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This is the home server of [mailto:dank@qemfd.net Nick Black] aka Nick tfm Black aka dankamongmen aka the dankest aka Admiral Diggities, located at [[LOC record|33°77′N, 84°38′W]] 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 (and to fight the search engine presence of the hated nick black band, who're very much on the enemy list). I make no guarantees concerning correctness, relevance, or timeliness of the information contained herein. I've started this project only recently (February 2008), and while it is growing quickly, most articles are by necessity stub links. If you are stalking me, you'd do better consulting my [http://dankamongmen.livejournal.com blog at LiveJournal], or my [http://www.myspace.com/dankamongmen MySpace] / [http://git.facebook.com/profile.php?id=690107717 Facebook]. Sometimes I edit [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sosodank Wikipedia] articles, as well, and I love to review books on [http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/655723 GoodReads]. I'm pondering a new, strictly technical blog over at [http://moneycachehoes.blogspot.com Money. Cache. Hoes.].
[[File:LookForAnswers.jpg|right|thumb|I like to stay up late on the computer, looking for answers.]]
==welcome to nick-black.com!==
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 [[Atlanta|Midtown Atlanta]], GA. This wiki is primarily for my personal use, but open to public viewing in case anything generally helpful emerges. 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...''


==qemfd.net==
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.''' Do not proceed if allergic to Linux, postmodern literature, nuclear physics, or cartoonish supervillainy.
* qemfd: quod erat motherfuckin' demonstrandum! ■ ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D. wikipedia], [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QED.html wolfram])
* [http://dank.qemfd.net/phpsysinfo/ phpsysinfo], [http://dank.qemfd.net/qemfcacti cacti], [http://dank.qemfd.net/oldindex.html old main page] (including directions + contact info)


==Projects?==
<hr>
* [[Hackery]]!
'''''QEMFD!''''' ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D. wikipedia], [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QED.html wolfram]) '''''also provides...'''''
* [[WORDHORDE]]
* [https://nick-black.com/bugzilla/ Bugzilla] for e.g. [[omphalos]], [[libnetstack]], [[libtorque]], [[notcurses]], and [[growlight]]
* [[Grad school]]
* A page for our 2015 [https://nick-black.com/wedding/ hax0r wedding], the event of the century
* [[Elemental naming]] and good [[wordlist|words]]
* Documentation for [https://www.notcurses.com Notcurses], my poorly-named but always-rockin' console graphics library
* [[BlackBerry]] crap.
* [https://www.dsscaw.com Dirty South Supercomputing], my [[WeWork|Tech Square consultancy]], launched 2019
* What does worldwide [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(soft_drink) TaB®] consumption have to do with [[nuclear weapons]]?
* [https://www.sprezzos.com SprezzOS], my now-defunct but forever-beloved Linux distribution ■
 
==[[:Category:Projects|Projects?]]==
* Still growing! The world's largest(?) collection of [[computer science eponyms]].
* The [https://nick-black.com/processorzoo.html Processor Zoo]! My video channel, [[DANKTECH]].
* I created and taught CS4803UWS, "[[UNIX Weapons School]]", Summer 2013 at Georgia Tech
* [[Hackery]]! (projects and open source work). The [[Personal machines|machines]]. Matrix of [[large cases]].
* The [[WORDHORDE]]. Some [[book ideas|books]] I'd like to write. Too many [[morphisms]]!
* [[Grad school]] and [[CS GRE]] prep pages. You can't have grad school without [[LaTeX|XeLaTeX]]!
* [[Elemental naming]] and good [[wordlist|words]].
* [[BlackBerry]] crap. F'n [[bookshelves]].
* What does worldwide [[TaB|TaB®]] consumption have to do with [[nuclear weapons]]?
* My grad school [[:File:CS8803MCAPresentation.pdf|presentations]] tended to [[:File:CS8803DCPresentationKlaiber.pdf|run slightly]], just a little, [[:File:CS8803DCPresentationGschwind.pdf|unorthodox]]...
** ...yep, [[Trail of Frames|still weird]] (invited lecture for the opening of [https://wiki.freesideatlanta.org/fs/Info Freeside Atlanta])
** professionally weird! [[:File:Public_LPC2015_-_Dynamic_iSCSI_at_Scale-_Remote_paging_at_Google.pdf|"Dynamic iSCSI at Scale"]] for Google ([https://blog.linuxplumbersconf.org/2015/ 2015 Linux Plumbers' Conference])
** [[:File:Pwl09.pdf|"Miscompiling Programs with 'Benign' Data Races"]] for [https://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Atlanta/events/bhvjlpyxnbmb/ Papers We Love Atlanta #9] 2018-10-09
** [[:File:Multire.pdf|"Efficiently Matching Multiple Regular Expressions"]] for BetterCloud 2013-12-06
* Other people's [[repositories|projects]]. Other people's [[programming quotes]]. ■


