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'''qemfd: quod erat motherfuckin' demonstrandum''' ■ ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D. wikipedia], [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QED.html wolfram])
[[File:LookForAnswers.jpg|right|thumb|i like to stay up late on the computer, looking for answers.]]
==hack the planet==
this is the wiki 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]]. dankwiki's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2tukPoF2ww rollin' wit' you], though I make no guarantees of its correctness, relevance, nor timeliness. track changes using the [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] page. I've recently revived my [[dankblog|strictly technical DANKBLOG]], this wiki and [[Grad_school|grad school]] having not satisfied ye olde ''furor scribendi''.


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 should prove useful. 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].
don't mistake my kindness for weakness. ''rien n'est simple, mais tout est facile...''


==qemfd.net==
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.'''
* [http://dank.qemfd.net/phpsysinfo/ phpsysinfo], [http://dank.qemfd.net/qemfcacti cacti]
* [http://dank.qemfd.net/cgi-bin/man/man2html manpages], [http://dank.qemfd.net/cgi-bin/info2www infopages], [http://dank.qemfd.net/cgi-bin/dwww debian documentation]
* [http://dank.qemfd.net/oldindex.html old main page] (including directions + contact info)


==Projects?==
do not proceed if allergic to linux, postmodern literature, nuclear physics, or cartoonish supervillainy. ■
* [[Hackery]]!
* [[Elemental naming]]
* [[WORDHORDE]]
* Good [[wordlist|words]]
* [[BlackBerry]] crap
* What does worldwide [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(soft_drink) TaB®] consumption have to do with [[nuclear weapons]]?


==UNIX==
==[[:Category:Projects|projects?]]==
* [[Power Management]]. [[Sound Software]], [[Using Unicode]]
* Still growing! The world's largest(?) collection of [[computer science eponyms]].
* [[Debian]], [[Xorg hell]], [[Consoles]]
* [[Notcurses]], a library for blingful TUIs and character graphics
* Recent insanity: [[DBus]], [[HAL]], [[Avahi]]
* The [https://nick-black.com/processorzoo.html Processor Zoo]! My video channel, [[DANKTECH]].
* My [[MediaWiki]] notes
* I created and taught CS4803UWS, "[[UNIX Weapons School]]", Summer 2013 at Georgia Tech.
* [[Linux on Dells]], [[SATA]], [[udev]]
* [[Hackery]]! (projects and open source work). The [[Personal machines|machines]]. Matrix of [[large cases]] and [[Titanium_power_supplies|Titanium PSUs]].
* 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]]. Ramblings on [[Dankblog|DANKBLOG]].
* [[BlackBerry]] crap. F'n [[bookshelves]]. Fans from [[Noctua]], of whom I am a fan.
* 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]]...
** enjoy the ghastly background of my [[:File:Libtorque-presentation.pdf|masters thesis]] presentation
** ...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
** "[https://mdco2.mini.debconf.org/talks/6-notcurses-making-terminals-do-things-that-were-never-intended/ Making Terminals do Things Never Intended]" for [[Debian]] [https://mdco2.mini.debconf.org/ MiniDebConf #2] 2020-11-20
** "[https://nick-black.com/tabpower/notcurses-fosdem-2021.pdf Notcurses: Blingful TUIs and Character Graphics]" for [https://fosdem.org/2021/ FOSDEM 2021] 2021-02-06
** "[https://debconf21.debconf.org/talks/3-proposing-a-new-d-i-disk-preparation-tool-growlight/ Proposing a New D-I Disk Preparation Tool]" for [https://debconf21.debconf.org/ DebConf21] 2021-08-28
* Other people's [[repositories|projects]]. Other people's [[programming quotes]]. ■


==Things I wish I'd never learned, and very cool things, in a pile==
==unix==
Can you guess which are which (sometimes it changes)?
* Writing high-performance, scalable [[Fast UNIX Servers|UNIX system applications]] is my greatest passion.
* [[X Macros]], [[ISO C99]], [[rpaths]], [[GCC|gcc]] notes
* [[Linux APIs]], [[FreeBSD APIs]], [[ELF]] (which is not, in itself, an API).
* [[glibc]], other [[interesting libraries]], [[working with libraries]]
* [[Power Management]]. [[Sound Software]], [[Using Unicode]]. Keeping FreeBSD [[Updating FreeBSD|up-to-date]]. Hacking [[CUDA]] on [[Debian]].
* [[Linux APIs]], [[FreeBSD APIs]], [[ELF]] (which is not, in itself, an API)
* [[Debian]], [[Xorg hell]], [[Consoles]] and [[Framebuffer|Framebuffers]]. [[Systemd]] and [[DBus]]. Making graphs with [[dot]].
* The [[cpuid]] instruction, [[SMP on x86]], [[Performance Counters]], [[simulators]]
* Notes on [[MediaWiki editing|editing]] and [[MediaWiki|running MediaWiki]]. [[Core]] files happen when one dances fandango on [[core]]. Notes on [[subversion]].
** Simulators ought not be confused with the [[4000 Linux VT Solutions]]
* [[Linux on Dells]], [[SMART]] and [[SATA]], [[udev]], various linux-related [[hardware detritus]] (mainly random personal crap). ■
* Getting into [[ARM]]. Getting into [[ACPI]]. Getting into [[Architecture]].
* [[Lamport's Hash]], [[Skip Lists]], [[I will put thoughts about automata here]]
* [[Flash? My ass!]]


