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asciilifeform: laplinker: either bios gets no say; or it's not actually active on reset
asciilifeform: these can't both be true
asciilifeform: why does bios get a say, if it's active at reset vector ?!
asciilifeform: waitasec laplinker
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it needs there to be one in the 'victim' aha
asciilifeform: this'd be a pretty serious find.
asciilifeform: ( ideally without using intel's shitware , in the latter, also )
asciilifeform: laplinker: and yes, what mircea_popescu said, write a post about this, i'd like to know what boxes this works on, how to talk to the chip, etc
asciilifeform: laplinker: how about after boot. can microshit tell that you're singlestepping their kernel ?
asciilifeform: laplinker: neat
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he's discussing usb variant
asciilifeform: laplinker: have you personally tried this ? and stepped through a standard consumer bios from reset to boot sector ?
asciilifeform: not with pogos. unless rack is largely empty, as a temporary measure
asciilifeform: they won't sit down in 1u even empty, just a bit too thick
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: pogo has the minus of taking up much vertical space when disk is in
asciilifeform: phf: unless somebody's got a dedicated 3u travel crate, they prolly oughta move in the vendor crates
asciilifeform: laplinker: please repost here
asciilifeform: ugh
asciilifeform: laplinker: plz to repost here, it might be of use to somebody
asciilifeform: laplinker: aha, did, could not answer however
asciilifeform: phf: ~3~ machiens
asciilifeform: !!up laplinker
asciilifeform: hey laplinker , get a gpg key regged ?
asciilifeform: oh hey, a sageprobes
asciilifeform: but errybody knows, Troo Men connect only via http://btcbase.org/log/2014-04-25#643502 ☝︎
asciilifeform: zaurus ?
asciilifeform: rubber kbd
asciilifeform: and i think i even have a z...whatwasit
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: shitdroid also!
asciilifeform: they relay through specially made box
asciilifeform: when in bed and can't be arsed to get up
asciilifeform: phunphakt, ~halfthetime asciilifeform is on an icraptoy of whatever kind
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: are you on a speak&spell or wat
asciilifeform: 23 of total sweat.
asciilifeform: maybe 14
asciilifeform: not 23 of motors running, no
asciilifeform: but at least cheap!
asciilifeform: 23
asciilifeform: aha
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i have'em in thick cardboard'an'foam crates
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i took copa via panama & bolivia, to c3 back in the day, it worked ok, ~empty planes some of the way
asciilifeform: moar general problem. if application is important, conceivably you can afford to throw out the 7 of 10 or whatever crates which show symptoms of having been opened.
asciilifeform: ( where asciilifeform described a full-bore crackpotteristic potential answer to the seal problem )
asciilifeform: and grr i can't seem to find the glass ball thread
asciilifeform: i personally muchly luvv the subj
asciilifeform: the crate is chief problem.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the ru item was remarkable because it was verifiable with simple analogue electronics, no fancy patternmatching camera etc
asciilifeform: the hard part is to set it up such that enemy doesn't simply replace the ~crate~ around the lock loop and laugh all the way to the bank
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714165 << ☝︎
asciilifeform: we did this thread aha
asciilifeform: lolk
asciilifeform: y'know, like passport forgers used to
asciilifeform: that's what potatoing is, to lift shape
asciilifeform: and knows how to potato
asciilifeform: enemy has wax also, presumably.
asciilifeform: naturally.
asciilifeform: ( and for battery restorations, lol )
asciilifeform: actually purchased for this occasion
asciilifeform: i ~do~ have a spotwelder...
asciilifeform: what does mircea_popescu have in mind re seals
asciilifeform: not in the traditional plebeland sense ( i can set up a box such that with own hands i can see if it was opened. but what else is there ? )
asciilifeform: aha.
asciilifeform: )
asciilifeform: !#s wyse
asciilifeform: ( e.g. a 'wyse',
asciilifeform: incidentally i got also smaller boxes of various descriptions, that may or may not merit deployment in bisp
asciilifeform: right. i can see it.
asciilifeform: ( will require a 'game of sokoban' , believe or not, in my torture room, to actually access the boxen. )
asciilifeform: i'ma have to uncrate and photo then, later this weekend. ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-09#1735428 << this, but with misprint, it's 24 core. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: prolly doesn't merit entire post, given as most of the item is in the log.
asciilifeform: 3ware/lsi
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun keep a massive pile of ssd on my person, lol. but:
asciilifeform: the 8bay one still has the stock card, 8cable 3wares are costly, but can be had on reasonably short notice
asciilifeform: this makes practical diff in re the ultimate capacity ( raid10 is wasteful )
asciilifeform: the one with 4, i've outfitted with a proper 3ware card that knows how to raid5 ( the stock card in mobo is also 3ware but only knows how to raid10 )
asciilifeform: 1 has 4 bays, other -- 8
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: depending on what you need in the 2 virginal boxen, can be ready in ~wk
asciilifeform: pogos btw will need disks
asciilifeform bbl, meat
asciilifeform recently met phf in the meat for 1st time
asciilifeform: entirely
asciilifeform: typically.
asciilifeform: pretty sad links from dc actually. ~all the good flights on this side of continent are from nyc
asciilifeform: ( and then back, unless he wants to take a plane from dc )
asciilifeform: 6-7hr
asciilifeform: ( there's no vat-collector b/w asciilifeform and danielpbarron )
asciilifeform: i can easily fedex box(s) to danielpbarron , incidentally, no reason for him to take many days to drive
asciilifeform: did i miss any ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: let's include several variants for completeness : 1) fedex , and chancing the VAT 2) somebody other than asciilifeform , who can go sooner, goes, delivers a box 3) BingoBoingo obtains box locally
asciilifeform: right but mircea_popescu runs on atomic battery.
asciilifeform: then the whole orchestra oughta go in the crate, yes
asciilifeform: i dun have with what to pay 10% of a 100,000 imaginary 'value' say.
asciilifeform: well depending what is the tax, could be same as steal.
asciilifeform: i still see it as open question, whether they'll wink through a crate with N servers as 'personal effects', or steal the whole lot
asciilifeform: can squeeze in a BingoBoingoistan expedition shortly thereafter
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779771 << still clearing my calendar, frustratingly, for ro expedition ( looks to be ~3 wks from nao ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779772 << i have 3 boxes prepared for bisp under s.nsa banners ; 1 is dulap-III , which is 'endisked', en-FG'd, and crated for its journey; 2 want disks; if mircea_popescu has specific config he wants for #2 and #3, or to obtain moar , gpggram. ☝︎
asciilifeform: privmsg worx better than email
asciilifeform: xahlee: do it, and come back, whenever; you can operate deedbot via privmsg.