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I was reading an article about upcoming Halloween Horror Nights houses, and I hit this paragraph. I am one very amused software dev.
*whispers* DEEP WITHIN THIS MAZE OF SEEMINGLY MINDLESS LETTERS AND NUMBERS
(Tagging @w3rewolf-th3rewolf and @dweebusapollo)
SIGBOVIK 2024 has some real hits:
An investigation into "the unreasonable effectiveness of Programming Socks"
An algorithm titled "EigenGender Generation Based on Romantic Experience Adjacency Kernel with Elementwise Reweighting (EGG BREAKER)"
Generating random numbers from 2000s lolrandom emo kids in Project S.P.O.R.K.
"What is your dog likelihood?" disappointed me, as being a model for which dog belongs to which human, and not which humans are most likely to be dogs.
Story time!
So my first real taste of playing with computers was right after Oblivion came out. I mean, Morrowind was perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, and I needed the sequel. And to do that, I needed to upgrade my graphics card, with extensive help from my mom.
If there’s one thing I learned from this embarrassing situation, it’s that I really needed to learn the computer stuff. I decided to do a simple RAM upgrade on my own as a learning experience, did a ton of research on exactly what type I needed and ordered two 512GB DDR3 sticks (1GB total, double what I had).
They took about six months to arrive, due to a combination of delayed shipments from China, them taking forever to ship the item in the first place, and a mixup at the post office. I get the sticks home, and…it’s two sticks of SDRAM. As in, can’t use it in my computer. Will not fit. We try to return it, but the manufacturer refuses to accept it, due to all the shit involved in getting it here. (They were cheap, luckily)
Fast-forward a few years, I’m digging through a bunch of boxes of computer parts, and find the SDRAM sticks. I wonder if there actually is a computer I can throw these in, and look through my collection until I find out that my ancient XPS T600 has SDRAM slots!
So I swap out the 64MB in there for 1GB. Yes. I have a computer running Windows 98 on a gig of RAM. And it is a beast. This computer can’t even recognize all of that memory — it caps out at 256MB. For reference, before I replaced it this computer came with a 16GB hard drive; that much memory just didn’t happen back then.
The computer itself is actually able to use some of the extra memory. It boots to desktop in about ten seconds, which is so beautiful. I really need to try and throw a better processor in that thing and see what happens.
But yes, that was really the point where I started calling myself a mad computer scientist as a joke, since why the hell not put 1GB of RAM into a computer that can barely handle dial-up internet?
"Let’s give every parent in our district a keylogger that’ll record their kids’ passwords and send them out into the wild web with NO encryption! Such a great idea! :D"
-Lots o’ cops.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Here's the link I mentioned in that post.
Always good to have just in case you need it.
Just in case this particular link hasn’t been posted yet. This is a really good, non-technical visualization of what’s going on, for those hearing about the Heartbleed bug but are unsure what exactly it is or what to do to protect themselves.
The most important thing to do right now is not to panic, change every password, or renounce the internet forever. The most important thing to do right now is to pay attention.
Either Ctrl-F through this list or use this link to test sites not on the list, to see which sites may have actually been affected by this bug — it might be less than you think.
Watch what you do online very carefully for a while. If you see anything going on without your permission, particularly in banking or other monetary services, contact the site administrator or helpdesk immediately. You know, like you should be doing anyway.
Be informed. Research for yourself. I cannot stress this enough. Don’t take all your info from one random news article post. Don’t take all your info from this post. Go out there and learn about the problem, and determine for yourself how much danger you’re actually in.
This has been a mad computer science PSA.
Just spent about four hours trying to install my printer on Ubuntu.
Turns out I happen to own the one model from this manufacturer that's not Linux-compatible. In fact, most Linux sites rate this particular model a "paperweight."
It recognizes the thing, sure. No problems there. It sees there's a printer hooked up, can tell the exact make and model of the thing, and even offers default driver recommendations. It's just that none of them work.
I work in Tier 3 tech support. Other tech support people call me for help with their hardware, or with UNIX. I should be able to install a freaking printer. Someone shoot me.
Yay, Gate's* got a 25-pin serial! We're good to go!
*(Real original name for a Gateway 5200S)
