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Re: Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution

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Post by tyingq »

schnable wrote: post #29

Amazing story. Can't believe the Lotus FTP site is still live. Wonder where that thing is running and if anyone actually knows it still is. > I was able to find the drivers on an old ftp site. Wonder what FTP site this is and how he found it?

"Can't believe the Lotus FTP site is still live. Wonder where that thing is running"

Had me curious as well.

  $ host ftp.support.lotus.com
  ftp.support.lotus.com is an alias for service.boulder.ibm.com.
  service.boulder.ibm.com has address 170.225.15.26
It's running WUFTPD 2.6.3, which is abandonware as far as I can tell. Though no open vulnerabilities listed.

Re: Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution

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Post by londons_explore »

jasonjayr wrote: post #30
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's good to know. It just feels more "at home" inside a VM I already use for accessibility and compatibility testing anyway (IE3+ for my sites), and it starts up faster than with Wine for me.

This is waaaay off topic, but you've piqued my interest -- what on earth are you still testing with IE3 for?

Don't use any site he made... Anything compatible with IE3 is incompatible with modern privacy expectations (doesn't support any vaguely secure variant of HTTPS, and any server which supports old variants can't be protected against downgrade attacks, and therefore cannot protect users privacy)

Re: Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution

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Post by LanceH »

dwiel wrote: post #3

A bit off topic, but what I've wanted forever and never found is a spreadsheet that deals in units natively. So if one cell is in Newtons and I divide it by a cell that is in m/s^2 I want the resulting cell to be in grams. Units should propagate through the sheet automatically. Unit prefixes can either be automatic (km, m, mm, um, etc) or fixed as you would with a format setting. Google calculator is the closest thin…

1-2-3 would allow you to plot a function on your graphs. Something that I haven't seen since. The solution now is to build a range and values, but that just adds one extra column of data to massage versus having a reference line covering the domain and range of that particular graph.

Re: Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution

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Post by sneak »

This is awesome.

Could a js transpilation of a dos emulator be used to get this to run well in a browser? It would be cool to have a text mode spreadsheet that works in a browser and could be self hosted.

Re: Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution

#55

Post by bombcar »

tyingq wrote: post #51
schnable wrote: post #29

Amazing story. Can't believe the Lotus FTP site is still live. Wonder where that thing is running and if anyone actually knows it still is. > I was able to find the drivers on an old ftp site. Wonder what FTP site this is and how he found it?

"Can't believe the Lotus FTP site is still live. Wonder where that thing is running" Had me curious as well. $ host ftp.support.lotus.com ftp.support.lotus.com is an alias for service.boulder.ibm.com. service.boulder.ibm.com has address 170.225.15.26 It's running WUFTPD 2.6.3, which is abandonware as far as I can tell. Though no open vulnerabilities listed.

Nobody at IBM will ever want to be the person to suggest decommissioning a server that might make a paying customer yell at their manager. Expect it to continue forever.

Re: Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution

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Post by bawolff »

londons_explore wrote: post #52
jasonjayr wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is waaaay off topic, but you've piqued my interest -- what on earth are you still testing with IE3 for?

Don't use any site he made... Anything compatible with IE3 is incompatible with modern privacy expectations (doesn't support any vaguely secure variant of HTTPS, and any server which supports old variants can't be protected against downgrade attacks, and therefore cannot protect users privacy)

You can't downgrade a modern browser to ssl 3 (the most recent version supported by IE3) because modern browsers dont support sslv3 (prior to dropping support there were also some fixes for downgrade attacks).

Dont get me wrong, supporting sslv3 is still a terrible idea.

It would be interesting to know though what the most secure possible setup is for servers supporting ie3, both when a modern browser connects and when connecting to ie3, and what the security properties are. I would guess that its at least secure against passive monitoring (e.g. a mass survelience situation), which is a pretty low bar, but also the bar a lot of people care about.

Re: Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution

#57

Post by mceoin »

dwiel wrote: post #3

A bit off topic, but what I've wanted forever and never found is a spreadsheet that deals in units natively. So if one cell is in Newtons and I divide it by a cell that is in m/s^2 I want the resulting cell to be in grams. Units should propagate through the sheet automatically. Unit prefixes can either be automatic (km, m, mm, um, etc) or fixed as you would with a format setting. Google calculator is the closest thin…

Is this for business or personal use? (We're building a spreadsheet product @ Sourcetable.)

Re: Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution

#58

Post by rasz »

userbinator wrote: post #47

This reminds me I should try to make a bit more progress with trying to write an RDP display driver for Win9x... one of those things I thought of one day but never really got around to doing. (I'm sure there are existing solutions, but writing my own is half the fun --- and I've already written a generic VESA framebuffer.) I like stuff like this in the same ways as car modding --- teaching an old dog new tricks.

>I've already written a generic VESA framebuffer

you mean like this https://bearwindows.zcm.com.au/vbe9x.htm ?

Re: Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution

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Post by ArchOversight »

bombcar wrote: post #55
tyingq wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Can't believe the Lotus FTP site is still live. Wonder where that thing is running" Had me curious as well. $ host ftp.support.lotus.com ftp.support.lotus.com is an alias for service.boulder.ibm.com. service.boulder.ibm.com has address 170.225.15.26 It's running WUFTPD 2.6.3, which is abandonware as far as I can tell. Though no open vulnerabilities listed.

Nobody at IBM will ever want to be the person to suggest decommissioning a server that might make a paying customer yell at their manager. Expect it to continue forever.

That system has probably been migrated a hundred times, and will continue to be!

Re: Lotus 1-2-3 arbitrary resolution

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Post by schnable »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #31
schnable wrote: post #29

Amazing story. Can't believe the Lotus FTP site is still live. Wonder where that thing is running and if anyone actually knows it still is. > I was able to find the drivers on an old ftp site. Wonder what FTP site this is and how he found it?

It's linked in the post: ftp://ftp.support.lotus.com/pub/ The Internet Archive has a copy too: https://archive.org/details/2008-12-23_ftp.support.lotus.com

He mentioned another one as well.
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