Category: Lazy Reading

The weather’s nice, so the links are light.  Well, they were, then I got some reading done, and now we have a good-size list.

• Rule #1: Interop is all that matters.  This is what gave us the Internet, really.  (via)
• Nethogs, the tool.
• SIGGRAPH 2017 : Technical Papers Preview Trailer.  See what will appear in movies and triple-A games a year from now.  (via)
• The Restoration of Early Unix Artifacts.  (via)
• The Computer Cook Book.  (via)
• Internet Histories, a n in-depth examination of exactly that.  First issue.   The introduction has a great Tim Berners-Lee quote.  (via)
• Please insert next floppy.
• Many pet rabbits will die in Second Life on Saturday.  As the source link says, “At least nobody will ever make real food depend on the cloud, right?”
• Modern OS/2 released.  (via)
• The Unix Webserver.  Interesting to see as a concept, but not necessarily a good idea as implemented.  (via)
• A list of “highly-specific one-person’s-passion” websites.  One of my favorite things to see on the Internet.  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: Roads & Kingdoms Breakfast.  Food and a story every weekday.

I’m very UNIXy this week.

• Have You Played… Event[0]?  Sounds like a simulation of IRC.
• TERRIBLE, AWFUL, NO GOOD, REALLY BAD HEAVY METAL ALBUM COVERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.  (via)
• The Best Metal on Bandcamp: March 2017.  A palate cleanser from the last link.
• Google Open Source Docs.  Everyone releases their code, but not their methodology, which is arguably as important.  (via)
• Windows disk-loading/code-swapping.  I remember this from Apple ][ days; there is no modern equivalent that I can think of.
• The creator of Dwarf Fortress doesn’t really like to play games like Dwarf Fortress.  (via)
• Research UNIX V8, V9 and V10 made public by Alcatel-Lucent.  (via)
• Related: What’s the earliest UNIX (or unix-like) OS that is both easily available and can run on x86?
• How to learn Unix/Linux and Lesser known but still handy Linux commands.  Essentially command line tool education.
• Zero Terminal.  Another item for my teeny computer fetish.  (via)

Your useful tip of the week: Setting the root login’s ‘full name’ to identify the machine that sent email.  This makes so much sense.  (via)

I had overflow from last week, so I have a good list for you, despite being offline for days.

• Your Code is Junky.  I haven’t thought about FrontPage in years, and that’s on purpose.  It was a trainwreck.
• Raiders of the Lost OS: Reclaiming a piece of Polish IT history.  I have never heard of CROOK.  (via)
• meaningful short names.
• missing features as features
• The Collapse of the UNIX Philosophy.   Drinking game: drink every time the author or commenters at the source link conflate bash and UNIX, or Linux and UNIX, or assume a quirk solved in 1985 is a relevant worry today, etc.  You’ll be drunk very soon.
• Adobe Illustrator is 30 years old.  Linking mostly for the side-by-side image of the tool palettes over the years.
• USG is a firewall for your USB ports.  firmware firewall – you can still have malicious software in the data portion of the USB drive.  (via)
• Two frequently used system calls are ~77% slower on AWS EC2.  gettimeofday() – about as simple as it gets, and used constantly.  (via)
• selfie – compiler, emulator, and hypervisor (C and MIPS) all bundled together.  (via)
• Computers and art meet face-to-face.
• (related comics link)

Your unrelated tea link of the day: defining what it means when you read “mug of tea” vs “cup of tea”.  You’d think it was interchangeable, but the meanings diverge.  (PDF, via)

Another diverse link week, hooray!

• Stupid Hackathon 2017 – results under Project.  (via)
• using yubikeys everywhere
• Mistakes You Apparently Just Have to Make Yourself.  I have seen all of these happen.  (via)
• Getting started with vim.  (via)
• The many faces of grep.  grep, egrep, fgrep.
• Finding the Lost Vikings – Reversing a Virtual Machine.  (via)
• Unix OS archaeology – Soviet UNIX clone DEMOS pt.2.  (via)
• SHAttered.  Every vulnerability has to have a cool name and website now.  (via)
• I found the best anagram in English, Moore’s law beats a better algorithm, and Miscellaneous notes on anagram scoring, a series on anagrams that goes into glorious depth.
• Puzzle Zapper Blog, from the previous link.
• PuTTY 0.68 has been released, useful everywhere.  (via and via)

Your unrelated item of the week: How Wegmans inspired the most rabid fanbase in the grocery world.  I live in the town where Wegmans started.  “Grocery fanbase” is a relative thing, but: yes, they are that good.