Adrian Chadd

OMG

sudo ping -f 192.168.1.255 This is a wonderfully antisocial little experiment that fires ICMP echo requests at my broadcast address as fast as the kernel can manage, essentially shouting “anyone alive?” to the entire LAN over and over again. On a modern network, most machines sensibly ignore it, but anything old-school, misconfigured, or intentionally permissive may answer back, and if several do, you briefly get a taste of the kind of packet chaos that made 1990s network admins lose sleep. It’s fun and cool because it turns a single command into a stress test, a history lesson, and a truth serum all at once: you learn which devices are well behaved, which ones still think it’s 1988, and whether your own network stack or emulator can survive being yelled at relentlessly without falling over. Why? I'm testing a DEQNA emulator that I'm writing for the PDP-11, and need a stress test before I check in!

On this day 11 years ago, Dashcon took place.

Today, after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds. I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation. But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage. I move forward with complete confidence that God is always working everything together for the good of those who love Him and who are called according to His purpose.

Good morning, NYC. We have some very exciting news to share.

buying a new prebuilt pc feels so good when you don’t have every nerd you know yelling in your ear that you should build your own