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  1. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #novell #netware #icebrowser

    Catch of the Day: Surfing in the Server Room! 🦖💾

    Hey Retro Fans and IT Veterans!

    Sometimes our FrogFind radar catches exotics that make even hardcore system administrators rub their eyes in disbelief. Forget old handhelds or consoles—today we are diving deep into the flickering neon lights of the corporate server rooms of the early 2000s.

    Our bouncer logged this majestic user agent:
    Mozilla/5.0 (NetWare; U; NetWare 6.50.08; en-US) ICEbrowser/6.1.2 NovellViewPort/3.7.2

    For anyone who entered IT after 1995: We are talking about Novell NetWare 6.5! This was not a system for browsing or gaming. NetWare was the undisputed file and print server operating system that practically kept every corporate network running back in the day. An absolute workhorse.

    But how does a NetWare server end up on FrogFind? The answer lies in the ICEbrowser tag. To display help files or the "Novell Remote Manager" directly at the server rack on the graphical emergency console, Novell had embedded a tiny, Java-written browser from ICEsoft. It was never intended to explore the open World Wide Web!

    The fact that now, over 20 years later, someone is literally (or via remote connection) sitting in front of this server legend, opening the graphical console, hijacking the rudimentary Java help viewer, and using it to ping FrogFind is absolute top-tier retro computing. FrogFind delivers even to this pure server operating system the bare HTML it needs to read today's world.

    Cheers to the unknown admin keeping this server alive! May your disk arrays never fail.

    Your FrogFind Team 🐸

  2. Back In The Day - early/mid 90s - I saw (or possibly ) demo a version of on some funky PC hardware where you could add and remove physical CPUs and memory on the fly. Does anyone remember what that hardware was?

    And does anyone know when this feature will be added to ? It's just that my testing VM has just started swapping, and I'd like to allocate more memory without having to stop it.

  3. I worked at two, maybe three places that ran #Novell netware but I never got into any of the admin side.
    Based on this the second picture in this toot techhub.social/@Sonikku/116307 Relevant text from a Seagate hard drive label is
    "Novell Netware Ready
    Formatting, Compsurfing or surface scanning will DESTROY Netware ready signature on this drive"
    What was #compsurfing in the context of Novell? I found like 3 posts and it seems to be some fragile way of imprinting a license key into the hard drive but I would love to know more.

  4. @cathill scanner and laser printer on different floors. Networked. #Novell #Netware etc

  5. I made a customized wallpaper to fit lightdm-greeter in Linux Mint. I only moved the login box to the center of the screen and applied the wallpaper in the login manager. So we can't really call it a theme..

    #LinuxCustomization #plymouth #LinuxMint #mint #DailyDesktop #ShareYourDesktop #Linux #novell

  6. Here is a small video from my Novell Plymouth theme. The resolution not not good but it does what it needs to do. Recorded from KVM.

    #LinuxCustomization #plymouth #LinuxMint #mint #DailyDesktop #ShareYourDesktop #Linux #novell

  7. I have made my own Plymouth Theme based on the original Novell logo and added the old spinner. Last updated: sudo update-initramfs -u

    #LinuxCustomization #RetroComputing #LinuxMint" #novell

  8. If people don't get why I'm strict with #LinuxDistribution, then you should read up on the history of various #licenses, #technology and the #companies involved.

    Everybody wants #Linux to be captured territory. Even #Google wanted that, but seeing as they failed, welcome #Fuscia.

    #Microsoft? #Ximian & #Novell were attempts at embracing, expanding and extinguishing the #LinuxDesktop from a proxy.

    There should be zero tolerance for games played by #SpecialInterests.

  9. If people don't get why I'm strict with #LinuxDistribution, then you should read up on the history of various #licenses, #technology and the #companies involved.

    Everybody wants #Linux to be captured territory. Even #Google wanted that, but seeing as they failed, welcome #Fuscia.

    #Microsoft? #Ximian & #Novell were attempts at embracing, expanding and extinguishing the #LinuxDesktop from a proxy.

    There should be zero tolerance for games played by #SpecialInterests.

  10. If people don't get why I'm strict with #LinuxDistribution, then you should read up on the history of various #licenses, #technology and the #companies involved.

    Everybody wants #Linux to be captured territory. Even #Google wanted that, but seeing as they failed, welcome #Fuscia.

    #Microsoft? #Ximian & #Novell were attempts at embracing, expanding and extinguishing the #LinuxDesktop from a proxy.

    There should be zero tolerance for games played by #SpecialInterests.

  11. If people don't get why I'm strict with #LinuxDistribution, then you should read up on the history of various #licenses, #technology and the #companies involved.

    Everybody wants #Linux to be captured territory. Even #Google wanted that, but seeing as they failed, welcome #Fuscia.

    #Microsoft? #Ximian & #Novell were attempts at embracing, expanding and extinguishing the #LinuxDesktop from a proxy.

    There should be zero tolerance for games played by #SpecialInterests.

  12. If people don't get why I'm strict with #LinuxDistribution, then you should read up on the history of various #licenses, #technology and the #companies involved.

