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About 10 years ago I (as a BMW owner) was invited by BMW to participate in a consumer research group. We were shown a number of different possible future BMW developments, and asked our opinions of each. By the end of the evening, I had guessed which of the developments were actually on the drawing board, and which were decoys (because at the time I worked in a technology development area).

The color "personalization" development was the most talked about option, and it seemed to me that they were very close to releasing it. I wonder why it took 10 more years...

Now I wonder, once this becomes available, what will be the TTP (time to penis).

One thing the fine article does not list as a reason to run your own DNS is if you need a secondary name server. There are plenty of options (Route 53, etc.) if you only need a primary, but all Internet domains should have at least two authoritative servers (for redundancy). There are far fewer secondary server options available from DNS providers, so it is often a good idea to run your own.

Okay, so if it's null-terminated, how does one represent a zero?

The cause of this is a known behavior of Unix/Linux scripts, but unfortunately not everyone knows this. If you change a script while it is running, the shell that runs it will read (what it thinks is) the next line from the old script, but it will be reading at the expected position in the old script file, but from the new script file. So what it reads and executes will probably not be what you wanted.

U//FOUO is an obsolete caveat. It has been replaced by CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information).

If this information has been publicly released, I would assume that it does not comprehensively list all of the methods/sources that could be in use. Thus, I would not trust this document to be accurate.

It's better now, but in the early days of organized blacklists (more than 20 years ago) it was somewhat chaotic. Many large ISPs ran their own blacklists and some were poorly managed. AOL was the worst of them all. Their admin staff was unprofessional and unresponsive when I provided a PoC for their defective spam control system.

There are a few sites where you can plug in an IP address to see if it's on any blacklists. A handy thing to do before setting up a new server is to work with your provider to find a clean IP address beforehand. Here's one that I have used: https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

I've been running my own (and other) email servers for over 25 years. About four years ago I switched mine over from sendmail (with a bunch of add-ons like spamd/spamassassin, rbl, etc.) to mailinabox. Mailinabox is full-featured, secure, and reliable. It doesn't take anywhere near the level of effort required to maintain vs. other solutions.

Can we please use dBa (a measure of absolute sound pressure) rather than dB (a relative term used in many domains)?

I wonder if it would have been easier to use a JTAG probe to read/write the BIOS. I would be surprised if the motherboard didn't have a JTAG port.

Not stated in the other replies to your question: Vi is available on pretty much any UNIX derivative OS, and many other platforms. You can learn it once on your platform of choice, and then when you find yourself using some new (or old) platform that you are unfamiliar with, you will at least know how to edit a file.

Santa Susana Field Laboratory. It was picked up by Boeing when they acquired Rocketdyne and I had the pleasure(?) of visiting a few times. The building I visited was across the street from where the meltdown had occurred, but it had a separate history of some nuclear contamination. All of it had been allegedly cleaned up, except that we were all instructed to never use the running water for anything but flushing the toilet.

Boeing was pretty stupid to accept the SSFL as part of the Rocketdyne deal because they assumed liability for cleaning it up. Someday, if it ever gets cleaned up enough, the State of California will take over the land and make it into a public park.

I've also done a few successful mods with a hacksaw.

One time I used a hacksaw to remove part of a 4-lane PCIe connector on a server motherboard so I could plug in a 32-lane PCIe video card. It worked great.

Another time I wanted to plug in a full-height USB 2.0 PCI card into a (Soekris) embedded SBC low-profile slot (limited by the enclosure), so I sawed off the upper two USB jacks. I had to do some minor rework to the card (reconnecting some of the broken traces with mod wires), but it worked great afterward.

Reminded me of this fussy house from "There Will Come Soft Rains"

https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20So...

See above.

The normal CPU draw was on the order of 500W. Given that you only get full power from the panels for ~8 hours per day, the rest went into the batteries. I didn't actually run on batteries unless the mains was down. It was built as a "solar UPS" so the batteries were always kept charged when possible.

