Notices by Peter N. M. Hansteen (pitrh@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft Once it sank in with my various relatives and acquaintances that I don't do Windows at all, I have been mostly spared those requests.

One thing puzzled me slightly over the last couple of days. Watching the auth logs I see login attempts with the following user IDs:

2024-11-30 SSH ALLIN1MAIL
2024-11-30 SSH PDP11
2024-11-30 SSH PDP8
2024-11-30 SSH TELEDEMO
2024-11-30 SSH DECMAIL
2024-11-30 SSH DECNET
2024-11-30 SSH SYSMAINT
2024-12-01 SSH SYSTEST_CLIG

which to this #oldfart #greybeard sounds very #DEC #VAX-like.

Anyone else seeing this? Or is somebody out there actually running an Internet-accessible VAX somewhere?

@nixCraft "not yet invented"

@nixCraft bash and IIRC most other shells have Ctrl-R for command history search. I am always baffled by hearing people do not know this.

@nixCraft no surprise, but I would suspect that the "not clearly wrong" part would be mostly "superficially plausible, and that only to the not actually qualified in the field".