==UNIX==
==UNIX==
* [[Power Management]]. [[Sound Software]], [[Using Unicode]]
* Writing high-performance, scalable [[Fast UNIX Servers|UNIX system applications]] is my greatest passion.
* [[Debian]], [[Xorg hell]], [[Consoles]] and [[Framebuffer|Framebuffers]]
* [[Linux APIs]], [[FreeBSD APIs]], [[ELF]] (which is not, in itself, an API).
* Recent insanity: [[DBus]], [[HAL]], [[Avahi]]
* [[Power Management]]. [[Sound Software]], [[Using Unicode]]. Keeping FreeBSD [[Updating FreeBSD|up-to-date]]. Hacking [[CUDA]] on [[Debian]].
* My [[MediaWiki]] notes
* [[Debian]], [[Xorg hell]], [[Consoles]] and [[Framebuffer|Framebuffers]]. [[Systemd]] and [[DBus]]. Making graphs with [[dot]].
* [[Linux on Dells]], [[SATA]], [[udev]]
* Notes on [[MediaWiki editing|editing]] and [[MediaWiki|running MediaWiki]]. [[Core]] files happen when one dances fandango on [[core]]. Notes on [[subversion]].
* [[Linux on Dells]], [[SMART]] and [[SATA]], [[udev]], various linux-related [[hardware detritus]] (mainly random personal crap). ■


==Things I wish I'd never learned, and very cool things, in a pile==
==A few remarks regarding computers etc.==
Can you guess which are which (sometimes it changes)?
* [[glibc]], other [[interesting libraries]], [[working with libraries]], some implementing interfaces like [[pthreads]].
* [[X Macros]], [[ISO C99]], [[rpaths]], [[GCC|gcc]] notes
* [[X Macros]], [[ISO C18]], [[rpaths]], [[GCC|gcc]] notes, [[GNU Make|gmake]] notes.
* [[glibc]], other [[interesting libraries]], [[working with libraries]]
* There's [[Buses and Ports]], of course, of course.
* [[Linux APIs]], [[FreeBSD APIs]], [[ELF]] (which is not, in itself, an API)
* Intel's [[Sandy Bridge]] and [[Nehalem]] x86 [[microarchitectures]].
* The [[cpuid]] instruction, [[SMP on x86]], [[Performance Counters]], [[simulators]]
** or, if you'd prefer, [[Transmeta|Transmeta's]] or [[Tilera|Tilera's]] processors.
** Simulators ought not be confused with the [[4000 Linux VT Solutions]]
** It's dangerous to go alone! Take [[microcode]].
* Getting into [[ARM]]. Getting into [[ACPI]]. Getting into [[Architecture]].
* The [[cpuid]] instruction, [[SMP on x86]], [[Performance Counters]], [[simulators]].
* [[Lamport's Hash]], [[Lamport's Clock]], [[Skip Lists]], [[I will put thoughts about automata here]], [[Dijkstran Method]]
** Simulators ought not be confused with the [[4000 Linux VT Solutions|4,000 Linux VT Solutions]]!
* Getting into [[ARM]] (which is everywhere, including [[Raspberry Pi|Raspberry Pis]]).
* Getting into [[ACPI]]. Getting into [[Arduino]]. Getting into [[Architecture]].
** I want a (PIVT, middle-endian, 27-bit word) MISD machine; until then, there's [[SIMD]].
* [[Lamport's Hash]], [[Lamport's Clock]], [[Skip Lists]], I will put thoughts about [[automata|automata here]], [[Dijkstran Method]].
* [[ROS]] seems a pretty good way to write robots, and one day automate luvvvvv
* [[Flash]] sucks. Need get a handle on [[Compiler Design]] by tomorrow's midterm.
* [[Flash]] sucks. Need get a handle on [[Compiler Design]] by tomorrow's midterm.
* [[Trees]] for smoking and computing. [[Lock-free algorithms]].
** Now it's [[Programming Language Theory]] by tomorrow's final, heh.
* [[Allocators]] get us that free store, son (perhaps even from a [[transactional memory]]).
* [[Trees]] for smoking and computing. [[Lock-free algorithms|lock- and wait-free]] algorithms. [[Cache-oblivious algorithms]]. [[RCU]].
* [[Jefferson's Time Wrap]] algorithm, and while we're at it, [[timer wheels]] and even [[x86 timing]].
* [[Allocators]] get us that free store, son (usually through a [[DRAM]]-backed VM)!
This is all very stub-dense '''FIXME'''.
** Said VM ''might'' implement [[transactional memory]], and ''almost certainly'' works on [[pages]].
* Via [[Grover's Algorithm]], we might be able to discover the monster at the end of this quantum book.
* [[Jefferson's Time Warp]] algorithm, and while we're at it, [[timer wheels]] and even [[x86 timing]].
* 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]).
* [[Blum's axioms]], and [[Rice's Theorem]] are both named after people smarter than me...
** ...as are [[Chaitin's Constant]] and [[Kolmogorov complexity]], and [[Computer science eponyms|lots of other junk]].


