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To the next intern: If Steve Jobs could do it, Apple can't.

February 1, 2024

In the midst of a faltering economy, Apple Computers is planning on releasing a virtual reality headset to bankrupt the remaining art students still hooked on the company's belated retail-based design college. The sadly outmoded headset computer's price in the United States is pegged to the house number of my home address so I don't forget to avoid purchasing it, so why not take it on with that Nintendo-based heads-up display I was working on in 2011? .. Interoperability has some of the worst allocators ever, so as we get 2024 underway, let's go out of the way to concern ourself with Google's rising suicide rate (wow, wonder why) as Android starts to adopt more awful art styles and colors into its operating system, and let's talk very briefly about Apple's Foxconn worker suicides and how most consumers are ending up to be the unhired worker without a choice.

Apple's worker abuses in China that came to light in the year 2010 still persist in other places within the company's complex and complicated ecosystem of art-based gaming devices, as the executive move to more expensive and more fragile products place consumers in a shrinking vanity-driven ecosystem ripe for technical failures. Apple's move to a 9-1-1 and hospital-based architecture of "necessity telephony" had placed the company out of questioning range of news reporters, and as larger and larger concerns buy into the errant belief that they can make their company invicible by tying it to a person's heartbeat's needs (the products can detect this), consumers are regularly left corporately breathless on the verge of wondering why this company is permitted to succeed without regulations on its monopoly forces upon the sub-modern consumer computer market and its news ties.

The proprietary locked computer scam of the 1980s is still alive and well in the IOS device market, where the company enjoys an almost near 100% marketshare of IOS-compatible devices. As the company's products are now required for citizens of many governments to participate in what government provides in services, due to misplaced initiatives meant to throw people into world-wide-web information system mistakes, we're beginning to see how to company reacts as app purchases decline and music and motion picture revenue vanishes: it's to hit the circuit with another failed platform of mistakes and broken promises. It may remind you of the story of Germany setting fires as the wars started.

Much like the Apple telephone and the Apple VR headset, the Android telephone of today won't be operable in a decade unless it's running real software such as Linux, not fake crypto-certificate-shot hardware such as IOS or Android.

Pay them again to try and give them a call: try and tell them to stop killing the industry with bad art, and to stop stealing from all those workers that haven't been paid by the cloud yet.

If you put data into an Apple device, then Apple is immediately guilty of stealing your data until they answer your questions. Remember that.




title: "apple"
run time: 9 minutes, 6 seconds
production date: May 2019
broadcast date: May 24, 2019

Program guide

  • Introduction: PlayStation — a Chinese computer worth watching?
  • The Apple game: The woman. It's not her fault, no matter what IOS is enforcing in the hardware. NBC takes the floor, or not, to balance Apple's post-steve-era media professionalism.
  • WWDC / Why Would Douglas Care? 17: Watch as the heavy-liability multi-billion dollar company from the U.S.A. goes on another field/filed trip full of free cultural theft. "Apple Computer In" vs. 453.
  • Better: The C.E.O. said it couldn't happen, and the economy staged and stalled on Coronavirus. The company failed in 2020 when it would not repair its products or its people.
  • 2011: A voiceover leads the way for another day of waiting out the virus: the invincible company that keeps aiming for the center and losing. (P.S.: Next time, don't move.)
  • What the hell is Apple's logo? (Steve Jobs at interop beat the computer)

    January 7, 2024 at 9:37 P.M. Eastern Time

    * arab guy slams the remote
    <arab guy> "This is a day I've been looking forward to for two-and-a-half years."
    <usa president> "Oliver, that's marvelous!"

    While the Jews and the Arabs are fighting again, I figured I'd go back and take a look at one of computing's favorite Arabs. Yes, of course, one of those favorites is Steven Paul Jobs, C.E.O. of Apple Computers. This is a short blog post to add to my video editing resume while I prepare to look for more fun in the future.

    Mr. Jobs, an digital-analog-digital prankster by some people's definition, likely became so because of how serious the field of computing was. So, when he accidently put cameras in everyone's hand by shipping and selling an unpopular locked-down telephone, the rest of the industry thought it had to ship integrated cameras also. Then Jeff Bezos' Amazon Corporation started shipping automatic doorbells with cameras installed. The typical cellular phone camera is usually configured to send the private pictures and video it records back to the company that put them in the hands of the woman or man that received them. Today, there are more cameras per American city block than people.

    America's image-driven society has gone stagnant waiting for media to reboot in the midst of a content overflow crisis that Apple and Netflix are still pouring ill-gotten cash into to maintain, while Google and Amazon try to bankrupt the traditional media by pointing at Netflix and cutting their losses on free software and low-cost hardware offerings. Proprietary studio-driven content pipes have sprung up, placing innovative and necessary communication networks such as TV/radio broadcast and satellite in crisis as Google anti-competitively uses its made-up money to break into the cable market.

    We're well into the last decade of Apple's market heading, with the company having repeatedly failed to spot casual consumer trends leading up to the unprepared closure of its repair sites during COVID-19. That planned punishment stranded Mac and iPhone customers, and instead of spending on customer satisfaction, Apple instead opted to jack up prices, fatten the software, place Nintendo cutouts into the design, attack and arrest critics, ignore criticisms, and roll around in the meme-encrusted computerized pudding that the United States economy continuously allows Tim Cook to place into its catnip replacement zone.

    Have you called your favorite operating system for 2024 yet? Are people really still buying $1200 Coronavirus stimulus telephones from Apple just to send text messages to each other? Apple and Google have been in major trouble since the launch of the Apple smartphone for not masking their cameras at the factory. Grandma and Grandpa deserve one less computer to worry about.

    We'll talk about caste theory later, and how underclasses of social servancy and themetic exploitation have cropped up around the lack of pay that the Internet provides to its customers. Internet access will not cost money in ten years and neither will your device (that's a result of Apple and Google bankrupting you with fake stand-in products while they hold the real thing around every corner) so prepare your criticisms today for Comcast (d/b/a NBC) and Verizon and the rest of the lot that feel it's still okay to monopolize and squeeze the network so the corporation defined what you heard and saw. Have the companies heard we survived their COVID problem? Whatever the cost of your internet, I think your bill should be halved. Remember when apps were the thing? Stop letting all those rigged data-billed app updates flood out your bandwidth, too.

    And as for Steve: Bravo on the long one. I personally have a few ideas on why he insisted on the timings and presentation choices that he did, but I don't allow people outside of autism into those conversations. No media calls just yet, please. (Apple Media is banned until further notice, you should know why.. Talk with your parents, not Tim Cook, and we'll wait to interpretively dance how things go..)




    title: "The Steve Jobs Movie"
    run time: 7 minutes, 27 seconds
    production date: january 7, 2024
    broadcast date: january 7, 2024 on thankrupt (via HTTP)

  • Laurence Kim Peek - Known as a social savant, his name may have allowed him or media to succeed at getting him media attention due to POKE and PEEK commands being implemented in the BASIC programming language. Kim Peek passed away on December 19, 2009.
  • Kemeny and Kurtz BASIC - Created in 1963, BASIC appeared on almost every home computer of note in the 1980s with direct memory PEEK and POKE commands. BASIC was released 4,555 days after Kim Peek was born.
  • Douglas Rice Winslow - I was born 9,862 days after Kim Peek and 5,307 days after BASIC was released. The Apple Computers iPhone was released when I was 10,457 days old. Kim Peek and I share the same calendar day of birth: the 11th of November; me in 1978, Mr. Peek in 1951. Steve Jobs and I were born 8,661 days apart. Mr. Peek and Steve Jobs were born 1,201 days apart. I began programming computers on a Commodore Computers VIC-20 running BASIC.

    Android, iPhone OS d/b/a iOS, and William Henry Gates III

    January 3, 2024 at 5:32 P.M. Eastern Time

    Have you called your favorite operating system for 2024 yet? I don't mention mine.

    It doesn't seem like we use most of the features of mobile operating systems anymore. The app store economy from Apple that promised to employ dozens and then millions faltered, leaving users that invested in it waiting for updates from free-to-start apps with no career path, while the mobile web starts to be destroyed with delays and lethargy via the same bad coders that built up the app store delivery models.

    Now that the mobile-everywhere fad is returning from where it came, back into Apple by way of complex complacency and bad software updates (I hear there's an iPhone OS 17.3 beta release after iPhone OS 17.2.1 that wrecks the boot sequence so you can't log in to your telephone because someone forgot to include a recovery prompt — duh), and back into Google by way of bad network services, stolen content, predatory 'bankrupt-by-design' cloud storage development strategies, and government lawsuits, it may be time to think back to the future and try a personal computer again.

    If you find yourself dealing with a disorganized e-mail system (Android) or a cramped and unenlightened calendar (iOS), and you just can't resolve all the competing automation failures, task swapper crashes, non-standard indicators, and junk-bin icons, along with the "just trust the automated patcher, it's its first read" technical support that goes along with it, consider your ergonomics situation and give the mobile devices a rest! They weren't made for productivity, they were made for companies to sell you access to on-the-go communication services that the company intelligently placed somewhere else so people were sad.

    In much the same way as I wouldn't recommend walking ten to twenty miles a day to visit a local attraction, or taking an automobile trip from your front door to that of your friend across the street or around the corner, I can't recommend the current set of operating systems after trying what used to be available with the more-supported art systems (Windows 9x series, Windows Millennium Edition, Mac OS X, older GNOME releases) that weren't hellbent on de-motivating society as the most recent Android releases do. See if you can put the Go-ogle sabotage set away for a while by sitting at a desk with a full keyboard. Maybe you're doing that already. If you think that's all you need to enjoy an operating system..

    Have you heard of operating system companies locking paid users out of old software so you need to be current? Product activation systems and downgrade lockouts are illegal; such schemes also destroy the reputation of the companies that implement them, as well as making users wary of the act of computing, which should be concerning due to how much we have all invested in data processing and desk compliance by way of the school system. Beware of accepting proprietary DRM from an operating system platform into what may affect your health, unless you think you can tilt it to prove a point that works in your favor. Internet mobile is a trillion-dollar industry that doesn't pay anyone who isn't a network provider, unless you consider compromised software with negligible organizational results to be pay. So, again, we're at the problem of why would you want to use a computer just to mess with a bunch of proprietary widgets that break or need fine-tuning when maybe all you wanted was to do something to escape boredom, or to write out a letter to put in the mailbox? Futility beat the current Mac OS, an overburdened product running on a very sad lineup of proprietary chips, for some reason. Futility won. It's not Linux that broke it, blame Apple and blame Microsoft chasing Google's debug logs.

    Operating systems have always been controversial. Nobody wants to have to depend on a product that is continuously sold defective, such as iOS or Android, with no support available for the release paid for. They are the modern equivalent of a digital gambling machine you'd find at a casino, with the money taker and security systems to match. A modern controversy in design, as I mentioned, is that mobile system graphics are abstract, weird, devoid of definition, or overbranded and maliciously colored. The companies that provide the hardware-software-interlock ($) are happy just piling on with awful design choices and mis-trained employees, hidden behind a double-dare bootloader that's just waiting for you to be smacked or demoralized if you want to compute your own way.

    The operating system is the politicized weapon that companies used in previous eras, including this era, to deny the user access to the best resolution of the user's complaint that the user wants to run a program. Computers used to run programs at boot when possible. But when someone wanted to add a large disk system to the personal computer, a decision was made to make a 'program-reprogramming program', so your program got what it wanted one development cycle later on the terms of the dominant program from the other program company.

    Today, past the years of simplicity in design, layers of cruft and wrecked or forced dependencies have been built up in legacy code made modern, straining to keep up under all the bad decisions and political fat of a 'not-invented-here, however..' partitioning system that always guarantees that another money pit will end up on your filesystem if you upgrade your software in this expensive inflation-bound 'government-supports-the-computer-so-go-away' economy.

    Within Microsoft, this used to be known as "DLL Hell", the 'just-keep-patching-over-it' mentality that you don't need good organization if you have good intentions and know where to aim. Mobile platforms have optimized the delivery method for the dependency files, but, sadly, mobile telephone data service providers are tight with some of the most offending mobile app developers to have gigabytes of worthless updates available on app stores that are built to assume that Wi-Fi is not only configured, but also speedy, free, unlocked, and unlimited. They are bound-determined to get users to spend that double data dollar.

    Are you too restricted by mobile to be yourself? Some people use mobile devices as wheelchairs for the mind, because of disabilities or other reasons. It's my view, as I posted on the Twitter network, that the personal computer is going to again attempt to cost-reduce into the mobile form factor at least once in the next ten years, probably to finish off the Chromebook now that the iPad can't keep up with it, before Google Glass's competitors once again become the lead-up to the next earphone or headset of all peace. Again. Of course. 2011 all over again, of course.

    Some day in the future, someone will have the entire history of the app store to sell you on a memory card, and it will probably work. You know it's probably going to be the other place after 'you-know-what' again happens in the 'numbers-versus-health' division of the current place, so maybe wait for true virtual machining support to arrive so the lottery phone companies of Apple and Google can stop needing to build hardware to support their software. It's happened every time before. (Camera will be out of the iPhone within 100 years.)

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    	<display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="320" height="480" refresh="78.125000" pixclock="12000000" htotal="320" hbend="0" hbstart="320" vtotal="480" vbend="0" vbstart="480" />
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    Logon happens at public housing, bizarre implied reverse logoff happens at home? .. or.. Unfamiliarity causes concern!

    December 20, 2023 at 7:19 P.M. Eastern Time

    It's an acceptable thing to watch out for scams. If you've ever applied to a state or government service and you've started to receive letters with other people's names in the mail, including whether it shows your address or not, you may have actually caught the government trying to bait you into committing mail fraud.

    As early as possible in an unfamiliar situation, such as this one, maybe, be careful of external links to unrelated things, even if they seem like implications or connections. Don't let bad information into your problem-solving, and maybe you don't need to problem-solve if there isn't a problem. But you know you can do something, maybe. No sweat. Whatever the situation is that you encounter, the correct verifications from you could help you keep yourself at your earlier or previous levels of safety, in case if you think you're going into a bad area of evaluation or thought.

    That said, does anybody know a "Cristian Montgomery"? Not Montgomery Scott, the supposed engineer of Star Trek, and not Jesus Christ of Christianity fame. The Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC) purposely sent something to my home address today with that unfamiliar name, so as I just recently heard a few weeks ago that HABC was accepting me into public housing, and I'm now going through the procedure of requesting that my doctor verify my diabetes disability for HABC, it sure is a point of confusion to see an HABC envelope with an unfamilar name stamped with "Applications and Waiting List" on the back. If that weren't enough, it was sitting atop a new 2024 calendar sent by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works: my former employer which I have have a still-active EEOC complaint against due to its intolerance of people of faith.

    The duress and implications system has existed for years in America, causing people to stay silent or inactive while fearing any number of things linked to an inexact element of expression, such as a fake name that may or may not be related to an investigation of the Mayor. The allegation from me at this stage (and that could change) is that there is someone crooked again operating at the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, and as Mayor Brandon Scott, not Montgomery Scott, is up for re-election, someone is again trying to punch the autistic guy with random bullshit to get free F.B.I. cookies or 0-day warez.

    Wow. I'm going to pause for just a moment, because I think I just expressed what the schadenfraude complement is to running a non-underwritten government service. "Mr. Invincible thinks he was punched, but there was zero burden and negligible proof. What happened, did the English robot break his major diploma trying to be more human? Quick, ratchet the feed system at Twitter to get Jayne Miller spilling more fake coded typos. Wasn't she supposed to be politically correct?" (Note: I just threw some proverbial gum at a dartboard without coding names into a stack, and I already know before publishing that it hit and drew lawsuits.)

    That concern to the side for the time being, in a separate incident a few years ago, that time at the Maryland Department of Human Services (D.H.S.), I was provided with an edited acceptance letter with fake error code criteria on it accompanying my legitimate verified temporary benefit of Public Assistance to Adults (P.A.A.). As we were talking about initials recently (wow, just yesterday actually!), whereupon we found Microsoft was borrowing my initials to make a Windows XP CD-ROM (how likely is that? aren't I lucky?), I'll not provide the following information for no reason, but instead I'll provide it strictly on the terms that I understand the government is trying to get me to be productive during my ongoing writing strike because it thinks it has a right to what I say for free. And that information is simply that my mother's maiden name initials were A.A.P.. So why the grand walk-up? It seems that sending fake acceptance letters to autistic people is a primary way for either instigators or investigators working for the government to gain paychecks. Therefore, since I was correct in what I did at DPW, I get to void their paycheck not only by having a spotless work history, but also by speaking out on the grounds of you the public, and yes even Bill Gates deserving to know more then the modern government is given access to.

    So I'll ignore the unfamiliar "Nero Community Care" reference that was thrown on the letterhead of Maryland's P.A.A. acceptance letter for a while, since it seems to be not only incendiary to imply by way of initialization of that name by way of history that somebody's burning, in hell or otherwise, but it's also not relevant. Interestingly enough, my current rent contract in 2023 is at a residence that has the word "Community" in the title, and the surrounding words in my P.A.A. document are not only proprietary to me, but because of the letterhead and the proof of payment, I can prove that actors working with access to the State of Maryland have been setting me up around successful failure after successful failure to gain information for free, which is not what I provide.

    And I can further prove that my speaking up to guarantee my rights are protected have denied me access to more than one local job offer, causing the necessity of public housing's approval and other government support such as food benefits. I have a right to work in the State of Maryland, and denial of my right to work is causing strife for the companies involved. Companies from Apple on down are learning that it does not pay to turn your policies into that of a Communist dictatorship running a company in a Capitalist success zone. Also, the State working against me at corporate by crashing my job interviews via bad M.T.A. Mobility actors, while the City works against me and the people by not hiring me at the Mayor's Office of Employment Development guarantees that there is liability external to me when I'm not able to pay my 100% of my rent check. So here's Rain Man to rain on your parade: Before you go looking Nero up on Wikipedia thinking it explains any of the crimes committed, be sure to note that top-heavy systems have an advantage of giving you a fraudulent umbilical cord and overwhelming your senses with art junk. That's the internet. But to some people it might be Buddhism, for all I know. It's definitely somehow the English language, or not.

    Note for shelter abuse survivors: Due to failures of government, Mr. Winslow cannot be held to liabilities in rent payment. After a year into renting with hardly any money to spend for himself, a public housing accommodation or employment are required for Mr. Winslow to be able to pay his full rent on the terms that Baltimore County described, and while Douglas may sue the government, he cannot be forced to do so to gain an accommodation because he would then have the right to bankrupt it: the government is at fault for baiting Douglas with the court and running everything else in conditional absentia as an implier of the guilt of an unsaid overwhelming victor. These court abuses, along with their lack of insurance policies, are what lead to government-backed employment mazes such as Coronavirus pandemic.

    Note for partitioning: The burning reference isn't about Douglas's necessary complaints to the Baltimore City Fire Department about DPW's building being a fire hazard, it's a reference in the D.H.S. P.A.A. document about the word "Nero": a corporation name of something health-related from someone else's social service record which errantly found its way onto Douglas's P.A.A. acceptance letter to make sure he had something to errantly fear or report after he had to talk to local elected representatives to gain a peaceful end to a stalemate where Larry Hogan's Department of Human Services was being used as a political weapon to starve Douglas during December of 2020, prior to the staged Capitol Riots of January 2021. Before the elected representatives responded, Douglas was forced to use the Twitter social networking account that he owns to alert the Maryland government to its errant responses and food cutoffs since there were no other points-of-presence that were answering. It is necessary to provide a reminder at this stage that Douglas Winslow has autism and suggested support for Buddhism as a Catholic.

    And this is an important tip: don't let anyone put you into any delusions of grandeur. That was the news and entertainment media's job.

    You may have started reading this as an article about how to avoid a scam, so be alert at how to partition your concerns apart from each other. For all you know I might be a scam artist. Maybe Brandon Scott is not the mayor of Baltimore City. Maybe Montgomery Scott is not an actor from Star Trek. And maybe the name Cristian does not imply the name or word Christian.

    The name on the letter, no matter how it reached me in proximity to that DPW calendar, is an illegal communication in the autism community because we don't imply that people have to change to fit in, nor do we mix external unrelated game programs, such as the calendar, computers, or religion, with the intent to intimidate a person.

    Here's a useful technique: It doesn't seem like there's a game going on, but maybe there is somehow. Out of nowhere, let's tally the score and find out who again tried to bankrupt Douglas into more heartache and worries.

  • Douglas applied for housing at HABC in 2021, which social workers had been withholding from him as a possibility since 2016 since he was fired for making a fire safety complaint and a religious intolerance complaint at DPW while not being allowed to have an autism diagnosis.

  • The city and state bankrupted Douglas out of his house and car in 2017, forcing him to rely on city and state services while problems were manifested around him to make him position and comment upon social networks, which made sure corporations had an allegedly valid reason not to hire him because of his anti-corruption stance.

