The amount of memory is indeed not that big as I found out via [Wayback/Archive video memory required for 1920×1080 – Google Search at [Wayback/Archive] memory – How do I calculate video RAM requirements? – Super User:
Archive for October, 2024
video memory required for 1920×1080 – Google Search
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/11
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The state of malware today: From Highly Obfuscated Batch File to XWorm and Redline – SANS Internet Storm Center
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/10
A very interesting read, where it keeps me wondering how batch files like these are being generated (making them by hand feels very surreal): [Wayback/Archive] From Highly Obfuscated Batch File to XWorm and Redline – SANS Internet Storm Center
VirusTotal entry: [Wayback/Archive] VirusTotal – File – 453c017e02e6ce747d605081ad78bf210b3d0004a056d1f65dd1f21c9bf13a9a
The day after the article was written, only Kaspersky and ZoneAlarm detected it; in the past ZoneAlarm used the Kaspersky engine, but that stopped a while ago: [Wayback/Archive] ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus Review | PCMag.
The malware uses at least these technologies:
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Thread by @troyhunt: the Internet Archive was breached, DDoSed and defaced – reset your passwords (it’s the same account as for their Wayback Machine)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/10
Despite messages of the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine were fully up again after the DDoS in the last few days (usually starting at around 20:00 UTC, lasting for hours at a time, but today at 10:00 UTC), countermeasures of their password breach at the end of September and defacement yesterday, today they still had Wayback Machine archiving issues:
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Documentation should be easily searchable (No documentation | CommitStrip)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/10
Nowadays software development documentation is usually sparse and distributed, which means it should be well searchable.
[Wayback/Archive] No documentation | CommitStrip
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The Deadlock Empire: end-screen
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/09
Forgot to schedule this back in the days, but this was the end screen of [Wayback/Archive] The Deadlock Empire (blog about it before, see links below):
Congratulations!
Two threads were in a critical section at the same time.In the end… victory!
The Parallel Wizard is destroyed and his fortress crumbles at your feet. You have won. Never again will programmers over the world have to endure the difficulty of correct multithreaded programming because in defeating the Parallel Wizard, you have banished concurrency. The world will be as it was decades ago, with computer running at a reasonable speed and in the right order, as prescribed by the wise programmers.
‘Although,’ you wonder, ‘the tricks I used were somewhat useful… and I did feel quite a bit faster when parallelized. Perhaps there is something to this whole parallelism thing.’
Indeed, perhaps there is, commander. Perhaps parallelism is useful, after all, Master Scheduler. The points you make are valid and maybe you should not be so quick to dismiss the advantages of parallelism and faster execution. After all, with the skills you gained fighting The Deadlock Empire, don’t you think that you have become…
…an even greater Parallel Wizard?
Thank you, dear Scheduler, for playing The Deadlock Empire. We hope you had as much fun playing this game as we had making it. Concurrency programming is hard but it’s also beautiful in a way and the world can always use more people learned in its ways. You are to be congratulated for making it this far. We are looking forward to the new software or games you will create using your knowledge of multithreading.
You mastered all the lessons of The Deadlock Empire. Thank you for playing!
Any thoughts about the game or ideas for improvement? We’d like to hear those! Just fill out this form.
The “this form” link likely dies in 2025 because of the Googl shortener sunset earlier. It pointed to [Wayback/Archive] The Deadlock Empire feedback.
Blog links:
- If you thought you could do multi-threading, then play “The Deadlock Empire” games
- Lots of interesting programming learning games links via b0rk on Twitter
- One second code: Do YOU know how much your computer can do in a second?
- Davidlohr Bueso on Twitter: A programmer had a problem. He thought to himself, “I know, I’ll solve it with threads!”. has Now problems. two he
- What is thread safety anyway?
- ThreadBarrier/ThreadBarrier.pas at master · lordcrc/ThreadBarrier
- One of the #EKON20 running gags: Raize condition
- EKON 20 – anniversary edition of the famous Delphi related conference with lots of English sessions
- By Jack Rhysider: if you’re in IT, I highly encourage you to write a blog. Here are 17 reasons why you should be blogging.🧵👇
- PostgreSQL Exercises
--jeroen
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40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer — and Apple — History
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/09
Not having lived in the USA, I was unaware this was major step there: [Wayback/Archive] 40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer — and Apple — History.
A big part of the importance – giving them away for free – fails in the above link title, but the content makes up for that very well.
Boy, this was so different from my education era (:
I you want to see how this worked 40 years ago, be sure to read [Wayback/Archive] In Pictures: When Drexel gave every student a Mac in 1980s – Interesting Engineering.
This great VCF East recapitulation pointed me to the Drexel Macintosh: [Wayback/Archive] VCF East 2024 – A Whirlwind of Retro Shenanigans! – YouTube.
There is even this beautiful video: [Wayback/Archive] 1984 ‘Drexel’ Macintosh 128K- Restoration and History! – YouTube
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Downloading a file from the Windows console without first installing a command-line tool
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/09
Note that the below methods likely will cause security warnings if a Windows machine has been properly configured, but in most cases at least one of them works.
- using cURL (Widows 10 and up)
curl --url https://speed.hetzner.de/100MB.bin --output %TEMP%\100MB.bin - using [Wayback/Archive]
certutil| Microsoft Docs (at least Windows 7 and up; needs UAC elevation)
certutil.exe -urlcache -split -f https://speed.hetzner.de/100MB.bin %TEMP%\100MB.bin - using PowerShell (at least Windows Vista and up)
powershell.exe -Command (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://speed.hetzner.de/100MB.bin','%TEMP%\100MB.bin')
I think it works for all versions of curl, certutil, and PowerShell though I did not have anything older than up-to-date Windows 7 (having PowerShell version 3) and recent to test on.
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Online Paste to Markdown (in JavaScript + HTML)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/08
Apparently I was living under a stone since the 2015 introduction of [Wayback/Archive] Paste to Markdown:
Paste to Markdown
Instructions
- Find the text to convert to Markdown (e.g., in another browser tab)
- Copy it to the clipboard (
Ctrl+C, or⌘+Con Mac)- Paste it into this window (
Ctrl+V, or⌘+Von Mac)- The converted Markdown will appear!
The conversion is carried out by to-markdown, a Markdown converter written in JavaScript and running locally in the browser.
The “to-markdown” I did already know (see A few HTML to Markdown converters written in javascript, Python, Ruby, PHP and C#) but has been renamed from [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – domchristie/to-markdown: An HTML to Markdown converter written in JavaScript into then “turndown” repository below.
More links:
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Fixing the Google Calendar item editor CSS so the title 40% of my window width
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/08
When working on larger screens, I am always amazed at how little window estate most web sites actually use.
For sites that just try to look nice that is not so much or a problem, but for productivity sites it is.
The go-to solution for this is to manually modify the CSS. This can often be a pain because the CSS is either deeply nested or – even worse – uses semi-random HTML class attribute values.
This post is a reminder to myself to check if the below CSS modification in my Stylus library still works (gist link is at the bottom of this post):
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Is it OK to lure a telemarketer into resetting their phone?
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/07
The below link was on G+, and is usually posted as alt-text less image so the text has mostly disappeared from search engines.
Every now and then, I see it posted as a meme, but I wonder if it is OK to pull such a trick to lure a telemarketer into resetting their phone.
Thoughts?
The G+ post: [Wayback/Archive] Chris Blasko, G+, 20150804: Today is a good day. I just had a call from a telemarketer. Did I yell and sc…
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 