asciilifeform: (something for which that vendor was infamous. see naggum archive for some good flamewarz re: subject)
asciilifeform: decimation: sometimes even goes the other way! i was recently surprised to learn that 'lispworks' no longer charges per-runtime royalties
asciilifeform: mats: Run Moar Winblowz! (puzzled? don't be. you don't need uefi on your box unless you Run Moar Winblowz. nuke it, replace with civilized bios)
asciilifeform: available evidence points to these being code for a dsp, which modulates the business end of that thing, ~in software~. whoever solves these, could, conveivably, play music through the pairs...
asciilifeform: phun phakt. ubiquitous series of ethernet cards by 'realtek' take (optional) microcode updates. (they are volatile, live in a kind of 'patch ram' until next reset.) they do not appear to match any known cpu arch (i tried a dozen or so.)
asciilifeform: making list of whose packets to drop must be hard wurk☟︎