  • HABC on 12/12/2023 requested that Douglas's doctor return his disability verification paperwork to them by 12/26/2023, during Christmas closures. HABC is now not returning phone calls or e-mails, which is why Mr. Winslow was sent the wrong name on a letter by computer determination. (Silence is the first sign a government is going to fail.)

  • Douglas sent the HABC disability verification form to his endocrinologist working at Johns Hopkins since that hospital has previously diagnosed Douglas with diabetes, and the HABC accommodation must include reachable accessibility and safety.

  • The hospital was given very limited access to contact HABC by way of HABC's disability verification form to verify that Mr. Winslow has diabetes.

  • Douglas has empty copies of the HABC form for his other medical contacts in the event that Johns Hopkins is disqualified by failing to deliver their doctor's diagnosis in verification form, or in the event that their participation falls into the deeper boundaries of this evaluation scenario.

  • The doctor was silent from 12/15/2023 to 12/20/2023 where I learned today she is on vacation. She was said to not fill out these forms though, so I will take my prescribed insulin pen to HABC to show that I have a disability as per her prescription.

  • Hospitals routinely keep track of a patient's religion because of unknown reasons. It is thought that the reason is to accommodate the patient's religion, however, I have proof that disproves this on several occasions.

  • Legitimate or not, the HABC letter was stacked and staged with the name "Cristian Montgomery" to make it look like Douglas had to follow Christianity to gain the public housing that he already paid for with his self-employment, payroll, and sales taxes.

  • Douglas was studying Buddhism at the time of his criticism of DPW and Johns Hopkins Hospital's errant hold of him in 2017, where he encountered the first distillation of the Japanese Hospital pain maze:

  • On January 25, 2021, Mayor Brandon Scott's Department of Housing and Community Development was found tallying a building code violation (notice #1964136A) against an Airbnb on Kingsway Road that Douglas had been paying full rent at with a good reference for months, causing the owner of the residence to justify stealing Mr. Winslow's already paid rent for the rest of the month and abandoning him, without electricity, heat, water, meeting, or support, into a freezing cold Baltimore City just prior to the death of his grandmother. One of the violations listed is "REAR DOES NOT EXTEND TO GROUND", so you know someone put one in to hit the Buddhist.

    So. Airbnb is being investigated for its part in driving up Baltimore's rent costs is what I'd say to you at this juncture. Around January 2021, you may have remembered the Capitol Riots happening. At that time, the government was backfiring internally due to Doug's insistence that he did not have to be vocal on social media or anywhere else about what his opinion is, and that he could hold back on copyright grounds to cause the system to respect authorship and personal rights. Thank you for waiting many months to read what your family will be forced to deal with unless you take on big, bad government.

    Score: 0. Result: Douglas wins. I'll be sure to update you, unlike Apple or Google.

    "\I386\DRW\DWWIN" in Windows XP: What's with the 'H' mystery at naming and gaming, Dr. Watson or Douglas Winslow?

    December 19, 2023 at 4:49 P.M. Eastern Time

    You may be aware that there has been controversy recently about random generation being used with alphabet characters and numerals to generate identification strings not meant for reader identification. Such systems in use in popular culture are the YouTube URL video identifier string, the Microsoft-popularized GUID using hexadecimal, and most junk password generators over the past few decades, including the factored authentication routines that most world-wide-web sites employ to randomly reset forgotten passwords or to provide random log-on tokens.

    As these strings begin to mistake their way into our learners' lives, it's worth reviewing where the system has overrun its privilege before. We talked before about art system failures, and how to keep separate operating system partitions separate. This should have prepared you for isolating problems from a working situation, something that autistic people in professional life are often very good at, and something that everyone had to game with during the Coronavirus. Now that we've moved into the realm of talking about art system violations, not just art system failures, let's review some interesting lore about Microsoft Windows XP, an operating system that is still supported and running today.

    If you were Bill Gates, what happens after you make billions of dollars producing computer software for some of the world's most depended-upon and monied corporations, not just the companies? Well, it seems hackers have targeted the August 2001 release of Microsoft Windows XP version 5.1.2600.

    Mere weeks before the New York terrorism attacks of September 11, 2001, a file representing a copy of Windows XP Professional's compact disc was released and was found by many circulating on the internet for free. Microsoft had planted timebomb code in Windows XP that caused the user to need to centralize (register) their session at the Microsoft home offices briefly to receive Microsoft's permission to continue to run the operating system. Windows Product Activation and Windows Genuine Advantage were soothsayer phrases meant to reinforce that there was an upside to license disability enforcement.

    Because of the still-today-loathed timebomb code, and the hackers' want or need to circumvent Microsoft's corporate scheme to steal the users' files by way of a sanctioned file system failure, software crackers began circulating what would become the most famous license key in Microsoft history: "Fckgw Rhqq2 Yxrkt 8Tg6w 2B7q8". It's not supported as a read-aloud sentence or string, however that didn't stop most people from guessing at the first five letters being a sly hint to George W. Bush, the Republican president of the United States who was in office at the time of the Microsoft activation disaster, in an economy where few wanted to invest again in any dot-com (internet) futures due to the company's earlier defeat in an antitrust lawsuit. But what about the rest?

    If we in computing were to tell you that the company was once permitted to hide codes inside the machine to do things to your data that you didn't ask them to do, you might be surprised. If you were a fundamental businessman, you might have thrown out the P.C. for the calculator, the ledger, and the pencil. But what if we were to say that's just as cryptic to someone who doesn't want business?

    At a promotional event, Microsoft had supplied Windows 2000 Professional and Advanced Server to our startup business. Noting a lot of the very well-made advances over Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, I took interest in the Microsoft platform for internet and development reasons. I purchased Microsoft Visual Studio which came with the TechNet Library on CD-ROM, so I then paid for a subscription to the on-line version of Microsoft TechNet, which gave access to Microsoft Operating Systems. I also got current on e-mail with Microsoft Office XP, a fine upgrade above and beyond Microsoft Works. This was co-existing well enough along with my Red Hat Linux purhcases and FreeBSD subscription to make me confident that I was keeping within my financial support boundaries for the software I was expected to memorize to gain employment at the time. I was never out of bounds on licensing. I still have a license for Windows 3.11, 95, 98, and 2000. And, beyond that, I hear they may still be activating Windows XP, 7, 8, and 10. (Windows 11? Birth month or not, I'm not going to go sick trying to chase down hardware just to run a slower program launcher. Linux is doing just fine.)

    So you can imagine my surprise when I went back to see what was on the old Microsoft Windows discs. You might remember my previous run-in with the letter 'H' at Nintendo, where my full legal name entered into their 1985 video game software 'Metroid' somehow led to the female protagonist starting on top of a blocky letter 'H'. What were the chances of my full name passing the password check for any reason? Thus my interest fifteen years later in the file folder named 'DRW' on the Windows XP Professional CD-ROM. I've checked with sources of the era and verified that the volume license version of Windows XP was the most popular version released with the aforementioned "2B7Q8" key in 2001. Being that it's a volume license and all, I guess it's time for Microsoft to speak up. Or, as some might say, "'fess up.."

    Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
    (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
    
    C:\Documents and Settings\Douglas Winslow>D:
    
    D:\>chdir I386\DRW
    
    D:\I386\DRW>dir /s
     Volume in drive D is WXPVOL_EN
     Volume Serial Number is 6638-A994
    
     Directory of D:\I386\DRW
    
    08/23/2001  07:00 AM    <DIR>          .
    08/23/2001  07:00 AM    <DIR>          ..
    08/23/2001  07:00 AM    <DIR>          1033
    08/23/2001  07:00 AM           162,128 DWWIN.EXE
    08/23/2001  07:00 AM            28,672 FAULTH.DLL
                   2 File(s)        190,800 bytes
    
     Directory of D:\I386\DRW\1033
    
    08/23/2001  07:00 AM    <DIR>          .
    08/23/2001  07:00 AM    <DIR>          ..
    08/23/2001  07:00 AM            55,632 DWINTL.DLL
                   1 File(s)         55,632 bytes
    
         Total Files Listed:
                   3 File(s)        246,432 bytes
                   5 Dir(s)               0 bytes free
    
    D:\I386\DRW>echo %LOGONSERVER%
    \\WINDOWS-HLY7JFA
    
    D:\I386\DRW> 
    

    So what was the problem again? I'm trying to figure out why Microsoft chose my initials in that many configurations for their Dr. Watson debugger application. Named in the executable's description field "Microsoft Application Error Reporting", not named MAER, DWWIN does not yield any spectacular results when loaded from CD-ROM. Had I spent more time in Microsoft Visual C++ instead of Microsoft Office, maybe I'd know how to invoke this version of Dr. Watson. So cryptic things could scare people not used to their surroundings. Noteworthy. And ultimately the reason for the failure of Windows 10 and Android.

    This specific installation of Windows XP is getting decommissioned, of course, since I don't want to put my actual license key into the software now that it seems to have led a second life that Microsoft itself probably isn't supporting. I already have Windows XP installed with a paid version of Adobe Photoshop. However, graphics in motion.. Antagonist? You might think so. Did Windows Product Activation piss off the Arabs, or does Microsoft just have bad launch timing? Aside from the old conspiracy theories about Wingdings showing some encoded unpleasantness, there will never be a final say in this matter until Microsoft opens up. And that's how today's Microsoft continues, allowing Google and others to add countless cruft and troll bait to an already overburdened developer system for what's left of the personal computer. At least IBM has part numbers, Johns..

    Anyway.. I have a lot of screenshots to show you of a professionally-designed operating system, but I guess the mystery stops for me right now because I'm sleepy. Think of it this way. If you could look into YouTube video IDs (or as I call them, content IDs) and retrieve a lot of tangential stuff that may or not be related to Nintendo, 9/11/2001, Donald Trump, chess, and the ultimate lack of Bill Gates' signature or underwriting, then you understand that once you have an anchor point in the software that it's easier to find areas of confidence that we in society probably act kindly upon, one should hope. You could spend days amassing references that lead exactly where you are. If you're playing along with the computer nicely.

    But that's not how everyone acts. Ultimately, it's a lesson on how to continuously do your own best rewrite of yourself just in time to not fail. Below, there's a brief look into the functions of DWWIN.EXE of August 2001. If Sherlock Holmes had been put back into motion in real-life somewhere in 2001 to sign a license agreement, with Dr. Watson needing to decompile Microsoft binaries as if they were a codebook to save the world, then and only then can I understand most of the nomenclature in these exports. For whatever reason, since most of my Sherlock Holmes experience was via Star Trek: The Next Generation, I shift to Alexander Graham Bell, but not him, but maybe Thomas Edison vs. his spilled battery acid, for some reason. That's the ticket. It's not that thrilling to be a pro detective, I guess.. What's the under-over on Alfred E. Neuman as the Apple VR debugger?

    And now you know why everyone tolerates art system violations. It's still art, is what they'd say. It's actually ought, or the difference-maker. Is random junk from an alphabet-toting computer where we draw the line? Or does the next generation read into intelligent (human) design's void of definition as if Bill Gates' replacements on their off-hours are the definers of what is holy? At least the games tried to start me with the letter 'H'.

  • DWAllowHeadless
  • DWNoCollectionLink
  • DWReporteeName
  • DWNeverUpload
  • DWURLLaunch
  • DWNoSecondLevelCollection
  • DWNoFileCollection
  • DWNoExternalURL
  • DWTracking
  • DWFileTreeRoot
  • DWStressReport
  • DWTester
  • Debug
  • BuildPipeMachine
  • WinVerifyTrust
  • DeleteDC
  • RestoreDC
  • SaveDC
  • SetBkMode
  • DestroyIcon
  • GetWindowPlacement
  • IsIconic c353ef35218272c2242233b4a818784b WXPVOL_EN/i386/drw/dwwin.exe af0fd7129db2cba1ab42464a3ec2e660 WXPVOL_EN/i386/drw/faulth.dll ef32415c2755e66ca1b345df68c71243 WXPVOL_EN/i386/drw/1033/dwintl.dll Microsoft Windows Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpclient.010817-1148)
  • Baltimore City Housing Authority dilemma: how easy is it for clockwork anti-Alex to get his accommodation?

    December 11, 2023 at 7:34 P.M. Eastern Time (updated 12/16/2023)

    Well, is that all? After all this, it seems that even with the overlap of Mr. Kubrick's and others' motion pictures and television programs with real life, it's not definitive if we're all in life imitating art, or if Mr. Kubrick and others were just that good at playing the motion picture industry for after-effect points.

    We've noted what entertainment's position is, and that's that they can plausibly have any number of problems spawn from a motion picture. As I've been criticizing movies since the 1990s, it's important to note: I'm not going to give up on getting the best result from that wrecked industry as it tries to modernize all the wrong answers in all the wrong forms in the present day.

    Entertainment mediums such as TV and the movies are used as education for some people, and as I tried to note in my fiction write-ups, which were met with great acclaim in certain writers' circles, the choice is usually up to the consumer. I've taken great care in setting up a valid medium in my printed page for criticism, in every column, and, as I tie some other loose ends of the so-called "baseball book" together for publishing, I'm realizing more that people needed to be challenged earlier in school to be less wasteful in their lifestyles today. Most people today require electricity, that will not change. The sun provides that in the future, not Hollywood.

    I have an interview coming up for the Baltimore City Housing Authority "Public Housing Mixed Population" program. The postal mail I was sent on 11/21/2023, that I received the evening of 11/25/2023, says that I need to have my SSN, proof of age, and proof of eligible immigration status ready for review. There are no problems with any of those items as far as I know, and there is hopefully nothing blocking me from qualifying to be a disability public housing resident now except some very distant terminology which is meant to confuse.

    There's a lot of reading trouble apparent when I read the Baltimore City Housing Authority's public housing documents, and, yes, it is true that information systems such as the Housing Authority's web site itself have taken a very steep dive since the initial days of the World-Wide-Web. This is because people are not criticizing the term-pilers. Here are some unclear overlapping and confusing terms that I found in both the interview letter that I was sent, as well as the waiting list FAQs from 6/26/2023 found on the HABC web site: (opening-of-the-wl-faqs-ecc-revisions-6-26-2023.pdf)

    9. eligibility interview
    8. eligibility screening
    7. eligibility determination
    6. full eligibility application
    5. eligibility screening interview
    4. screening eligibility determination interview

    Can you figure out which is which, or what you should be prepared to receive from participating in any of these terms? You'd think maybe that this is all positive terminology by itself. However, what I've found that is more likely is that the set-up is that I'm supposed to act autistic and stupid trying to call HABC and Mayor Brandon Scott's office to narrow down why certain terms do not match up with the interview being described, as if I'm a computer. (Yes, most of the failures of government are sad honeypots for us.) For example, there is said to be a waiting list and an application, but the PDF suggests that there is a waiting list, now a preliminary application or pre-application, another waiting list now, and then a completed application, and maybe a possible other interview. So I don't know what this interview I'm going to actually does for me. That's not how the City rebuilds, Mr. President.

    If you don't criticize communications that are so confusing, and the government gets away with it, you're lesser because nobody won and the government lost. Therefore you're more likely to proceed from an implied victory at losing. That's not a good outcome if you want things to run properly, as they should have run properly for me when I was shunted away from financial aid and public housing by government inaction in 2017. At that time I was criticizing confusing shelter map signage placed at the local food stamp office while they were busy not calling me to the desk for an interview. I ultimately went on a near-death hunger strike, broke the pain maze at the doctor when I decided to use an antihistamine, and recovered the moment of silence that Rudy Chow's DPW lost.

    No doubt about it, I'm ready to get a good placement and get into public housing so I don't spend all of my paycheck on rent, and so I have the option of paying back the current landlord for the one month of rent that's overdue at this stage of Baltimore City's waitlist. I have to assume on some level that the 9-month television-media-required camera-heavy Catonsville shelter stay was a setup to bankrupt me into a random lottery that is being used to guide housing. But when Brandon Scott's office and HABC don't pick up their phones, why would I want to move into their housing system?

    Zeke Cohen's staff have been nice enough to return my call to his office where I noted the troubles with HABC's and the Mayor's telephone system. I noted that I'm not going to buy anything with sales tax in Baltimore City if I don't get a response, so I look forward to responding when I am more able. It's not very time-permissive having a disability that does not yield strength when expected (how cinematic..); but there is no excuse for City offices to not answer the questions that we as the public ask.

    Robin Carter is said to be the chairperson of the board of commissioners of HABC, and Janet Abrahams is said to be the president and/or chief executive officer of HABC. I would like to note that the administration that made sure I got paid at the Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) was headed by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake and Mr. Gregory Scheihing. He was countered by Ms. Maria DeChellis, who was brought on past her consultant role as the City of Baltimore spent millions of dollars on a Microsoft-driven water billing system that placed many families out of reach of fair housing. This was a setup to illustrate the dangers of proprietary software, as the broken elevator parts at DPW were a hint and a hit at proprietary hardware, with enough minutae to break even the most strict autistic engineer. The parts are fake, they'll always show up out of nowhere if you don't figure out that it's all rigged. And even then, shouldn't you have access to the composition of the materials? Oh well.. (I understand that Rudolph Chow works under heavy inspection in D.C. now..)

    I'll update you as I learn more about what exactly to expect at tomorrow's interview, so I'd like to remind you today 12/11/2023 that DPW fired me on 9/11/2017 for asking management why they don't allow people of faith to have a moment of silence during a workday. First for Christianity/Catholicism and Buddhism, and then for Islam, since it seems they'd really care about an answer. DPW's Human Resources team didn't answer me and management tried to cause me to have a heart attack by forcing me to climb stairs to a work desk. They then started to flail by relocating my desk to an abandoned room with no telephone while assigning me tasks that I had no chance of completing without an error on a computer that was rigged by City investigators to catch me plugging in an Ethernet cable, which I did not allow to happen. Ms. DeChellis claims to have been a supporter of Autism Speaks, but she didn't reply to most of my complaints, including a finding that the Abel Wolman building did not have 9-1-1 telephone service. She is a bad supervisor, and she was fired. (I am noting the same vacation-time abandonment patterns at MTA now that MTA's officers need to justify the horrible ADA compliance that somehow promoted itself out of DPW into certain MTA Mobility rides, where I caught MTA stealing social media information from my postings to make creepy references in the vehicle in an attempt to get me to act into their treason. Bart Plano, Joyce Tarrant, Holly Arnold.)

    I didn't really need the moment of silence at DPW, perhaps, even though it was mandated as needing to be there by the union (led by Antionette Ryan-Johnson), which has broken entertainment system and auto in all directions on the west coast and elsewhere, but seeing how the system tried to beat and break me down for ignorance's purposes made it worth my while to re-interpret the letter from DPW stating that I had been "terminated" (T. Pointer). Not a chance. Not gonna happen. Did you know someone's wasting laser printer toner on these documents? Baltimore is an old art town, and it's not respected because it's not an old art town when you opt for giving us art instead of what we asked the government for. Duh. Stop letting media arts run you, and please opt to knock-out companies such as Google and Apple which most people in technology have always known were there to give you the dummy solution to information systems. What a bad internet.

    Maybe try to document yourself above-and-beyond as a person of reason someday, if you haven't already. As far as all the ham-baked movie references, which still do have their place and suitable monetization, in the Kubrick set, the actor that played the character of Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell is still alive. Maybe he'll find a way to write about public housing some day. Wherever it is..

    Update (12/15/2023): The application form and waitlist on the web was in fact an application that led to the preliminary application and other associated HUD paperwork at an actual office. I selected that I need assistance with the application process, and that I also need help understanding or using the Public Housing program because of my disability. I submitted the HABC disability verification forms to a doctor so they can also give their opinion on what accommodations the City should provide to me in housing, however I did submit Social Security paperwork to HABC that confirms that I have a disability. I'm still waiting to hear back from HABC or HUD about how to understand the Public Housing program, including Section 8, and the non-elderly disabled housing accommodation waiting list I signed up for in 2021 which I'm still waiting on. There is a disinformation and dissonance war happening on the World Wide Web, where low-income people are confused with all the terms and options that go into gaining more income (money), which is usually a real solution to real housing troubles. Believe it or not, you may understand housing waitlists better by rigging a calendar upside-down and playing Mario Bros than reading anything from HUD or the Housing Authority. Time to cut down on that super-healthy EBT spending and see if the grocery stores are hiring..

    "UNIversity X 1971": Did Stanley Kubrick or his fictional Dr. Alcot read his signage?

    November 25, 2023 at 4:14 A.M. Eastern Time

    In the previous write-up, I said the iconic Richard Stallman red shirt had been found in the aforementioned movie 'A Clockwork Orange'. If you're a completist, my apologies, but you know how these things can be in old movies when you find them sometimes. Aside from references to UNIX and perhaps computer science, I hadn't noticed that the art system was being used to place an uppercase letter 'F' near the lowercased letters 'rms' to spell the word 'farms' on the left-hand side of the picture. You might also notice that the shape of the rail on the stairway matches art from a popular Nintendo video game software title, which is considered to be a title that shipped opposite of the 'Metro-I.D.' title I'd registered complaints about months ago. Visual indications from a game title by id Software named 'Quake' was noticed in a scene where the movie's Alex character has to find help after a police assault.

