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| | [[File:Tab.jpg|right|thumb|mix it with absinthe for TaBsinthe]] |
| [[File:LookForAnswers.jpg|right|thumb|I like to stay up late on the computer, looking for answers.]] | | It's what one drinks. I, for one, have unadulterated enthusiasm for it. |
| ==welcome to [https://dank.qemfd.net qemfd.net]!==
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| This is the home server of [mailto:dankamongmen@gmail.com Nick Black] (aka [[User:Dank|dank]]), located at [[LOC record|33°46′44.4"N, 84°23'2.4"W (33.779, 85.384)]] in the heart of Midtown Atlanta, GA. This wiki is primarily for my personal use, but open to public viewing in case anything generally helpful emerges. However you roll, dankwiki's rollin' wit' you. I make no guarantees concerning correctness, relevance, or timeliness of the information contained herein. Track changes using the [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] page. I was pondering a strictly technical blog, but this wiki and [[Grad_school|grad school]] have satisfied ye olde ''furor scribendi''. Until then, don't mistake my kindness for weakness: ''rien n'est simple, mais tout est facile...''
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| Seriously: I primarily write to force my own understanding, and remember things (a ''few'' entries are actually semi-authoritative). I'm just a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner disreputable Mariner] on your way to the Wedding. '''If you derive use from this wiki, consider yourself lucky, and please get confirmation before relying on my writeups to perform surgery, design planes, determine whether a graph ''G'' is an Aanderaa–Rosenberg scorpion, or feed your pet rhinoceros.''' Still have any [[Questions|questions?]] ■
| | '''update 2020-10: it's gone =[''' |
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| | ==Articles== |
| '''''QEMFD!''''' ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D. wikipedia], [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QED.html wolfram]) '''''also provides...'''''
| | * [https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/coca-cola-s-tab-soda-has-been-discontinued-its-retirement-ncna1243950 Coca-Cola's Tab soda has been discontinued. Its retirement should have come decades ago] by some thoughtless bitch who missed the whole goddamn point (Celia Viggo Wexler), nbcnews, 2020-10-20 |
| * [https://nick-black.com/bugzilla/ bugzilla] for projects like | | * [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/business/tab-shortage-coca-cola.html Where Has All the Tab Gone? A Shortage Panics Fans] by Laura Holson, New York Times, 2018-10-17 |
| ** [[omphalos]], [[libtorque]], [[libdank]], and [[growlight]]
| | * [http://mentalfloss.com/article/547246/why-coca-cola-designed-tab-clear-fail Fizzled Out: Why Coca-Cola Purposely Designed a Soft Drink to Fail] by Jake Rossen, MentalFloss, 2018-06-14 |
| * Still growing! The world's largest(?) collection of [[computer science eponyms]]. ■
| | * [https://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/tab-turns-50-and-those-who-love-the-fizzy-diet-cola-celebrate TaB Turns 50: Those Who Love the Fizzy Diet Cola Celebrate] by Cheryl Truman, Coca-Cola Journey, 2013-04-22 |
| | * [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/02/06/tab-scare TaB Scare] by Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 2006-02-06 |
| | * [https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/10/garden/tab-soda-drinkers-miss-familiar-taste.html Tab Soda Drinkers Miss Familiar Taste] by Lisa Belkin, New York Times, 1984-10-10 ([[:File:NYT-1984-10-10-TaB-Drinkers.png|reproduction]]) |
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| ==[[:Category:Projects|Projects?]]==
| | [[File:60minutes-tab.jpg|thumb|right|A good drinking game is to drink TaB whenever you see TaB on 60 Minutes]] |
| * The [https://nick-black.com/processorzoo.html Processor Zoo]! | | ==Television== |
| * I created and taught CS4803UWS, "[[UNIX Weapons School]]", Summer 2013 at Georgia Tech | | * 1983-02-28 M*A*S*H, Season 11 Episode 16 "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" ([[:File:Mash-Tab-picture.jpg|image]]) |
| * [[Hackery]]! (projects and open source work). The [[Personal machines|machines]]. Matrix of [[large cases]].
