How is this of any significance to humanity? Seems like a weird way to waste both time and money.

Now all my crappy code will crash much faster. ;)

I made my chat font Comic Sans because I think it's funny that the "Supreme Allied Linux Commander" for our organization (me) uses Comic Sans on Skype For Business. Keeps 'em on their toes.

But Brave Browser has no problem blocking them.

The point of advertising is to generate demand (want). The more you can influence people to want your product, the more of your product you're going to sell.

I bought $1000USD of Doge back when it took 12 of them to make a single penny just to have fun with on IRC. We set up a doge wallet bot and used tipping in Doge as a way to encourage productive/constructive comments and contributions to our little channel, as well as educating people about crypto. I ended up giving away at least half of the Doges to various channel dwellers just for the fun of it. (Using random soaks & tips of 100 doge here & there.)

Fast forward to now it's around .13c per doge and the coin I so liberally threw around like confetti actually has some value. It feels really good to have contributed in a positive way to crypto-currency awareness and to see those contributions actually have value.

I still have quite a bit of Doge left and it has oddly turned out to be one of the most entertaining & enjoyable successful investments I've made.

TO THE MOON!

Hmm, and a couple of years ago I priced out a Dell Precision workstation with 1TB of RAM. The 1TB RAM alone listed at around $38,000.

What, you want it soaked in a mixture of ClF3 and FOOF , then rinsed in Piranha Solution?

Why not just burn in an oxygen- carbon subnitride fire?

Instead of 'evil hypervisor' think 'Intel Management Engine.'

There are many serial port redirectors out there, typically used with telnet server (ethernet to serial) boxes like the SitePlayer Telnet, some of the Lantronix stuff, and stuff from Equinox and Digi. These are very common for remote out-of-band console port admin of switches and routers.

I never used RIPTerm; on the PC I later used Telix, but I used ANSITerm on my TRS-80 Model 4D with hi-res card. I still occasionally fire up the old Tandy 1400LT 8088 DOS laptop and use Telix for console work, and I still have a TRS-80 Model 4P (with an HxC floppy emulator) and use Mel Patrick's FASTTERM as well as my own ANSITerm (hi-res board required.....). Makes some interesting conversation in a datcenter to roll in with a TRS-80 4P in tow...... But it makes a reasonable terminal for many uses.

I ran my part-time BBS in Atlanta on that Model 4, too, incidentally.

Lots of good memories meeting lots of interesting people. More interesting than Facebook; typically more civilized than Reddit, Slashdot, 4Chan, or pretty much anything else of today.

I ran a BBS in Atlanta in the mid-80's. Was very fun. Until joining Eskimo North (still online!) had not used a multi-user BBS. That was one of the draws of the BBS scene; single-user by nature, most of the time, and replies were far slower in coming..... 8/N1, The Greene Machine, Tandy Trader, Cornucopia, among many others. I still have a print of a 1987 dial-in list from Atlanta, and I was involved in many of them.

BBSing got me into uucp and running my own C-News leaf node attached to Eskimo North. Fun days. Usenet was the next step, really, beyond the dial-up BBS. Especially in terms of loss of civility; alt.flame, alt.barney.must.die.die.die, etc. Discussion of new group creation, some of the interesting things in alt.folklore.computers, and good times in comp.sys.tandy.

I have read it, back in 2009, around Christmastime. While Wheeler's dissertation is impressive, his own list of challenges (Section 8, page 118) is fairly extensive, and many of those challenges apply to the embedded development reality (most notably, the alternative compiler necessary to create the diversity). As an ECU is an embedded, and likely a rather proprietary, platform, it is likely that an alternative compiler would not be available.

Try again.

Hmm, you must be new here. Please see Ken Thompson's 'Reflections on Trusting Trust' ( https://dl.acm.org/citation.cf... ) and come back once you're properly enlightened.

We still do. (I'm waiting on a four, three, or two digit ID to chime in.....

Sounds like segment three of the 15th episode of the mid-80's revival of The Twilight Zone to me. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The comments about religion are petty spot-on, too; in essence, this makes the universe merely a figment of God's imagination..... our the figment of a computer simulation.....