Notices by Dan McDonald (danmcd@hostux.social)

I hear this in Groucho's voice...

@encthenet

I used to use two space a long time ago; because I learned two-space Pascal first, and because emacs defaulted to two space in C-mode.

@encthenet

Oh I agree with you... working at Sun got me on the tab train.

I'm just trying to provide some background on why folks might do it.

@quinn

If anyone has this, it's @alecm , who introduced me to that phrase.

@jmc

So pwait(1), my personal favorite, was there the whole time... thanks for the glimpse of the past.

@jmc

pgrep & pkill got brought up during Solaris 2.6, as part of a "get shit booting faster" effort. Lots of `ps -ef | grep....` pipelines in those < 2.6 init scripts.

I remember being pleased learning about it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/cia-ica-report-author-trump-russia-1235067814/

@randahl
@briankrebs

I believe people are already doing Just That (TM). Here's an evidentiary picture:

Hey @dangillmor Did you see this?

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/first-presidential-debate-joe-biden-donald-trump-withdraw-20240629.html

Today is a good day for me to have my NAT/router in an #illumos zone, where a reboot takes (checks stopwatch) mere single-digit seconds.

TFW you were born just barely pre-epoch... I'll be 68-and-change when the Y2038 event happens.
https://fosstodon.org/@alanc/112606707274513969

@mwl

He was the first "elder statesman" I had actual interactions & discussions with. I found some corner-case bugs while bringing up the NRL IPv6 & IPsec code while he was at BSDI.

I know I must not be the only one who thinks we should already have cheap 10G (not just 2.5G and even 5G) BaseT infrastructure.

I was just talking with @jeffpc about how in a perfect world someone would make a cheap equivalent of Intel's X55x series of NICs. 1/2.5/5/10GBaseT, existing drivers, and a path since the low-end switch vendors don't seem to have aggressively priced >GigE switching HW.

I might be missing latest state-of-the-market, but last time I checked was last year this month.

@Edent

Wow a man-in-the-middle attack with a real life person actually in the middle! 😮

@josh @thomasfuchs

Or as Scott McNealy used to call it: CaptiveX.

Anyone who's ever used DTrace/eBPF/etc. totally understands this sentiment:

https://federate.social/@mattblaze/112361827154963078

Any recommendations for an "Intel Processor N100" (yes that model) machine that isn't hard-tied to Windows like the one I had to return to Newegg recently?

"Can install Linux/FreeBSD/illumos on its bare metal" is the bar I'm setting.

WITH A CROWBAR!!!

Given today's outage, it seems appropriate to recycle this stolen joke:

GROUCHO: some of my socials are offline.

CHICO: Ah, that's Meta.

GROUCHO: What's a Meta?

CHICO: I DUNNO, WHAT'S A META YOU?

Did you know that the D in BSoD sometimes stands for Dunks?