| | * 1995-02-26 The Simpsons, Season 06 Episode 17 "Homer vs. Patty and Selma" ([[:File:Simpsons-s06e17-tab.jpg|image]]) |
| * The [[WORDHORDE]]. Some [[book ideas|books]] I'd like to write. | | * 1996-01-25 Seinfeld, Season 07 Episode 12 "The Caddy" ([[:File:Seinfeld-TaB-season07-episode12.jpg|image]]) |
| * [[Grad school]] and [[CS GRE]] prep page. Some notes on [[LaTeX]]. Too many [[morphisms]]!
| | * 2004-02-01 Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 04 Episode 05 "The 5 Wood" ([[:File:curbyourtab.png|image]]) |
| * [[Elemental naming]] and good [[wordlist|words]]. [[Atlanta]].
| | * 2014-03-12 The Americans, Season 02 Episode 03 "The Walk In" |
| * [[BlackBerry]] crap. F'n [[bookshelves]].
| | * 2017-03-12 Family Guy Season 15 Episode 15 "Cop and a Half-Wit" ([[:File:Famguytab1.jpg|image 1]], [[:File:Famguytab2.jpg|image 2]]) |
| * What does worldwide [[TaB|TaB®]] consumption have to do with [[nuclear weapons]]?
| | * 2017-10-27 Stranger Things, Season 02 Episode 03 "Chapter Three: The Pollywog" |
| * My grad school [[:File:CS8803MCAPresentation.pdf|presentations]] tended to [[:File:CS8803DCPresentationKlaiber.pdf|run slightly]], just a little, [[:File:CS8803DCPresentationGschwind.pdf|unorthodox]]...
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| ** ...yep, [[Trail of Frames|still weird]] (invited lecture for the opening of [https://wiki.freesideatlanta.org/fs/Info Freeside Atlanta]) | |
| ** [[:File:Pwl09.pdf|Papers We Love Atlanta #9]] 2018-10-09 | |
| ** and now [[:File:Public_LPC2015_-_Dynamic_iSCSI_at_Scale-_Remote_paging_at_Google.pdf|professionally]] weird ([https://blog.linuxplumbersconf.org/2015/ 2015 Linux Plumbers' Conference] for Google)
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| * Other people's [[repositories|projects]]. Other people's [[programming quotes]]. ■ | |
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| ==UNIX==
| | [[File:Guy-with-tab.jpg|right|thumb|TaB hoarding during the pandemic of 2020 (this is *not* a picture of Your Humble Wikist)]] |
| * Writing high-performance, scalable [[Fast UNIX Servers|UNIX system applications]] is my greatest passion.
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| * [[Linux APIs]], [[FreeBSD APIs]], [[ELF]] (which is not, in itself, an API).
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| * [[Power Management]]. [[Sound Software]], [[Using Unicode]]. Keeping FreeBSD [[Updating FreeBSD|up-to-date]]. Hacking [[CUDA]] on [[Debian]].
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| * [[Debian]], [[Xorg hell]], [[Consoles]] and [[Framebuffer|Framebuffers]]. Recent insanity: [[DBus]], [[HAL]]. Making graphs with [[dot]].
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| * Notes on [[MediaWiki editing|editing]] and [[MediaWiki|running MediaWiki]]. [[Core]] files happen when one dances fandango on [[core]]. Notes on [[subversion]].
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| * [[Linux on Dells]], [[SMART]] and [[SATA]], [[udev]], various linux-related [[hardware detritus]] (mainly random personal crap). ■ | |
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| ==A few remarks regarding computers etc.== | | ==Movies== |
| * [[glibc]], other [[interesting libraries]], [[working with libraries]], some implementing interfaces like [[pthreads]]. | | * [[:File:Fridge-full-of-tab.jpeg|Fly Me to the Moon (2024)]] |
| * [[X Macros]], [[ISO C99]], [[rpaths]], [[GCC|gcc]] notes, [[GNU Make|gmake]] notes.
