asciilifeform: mtd1: 00300000 00020000 "uImage"

asciilifeform: mtd0: 00200000 00020000 "u-boot"

asciilifeform: dev: size erasesize name

asciilifeform: (yet another fs optimized for fragile 'flash')

asciilifeform: the root fs is a 'ubifs'

asciilifeform: followed by root

asciilifeform: followed by a similarly sized empty one

asciilifeform: followed by a partition holding kernel

asciilifeform: on pogo

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: uboot is resident in the 128mb eeprom

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: you installed arch to the drive and booted to it, didntcha

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: nope

asciilifeform: ^ which can be rewritten easily

asciilifeform: the unit i have, had to be reflashed with a modern build of this, to boot from anywhere other than the kernel and root partitions in eeprom

asciilifeform: (a kind of programmable bootloader, similar to 'lilo')

asciilifeform: there is a boot partition there, containing an ancient version of 'uboot'

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: when thing powers up, it boots from the eeprom

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: mine - did not

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: your 'pogo' booted from external devices without replacing uboot ?

asciilifeform was actually rather surprised to be let out last time

asciilifeform: (incidentally, american banks learned from the 'salami' case and now do it SOP.)

asciilifeform: like the bank thief who pockets rounding errors.

asciilifeform: there was even an old sf story which posited that various microscopic physical limit phenomena result from the emulator shaving cycles in this manner.

asciilifeform: ^ compression of spacetime via 'memoization'. this is more or less how one would implement toy universes.

asciilifeform: !s hashlife

asciilifeform: global record in the sense of every instance

asciilifeform: o(n) addition was also 'not an issue'

asciilifeform: rather than a global record of every 1+1.

asciilifeform: even the nock stack posited local caching for trivialities

asciilifeform: interesting idiots are sometimes (temporarily) tolerated. tedious idiots - never.

asciilifeform: note to future stooges, moles: take some actual care to be distinguishable from comment spam on our www sites

asciilifeform: 'omg1111!!111 i am so interested in xxxxxxxx tell me moar'

asciilifeform: the last straw was the bugger 'shannonizing' my www. i wonder if there's some 'person' that this genuinely works on.

asciilifeform: their 'watercooler' conversations must be golden.

asciilifeform: i - can't be bothered.

asciilifeform: trinque: i suppose anyone here who hasn't killfiled, will learn the answer.

asciilifeform: !down the_scourge

asciilifeform: i hope they send him off to wherever they demoted ninjashogun to.

asciilifeform: ^ and the_scourge, don't bother pm-ing. killfiled.

asciilifeform: !v assbot:asciilifeform.rate.the_scourge.-2:872c8508e60de91180b0972e6d07b54ecd8a3362dca96a9a958e64487de13a3f

asciilifeform: !rate the_scourge -2 dear usg, please send better clowns; the cheap ones are growing tiresome.

asciilifeform: yes, technically - they are.

asciilifeform: or rather, this is not unlike the observation that everybody at the cemetary is there 'because' they breathed air.

asciilifeform: ipso facto poorly.

asciilifeform: see naggum's observation.

asciilifeform: that chords are intrinsically unhealthy somehow?

asciilifeform: what was the point?

asciilifeform: if you have healthy hands, decent input devices, it is possible to do such surprising things as speaking in complete words.

asciilifeform: because slow.

asciilifeform: no.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-08-2014#816658 ☝︎

asciilifeform: painful to watch << such as... ?

asciilifeform: most folks who lack the mental flexibility to relearn five or six key commands, would not benefit from emacs, and (if they are aware of its existence at all) - know it. and avoid.

asciilifeform: yes, it is possible to bolt them onto emacs. but few people do.

asciilifeform: the_scourge: poor design for folks used to ibm's (yes, originally their) traditional key chords.

asciilifeform: the_scourge: bullshit is not welcome in #b-a.

asciilifeform: the socket handler?

asciilifeform: the 15 lines also contain rsa?

asciilifeform: post.

asciilifeform: the name normally refers to the ancient thing based on 'gnunet'.

asciilifeform: any and all.

asciilifeform: psycd is a cancerous monstrosity.

asciilifeform: the_scourge: because the similarity is superficial.

asciilifeform: what exercise.

asciilifeform: 'year zero' simply refers to a reset, where you forget that a given field even has a history (except as an encyclopaedia of what not to do.)

asciilifeform: if you recognize neither the words, nor where they apply here, i'm powerless to help.

asciilifeform: 'more things in heaven and earth... than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'

asciilifeform: !s year zero

asciilifeform: the_scourge: yes, there is.

asciilifeform: it would be either a crock of shit, or book-length

asciilifeform: the_scourge: no.

asciilifeform: when i explain to folks why i dislike programming on available systems, i sometimes use example that it is rather like being a fellow who likes gardening, but there was a thermonuclear war not long ago, and you gotta sift the soil with sapper's spade in one hand, geiger in the other, and there won't be much sunlight to be had either.

asciilifeform: aha pike's

asciilifeform: the_scourge: loads fine.

asciilifeform: it's all in the logs.

asciilifeform: no need to guess

asciilifeform has never seen 'vimscript'

asciilifeform: wat

asciilifeform: 5k in modern american money is pocket change in comparison.

asciilifeform: the_scourge: in the days of rms, symbolics corp. sold machines. the cheapest started at about the cost of a single-propeller airplane.

asciilifeform: the source for the dec/amd64 emulator is not sold.

asciilifeform: call, ask.

asciilifeform: when i bought - $5k usd.

asciilifeform: nor is it included with a purchase.

asciilifeform: there is no public source for opengenera (either for dec alpha or amd64)

asciilifeform: but for the original os

asciilifeform: the source - not for the amd64 blob.

asciilifeform: the binary is a w4r3z blob, and occasionally distributed with the pirated source.

asciilifeform: the_scourge: that's merely a script for setting up the unofficial amd64 binary to run under a modern linux.

asciilifeform: technically symbolics had no name for their os until opengenera was put on the market.

asciilifeform: has nothing whatsoever to do with source being publicly available, or the product being distributed free of charge

asciilifeform: the_scourge: the 'open' in 'opengenera' is an archaic 1980s usg-ism. it simply refers to the fact that a product features industry-standard protocols like tcp/ip and does not require you to buy the entire universe you live in from one particular vendor.

asciilifeform: trinque: so you're actually using js. you will notice this, because the cl subset that can be thus eaten/shat is microscopic

asciilifeform: trinque: how do you propose to have the browser end run cl?

asciilifeform: the_scourge: don't be fooled by the word 'open'

asciilifeform: and a small piece in cambridge, ma

asciilifeform: the_scourge: it's been hiding in northern virginia.

asciilifeform: trinque: this leads to using $retardlang on server end

asciilifeform: !s opengenera

asciilifeform: !s symbolics 3620