The collected works of Oskar45 - Page 3

fu wrote:
straight i presume? there you go
Oh yes!...Thanks, nice :D

PS: But Snow Queen is fine stuff as well...

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sybrfreq wrote: So, let's see how quickly this thread degrades into a conversation of "Steven Wolfram is an asshole, blah blah"...

Hmm, to start with, are you really disputing Wolfram's scientific contributions to cellular automata, Mathematica or other areas? I hope not. On the other hand, his NKS - for most parts - is indeed only trivial "blah blah", although he certainly provides totally fascinating insights nevertheless here and there. Yes, the running text of the book itself shows a rather megalomanic ego, but the last 250 pages devoted to Notes are really phantastic and a very different story (forget the book itself :-) ) - and if you have Mathematica on your box, enjoy!

So, he might be for some of you an asshole - but then again, I do have my problems with some of Eric Raymond's papers as well...

PS: Surely you are aware that S. W. once upon a time prompted the research to find the shortest possible single axiom for Boolean algebra in terms of NAND...but of course, all Nekochaners know the answer, by now!
About 40% of Americans deny evolution. Sad.
josehill wrote:
Oskar45 wrote: Yes, the running text of the book itself shows a rather megalomanic ego

Heck, probably at least 20% of Nekochan posts do the same! :D
Glad I'm not too much of the mark :-) Still, I insist that the Notes for NKS are incredible...absolutely phantastic. Just fire up your Mathematica, try the supplied code or experiment...
About 40% of Americans deny evolution. Sad.
Judged by ^ replies, I'm clearly OT now :) :D However, I certainly had my share of completely disastrious performances right there...

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fu wrote:
where is your "right there" oskar? Carnegie Hall?
Yes, Carnegie Hall.

PS: As I write this, I listen to a radio-play about the Nigerian 419 - great fun :)

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Anyone on here read that book? If so, what's your verdict?

Disclaimer: I don't want to start any sort of religious war at all - I'm only interested in serious, objective and factual opinions!

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fu wrote:
radio-play about the e-mail scam? where did you find it? don't tell me the beeb is on it!

(as i write this i travel from the us back to europe. had to say goodbye to a friend, dennis's dead )

*Austrian* radio isn't as bad as you might think :-) Anyway, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zane_Mairowitz for the author of said play...

Dennis: really SAD - but since Nekochan is an almost exclusive male forum, I'm confident quite a few of us will die of prostate cancer as well. I might.

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Any favorites for you?

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The latter seems to be much more flexible than the former. Anyone on here has list of correspondencies anyway? Also, which replacement for snoop would you recommend? I certainly would prefer genuine IRIX substitutes, though.

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R-ten-K wrote:
I'll have to go with the motherland on this one.
Betting on your motherland this time could make me rich, for sure :-) But I fear it will be one of Argentina, Spain, Brazil, Germany, England, France or Italy...

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Pinging 10.0.0.6 from 10.0.0.10, I get the following while snooping [in another shell]:
Code:
IRIS 1 # snoop -r -V arp,icmp
Using device ef0 (promiscuous mode)
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10.0.0.10 -> (broadcast)  ETHER Type=0806 (ARP), size = 42 bytes
10.0.0.10 -> (broadcast)  ARP C Who is 10.0.0.6, 10.0.0.6 ?
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10.0.0.6 -> 10.0.0.10    ETHER Type=0806 (ARP), size = 60 bytes
10.0.0.6 -> 10.0.0.10    ARP R 10.0.0.6, 10.0.0.6 is <ethernet address deleted>
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10.0.0.10 -> 10.0.0.6     ETHER Type=0800 (IP), size = 98 bytes
10.0.0.10 -> 10.0.0.6     IP  D=10.0.0.6 S=10.0.0.10 LEN=84, ID=49286
10.0.0.10 -> 10.0.0.6     ICMP Echo request (ID: 37789 Sequence number: 0)
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10.0.0.6 -> 10.0.0.10    ETHER Type=0800 (IP), size = 98 bytes
10.0.0.6 -> 10.0.0.10    IP  D=10.0.0.10 S=10.0.0.6 LEN=84, ID=6484
10.0.0.6 -> 10.0.0.10    ICMP Echo reply (ID: 37789 Sequence number: 0)

<tcpdump> would normally report something like
Code:
arp who-has 10.0.0.6 tell 10.0.0.10
arp reply 10.0.0.6 is-at <ethernet address>

I don't understand why, with <snoop>, in each of the above ARP's both IP addresses are the same.

Any explanation?

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kramlq wrote:
Here in Ireland we say 'anyone but France' :D
Basically, I wouldn't worry - France is most certainly not a #1 favorite, but since the ball is round and they have only to fight South Africa, Mexico and Uruguay, they might easily survive the initial phase. I hope not. I don't like them at all :D

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R-ten-K wrote:
My motherland being one of the countries you listed then I should be OK ;-)
I apologize - I thought you were from the USA. :oops:

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fu wrote:
i'd like to see some samba-football action a la Sócrates
Kaka?