    If nothing else, it's noteworthy that if we have a vague idea of the area of a problem, that we then have plenty to do, as if by magic, after we've finished being run through a movie presentation. Perhaps even moreso than a vague audio presentation. It may be this level of interest, and not necessarily overwrought reference-making, that allowed the staffing accessibilities that led people into the real-life roles that they today occupy. Or maybe it's the C.I.A., which is there to make sure you have all the movies and situations that James Bond wants to watch, if only he could log on.

    Most people with enough preparation to be a critic of the signage (hopefully you're in this group) would know how not to panic when faced with a word system failure such as Mr. Kubrick has rigged. Seemingly, maybe, for my initials to find with the descending 'Demonstration' that's being noted. Although, we are such a privileged society today that we often do not think of the many people who cannot read, and who deserve the freedom to not be assaulted by what I can only call stacked imagery flaunting a bunch of letters, not words. In autism, this could be percieved as stimulus overload – we do have to put up with a lot. Well..

    The signage is very good in layout, giving space accommodations to the actors to make sure they're not blocking any lettering, and the staging is excellent. The 'mic-rose-oft' reference on the desk (or the cot) is just as curious as the red-colored book located near the telephone, which perhaps is a writeup by a concerned writer of the era about the sign behind the actors. The hint here is to expect something amazing (or maze-worthy) somewhere in a Stanley Kubrick movie, but the technology depicted probably used to be just a person on a bed in ages past. Such as today. We don't often need to go our of our way to notice things like this in movies, or upon signage, and that's usually good for our health.

    Did you notice the letter 'Z' missing on the signage from above the receptionist's head? If you were to play into counting from A to Z to see if they missed any letters? They do have a wrist-watch showing at the desk, so it may hint at the inability to source a clock for the scene, for some reason.. There's also some interesting signage with a missing letter in what was almost a two-way hallway in the doors behind them. Maybe hinting at .gz, or the gzip format (initialed in sentence as Gzip). Would you trust expensive compression that didn't have access to a decompressor or at least some really good source code?

    I'd said at some point that game company Nintendo was depicted in Stanley Kubrick's movie adaptation of 'A Clockwork Orange'. Sure enough, I went back to do some comparison, and I found that until Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata's death, the company had hired in names, faces, and thus executive personalities that are well-represented 'alternates' from motion pictures, both in production and in the actual productions themselves. So here's a bit more Digital Rights WAN-age-meant to consider..

  • The movies are a secluded, pay-your-way marshalling point for certain cliques of society to be conditioned into expecting what to expect, while everyone else differs or fails into the next phase of a local society, optionally led by the movie-watchers. Whoever they are.
  • The news isn't far behind, but consider coverage of movies in news, and consider how movies depict news of news that happens within them. This is sometimes the same honeypot as the signage failure.
  • The games are thus what we are left with when the movies lose their attractiveness and their threats (often simultaneous and inextricable). That's my view of that; it may differ from yours.

    I'm not quite keen on explaining the lineage of war and the continuing lack of peace in many societies that led to the bombing of Japan and the up-ranking of Nintendo – the name hinting at the company not really owing you anything. Until you have a meta-dissertation of all the minutae of that (including the "ouch" of the 'owing') to make sure the Japanese guy who's running the business can be respected, just understand that there are successful deconstructions of Dr. Alcot's employer's signage from 1971, he probably had to sign a contract to start working as an actor after the movie was over (not that movie; the previous one), he may have chosen his suit color to match or clash with the red signage, and he probably had an access card or identification badge somewhere on his person. I'm sure there was at least one Dr. Alcot fan club. If I had to go in as a writer for just a minute, I'd like to try that to explain something:

    Dr. Alcot
     "Good morning. Do you have an order of committal?"

    Chief Officer Barnes
     "Uh.. That is not a necessity with the prisoner in such confines, sir!"

    Dr. Alcot
     "Oh, .. well.. Officer, do you see that nick on the floor over there? Shaped like a playing card?"

    Chief Officer Barnes
     "A playing .. a.. .. Do you suggest that we take the prisoner away, sir?!"

    Dr. Alcot
     "Hm.. Just a moment, please, I'll telephone to find an answer.."

    Did Dr. Alcot read his signage? (Did Nintendo ever owe you anything?)

    Hong Kong's Jumbo Kingdom (1976-2022) — rest in peace

    November 25, 2023 at 9:29 A.M. Eastern Time

  • M/FLRA - Jumbo Kingdom (Wikipedia) – "The Jumbo Kingdom was established in October 1976 by Stanley Ho after more than HK$30 million were spent to design and build it."
  • M/FLRA.N - Map view of Jumbo Kingdom provided at an installation of MediaWiki – [[Category:Tourist attractions in Hong Kong]], [[Category:2022 disestablishments in Hong Kong]]
  • N/TPRA - Stanley Ho Hung-sun 何鴻燊 – businessman, participant in a family of thirteen children, conjugation vs subjugation decision noted at what is claimed to be sinicization, b.1921-d.2020

  • K/SEHK - Hong Kong Stock Exchange – founded 2/3/1891 and 2/21/1914, "Agricultural Bank of China: $1,641.43"
  • K/INHX - Hang Seng index – free-floating-adjusted market-cap-weighted index, was started 11/24/1969
  • K/VNEA - Dow Jones Industrial Average – information available, stored at a familiar stock market placed into New York City, index recovery probable

  • ANCL - GAN-check, self-assert: Sat 25 Nov 2023 10:04:07 AM EST

    UNIversity X 1971: Dr. Richard Stallman has been found to be lower-cased by the motion picture game, and you and I are also victims.

    November 23, 2023 at 3:33 P.M. Eastern Time

    (Disclaimer: Halfway through writing this, I put this paragraph here. Maybe if you were an actor, you'd need to know, first, to keep too many distractions away from whatever your first gut feeling as a human is. On the other side of whatever problem is being depicted here is a motion picture industry with hundreds of years of professional lineage to get a rise out of people, because that's what they wanted. As I've said elsewhere, most of the world is a really nice front that sometimes is made to scare money out of you so you purchase too much, which leads to more frustrated customers and a worse public product. Here we are. So now that we've dropped into the debugger, and since everything on the Internet seems free enough to borrow now, always remember to limit your exposure to too many problems at the same time. The problems are already solved and have been there for a very long time, and too many people are now trapped in everyday app pattern-tests which are failing them towards the center point of non-expression, thus devaluing their original lifestyle choices. I hope you're going to be a good documentation person for whatever you want to express some day. People do have a right to locate themselves outside of the 'tall sciences' of locked frameworks or structures.)

    I've set out to find any interesting first-level coincidences in motion pictures today, and since Thanksgiving is on the calendar, I thought I'd watch 'A Clockwork Orange', as orange is a color that's represented in the typical color palette of that holiday. Not surprisingly, the movie starts with a red backdrop to make you think about how the film negative would deteriorate, perhaps.

    I'm going to go with that as the explanation, because it seems many things in entertainment have been troublesome since the DVD CCA sued a bunch of Slashdot commenters around the turn of the century because we mirrored DVD decryption code. That code was said to be necessary to have for us to watch legally-purchased movie industry DVDs using the Linux operating system. I saw it not as piracy, but as my guaranteeing access to the content on the disc in an immediate necessity (which turned out in hindsight to be me planning for a crisis situation in every column).

    The movie industry lost in their lawsuit and went silent for many years until hitting, in mode at the news system, via industry titan Apple, which raided journalists for their pickup of a lost prototype iPhone 4 in California. (In hindsight, this was a hidden set-up so people such as myself who produce software in this realm would be evaluated, hasseled, and judged on the non-industry side of the software mobility problem, with arts as the cross-boundary tie method.)

    I was expressing as a designer back in 2011 (that's a valid year, believe it or not), while prototyping my personal successor to the Palm Pilot (now INITUI). Having already spoken as a critic of Apple's then-recent iPhone suicides in China, I e-mailed Eben Moglen of the SFLC hoping to talk about GPL licensing. Receiving no e-mail response from Mr. Moglen, I found that he started to back FreedomBox, a Debian-based Linux distribution which undercut my choice of OpenWRT on Linksys – a wonderful platform to learn about how to provide for the mobile web browser economy of that day.

    I soon found that I was placed into this evolving problem network as a hospital reverser because of my mother – her death in 1984 after her open heart surgery broke my academic life in grade school. After my father's death in 2009, I bought a MacBook Pro and a CDMA iPhone 4 so I could start to reliably use and criticize the products of Apple, as that was when the company was still mostly liked by the media. Steve Jobs, a holdover from me continuously not paying his company since 1978, claimed via marketing to have a Mac OS that made Unix a necessity to learn. I hadn't left Windows, Linux, BSD, or the Worldwide-Web, but patronage as a customer was said to be how we could change the course of those somewhat-overpriced products and the societal systems that they affected – the MacBook being very open at the time. I registered my proximity networking startup Colon Three as a real business in Delaware, and paid Apple in full for iPod and iPhone development software, including XCode and one year of Apple development system software updates. I also enrolled as a Safari (WebKit) platform devleoper. (It's noteworthy that Apple does not hire and proves to cancel entire product lineups when you rank up in virtual college theory versus real money need: my most recent job application to Apple immediately canceled the iPod hardware lineup. Since OpenAI is the latest game system for industry to use to break down the college to steal everyone's output, Apple Vision Pro – a competitor to my headmounted Nintendo DS Linux concept that led to INITUI and many other designers' more closed concepts – has been fast-tracked to launch again. My entry point to this fight is that my name is embedded in the branding system of 2013's Google Glass and 2004's Nintendo D-S. I was also a licensed developer with advantage on Nintendo 3DS. I was and still am at the maximum intersection potential of these products' dispatches.)

    A year after Apple's tangential hospital scare sent my way in 2011 (it pays in reverse to knock it out of the park trolling Steve Jobs' money), I found that the Raspberry Pi filled the OpenWRT space that was in my life. I was obviously in no mood to use a computer from 2011 through 2015 due to abuses placed upon me by the State-sponsored Obamacare industry. I'm just going to say it, because I care about you also: You're all losing somehow because the open players are being thrown around a virtual gain wreck with enough distraction guesswork to keep them away from necessary victories. Today that's the standard for everyone with a cellular phone because of broken notification systems and vomit-themed color systems.

    If you think this is all too much of a guess, you'd be wrong if you weren't right. I don't know what you are, but be prepared to be wrong. Aaron Swartz was chased to suicide in 2013 after he was found to be mirroring academic journals, and there are overlapping interest fields that make me concerned for that man's fate. As if we were unfamiliar with each other and had the same class. External to that, my goal as someone who was asked to moderate 4chan was to prevent on-site trouble and promote reasonable interaction without being invasive, and I did have to prevent suicides due to the troublemakers. This likely qualified me immediately to run and route the MedStar problems I experienced to be able to rank up and break the Johns Hopkins 'Zayed' problems that eventually blew out DPW in 2016-2017. Not even thinking yet that my D.R.W. initials were in someone's selector code.

    I moderated 4chan until the Apple's virtual hospital-backed wrecking ball of 2011 arrived, whereupon the set-up seems – after much introspection and evaluation of the gating policies of the various stages of that problem – that someone somewhere wanted to pressurize and break the site's silence code that disallowed but not prevented us from saying we were moderators. If only someone had introduced me to Aaron.

    Is the problem set a myth? Or are we in problems? — You're in interpretation. Same here. I keep my high-tech website this easy and accessible for a reason – one amongst many. Perhaps annoying.
    The prevailing guess here is if we have stable bounds-checking, we can stay calm while partitioning what seems like life's requested triage of countless lined-up rumors away from our main problems:

  • did we eat food?
  • are we sleeping well?
  • are we showering well?
  • are we being victimized in a vulnerable population again?
  • are we paying the bills?
  • important: are we being talked down to, and/or are we being dumbed down to submissively forget things by the computer graphics and music that we needed to ingest?
  • more important: do friends and family have our current expressions, as well as us having theirs? (keeping up appearances 1999, or 'networking 101')

    My allegation is that we have an existing framework of grown-up understanding that may already be working, if we're careful, to help us with these middle-ground problems, and it could be that UNIX cast as the virtual "UNIversity X" that I've been tracking for several years now could be a good guide for some. It's everything you've ever brought into a college that never existed until you noticed it, perhaps. DVD is a fine on-ramp to movie and motion criticism, and I'm sure you know how to outrank some local arts majors somehow. If you know how to do filing, you're probably already on UNIversity X's non-existent student list, if only you could find a way to, you know, make it real without making it real. (It's an explainer for that old prospector set-up of the Coca-Cola machine, without the popcorn or movies, being ignored at the local school while all the unwed mothers start to show up without access rights or documentation to the control system or the compiler, but maybe a lot of good grades in health or science classes. Boundary's there, you know you don't ask, but you know the system is being run stupid somehow with bad documentation and really unlocalized manual pages. Do you inflate your ego and ignore the problem by logging on to another venture, or do you hope you can pull a victory system through the patchwork of failed networking constructs? I can't answer this for you. Also, Coca-Cola has some fake water to sell you.)

    DVD was said to be the last copy of a movie you'd have to purchase because of how physically solid the format is. Following the DVD format, the DRM-loaded HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc have failed to topple the DVD format, and microchip technology (hello, Stanley Kubrick!) seems to have taken over. As I mentioned Dr. Stallman, whose initials are R.M.S., I would like to note that he always seems to provide a noteworthy, funny, and freewheeling attitude often by expressing low-grade mischief in the fields that he's well-known in. It is a very valid motion industry that he casts outwards into our interpretive lives for us to reconstitute as our considerations of need and fulfillment in those fields. Including data processing intersecting into text or script editing. That's an easy thing to fall back on maybe, if we knew there wasn't judgment. The internet has been wrecked to bend to the Apple ego system in-play stealing all the credits while Google is actively assaulting and stealing from peoples' kids, exactly as Steve Jobs without the money alleged, and I have to therefore down-mode both into opening up until that system crashes and/or restarts proper. Not buffering OpenAI as middleware that rapes mobile users across their career and home boundaries to imitate them into losing to OpenAI's licensors in court.

    So what caused me to write this today? I've seen my color system flaunted in some interesting places, which does give me contextual awareness for certain criteria in-mode (we'll give some talks about these topics later), so it was with a bit of a groan that I noticed Dr. Stallman's traditional red shirt color and his lowercase initials in Mr. Kubrick's 1971 hooligan drama, which I've already tied on a lightweight debug track to virtual constructs of Google and Apple design system clashes. As my initials are somehow nearby in the movie company's proprietary signage, I'll note that I have made technical drawings that I cannot show you due to exploitation of persons who have autism. My only external qualification in the drawing field is that my grandfather drew architecture, and yes, I am very accomplished. Keep in mind, however, that Google errantly tried to derail the information economy by illegally claiming to be the alphabet so it could get your kids interested in unaccountable free YouTube movies and thought-breaking graphics in mobile. I wrote this today so I don't need to draw.

    We're not here to judge Mr. Stallman, I hope. Judge the entertainment system instead. I'm considering that the GNU System has showed up in all the right places for many years to keep people smart and flexible in certain ways.

    However, external to news system, on the topic of the way different DVD and movie system, which seems to be very litigious and also sexually provocative on terms of business-as-usual without discussion or criticism: if you encountered signage in a movie that's this well-regarded, that's this darned confusing, with the only hooks into the error system being a screenwriter, an unknown signmaker, a symbol and graphics set with Latin characters, a motion picture team, an international rating system, and an unknown dollar and ego amount balancing it all, surely resulting in some people being stalled at a critical juncture of life or paying twice or more to watch the movie again at an expensive theater machine, wouldn't you be concerned? It helps to note style system failures, and it does not reflect well on the media that they hold everyone underwater on rumors and speculation about this old game being somehow anti-religious. This specific crossword find doesn't say much, until you consider the 'anything industry' wanted me surprised to find Unix and computer science, possibly to purchase Unix at many millions of dollars of investment, now just pennies on a network.

    I hope this makes less mysterious the preoccupations of repetition that cause some of the greatest successes and failures in a design analyst's life. Whoever you are, you probably deserve more friends your way, the same as I deserve more friends my way, the same as others deserve more friends their way. Even if all you have in common is a few artistic crossword puzzles and colour pairs. Happy bird day.

    (Note: The length of this page may have me spending time to place it into a multi-page layout. Or not. Thank you for your patience while I try this several ways off-line.)

    Internet links about Unix – sometimes pronounced 'you-nicks' or 'uniques'

      Preamble:
      The fuzzy hard-links below are compatible with my first-level VEN-check protocol. It stores and recovers from the file and is a known area.
      There is a boundary check system applied that is not yet codified or versioned because it is successful.
      The links shown here are are fuzzy access keywords for network resources, not definitions of who or what is being mentioned.
      I do not move keywords out of 'check' into other systems as the keywords are local-system-proprietary to this type of document.
      This is an active human-made keyword reference system with no-run in computer for reasons said; I am running 'check' via myself.
      One goal is to down-mode HTML links: they are keyword networks with unacceptable mode-shifts and design failures. They should deconstruct into confidence metadata in stasis.
      Searching for real terms should be placing users in contextual place visually: they shall arrive with real relevant information, not esoteric design system advertisements such as links or keywords.
      [drw 20231123] VEN/TET.8300

  • N/DMR - Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie – a primary developer of the UNIX system, of age 82, deceased aged 70, earned an award
  • N/KLT - Kenneth Lane Thompson – edited early text editors including Unix, provided a public game system under his name, earned an award, worked at Google
  • V/BTLA - Malcolm Douglas McIlroy – suggested pipelines in software for Unix, developed utilities named with shorthand, thus perhaps rewarded by looking like the guy from Apple Computers
  • V/BWKN - Brian Wilson Kernighan – further standardized the "C" programming language by providing documentation, name familiarity, may have been in a computer user group

  • V/TRE - Richard Matthew Stallman – GNU System pioneer, GNU project Emacs editor, company critic, best wishes
  • N/LATO - Linus Benedict Torvalds – Linux developer

  • CWO/A.RE - Roger Ebert – 1972 – May or may not be a review of a motion picture depicting the development of an entertainment-focused operating environment using a unique language and multimedia
  • A Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer’s Manual, 1971-1986 - M. Douglas McIlroy – "Accompanying commentary recounts some of the needs, events, and individual contributions that shaped this evolution."
  • University of Maryland at College Park - This is where Unix would have been taught to paid and graded students incorrectly when I wasn't older.
  • Johns Hopkins University - This university may have had to increase its tuition due to the Unix standards compliance wars. Most of its students today graduate into reputable recordkeeping fields.
  • Nintendo Co. Ltd. - Post-war Japanese computer maker that did not fashion keyboards for its United States users. It is lineage-placed as the result of the signage and testing facility shown in the movie.
  • DVNA - GAN-check, self-assert: Thu 23 Nov 2023 07:23:33 PM EST

    Busy after that governor's airport problem

    December 2, 2021 at 9 P.M. Eastern Time (updated 11/22/2023)



    Title: "Douglas Winslow - That Baltimore Project.mp4"
    Run time: 9 minutes, 12 seconds
    Broadcast date: April 28, 2019 (Censored by Google YouTube)

    Keeping Multics for another day: The money was bankrupted into CBS

    November 21, 2023 at 4:00 A.M. Eastern Time

    As I've talked about with friends, I've been working on starting an entertainment-based operating system using language arts and relatable references as both a file system and a dynamic linker to bring people into a better understanding of interoperability in modern society for the person with autism. To this date, it's resulted in major corporate decisions and billions of U.S. dollars of serious (non-silly) money moving inside the internet economy. It's my view that you should be able to be confident with your own decision-making using what you have to work with and what you want to bring to a situation that you deem vital to express yourself in, and you should feel comfortable being yourself. Being a virtual professor doesn't pay the bills, though, even after the Metroid namedrop, and neither does spotty authorship (you can blame Amazon's compensation numbers for that), so please be patient while I figure out how to turn a profit in the internet economy. I think you'll be better off, as will I, if I can figure it out. (Confidence underpins the economy.)

    Aside from that, while I'd like to go into more detail about what corporate media services have placed into our lives as both entertainment and operating systems, I'm coming to terms with the earning potential and the necessities of the CBS economy I described related to Unix. Now, don't get me wrong: ABC and "Still The One" (Linux) is still the leader here in productivity, but there's no money in it because everyone expects you to work for free – thus nobody wants to fix the problems that Unix and BSD started and that Linux made worse by bankrupting the hardware manufacturers into bankrupting other countries into hardware manufacturing. Know this: if you see a computer or a cellular telephone anywhere today, the hardware is made by a tied bankrupt loss-leader. Thus! .. There is good money in software since there is ultimately no support in computer hardware. (Let's assume Baltimore City is bankrupt, which hasn't been disproven: where did the money go?)

