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- 20:45, 24 September 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Tex-2.png
- 20:45, 24 September 2023 Dank talk contribs uploaded File:Tex-2.png
- 20:32, 24 September 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Latex joy of man's desiring (Created page with "'''dankblog! 2023-09-24, 1628 EDT, at the danktower''' i've been deep in the LaTeX shit of it all for the past three months while working on my novel. i think LaTeX was the right tool, and love the quality of the output and the workflow. with that said, some real annoyances have emerged. * for the highest quality output, the [https://ctan.org/pkg/microtype microtype] package must be used. i'd never used this bef...")
- 23:12, 19 September 2023 Dank talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:Midnightsimulacra-cover-1024x768.png (cartoonify)
- 07:32, 16 September 2023 Dank talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:Midnightsimulacra-cover-1024x768.png (clothified)
- 07:52, 31 August 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Midnightsimulacra-cover-1024x768.png (Cover for Midnight's Simulacra)
- 07:52, 31 August 2023 Dank talk contribs uploaded File:Midnightsimulacra-cover-1024x768.png (Cover for Midnight's Simulacra)
- 15:08, 26 August 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Midnight's Simulacra (Created page with "My first novel, coming 2024-01-01! * [https://nick-black.com/midnightssimulacra-promo.pdf promo packet] * [https://nick-black.com/midnights-simulacra-chapter-3.pdf Sample chapter 3]")
- 11:47, 24 August 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Eveline (Created page with "<b>from James Joyce’s <i>Dubliners</i> (1914)</b> She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired. Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses. One time there used to be a field ther...")
- 21:31, 17 August 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Iron (Created page with "Night lay beyond the walls of the Chemical Institute, the night of Europe: Chamberlain had returned from Munich duped. Hitler had marched into Prague without firing a shot. Franco had subdued Barcelona and was ensconced in Madrid. Fascist Italy, the small-time pirate, had occupied Albania, and the premonition of imminent catastrophe condensed like grumous dew in the houses and streets, in wary conversations and dozing consciences. But the night did not penetrate those...")
- 10:26, 25 July 2023 Dank talk contribs created page APX (Created page with "Not quite the return of CISC, but a fascinating shot by Intel, claiming "Intel® APX demonstrates the advantage of the variable-length instruction encodings of x86." The new REX2 and EVEX prefixes are used to modify existing instructions. * Suppression of writes to status registers (eliminating a common source of false dependencies) * Expansion of the conditional instruction set * Fits within existing XSAVE/XRSTOR space due to deprecation of MPX registers * New PUSH2/PO...")
- 23:28, 6 July 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Book collecting (Created page with "yeah ok so i've kinda gotten into book collecting. ==Not happening== * Signed first Ulysses ==Dream acquisitions== * Signed Feynman Lectures on Physics * Signed first Blood Meridian * Signed first Naked Lunch * Signed Discipline of Programming (Dijkstra) * Signed first Dubliners * Signed first Gravity's Rainbow ==Doable== * Signed first Infinite Jest * Signed Illuminatus! Trilogy * Signed Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy * Signed first The Power of One * Signed first America...")
- 19:10, 30 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Pidfd (Created page with "Since Linux 5.2, pidfds have more or less allowed one to refer to a process using a file descriptor, making it possible to eliminate a set of race conditions and ambiguities. At the heart of the pidfd abstraction is the <tt>CLONE_PIDFD</tt> flag to the <tt>clone(2)</tt> system call (note that this recycles the deprecated <tt>CLONE_PID</tt> bit). It is not possible to use this flag with <tt>CLONE_THREAD</tt>, and thus the created process will always be a t...")
- 02:42, 29 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Timestamping (Created page with "yo dawg i heard you like timestamps so i timestamped your timestamps. use ethtool to see what timestamping methods are available on Linux: <pre> [schwarzgerat](0) $ ethtool -T ixgbe1 Time stamping parameters for ixgbe1: Capabilities: hardware-transmit software-transmit hardware-receive software-receive software-system-clock hardware-raw-clock PTP Hardware Clock: 1 Hardware Transmit Timestamp Modes: off...")
