SGI IRIX today
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After reading of two Czech WWW posts ([1] and [2]) where authors wrote
about their old computers being less and less able to connect to
outside world (enforcing of newer encryption types making SSH and even
WWW access impossible, incompatible changes in X11, end of FTP and so
on) I have turned on my SGI O2 to check what works.
Well, I have found several more servers not accessible any more
(tilde.news, I'm talking about you), my Mutt is of no use now and so
on.
However, many of more important things still work: the Talospace and
the FenFourFox news (in the Firefox) and even the Gmail seems to be
usable here. It complied a lot about my WWW browser but it still does
its work.
Even some on-line rarios works (the ORF Radio Wien and the Anonradio,
too). The Git works too (against the SDF Git). The Github doesn't work,
of course (except the git:// protocol - so only operations like "clone"
and "pull" are possible). This is no problem of the Microsoft the
git:// protocol was derailed long before they bought the Github.
Of course, there are other bad changes which are not related to
networking. The LaTeX was updated in last years and the CsTeX was made
obsolete. So most of my LaTeX slides and texts are not compatible with
current LaTeX formats. Even worse, many journals and conferences (if
they accept LaTeX at all) require use templates full of strange things,
LuaTeX-only constructions, UTF-8 and so on. So I have had to convert my
files to more "modern" formats and now I am not able to open them on my
IRIX machines easily.
The rest of stuff works normally. So far.
References:
[1]
http://dexovo.cz/konec-starych-casu.php
[2]
http://technomorous.eu/post/175212842584