| | * Ready Player One (2018) |
| * There's [[Buses and Ports]], of course, of course. | | * [[:File:Ghostbusters-TaB.png|Ghostbusters (1984)]] |
| * Intel's [[Sandy Bridge]] and [[Nehalem]] x86 [[microarchitectures]]. | | * The Terminator (1984) |
| ** or, if you'd prefer, [[Transmeta|Transmeta's]] or [[Tilera|Tilera's]] processors.
| | * [[WarGames strategems|WarGames]] (1983) |
| * The [[cpuid]] instruction, [[SMP on x86]], [[Performance Counters]], [[simulators]]. | | * E.T. (1982) |
| ** Simulators ought not be confused with the [[4000 Linux VT Solutions|4,000 Linux VT Solutions]]!
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| * Getting into [[ARM]]. Getting into [[ACPI]]. Getting into [[Architecture]]. I want a (PIVT, middle-endian, 27-bit word) MISD machine; until then, there's [[SIMD]].
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| * [[Lamport's Hash]], [[Lamport's Clock]], [[Skip Lists]], I will put thoughts about [[automata|automata here]], [[Dijkstran Method]]. | |
| * [[Flash]] sucks. Need get a handle on [[Compiler Design]] by tomorrow's midterm.
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| ** Now it's [[Programming Language Theory]] by tomorrow's final, heh.
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| * [[Trees]] for smoking and computing. [[Lock-free algorithms|lock- and wait-free]] algorithms. [[Cache-oblivious algorithms]]. [[RCU]].
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| * [[Allocators]] get us that free store, son (usually through a [[DRAM]]-backed VM)!
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| ** Said VM ''might'' implement [[transactional memory]], and ''almost certainly'' works on [[pages]].
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| * Via [[Grover's Algorithm]], we might be able to discover the monster at the end of this quantum book.
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| * [[Jefferson's Time Warp]] algorithm, and while we're at it, [[timer wheels]] and even [[x86 timing]].
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| * Let's get bipartite, bipartite...with [[bip buffers]]. I don't much care for writing [[Gecko Addons]] (aka [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html FireFox plugins]). | |
| * [[Ling adders]], [[Blum's axioms]], and [[Rice's Theorem]] are all named after people smarter than me...
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| ** ...as are [[Chaitin's Constant]] and [[Kolmogorov complexity]], and [[Computer science eponyms|lots of other junk]]. ■
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| ==Networking== | | ==Print ads== |
| * Please adhere to the various [[Standards#Networking_standards|standards]] (even where mutually contradictory) | | * [[:File:BeautifulDrink.jpg|What a Beautiful Drink]] |
| ** As one judge said to another, '' 'Be just, and when you can't be just, be arbitrary.' ''
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| * [[Topology Discovery]]. Online tools for [[Internet analytics]].
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| * [[SSHFP]] and [[LOC record|LOC]] records. [[DNSSEC]]. The Sender Policy Framework ([[SPF]]). [[VoIP]] and telephony, NAPTR records. | | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJL4yQn_7qQ "Bathing suit"] |
| * Some [[TCP]] notes. [[Syncookies]]. | | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Wj7bzP4-Y "Bowling"] |
| * [[ARP]] is no longer used in [[IPv6]], which more fully embraces [[Zeroconf|zero-configuration networking]].
| | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtx_zOGIqMA "Everything Becomes Clear"] |
| * [[ICAP]] page.
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| * [https://nick-black.com/BIginternet Mirror] of the BIg-Internet list from ftp://munnari.oz.au | | ==External== |
| * [[Tunneling]], [[SNMP]], [[NFS]]...[[Van Jacobson Channels]] get everybody all hooting and hollaring every decade or so. ■ | | * Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(soft_drink) |
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| | * Wikia: http://tabsoda.wikia.com/wiki/TaB |
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| | * Product Placement Blog: https://productplacementblog.com/tag/tab/ |
| <div style="text-align: right;">"I have never known a greater monster nor miracle than myself." - Michel de Montaigne
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| <br/>'''''quod erat demonstrandum!'''''</div>
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