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9front··on Ferrari Luce
Jony Ive design philosophy of "thin and with round corners" can be seen in the Ferrari Luce. The car looks like an iPhone.
9front··on We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
Musk before the verdict: "It's not okay to steal a charity"

Altman after the verdict: "It's okay to steal a charity"

9front··on A History of IDEs at Google
Is the V in Cider-V the Roman numeral 5 or V like in Visual?
9front··on Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement
Apple needs Intel to make the chips!
9front··on LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash
"... we have an odor on the plane as well here at this time. We are going to be going back to the gate, request fire as well." - United pilot

"2384, it is oder like a smoke odor ...like from fire?" - Control

"No, it was a weird odor. I don't know exactly how to describe it. But yeah... we can't get a hold of anyone at the ops for a gate assignment." - United pilot

"Ground, United 2384 is declaring an emergency. The flight attendants in the back are feeling ill because of the odor. We will need to go into an available gate at this time." - United pilot

"... the fire trucks are over there. They're going to bring a stair truck just in case you guys do want to evacuate. Let me know if you do." - Control

"Copy, yeah, we prefer to wait on a gate, but I mean, again, we only got so much time here because there's still a bit of odor in the back of the airplane." - United pilot

"646, number two, clear to land 4." - Control

"Truck one and company, cross four Delta." - Control

"Truck one and company, crossing four at Delta." - Truck 1

"Stop, stop, stop, stop, Truck 1. Stop,stop, stop. Stop, Truck 1, Stop." - Control

"That was - that wasn't good to watch." - Frontier pilot

"Yeah, I know. I was here. I tried to reach out to [inaudible]. We were dealing with an emergency earlier... um, I messed up." - Control

"No, man, you did the best you could." -Frontier pilot

9front··on Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program
And 'vmlinux' was inspired by the 'vmunix' (Virtual Memory Unix) the UNIX kernel.
9front··on Asus Ascent GX10
DGXOS is a customized Ubuntu Noble!

/etc/os-release:

  PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS"
  NAME="Ubuntu"
  VERSION_ID="24.04"
  VERSION="24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)"
  VERSION_CODENAME=noble
  ID=ubuntu
  ID_LIKE=debian
  HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
  SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
  BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
  PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
  UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
  LOGO=ubuntu-logo
and /etc/dgx-release:

  DGX_NAME="DGX Spark"
  DGX_PRETTY_NAME="NVIDIA DGX Spark"
  DGX_SWBUILD_DATE="2025-09-10-13-50-03"
  DGX_SWBUILD_VERSION="7.2.3"
  DGX_COMMIT_ID="833b4a7"
  DGX_PLATFORM="DGX Server for KVM"
  DGX_SERIAL_NUMBER="Not Specified"
While other Linux distros were already reported to work, some tools provide by Nvidia won't work with Fedora or NixOS. Not yet!

I couldn't get Nvidia AI Workbench to start on Neon KDE after changing to DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu in /etc/lsb-release. Neon is based on Ubuntu Noble too.

9front··on TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
Just donated $100 to ZSF via ever.org!
9front··on TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
Very well done, sir! Now you challenged me to make a donation also. However, as an individual I assure you that it won't match yours.
9front··on TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
That's a pledge only! Let me know when Synadia & TiregBeetle actually send money to Zig Foundation.
9front··on Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD
Before WSL, Microsoft provided "Windows Services for UNIX" to "Seamlessly integrate Microsoft Windows into your UNIX environment."

The same Windows services are provided to "Seamlessly integrate Microsoft Widows into your Linux environment."

WSU became WSL!

9front··on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
United Airlines Flight 173 ran out of fuel while circling Portland International Airport trying to troubleshoot a landing gear. Six more minutes of fuel could have helped the airliner to land in the Columbia river by the airport or belly land on the runway. The captain chose to keep troubleshooting and crashed just 6 miles away from the airport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_173

9front··on Why do we need MAC addresses?
True. In the Second Edition the Preface mentioned that "Finally, the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10" and some of those systems were connected mostly via telephone lines.

The article refers to a "typical packet found on a typical network" then describes an Ethernet frame, so the author clearly refers to MACs in an Ethernet setup.

MAC is part of the Ethernet standard. The clue of why is needed for is in the name "access control". Without MAC there's no Ethernet. Without Ethernet there's no Internet.

Wait ...there are other networking standards!

9front··on Why do we need MAC addresses?
"The Internet doesn't use MAC addresses, and Internet packets don't have MAC addresses" is a wrong assumption. What's an "Internet packet"? Without MACs there's no networking. Without networking there's no Internet.
9front··on Why do we need MAC addresses?
Media Access Control (MAC) address is the method to control access to the physical transmission medium. A switch doesn't care about your upper layers (IP, TCP, etc.) but won't find your host without a MAC address. That's why MACs are called hardware address and work on the local link only, from the port on your cool network interface to the other end of the cable or radio signal.
9front··on Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel
The Itanium was a new 64bit architecture. AMD64 is just addition to the 32bit Intel architecture. Itanium didn't make it, so we're stuck with backward compatibility all the way to 8080 in today's x86 processors. That's all in the past! What I'm looking forward is to the future SoC releases with Intel cores and Nvidia graphics.
9front··on Zutty: Zero-cost Unicode Teletype, high-end terminal for low-end systems
Homepage: https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/
9front··on Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU
He's using "Linux Mint" for OS. Should have used "Coffee Linux" instead.
9front··on A Tour Inside the IBM Z17
That's Raptor Computing Systems (www.raptorcs.com) now selling Talos II workstations.
9front··on The early days of Linux (2023)
We will always have Linux, the kernel, but the desktop experience is being sabotaged by Microsoft with WSL.
9front··on Elon Musk's DOGE team may need a crash course in COBOL
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as criminal offense" Edsger Dijkstra, 1975.
9front··on Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget
HP Z440, it's in the article.
9front··on Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC
Google translates using his Chinese name The complete autobiography of Zhang Zhongmou (volumes 1 and 2)
9front··on In Hoc Anno Domini
https://archive.ph/DUSFV
9front··on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall': A Complete Analysis
"Of course mama'll help to build the wall"
9front··on Intel Arc B580 Delivers Promising Linux GPU Compute Potential for Battlemage
16GB is reserved for the upcoming Intel Arc B770 GPU.
9front··on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round
It will take another generation or two for the Romanian commies to disappear. The majority of those in power, starting with Iohannis, the justices of the Romanian high court, and the rest of the parties grew up as young communist. It's hard to change their Marxist upbringing.
9front··on Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
From https://cphpost.dk/2024-11-22/news/round-up/we-are-in-crisis...

"Danish Crown, one of Denmark’s largest Danish meat producer, is facing significant financial challenges as pig deliveries to its processing plants have dropped in the 2023/24 financial year."

9front··on Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after Klamath River dam removal
All these dams on the Klamath river did have fish ladders where the salmon could go upstream and spawn. Removing the dams just increased the number of fish swimming upstream. Some of the fish ladders had glass walls and people could watch the fish going up & down the ladder.
9front··on Megalopolis is baffling and plainly nuts but worth it
Megalopolis is Calamitus Maximus!
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