[HECnet] JBEIL IS UP! (was Re: ULTRIX DECNET LMF?)

Sampsa Laine sampsa at mac.com
Thu Apr 23 16:51:03 PDT 2015


OK, challenge accepted.

sampsa


On 24 Apr 2015, at 00:46, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> I believe so.
> 
> Hmmm. That means..... Okay how about posting a riddle in both English
> characters, and that script regarding who won the Punic War, and what
> was the theme behind it. Hint, it had to do with elephants.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
>> WOOOOHOOOOO my second Beirut-hosted system is up, JBEIL (8.225).
>> 
>> It doesn't do much but I did install the Pascal and VAX C compilers when prompted, so maybe that'll be of some use to somebody.
>> 
>> Let me know if you want an account.
>> 
>> 
>> PS: Jbeil, AKA Byblos, is a town about 30 miles north of my window where they invented the alphabet. I believe I now need to make a nice /etc/issue file for it in Punic script.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 24 Apr 2015, at 00:33, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Herp, the product code is DECNET-ULTRIX...
>>> 
>>> Well that wasn't so hard :)
>>> 
>>> sampsa
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 24 Apr 2015, at 00:31, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I wonder which binary, ncp?
>>>> 
>>>> I think this shit is all patched into the kernel - but I shall start looking with my trusty hex editor and strings.
>>>> 
>>>> Sampsa
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 24 Apr 2015, at 00:30, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 04/23/2015 07:03 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>>>>>> Any of you happen to know what the correct LMF code for ULTRIX-32 4.0 DECNET happens to be?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I know a guy who knows a guy with pakgen *cough* so I could get the necessary licenses but we don't know what the product codes are....
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hm.  Run "strings" on the binary, maybe?
>>>>> 
>>>>>       -Dave
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
>>>>> New Kensington, PA
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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