    The CBS economy seems to support a lot of boring educational programming disguised as sitcoms with well-defined functions, a well-funded library of routines, and really well made header files for the time (1980s), so I'm going to start going through some commercials to see what reputable firms are still hiring. They're on ABC too, but as I said, there's no money in that walk-up. Why be distracted? Note: If you said bring PBS into it, please buy and wear a wristwatch of the era and turn off the television to calculate how to pay for the watch (it's a co-processor) and its political burden. It's not about time, it's about money.

    Convenience businesses are one of the current on-line economies in my understanding of what's expected in interaction modes with the modern American executor, also known as the citizen. Television is an alright shim console for now, as a programmer, but be aware that you should probably be looking for real products if you want to gain employment the base way (college, office, etc.) and not the home way. As for businesses, I know where to apply for work and I know my comfort zone. All of those problems you heard of are an intricate set-up to get you to hire me and pay me, because I'm the money that's on record as showing up and not failing. Please don't ruin ability communities by falling through, and good luck.

     $
     # 
    

    World's second-fastest and therefore not slowest workaround to needing the FreeBSD installer

    November 16, 2023 at 12:00 P.M. Eastern Time

    Berkeley System Design. Let's get one thing straight, first of all.

    from the /department of
    douglas winslow's
    "not betting on baseball and winning"
    the book that makes world

    release date estimate: 2024 or later

    FreeBSD is a really well-designed operating system hidden behind a historically silly-looking logo. Starting in 1993, FreeBSD represented the new and newer generations of legacy BSD Unix design patterns and philosophies reaching back to early 1978. In this long-lasting example, (at least in theory) we'll keep things in check by bringing up a minimal FreeBSD installation on a Linux-originated EXT file system, so you can maintain your FreeBSD disk from inside your Linux installation. You can think of this as a guided tour preparation for a full-experience installation of the system. Sure, EXT-fs isn't UFS, but I hope to eventually get you past the stage of disinterest in file systems by showing how interoperability helps and diversity counts when managing a Unix-based workload. Yes: both of these file system choices are valid, usable, and well-respected.

    Developer note: While FreeBSD installer doesn't support installing onto EXT, this is an example that shows how to install FreeBSD onto an EXT file system, specifically EXT2, most commonly found earliest in Linux at Torvalds. I have tested this with EXT2, EXT3, and EXT4 via the ext2fs file system driver in FreeBSD. There is a software bug in FreeBSD where the kernel unmounting a root-device-mounted EXT file system at shutdown does not give an error-free completion, so I've added some lines to this example to show how to sync to disk, halt, and then, external to QEMU, do a file system check of the off-line disk using e2fsck in Linux. FreeBSD will start single-user and refuse to mount root with write access if the file system is starting unchecked, which is why this is an unexpected interoperability challenge that exists for you. Linux has the file system check tool that FreeBSD lacks by default, FreeBSD has the UFS mkfs tool that Linux lacks by default, and I now have an EXT-fs superblock reader I wrote in PHP. I'll update this article with new information as necessary. Note, please, also that my example here bypasses the default installer of FreeBSD because of wider system design concerns in interop, as well as disability stimulus concerns as I previously demonstrated in another article using User-Mode Linux. I also consider avoiding the installer to be more honest as to how Unix came packaged for earlier computers.

    Unlike Linux's preoccupied penguin mascot, the point of FreeBSD's fire-and-brimstone or poke-and-peek 'daemon' brand is to signal to users, outsiders, and marketers to just let the computer professionals on the administrator team handle things. Whatever is in that computer, the BSD administrator usually has a standard tool to handle it, unlike the varied 'maybe-in-Linux' method of succeeding. Shouldn't that make you curious, then, as to what BSD people have been up to with all that college funding since that very well-respected initial effort at the University of California Berkeley? With such a track record of success past the logo set-up, would any politician be seen supporting BSD? (At Apple Computers, FreeBSD drives parts of Mac OS X and the iPhone; your politican was Mr. Steven Paul Jobs: someone who was a learned Unix administrator.) FreeBSD is a 'Unix-alike' with way too much evolution past BSD, yet way too honest standards-adherence to ignore. In competition with the funny drawing of a gnu from Dr. Richard Stallman's GNU free software firm, a cartoon apple from Apple Inc., and a hidden granularity challenge from Microsoft, and everything else that made it onto the internet, the BSD mascot is a concerning signal that the artists and funnymen that raised themselves during the most well-regarded years of MAD Magazine somehow tagged the front of this college-boy software effort to make sure it stayed outside the AT&T telephone company problem-and-solution factory from where the Unix operating system once arrived.

    With college as a success-based debt holder itself (much like most things in computing) some might say the implication that you need an operating system to complement real life is rather oppressive. Understand that these systems exist as heavy-stack typist-productive solutions. They intend to teach you how to be productive in-place using the Latin alphabet — a standard, in QWERTY, is how this was usually taught, as the electronic keyboard was taking shape and standardizing off of the previous typewriter and teleprinter — all so you could have greater successes outside whatever hardware the phone industry accidently sold you this time. That said, a famous photograph Linus Torvalds provided of himself drinking beer in college simply told me what to avoid and manage around if I was going to take up using a Unix-alike operating system at home, at a time when Microsoft was tossing DOS users into a somehow complicated and uncertain graphical Windows future.

    Many say you're more likely to find FreeBSD in usage within a datacenter than anywhere else, and that observation is a really good set-up for an understanding of where virtualization is taking computing outside of the electronics economy. The everyday telephone user of today is more likely to be datacenter-productive from day one. Why? Computer science succeeded in breaking the nerds out of the datacenter in college so they could have more options, and nerds have mingled. It's brought nerd down a bit, but it's definitely made the computer a necessity to save industries' money, and thus via the evolving telephone terminal's challenges, almost everyone became a pre-nerd in training. Uh oh. This is not easy to note: the telephone company set you up with a lot of really good management tools off-line of their systems so you can fit in with all the interop-based professionalism economies that usually outrank product and science in any line. It may not be welcome to understand you're somehow running their operating system concept inside-out in a virtual container externalised as yourself in a virtual (digital) society, perhaps, because you've been letting it show you graphics instead of what I'd surprisingly call 'business'. Simply, most operating systems are still, today, fashioned to be familiar to other real-life systems. But only if you fit in..

    As I'm busy with some interviews for my employment this month, to hopefully get the United States government benefits system less representative of my total earnings — still maintaining my goals of progressing into education and affordable housing — I hope you can understand my long-time interest in demystifying some of the great computer mysteries that are usually based around naming and brand theory that do feed back into many data processing systems that support productivity.

    There needs to be a second source of funding and work ethic in my life other than Social Security and Maryland's EBT food stamp program. On October 14th, the Housing Authority of Baltimore City notified almost 30,000 family representatives, myself included, that they are accepting our applications to public housing in what they describe to be a random queue, so if I encounter another eviction crisis I think I'm guaranteed to have preference to skip the line and be housed at one-third of what I'm paying today as any family vulnerable to homelessness should be able to do immediately — no further shelter stay necessary. This would allow me to educate my way into my career instead of underpaying my current $640 per month rent into a transportation-necessary $100 contingency spending buffer every month as I've been doing since July 4, 2023. As I noted, however, I'd be happy to work my way back into building savings to pay the landlord here instead of sitting around undertasked all day waiting for business to drop the ball. I've never had any problems at working and succeeding in doing so. But games in politics such as the random selection lottery described above are not welcome. It's actively shunting me back into logging more time in Linux instead of having fun and being happier in my own way. I'm 45 years old as of this past weekend, just to let you know. This is how support of people who have autism is happening in 2023. I would have failed key social goals in autism if Unix literacy was not an investment that I made in the era of Microsoft Windows 95, a predecessor system to what's still running in the Baltimore City government. I still have one paid "Intro to College" credit earned from the Community College of Baltimore County, so I wanted to give you a localized look at how freely-available systems for information management are affecting what's inflicted on us, while the people in government responsible for those systems stay mostly silent and preoccupied with failing by educating a dwindling population via difficult news media.

    Keep in mind the complication challenge of products versus people, and how we are expected to use and respect products, and how we are expected to respect and enjoy interacting with people. I'm not a product and neither are you. That's important. Linux and BSD in source code and in product are labors of love from people who are expressing their vision of the present by conforming within the constraints of hardware frameworks from the well-overfunded computer arts industry. They are using the computer as a canvas. The lessons of Linux and its interoperability are proper and still modern to understand in the 21st century. (I'd like to formally write or speak on this topic at some point.)

    From when I purchased Red Hat Linux and FreeBSD discs from Cheapbytes, and then Red Hat Linux in product from Red Hat Software and FreeBSD 2.2.8 in product from Walnut Creek CD-ROM, a quarter of a century of evolution has brought me back to enjoy dealing with the problems and solutions of FreeBSD 13.2: after lots of years of downtime and replacement of their management toolset, it's still a system of well-earned reputation. As I'm a critic of word systems being thrown around in design, and disposable iconography driving the top line in interop, as well as whatever's running Apple back upwards into the ground the stupid way, I'm holding the line on 'old-school versus to-be-determined' in this demonstration. Intel i386 still works as well for me as it did when I brought one in as a 25 MHz 80386 with too few megabytes of memory to start Linux. In that same lineage, Celeron is still a good investment in processing in 2023 for a good reason: complexity and vanity will never ever again beat up the software user without that problem being on record at the politician.

    As for the ever-present trick of hardware being a necessity in the computer field, as inexplicable as the new product designs are in the computer industry, please understand why people ultimately go through these things.

     $ dd if=/dev/zero of=freebsd.fs bs=1 count=0 seek=4G
     $ mke2fs freebsd.fs
     $ tune2fs freebsd.fs -r 0
    
     $ su root
     # mkdir cdrom
     # mount -o ro FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso cdrom
     # mkdir mnt
     # mount freebsd.fs mnt
     # cd mnt
     # tar -xf ../cdrom/usr/freebsd-dist/base.txz
     # tar -xf ../cdrom/usr/freebsd-dist/kernel.txz  (optional)
     # echo "/dev/ada0 / ext2fs rw 0 0" >> ././etc/fstab
     # echo "devmatch_enable=no" >> ././etc/rc.conf
     # echo "hostname=freebsd" >> ././etc/rc.conf
     # cat usr/share/zoneinfo/`date +%Z` > ././etc/localtime
     # cd ..
     # umount mnt
     # umount cdrom
     # exit
    
     $ e2fsck freebsd.fs
    
     $ qemu-system-i386 \
            -drive "file=freebsd.fs,format=raw,media=disk" \
            -drive "file=FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso,media=cdrom" \
            -boot d
    (3)
    OK load boot/kernel/kernel
    OK load boot/kernel/ext2fs.ko
    OK boot -a
    mountroot> ext2fs:/dev/ada0
    
    login: root
    # bsdconfig
    # clear
    # cd /
    # ls
    
    # df -h
    # dmesg | grep memory
    
    # sync
    # init 1  (if kernel installed to disk)
    # sync
    # halt -p
     $ e2fsck freebsd.fs
     $ sync
    

    Note: The seek= option given to dd allows your Linux workstation to defer on allocation of a large file. If you're wondering why you aren't seeing disk space depletion in df, the file will deplete disk space downwards as you use, in this case, the contained file system. If you unlink or delete any file that's mounted on a loop device (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP) in Linux while it's still represented in losetup, then it will deallocate from your disk when the system unattaches the loop device, as I recommended to do in the above example before starting the virtual machine. I have a shell script I wrote to calculate fdisk offset boundaries for losetup to take in as MBR partitions along with /dev/loopXpX symlinks (not BSD labels), but I removed it from this example while I test some edge cases on boundaries, including simplicity and relatability of this presentation – so maybe look for that update to this example later. Thank you for reading.

      * Boot loader notes, or, I need tell you that the CD ROM is your bootstrap:
    • "vfs.root.mountfrom=ext2fs:/dev/ada0"
    • "vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw"
    • "boot"

  • Update (11/19/2023): FreeBSD bug #275147 - ext2fs mounted at the root of the system does not unmount
  • Update (11/20/2023): NetBSD shows that it has a fsck tool available. This should allow you to understand binary and source code interoperability between BSD releases and compatibility with GNU/Linux.

    Self-centric dependency staging in User-Mode Linux

    November 1, 2023 at 3 P.M. Eastern Time

    Want to be productive on a second installation of Linux? Wow, who doesn't!

    User-Mode Linux is a way to configure and compile a standard Linux kernel to run as a process on an existing operating system installation. This is useful for many reasons if you want to learn or debug the kernel (including filesystems and process accounting), or if you just don't want to play with virtual machine software to get your projects accomplished. I came back to UML as a side-hobby on October 24th.

    In this example, I show how to create a small EXT4-fs filesystem image, copy an existing version of the busybox all-in-one binary and its dependencies into the main directory of it (wow!), set up a basic rcS script for init to run, set up directories for the kernel interstitials (dev, proc, sys), and symbolic link any directories (bin, lib, etc) back to CWD (the current working directory). You might have noticed a loop in there that automatically symlinks all the busybox routines into CWD, as well. It's even got the vi editor. It's a busy directory listing, but it works.

    If you're not a fan of placing things self-centric in one place such as this, and instead you'd like the distraction of using mkdir some more to build a directory structure, consider the gains in productivity that come from not having to keep virtualizing new directory contexts in your understanding of CWD on a system-wide level. It may be that certain distraction-dependent mindsets can arise when participating in UNIX file management; that may be due to the default directory management utilities.

    After you're done trying this example, if you have a spare physical media to write your filesystem to, a proper startup kernel, and a boot loader, you should be able to boot a PC as an Linux box with the result. If so, you should configure an MBR (master boot record) upon your media first as a minority of personal computers support Intel-EFI. If you have the proper hardware drivers compiled into your kernel software, you can have Linux find your interfaces (video, keyboard bus, storage, etc.). I'm using defconfig in this provided example for a compile of UML, however, you can also try tinyconfig and others without the UML designation to compile a startup kernel. Keep your .config files saved!

    In some ways, UML may help you understand how really very simple or maybe fun it is to bring up your own Linux system in 2023, where otherwise it's a lot of setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH and hoping you have a binary's dependencies where you expect them to be if you're dealing with clashing installations. Maybe you'll see a productivity boost from this style of working or maybe not. There are some namespace efficiencies I'd like to try as I attempt to grow my particular UML installation. If you're a Linux user, you know there are few other small-form operating systems available today that have the flexibility to work with filesystem data like this. In all honesty, what can I say? If Linux II ever happens, maybe it's time to look back to the "minix" filesystem as the future..

     $ tar -xf linux-6.0.tar.xz
     $ cd linux-6.0/
     $ xz -dc patch-6.1.xz | patch -p1
     $ xz -dc patch-6.2.xz | patch -p1
     $ xz -dc patch-6.3.xz | patch -p1
     $ xz -dc patch-6.4.xz | patch -p1
     $ xz -dc patch-6.5.xz | patch -p1
     $ xz -dc patch-6.6.xz | patch -p1
     $ cd ..
     $ mv linux-6.0/ linux-6.6/
    
     $ cd linux-6.6/
     $ make ARCH=um defconfig
     $ make ARCH=um linux
     $ ./linux
    Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(98,0)
    Aborted
    
     $ mkdir mnt
     $ dd if=/dev/zero of=linux.fs bs=1 count=1 seek=32M
     $ mkfs.ext4 linux.fs
     $ tune2fs linux.fs -U 01234567-9abc-ef01-3456-89abcdef0123
     $ tune2fs linux.fs -L @`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
     $ su root
    
     # mount linux.fs mnt
     # cd mnt
    
     # ln -s . bin
     # cp -p /usr/bin/busybox .
     # ln -s . lib64
     # ln -s . lib
     # ln -s . x86_64-linux-gnu
     # for i in `ldd ./busybox | sed -e "s/[\t ]/\n/g" | grep ^/`; do cp -pv $i .; done
     # for i in `./busybox --list`; do ln -sv busybox $i; done
    
     # mkdir dev proc sys
     # ln -s . etc
     # ln -s . init.d
     # echo "mount dev /dev -t devtmpfs" > rcS
     # echo "mount proc /proc -t proc" >> rcS
     # echo "mount sys /sys -t sysfs" >> rcS
     # echo "echo \"* Hello, world.\"" >> rcS
     # chmod +x rcS
    
     # cd ..
     # umount linux.fs
     # exit
    
     $ ls -l linux linux.fs
    -rwxr-xr-x 2 drw drw 85803496 Nov  1 14:59 linux
    -rw-r--r-- 1 drw drw 33554433 Nov  1 17:36 linux.fs
     $ strip linux
     $ ls -l linux
    -rwxr-xr-x 2 drw drw 6026920 Nov  1 15:52 linux
    
     $ time ./linux ubda=linux.fs
    EXT4-fs (ubda): mounted filesystem 01234567-9abc-ef01-3456-89abcdef0123 ro with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none.
    VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 98:0.
    * Hello, world.
    / # mount / -o remount,rw
    EXT4-fs (ubda): re-mounted 01234567-9abc-ef01-3456-89abcdef0123 r/w. Quota mode: none.
    ext4 filesystem being remounted at / supports timestamps until 2038-01-19 (0x7fffffff)
    / # sync
    / # md5sum httpd
    dc611778e56e0ca9fe9a7e4bcfef5853  httpd
    / # ifconfig lo up
    / # ping -c 1 0
    PING 0 (0.0.0.0): 56 data bytes
    64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.488 ms
    / # uname -a
    Linux (none) 6.6.0 #1 Wed Nov  1 14:58:40 EDT 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux
    / # halt
    The system is going down NOW!
    Requesting system halt
    reboot: System halted
    
     $

  • https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-6.0.tar.xz MD5 (linux-6.0.tar.xz) = d681bd1d62d48049a4874646f6774d92
  • https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/patch-6.6.xz MD5 (patch-6.6.xz) = 3899e4dc6668387dbf33a31eeab17fd8
  • (Linux 6.6 is booting again natively on this Chromebook, but the latest i915 driver still hasn't restored access to change the brightness of its LCD panel backlight.)


     

    October 21, 2023 at 9 P.M. Eastern Time


    Learning around, or beyond, Linux

    October 3, 2023 at 12 P.M. Eastern Time

    Are computer operating systems art? I think maybe so, which is not a good mindset to have when we have serious things to think about. There is a boundary. There are boundaries. We don't want to have to deal with graphics all day if we're keyboard- and alpha-productive, and there is a middle-ground in how much junk to tolerate before reallocating resources to a more important task, either on- or off-line in the overall computing scenario system. Yes, if you have the computer in mind while you're off-line, you're still augmenting your session. That's my current interpretation at Douglas Winslow by way of Douglas Engelbart in NLS. Cumulative success is what I think we're all good at noticing. I've mirrored an interesting text-based operating system kernel called "Linux" from Linus Torvalds below for your simple understanding. It's a lot more complex today than it was when I started using it in the mid-1990s.

    I've noticed elsewhere the lack of an international art system catalog that takes these concerns of complexity and confidence into account. There's reasons for this, likely self-referential when found, so keep in mind that we're not putting our faith in a network of art choices that haven't been unreviewed or untested, but most successes in the memetics of art that make it into the flexible canvas of the lightning-fast video screen (wow!) are going to survive the longest in effect closest at the site of the viewer's perspective, closest to the viewer (the user), and, yes, from the viewer's perspective, closest until otherwise cleared off as a problem, by time or other metric. Put simply, if it's been run in the art system by being published, it's already the user's concern to deal with, and, from their perspective, it can't change until someone arrives to change it. That's the user's mode. But there's always the overarching problem of interrupting what used to be there, which may be seen as an existensial concern. (Hint: the best accessible version of the aforementioned missing art system catalog is always hiding in plain sight somehow.) 💸

    Here's an example. In design, maybe we'd rather use orange than red in interface design in certain stoplight-compatible scenarios in software. But when we start to consider the stigma around flow control versus the task in process, including its effects on the well-being of the user (keeping in mind healthy interaction), and other surrounding circumstances that affect from the art system, via the viewer, inbound toward the user, we'd perhaps rank software as not being the place we'd want to place hazard-bound colors. Therefore, now rather than disrupting a field that deals with hazards, maybe we'd rather use a monochrome display or interface to take the controversy away. Maybe the user was happy with monochrome in their first encounter with software before we even started changing things.. and shouldn't that have us being self-critics of how we've evolved the system? In page-bound and computing implementations of the system, we also have to deal with 2D. That's not an easy thing to express.

    My off-hours schedule is full for the next few weeks while I get up to speed on some differences in various text editing servers such as gedit and emacs. I've been using GNU nano to do most of my text file editing for the past decade, and I'd been using UW pico since I started with Linux. BSD's ee is noteworthy, and so is joe, which I've used since around 1999 for block-shaped selection of text before pico was upgraded. See if you can find out how to do block selection in joe today without exiting the editor. What a mess. To think there used to be a sound penalty to using a lot of these utilities.

