Ordered on Amazon today:
I’m not sure what to make of the fact that these books are nearly 20 years old… totally out of date, but all that is available? What’s up with that?
This evening I read the iptables man page and Linux iptables Pocket Reference from cover-to-cover; my notes are here: Netfilter.
I think at this point I am ready to use iptables in anger for the first time in a long time, and the first time ever on a router.
However, before I take that on, I’m going to have a quick diversion into the following books, and then sleep, and I will do my iptables programming when I wake up tomorrow.
Read a bunch of stuff about hardware debugging. Learned a thing or two, but I have much further to go!
This guy, Cathode Ray Dude [CRD], does some fun stuff. He’s on the web via HTTPS at gekk.info and HTTP at www.cathoderaydude.com.
I was at the thrift store the other day and I found this retro gaming system for AU$15 (US$10). Haven’t had a play with it yet, I’m saving it for when I have some time to do the unboxing. And I didn’t want to do that until I had my new HDMI recording setup installed, but that’s done now, so I AM READY BABY.
Today while watching EEVblog 1559 – PCB Design: Trace Current Rating I learned about the Saturn PCB Design Toolkit.
I asked ChatGPT to format php datetime as “Fri 24 Mar 2023” and it “understood” what I meant and gave me the answer that I wanted! If that’s not intelligence I don’t know what is…
This looks like fun: protohackers.com. If I had more time I would definitely do this. If… :P
Here’s a great talk about the Apollo Guidance Computer: Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer.
I watched Ben Eater’s videos How do CRCs work? and Checksums and Hamming distance (the full course is Learn about error detection) then found the Wikipedia page: Cyclic redundancy check.
Also of interest: