I redid my laptop image. Used #ubuntu server as the base, and sectioned things off into LVM volumes and made #openvms a 1st class citizen on my workstation. It's a dedicated VM that just sits there happily and sips resources :3

I'm going to confide in y'all. I'm exhausted. This is going to be SO FUCKING COOL! But it's ALOT of work, and I'm doing it totally alone with almost zero resources. This is the American dream in the making. But there is so much to do. I've been staying up till 4 or 5am working, getting a few hours of sleep and then going back to it. I do have an #openvms consultant, and all my partners are so awesome. But it's all me. Lil ol' me :3

So I actually have 2 phone switches. THE PraetorTEL switch I prattle on about is for the telco company I'm starting. This is the central office switch. It has a heavily customized asterisk and an accompanying #openvms node, and runs on a decdent quad core with 16 gigs of ram. Decent dev server. Then their is my PBX that runs on a beat up core duo from the WIndows Vista age. I don't mind fucking up that. My CO switch..another story. Dat ma bebe.

So tired. But I almost have PraetorTEL 2.0 done :D Which is closer to what my ITSP will look like. Asterisk just acts like a front-end for SIP connections. All the really heavy lifting is done by #OpenVMS all the intra-office signalling is done via MQTT and a shared RDB database for asterisk nodes. But I should rest and do something fun. I'm over thinking this and making silly mistakes. I need some trashy reality tv

Something curious I looked at today: a patch series with #OpenVMS support for #Mercurial

Never saw OpenVMS before, it all looks so different!

https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/mercurial-devel/-/merge_requests/645/diffs

#hg

All caffeinated, medicated, and nicotinated. Today I'm going to take a break from #openvms since that stuff is rockin' on its own, and work on the SMSC a little. I am however enjoying the #openvms stuff so much, I think I'm going to get one of these for the VMS cluster :D Isn't it kewt? :3 https://buy.hpe.com/us/en/compute/proliant-microserver/proliant-microserver/proliant-microserver/hpe-proliant-microserver-gen10-plus-v2/p/1014673551

In fact, we're going to the University of Wyoming trifecta and use #openvms from the octane :D

I'm a lil buzzed from day drinking. But...#OpenVMS is now my 2nd favorite OS. After IRIX. NOTHING can compare to IRIX. It is the most advanced, mature, pretty UNIX there is. But OpenVMS is quite nice. I've been abusing logicals which makes VMS sooo much nicer to work with. You can tell the #plan9 guys took a cute from VMS because DECnet behaves like 9p. Especially in a cluster.

one of the coolest things about #openvms is system logicals. System logicals are like....symbolic links...on fucking grape juice STEROIDS. In UNIX, everything is a file. In OpenVMS everything can be a device. It's slick!

Got ma quasi-truckstop coffee, showered after getting a lil sweaty from moving things from the temporary apartment. Praetor does NOT sweat!! And got a little bit of sleep, although I had nightmares about not being able to delete a directory in #openvms because THERE IS NO 'rm -rf'!!! THE HORROR! But it does really slick things that make up for it :)

It's 05:30 and I haven't slept because I've been playing with #openvms. Well I had a great install in my laptop so redid my MQTT server to make it BETTER! RAWR! Fully working GUI, DECnet and some other smaller niceties. Laying in bed with an ice cold energy drink and snuggling the kitteh and taking a break. At this point I see no reason in sleeping. Good thing it's Sunday!

Having some quasi-truckstop coffee and playing wif #openvms moar. As you can see I have my kvm problem fixed, because it turns out in Lunar Lobster you don't need the linux-image-kvm kernel. All the kvm bits are already in the mainline kernel. Not sure when that changed, but it's nice. :D

I got DECWindows running on #openvms and oooooo is it ugly. Digital engineers must have become colorblind from looking at all the avocado green PDP control panels :p

YAY! :D I have an Mosquitto running on #openvms. My MQTT broker will OUTLIVE YOU ALL! >:D

Ooo. I have made 2 lifechanging discoveries. 1) VSI has RabbitMQ available for #openvms. All PraetorTEL's intra-office message passing is MQTT and OpenVMS is fucking rock solid. Uptime in decades! And 2) git integration with #nodered. Awww yeah. I'm going to setup my umbrella and sit outside and set that up :D

Tonights shenannigans. I'm talking a break from #openvms and playing with my kewt kitteh printer and my gay pi :D Going to do some #nodered development so you can send a text to the printer :)

So today's agenda is to get DECwindows working in OpenVMS. After seeing all @thedaemon 's lovely #plan9 screenshots I'm going to see if I can make DECwindows pretty :D #openvms is starting to be in my top 5 favorite operating systems. Maybe even my top 3. It's so powerful and just rock solid. Uptime is calculated in decades. It won't let you do anything that could compromise it. It will, but you have to work for it :p

Friday on the #deepweb. My favorite day of the week, except, I have cleaning to do...and this delicious cup of coffee, #openvms and y'all are NOT encouraging me to get it done :p

First day of the #oldcomputerchallenge has been good. I've been really tired today, so I've been in bed reading #pascal and #openvms manuals to my ktteh :3 I'm still working out a good workflow with the sgi

Okay. It's time to lay in bed with an energy drink and stalk people on #facebook since that's all it's good for. Otherwise I'll stay up all night playing with #openvms and #pascal I should have TONS to keep me busy for the #oldcomputerchallenge VSI did a great job with the x86_64 port of OpenVMS. It's rock solid unless I do something dumb and n00bish. But that's what you expect from something that measures uptime in decades.