    I've got a virtual buffer I'm working on provisionally named vt. It's been under-way since September 24th of 2022, but health setbacks have delayed it twice. You know how the computer can pull you into long hours sometimes. This isn't The Sopranos, but if the computer pulls you anywhere you aren't happy with, be sure to remember Control+C or whatever exit strategy seems to have been placed there to use in a crisis.

    Likewise, I cannot release any software right now on terms that I find acceptable until certain businesses in the State of Maryland begin to honor my requests for employment seriously. Specifically, a reply overture from a local entry-level job provider in higher education suggested that instead of working and being happy in public situations like I've always done, that I should instead get back to working for $0 on the hypertext airport machine that briefly allowed the State to attach my concern to homelessness so it could fail and manipulate the market.

    I visited Boston, home of the Free Software Foundation, via a quality American automobile some years ago to see if the area was more acceptable than Baltimore for my kind of work ethics, but the people I met were just too busy to want to talk. I'm still licensed for driving, much like other automobile enthusiasts, if that matters.

    GNU is a very well protected system in and of itself, but darn if I don't have some buffers to wrangle to get productive again. gedit isn't how I thought I'd have to read kernel Changelogs, is what some might say.. 🛬

    If you notice what I call "art system failures" (or even successes) pulling too much resources from your main thread of living a happy life, I'm sure you know when and how to reallocate your resources. The self-centric state-run art system is here to enforce status quo as soon as possible on the network as a "hit" to make sure there's an irrevocable element of affect or controversy. I think there's a Badfinger song that was rushed out in the proprietary song market of 1969 to make the point. But please think of this in context with popular long-standing protected art systems such as Buddhism which preach an easygoing lifestyle. I wish you happy usage of GNU/Linux on whichever side of that, state or author, that you think you are using at any given time. It's not easy being raised on Commander Data.

  • Linux 1.2.13 (Mirrored directory. The licensing of Linux is GNU GPL v2.)
  • The Matrix (1999) - This isn't Linux, but it is an interesting motion picture about a person who you may think is an actor. We'll talk about that sometimes with our west coast friends and family. Anyone interested in genealogy?
  • Warning: Local terminology does not imply network acceptance, and vice versa. Keywords subject to change.. (and how!)

  • V/PREN - Douglas Winslow on Facebook via Meta
  • V/PROT - Douglas Rice Winslow III at Twitter via X
  • KEN/L - Douglas Winslow via LinkedIn
  • V/KEN - Douglas Winslow via GitHub

  • NLS/A


    Why do downloads exist?

    October 1, 2023 at 9 P.M. Eastern Time

    A long time ago, I decided to take words related to the word 'download' from my word list. If you're familiar with the demonstration of my INITUI staging platform from about 5 years ago (wow!), then at that point maybe it was understood to you that I was attempting some new ways to think of simplifying the filing system. INITUI isn't dead; in fact, I'm keeping with my progress very gradually of getting my own init program running with the Linux kernel and GNU so I can have my best understanding of how to simplify what I want to do with applications. (I'm not very happy with the 'systemd' operating system competing with GRUB and GNU/Linux for mindshare while Wayland is trying to break what I've learned about the protocol and interoperability of X11.)

    The way I saw it in simplifying my word vocabulary was this: I don't want to be in a situation where I'm under any more stress than what I expect, in what I consider to be perhaps opcode-based on some level, so maybe since I have to scroll down and up and virtually orient myself in a document, I should concentrate on 'request an upload' and 'upload' as transfer terms. This is important, since we will be talking about some neat ways to interact with the same old internetworking we all know and love at some far-off stage.

    I think maybe more than one overarching conflict has been caused where people were influenced by the terms 'uploading' and 'downloading' in competition with each other for mindshare. Just a guess: at least one person has been concieved of and born because of the words 'upload' and 'download'. What a BBS.

    Speaking as a guy who has had to go from 'A:\>' to putting up with his initials in the 'ls' command's 'drw-rw-rw-' as well as my 'drw' user name and 'drw' group, in GNU/Linux, of all things: if you're interested in ListX or INITUI, please understand that making sure that I can produce my best software products ever includes a lot of observation of the state of the world my products are to be released into. That takes a lot of time. There's a societal interrupt that I have to honor if what I'm doing is going to be accepted on the world stage, it's also in my name, so I have to force myself to learn best-practices of localization and cultural interoperability so others outside of autism can understand what I want to express. I'd probably like to ask questions of the many developers who wrote the software that helped me survive the past seven years someday, if only I could make it understandable for the next person that needs a solution for that. E-mail is a heck of a beast. Maybe I'll start by changing my local hostname back to 'linux'..

    As a vote of confidence in GNU/Linux, that is, The GNU System and the Linux kernel: I don't know how else I would have been able to achieve happiness with my computing setup since 1995, especially in light of health concerns I've noted elsewhere since 2011. I tend to think of this as an ability trek with a lot of virtual room. Meditation is not too bad. And what a recovery reallocating the carbohydrates. If I'm going to bring something into your workflow, I need to make sure it's as unobtrusive as possible and maybe not even necessary if it can teach and succeed on complementing some basic everyday routines the proper way.

    I'm not quite a fan of C, as you maybe understand, so thanks for waiting and listening.

    Linux drw 6.1.55 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Sep 23 10:44:14 EDT 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux

    "Society Trust: Solving the Television Art Maze that Cancelled the American Male"

    September 9, 2023 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time

    I'm happy to announce that I've been working on writing a new book to build on the successes of my well-reviewed works in linguistic dynamics previewed on this web site and on the Twitter network.

    If you're someone who depends on fairness in media, my current preview of this work is that I'm confident I can have a good two- or three-day read for you.

    Pricing, publisher, and release date are yet to be announced.


    Compiling the Linux Kernel

    September 5, 2023 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time

    If you've ever wondered how to compile your own Linux kernel to impress your computer and its hardware, then wonder no more. However, you may still want to compile the Linux kernel. Such is the problem of Linux now that it's corporate and acceptable to be complicated, as we talked about in the post before this one. It's obviously not a fun whim-based system anymore. That's unexpected.

    It's not like it was in 1995, when potential users had to upgrade what was probably a hobby-based computer setup into an i386-compatible computer to be able to run Linux, only to need to wait hours to see if their new kernel would compile, link, and boot, if the boot loader could even find the kernel, if the memory timing or another hardware concern didn't crash the build. All you wanted to do was get audio support working. What a mess. When the distribution crowd started to become more popular than the trial-run crowd (the developers), it was a sign that there was professional backing, which gave the hobbyist volunteer path even more credibility. Time versus money versus education it was, for sure.

    When you get tired of McAuthority throwing you a bone at school, with all that entry-level data entry work trapezing you back into entering the Microsoft ecosystem (maybe because the MacAuthority was out for the day), shuffle on home past all the advertising, say "aw shucks", and note the fact: in a world of McAuthority and MacAuthority, at least there's McDonald's: the place you knew public school was hinting at all along as where to spend or maybe even earn your paycheck, if only computers weren't at home to make you stay in and wonder why 8.3 filenames and expensive resource forks made money instead of free software. And here you thought McAuthority was from McDonald's. The restaurant, not the person. Or persons. (About here is where Mr. Linux Torvalds, who is probably Linus pretending to be a college student with a need to make an interface work, shows up and makes bank. McAuthority.)

    Linux. As confusing and really standardatious as it is, it could be that it only was able to conquer the operating system landscape because UNIX™ has long file names and you need to eat something made by whoever aren't the old-school grocery store stalwarts running Microsoft and Apple Computers. Also it's expensive somehow (which investors like) resulting in multiple purchases to justify to yourself how cool you are.

    You can try to install any kernel onto your running system, but it's not necessary if it's already functioning properly. There's no guarantee that your system will reload properly for any reason, including if you use a different kernel or boot loader, or if your custom configuration is different from what's already running, or if there are updated compiler or library complexities which are developer statements that prohibit a functional result, as I've pointed out in other places. You should have a best interoperability result with the same kernel version and the configuration that created the kernel you are currently running. Note that most Linux distributions have proprietary kernels because they do not prompt the user for source code installation; you could stay within the same major version and patchlevel (e.g. Linux 5.10.0-25 at Debian could suggest Linux 5.10.194 from kernel.org).

     $ export PS1="\n "               # you can try this; it's a professionally-designed prompt. 'pwd' for the current directory path.
     $ export PS1="\[\e];\w\a\]\n "  # separately, this works for certain extended xterms that hold information in the window manager.
     $ uname -a
    Linux linux 6.1.51 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Sep  4 03:55:55 EDT 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux
    
     $ tar -xf linux-6.1.51.tar.xz
     $ ls -ld linux*
    drwxr-xr-x 26 drw drw 4096 Sep  2 03:16 linux-6.1.51
     $ cd linux-6.1.51
     $ mkdir ../mrkernel
     $ make O=../mrkernel/ oldconfig
    make[1]: Entering directory '/home/drw/proj/src/mrkernel'
      GEN     Makefile
      HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
      HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
      HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/confdata.o
      HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/expr.o
      LEX     scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.c
      YACC    scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.[ch]
      HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.o
      HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/menu.o
      HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.o
      HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/preprocess.o
      HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/symbol.o
      HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/util.o
      HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
    #
    # using defaults found in /boot/config-6.1.51
    #
    #
    # configuration written to .config
    #
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/drw/proj/src/mrkernel'
     $ cd ../mrkernel/
     $ ls -l .config
    -rw-r--r-- 1 drw drw 156835 Sep  5 17:17 .config
     $ wc .config
      5770  17995 156835 .config
     $ make
     $ ls -l arch/x86/boot/bzImage
    -rw-r--r-- 1 drw drw 8273952 Sep  5 19:30 arch/x86/boot/bzImage
     $ file arch/x86/boot/bzImage
    arch/x86/boot/bzImage: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version
    	6.1.51 (drw@linux) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Sep  5 19:29:37 EDT
    	2023, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x7, Normal VGA
     $ su root
     # make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1
     # make install
     # time sync
     # reboot
    

    Noise won and signal lost: Google is either a gaming company or a gambling company.

    September 4, 2023 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time

    The evolving problem of the Linux community in 2020. I haven't talked much about what I enjoy doing, because the Internet has mostly turned out to be a shallow rig meant to get you to overexpress or overconsume so you can be run around the side by McAuthority figures that turn into plausible A.I. automates whenever it's profitable for the MITM that's juicing you. So, I thought I'd be a little more modern or current and bring some things in my expression forward into 2021 by starting to talk about my HP Chromebook.

    Its product name is both HP Snappy and HP Alan. I was curious to see how a real Linux kernel performed on the Chromebook, not the proprietary one that ships with it, and knowing that the Celeron has always been the best microprocessor value in making a statement, I spent 1/5th of my November 2021 pay check on that laptop and a USB drive. I set this up as my Debian machine, as I still have Ubuntu running on my ThinkPad. I knew how Debian was differentiating from Ubuntu, and I thought they deserved to have their drivers verified as working on whatever the Chromebook hardware would provide, but as I outline below it hasn't lived up to the driver support that a non-Google PC has. So I'm glad my decision to be cautious by not recommending this hardware yet seems to be wise. This computer has proven to be a not-too-bad author's machine in terms of keyboarding, but obviously never under Chrome O.S. It's survived a lengthy outdoor usage, two hospital stays, a 9-month shelter stay, and a year of light transit with everyday usage.

    Following are some unfortunate drawbacks to supporting free software on a fully-paid-for $100 payments-centric laptop while Chromebooks and Google itself, not me, are an industry controversy because of who they undercut. So here's a disclaimer: HP, Google, and Intel are the same company until you complain about them. That binary blob may as well be known as 'silicon'. .. Hmm..

  • Sound configuration proprietary; November 2021 - This Chromebook PC was built with a sound rights management chipset that is mostly incompatible with Linux while being compatible only with the pre-installed pre-refund Google Chrome O.S. Since there's no Linux community these days without a broken search engine and a bunch of complicated mis-architected web pages in the middle to distract people and piss them off, my first mitigation was to avoid the HP/Google game of "keep reporting something to our marketing team on Twitter so we can pretend like we didn't hear you so you look weak to everyone who you were stupid to speak up around". My next mitigation was to invest in a USB sound card attachment. Finally, about a year later, I changed my kernel configuration, and that repaired part of the problem in what seems to be the most popular fix for this insulting sound architecture. In hindsight, this chipset was only priced in and placed where it was at the time of purchase only to have me complain about simplicities being overarchitected and stupid numbering systems being an existing game. The SoundBlaster code from Linux 1.2 was much easier to understand. (fault: linux da7219 sof-audio-pci-intel-apl bxt_da7219_mx98357a sof-bxtda7219max)
  • Linux 6.3 backlight hit; May 2023 - The "Intel Corporation I915" device driver was broken in an official Linux kernel update to the point it would kernel panic instead of allow changing the brightness of the Chromebook's backlight. I guess you could say somebody qualified a hit of this driver in to make a point about working in the merry-land game system of 9-to-5. Wink-dows. I started avoiding repairing and reporting bugs in Linux software at this point due to what I know about who is using pseudo-software (drivers) to hurt (a.k.a. politic) people in this complex way. Hint: This computer still has the oppressive stock Chromebook firmware with Google Chrome O.S. still pre-installed. First mitigation was to stay on an earlier kernel, as complex as that would seem. (fault: linux-6.0 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_uncore.c __unclaimed_reg_debug)
  • Linux 6.5 visual hit; August 2023 - After my July post about theming the GNOME shell and going on strike, the official "Intel Corporation I915" device driver was further sabotaged to now not allow the video card to start up, resulting in a kernel panic. First mitigation is to again avoid reporting the bug and now to blacklist the i915 module and use a 'vga=' command line to allow the now-opinionated GRUB operating system to start Linux. This tries to use the hardware's historical VBE VESA BIOS extensions and not a wound proprietary chip stack full of ham and egotistical coding science majors. (fault: linux-6.5 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c drm_crtc_vblank_helper_get_vblank_timestamp_internal)
  • USB boot lockdown; August 2023 - After a Google Chrome O.S. firmware update happened, this Chromebook PC is now, under known conditions of usage, locking down USB ports from being able to be used to boot Linux until Google Chrome O.S. is started instead using Control-D. After this, the USB ports reappear upon power-off to the BIOS. I keep an empty no-name Google account on this Chromebook so Google doesn't know who I am because keeping secrets is important. It builds character. That's what I say today to get Google in trouble tomorrow since they're still stealing people's web sites in the midst of a writers' strike.
  • USB flash drive blocking in specific; September 2023 - I have Debian 12 installed on a USB flash device that was able to boot on this PC before a Google Chrome O.S. firmware update. This USB flash device now does not qualify past the Chromebook home/boot screen into the legacy-region BIOS for booting. It now only works on this device after the boot phase. The USB device is from Micro Center and it blinks the right-hand side of the drive to illuminate the casing, so since someone at Google wants to play alphabet bingo with a non-gamer in September, I think it's about time for public elections of Google's company officers to start and for the government to enforce the elections to ensure liability when this monopolist company does not represent its customers and shareholders. Stop complicating PC users to death by complicating the PC to death, and stop putting everyone at risk with bad computing. I decided to withdraw from funding Debian until they counter the platform threats Google has provided.
  • If you think you're going to fix i915, be careful: way back in Linux 2.6, a moron made definition labels in the i915 module source code that mention a chicken. I remember the code coming in back then, and yes, it's still in Linux 6.0 now with lots of associated definitions and stupid function names. Now that Chromebooks seem to have pre-purchased Intel 915 graphics chipsets for everyone, I'm holding Intel Corporation as being blameworthy for the conduct of placing obscenities in source code to gain free controversies (text editor oil). If you push off the computer drama for a while, you know what's going on: another attempt to show how untouchable mainline developers are, especially in the ivory tower of corporate.

    Separate from the Linux problems perhaps, I made a stimulating post about media stimulus upon this web site in 2021 that may provide information about how to handle industry code-naming (gaming) – in this case, possibly related to certain Chromebook platform manufacturers' antagonistic naming lineups. Guess the industry shouldn't have let Google bankrupt everyone to the bottom by locking all the money in California.. Fake crypto-chickens being hidden in a forced-ship proprietary/free interlock mess? What a network!

    Note: Since juicing was mentioned, in the instance of i915, you may think the juice is not loose, it is proprietary and therefore bad. However, it seems the looseness or the perception as such of the juice is inverted due to users' expectations of ease of use. The chipset not working means the juice is loose and probably away doing bad things, and when the chipset is working the juice is in a status of proprietary since computers need to work, and work equals money, and therefore money is good. The juice may, actually, after all this time, prove to be people and not more O.J. Simpson references or other sly abstraction complications.

    Obviously it's Linux's fault.

    But if you don't like me, consider how stupid and devalued my post will make my user account seem in ten years when Google and Alan are out of business — whoever they were.. (bxt_dmc_ver1_07.bin) *


    FreeBSD no-sight boot on HP Snappy Chromebook PC

    September 4, 2023 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time

     3
     vbe on
     vbe set 0x144
     set hint.sdhci_pci.0.disabled=1
     boot

    FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE releng/13.2-n254617-525ecfdad597 GENERIC amd64
    FreeBSD clang version 14.0.5 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-1 4.0.5-0-gc12386ae247c)
    VT(vbefb): resolution 1024x768
    real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB)
    vgapci0: port 0x1000-0x103f mem 0xc0000000-0xc0ffffff,0xb0000000-0xbfffffff at device 2.0 on pci0
    vgapci0: Boot video device
    lo0: link state changed to UP
    $


    Do we as Americans back off from the successes we've achieved?

    August 21, 2023 at 6 A.M. Eastern Time



    from the pages, and then some, of
    Douglas Winslow's "Not Betting on Baseball and Winning"
    yet another book in an unrelated digitally-perfect system of infinite distractions

    Of concern recently is artificial intelligence and the industries that back it. I am a critic of the Andy Rubin and Astro Teller system at Google that have culminated in disposable junk bins of graphics and stimuli being placed into the family, where we have no choice but to be depressed or challenge the flawed personalities that were put at the company in the first place to cause us to act up. The average corporate way has been shut down to terms of "don't expect to win, expect to spend, and expect no phone number to contact us". We'll be talking more about the slow end of Google later, but suffice it to say that bad design decisions have placed Android at a crucial intersection of human behavioral concern, in a year where it's reported that incidents against the self are increasing, in an ego-inflated ownership market built on stolen media and eager learners. Newer Android devices are depressing users. The fix is just an implausible software update away, locked behind every battery-re-selling reason of corporate greed in hardware.

    How would you handle a face-double of an acquaintance being shown to you in an application meant to improve the source code of the telephones you are using? We don't have the source code blueprints of Android in Google; they are locked companies and products. The only way the company has provided to express things to change products in the modern era is convoluted dialog boxes that don't allow a user to express beyond answering a cryptic question that may or may not relate to product improvement. I would suggest that you consider the gravity of the screenshot provided below in this post, as behavioral testing is a complex topic. I should express that you are not constrained by the systems that claim to support you, as a 'system' itself seems to be defined as an enslaved many into a flexible means.

    Rather, I would option to say that you are restricted, not constrained, by the systems that support you. Not many Americans have noticed the card game called "alphabet" that has been raised into their lives by way of the typewriter industry and its necessity for sales. Consider it slowly: Yes, the alphabet in mechanics is a card game implement. C.

    The memories we have of friends and family are the true victory over the alphabet game, and we should be proud that we are the generation that finally put the "keyboard", a hidden politician typecasting system, up for criticism. I am very cautiously happy to know that the people I've backed are successes. The company must return the rights of the American family or the government shouldn't be paid any more. (Note: Google is also a virtual government.)

    The Linux operating system is what we, the public, meant to bring you, after-hours, not in a company, with understandings about the restrictive and cost-oppressive computer and the industry that built it that were not possible for novices or experts to learn with previous operating systems.

    If Google hadn't stolen Linux to bootstrap on the back of the public good into its present-day servicable bad affair, then Microsoft would've been the thief. Start off by telling Google to get its own logo colors. Then, tell Microsoft to stop copying Google software strategies. People shouldn't need to feel ill just because a company cannot choose a human-compatible color palette for a telephone required by the State.

    My role in Linux is not very well understood: I'm a reason for myself to show up and do something useful. Please wait.

  • Screenshot_20190804-011838.png (PNG screen grab of Android 8.1 Google Crowdsourcing software, 8/4/2019, 605,173 bytes*)


    X Company tracks down O's bird hat guy

    July 29, 2023 at 2 P.M. Eastern Time

    Did you like the Twitter bird logo? Something in me thinks that the bird logo had an actual bird backing it somewhere. The good news for you is that if you like birds as many do, you can wear something that shows birds are cool dudes. For example, here's a photograph of me wearing my birds hat, which is a hat from the Baltimore Orioles baseball team.

    While 'bird' is not the word as Sethward MacFarlane might sell you, the word in fact is that birds like eating and flying around. Also birdhouses are a thing. There aren't many birds on very hot days when there's a lot of heat, so keep that in mind.

    I can't talk any more about the obvious concern that I've caught Hollywood operating in 'gay' business dealings mode, that is, they think they have something to keep me out of the industry I probably would've founded in another lifetime, which is where the DVD industry's failed intellectual property lawsuit that gave me heart problems in 2000 comes into the conversation. That's troubling given the fact that I've never yet been a person who files lawsuits to get results. It does help to not have heart attacks, correct?

    If you know the development timeline I adhere to for the ListX system (it's not related to Twitter or the internet), you know I always have too much to deal with. This is an old project from the early 2000s that branched off in my direction from something a friend and I very simply called 'the X Project', and it still remains relevant in the current day.

    I'm still waiting for the non-elderly disabled public housing voucher advantage promised by Brandon Scott's Baltimore City Government in December of 2021, because all of my money is going to pay my rent bill. So, if you find yourself in a non-responsive government or corporate maze, you've probably insulted the ego of an elected representative, corporate executive, or lawyer by being correct. Try to keep yourself on record and stay level-headed and rational, because you are probably out of most troubles scot-free once the system tries to rig near you.

    Of concern is the current economy. Obviously Bidenomics is supposed to be the slow and crippling solution to day work, because he's biding his time.. Do you remember just going to a place of employment and getting hired on the spot? Don't let my name fool you: I'm the quickest guy I know, and they have broken my name in this scenario to make it look like I am a gamer who needs to wait to win. (I am not a gamer, of course. We'll be providing a talk about the data mining economy and the problems of government intervention when Google narrows down a few more things in its virtual Clockwork Orange gang's corporate agenda.. Jeez.. you should've called, Stanley..)

    I've been wearing my Pathfinders for Autism tassel as shown in the picture since around the time I got it on April 8, 2023 at an Autism job fair at Coppin State University. I rigged it to look somewhat like the uniforms from the Star Trek original series movies; I think it looks really nice. As for the lanyard, you may be interested to know that I've had that since around 2018. It used to hold an Oriole Park at Camden Yards warehouse insert that I fashioned from an advertising brochure. That's back before I could afford the hat. So I can use an I.D. card holder for other things? Hmmm.. Seemed to be a good forwards-thinking purchase at the time. I wore this throughout the B.W.I. Airport area during my homelessness in 2017 and 2018, it was photographed on me in an errant altercation started by the MTA Police, and it's still going strong at thousands of days of use. It's turned around in this picture because I don't want to burden you by showing my identification. (Yes, that is a supported mode of usage, as many Hopkins and Medstar employees proved to me before 2019.)

    As for my lack of the haircut, sometimes I just have to live it up. As marketing and branding is one of my armchair specialties, I'd appreciate any input people have as to how I should handle being somehow re-branded as X Corporation when birds need things that aren't web sites. Why not go meet some birds and have a good day? (Note: Please don't consider me as being affiliated with or associated with the stylized X Corporation branding system currently running at Twitter. I had no input into the Twitter web site's decision-making, and there is no contract that would permit any association of concern or cause at the level being demonstrated. I cannot comment on the branding system in use there at this time.)

    I'm not sure "tweet" should be a trademark. I've found in naming that it's best to always refer to a bird name with the actual word "bird" after it, as a honorific for the bird. For example: 'oriole bird', 'chicken bird', 'cardinal bird'. Have a day that's nice.


    Theming the Debian Linux GNOME shell

    July 28, 2023 at 12 P.M. Eastern Time

    This is my first try fixing the problems of Debian 12's default desktop. I'm on a contribution strike until the American system stops acting up in bad software architectures in order to get me to alter my overall workflow to support software problematics and speeches. Demand they drop the Debian confuser policy that keeps most maintainers away. There's no excuse for bloat and the lack of support for old computers.

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  • http://drwiii.org/css-auth/ - I successfully defended my point of view during the trial by making a web page.

  • If only someone would hire a struggling author, said the struggling baseball team's fan

    July 1, 2023 at 9 P.M. Eastern Time



    from the at-least-its-not-a-computes-gazette-reference department of
    Douglas Winslow's
    "Not Betting on Baseball and Winning"
    the book that predicted the simpsons again
    release date estimate: 2023 or later

    I've survived ten months here at home without missing a rent payment. While I'm still in recovery from the health problems of December 2022, I figured I'd apply to some jobs again so I can gain income and start to spend up into the economy instead of sitting at home all day as a consumer of media content feeling proud of the fact I survived America's lack of housing in 2021. (Say, what ever happened to Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and H.U.D.?)

    I detected that I was being ran as an author more than a few years ago (that's not a good feeling), in that things in real life wouldn't happen in my favor unless I posted to social networks. So since I was able to guide most of those problems of many types being presented by many people's situations to a servicable juncture, most of my works are on hiatus while the government figures out how to stop pandering to media so they can provide to me the housing and health benefits that my parents and I paid into in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. There's also that writers' strike.

    As I started writing formally while I was homeless in BWI Airport in 2018, I'm pretty sure there is a good time at some point to be a paid author. When I'm happy with how I can set up my own life with what I've earned so I don't always have to hook into a government benefit system to stay healthy, you'll probably have a lot better idea of the scope of what I'd like to accomplish in the fields I'm represented in. As for what the internet has to offer today, I think a lot of people, perhaps not a majority, are in agreement with me that we've gotten to the point that developers are just juggling sand on the network to stay in credits. A friend of mine from IRC years ago was very instrumental in the one-two mentality that I follow sometimes where I like to have an off-line victory waiting and ready for every on-line success; that is not always easy to see.

    What I write in this particular title is usually fortified fiction, in that you will probably have a few happy familiar things to consider after reading. So consider that if we've talked on IRC or elsewhere, then the interesting network I'm bringing up in these texts is probably something that could lead to a greater success at some point in the past, present, or future — keeping in mind that re-evaluation often lifts more boats than running a problem into the ground until video games happen. My mother was a substitute teacher, so what I can say is that I'm trying to express that boundary systems and a respect for boundaries are important near an unbounded and overbranded methodology system such as software arts.

    I'd like to note to you today that I have not used artificial intelligence to produce anything, nor have I reviewed or used automated language generation beyond the old trick of picking a random word from the dictionary manually. Should it pay to be human? I think so. But I also think people need a reasonable non-computer framework, somewhat trending science fiction, to avoid the failures that I have been shown around my situation. As I mentioned, the current act break is what I've called to set up some future successes now that I have a genuine idea of how to start planning for the internet users that won't be here for another decade. That's why me earning beyond Social Security funds paying my rent is a necessity. Time to wait until work gets back to work so I can maybe get back to work, you know?

    P.S.: Look for the Star Trek: The Next Generation technical manual. No hurry, yeah? We're going to do a deep dive on that at some point for an important reason.


    Working through the hassle of Debian Linux 12

    June 25, 2023 at 9 A.M. Eastern Time

    Here's my review of Debian Linux 12 — software-named "bookworm":

    GNOME has lost all of its physical accessibility advantages and looks awful. If you rely on the GNOME desktop found in Debian 11, then do not upgrade to Debian Linux 12.

    As a result, since there is now no easy method for the new user to contribute to GNU, and since I'm busy working in equal time on my own health, I will withhold the useful changes I've made to the Debian experience on my Chromebook until a true competitor to Ubuntu again becomes available.

    As my Chromebook purchase was a temporary testing ground meant to judge the Linux hardware community during a government crisis, and as Linux 6 dropped support for the HP Snappy backlight leaving it uncomfortably blinding, I will elect to not convert my ThinkPad workstation to Debian from its current support system of Windows and Ubuntu. As for other initiatives in Linux, including writing, I'm still suspending those until I receieve fair treatment in rent assistance and hiring in Baltimore City.

    Since the support system that brought me into Linux via the network in the 1990s is wrecked to the point of letting Debian be run by corporate whims these days without the arguments that made the software better, I will further not be supporting any expansion or initiative of the Free Software Foundation until they figure out why my trip to Boston was more healthy than my trip to Debian.

    (My overhead costs to serve this home page to you are $60 U.S. dollars per year, not including the domain name and electricity costs, and a lot of miscellaneous contemplation.)


    Working through the hassle of the Nintendo "METROID" namedrop

    May 10, 2023 at 10 P.M. Eastern Time

    Intrigue, thy name is Nintendo. Ah, yes. Nintendo: The name you expect. In fact, the name moms and dads looked almost exclusively for in the 1980s. To almost monopolistic ends.

    So when I noticed my name fit into the password request screen in Metroid (1986) for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and the password actually logged on to a working session of the game, it became a bit more important to start cross-checking media to see if there were any other oddities in other software that I own from that company. The internet has been good about overcoming the limitations of the Nintendo hardware and just focusing on raw information, which isn't my purpose since I'm a hardware determiner and collector.

    A friend of mine is the owner of a PlayChoice-10 arcade machine, which has a novel e-reader for game manual information integrated into a separate display or session of the computer. The limited e-reader worked whether or not you put coins into the arcade machine's coin slots. I have an owner's manual for his arcade cabinet that he was kind enough to give to me.

    These screengrabs were changed from the virtual machine's default 'Dual Under-Over' monitor setup, so the main game play is not shown here. This is important for reasons we'll talk about. I'll update this article later with more information, but suffice it to say my Nintendo cross-checking has now encompassed half-a-dozen computer game platforms, hundreds of software titles, and gigabytes of external publicly-available multimedia.

    Why am I utilizable as a password in their software? There are no explanations yet other than I may have been noteworthy as a struggling student from a family that lost a parent in 1984. I visited the Nintendo Company's neighborhood in 2007 as an excuse to take a ride on the Japan Rail Shinkansen train. Try not to worry. This specific game (hiding wartime grudges in versatile text) seems to be as old as my grade school social studies textbooks.

    In the context of everything else that has transpired around me in recent years, possibly by way of others who knew of the Metroid (read: Metro I.D., or mass transit) password in the 1980s and beyond, it is relevant that the corporation must be accountable in compensation for victims of name piracy. I have not used this password incident to try and be hired by the company in question.

    To make my claim clearly understandable: It is my understanding that my given name is coded as a password into a 1986 Japanese video game that refers to the term "Metro I.D.". The D.C. Metro is a nearby mass transit system that our local bus system links its CharmCard fare card to; it is the technology provider for the Maryland system. I did not know of this Metroid password's existence at the time of the State of Maryland causing me to relinquish my family vehicle and housing arrangements. I was then forced to depend on the State's increasingly antagonistic mass-transit system from 2017 to present-day 2023. The buses have been affixed with video camera technology, said to be for safety reasons, and the Maryland MTA, to this day, is stalling on legal and logistics grounds while claiming that proprietary multimedia software prevents them from sending me an important video of the bus staff abusing me during Coronavirus travel restrictions. (Winslow versus Fermaint). Additionally, the Metroid software with my name as the password starts the player on top of a large letter 'H', which may hint at the hospital and homelessness problems that are now resolving in my favor. Do not allow the Governor to force you to work for free. There is increasing support for my case among elected representatives following the voters' discontinuation of Larry Hogan's governorship, and the continuing support of the United States federal government as well as several key local representatives, and my friends and family must be noted in what appears to be a double-present threat from the programming industry; in hardware and in software, in state and in local vicinity, and in volunteer efforts versus financed necessities, that is seemingly meant to place me at a stable or unstable intersection of most of my professional career's demonstratable abilities.

    I could claim ownership of Metroid (1986) and its source code given the lack of response to my questions dispatched via Nintendo's preferred expressed route of internet social media. This should trouble you as an intellectual property rights holder, as it also troubles me, which is why the system is allowing that company to wedge me against you in this fashion. I am, however, still waiting for a response from Nintendo of America, as maybe you should be. Maybe your name was also led into a problem when you were a novice computer user. (Note that there are no valid contracts that I have signed with Nintendo or its subsidiaries, and I do have full legal rights, including those afforded by my American citizenship.)

    If you want to keep accurate an accurate score, this overall problem started in 1999 when the DVD CCA decrypter lawsuit hit many people days after I purchased a Sony VAIO laptop with Microsoft Windows co-installed. The problem then got backdated to start somewhere between 1999 and 1986 or earlier. This is why I'm not going to let Apple win either. You deserve more honesty from the template of the 'game company', and I'm not going to let games break me out of information systems on that side of the network until someone other than me is held accountable for the real-life concerns that have come upon me from something that may have been intended as either a friendly or foul gesture from an artist looking for a place to post their software.



    Why are e-books such a broken field? Big computer companies have stopped paying you.

    January 4, 2023 at 11 A.M. Eastern Time

    I'm still recovering my daily routine after some recent health setbacks. Obviously the sedentary life of an author includes a lot of laziness and computer use, unless you're living in one of those Richie Rich states like New York or California. So, given that diabetes is a recent diagnosis in my life, you can provably (probably) expect me diverting effort and time towards more smart and short writeups on the Facebook web site. I will make those available here when I have enough time to do so. As for my authorship, let me outline why I've kept writing off the public docket lately.

    In September 2018, I found that a software update from Apple emptied the e-book download caches on my iPhone and iPad. Since I keep my e-book purchases downloaded onto my device, not on the server, I found that one of the books I purchased was rigged at Apple to not re-download. Ever since that incident, including the misfortunes of calling into Apple's technical support hotline for answers, and a job application that seems to have ultimately canceled the iPod line, it made me divert my expression and acquisition strategy to one of "necessarily openable", or, on the author side: I really need to make sure that what I put into my personal expression system comes back out of it. Right?

    Ending my dependency on digital purchases wasn't an easy thing to do at the time, and as Google was made aware of the troubles I expressed with the Apple system, their later discontinuation of everyone's paid Google Play Music libraries so that only YouTube would benefit proved to me that the DRM system that sued me in 1999 failed. The pirates beat the field by running YouTube on-the-clock as administrators, and the company was complacent revaluing everything of interest to "evaluation versus devaluation". (I need to point out here that these two companies have been pirating my off-the-clock time by staging software problems to me to report. The Apple error is one of the earliest attempts I'd noted of this, and it's why I suspended their platform.)

    It's my opinion that you should be able to buy my first book today, but I won't release it yet because I'm not as confident in paper or digital delivery as I once was. It does exist in finished form. But I see it as the reverse situation of the Apple and Google trials that put me into support-and-report hell until I stopped giving their user interface accurate information.

    There is a very vociferous debate in authorship communities today about rights management while copyright itself as a protection mechanism hasn't evolved (necessarily, maybe) in what seems like an leveled 'excerpt-is-enough' playing field, where there used to be many interesting ways for us as prototypers to work in the favor of the reader.

    I am confident in you as a reader if you are. I had been placing previews of my writings on the microblog system Twitter, of which I was a paid customer, but since it hasn't delivered on its networking promise, being more like some only-Hollywood-wins vertical integration stack with no answers from the moneymakers to users' questions, I've decided to return to authoring on my internet web site while Twitter decides how to keep itself in operation.

    Please understand that while these technical difficulties place me now into the fifth year of this title being on my shelf, I'm instead going to prioritize looking for work to support my life situation. You should consider the collections that you deem vital to your life, as well as the dependencies that lead them to being where you expect them when you need them.

    While I don't expose my methods of contemplation, it does require that I use my immense and complicated time-shifted library of what I've been through in life, as well as a very large effort to work through my disability of autism to perform the task that I do in authorship. It's no 44 billion dollar boondoggle factory of lethargy like Twitter was, but to me it's just as lively and hope-filled. It's never unimportant.


    BitTorrent metafile verifier

    September 11, 2022 at 11 P.M. Eastern Time

    Ever been stuck in a BitTorrent session that would never end? Of course not..

    If you want to know how the BitTorrent metafile format worked, you can find any number of tutorials online. I'm glad I saved my metafiles, because after writing this tool I was reminded that there are a few BitTorrent sessions that did not complete.

    There are easier ways to write this, I'm sure. Plans include a boundary check that allows for patching the BitTorrent session files with known good data. I will probably revisit my Famicom Disk System file system reader tool before I work on adding that.

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  • Linux Laptop Battery Meter

    September 6, 2022 at 6 P.M. Eastern Time

    I've been working on a command-line battery meter for my laptop for the past few days, since the one built into Debian's GNOME desktop is so inaccessible and inaccurate. Github was down earlier, so I decided to just release this code here on my web site.

    I just added some nutritional information to this while writing this post, because, of course, some people want to know their own run-time in relation to the computer's run-time. Obviously we don't eat batteries..

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  • No more internet canaries in bully coal mines

    April 6, 2022 at 3 P.M. Eastern Time

    If there were an advance warning system in man's life to stop most of our typical troubles before they started, would you believe the Internet is the culmination of technology's modern answer to this?

    Ever since "the network" was put into our lives, the question has been "why would I want it?" That later matured into the question "why would I need it?" That was likely true of people who thought they needed a question and answer session to justify how life went. Therefore, from that, we could assume that, eventually, the "corporate balance sheet" defined the need into these people's lives for a want of a question and answer on the topic of whether or not we needed a network around us to supplement (reiterate and increment upon) or divert (branch and carry, and return into) the typical human family existence.

    As with most innovations that plan to add a duration to your day with a convenient solution for the minutes spent learning how to use it, the new network (Internet) overlapped and followed the old network (roads). The information superhighway is what they wanted to call Internet to make it more politically-obtainable and friendly. Oops. Understand, perhaps, the politican's eternal necessity for what we know today as Bitcoin, or cryptocurrency (useful memes, slogans, comments, catchphrases), but keep in mind that only a certain subset of politically knowledgable performers will point out this attractive branding-compliant floating roadsign to you.

    That having been said, there is a controversy today about the usage of paid services such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Apple by unwitting participants who are not being afforded earning potential after placing their intellectual property (family artifacts such as photographs and videos, blog postings, etc.) near their person while they are in round-trip transit status on said networks.

    Modern roadways of Internet or regular construction are subject to architectural failures which lead to government problems such as the response to Coronavirus (COVID-19). Architecture, due to its complexity and value, is cryptocurrency. Art expression with no real advantage to the end-user than to get itself funded (such as the H.U.D. resources map) seems to be the gauntlet that government puts in the life of the autistic when we are searching for an easy answer to a life crisis. The new trend of replacing traditional informative World-Wide-Web pages with dumbed down mobile-friendly button-press factories also shows that a counterintelligent move has happened to anger the American population.

    There is fierce criticism of the Internet as it exists today. The failure of politician response has led us to a massive death toll in our community and elsewhere because there were not adequate communications that smart social distancing is more successful at fighting Coronavirus than more decades-old proprietary cryptocurrency with a payout of a question mark with no proven response protocol.

    If you want to succeed at political cryptocurrency posturing, buy a digital watch that helps you keep track of both the time and the date. There is no secret number, and the computer will be very happy to help you understand that from 0 to 9. There are no special number codes that I know of, but some people like to keep track of their friends' birthdays or anniversaries. I like to keep things on a simple "is it Saturday yet?" track. Either you understand the ages-old art project known as the clock and calendar, or someone else understands it for you. If you don't care, then you're a different kind of bird, perhaps. Compare your new computer's seemingly infinite success to your family's success and maybe have a nice day with your valuable investment in looking professional.

    If anyone in autism wants a tip, here it is: I don't often recommend technology to people. You've already got a better timing sense than YouTube does, as do most people who have disabilities, so consider whether or not you want to have and use a wristwatch. Timekeeping is a simple way to understand some of the hard constraints imposed on the "busy" world. The clock and calendar on the wristwatch clues you into the fact that something is changing for somebody, whoever it is, wherever they are, so you can think of it as an invisible balance with a difference that most elements of life are standardized to respect somehow, unlike anything on that multi-trillion dollar Internet. Don't let the watch or anything on the Internet bully you. Your needs as a person outrank the corporation's schedule. So, obviously, don't spend too much: that's key.

    If you need to set the time and date of your watch, be sure to do it at a safe distance from others. Just as a sidenote, this laptop clocked itself at 2188.80 BogoMIPS using the Linux kernel version 5.10.109. Nerd. In other news, I'm probably going to delay rewriting my homepage for a while until I can find a way to show you reliable timing of a few things. Clock drift seems to be something that is unavoidable in anything but the most expensive overengineered or overnetworked clocks, however, I suspect it's nothing for the clock enthusiast community to worry about just yet as long as the clock keeps good time.


    What, me worry?

    February 21, 2022 at 4 P.M. Eastern Time

    First of all, just an update about my health. The rumors of my hospitalization were true. In November and December, I was recovering from an awful health problem. I'd been outside for about seventy days, and when lymph nodes swelled up and diabetic symptoms started to get worse, I decided that the biopsy recommended by a doctor would be a useful thing to consider.