- 04:54, 15 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Aruba 2500-48p (Created page with "The Aruba 2500-48p Mobility Access Switch was available very cheaply (around $100) for a switch of its class (4x SFP+ ports + 400W PoE + full capacity w/ jumbo frames) circa 2019. One came with my rack for better or worse (the switch is rather more of a power hog and heat generator than I would have liked). The manual for ArubaOS 7.4 doesn't seem to correspond very closely to what runs on the 2500-48p, so here are some frustratingly-acquired details regarding the dev...")
- 04:46, 15 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Rack (Redirected page to A Rack of One's Own) Tag: New redirect
- 15:44, 14 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Bears that dance (Created page with "They entered the town in a light rain falling. The horse nickered and snuffed shyly at the hocks of the other animals standing at stall before the lamplit bagnios they passed. Fiddle-music issued into the solitary mud street and lean dogs crossed before them from shadow to shadow. At the end of the town he led the horse to a rail and tied it among others and stepped up the low wooden stairs into the dim light that fell from the doorway there. He looked back a last time a...")
- 08:35, 13 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page OPML (Created page with "A markup language for trees, primarily used to transcode RSS.")
- 10:43, 11 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Voltage-grafana.png
- 10:43, 11 June 2023 Dank talk contribs uploaded File:Voltage-grafana.png
- 21:06, 8 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Category:Homelab (Created page with "Homelabs become homedatacenters or, in my case, homesupercomputingcenters.") Tags: mobile web edit mobile edit
- 21:04, 8 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Visualization (Created page with "My current home metrics + visualization stack is self-hosted [https://grafana.com/ Grafana OSS] atop a [https://github.com/prometheus Prometheus] time series database. Prometheus is fed by [https://github.com/hikhvar/mqtt2prometheus mqtt2prometheus], which reads [https://mosquitto.org/ Mosquitto]-brokered metrics from my bespoke scripts and various IoT devices. It also ingests SNMP via its own snmp_exporter. I was originally using Prometheus's node_exporter, but thought...") Tags: mobile web edit mobile edit
- 11:02, 7 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Fstab is a nightmare from which i am trying to awake (Created page with "'''dankblog! 2023-06-07, 0628 EDT, at the danktower''' <tt>mount(2)</tt> is surely one of the messiest system calls (i mean <tt>ioctl(2)</tt> has it beat for sure in terms of sheer area, but that's pretty much the point of <tt>ioctl(2)</tt>). it's grotesque and grows more rather than less grotesque over time. would-be heroes have several times volunteered as tribute, offering rewrites such as [https://lwn.net/Articles/759499/ fscommit] and [ht...") Tags: mobile web edit mobile edit
- 16:23, 2 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Discordia1-1.jpg (Discordia-1 side view.)
- 16:23, 2 June 2023 Dank talk contribs uploaded File:Discordia1-1.jpg (Discordia-1 side view.) Tags: mobile web edit mobile edit
- 16:22, 2 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Discordia1-5.jpg (Discordia-1 side view)
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- 16:22, 2 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Discorda1-4.jpg (Rack front door open, half of drive trays not yet filled.)
- 16:22, 2 June 2023 Dank talk contribs uploaded File:Discorda1-4.jpg (Rack front door open, half of drive trays not yet filled.) Tags: mobile web edit mobile edit
- 16:21, 2 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Discordia1-2.jpg (Discordia-1 top label.)
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- 16:20, 2 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Discordia-1 (Created page with "My livingroom supercomputer.") Tags: mobile web edit mobile edit
- 16:19, 2 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Discordia1-3.jpg (Discordia-1 with rack door closed.)
