grymoire1

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by grymoire1 9mo ago
I have always made /home a separate partition. This makes it so much easier to reinstall and/or wipe out a distro and install a new one. All of my files are left undisturbed.
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by grymoire1 9mo ago
One complication caused by shared libraries was the security threat. An executable using a shared library allowed the user to execute with a different (updated) library without recompilation. This is a security threat, especially with SETUI
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by grymoire1 9mo ago
Some people think today's file hierarchy is complicated. .That's amusing. I worked at an R&D center where we had hundreds of UNIX systems orf all types(i.e. Sun, Ultrix, HP, Symbolics, etc.) We also had Sun 2's , 3'
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by grymoire1 1y ago
Summary: The temperature will continue to rise after removing meat from a grill. The thicker the meat, the more temperature is retained. You want the cut the meat when the proper temperature is reached. So if the meat is at the target tempe
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by grymoire1 2y ago
While Gibson is overly pompous, I should point out that SpinRite works below the file system structure, and not all filesystems are robust like ZFS, etc. Second - there are two main SpinRite modes - Read/Check and Read/Write/
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by grymoire1 3y ago
I remember connecting in 1983/84. It was a trial by fire. I started learning Unix by using the Eunice emulator on VMS. I was doing such a good job on documentation (using nroff), that I convinced my company to buy a Sun workstation. I
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by grymoire1 3y ago
Usenet wasn't an app. It was a protocol. The programs we used were, as I recall, readnews (the official program), and rn - written by Larry Wall who later created perl. Rn was a wonderful interface. Besides blocking and filtering, it h
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BusPirate V5 Now Shipping(buspirate.com)
70 points by grymoire1 3y ago|22 comments
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by grymoire1 3y ago
The final (Rev 10) version of BusPirate V5 is shipping.
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by grymoire1 3y ago
Debugging, prototyping, hacking, and reverse engineering electronics. There are many other boards, such as the Tigard, Bruschetta Board, GreatFET, Glasgow, and many other boards. Most of them are FT2232H and FT232 based boards - which wrap
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by grymoire1 3y ago
The thing I love about the Bus Pirate is that you don't need to install any software to use it. Just connect to the serial port. The Glasgow is cool as hell but you have to use Python and to really master it you have to master Amaranth
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by grymoire1 3y ago
You must be confused.
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by grymoire1 3y ago
The Bus Pirate 5 (Preview version) is real and available for sale on the DirtyPCB's site - (same price as the V3) with the caveat that this is a beta and may not be the final version https://dirtypcbs.com/store/des
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by grymoire1 3y ago
Ian has said the old 15-year-old site is so archaic he didn't want to work with it anymore. And buspirate.com is a better domain name. The web site has a lot of information on it. I spend an hour reading about the new development on Bu
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by grymoire1 3y ago
I would ssh into remote systems, start emacs as my first command, and do everything inside of that emacs window - editing (scripts, config files, code), running shell scripts and programs, reading man pages, executing make, compiling, etc.)
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by grymoire1 4y ago
The first BASIC I used (1976?) was designed to run in a machine with 4K of memory (a 16-bit minicomputer). There was no operating system, nor no disk. You installed the program using a paper tape reader. At this time, the best "full sc
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by grymoire1 4y ago
Nope. As someone who administered a VAX with 50 simultaneous users, it's not a problem. It only affect that process and that user during that session. A logout resets everything. A more interesting problem was trying to read or write t
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by grymoire1 4y ago
If you ever had to repair a disk using fsck when it had hundreds of errors, you would understand why yes(1) was created.
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by grymoire1 4y ago
This was first mentioned in 1994, BTW. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...
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by grymoire1 4y ago
I run an AWS instance that hosts my own domain mail server. I have hundreds of email addresses, and each of them is forwarded to a gmail account. (I use the myaddress+tag@gmail.com to make each one unique. I do this to identify and squash s
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by grymoire1 5y ago
Stacksmashing was able to get Doom running on an RP2040 with an LCD screen. I'd love to see it running on the Lily-GO board. https://usa.banggood.com/LILYGO-TTGO-T-Display-RP2040-Raspbe... It has two buttons built-in a
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by grymoire1 5y ago
It might have been https://keycombiner.com/emacs/
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by grymoire1 5y ago
No. That's not it. C-h t isn't really interactive. It's just a tutorial you can edit. The program I remember was a typing tutorial just for key binding.
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by grymoire1 5y ago
I recall an interactive tutorial and practice tool that helped you learn emacs keybindings. It taught all of the previous/next character/word/expression/line key bindings. It helped develop muscle memory. It was web-base
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by grymoire1 5y ago
>That is more than 50 years of BEING WRONG. "I'd like to write software for you, but I have to wait 20 years before there's a suitable language to be invented first."
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by grymoire1 5y ago
>The complaining gets old, but then again, memory leaks, overrruns and underruns and other C footguns get old, too. Agreed. C is an old language, but at the time it was a very good language. One can argue the choice nowadays, but compari
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by grymoire1 5y ago
Personally, I'm tired of people bitching about C. At the time, the choice was C or assembly language for embedded/operating systems. There was no other choice in the 1970's. In fact, it wasn't even an option for most of
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by grymoire1 5y ago
I successfully used it as a writing/typesetting (NROFF) system. It was the cheapest Unix system I could buy, that the family could also use (it was dual boot). It was expensive, but I used Sun's at work, and I wanted to get as cro
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by grymoire1 5y ago
I remember one C book that described a way to write portable code. There were three phases in the header files: (1) The vendor, (2) The characteristics, (3) a portable layer on the system calls. So the first would define VAX, SUN, etc. The
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by grymoire1 5y ago
And if the device touches the Internet, then you need to have a reality-based update program and security assessment/analysis. There is a 99.999% of a major security flaw. If all it takes is an update that gets installed automatically,

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