==Networking==
==Networking==
* What's all this [[Zeroconf]] shit?
* Please adhere to the various [[Standards#Networking_standards|standards]] (even where mutually contradictory)
* [[SSHFP]] and [[LOC record|LOC]] records
** As one judge said to another, '' 'Be just, and when you can't be just, be arbitrary.' ''
* [[VoIP]] and telephony, NAPTR records
* [[Topology Discovery]]. Online tools for [[Internet analytics]].
* [[SFP]], [[DomainKeys]], [[DNSSEC]]
* [[SSHFP]] and [[LOC record|LOC]] records. [[DNSSEC]]. The Sender Policy Framework ([[SPF]]). [[VoIP]] and telephony, NAPTR records.
* Some [[TCP]] notes
* Some [[TCP]] notes. [[Syncookies]]. Radio of the [[SDR|software-defined]] kind.
* [http://dank.qemfd.net/faqicap.html The Working Man's Guide to ICAP], [[ICAP]] page
* [[ARP]] is no longer used in [[IPv6]], which more fully embraces [[Zeroconf|zero-configuration networking]].
* [[SNMP]]
* [[ICAP]] page. [[Tunneling]], [[SNMP]], [[NFS]]...
* [http://dank.qemfd.net/BIginternet Mirror] of the BIg-Internet list from ftp://munnari.oz.au
* I don't drive, but when I do, I drive via reverse engineered [[CAN bus|CAN buses]].
* [[Tunneling]]
* [[QMI]] replaces the venerable Hayes command set aka "AT commands" for modems
* [https://nick-black.com/BIginternet Mirror] of the BIg-Internet list from ftp://munnari.oz.au
* [[Van Jacobson Channels]] get everybody all hooting and hollaring every decade or so. ■
 
Still have any [[Questions|questions?]]
<hr>
<div style="text-align: right;">"I have never known a greater monster nor miracle than myself." - Michel de Montaigne
<br/>'''''quod erat demonstrandum!'''''</div>
 
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Revision as of 05:47, 30 July 2020

I like to stay up late on the computer, looking for answers.

welcome to nick-black.com!

This is the home server of Nick Black (aka dank), located at 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. Dankwiki's rollin' wit' you. I make no guarantees concerning correctness, relevance, or timeliness of the information contained herein. Track changes using the Recent changes page. I was pondering a strictly technical blog, but this wiki and 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...

Seriously: I primarily write to force my own understanding, and remember things (a few entries are actually semi-authoritative). I'm just a 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. Do not proceed if allergic to Linux, postmodern literature, nuclear physics, or cartoonish supervillainy. ■


QEMFD! (wikipedia, wolfram) also provides...

Projects?

UNIX

A few remarks regarding computers etc.

Networking

Still have any questions?


"I have never known a greater monster nor miracle than myself." - Michel de Montaigne
quod erat demonstrandum!