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// jkh loves dd, and tells us why (edited mildly for clarity) <jkh> dd has a long history... <jkh> and since I'm easily the oldest person on this channel right now, let me ruminate... <jkh> (my children will tell you that I ruminate a lot) <jkh> A long time ago there was the OS called OS/360 <jkh> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/360_and_successors <jkh> and God saw that it was god awful <jkh> and it was <jkh> We have bash/ksh/tcsh, on OS/360 that had JCL <jkh> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Control_Language <jkh> and JCL was god awful too <jkh> if you look at (Yes everyone please actually click this link) the section on JCL under complexity <jkh> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Control_Language#Complexity <jkh> You will see the JCL equivalent to linux's copy command "cp" <jkh> Here you will see the beginnings of the dd command <jkh> the thing that completely blows my mind about this JCL crap is---back when I first use (and last used; I only used it one fucking god awful time!!!) OS/360---the line where it says "DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE)," <jkh> This is from a newer version of OS/360. The one I used didn't have this. <jkh> Along with knowing *exactly* how many CYLinder's of output your FORTRAN program was going to create <jkh> note the "SPACE=(CYL,(40,5),RLSE)," line. This is exactly how many block of output your program is allowed to write. <jkh> The conversion from character strings to CYLinders is horrible enough... but!!! <jkh> The OS/360 machine I used, you had to go visit the troll in the basement. You asked him for some CYlinders. <jkh> He had this big book in front of him. He looked through it and started reading off numbers. <jkh> You copied those fucking numbers very very carefully. <jkh> They were the exact CYLinder location for the data you were going to write. <jkh> You put them in the DISP line like "DISP=(1223,8830,34,92020,3949230,939403,3881,040328)" <jkh> You get the idea. <jkh> And IF you should fuck up and type in the wrong fucking god damn fucking CYLinder number? <jkh> you would write over someone else's files. <jkh> This was 1979. <jkh> </rumination> <Southern_Gentleman> jkh, yes we know you are as old as Adam :) <jkh> Southern_Gentleman: you know I had an affair with Eve... <Southern_Gentleman> see i was a freshman in hs in 79 <jkh> Southern_Gentleman: you be as old as me then
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<+h4des> reminder that irc exists to decrease the quality of your experience interacting with others you may or may not know <n3pb> It does not allow various media or fancy formatted text. That is a feature. <+h4des> you can, however, make ascii art of goatse and post it in irc <+h4des> however, we strongly discourage users to do such, that's for #vtcsec <thy0> I left #vtcsec, it was dead except for the occational luug person trolling <+h4des> then maybe in the vtcsec discord server <+h4des> however, discord supports images so ascii goatse is somewhat pointless <+echarlie> h4des: you could send an image of the ascii art. <+echarlie> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ <n3pb> Interesting goatse/VT relationship.... one year the Yankees won the world series. Someone hacked their DNS and pointed yankees.whatever to a hacked web server here with goatse on the front page. <+echarlie> lol <n3pb> Yankees lawyers called our lawyers and were snotty. Our lawyer gave them Randy's number knowing he was out of town and had a long No Strings Attached phonemail greeting just to piss them off. <n3pb> Bob Lineberry locked down the lab and wouldn't let anyone in there for about a week. He was trying to make the case there should be some real sys admin in ECE. <n3pb> I bet the drive is still in the VTPD evidence locker or some FBI warehouse. <+echarlie> wow <n3pb> then there was the poor kid somewhere that did exactly the same things I did to figure out what was going on and the FBI seized his computers. <n3pb> Search SlashDot for FBI Yankees // https://slashdot.org/story/00/10/31/025228/when-the-fbi-knocks-a-first-person-account
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// echarlie posts photo of his new vt220, along with slide rules echarlie: that's my new retrotech; dec vt220 echarlie: I need some superglue and retr0brite for it, but it is a fully functional vt220 with a white crt lukas: of course that's a thing lukas: is that actually your battlestation? echarlie: it's a hardware serial console. it is hooked up to my desktop for irc timelord/jpo: Wait, for real? You personally own a vt220 that you actually use? timelord: Because if so, I don’t think many other people or groups would appreciate this properly, but holy shit timelord: I'm legit impressed. Not gonna lie timelord: You have completely transcended timelordism and phased into a new plane of existence
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<lukas> wine in a box is just efficient <Southern_Gentleman> yep and you can always throw up in the box afterwards <lukas> you can re-use the cardboard to make cardboard weapons and have drunken 3am cardboard wars in your apartment until the neighbors call the cops and you have to explain that it's just 3 grown ass dudes drunk on cheap box wine playing war <kolhell> Rather build wizard staves tbh <echarlie> rofl <h4des> what the fuck
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<pew> fuck it's cold and windy outside <pew> I had to stop multiple times just so my fucking dick wouldn't fall off <+echarlie> cycling tights are amazeballs <pew> I was wearing wool tights <pew> how about I just put a sock on my dick <h4des> pew: public masturbation is illegal
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<gig> There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years. <gig> i'm barely a millenial <+pew> millenials end at 1996 <+pew> (conviently for me :P) <+lukas> are you at the tail end of millenial pew? <Southern_Gentleman> and i have underwear older than all of you <+lukas> that's... not a good thing <Southern_Gentleman> yes it is that means i know how to do the paperwork at the end of the job