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Jonas Maebe
to Mark Morgan Lloyd: http://www.freepascal.org/ points to http://wiki.freepascal.org/ for the wiki, which is…

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote on Thu, 25 Feb 2016:

http://www.freepascal.org/ points to http://wiki.freepascal.org/ for the wiki, which is giving me a permanent 403 "Forbidden". Anybody know what's going on?

Should be fixed now. You were caught by a rule I added for certain spambots. I didn't think there were still real people out there using Firefox 17.0 :)

Jonas

Mark Morgan Lloyd
to Jonas Maebe
Jonas Maebe wrote 10 lines
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote on Thu, 25 Feb 2016: > http://www.freepascal.org/ points to http://wiki.freepascal.org/ for > the wiki, which is giving me a permanent 403 "Forbidden". > > Anybody know what's going on? Should be fixed now. You were caught by a rule I added for certain spambots. I didn't think there were still real people out there using Firefox 17.0 :)

Thanks very much Jonas, I'm in :-)

A more pressing reason for rejection might be that one of the ISPs we use has utterly superb tech support etc. but has also been implicated in various spambots etc.

The reason for v17: I've got a cluster of machines here that I was hoping to use to resurrect LinuxPMI (OpenMOSIX) which due to kernel compatibility requirements are still on Debian "Lenny"; the newest browser I can run on that is 17, which runs with scripting etc. locked down. I could obviously run something on a network-connected system over SSH etc., but the convenience of being able to have documentation etc. immediately to hand is substantial.

In practice, I suspect that I'm not going to manage OpenMOSIX: there's too much kernel hacking involved, and I've got too much else on my plate. I can't put a timescale on it, but that implies that on x86 (etc.) I'll probably jump onto something fairly current before too long... but minority platforms like Solaris will probably be stuck on old browsers indefinitely.

Knowing now what the problem is, I'd entirely sympathise if you chopped older browsers again at short notice. But a more informative error message would be appreciated :-)

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
Lukasz Sokol
to Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote
I was hoping to use to resurrect LinuxPMI (OpenMOSIX)

Wow, I remember trying to boot up a cluster of OpenMOSIX machines from CD's (remastered Knoppix) :) back in 2004 ;)

Not much left of that world any more, sadly; since the OM creator abandoned the project...

There was a continuation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxPMI... not sure where that ended though.

-L.

(shall we fut: g.c.c.f-p.social aka fpc-other :) ?)

Mark Morgan Lloyd
to Lukasz Sokol
Lukasz Sokol wrote 14 lines
On 25/02/16 14:37, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > I was hoping to use to resurrect LinuxPMI (OpenMOSIX) Wow, I remember trying to boot up a cluster of OpenMOSIX machines from CD's (remastered Knoppix) :) back in 2004 ;) Not much left of that world any more, sadly; since the OM creator abandoned the project... There was a continuation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxPMI... not sure where that ended though. -L. (shall we fut: g.c.c.f-p.social aka fpc-other :) ?)

I'll write a bit in there in the morning in case anybody else is interested.

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]