    Everybody wants #Linux to be captured territory. Even #Google wanted that, but seeing as they failed, welcome #Fuscia.

    #Microsoft? #Ximian & #Novell were attempts at embracing, expanding and extinguishing the #LinuxDesktop from a proxy.

    There should be zero tolerance for games played by #SpecialInterests.

  13. Ciekawy artykuł opisujący, siłą rzeczy dość skrótowo, perypetie firmy SCO i jej batalii prawnej, najpierw przeciw IBM, a potem ogólnie przeciw linuksowi.
    Jak wynika z artykułu, batalia zakończyła się w 2016 roku, ma jedna swój ciąg dalszy, co mnie cokolwiek zaskoczyło...

    #linux #SCO #Novell #Microsoft #opensource #IBM

    opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/

  14. @isotopp
    Bei solchen Meldungen muss ich immer an meinen einstieg in die IT denken. Wir haben anfang der 90er die #CNE-Zertifizierung gemacht, weil wir damit kostenlos Tickets beim Support von #Novell aufmachen konnten. Das war damals ein echter Mehrwert.

  15. Hallo #GlobalTalk people! Can you still see the zone BabCom?
    I've changed my AURP setup - removed AIR and made #Novell #NetWare 4.11 my AURP router system!
    I can see many zones, although I've only added 3 IPs right now (unknown connections are allowed).
    I'm just working on a method to update the AURP IP list. :)

  16. Sådär! Nu är jag färdig med novellen jag ska ha med i kursens antologi.

    Temat är varning och titeln är omen på antoligisamlingen.

    Ni får se om ni tycker jag lyckas med detta :)

    Trevlig läsning!

    text.bitar.se/planerat-avbrott

    #novell #kreativtskrivande

  17. [Перевод] История S.u.S.E. Кульминация

    Продолжение истории про зарождение и развитие дистрибутива SuSE. В прошлой части мы остановились на том, что в декабре 2001 года компания выпустила SuSE Linux Enterprise Server для мейнфреймов IBM S/390. В тот же год в США произошла рецессия, которая ощутимо сказалась на делах компании. Продолжим…

    habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/ar

    #ruvds_перевод #unix #linux #kde #история_it #suse #suse_linux_enterprise #opensuse #novell #micro_focus #attachmate #eqt_ab

  18. [Перевод] История S.u.S.E. Кульминация

    Продолжение истории про зарождение и развитие дистрибутива SuSE. В прошлой части мы остановились на том, что в декабре 2001 года компания выпустила SuSE Linux Enterprise Server для мейнфреймов IBM S/390. В тот же год в США произошла рецессия, которая ощутимо сказалась на делах компании. Продолжим…

    habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/ar

    #ruvds_перевод #unix #linux #kde #история_it #suse #suse_linux_enterprise #opensuse #novell #micro_focus #attachmate #eqt_ab

  19. [Перевод] История S.u.S.E. Кульминация

    Продолжение истории про зарождение и развитие дистрибутива SuSE. В прошлой части мы остановились на том, что в декабре 2001 года компания выпустила SuSE Linux Enterprise Server для мейнфреймов IBM S/390. В тот же год в США произошла рецессия, которая ощутимо сказалась на делах компании. Продолжим…

    habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/ar

    #ruvds_перевод #unix #linux #kde #история_it #suse #suse_linux_enterprise #opensuse #novell #micro_focus #attachmate #eqt_ab

  20. [Перевод] История S.u.S.E. Кульминация

    Продолжение истории про зарождение и развитие дистрибутива SuSE. В прошлой части мы остановились на том, что в декабре 2001 года компания выпустила SuSE Linux Enterprise Server для мейнфреймов IBM S/390. В тот же год в США произошла рецессия, которая ощутимо сказалась на делах компании. Продолжим…

    habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/ar

    #ruvds_перевод #unix #linux #kde #история_it #suse #suse_linux_enterprise #opensuse #novell #micro_focus #attachmate #eqt_ab

  21. Här är en personbeskrivning jag skrev i kursen. Vi hade en inhandlinglista som vi utgick ifrån. Baserat på den så kom Britta till liv. En föreningsaktiv vänstersosse som har fått nog av fascistpropagandan i Strängnäs

    text.bitar.se/personbeskrivnin

    #novell #kreativtskrivande

  22. Sådär! Nu är jag igång med kursen och har fixat en ny blogg för texter jag producerar där.

    Här är min första text. Det är en novell jag skrev som textprov för min ansökan till Jakobsbergs folkhögskola.

    text.bitar.se/svalorna-flyger-

    #novell #kreativtskrivande

  23. 🌐 Dive into the history of the networking giants that once ruled the IT world: Wang Laboratories, Banyan Systems, and Novell. Discover their rise, dominance, and eventual decline in the ever-evolving tech landscape. 📉💻

    Read more: linuxexpert.org/the-rise-and-f

    #NetworkingHistory #TechGiants #LinuxExpert #ITHistory #LegacySystems #WangLabs #BanyanSystems #Novell #EnterpriseIT