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hamei wrote:
Pulled out the .45
Excuse my ignorance - in the ^^^ context, what do you mean by that :oops:

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recondas wrote:
Oskar45 wrote:
hamei wrote:
Pulled out the .45
Excuse my ignorance - in the ^^^ context, what do you mean by that :oops:
Depends on hamei's historical preference for .45s.

If he's reliving the last century he probably meant this one.

If he's reliving the century before that, our chinese expatriate cowboy probably had this in mind .
One of the things I like about Nekochaners is their occasional humor. Unfortunately, hamei's in his post didn't shed any light on my original question at all. Anyone more serious out here to resolve it [I really don't care for more blah-blah]?

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maxsleg wrote:
so Oskar54, who will you cheer for?
Brazil.

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hamei wrote:
Already off snooping - don't bother to help me with my original question any further, that gal sure does it :D

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TCP/Ethereal puzzle...

I have two boxes, 10.0.0.10 [Irix 6.5.30] and 10.0.0.20 [Irix 6.5.22], on the
same local wire [connected via a switch]; both of them have fired up Ethereal
0.9.2 [from the SGI Freeware November 2002 CDs].

Now, on 10.0.0.20 I issue <telnet 10.0.0.10 discard>, and immediately after the
established connection, I escape and quit. As is well known, this sequence
creates 7 frames. However, looking just at the resulting three-hand handshake,
what I don't understand is the second frame [10.0.0.10 > 10.0.0.20]:

Second frame in Ethereal on 10.0.0.20:
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Transmission Control Protocol [ignore Ports/Seq/Ack]:
.
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Checksum: 0x09c5 (correct)

Second frame in Ethereal on 10.0.0.10:
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Transmission Control Protocol [ignore Ports/Seq/Ack]:
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Checksum: 0x8841 (incorrect, should be 0x09c5)

Any explanation regarding the conflicting checksums?

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Oskar45 wrote:
Any explanation regarding the conflicting checksums?


Hmm, I believe I know the source of my confusion. First, for a recap, I've two machines [currently connected via a hub]:

A: Indigo2, Irix 6.5.22f, IP 10.0.0.20, netmask 255.0.0.0, capture interface ec0, promiscuous mode
B: Fuel, Irix 6.5.30m, IP 10.0.0.10, netmask 255.0.0.0, capture interface ef0, promiscuous mode

On both A and B, Ethereal 0.9.2 is up and capturing.

Now, if I send a 0-length TCP datagram on, say, some source ports of my own choice [e.g., 1057|22187|33205] from A to port 9 on B, I don't get any Ethereal "incorrect checksum" messages on either A or B.

However, if I send 0-length TCP datagrams on the same source ports from B to port 9 on A, I do get Ethereal "incorrect checksum" messages on B for each of the four packets sent from B to A, although A doesn't report any incorrect checksums.

As it was suggested above in other posts, I changed cables - still the same behavior. I also added in a third machine [an XP laptop running Ethereal 0.10.0] - on it, everything looked ok.

After some experimentations and googling around, I finally came across the FAQs on www.ethereal.com - and there, the answer to Q11.1 gave me a hint to the mystery: the network interface on B might do TCP checksum offloading [re-reading previous posts in this thread, I note that br3d had indeed hinted at that possibility - thanks!]

Checking <ifconfig -a> on B [ef0], I found that the flag CKSUM is indeed set; on A [ec0], this flag is not set - implying that B does TCP checksum offloading but A does not, and, so, it explains why B reported "incorrect checksums" but A did not.

BTW, I also did run <snoop> on A and B concurrently to Ethereal. However, for the above scenarios, <snoop> doesn't report any checksum errors on either A or B at all...

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GeneratriX wrote:
What a shame! :)
Were you referring to your current avatar? :(

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Worthwhile to get?
About 40% of Americans deny evolution. Sad.
While quite a few of the previous comments right here were rather negative, nevertheless a few days ago I got myself an iPad [3G, 64GB]. Up to now - I LOVE it, whatever you say...it's PHANTASTIC!!!
About 40% of Americans deny evolution. Sad.
I only own an original SGI sweat-shirt. But even after all these years, it's still one of my favorites :D
If man would have been created out of the rib of a woman - how different would the world be?
...to all of you and, for 2011, whatever you wish for yourself shall come your way :-)

