht.

I have oodles and buckets of things to pick at, regarding Linux. Monolithic kernel?? Really?? What is this, 1960s? You manage memory HOW? Oh. The list goes on and on, don't get me started.

I was a serious enthusiast of the myriad of alternative OSes, in the Cambrian-like explosion of diversity of the 90s. So much diverse, curious, ingenious, brilliant solutions and notions! #BeOS, #OS2 #QNX (ok, 1980s), #Plan9OS, #ReactOS, to name a few out of so, so many other great Alt OSs of the time...

Compared to those, Linux seemed to actually freeze and stall evolution, sticking to the limitations of the vision by Torvalds (sorry, man, it's true, plenty of admiration for the guy, but dropped the ball on that kernel) at the time of its inception.

However, being the mainstay of FOSS, I use it, champion it, and defend it against ANYTHING commercial.

Until someone truly resurrects BeOS (eeeeh #Haiku ... eh....) lol

There.

/rant

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movq

OS/2’s shadows are somewhat similar to symbolic links or Windows’ shortcuts, but different: The exist only as a feature in the GUI, not in the filesystem. The good thing is that you can’t break a shadow’s link by renaming the original/target. The bad thing is, well, they don’t exist in the filesystem. 😅 That feels particularly odd to me, given my heavily UNIX-focused perspective.

“Shadow” is kind of an unexpected name, too. In the German version, this is called “Referenz” (reference), which is quite a bit more intuitive, I think. 🤔

GIF
#RetroComputing#OS2#IBMOS2
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Still trying to customize the keyboard layout on OS/2.

None of the resources I can find indicate that any file other than KEYBOARD.DCP is involved. And yet, my modifications only work in an OS/2 command window but not GUI applications.

I’m stuck. Might be time to ask for help … if I can find someone who still knows about this stuff. 🤔

#RetroComputing#OS2#IBMOS2
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Tomi

It has been … how long? 25 years? Probably.

I’ve been in love with OS/2 in one of my previous lives. While everybody around me praised and used Windows 95 at that time, I stubbornly stuck to OS2 Warp 4.0.

It ran Windows and DOS apps better than Win and DOS. The best thing was object-oriented desktop and Rexx scripting language.

Back to 2024. I wanted to taste it again. Fired up a VirtualBox, downloaded .iso installation disk from https://gekk.info/os2_ovas/, checked instructions at https://gekk.info/articles/os2.html and it installed it no time. I immediately felt 25 years younger.

But … after a while of playing with it, it doesn’t feel the same. It feels clunky and I forgot how to configure it.

Nevertheless, I managed to configure networking (at least ping is working), but there is no web browser included.

I had to search for it.

And while the Hobbes archive is no longer alive, there are other archives of OS/2 software (https://www.os2site.com/sw/).

I found Netscape, but I can’t install it. I tried also other programs (my favourite graphical editor Embellish), but I can’t install either. Don’t know why, but .exe files won’t run.

Have to research a bit… another rabbit hole, here I come.

Tags: #os2 #warp #retrocomputing

https://blog.rozman.info/os-2-nostalgia/

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movq

I guess finding out how to customize the keyboard layout on OS/2 is going to be one of my next projects. It’s quite annoying to be stuck with the standard layouts. On Linux, I made some adjustments to the standard German layout and I’ve been using that since ~2010 now. There must be a way to do the same on OS/2 – just gotta find out how. 🤔 (Famous last words.)

www.uninformativ.dexorg - keyboard-layouts-3000 - [DesktopEnv] Customized keyboard layouts for X11 and the Linux VT
#RetroComputing#OS2#IBMOS2
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