Useful Thoughts and Actions Taken

In Search Of Enemies – Book PDF

Stockwell was one of the first professionals to leave CIA to go public by writing a bestselling book, In Search of Enemies. The CIA retaliated by suing him in the 4th District Court in Washington, D.C.. Part of the suit intended to eliminate the possibility of selling the story for the purpose of making the movie and requested all future publications be submitted to the CIA for review. Unable to afford the travel necessary to contest the case, Stockwell filed for bankruptcy in Austin, Texas. After the litigation was processed through the bankruptcy, the CIA eventually dropped the suit.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Petronius Satyricon

I learned about the Satyricon from a talk by Victor David Hansen. It is his favorite piece of literature because it details the same degeneracy in the Roman empire as present day USA.

Details the misadventures of the narrator, Encolpius, and his lover, a handsome sixteen-year-old servant boy named Giton. Throughout the novel, Encolpius has a difficult time keeping his lover faithful to him as he is constantly being enticed away by others. Encolpius's friend Ascyltus (who seems to have previously been in a relationship with Encolpius) is another major character.

Links

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Chiropractic Ring Dingers – back adjustments on video

These videos show chiropractic exams where the practicioner appears to be able to read the physical positioning habits of his patients.  He then adjusts their back and they appear to get relief.

Dr. Gregory Johnson at YouTube:Advanced Chiropractic Relief LLC in Houston Texas

Additional videos

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

X86 Assembly Language Programming

Assembly language programming is has many similarities to programming your calculator because your calculator only uses registers and key functions.

Research Links

For this example with the NASM assembler:  opcode destination, source

Base Pointer: EBP:  As the stack grows and shrinks during a function the offset of local variables and function parameters relative to ESP changes. To simplify things Intel uses a base pointer (sometimes called a frame pointer) that is stored in EBP. EBP is a pointer to the top of the stack when the function is first called.

Nasm Assembly Programming 

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

U-Boot Commands

base    – print or set address offset
bootm   – boot application image from memory
bootp   – boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
cmp     – memory compare
cp      – memory copy
crc32   – checksum calculation
dhcp    – invoke DHCP client to obtain IP/boot params
dump_hw_info – dump hardware info
erase   – erase FLASH memory
exit    – exit script
flinfo  – print FLASH memory information
format_flash_fs – format flash file system
format_uboot_env – format uboot environment.
go      – start application at address 'addr'
help    – print online help
image_flash     – upgrade image via network using TFTP protocol
image_netboot   – boot image via network using TFTP protocol
loads   – load S-Record file over serial line
md      – memory display
mm      – memory modify (auto-incrementing)
mtest   – ALT RAM test
mw      – memory write (fill)
nm      – memory modify (constant address)
ping    – send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network host
print_bootinfo  – print boot info of device
print_bootparam – print boot parameters of device
printenv- print environment variables
protect – enable or disable FLASH write protection
rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
reset – Perform RESET of the CPU
reset_dummy – Perform RESET of the CPU
run     – run commands in an environment variable
saveenv – save environment variables to persistent storage
set_bootparam   – set boot parameters of device
setenv  – set environment variables
test    – minimal test like /bin/sh
tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
version – print monitor version

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago