Notes

Reviewing user authentication and telnet negotiation, and implementing a half-assed ordinal suffix function

https://jcs.org/2021/12/10/userauth

TIL that Xsnow by @rckjnsn@twitter.com started out as a desk accessory for Macs and was later ported to X11, and Rick still maintains a version for modern macOS

I dug this System 6-compatible version out of a Usenet archive, though snow doesn't accumulate on top of windows like Xsnow

I don't think in my decades of using Unix that I've ever needed to look up a file's atime, and most of my machines now have all partitions mounted `noatime`. Is there any practical need for file access times, especially one worth the overhead incurred updating them?

I’m working on a new System 6 C programming project and I needed a cooperative threading mechanism which didn’t exist in System 6, so I created one

https://jcs.org/2021/12/01/uthread

The VAIO SX12 "All Black Edition" was offered with an optional blank keyboard, but only in Japan

https://news.vaio.com/sx12_propj_20190709/

Installed a new blank keyboard on my @FrameworkPuter@twitter.com laptop

The Apple Macintosh as a User Interface Agent for Unix Systems (1988)

https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/9478/collier_thesis.pdf

I added this to OpenBSD in 2004 and it's since propagated to FreeBSD in 2009, NetBSD in 2019, and now DragonFly.

It was my first kernel/C contribution and I had no idea what I was doing but Theo was very supportive and helped me figure it out.
https://twitter.com/dragonflybsd/status/1462950871151652864

So many I/O errors :(

A friend of mine was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and needs to find a suitable blood stem cell donor

If you're in the US and are between 18 and 40 years old, please join the BeTheMatch registry to see if you match

https://my.bethematch.org/s/join?language=en_US&joinCode=Speed2ACure&refUrl=ENDREFURL

Hey I know a Rich Siegel from Twitter... @siegel@twitter.com

To the youths:

Good thing I added caching to
http://plan.cat last year...

mfw someone leaves a 1-star review for pushover saying they won't pay the one-time $4.99 and are going to setup their own self-hosted solution for "free"

Ok false alarm, I don't think it's related to that FreeBSD corruption issue. I filed a new issue for my crash and rolled back to mariadb-{server,client} 10.5.9 packages for now:

https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-27064

There's a warning on
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-1064-release-notes/ (thanks @jimh_@twitter.com) about file corruption on FreeBSD (
https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-26537) which might be the same issue. I'll have to debug after my hair is no longer on fire.

Just a heads up for anyone else having MariaDB crashes on OpenBSD 7.0.

I upgraded an OpenBSD server from 6.9 to 7.0 the other day which updated MariaDB server from 10.5.9 to 10.6.4 and mariadbd started crashing this evening with an InnoDB assertion failure on a specific query (reproducible) even after a clean re-import of the entire database. \

Some thoughts on selling things on Tindie

https://jcs.org/2021/11/15/tindie

Install Disk 1 of Giant Stack

I am Menu Works old
https://twitter.com/aarcamp/status/1456394714312228869