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Saturday, May 27, 2017

A New Kind of SPAM (Unsolicited Advertising)

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First, let's get one thing straight. The true meaning of "SpAM" as an epithet for unsolicited advertising is SPanning Advert...
Friday, April 28, 2017

LSB 1st vs. MSB 1st -- Ignore Gulliver

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I was working on a programming problem for a novel I'm trying to write , and got this bug under my skin again. Something like fifty y...
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Friday, April 21, 2017

The Problem with Full Unicode Domain Names -- apple.com vs. appІe.com

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Well, this one is taking longer to boil over than I expected. I've been watching for the storm for over fifteen years, and convoluted fi...

Model Boot-up Process Description, with Some References to Logging

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This is a description of a model boot-up process  for a device that contains a CPU, with Some References to Logging. (This is a low-le...
Friday, April 14, 2017

how a proper init process should work

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Should not be using valuable time to post this today. This post https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/04/msg00441.html to the debi...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Google is Out of Control (More Big Is Bad)

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I suppose I shouldn't complain about stuff I get for free. I have several blogs on blogger/blogspot, which is part of Google. I've...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

"Chip" Technology and Emperors with No Clothes

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My niece tells me she has had her credit card number stolen again. There are two reasons why chip technologies are just bad ideas, and I...