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I just noticed their April's Fools joke, nice!

https://boa.realm667.com/?view=article&id=270:blade-of-agony...

Luckily, to replace most of the Office applications, their respective online web applications work very well. That wouldn't be a major issue in migrating to Linux.

Fascinating! The wine discovery reminds me one scene from the book 'The Dark Forest'[0] when the protagonist drinks a wine from some centuries before... spoiler: it wasn't good.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest

A couple of years ago I wrote a brief article about Halloween, and linked to the Roman Lemuria: https://godsip.club/articles/monster-mash/

> You could also say: Five megameters!

I love this expression!

This is another great (and interactive) source on the subject: https://www.learndmarc.com/

That's the point, but often in many network issues, the name resolution is the root cause of the problem. Not necessarily the DNS itself. Sometimes the /etc/hosts is more than enough to cause headaches!

YES! IBM's Fix Central, or how it's called, it's literally a maze.

And I hate Oracle's and Red Hat's paywalls, even if I can understand their presence.

Interesting! Surely there are lots of moors…

Yes, absolutely, I didn't mean to blame him. But from Windows 95 to 11 something could have been improved, from MS.

I'm disappointed: I can't see any comments about the awful .zip file integration in modern Windows version. Extracting the files requires a pop-up or a non-intuitive context menu.

Yes, exactly. SMS should be an option because it is obsolete, and therefore unsecure.

> Thirty years later, a lot has changed. The AS/400 has (mostly) gone

Well, not exactly. IBMi is still widely used, as an "affordable, low cost mainframe".

> if it's VMDK for example, you can read the raw disks without booting it

Yes, but that's the difference between "readable" and "usable". Many companies don't realize the technical difficulties to be able to run the VMs. They just expect that it will work, if needed.

This rises a potential problem, often underrated by companies: some have backups with infinite retention.

It is common to have backups with retention of 10 years, some may have 20 years for legal reasons… but the majority of people don't understand the difference between "readable" and "usable".

Of course, it depends on the data… And there are companies backing up whole virtual machines with infinite retention, believing to be able to run them: it is hard enough to restore a vSphere 5.x machine on a brand new vSphere 8, I really don't understand this waste of space.

Just… Thank You! It's blazing fast, (even too) clean, and without that mess that UG became in the last decade.