peter hessler - inactiveSep 15, 2017

Computing history time!

While Open Source was a thing before then, OpenBSD was the first group to have readonly, anonymous, and immediate availability of the source code (as changes are being made) for everyone, with anoncvs in 1995.

Before anoncvs was available, many groups would release a tarball of the source code, or the whole repo, next to the binaries.

song - https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#61
paper - https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf
slides - https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-slides.pdf

#openbsd #opensource #cvsweb #history

OpenBSD: Release Songs

the OpenBSD release song lyrics page

Show threadpeter hessler - inactiveSep 15, 2017
Birdsite user fanf brought this up, and has a thread about it at https://twitter.com/fanf/status/908469504258211842
Tony Finch on Twitter

“A friend tells me he regrets migrating cvs -> svn -> git because he would have been better off skipping svn”

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Show threadcynicalsecurity ->@bsd.networkSep 15, 2017
@phessler ah, fanf… he used to run mercury.cam.ac.uk, the mail machine which used to be an IBM but running Cambridge's very own OS! Few remember…
Show threadpeter hessler - inactiveSep 15, 2017
@cynicalsecurity crazy! was that back in the 80s, when it was somewhat common to have "your own" OS?
Show threadcynicalsecurity ->@bsd.networkSep 15, 2017
@phessler er… well into the '90s
Show threadpeter hessler - inactiveSep 15, 2017
@cynicalsecurity I somewhat regret not paying attention to those things at the time. I suppose my main excuse was "we only had macs at home".
Show threadcynicalsecurity ->@bsd.networkSep 15, 2017
@phessler I had left home by then ;) My "past" is computing in the '70s and '80s
Show threadpeter hessler - inactiveSep 15, 2017

@cynicalsecurity I'm "young" enough, that I was "certifying"[1] things to be y2k compliant in my final year of high school.

[1] we would put post-it notes on things that didn't contain electricity, certifying them as being prepared for the year 2000 ;).

Show threadcynicalsecurity ->@bsd.networkSep 15, 2017
@phessler I have an email by Ross Anderson of Security Engineering fame telling me to go get rich in the City instead of applying for a PhD with him in Cambridge… I so should have followed his advice…
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@cynicalsecurity yea, I should have ran to SF and immediately gotten a job before the dot-com crash.

life would have been radically different, had I done that...

Sep 15, 2017 at 6:42pmWeb
Show threadStefan SperlingSep 15, 2017
@phessler @cynicalsecurity That, or you could have bought some bitcoin in 2011...
Show threadpeter hessler - inactiveSep 15, 2017
@stsp @cynicalsecurity hell, I should have gotten my own Legacy IP addresses.
Show threadcynicalsecurity ->@bsd.networkSep 15, 2017
@phessler @stsp A Class B when we filled in ASCII forms and mailed them in!
Show threadpeter hessler - inactiveSep 15, 2017
@cynicalsecurity @stsp I didn't want to be greedy, just a few Class Cs ;)
Show threadcynicalsecurity ->@bsd.networkSep 15, 2017
@phessler @stsp you got Bs just asking when I started…
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@cynicalsecurity @stsp wow. just crazy.

but then again, subnetting was hard.

Show threadcynicalsecurity ->@bsd.networkSep 15, 2017
@stsp @phessler just like getting 3ffe:: space when I started messing with IPv6, that was another fun ride with stacks being creative and the only system which kept running the tunnels was… BSD!
Show threadpeter hessler - inactiveSep 15, 2017
@cynicalsecurity @stsp I think I used some 3ffe:: space. Probably when I first got to see the dancing kame turtle :)
Show threadpeter hessler - inactiveSep 15, 2017
@cynicalsecurity *after I graduated HS. instead, I bummed around town for a year, then moved to SF and got a shitty job at Radio Shack. by the time I entered The Industry, the crash was growing quite ugly.
Show threadcynicalsecurity ->@bsd.networkSep 15, 2017
@phessler well, at least you didn't try your own startup like I did and see it go bust because <a gazillion reasons>. I should have done Y2K in the City just like Ross Anderson said…