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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.]]
==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''.  


==qemfd.net==
don't mistake my kindness for weakness. ''rien n'est simple, mais tout est facile...''
* 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)
* [http://dank.qemfd.net/bugzilla/ bugzilla] for projects like [[libdank]]


==Projects?==
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.'''
* [[Hackery]]!
* [[WORDHORDE]]
* [[Grad school]]
* [[Elemental naming]] and 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==
do not proceed if allergic to linux, postmodern literature, nuclear physics, or cartoonish supervillainy.
* [[Power Management]]. [[Sound Software]], [[Using Unicode]]
* [[Debian]], [[Xorg hell]], [[Consoles]] and [[Framebuffer|Framebuffers]]
* Recent insanity: [[DBus]], [[HAL]], [[Avahi]]
* My [[MediaWiki]] notes. [[Core]] files happen when one dances fandango on [[core]]. Notes on [[subversion]].
* [[Linux on Dells]], [[SATA]], [[udev]], various linux-related [[hardware detritus]] (mainly random personal crap)


==Things I wish I'd never learned, and very cool things, in a stub-dense pile==
==[[:Category:Projects|projects?]]==
Can you guess which are which (sometimes it changes)?
* Still growing! The world's largest(?) collection of [[computer science eponyms]].
* [[X Macros]], [[ISO C99]], [[rpaths]], [[GCC|gcc]] notes, [[GNU Make|gmake]] notes
* [[Notcurses]], a library for blingful TUIs and character graphics
* 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]] 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]]. ■
 
==unix==
* Writing high-performance, scalable [[Fast UNIX Servers|UNIX system applications]] is my greatest passion.
* [[Linux APIs]], [[FreeBSD APIs]], [[ELF]] (which is not, in itself, an API).
* [[Power Management]]. [[Sound Software]], [[Using Unicode]]. Keeping FreeBSD [[Updating FreeBSD|up-to-date]]. Hacking [[CUDA]] on [[Debian]].
* [[Debian]], [[Xorg hell]], [[Consoles]] and [[Framebuffer|Framebuffers]]. [[Systemd]] and [[DBus]]. Making graphs with [[dot]].
* 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). ■
 
did autistic people design this software? BECAUSE I'M STARTING TO LOVE IT.
 
==remarks regarding computers &c==
* [[glibc]], other [[interesting libraries]], [[working with libraries]], some implementing interfaces like [[pthreads]].
* [[glibc]], other [[interesting libraries]], [[working with libraries]], some implementing interfaces like [[pthreads]].
* [[Linux APIs]], [[FreeBSD APIs]], [[ELF]] (which is not, in itself, an API)
* [[X Macros]], [[ISO C18]], [[rpaths]], [[GCC|gcc]] notes, [[GNU Make|gmake]] notes.
* The [[cpuid]] instruction, [[SMP on x86]], [[Performance Counters]], [[simulators]]
* a [[Book_list_for_streetfighting_computer_scientists|book list]] for streetfighting coders
** Simulators ought not be confused with the [[4000 Linux VT Solutions]]
* There's [[Buses and Ports]], of course, of course.
* Getting into [[ARM]]. Getting into [[ACPI]]. Getting into [[Architecture]].
* Intel's [[Sandy Bridge]] and [[Nehalem]] x86 [[microarchitectures]].
* [[Lamport's Hash]], [[Lamport's Clock]], [[Skip Lists]], I will put thoughts about [[automata|automata here]], [[Dijkstran Method]]
** or, if you'd prefer, [[Transmeta|Transmeta's]] or [[Tilera|Tilera's]] processors.
** 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.
* [[Flash]] sucks. Need get a handle on [[Compiler Design]] by tomorrow's midterm.
* [[Trees]] for smoking and computing. [[Lock-free algorithms|lock- and wait-free]] algorithms. [[Cache-oblivious algorithms]]. [[RCU]]
** Now it's [[Programming Language Theory]] by tomorrow's final, heh.
* [[Allocators]] get us that free store, son (usually through a [[DRAM]]-backed VM)
* [[Trees]] for smoking and computing. [[Lock-free algorithms|lock- and wait-free]] algorithms. [[Cache-oblivious algorithms]]. [[RCU]].
** Said VM ''might'' implement [[transactional memory]], and ''almost certainly'' works on [[pages]]
* [[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.
* Via [[Grover's Algorithm]], we might be able to discover the monster at the end of this quantum book.
* [[Jefferson's Time Wrap]] algorithm, and while we're at it, [[timer wheels]] and even [[x86 timing]].
* While we're at it, [[timer wheels]] and even [[x86 timing]].
* Writing high-performance, scalable [[Fast UNIX Servers|UNIX system applications]] is a passion of mine.
* 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]).
* Let's get bipartite, bipartite...with [[bip buffers]]. [[Ling adders]].
* [[Blum's axioms]] and [[Rice's Theorem]] are both named after people smarter than me...
* [[Questions|Questions?]]
** ...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!''''' ■
 
<hr>
<div style="text-align: right;">"I have never known a greater monster nor miracle than myself." - Michel de Montaigne</div>


==Networking==
{{#seo:
* What's all this [[Zeroconf]] shit?
|title=dankwiki, the wiki of nick black
* [[SSHFP]] and [[LOC record|LOC]] records
|titlemode=append
* [[VoIP]] and telephony, NAPTR records
|keywords=nick,black,dank,dankamongmen,dankwiki,blackwiki,notcurses,unix,nuclear,supervillain,growlight,omphalos,sprezzos,dsscaw
* [[SFP]], [[DomainKeys]], [[DNSSEC]]
|description=Nick Black of Atlanta and his personal wiki of linux, computers, postmodern literature, nuclear physics, and cartoonish supervillainy.
* Some [[TCP]] notes. [[Syncookies]].
}}
* [http://dank.qemfd.net/faqicap.html The Working Man's Guide to ICAP], [[ICAP]] page
* [[SNMP]]
* [http://dank.qemfd.net/BIginternet Mirror] of the BIg-Internet list from ftp://munnari.oz.au
* [[Tunneling]]

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