- 16:19, 2 June 2023 Dank talk contribs uploaded File:Discordia1-3.jpg (Discordia-1 with rack door closed.) Tags: mobile web edit mobile edit
- 18:46, 22 May 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Tabclear.jpg (A rare 12oz of TaB Clear)
- 18:46, 22 May 2023 Dank talk contribs uploaded File:Tabclear.jpg (A rare 12oz of TaB Clear) Tags: mobile web edit mobile edit
- 02:01, 12 May 2023 Dank talk contribs undeleted page MediaWiki:Nstab-mainpage (1 revision) Tags: mobile web edit mobile edit
- 02:00, 12 May 2023 Dank talk contribs deleted page MediaWiki:Nstab-mainpage (content was: "main page", and the only contributor was "Dank" (talk)) Tags: mobile web edit mobile edit
- 01:36, 12 May 2023 Dank talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Navigation-heading (Created page with "navigation menu") Tags: mobile web edit mobile edit
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- 01:26, 12 May 2023 Dank talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Skin-view-view (Created page with "read")
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- 22:08, 7 May 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Eventfd (Created page with "Linux offers the eventfd abstraction for file descriptor-based userspace notification. It is backed by merely a single <tt>uint64_t</tt> in the kernel, unlike a pipe (which is usually backed by a much larger buffer). It is thus the most lightweight method of IPC available to userspace. The maximum value of the eventfd counter is 2^64-2 (0xfffffffffffffffe), and the minimum (and default) value is 0. In the past, a full pipe was often used to interrupt a th...")
- 16:17, 4 May 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Uring 0.png (Donald Hunter's nifty io_uring diagram from [https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/04/12/why-you-should-use-iouring-network-io developers.redhat.com].)
- 16:17, 4 May 2023 Dank talk contribs uploaded File:Uring 0.png (Donald Hunter's nifty io_uring diagram from [https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/04/12/why-you-should-use-iouring-network-io developers.redhat.com].)
- 15:16, 2 May 2023 Dank talk contribs created page MTU (Created page with "quoth farnz [https://lwn.net/Articles/885256/ on lwn]: "In large part, we have the problems we have with MTU because most of our link layers now simulate a 1980s 10BASE5 network, just at very high speeds. A switched 100GBASE-LR4 network is designed to present the appearance of a single 10BASE5 segment (via switch behaviour); an 802.11 network tunnels 10BASE5 compatible networking over an RF link layer where the "true" packet size (via aggregation) is variable but can go...")
- 08:14, 22 April 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Black - Fast Linux Networking 2023.pdf ((most of) a talk I gave to Microsoft Orbital 2023-02-03 about DPDK and XDP.)
- 08:14, 22 April 2023 Dank talk contribs uploaded File:Black - Fast Linux Networking 2023.pdf ((most of) a talk I gave to Microsoft Orbital 2023-02-03 about DPDK and XDP.)
- 04:42, 18 April 2023 Dank talk contribs moved page Extended disquisitions pertaining to eXtreme data paths (XDP) to Extended disquisitions pertaining to eXpress data paths (XDP) (eXpress, not eXtreme)
- 04:42, 18 April 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Extended disquisitions pertaining to eXtreme data paths (XDP) (Created page with "I've spent the past two months building a substantial XDP-based application for my employer, intended to be run in Azure using the latter's "Accelerated Networking" (SR-IOV). By "substantial", I mean that it includes a significant userspace component using <tt>AF_XDP</tt> sockets, that the XDP code must use dynamic configuration data, and that it must operate on arbitrary hardware configurations. I've not seen any documentation that covers the details of such...")
- 01:19, 17 April 2023 Dank talk contribs created page X10QBi (Created page with "A SuperMicro motherboard supporting four LGA2011 CPUs and eight SuperMicro memory boards. The physical board comes in at least versions 1.01 and 1.21. It requires a SuperMicro AOM-X10QBi-A/L I/O board to boot (the card uses a proprietary slot). Contrary to some information online, it boots just fine off a single CPU in Socket 1. ==Boot codes== If the machine immediately goes to state FF and doesn't leave, the CPU output ports are not being written to. You have either a...")
- 07:48, 8 April 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Intel QAT (Created page with "QuickAssist Technology is a family of Intel PCIe and on-die accelerators, plus associated software. It's available on some Xeon Scalable 4th Gen processors, and [https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/125199/intel-quickassist-adapter-8960/specifications.html QAA 8960]/[https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/125200/intel-quickassist-adapter-8970/specifications.html QAA 8970] PCIe cards.")