https://web.archive.org/web/20250410222119/https://www.n1kdo... Your AS might be blocked by firewall rules. The Wayback Machine can show you the page.
I saw somebody's arduino based voltmeter clock way back around 2014, I think here: https://maniacallabs.com/2014/07/08/meter-clock-pt1/ I thought it was pretty cool, but a bit expensive for what it was. So I made my own…
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IMHO, "tech optimism" reached its peak in 1969 when Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon. We watched them walk on the Moon on live TV. After seeing them perform that impossible feat, it seemed like we could use…
How many times has this problem been "solved"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCE/RPC DCE/RPC worked in 1993, and still does today. Protocol buffers is just another IDL.
This is highly relevant: "Meta in talks to spend billions on Google's chips, The Information reports" https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-talks-spend-billions-g...
this is related: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2845330/hundreds-of-chrome-e... The TL;DR is that there are malicious browser plugins that make the browser into a web scraping bot. I see this all the time in web server…
It was the interoperability of X Window System devices that enabled this. Your X server (e.g. a X terminal) could display applications running on a variety of other vendors' hardware and operating systems. The…
I can tell you that lights strobing exacerbate my migraines. Even 120 hertz from fluorescent lights will affect me. I have mitigated this in the past by adding incandescent lights in my office, or demanding to work near…
This is related. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Nuclear_Aircraft_Labor... my understanding is that the area is still a bit "hot" with radiation.
Ken Thompson's talk (later a paper) "reflections on trusting trust." https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358198.358210
usability test much? effectively unreadable.
WTF is "Proverence"? I'd call it a typo except it is consistently misspelled. I think the author means "provenance". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provenance
It would be useful to list IP ranges that the scans come from -- a lot of my web stuff has "hosting providers" firewall dropped because so much malicious traffic emanates from the hosting providers (Do you hear me,…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/n1kdo/53136436051/in/dateposte...
My contempt is so great I will not even type their name.
I use arborist throw bags for portable operations, but I cannot get them up 60-70 feet high, only 20-30 feet. For semi-permanent installations of wire antennas in tall trees I use a pneumatic tennis ball launcher. I can…
WSJT-X is a cross-platform QT app. It is multi-threaded, processes audio in close to real time, talks to devices over serial interfaces, interoperates with other apps over UDP and TCP connections. It starts fast, and…
The same site has a complete archive of "Ham Radio" magazine. Wayne Green was the publisher of Byte magazine, which he started when he recognized hobby computing that the hams that read his "73" magazine were doing. I…
This guy invented the MOSFET, which is the underpinnings of pretty much every modern microprocessor. Nobody knows his name. He is "Not as Famous as He Should Be." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_M._Atalla
After the eastern bloc copied this chip, DEC engineers had a special message for the Russians: https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
"Crypto" to me is about cryptography, not cryptocurrencies. re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_naming_controversy and (of course) this: https://www.iacr.org/meetings/crypto/ I wish that lazy people did not…
TOPS-20, we hardly knew ye.
I first saw the Digital Press version of this book around 1975 or 1976. I was in detention in my math teacher's classroom, seventh grade. To say that it was influential would be an understatement, this book set me on…
I have sadly lost my copy of the Digital Technical Journal that had this article, it was a All-Alpha issue, if I remember correctly. The authors are not attributed at the beginning of the article, but they are all named…
https://web.archive.org/web/20250410222119/https://www.n1kdo... Your AS might be blocked by firewall rules. The Wayback Machine can show you the page.
I saw somebody's arduino based voltmeter clock way back around 2014, I think here: https://maniacallabs.com/2014/07/08/meter-clock-pt1/ I thought it was pretty cool, but a bit expensive for what it was. So I made my own…
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IMHO, "tech optimism" reached its peak in 1969 when Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon. We watched them walk on the Moon on live TV. After seeing them perform that impossible feat, it seemed like we could use…
How many times has this problem been "solved"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCE/RPC DCE/RPC worked in 1993, and still does today. Protocol buffers is just another IDL.
This is highly relevant: "Meta in talks to spend billions on Google's chips, The Information reports" https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-talks-spend-billions-g...
this is related: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2845330/hundreds-of-chrome-e... The TL;DR is that there are malicious browser plugins that make the browser into a web scraping bot. I see this all the time in web server…
It was the interoperability of X Window System devices that enabled this. Your X server (e.g. a X terminal) could display applications running on a variety of other vendors' hardware and operating systems. The…
I can tell you that lights strobing exacerbate my migraines. Even 120 hertz from fluorescent lights will affect me. I have mitigated this in the past by adding incandescent lights in my office, or demanding to work near…
This is related. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Nuclear_Aircraft_Labor... my understanding is that the area is still a bit "hot" with radiation.
Ken Thompson's talk (later a paper) "reflections on trusting trust." https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358198.358210
usability test much? effectively unreadable.
WTF is "Proverence"? I'd call it a typo except it is consistently misspelled. I think the author means "provenance". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provenance
It would be useful to list IP ranges that the scans come from -- a lot of my web stuff has "hosting providers" firewall dropped because so much malicious traffic emanates from the hosting providers (Do you hear me,…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/n1kdo/53136436051/in/dateposte...
My contempt is so great I will not even type their name.
I use arborist throw bags for portable operations, but I cannot get them up 60-70 feet high, only 20-30 feet. For semi-permanent installations of wire antennas in tall trees I use a pneumatic tennis ball launcher. I can…
WSJT-X is a cross-platform QT app. It is multi-threaded, processes audio in close to real time, talks to devices over serial interfaces, interoperates with other apps over UDP and TCP connections. It starts fast, and…
The same site has a complete archive of "Ham Radio" magazine. Wayne Green was the publisher of Byte magazine, which he started when he recognized hobby computing that the hams that read his "73" magazine were doing. I…
This guy invented the MOSFET, which is the underpinnings of pretty much every modern microprocessor. Nobody knows his name. He is "Not as Famous as He Should Be." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_M._Atalla
After the eastern bloc copied this chip, DEC engineers had a special message for the Russians: https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
"Crypto" to me is about cryptography, not cryptocurrencies. re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_naming_controversy and (of course) this: https://www.iacr.org/meetings/crypto/ I wish that lazy people did not…
TOPS-20, we hardly knew ye.
I first saw the Digital Press version of this book around 1975 or 1976. I was in detention in my math teacher's classroom, seventh grade. To say that it was influential would be an understatement, this book set me on…
I have sadly lost my copy of the Digital Technical Journal that had this article, it was a All-Alpha issue, if I remember correctly. The authors are not attributed at the beginning of the article, but they are all named…