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LCP terminated by peer

LCP terminated by peer

Bruce Ediger

I run pacman -Syu about once a week on my Arch Linux machines, to stay up-to-date, avoid security problems and generally stay at the bleeding edge of software revisions.

Today, I ran pacman -Syu on my Dell R530 server and it updated the PPP package.

Trouble ensued.

Under the Dragon's Tail

Under the Dragon's Tail

Bruce Ediger

Under the Dragon’s Tail, by Maureen Jennings, 1998, McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-9597-9

Ten Wifi Dongles At Once

Ten Wifi Dongles At Once

Bruce Ediger

I used to try to do one dumb/weird hardware thing every year. One year, I used a Palm Pilot as a serial terminal for a Sun SPARCStation-10. Multiple serial cable adapters and gender changers involved.

My dumb hardware stunt for October 2024: 10 USB WiFi adapters on the same laptop.

Find Nth Fibonacci Number

Find Nth Fibonacci Number

Bruce Ediger

Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1790 [Easy]

Implement the function fib(n), which returns the nth number in the Fibonacci sequence, using only O(1) space.

Dead Lies Dreaming

Dead Lies Dreaming

Bruce Ediger

Dead Lies Dreaming, © 2020 by Charles Stross, ISBN 978-1-250-26702-1, A Tordotcom Book. Published by Tom Doherty Associates.

Divided Palindromes Daily Coding Problem

Divided Palindromes Daily Coding Problem

Bruce Ediger

Problem Statement

Given a list of words, find all pairs of unique indices such that the concatenation of the two words is a palindrome.

For example, given the list [“code”, “edoc”, “da”, “d”], return [(0, 1), (1, 0), (2, 3)].