Notices tagged with ibm

@n_dimension I had a similar thought today, after the small town where I once went to school mutated into a pro-Israel monster thanks to #SAP HQ #germany (handschake) #IBM, and Americans took over the agenda of the town council 😬

@villebooks

History repeats.
#IBM worked with the Nazis...
And with the specter of rogue state of USA starting WW3, #AlphabetInc is working with the Nazis again...

root@zinc:/# file /opt/fractal/bin/bash
/opt/fractal/bin/bash: executable (RISC System/6000) or object module not stripped
root@zinc:/# /opt/fractal/bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.4.18(2)-release (powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0)
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
root@zinc:/#

uh.... anyone want a copy of #bash 4.4 for #IBM #AIX 5.1?

I just bought a domain to replicate the old support sites for old computers. So old #sun workstations, #ibm PowerPC stuff, #SGI things. (Actual domain TBA)

The thinking is to get together all of the patches, firmware updates, operating system install media, etc. for these old systems. So that not everyone has to go spelunking through archive.org and forgotten FTP mirrors.

What kind of information would you want to see? Would you be willing to contribute information!

#retrocomputing

Attention, DOS gamers: Polyplay is releasing its first pure #MS-DOS game for #IBM and compatible computers: Alien Intruder is a single screen jump-and-shoot arcade platformer. You have 60 seconds to rescue all the crew members captured by the aliens on each stage before running to the exit. Order now: http://rtro.de/alienintruder
#DOSgame #Retrogame

“The totally cool way to run and network your computer” sounds just as stupid as it did when I first got these boxes. I paid $2 for them at a HAM radio convention 11 years ago and they’ve just been sitting sealed ever since. Got them out of storage today and I think I’ll open them. (Thread time.)

Edit so I can find this thread later: OS/2 IBM #OS2 #IBM #OS2Warp

(3/3)…I've spent my entire career using #IBM laptops knowing this…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
…& then after IBM sold #Lenovo, I was then using laptops made by people w/ strong ties to a human-rights-violating regime.

So, let's have perspective: IBM has still never apologized for *literally* helping the Nazis & #Framework may still be the “least evil” of *traditional* laptop companies.

But, this incident does make me wanna desperately find way to make @mntmn's #MNTReform suit my computing needs.

Nachdem #redhat ein etwas größeres #upsi hatte und Zugriff auf Infrastrukturplanung von/für Kunden möglich war bin ich gespannt ob morgen noch Flughäfen, Banken, Versicherungen, Infrastrukturanbieter und Paketdienste funktionieren.

Seit der Laden zu #ibm gehört, hört man nur schlechtes. Deswegen nutzen wir bei LinuxNews Debian, Company-owned Distros müssen draußen bleiben!

https://www.borncity.com/blog/2025/10/02/security-news-google-t-mobile-gehackt/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/red-hat-confirms-security-incident-after-hackers-claim-github-breach/

US Tech Companies Enabled the Surveillance and Detention of Hundreds of Thousands in China

#HumanRightsAbuses #TechComplicity #ChinaSurveillance #IBM #FacialRecognition

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/09/1124247/us-tech-companies-enabled-the-surveillance-and-detention-of-hundreds-of-thousands-in-china

#IBM once provided the technical tools for a Holocaust. #Microsoft is following in their footsteps. "Sariel’s solution, according to an intelligence officer who served under him at the time, was to start “tracking everyone, all the time.” https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-8200-intelligence-surveillance-cloud-azure/

Microsoft Ends Tradition of Naming Competitors in Regulatory Filings

#Microsoft #IBM #Challengers #Apple #CompetitorNaming

https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/31/1641202/microsoft-ends-tradition-of-naming-competitors-in-regulatory-filings

“Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft.”

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/23/microsoft-hub-israeli-intel/

#microsoft #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #BigTech #capitalism #fascism #IBM #Holocaust

US-Autoritarismus und die Techabhängigkeiten der EU

Die Liste der Techabhängigkeiten der EU von den USA ist lang und der Weg zur Unabhängigkeit beschwerlich. Aber die EU muss ihn gehen, finden unsere Autoren.

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/US-Autoritarismus-und-die-Techabhaengigkeiten-der-EU-10383267.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#AmazonWebServices #CloudComputing #EU #Google #IBM #Facebook #Microsoft #Netzpolitik #Oracle #news

I could also save the computer that went with the keyboard, an #IBM PS/2 model 30 with a screen that seems to be monochrome. I could not resist saving also a #SUN #SPARCstation 5, that I found there. I don’t know if they work, and they stayed one night under heavy rain. I will check them also to remove #batteries. #retrocomputing

I could save an #IBM model M #keyboard that was about to be sent to the e-waste. It is the dirtiest keyboard I have ever seen 😅 But it works and will be cleaned. It is in a good shape, too! #mechanicalkeyboard

Well, I could put together again the #IBM model M keyboard. Now it is very clean! I also got an USB to PS/2 converter and it works very well. I love the feeling when I am typing. Just one ALT keycap cover is missing. Love it! #mechanicalkeyboard #retrocomputing #IBMtypeM

I can now start trying to repair the #IBM PS/2 model 30 computer. After a deep clean and a global check, the computer starts, but both the disk drive and the hard drive do not work. The screen, a nice #IBM8503 002, does not work properly, neither: the vertical deflection is very distorted. #retrocomputing #IBMPS2 #repair

Ah, here’s the culprit! A 470uF capacitor in series with the deflection joke vertical coil reads about 1/10 of the rated capacitance. The TDA1170 is perfectly fine! That was an easy repair. #IBM #repair #retrocomputing #capacitor

The screen is also horribly dirty. I opened it (after buying a set of long security Torx bits). Its electronic circuit is quite simple, as it’s a monochrome monitor, yet it is not very nice to work on: you have to disassemble almost everything to check components. I was suspicious of the capacitors and the TDA1170 that controls the vertical deflection. #repair #IBM #monitor

@dexter well this is nice to see again, home sweet home in the Talos II bootloader - with a FreeBSD ISO installer ...

Left: OpenBMC interface w/ iKVM
Right: standard term via SSH to BMC and "obmc-console-client"

14.2 is installing now, no surprises. tomorrow, more fun!

#freebsd #talos #openbmc #power #openpower #ibm