BarbaryCoast

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by BarbaryCoast 3y ago
At one time when the router was powered up, it would attempt to send your IP address and router serial number back to GL.iNet. Theoretically, that was to enable a Dynamic DNS service that they ran. It could be turned off, but if you had i
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by BarbaryCoast 3y ago
There was a project back in 2013 called PORTAL. "Personal Onion Router to Assure Liberty". It used a GL.iNet travel router. At that time, there were no model numbers. I bought one ($18 on the 'Zon), and upgraded the flash
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by BarbaryCoast 3y ago
I had both versions of the Sather book, for the II and //e. I bought the Apple when I decided these computer thingies were catching on, and I wanted to learn how they worked. I had to drop back to Don Lancaster's TTL Cookbo
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by BarbaryCoast 3y ago
Came here to say: me, too. When I see something like Kindle or Audible, the first thing I do is check to see if I can strip off the DRM. If I'm buying it, I have the right to use it anyway I see fit (short of copying and redistribut
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by BarbaryCoast 3y ago
I am a "just send text" guy. But you are correct; users like HTML and no one, like the author of this blog post, even remember that Internet messages are all plain 7-bit ASCII. I don't mind the HTML as much as I mind the Ja
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by BarbaryCoast 3y ago
Well, that explains why, when I try to paste text into an Outlook email, I get an error "there's a problem with Word". (Then you hit Enter and paste again, which works fine.) It's good to remember that Outlook isn'
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by BarbaryCoast 3y ago
"The Chip", second edition. Starts with the invention of the vacuum tube, ends with the US-China chip war. In between, you learn that the first semiconductors were hand-make, using a clay mud on bulk substrate to protect areas t
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by BarbaryCoast 3y ago
I think killing a reader is a serious crime in every jurisdiction on the planet...
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by BarbaryCoast 3y ago
I also took away a different bottom line. I think the focus was that, by allowing programmers to have access to the machine for long periods, they could stay "in the zone", and thus you completed the work much faster. I think it&
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by BarbaryCoast 3y ago
I own just about all the compiler construction books. Most were over my head. Then I discovered chapter 8 of "The Unix Programming Environment" by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike. This is "Program Development", explainin
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by BarbaryCoast 4y ago
"The Chip" by T. R. Reid. Get the second edition, which updates the story with more recent developments. A history of the integrated circuit, starting from vacuum tubes and ending with the politics of today (-ish; it's a 202
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by BarbaryCoast 4y ago
This thread is getting expensive. ;) I had no idea he had written this up. Thanks for posting!
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by BarbaryCoast 4y ago
One thing to notice: None of the people here who have worked at these labs seem to have paid any attention to their security briefings.
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by BarbaryCoast 4y ago
In Emacs: M-X doctor <ret>
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by BarbaryCoast 4y ago
They pay-walled a news article from 1990. That's one way to ensure history never remembers us.
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by BarbaryCoast 4y ago
I'd second the Kidder book. It's really the story of the people building it, and how their lives were impacted. I'd like to suggest a larger project: a history of the features we've come to call a "computer".
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by BarbaryCoast 4y ago
I would start with "The Pragmatic Programmer". It's how I became a "professional" programmer. "Code Complete" is a book on construction. I dip into it when my IF statement has too many conditionals in t
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by BarbaryCoast 4y ago
PDF is also future-proof. At least, it can be. A PDF file is just a collection of pages described in the Postscript language. The page "object" is then compressed and some metadata is built around it to produce the PDF. There
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by BarbaryCoast 5y ago
The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). About halfway through the book, they build an explicit dispatch table, and I instantly understood 1) why my C code was so crappy, and B) why C++ and OO languages miss the boat (h
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by BarbaryCoast 6y ago
You know, when Google said Android 11 and up would require A/B firmware, I ditched my beloved OnePlus One, and bought a OnePlus 6 instead. Now I see that the One is getting Android 11, but there's no sign of a build for the 6. It
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by BarbaryCoast 6y ago
The FBI has the responsibility to handle counter-intelligence domestically. At a minimum, the FBI should be the lead agency, and make the decisions, when trying to track espionage operations inside the country. The "Five Guys" co