    If you're curious about what happens to you during this type of experience, understand that your role as the patient in a biopsy usually involves remaining very still in the operating room and not moving around much. The affected area is provided temporary numbness via anesthesia, and a biopsy needle with several segments is used to remove lymph node fluid from your body. This could take up to an hour in certain cases, but in my case it lasted about a half-hour. Note: there is typically a clock in an operating room.

    So, the results came back from the laboratory to my doctor in about a week, and the doctor's opinion was that the biopsy result was unremarkable. That's doctor language that says the biopsy showed no sign of cancer.

    Another year, another reason to be a Baltimore Orioles fan.

    Anyway, I've been in a men's shelter recovering from the Maryland State Government's lack of response helping me gain housing assistance during the aforementioned incident. This contact crisis is in line with what happened a year ago when Coronavirus fears closed down all the local government housing authorities. Although there are options in employment, things such as that do take a toll on the body, so I'll endeavor to update this again when convenient.

       


    Busy after that governor's airport problem

    December 2, 2021 at 9 P.M. Eastern Time (updated 11/22/2023)



    Title: "Douglas Winslow - That Baltimore Project.mp4"
    Run time: 9 minutes, 12 seconds
    Broadcast date: April 28, 2019 (Censored by Google YouTube)

    Crock-a-dial done Douglas, or, What happened to Governor Hogan?

    November 20, 2021 at 2 P.M. Eastern Time

    I've been spending my time in Baltimore County for the past 2.5 months trying to prove there is a problem in the security net that is supposed to keep homelessness away from people who have handicaps and disabilities. I am trying to use my Social Security income to prove that there is a management crisis in how local government approaches solving problems for people who have autism.

    After the coronavirus pandemic hit, social services in the State of Maryland and elsewhere underwent a drastic shift:

    As temperatures drop below freezing in this area, the message from the answerless part of the government of the United States of America still seems to be "spend, or wait for us to force you into a situation of spending more". Housing, a human right that will surely be free worldwide at some point in the near or distant future, is something that most take for granted in an expensive-to-understand computerized country such as this.

    In my experience, trying to call Governor Hogan's office since January of 2021 to seek housing help has only resulted in more confusion and no stable housing situation. My only advice right now is to start training your family's current or future governor. If not, then at least call your local politician and make sure you can get an answer.

    Given their popular visibility on the network we are forced to tolerate, the famous politicians that ran for election and won their office have not sufficiently addressed the concerns about confusing non-standard response protocols during a disaster. This doesn't seem to be smart or safe.

    I am attempting to limit myself to jobs that do not require HireVue or a video interview to gain employment. I have concerns about how the ever-expanding computer burden that is placed upon job-seekers is causing disencouragement of the popular incentive to work. If a handshake was good enough for Grandpa, and a paper employment form was good enough for Dad, why are we forcing Junior to get sidetracked into time-sharing with apps and playing social media video games at the same time they're trying to navigate companies' unique hiring websites?

    I mentioned I was looking for some simple paid local employment to support my financial goals of earning beyond S.S.I. income so I can get an apartment or house. As of this post, one employer did not hire, two other employers have expressed interest in an interview, and another employer is awaiting more information. This started with exiting from a motel stay 67 days ago on September 13, 2021. Please be aware that the process of breaking from a seemingly no-gain productivity cycle, one of many different cycles encountered in the past, is sometimes confusing for autistic people who are not being provided sufficient opportunities in structure or schedule.

    Also: To Congressman Kweisi Mfume, thank you for your response e-mail earlier this week to a concern I sent to your office about differing and confusing coronavirus testing situations that I encountered in Baltimore City.


    There you go again: Nintendo 3DS

    September 5, 2021 at 8 P.M. Eastern Time

    It's taken me a while to return to posting. This is Labor Day weekend, and I thought I'd get back into the routine of working: something I haven't been able to do for a while because of physical health and living situation crises.

    Aside from not doing much work for the past year, I was also not playing 3DS games. Because of Maryland M.T.A. rides breaking half of the screens I use to be productive, I need to afford a screen replacement for the 3DS, my Nexus 5, my Raspberry Pi, and my iPhone.

    Now that I found a pretty good diet and repeatable (lack of) exercise routine to avoid a heart attack, the next step is to try to gain some light employment here in the area so I'm not without a place to stay.

    Along with posting an updated website theme, I thought I'd post another video production to my web site as I begin to consolidate my internet presences and prepare to write software for a more formal blog server.

    What would you do if you and your friends went big time into backing colon three as being the next big emoticon, only to find it integrated into the naming and marketing campaign of a mass-market video game machine a few years later? Between that and the emoji cartel taking over the world with proprietary emoticons, it's taken me about a decade to get to the point of researching this branding mystery. At least it's something to do. (Note: if foreign text distracts you, remember my lesson about the obfuscator. Seems it's a actually a diffuser.)

    A hillside as seen from the window of a Shinkansen train southwest-bound for Kyoto in 2007.   A bus ride upon a Japanese bridge in 2007.

    Title: "drwiii-nintendo3ds.mp4"
    Run time: 5 minutes, 59 seconds
    Production dates: 2007, 2011, 2021
    Broadcast date: September 5, 2021


    Book's a brewin' (no it's not, but here's some pages from it)

    September 5, 2021 at 7 P.M. Eastern Time



    some sample pages from
    Douglas Winslow's
    "Not Betting on Baseball and Winning"
    one of the best books ever made recently
    release date estimate: 2022 or later


    What a sweat: Surviving Maryland Housing

    August 28, 2021 at 11 A.M. Eastern Time

    In helping people with autistic disability, it is my goal to document the chain of failings that has been 'holding me underwater' for the past five years, so to speak.

    I am still writing a recap of my experiences during a homeless crisis that the State of Maryland experienced in 2018 and 2019. If you can think of a bird getting knocked out of the sky while flying, you can understand how important it is for me to communicate this. The autistic are not here as your playtoy.



    This is not the dog mentioned above; it is a popular meme photograph called 'Doge', however it reminds me of the Baltimore Orioles logo.


    There are video games. There are also names.

    August 26, 2021 at 3 P.M. Eastern Time

    I am finding some pieces of the tri-force. Learning isn't easy so I went to do a collage.

    I am also noting the presence of the 1986 'Douglas Rice Winslow III' Metroid password at Nintendo, placed after my mother's 1984 death following open heart surgery. It appears to work on all Western releases of that title. I had no knowledge of that password's existence or validity until I found it within the past year when I just filled in my name and started filling in the remaining blank. The lowercase letter at the end of the password seems to note the fact that I was nonverbal around the time of that game's release.


    Calling out the English of the Calendar

    August 20, 2021 at 4 P.M. Eastern Time

    Have you ever wondered why the word "calendar" is so necessary to describe in the English language what the calendar is?

    The word seems to have a monopoly on the thing. Ugh. Did you find the morally bankrupt stimulation phrases 'see a lender' and 'call lender' hidden in the word "calendar"?

    'Harumph, better check the calendar.'
    'Where is my calendar?'
    'Oh yeah, gotta schedule that appointment on your calendar.'
    'Hey, that calendar can come back from where it went to, is what I said, buddy.'

    Some people allow their clock and calendar to run their life. Likewise, people of the cellular era often allow proprietary clocking to ruin their lives with grief and misfortune. For example, have you ever received a push notification or an e-mail from a bill collector that's meant to make you feel, however happy you are at the moment, like you're now "on-call" to the company? It's like it (the logo) is there to remind you of why you should be sad.

    Believe it or not, unwanted notifications comprise most of the unhappiness in a phone user's life these days. Telemarketers didn't stop calling you because you bought a cellphone, they just stand in line at Apple and Google waiting to make your life miserable. You used to keep the office stuff at the office, or on the desk in the den.. right?

    How did corporate manage to get a company pager in your hands, able to beep and buzz and prod you at any hour of the day or night, with you being the one paying for cellular or wi-fi access to the network that takes your job somewhere else unless you play along as Pavlov's dogs?

    As someone who remained on the P.C. and didn't switch to a mobile device, it's a very important struggle to note. The computer does know how to obey the user if it's set up correctly, but newer systems produced by Microsoft and Apple are sliding away from running on the user's comfort standard. (Note: Google has not yet produced a system, and they have never had a user comfort standard for their services.)

    Because most operating system companies are moving to a graphics and gaming system style of experience, I'm going to take a look back and let you know how the earlier generation was brought up on maze imprinting.




    World #16 of Super Mario Brothers has a curious maze that encourages players to plan for success on the lowest path.
    If the player chooses the middle or top path, they encounter more obstacles and an endless loop that allows retrying the maze.

    In the presence of a calendar, however, the puzzle encourages spenders in contextual evaluation to save money until the end of the month:

    Orioles Baseball schedule looks like Super Mario maze


     

    Other combined mechanics of gameplay, while seemingly random, prime players for affecting upcoming events.
    There are many two-block apparatus in this game that invite speculation about weekends.
    (Search for the sky vine to find a paid three-day-weekend, if you're lucky.)




    Someone is enjoying their Sunday.


    The Path of Plight: A decision-making meme

    May 6, 2021 at 12 P.M. Eastern Time

    Choosing a path in life isn't easy, so it's helpful to have a conceptual framework of understanding of some of the easiest choices one has to make.

    If you're a fan of Star Trek and/or The Legend of Zelda, you might enjoy this post. In 1982, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was shipped to theaters in North America and elsewhere. In 1986, Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda on diskette in Japan. You may have noticed the 'tri-force' item shown in Zelda used as signage iconography earlier in Star Trek II.

    We had a V.H.S. tape player in the early 1980s, and I watched Star Trek II intently as a child, trying to understand the plot and any of the character's expressions the best I could. (Note: My video presentation linked in this post may give away the ending of this movie. This motion picture does require parental guidance.)

    In the modern era, I've spent a few years doing a deep analysis of a curious old videotape of the rare 1990s Nintendo satellite system version of Zelda that someone uploaded to YouTube in 2014. In the user's playthrough, there was a game design mystery which had baffled me. Near the conclusion of the broadcast, there was a puzzle chime that sounded on the game's F.M. audio program. It was not indicative of the user's progress, however the user reacted and persisted as if the software had indicated a solved puzzle. (My autism sense started tingling is not what I'd say.)

    For reference, the Nintendo Satellaview setup had a data channel, as well as an F.M. audio channel. The SNES (Super Famicom) game machine overlapped the F.M. audio with the mostly-silent game program. The player's progress could not affect the F.M. audio channel, and the software was synchronized to keep pace with the F.M. audio channel using a known start time and successive timestamp cues.

    When faced with the power of creation, would you choose war or peace?
    Here's a three-year-old work in progress: The Path of Plight.


    Navigating more of the Maryland Maze: Affordable Housing

    February 11, 2021 at 11 A.M. Eastern Time

    Just a quick update. Because of a sudden move at the end of January, I'm again trying to find an affordable living arrangement. Governor Larry Hogan signed an order preventing evictions during the Coronavirus pandemic, yet this did not stop my landlord from turning off heating, water, and electricity at the house I was renting a room at. Airbnb found in my favor and partially processed a refund.

    To provide some background: I was billed out of my family's home in Baltimore City starting in 2016-2017. After moving and then renting in the county, I was left without options when the home became abusive and a Baltimore County court officer wouldn't let me with my diabetic supplies and water into my eviction hearing.

    As that Baltimore County courthouse was inaccessible, I went homeless with my belongings into B.W.I. Airport near Christmas of 2018. Following more than one month of being a customer of that airport, I was improperly charged on February 18, 2019 (Presidents' Day) with "using BWI Airport in lieu of a hotel/motel", and I was issued a notice to appear in Anne Arundel County court. I asked for and received a public defender so I could defend my point-of-view, however the State of Maryland defense lost this case because their attorney did not appear and the trial did not happen. The state court record hides this result behind a suspicious-sounding Latin term "nolle prosequi", which amounts to "prosecution failed".

    (Note: I was provided with an option to expunge my record of the B.W.I. case and I declined the request. After the incident, it is my note that subsequent one-hour visits over the course of the next year showed much less homeless people. It may indicate that problems are being solved around the autistic while not directly benefitting those with autism who find the problems. I do not have access to whatever MdTA's police statistics would be. Disclaimer: I was a job applicant at some of B.W.I. Airport's employers during the period of homelessness stated, and I have a clean record.)

    I was placed into the State of Maryland's assisted living housing, and the provider did not staff medical professionals to help with health troubles I was experiencing. I had to wait about a year there after applying for disability benefits, until approval for Social Security in May of 2020 empowered me to manage my own housing situation as I always have done.

    Now that I am attempting to get housing via the State and the City, it is disheartening to see how the Maryland State and Baltimore City governments are still, today, in 2021, failing to address the problems facing those facing homelessness. Coronavirus protocol is no excuse for Housing Authorities to close. As for my experience with H.U.D. under superstar surgeon Ben Carson, it was a disgraceful maze of bureaucracy, acronyms, phone numbers, dead-end calls, and web links. (At what point does it count as additional mental trauma?)

    My position on this problem has been clear since the beginning. I should not need to earn a degree from Johns Hopkins to find affordable housing with my disability, and the U.S. Government has no right to deepen a medical crisis by underserving its citizens to the point that they are overburdened into dependence. Those with autism such as myself should not be used as chess pieces on a calendar of broken promises. After two weeks of trying to get rent subsidized housing with over 40 telephone calls and pages of non-responsive or confusing referral service phone numbers provided to me, I cannot afford all of these dead-ends.

    Douglas visiting B.W.I. Airport while homeless in early 2019 Douglas Winslow's employment applications to the State of Maryland from 2013-2020 Douglas in September 2019 next to a 'Wings for Autism' sign near a BWI security office Maryland M.T.A. Light Rail tracks leading northbound from BWI Airport to Baltimore City Maryland.gov Web Site Operator and Governor Lawrence Hogan


    Keeping media stimulus in line if you have autism, from a professional media critic

    January 21, 2021 at 4 A.M. Eastern Time

    Having the title of media savant (not servant) does not give me much special privileges in life, but people should not need to get a degree from a college or even claim a title to understand how multimedia affects them. People who have autism have individual reputations of being open while being analytical, so we deserve the privilege of understanding why audio and visual media is sometimes a scary thing to experience.

    My background in self-help spans 35 years. I lost a parent early in life, and I became more shy and nonverbal. As I proceeded to shut out the ability of the psychiatry industry to negatively affect me at age 7, I started to allow real life to show me what it considered to be more important. I advocate for the disabled as a function of my existence, and there are many disabilities, often unnoticed or unacknowledged, that affect people.

    I am working up to my first public speaking appearances in media and elsewhere, so I have some time to be productive writing something other than a book. Here is some advice I have if you find yourself in a similar situation versus media stimulus as I described in my other post today.

    Pointers for navigating a media maze:

    (Hint: Please read the bold text first. The rest is details. Or, you don't have to read this. You can, though.)

    I'll talk more about this presentation later. It's convinced me to re-design my website, so I'll try to make sure this post is available if that ever happens. If you have any comments or questions, you can try to e-mail me via the link provided at the bottom of this web page if you want to.


    Dawn of the Video Meme, or, Surprised by 'The Simpsons'

    January 20, 2021 at 8 P.M. Eastern Time


    I do not know of any contacts of mine working for the media industry or the entertainment industry. If you have heard from anyone who says they represent me or have special access to me, please know that I am the person you deal with, not them. Nobody else has the right to speak for me in any kind of business deal. I have never authorized anyone to gain funding for me. I have not agreed to pursue any crowdfunding. I have not licensed my name or likeness. I have been open to private talks to explore opportunities in media since 2018 if well-placed professionals in that field want to approach me. That's what I can say pending further advice from my attorney.


    I'm updating this to let you know I'm still waiting to publish my first book, where I introduce it with some talk about how forty years of watching television and movies led to my ability to use media's effects upon me to solve everyday problems. I am a traditionally nonverbal autistic man who has many memorable minutes, hours, days, months, and years of experience in media and social situations, dating back to the 1980s.

    To prepare for my book's release in 2018, I branched out into producing my first short-form entertainment series, which I have titled "Video Memes". If you are familiar with my work as a user and then moderation volunteer of the popular 4chan BBS, you'll understand why my smart yet simple form still works. The final entry in this first series was something that I was trying to get underway to release on Thanksgiving 2020, but it actually got delayed until Christmas. In the coming weeks and months, I may be posting more of these that I put up on Twitter, because they just don't have an encoding quality standard that I'm happy with.

    If you don't know who John Swartzwelder is, he's an author and writer for The Simpsons who reportedly has a knack for having things burst into flames or blow up on-screen for no discernable reason. I took interest when they were trying to put him up as the SCTVish alternative that outflanked the mere Groundlings-based SNL, or whatever the bullshit story was to pump up the Simpsons DVD of the year. I don't have a cool-sounding John Nash math phrase for this, but "the Swartzwelder difference" seems to be that if Hollywood put it up as a puncher point or a cliche in a movie, it got torn down into a Johnny joke that made viewers laugh.

    I watched some of WKRP in syndication re-runs in the early 1990s. It just didn't seem interesting since I'd already been to radio station DC-101 to see Doug Tracht's Greaseman morning show live. (You won't find a radio station named WKRP if you go to Cincinnati; it is a radio callsign abbreviation that evaluates in shorthand to 'Work Reputation'.)

    Technically I got into the advertising industry earlier in life than John, but that's just because I didn't like having to put up with most of it.




    Title: "WKRP topples John Swartzwelder"
    Run time: 2 minutes, 20 seconds
    Production start date: November 23, 2020
    Broadcast date: December 23, 2020 on Twitter Video

    Wow.. what a find!

    Television is a wasteland today. Stupid and somewhere is outranking serious and smart. It's got to be smarter. Come on, guys. I shouldn't have to reel this stuff in. I've got to blow the whistle and throw an Oriole Bird flag on this, and I'm not aspiring to be Farrah Fawcett in the 1983 NBC 'Be There' promo..

    I hit on the "WKRP in Cincinnati" reference above using my old 2018 IRC chat log notes. Today, I went to start watching broadcasts of The Simpsons again after a 25 year hiatus, and I found that just about a week after I made my screener on November 23rd, Fox aired a Simpsons episode on November 29th titled "The Road to Cincinnati" (S32E8). What a letdown.

    That episode even has a character named 'Principal Duggans'. Other episode titles from Fox's Simpsons lineup: "Three Dreams Denied" (S32E7), "Sorry Not Sorry" (S32E9).. I didn't have the episode list. Not joking. Today I found the season 32 episode list on-line. Since season 9 and the movie in 2007, I'd been completely away from reading about or watching The Simpsons aside from the few loose ends below, because the reviews were so bad and I didn't want to invest in low quality capacity. Time out. I'm gonna have to add this one to the creepy coincedence file. There will be another post today about how to avoid stimulus runs if you are the target of something in media.

    What I know: I consider myself well versed, having viewed every episode of The Simpsons seasons 1 through 7, with only a few episodes viewed in seasons 8 and 9. Outside of this, I have viewed S13E6, S17E11, and also later last year S20E7. Also there is a Smithers-themed episode that I remember viewing. I'll look for it.

    I purchased the 'rumored Coronavirus episode' S5E11 from Google Play late last year and it had a mis-encoded aspect ratio, so I got a refund and stayed with the DVD version. (Note: A joke that is circulating is that at 5m:19s into episode S5E11, the high-tech security system creates a cloud of something when Bart threw a rock at it. The red-and-yellow-colored house then ran away to get away from it. Hmm..)

    At any rate, I can only recommend season 1 of The Simpsons at this point. I do have to say that it had a more respected storytelling style when I got interested in it at age 11 because it had a Game Boy commercial attached to it.

    This needs to be said: Big media should not be smashing references to harm people. We get to do this to media; media doesn't get to do this to us. I already know a portion of my 2018 promotional output made it into Fox or Disney: the two companies merged after I tied them in a reference in an internal video meme. Aside from that observation, I hope somebody at Comcast or elsewhere isn't spying on my internet connection, since that action is illegal. * See what a simple stupid reference smash leads to? Chase those guys out of a meeting for a day or two; that's how long your 5-10 minute productivity hit affects us in autism. I'll throw a tree full of corrector references around the stupid side of this to get you guys out of the industry.

    Media doesn't get to stay silent and hold people under while cross-linking a bunch of titles and names at random and blowing out all the industry opportunities to bankrupt people at the bottom. Some in the experimental side of the entertainment industry have been getting away with doing 'Non-Invasive Neurosurgery' on people that way for years. It adds up. Think of that if you dare. It's always been salvageable for me, but for Christ's sake, please think of a proverbial earthquake scale needle or something and stop the stupid shit before I start writing to the FCC and corporate sponsors.

    I'm in this to make sure you have something from me to like. My book has been completed since August 2020. It's ready. It's a primary source of income for me if I want to publish it, and I have to think of me in 1989. Your industry is pushing a net-negative balance into an impressionable life if you people can't write fair. You picked commercial entertainment. The fans' side is better because we get to make fun of you and we get to play the name-brand Tetris games we paid for.