PS: Actually, we might not see next X-mas at all - Carl Calleman predicts the end of the world occurs on October 28, 2011 and not on December 21, 2012 as other so-called Maya specialists claim :-)
How secure are yours? I use something everyone who mastered grammar school certainly knows about. Still, hackers would have a rather hard time to crack it, for sure...
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miod wrote: Well, just write down your password in this thread, and we'll tell you if they are strong enough, for free! Aren't we kind hearts?
pi=4,25?
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Not sure that counts. In the 70's, I collected 3M Bookshelf games. I then started to amass
Raymond Smullyan's books [while some of his books are now out of print or pretty hard to
get, I do have a complete collection]. Also, I still treasure my copies of that terrific magazine, The Armchair Detective - which, sadly, has died long ago. And, while not exactly
counting as a "collection", I'm an Accuphase fan - I still have an P-300V, C-200V, T-105 and DP-70 running [all of them from the '80s; I always dreamed of a complete Mark Levinson chain, although].
Seems the subject of this thread is no longer of primary importance, considering a major nuclear catastrophe is about to happen any time soon. When will people learn? Probably never...
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fu wrote: so i managed to get hold of my friends (that doesn't say much though with so many people involved) and they confirmed that half of the cell phones were not (some still do not) working due to the disaster (and also the fact that everyone was trying to call everyone else)

(sounds hopeful if you're still looking to reach nears+dears)

i just found a visual reference of what happened: part 1 , part 2

Considerating Fukushima's situation, whether or not half of Japan's cell phones were working is of no importance. Either way, these people have a major problem. How long will it take for the radioactivity to reach the West Coast?
If man would have been created out of the rib of a woman - how different would the world be?
After 30 years wasted as Senior System Administrator [for a rather well-known international organization], I finally discovered that there is more to life than IT. And I'm happy now.
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IndyFred wrote:
Oskar45 wrote: After 30 years wasted as Senior System Administrator [for a rather well-known international organization], I finally discovered that there is more to life than IT. And I'm happy now.


May I ask what made you unhappy? Did you not like being a Sys Admin?


Quite to the contrary. But, looking back over 30 years, I figure I got sucked in too much. I certainly enjoyed my job for all these years, without doubt. In fact, I always used to stress that I'd not want to exchange my position with any other in the organisation - not even with the big boss himself although, of course, he earned a bit more money [for the record, of late my monthly salary was a slim €9000.- after tax]. As Sr. SysAdmin, though, I actually considered myself as the most powerful person around - *everyone* sooner or later depended on me [surely all other sysadmins on here can confirm this], and I was *always* available. And so, I most certainly neglected much of my personal live etc. in favour of my job. But that's history now. I'm free finally ... and happy :-(
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Oskar45 wrote:
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Although no one on here cared to comment, I started to read the saga anyhow. While Volume 1 has 800+ pages, it is by all accounts absolutely enjoyable. Just grab it and delight...
smj wrote:
VenomousPinecone wrote:
Dorf sex.
{ ... }
Hell, then you got awesome dudes like: the Dornish Viper, the Hound, the Mountain that Rides, etc. Good times.
I didn't understand most of that. Is this where your neko handle came from, by any chance? ;)
READ them books, and you WILL understand what VP meant. Actually, he forgot to mention The Imp - one of my favorite characters in there...Anyhow, if you are in need of a satisfying page-turner for tonight, get yourself "A game of thrones" [Volume 1 of the saga]. It will keep you up until tomorrow morning...pleasant dreams afterwards :-)
VenomousPinecone wrote:
I don't shit gold.
If you'd, you'd be an ass.
skywriter wrote:
Oskar45 wrote:
VenomousPinecone wrote:
I don't shit gold.
If you'd, you'd be an ass.


that came out so blissfully glib, it sounds like an old Austrian saying.

BTW while "you'd" is a contraction of "you would", not "you did", using both meanings in the same sentence without context confuses the distinction which one was intended. if it was just a typo just ignore that helpful hint.

No, it's not an old Austrian saying [we would say something more rude]. Actually, I thought no one [not even little schoolgirls] could have missed my allusion. Read http://www.familymanagement.com/literac ... mms27.html for a refresher.

But, I'm sorry. What I'd intended to say is, "if you would [shit gold], [then] you would be an ass". As a non-native English-speaker I am of course not aware of the fact that my original construction is confusing in proper English. Thanks for your correction. My bad :-(
Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6 ... ata_player

He'd more achieved in his too short a life than all Nekochaners together up to now... Frankly, I was never a big fan of Apple at all - while it doesn't help him in any way anymore, I belatedly bow before him now [nowadays I even have an iPod, iPhone & iPad, and I contemplate to get me an iMac]. I only hope Apple will not break down completely in the near future, though...

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Although I've been for 30 years always on the IBM side, I now contemplate to get me an iMac as well. What would you recommend? Please, no beginners stuff :-) It should really be up to date - I most certainly don't want to replace it next year [but then again, my PS/2 still creeps along fine - not sure that everyone on here remembers the times when there where no personal computers at all and you still could purchase milk in glass (!) bottles]...
About 40% of Americans deny evolution. Sad.
indyman007 wrote: I am still using the 2009 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz, with a 7200rpm 320gb with 8gb DDR 2.
It is still very much up to the task. I shouldn't think you would need quite as much RAM, but I use dual displays and then a windoze virtual machine.

Sounds good to me. But to what iMac model are you refering to?
About 40% of Americans deny evolution. Sad.