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The Modern Arp table: ip -s neighbor show
While trying to see if my kindle was in the house or not, I got to looking at the arp table, and specifically: Which prints out the table along with some info about the entry being stale or reachable and a few numbers. The man page says nothing, but luckily stackexchange came to the rescue:…
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How C came about
Little bit of abridged history in this article from Arstechnica (https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/12/a-damn-stupid-thing-to-do-the-origins-of-c/). It’s interesting in that you can see why so many common technical aphorisms exist, like the principle of least astonishment Only two years after EDSAC 2 came online, the university realized that a far more powerful machine would be required soon, and in order…
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Programming Error
Brilliant.
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Load “”
“Hello, World!” has become the canonical first post, message or first test program. I get the feeling it’s largely an invention of the Silicon Valley set. I learned to program thanks to Clive Sinclair, so my learning took a European bent from the start. We left out the ‘World’ bit for starters, being far more…