    DVD DeCSS and how we solved the Twitter censorship problem

    January 19, 2021 at 5 A.M. Eastern Time

    The Digital Versatile Disc, known in some popular forms as DVD-Video, is a high-capacity data storage system that can hold gigabytes of multimedia, including text and HTML. Do you remember stores full of DVD movies? Many people do.

    In 1999, DVD C.C.A., the entity that provided the encryption system for the aforementioned DVD-Video standard, sued a bunch of named internet users (including myself) and they also sued a long list of anonymous 'John Doe' users. We were providing network mirrors, or redundant distributed copies, of a source code decoder for DVD-Video discs that a developer had created known as DeCSS. His software enabled DVD movies to be played on Linux computers. Before this, if you wanted to view a DVD movie on your PC, you needed to purchase Microsoft Windows and DVD Player software to view the movies on these discs, even if you already paid for and installed a DVD-ROM reader.

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation, then under the direction of John Perry Barlow, provided free legal defense for us because, at that time, many of us were just starting work in technology or education. (I was then 21 years old. I'm typing this now at age 42. Barlow passed away aged 70 a few years ago, so given that I started learning internet activism at age 17, I'm looking forward to a future full of old code and data to support.)

    As I reload more of my old website information that was censored by the passage of time and surely all of those other unnamed yet politicized forces in life, I'd like to present to you a look at my old DeCSS web page at the link below. Keep in mind that other than some re-linking and titling to fit this web server, the linked page has not been changed from its final revision while the trial was in progress. I consider this a belated victory in Hollywood vs. Winslow:

    Not to interrupt, if you're busy reading, but it seems that the problem of censorship vs. centralization doesn't have an easy answer if everyone is trying to be the next Mark Zuckerberg. After the profoundly offensive "Twitter vs. Government" censorship problems, followed by all of the usual microservice-as-a-microservice services again popping up for investors to bet micromoney on, I do need to note that this is an age-old problem.

    If I could just convince you to hold on for quite a while..

    (Disclosure: Mr. Zuckerberg, myself, and many others were on a 2010 donation list supporting a decentralized open source social networking system named Diaspora. I also supported Eben Moglen's FreedomBox Foundation in 2011. It helps to support software and services with real money. Whoever's running Twitter probably won't learn this before they decentralize into the post-Valenti-industry's bankruptcy-fueled paradise.)

    Please understand that I've been holding firm and steady on my technology stances for the past 25+ years to make sure you can eat. We did push this internet thing up for a reason; it's not theft. Another piracy-behind-an-icon startup such as Google isn't going to solve things, whoever the new Mark is going to be this time.


    An observation about color serif

    June 5, 2019

    I haven't updated you on my development tasks in a while, so I thought I'd show you some very old alpha screenshots of apps running on my system. You may know that I suspended development a while back, so here's what's old.

    Recently, many have been talking about a new 'dark mode' added into the Apple iOS at their developer conference a few days ago, so I'll show you a screenshot of an organizational method I call 'color serif'. The initial version of the "dayplan" app used this, and it was first checked in on 6/29/2018. (The reader app with its markup parser was a separate codebase which was only rendering monochrome at that time, so I had an excuse to try innovative freeform layout models with the day planner.)

    I will not go into further details of color serif other than to say that other elements of the 'reminders' service exhibited by Apple in their iOS 13 demo appear to be infringing.

    From the many duties of a developer, there is one to start with: to know when to use restraint instead of abundance in adding important design elements. But if your creation looks and acts like everything else on the market, it's not very fun or original. I hope you understand why this is taking so long, and why I am waiting to decide whether or not to rewrite what was demonstrated in private situations to very few others under non-disclosure guidelines.

    Every version of my code is still under a proprietary license for specifically this reason; it has not yet been released because I need to make it more enjoyable. This is not without a financial burden.

     


    Apple intellectual property infringement

    iOS 13 will be the first upgrade not compatible with my iPhone, and I can't afford a newer one. While you decide whether or not I am a better practicioner of color usage in operating system design than the oil slick graphics company, please enjoy not playing Tic-Tac-Toe.


    Opinion: Apple Computers Corporation vs. Steve Jobs

    May 24, 2019

    Google News showed me a quote from Tim Cook yesterday, which I will link the story of for your convenience.

    Here is a link to the full story. A lot of people link things like this and don't realize that links should be set to use the specific words which refer to what the link is. (If you have had to watch someone try to cycle through links using a verbal screen reader, then you will know why.)

    The quote was shown as a full news story, and it said "We don't build monuments to trolls, and we're not going to start now".

    Studying the Apple Company as I have, I know that many of its moves can be seen as "troll-ish". My iPhone battery was broken for months while Apple mismanaged every painful store visit that I made. Calendar appointments were sent to my email which linked to concierge which threw a 404 error while I was standing next to a store employee who said that I should try another device. It still did it, and he said I should reload it later. Stores would be full of potential customers with the worst queueing strategy for support appointments imaginable, and no discernable place to stand. It was to the point that after investing health and money in traveling to Apple needlessly, I challenged the manager on how his store was run, and his representative forcibly attempted to remove my iPhone when I stopped to make a picture. (Note: I will not post the blank photographs. I was within my rights to punch the guard as self-defense, which I have not done yet. I called the store for clarification when I got home and nobody answered.)

    Steve Jobs couldn't have turned a second-tier 8-bit computer maker into a wildcard-tier first-rate GUI hardware maker without the operational advantages of trolling. (Google: Please ask your AI news program to use this as the scare quote.)

    What I try to practice in the few marketing things which I have done is something I call "micro-trolling". Think of a certain punctuation mark labeled on a block. This is yours to fill in. What do you want to happen when someone comes in contact with the block? Hint: You know this if you've played a certain video game that was released a year after the Mac. (Disclaimer: I'm not old enough to make Channel 13 jokes yet.)

    I went to the Apple Corporation today to get some exercise, and to deliver a video which I started before the Cook quote. I made it on my Ubuntu Linux computer, which is a ThinkPad. In years past, I had the ability to use my MacBook Pro. My Mac's battery ran dry long ago, and I can't afford a replacement. Sound familiar?

    If you remember the history of the Macintosh (before it got unbranded as mac), you'll know that Apple of the 1980s was an exceptionally high-quality literature distributor. Steve, or someone there, produced a beautiful brochure which showed a hand-drawn painting of the internals of the Mac. That brochure showed me that the Apple company was an international concern. Print literature from no other company showed me a computer in the context of people I'd never met from places I'd never been possibly using it, and it had the same logo as the Apple IIe computers locked behind a door with a pane of glass in my grade school. I didn't give a crap about the System Software, I liked the productivity output shown.

    Made in California, the Mac had different design aesthetics than the Commodore the Maryland half of our family owned. A local distributor in a mall let me point-and-click while Dad walked away and surely pretended to care about whatever else the store had on display. I don't remember which mall, but the store with the Mac was on the right hand side as we walked past. (It was not a very popular computer at that time.) Do you remember this Mac? Please let me know; I can draw what the store looked like. This mall also had a kids' quiz show, and our team came in second place, but her and I each got our choice of some really cool wristwatches.

    Overcoming my 'Reginald Barclay' fears after Mom died is what gave me the courage to ask Dad to let me enter the show. With recent happenings, I wanted to provide some backstory before I show you my video message to Apple. As a Baltimore City high school dropout who had to fight through grades 9 and up to earn his GED in 2002, which had a creative writing segment about a trip he wanted to take to Japan, it was not academic. I earned the good things in life.

    If you want to find some of Apple's monuments to trolls, look on the iTunes Store, where they sell music and movies which make you think instead of not think. I'm busy walking the long hallway of the original Macintosh, discovering what surprises Steve's people hid in, what to me, is functionally akin to Martin Scorsese's famous long tracking 'GoodFellas' scene at the Copacabana. I don't wear Burberry Prada, yet..

    I consider myself a professional video editor, and I remember when Linux couldn't even open a PDF file. At or near the debut of Mac OS X in 2000, Steve Jobs told developers that it would be "very Linux-like, very much so". The macs at the Apple Store today could not open my Windows-formatted USB flash drive so I could verify the video in OS X, so I synced it to iPhone with my Linux laptop. I decided not to AirPlay it in the store from there.

    What would Steve do? (Pay me and I'll tell you which Steve. Disclaimer: That's humor to some, humour to others, and humoreske to Baltimore Orioles logo fans. Anyone with a pulse can joke about the Orioles logo. I wear the anime Oriole to remind people how to pose when something silly happens.)

    Polling is the question mark. Trolling is the exclamation point that causes it; you'll find that only if you purchase the 1991 video game system upgrade. That's a lot of things in life. I think of the term iOS as 'I owe Steve'. What else do you think I should do if Apple won't answer my job applications from the past few years? Hmmm.. or.. Let me think.

    | Chicago | Monaco | Geneva | Los Angeles | New York | San Francisco | Toronto | Venice
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    Nice pivot, Excel. Surely with the addition of Comic Sans the days of Lotus 1-2-3 are numbered. (Tim probably watches PBS and not Wayne's World.)


    I found an old Linux writeup

    May 9, 2019

    "Linux is only free if your time has no value." - Jamie Zawinski

    A long time ago, before the internet broke the print publication business, people used to buy or subscribe to magazines which were delivered to their home or work mailbox.

    Magazines and software were two different types of publishing. Whereas a print magazine can write a patch to a previous issue in their next issue, software developers had to issue an errata bulletin while preparing for the next release, which was usually sold at an upgrade price, if you were lucky.

    I hadn't made the connection when I relayed this PC Magazine article to friends and visitors via my web page in 1997, but the emergence of Linux as a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows was a critical moment in computing history that many overlook or don't understand. Many things are possible with the open architecture that Linux provides, but the same things are possible with closed architectures given the proper dynamics.

    Free things are necessary for the functioning of society, however, there is no motive in a money driven society if everything is free. Computer people know this as bootstrapping. Nothing happens without memory, and a CPU can't operate without a program counter and special memory called registers. If you know the history of computing, disk space is an optional premium that we happen to have a lot of, but the invisible tollbooths are always cause for concern.

    Because modern Linux is 'proprietary to freedom', you need months or years of learning and training to start doing the basic tasks to modify the system; this used to take hours or days. It's not a Wrath of Khan flashback; I've been using this term for the past decade. If you are a Linux developer, I hope you see how the increasing number of standards that underpin today's Linux-based systems are not sustainable moving forward. What led Google to make Linux proprietary in this way by creating the complex Android system? Proponents of 'make it faster, better, cheaper' usually find they can do two out of three at most. I ask you to think of the state of computing today within the constraint of this observation. (Have you tried to obtain the dependencies to attempt to start to understand how to compile AOSP lately?)

    There is a buzzword I use with myself to verify that I'm doing the correct thing, and it's that I attempt to practice "aspirational computing". If you remember a harshly misinterpreted quote from SCE's Ken Kutaragi explaining the unexpected USD$599 launch burden of his PlayStation 3 system, what you may notice is that there is always room in a market for a premium product that people will strive to earn, even if it's in a dollar store. There is very little room for compromise when a customer who has something on the line thinks they haven't or aren't getting their best deal. (If you're rich, look in a dollar store some time. If you're poor, look at the rich person in your dollar store and hand them the $1 calculator. Note that currency is published for a reason.)

    If you aspire towards more complexity, then maybe you are happy with the irreparable status of many systems upon which we are asked to depend. If what you're depending on isn't working for you, work for yourself to earn your upgrade. That's what the Linux spirit used to be. If you're into GNU, capitalism, or whatever, what you'll find is that what works for you usually works for others; this is a compatibility thing. Because HCI is what excites people, consider it from that perspective. Don't aspire for infinite (free) simplicity, just aim for affirming every 'yes' in your assessment. Be cumulative, but know your place. Linux is an ecosystem, not an operating system.

    Yes, I'm overweight and tall, and I won't try and explain yin and yang, but I will note that it is the most convenient and efficient elements of a design that bring me the most joy, and they are usually found in the smallest details. If you can find how to subscribe to PC Magazine today, please let me know. MS-DOS starts itself and Windows 3.1 in 1 second, so some might say I have some work to do.


    I changed my internet domain name

    May 5, 2019

    I'm not homeless anymore, so here's a chance for you to update your bookmarks. If you have one of my business cards, let's meet and I can scribble a hotfix for you.

    Also, it's Cinco de Mayo today. I'm sure this is relevant for whatever reason, but I want an explanation of why generic mayonnaise tastes better than the expensive stuff.

    Good for you if you enjoy the tangy zip of Miracle Whip.


    More about my new software development

    December 2, 2018

    Do you remember when computers were a joy to use? A new system is being made, and I want you to know my progress.

    More information for developers will be written as the system's services evolve. As of this writing, this is a very usable and interconnected software development platform which I am using for various tasks.

    The user interface is being made to ensure that developers aren't the only ones who will enjoy this platform.


    How to create audiovisual dubs using FFmpeg

    October 22, 2018

    Handling multimedia with a computer has never been as easy as it should be, but some easy-to-use software can help.

    If you don't think of Linux as something that can make you laugh, maybe this can help.


    My re-designs of some popular logos

    September 30, 2018

    We live in a time where communications used to be easy. Now we have a bunch of smartphones and computers to help us to communicate.

    Here are some simply deep branding re-designs, is what they'd want to hear at that place with the stupid logo.


    How to simulate a virtual Raspberry Pi

    August 24, 2018

    Follow this easy tutorial to get Raspbian running in a virtual machine on your computer within minutes.

    I'll also show you how to compile the Linux kernel.

    This is a skill many Linux users acquired in the 1990s as a necessity.


    Some old parodies of network news stories

    1998

    Slashdot and Segfault were two web sites that were influential in my early decision to treat computing as a more honest and fun way to interact than trying to act up in real life.

    It dawned on me that Richard Stallman and a lot of other jokers have been seen succeeding for years by making parodies of things and pushing that fun back into the line of work they're in.

    These are from an era in which Saturday Night Live (SNL) and its near-term reruns were more important in what they were presenting than they were at any other point of my life so far. Here are some old parodies of Microsoft (which is an interesting collection of things that happens to have defense industry contracts these days) renewaled from an earlier version of my web page:


    :. TECHNOLOGY SITES .:

    Here are some links I've accumulated over the years, ever since before blogging was a thing. Feel free to enjoy, and if you have anything you'd like to see here, I'm always open to new suggestions via e-mail or otherwise. I don't always agree with whatever is on these sites, but I like checking them out.


    .,. COMPUTER ELECTRONICS COMPANIES .,.

    While computing in its most creative days used to be a very full field, many technologies have been phased out in favor of new standards, and a lot of innovative companies couldn't keep up. Here are some of the companies that survived.

    Note: I do not refer to this field as "consumer electronics", since I am unsure whether the computer or its operator is the one who is consumed. A job of a designer and a repairperson is to consider how to add longevity to what was previously regarded as a consumable.

    There are also a lot of great things I grew up with from the past. I hope you enjoy reading about some of them.


    GAME DESIGN INTERESTS

    Computing is fun, but I am also a game designer. Understand the difference between designer and developer. If you choose to pursue this as a career path as I did in 2001, you may find that a lot of things in real life have parallels with the design process. This is because video games were created without the detail that real life has, so designers had to use familiar topics for game players to understand.

    Where are the links?

    In a previous revision of this page, I asked that "if you are an aspiring game designer with knowledge of a certain popular game, I invite you to try and guess why it wouldn't be a sharp idea to link all of these titles for your convenience".

    I was referring to The Legend of Zelda, in which the game designer removed the player's sword at the beginning of the game. While designer Shigeru Miyamoto's intent was for players to communicate to solve puzzles in the game, my primary intent was so you would be intrigued to learn about the games listed as if you were to see them on a store shelf, so with enough research the people referenced would seem like you'd known about them for years. You would probably remember and communicate about them more than if you just followed some web link.

    A lot of thought went into this list. If you have any input on my selections, you can e-mail me.

    Any title with a star accompanying it denotes that it was influential in my decision to design and create games. You may ask yourself, did you skip to this section to see what the star is for? If you did or didn't, your answer will tell you what kind of player you are. If you anticipated this question, perhaps you should be writing a web page teaching game design. *

    A beautiful kind

    Recent talk has made me interested in the life of John Forbes Nash, the accomplished mathmetician who made many contributions to the field of game theory, but it is not easy to find mainstream representations of his work which are not compromised by continuous mention of surrounding concerns in his life. Seeing Nash speaking on video reminds me of Professor Falken trying to explain futility to all the Joshuas which dialed themselves into attendance.

    My father had a video cassette of the motion picture WarGames (1983), which I watched over a hundred times. I'm pretty sure I got smarter each time, perhaps due to the movie, so if you like roaring lions, creative uses of corn, arcade games which aren't as fun as Gyruss, and Dabney Coleman, then I would recommend this movie to you as well. (Note: Please follow the MPAA rating on this movie, as some may not understand what the topic represents.)

    Probability combined with logic, no matter how fancy, does not define success unless you can identify all the variables. Game theory is only theory. Game design is applied theory, yet not necessarily game theory. As I had a conversation recently about Professor Nash, I want to differentiate what I do from mathematical theory.

    However, utility versus futility should not be gauged by a simple depth calculation. So, if you have enough time to analyze video games, please try the list above. I might understand game theory some day.

    Do you know of a casual depiction of John Nash that doesn't treat his life as a game? Please let me know.

    (WarGames has a 2 hour runtime and a PG rating, and is distributed by MGM.)


    ARTISTIC INTERESTS

    Do you enjoy art?

    Most people do, however, by volume, most art is for everyone else from the perspective of the individual.

    Noteworthy Artists

  • Andy Warhol - Did you know the Commodore Amiga phone was the Campbell's Soup Can? That's a joke.
  • Susan Kare - Does your computer smile? Hers does.
  • Larry Poncho Brown - I painted with others at his studio. His father taught me print and layout design in the 90s, and he would always visit him.
  • Herb Lubalin - I learned that alternates were a thing from ITC Avant Garde, a typeface that he designed.
  • Helvetica - This isn't an artist, but it is listed here because it has a life of its own.
  • Dieter Rams - He came up with ten principles for good design. I wonder if he typed them on a keyboard where the 0 was near the 1, or if he just said them.
  • Tobias Wong - I saw this artist's works on display at SFMOMA in 2011. As I was in San Francisco for GDC, it was interesting to apply game design interpretations to what I saw.
  • Andrew Kim - When things weren't going so well in my life, I visited this designer's web site every day.
  • Interesting Musicians

    Music is an old method of entertainment. You don't need an instrument to make it, and one of the most simple instruments is a drum. Your wristwatch probably already keeps good time. Lyrics aren't music, but some artists have a statement to make by adding lyrics to their songs.

  • coda (Ken Snyder)
  • Herb Alpert
  • Keiko Matsui
  • Isao Tomita
  • Wendy Carlos
  • John Williams
  • YMCK
  • Luciano Pavarotti
  • Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Chris Geith
  • DragonForce (Herman Li)
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic
  • Bjork
  • Queen (Freddie Mercury)
  • Adam Lambert
  • No Doubt (Gwen Stefani)
  • Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor)
  • Metallica (Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich)

  • :: COMMUNITY INTERESTS ::

    Many think that they can't make a difference in the world they live in, and they're usually correct. That's why they don't try.

    Did you know the internet has a physical counterpart called "real life"? Good luck, voyager.

    Ways of life

  • Christianity - I don't label myself religious, but I consider that everyone is something, so maybe it makes sense for me to be also. I'm Roman Catholic.
  • Buddhism - It's intriguing, and understanding Zen helped me understand some missing documentation of life. Try not to over-understand this, or the people who run this by proxy (mostly the complicators) will keep trying to over-challenge you until you starve.
  • Papa John's Pizza - I worked for Papa John Schnatter's company for a while. Do you know you can start making your own pizza with pieces of bread and some ketchup? Try getting some garlic powder or whatever else you think you can also put on your other food. (Disclosure: My best friend in grade school was named Johnny. He didn't run a pizza place, but he was great at BBQ.)
  • Filippo Berio Olive Oil - This olive oil has someone who looks like Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder on it. Who am I to argue?
  • John Swartzwelder on Wikipedia - Here's more free information about how to succeed and make money like John Swartzwelder did.
  • Websites

  • United Way - This is one of the charities my father donated to. I also donated in more stable financial times.
  • Enoch Pratt Free Library - Do you know that a library card doubles as a personal bookmark? Some things aren't learned in books. (Note: This place is closed due to something that could be solved by reading the books inside.)
  • Habitat for Humanity - Everyone deserves a place to go home. This has a certain demographic requirement for home ownership.
  • Maryland Public Television - They showed a bunch of radical shows like Sesame Street, A.M. Weather, and Monty Python.
  • HopeLine by Verizon - As they are a phone company with more than a few customers, it's cool to see a telecom repurposing working equipment for a good cause.

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