Mastodawn

Beim nächsten VCFe ziemlich sicher nicht in der Ausstellung zu sehen, aber vielleicht bei einer der Exkursionen in die datArena München: MIPS R6000 CPUs. Ausgeführt in stromhungriger aber schneller ECL-Technik. Das Foto zeigt das CPU-Board eines Control Data 4680 Servers aus 1990, betrieben unter den Unix-Derivat EP/IX. #VCFe #VCFe25.0 #vintagecomputing #mips #r6000 #ecl #controldata

Carsten Strotmann 4d ago

JP Mens 5d ago

BIND 9: intent to deprecate the file-based newzones (NZF) mechanism (used by `rndc addzone/delzone') in favor of LMDB-based newzones database (NZD)

https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2026-March/110528.html

Deprecation notice for BIND 9.21/9.22+

Carsten Strotmann 4d ago

jbz Mar 14

Computing in freedom with GNU #Emacs https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-03-13-computing-in-freedom-with-gnu-emacs/

Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs

A holistic introduction to Emacs: how useful it is and how it champions free software.

Protesilaos Stavrou

Carsten Strotmann 4d ago

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Velocipede Rider Mar 13

Here is a fun thing. I work for Vivaldi Browser. Load any of our websites and you see no cookie banner and no mention of partners.

https://vivaldi.com

"But wait" you say, "didn't those terrible Europeans mandate the cookie banner!?"

No, no they did not. We do not need a cookie banner because we are not selling all your shit to every company under the sun.

Also those sites with cookie banners are just doing malicious compliance. This was never about the EU requiring cookie banners!

Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser

It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!

Vivaldi Browser

Carsten Strotmann 5d ago

And an update to the DNS-resolver checks script

https://github.com/cstrotm/dns-resolver-monitoring

#DNS #DNSSEC #monitoring

Carsten Strotmann 5d ago

Update for the DNS (zone/authoritative) monitoring test suite

https://github.com/cstrotm/dns-monitoring-scripts

#dns #dnssec #monitoring

GitHub - cstrotm/dns-monitoring-scripts: Simple shell scripts for DNS and DNSSEC monitoring

Simple shell scripts for DNS and DNSSEC monitoring - cstrotm/dns-monitoring-scripts

GitHub

Carsten Strotmann Mar 14

Vom 1.-3. Mai 2026 findet zum 24ten Mal das VCFe (Vintage Computer Festival Europe) in München statt.

Es wird tolle historische Rechner und interessante Vorträge geben. Wer hat noch eine interessante Hardware im Keller oder eine tolle Geschichte im Kopf, oder ein Retro-Computer Projekt zu zeigen?

Wir haben noch einige (wenige) Vortrags-Slots frei.

Bei Interesse meldet euch hier bei mir oder per E-Mail bei der Orga:
https://www.vcfe.org/D/Vortraege.html

VCFe.org

Vintage Computer Festival Event Information

vcfe.org

Carsten Strotmann Mar 13

Does anyone run the YADIFA DNS Server (https://yadifa.eu/) in production? I would be interested in stories about this piece of open source software. How widespread is it deployed?

#DNS #dnsserver #Yadifa