This was an awesome thread: [WayBack] Thread by @Foone: Someone (I think in the replies to the LGR “no thrifting during the crisis” tweet) suggested we do VIRTUAL THRIFTING! which is a great idea… saved from this [Archive.is] Twitter thread.
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Huge meta-thread by @Foone saturday on VIRTUAL THRIFTING
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/06
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Ladies and gentlemen, Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf.
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/01
[WayBack] Ladies and gentlemen, Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf. – Steven Vaughan-Nichols – Google+
Related:
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Optimizing BitBlt by generating code on the fly – The Old New Thing
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/25
Blast from the past machine generated code by the various assembly versions of the [WayBack] Windows BitBlt function [WayBack] Optimizing BitBlt by generating code on the fly – The Old New Thing.
Via: [WayBack] Rodrigo Ruz on Twitter: “Optimizing BitBlt by generating code on the fly https://t.co/gWmKjex20i”
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In Unix, what are some common dot files?
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/06
I came across some 20 year old Unix stuff a while ago, so I needed an historic reference of filenames starting with a dot (like .newsrc).
This is a pretty good one: [WayBack] In Unix, what are some common dot files?
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The Toxic Smog of the Information Age | Literary Hub
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/03
From 5 years ago, but now more relevant than it ever was: [WayBack] The Toxic Smog of the Information Age | Literary Hub
SCROOGLED
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. –Cardinal Richelieu
We don’t know enough about you. –Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Via:
- [WayBack] The toxic Smog of the Information Age …“Maya,” he said, “what do you know about Google and the DHS?” She stiffened as soon as he asked the question. One of the dogs began to whine. She looked around, then nodded up at the tennis courts. “Top of the light pole there; don’t look,” she said. “That’s one of our muni Wi-Fi access points. Wide-angle webcam. Face away from it when you talk.” In the grand scheme of things, it hadn’t cost Google much to wire the city with webcams. Especially when measured against the ability to serve ads to people based on where they were sitting…. – Edward Morbius – Google+
- [WayBack] “Sir, calm down, please. No, I’m not looking at your searches,” the man said in a mocking whine. “That would be unconstitutional. We see only the ads that show up when you read your mail and do your searching. I have a brochure explaining it. I’ll give it to you when we’re through here.”… – Jürgen Christoffel – Google+
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homecomputerlab » Cisco 2511-RJ remote access terminal server
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/02
Relics from the serial communications history are still in use today: [WayBack] homecomputerlab » Cisco 2511-RJ remote access terminal server
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multi-headed
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/14
A long time ago, I named a tool Cerberus after the mythical multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld, as it was to inspect client systems configurations to prevent they would enter a bad state.
Since I need a multi-headed tool later on, below are some links on multi-headed (Polycephaly – Wikipedia) creatures to give me inspiration.
Some of them are centered around war, others around hell, are dragons or monsters, and a few are guardians. Later I will try to put a classification in a table or so.
- Cerberus – Wikipedia
- Lernaean Hydra – Wikipedia
- Xiangliu – Wikipedia
- Shesha – Wikipedia
- Yamata no Orochi – Wikipedia
- Nine-headed Bird – Wikipedia: Jiutouniao
- Kuzuryū – Wikipedia
- Ladon (mythology) – Wikipedia
- Typhon – Wikipedia
- Orthrus – Wikipedia
- Geryon – Wikipedia
- Agni – Wikipedia
- Balaur – Wikipedia
- Brahma – Wikipedia
- Bune – Wikipedia
- Chimera (mythology) – Wikipedia
- Dattatreya – Wikipedia
- Gayatri – Wikipedia
- Janus – Wikipedia
- Hecate – Wikipedia
- Kartikeya – Wikipedia
- Nehebkau – Wikipedia
- Nezha – Wikipedia
- Orthrus – Wikipedia
- Scylla – Wikipedia
- Svetovid – Wikipedia
- Triglav (mythology) – Wikipedia
- Zahhak – Wikipedia
- Þrúðgelmir – Wikipedia
- Slavic dragon – Wikipedia
- Double-headed eagle – Wikipedia
- Hecatoncheires – Wikipedia
- Rat king – Wikipedia
The idea is to replace my current Apache TLS offloading (that uses letsencrypt/certbot for the certificates) with something else like an nginx one, and maybe even make the internal part TLS too (so it becomes TLS upstreaming) so these will come in useful too:
- How to use Nginx for SSL termination for any domain
- [WayBack] How to Setup Nginx with Let’s Encrypt Cert?
- [WayBack] Configuring SSL with letsencrypt certbot on NGINX reverse proxy – Guyatic
- [WayBack] Configuring containers with Proxmox on OVH Kimsufi server behind a single public IP with NAT – Guyatic
- [WayBack] tls – End-to-end encryption with a reverse proxy and an application server – Information Security Stack Exchange
- [WayBack] Nginx TCP forwarding based on hostname – Stack Overflow
- [WayBack] NGINX Docs | NGINX SSL Termination
- [WayBack] SSL/TLS Offloading, Encryption, and Certificates with NGINX
- [WayBack] NGINX Docs | SSL Termination for TCP Upstream Servers
Instead of nginx, HAproxy might be a an option too, especially as it understands TCP traffic other than http much better than nginx:
This means I should first look into nginx vs haproxy – Google Search, for instance these posts:
- [WayBack] HAProxy vs Nginx – The Case for Both – KeyCDN Support
- [WayBack] HAProxy vs nginx: Why you should NEVER use nginx for load balancing! – The HFT Guy
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Why does HRESULT begin with H when it’s not a handle to anything? – The Old New Thing
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/06
Interesting bit of history: [WayBack] Why does HRESULT begin with H when it’s not a handle to anything? – The Old New Thing.
TL;DR:
- It used to be a handle
- Few programs cared about the underlying objects
- Managing the underlying objects was way too expensive
- It got trimmed down to a number, but the name stuck
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How Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future | Innovation | Smithsonian
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/15
Two decades before the personal computer, a shy engineer unveiled the tools that would drive the tech revolution
Don’t read this as a historic piece, but as the potential we are still going to experience what was not just sketched by a true visionary in 1968, but also demonstrated back then: [Archive.is] How Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future | Innovation | Smithsonian.
I am including one of the pictures below by Christie Hemm Klok that shows how far Engelbart was ahead of his time: not his initial invention of an input device (the mouse) “chord” kind.
After that, read about his 1968 presentation: The Mother of All Demos – Wikipedia
Finally, watch the video below, well worth watching the more than one and a half hours.
–jeroen
Via:
- [WayBack] Alan Cox – Google+: Resharing because it’s a great piece and it would be a shame if Douglas Englebart got overlooked…
- [WayBack] Ken Harbit (Pogi) – Google+: How Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future
- [WayBack] Wow, what a time to be alive… Oh wait Watch “The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)” on YouTube – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+
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Reminder to check out the Pascal source code for Apple’s legendary Lisa operating system
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/06
This is a reminder to check when the source code was actually released:
- [WayBack] Source code for Apple’s legendary Lisa operating system to be released for free in 2018 | 9to5Mac
- [Archive.is] Status of Lisa 7/7 source release – Google Groups
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