asciilifeform: ^ mandatory thread

asciilifeform: trinque: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2014#922660 ☝︎

asciilifeform: trinque: excellent question! see thread

asciilifeform: it still gets used when irc-connecting and when attempting to determine external ip from behind nat

asciilifeform: only for seeding

asciilifeform: nubbins`: i must remind readers that my 'dns snip' patch does not remove all usage of dns from bitcoin

asciilifeform: 'it is always to be avoided' ?????!

asciilifeform: its english << as written by su mole deep in the british ministry of fucktardation ?

asciilifeform: 'it is always to be avoided to use numbers as instructions.' << translation from ru? cn ?

asciilifeform: ?

asciilifeform: no big deal, not hard to determine.

asciilifeform: mod won't load unless matches kernel ver.

asciilifeform: mats: works but ver magic.

asciilifeform: i can't recall losing one...

asciilifeform: what are we looking for, at the bottom of that tank? a golden ring ?

asciilifeform: there is not an easy way to do much of anything.

asciilifeform: also writing broadcast (s.nsa) and buncha other things in shiva hands

asciilifeform: will say, after it syncs, if so, and how

asciilifeform: in other news, i think i've a fixed-ram-space bitcoind running...

asciilifeform: now i realize it was true. except not outhouse, but pc arch and the whole stack of softs.

asciilifeform: this titanic edifice.

asciilifeform: i even saw it, in dreams

asciilifeform: or how else could hold generations of turds.

asciilifeform: into the ground.

asciilifeform: or at least, like a skyscraper, but sorta inverted

asciilifeform: as a kid i always imagined that the shit tank was bottomless.

asciilifeform: my grandfather had a dacha. it did not come with a toilet, so he built one. outhouse thing, but with an actual toilet that flushed instead of the customary shit pit. this is relevant, because: ☟︎

asciilifeform: so mircea_popescu cannot be faulted for not giving a rat's arse

asciilifeform: (to be fair, pc arch standard is dead and what i said is probably wrong for at least every box in seven on the market.)

asciilifeform: pc owner oughta know that.

asciilifeform: warm boot on pc arch doesn't cycle dram reset

asciilifeform: it is doing its job

asciilifeform: because the dram was never powered down

asciilifeform: actually 'remanence' is wrong word here!

asciilifeform: (whatsthat? little proggy that warmboots machine with small linux and reads dram 0..top to a usb stick.)

asciilifeform: http://www.cert.org/digital-intelligence/tools/afterlife.cfm? << depends on box

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dram remanence ?

asciilifeform: self-confessed

asciilifeform: for the crime of poaching rare wood, naturally

asciilifeform: know what would be riotously funny? if american 'nature preservation' agency rounded the idiot up and took'im to preet

asciilifeform: only gold bitcoin is genuine.

asciilifeform: ick, debased roman bitcoins

asciilifeform: not a finite count of it in the vessel

asciilifeform: nubbins`: unfortunately - stupidity doesn't work like ova

asciilifeform: yes.

asciilifeform: as in, mains power removed ?

asciilifeform: or 'warm'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all boots here were 'cold' ?

asciilifeform: pathological liars don't automatically make good storytellers, much as folks with no bowel control are not by this fertilizatory virtue automatically good farmers.

asciilifeform: he's back!

asciilifeform: woodc0ll3kt0r!!!

asciilifeform would like a copy of mircea_popescu's trinary sovcoin plz. because this is just Sad.

asciilifeform: and people use this thing, huh.

asciilifeform: shatoshi

asciilifeform: am i the first to run full-bore valgrind on it or wut

asciilifeform: this is STANDARD dynamic

asciilifeform: this is not weirdobuild either

asciilifeform: and several dozen more like it.

asciilifeform: ==00:00:00:12.322 18417== by 0x6FEF26C: clone (in /lib64/libc-2.19.so)

asciilifeform: ==00:00:00:12.322 18417== by 0x64DB082: start_thread (in /lib64/libpthread-2.19.so)

asciilifeform: ==00:00:00:12.322 18417== by 0x4702C6: ThreadMessageHandler(void*) (net.cpp:1464)

asciilifeform: ==00:00:00:12.322 18417== by 0x47011C: ThreadMessageHandler2(void*) (net.cpp:1505)

asciilifeform: ==00:00:00:12.322 18417== by 0x44A1EB: SendMessages(CNode*, bool) (main.cpp:156)

asciilifeform: ==00:00:00:12.322 18417== at 0x4C7D43: CWallet::ResendWalletTransactions() (wallet.cpp:678)

asciilifeform: ==00:00:00:12.322 18417== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)

asciilifeform: meanwhile,

asciilifeform: hm.

asciilifeform: not some crazy sun dildostation.

asciilifeform: and this is a commonplace ibmpclike thing with ata cdrom, etc. ?

asciilifeform like total idiot assumed the variant that makes sense.

asciilifeform: !

asciilifeform: though this was the second attempt to boot an -installed- linux.

asciilifeform: the one in the pic

asciilifeform: wai wat, did that box -boot from cd- ?

asciilifeform: -the linux on the cd-

asciilifeform: sure does

asciilifeform: look at your lilo (or grub) config.

asciilifeform: then when the contents are in place, we move disk to its final home and try to boot from it, etc.

asciilifeform: as just a disk.

asciilifeform: i very rarely install gentoo from cd, must say. normally i install using a normal computer with the 'patient' disk plugged in

asciilifeform: like i do on 'pogo' builds.

asciilifeform: alternatively compile the cmdline into kernel per se

asciilifeform: then it will work for all time.

asciilifeform: if boots, then stuff it into the kernel cmd line params in lilo (or grub or whatever you used)

asciilifeform: at any rate, give it the rootfs.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu poured diesel into petrol engine

asciilifeform: but not to be mounted as a rootfs by a normal kernel.

asciilifeform: (typically it contains a thing that can be booted from and ends up living in ram, like my pogo 'turdel')

asciilifeform: *built

asciilifeform: cd is not build to be usable as rootfs

asciilifeform: didja even build this kernel.

asciilifeform: (why even built it with busybox, i wonder)

asciilifeform: instead of letting it die into busybox

asciilifeform: try giving it the actual root device when it asks

asciilifeform: then.

asciilifeform: last night

asciilifeform: was disk in the drive

asciilifeform: or has no fucking clue where to mount root fs

asciilifeform: it wants one

asciilifeform: was, judging by this photo, given none.