asciilifeform: at any rate from my 'general's armchair' i am hard-pressed to technically distinguish aim, watsap, icq, slack.
asciilifeform: (sadly nothing of interest was to be found therein, but for the fact)
asciilifeform: in 2003 i bought a massive hp pa-risc box (complete with emp shielding grates, power supply on wheeled rails, etc) and it turned out to have been an old aol 'messenger' server !
asciilifeform: shinohai: 'slack' is simply today's 'aol messenger', 'icq', same '90s centralized chatroom item. sufficiently similar, on surface, to irc, that i'd imagine folks would be used to the concept ?
asciilifeform: (almost the entire mendeleev table, in fact!111)
asciilifeform: and there is gold and uranium in ocean water.
asciilifeform: iirc later it was banned, so it must work on ~somebody~
asciilifeform: ( did have strange dream that night, but i often do anyway )
asciilifeform: fwiw i once ate some of its liquid extract (it was at one point freely available in usa, was literally the only type of dope i could physically get !) and it did... zero.
asciilifeform: there are books even on flying mig. but there are afaik none on flying mig under a non-liftable sea bridge (there is photo of this!). 'cons-free lisp' resembles the latter more than 'sop' operation.
asciilifeform: one of the difficulties of the student is that most 'adult' lisp work took place in the era before 'must publish everything', 'open sores', etc.
asciilifeform: trinque: afaik only the leaked smbx lm sources.
asciilifeform: trinque: also this'll be good practice for writing 'cons-free' manually-driven lisp, for when we do os bootloader, kernel, similar.
asciilifeform: trinque: peruse the docs for your particular lisp, most of'em provide knobs for 'dangerous' manual manipulation of the 'auto gearbox', if you will
asciilifeform: and it's for 'list processing' in same way as fortran-90 is for 'formulae translation'...
asciilifeform: (and now i must surely bbl, this thread could go on and on.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mtbf of the linux boxes at my ~house~ is measured in years... why do you suppose is this.
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu has point. i'ma back to wurk, bbl.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: i would keep it personally if i had where. (see old thread.)
asciilifeform: and i will add that , aside from the login keyz, there are 0 secrets on the box.
asciilifeform: once it stops responding to shell, it may as well have been stolen.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: which is why 'comes offline' is enough misbehaviour from my pov.
asciilifeform: physically it ~can~ dump ram, research proj i led at the time investigated how to coax it to do this, among other things
asciilifeform: i had occasion to install such a machine a few yrs ago, somewhere, it came with 'kvm chipset', but this feature was not advertised. the advertised feature is just that, kvm, where you get a tty prompt.)
asciilifeform: processor - yes. ram - yes. disk - yes.
asciilifeform: i dun recall specifying 'remote admin card'
asciilifeform: i had nfi that we were even buying a 'fritz chipped' box.
asciilifeform: a 'welded shut box' + dc supplies GB pipe + mains current dc would be mega-product.
asciilifeform: incidentally i have machines right here in my house subjected to far harsher loads , 24/7/365, and somehow -- mysteriously -- they never ONCE suffer 'martian' failures.