There is a long story behind this project. The gist is that my power was crap because the last leg was a 40 year old 4KV transformer and the power demands of the neighborhood outpaced capacity. When I first reported this to the power company, they thought I was a loon. None of the neighbors were complaining so I must be some kind of nut job (with a strong math/electronics background and several years experience working in power systems, before switching to satellites). Anyway, after a few months of nagging them, I got their attention and they assigned me a power quality engineer. He came out with a RVM (recording volt meter), but he (deliberately?) misconfigured it so it filled up its recording buffer within a few minutes instead of the one week period upon which he would return and collect it. So of course he found nothing wrong and I must be crazy. I needed reliable power so I built the solar UPS. After building the monitor and control system for it, I had a few spare data acquisition channels so I scaled the AC mains on one of them and made a web page for it.

When all of that was working, I emailed a hyperlink of the AC mains history chart to the power engineer who had ignored me. Within just a few hours I got a call from his boss, who offered to use my house as a load regulation point for their sorry ass power grid. (This was in an affluent suburb of LA so no excuse.) Apparently they did not like the fact that (even though I never published the link anywhere else) I was advertising to the world that the power grid was fluctuating by more than +/- 10% when the NEC says it SHALL not fluctuate by more than +/- 5%. Service was pretty good after that.

A few years later the power company replaced the final leg with a 16KV transformer and service has been excellent since then. Thus, no more need for the solar UPS system, which was taken down about seven years ago to get the roof re-done.

You could also use a desktop with one of these ATX power supplies that runs on 12VDC instead of 120/240VAC:

https://www.cartft.com/catalog/il/2302

I did this 20 years ago and ran the server for about 10 years. I down-scaled the server hardware when I transitioned to solar, but soon discovered that the low-power server just could not keep up with the demand. I upgraded to something in the middle that could handle a decent number of web users while still not using all the solar. I had 1280W of panels (16x80), a 1500W inverter, and three deep-cycle 12V 50AH batteries.

The remnants of the system can still be seen here: http://jsl.com/solar

I bought nine of them and they are still in service, although they have always been slow and I wondered why until I got the class action settlement letter. I'm not even going to bother redeeming the settlement. It's something like $5 per drive.

There's this quote from the article: “None of Huawei’s products or technologies have been developed through improper or nefarious means.”

And then there's this WSJ article: "Huawei Technologies Co. said a small portion of its router software apparently was copied from Cisco Systems Inc., but the Chinese company said it is removing the tainted software from its routers globally." https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10485560675556000

I'm not sure such a proposal would fly. It would be overtly acknowledging the policy shift toward a federal power grab. There would be some resistance and perhaps even some re-balancing of federal/state powers in the end.

As long as the Tenth is there, it is part of the constitution which all elected officials have sworn an oath to uphold.

You are forgetting about the (often ignored) Tenth Amendment.

Any such move by Congress would also be challenged as an unconstitutional violation of the Fifth Amendment (Takings Clause).

The government never had the authority to create such a moratorium in the first place, as found by the SCOTUS: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/us/eviction-moratorium-en...

From the ruling: “The C.D.C. has imposed a nationwide moratorium on evictions in reliance on a decades-old statute that authorizes it to implement measures like fumigation and pest extermination,” the opinion said. “It strains credulity to believe that this statute grants the C.D.C. the sweeping authority that it asserts.”

How soon we forget that "not my president" was inspired not by Biden, but by Trump. I guess it was all okay to organize political protest groups back in 2016, but somehow it's not okay anymore today.

According to his data, no modems were present. It could be that he classified modems as facsimile, but he doesn't say.

It turns out that the stars further from the center don't take as long as one might think. Observations of this phenomenon led to the development of the theory of dark matter.

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

Where is the suit against Google for doing the same thing with Nest? I will not be holding my breath.

Great work! This reminds me of a book I read over 40 years ago: https://www.amazon.com/Cheap-Video-Cookbook-Donald-Lancaster...

Apparently Don has made the above book available on his site: https://www.tinaja.com/ebooks/cvcb1.pdf