==Networking==
did autistic people design this software? BECAUSE I'M STARTING TO LOVE IT.
* What's all this [[Zeroconf]] shit?
 
* [[SSHFP]] and [[LOC record|LOC]] records
==remarks regarding computers &c==
* [[VoIP]] and telephony, NAPTR records
* [[glibc]], other [[interesting libraries]], [[working with libraries]], some implementing interfaces like [[pthreads]].
* [[SFP]], [[DomainKeys]], [[DNSSEC]]
* [[X Macros]], [[ISO C18]], [[rpaths]], [[GCC|gcc]] notes, [[GNU Make|gmake]] notes.
* Some [[TCP]] notes
* a [[Book_list_for_streetfighting_computer_scientists|book list]] for streetfighting coders
* [http://dank.qemfd.net/faqicap.html The Working Man's Guide to ICAP], [[ICAP]] page
* There's [[Buses and Ports]], of course, of course.
* [[SNMP]]
* Intel's [[Sandy Bridge]] and [[Nehalem]] x86 [[microarchitectures]].
* [http://dank.qemfd.net/BIginternet Mirror] of the BIg-Internet list from ftp://munnari.oz.au
** or, if you'd prefer, [[Transmeta|Transmeta's]] or [[Tilera|Tilera's]] processors.
* [[Tunneling]]
** It's dangerous to go alone! Take [[microcode]].
* The [[cpuid]] instruction, [[SMP on x86]], [[Performance Counters]], [[simulators]].
** 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.
** Now it's [[Programming Language Theory]] by tomorrow's final, heh.
* [[Trees]] for smoking and computing. [[Lock-free algorithms|lock- and wait-free]] algorithms. [[Cache-oblivious algorithms]]. [[RCU]].
* [[Allocators]] get us that free store, son (usually through a [[DRAM]]-backed VM)!
** 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.
* 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==
* Please adhere to the various [[Standards#Networking_standards|standards]] (even where [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#Variants_summary_table mutually contradictory])
** As one judge said to another, '' 'Be just, and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.' ''
* [[Topology Discovery]]. Online tools for [[Internet analytics]].
* [[SSHFP]] and [[LOC record|LOC]] records. [[DNSSEC]]. The Sender Policy Framework ([[SPF]]). [[VoIP]] and telephony, NAPTR records.
* Some [[TCP]] notes. [[Syncookies]]. Radio of the [[SDR|software-defined]] kind.
* [[ARP]] is no longer used in [[IPv6]], which more fully embraces [[Zeroconf|zero-configuration networking]].
* [[ICAP]] page. [[Tunneling]] (perhaps over [[VXLAN]]), [[SNMP]], [[NFS]]...
* I don't drive, but when I do, I drive via reverse engineered [[CAN bus|CAN buses]].
* [[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. ■
 
==QEMFD! ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D. wikipedia], [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QED.html wolfram]) also provides...==
* A page for our 2015 [https://nick-black.com/wedding/ hax0r wedding], the event of the century
** There is no page for our 2020 divorce, natch
* Documentation for [https://www.notcurses.com Notcurses], my poorly-named but always-rockin' console graphics library
* [https://www.dsscaw.com Dirty South Supercomputing], my [[WeWork|Tech Square consultancy]], launched 2019
* [https://www.sprezzos.com SprezzOS], my now-defunct but forever-beloved Linux distribution ■
 
Still have any [[Questions|questions?]] '''''quod erat motherfucking demonstrandum!''''' ■
 
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<div style="text-align: right;">"I have never known a greater monster nor miracle than myself." - Michel de Montaigne</div>
 
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Revision as of 05:20, 8 September 2022

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

hack the planet

this is the wiki 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. dankwiki's rollin' wit' you, though I make no guarantees of its correctness, relevance, nor timeliness. track changes using the Recent changes page. I've recently revived my strictly technical DANKBLOG, this wiki and grad school having not satisfied ye olde furor scribendi.

don't mistake my kindness for weakness. rien n'est simple, mais tout est facile...

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. ■

projects?

unix

did autistic people design this software? BECAUSE I'M STARTING TO LOVE IT.

remarks regarding computers &c

networking

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

Still have any questions? quod erat motherfucking demonstrandum!


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