The Waffle Rock : 300 Million Years Too Old To Exist

Many natural explanations offered. None of them convincing in my estimate.

Most people will listen to whatever scienmagists toss out there and take it for gospel. If the orthodoxy scoffs then they figure it is nothing worth their attention.

Interesting the Indians considered it sacred. Leftover piece of melonhead temple from some mega city? I am in agreement with the Founding Fathers that the history of North America is much deeper and more mysterious than ever imagined.

Embedded Integrated Message Stack For CD-OS With Discovery

I first added some minimal support for LAN messaging to assist in autodiscovery of other workstations with zero configuration back in 2002. It worked fairly well but only on platforms supporting the Microsoft SMB network standard. It was not what I would call a really robust, hardcore discovery and messaging system. It worked for a long time in registering URLs for other servers which I could then load resources from using JSONP. It was always sort of a hack pending a better mechanism. The slightest security on a network can block this method.

I think I did an experiment with a UDP broadcast back in 2006 which appeared to work but seemed way too lightweight for what was needed.

In 2010 I worked for a couple months integrating UPNP into Mongoose code. It worked very irregularly and was subject to all kinds of network security blocking it. I tried again to do some hacking at it in 2012 but the general security patches added to UPNP implementations by Microsoft tended to make it extremely unreliable. I decided for this reason I would not touch the code any longer and just work on the server stuff, particularly the client end. I thought if I ruminated for a while I'd come up with something better. A "little while" ended up being 4 years before I even looked at it again. It was still crap when I turned it back on in 2014. Just not the right approach.

I started to experiment with this a few months back :

0MQ

I have been integrating this since October, doing most of the work during my commute. It is amazing and super compact. It has only added about 60K to the existing server. I have only touched on some of the features and they work astonishingly well. With the client end running Socket.IO (fully supported by fallbacks on IE6), any workstations participating in the CD-OS intranet populate a list box at the right side of the screen and if approved previously by the administrator now constitute links to the front ends of those servers. So you boot one CD-OS server and you can now see your generator room, your inventory pantry, your aboveground weather station, your security center with CCTV feeds. Since every CD-OS has all the functionality built-in of every other workstation, if you want you can just run every single required feature locally without surfing anywhere. A more likely scenario is a server running your shortwave communication radio (connected from that machine to a radio service), one box running your "Memex" with all your PDFs and another running all your IP security camera feeds to distribute some the work around to different decoupled devices in larger retreats and shelters. I need to do more experimenting of my own but I expect the most important feedback will come from when I get it up on Github on just how much you can run on one server without overloading it.

I am going ahead with this 0MQ code for my first Github release. All I know about it is that in the ten hours I have devoted to integrating it I have discovered it to be the best of all at real-time asynchronous discovery in cross platform code. I intend to improve a lot on this, particularly in the area of broadcast alerts for emergencies, global messaging, cron jobs and general alert handling. At present it just works and that is better than the other alternatives I have tried in the past.

Very early shot of "VAULT-OS" from around 2010 or thereabouts.

The Neanderthal Dreamer Constructs A Civilisation, The Cro-Magnon Mob Tears It Down

This is why the Glubb Limit is at 10 generations.

5 Generations for it to reach it's nadir while the majority get their boots on, 5 generations for them to march through the institutions and destroy it all.

"Civilizations" criminalise the Neanderthals who built them as soon as they get situated and the foundations are then undermined by opportunists who believe any successful crime for which they are not prosecuted is proof of one's industriousness.

Opportunists lauded as ambitious accelerate every single natural and organic process of decay and block attempts at remedy. Each man who observes no principles other than advantage is freed up to attack the sacred, which is why the loss of religious faith always puts the society on greased rails to the bottom.

The capacity to even imagine the world better than it is now is all legacy of the Neanderthal. (Read entire article to see just how desperate science is to conceal it. Incidentally, I have eavesdropped on one of the sources for this article and can tell you that in his private email discussions he openly admits it without qualification.)

Minix 3

If you're a frequent reader of this blog you need no exposition. Listen to what the guy is saying and think about the applicability to our needs as survivalists.

ARM version is downloadable at site. I just bought an Orange PI for $10.

Also, the basic design of CD-OS is essentially inspired entirely from Tanenbaum's ideas in his original MINIX book. I was using them before they were called "Microservices" as a paradigm. A long time before because I had read this guy's book. My messages have always been asynchronous but I have variable length for convenience. (Formerly in JSON, now converted to STOMP .ini style format in middle of 2016) This is the reason my web server has been deployed to industrial sites and simply run forever without a single hitch for months and even years. My own clients have told me my embedded stuff will put me in the poorhouse because it never needs maintenance or repairs. I talked to somebody from a mining company just the week prior and he told me my networked weather station running on a solar panel in a toolshed was nearly demolished because nobody has had to go in there since 2011. They thought I was crazy when I replaced their Lithium battery with a slow discharge capacitor. Now marching for five years without a single stumble.

Smart Money On Vault-Co

Pack it because ITZ coming.

Prime rib and lobster while they watch the Honeymooners.

Number one threat is a magnetic reversal/solar storm accompanying the Grand Minimum.

Dormant activity presages major cooling worldwide worse than a Maunder Minimum.

Zero stock inventory systems would lead to worldwide famine in three days.

Called It

Grand Minimum. A Maunder minimum involves a reduction in sunspots. This is the absence of sunspots altogether. A Grand Minimum. Interesting times.

Nobody likes it when the village idiot calls it before anybody else. I called it in 2004. A Grand Minimum. Maybe Snowball Earth. It's a barrel of monkeys for sure.

We have not wavered on this site in 15 years. The rest of the world just started to catch up.

The Navy Is As Obsolete As Wooden Washboards

The U.S.S. Zumwalt needs to be towed from the Panama Canal after this super boondoogle "next-gen" ship almost falls apart simply trying to move around.

World's largest piece of floating scrap metal needs to be towed away

Engine just blew up attempting something tricky ... like a turn

4 Billion dollar coral reef starter

... held together by bluetack, gaffer tape and bubble gum. Flooded with seawater internally in the equipment bays. Another fine product of American engineering circa 2016. Trump, please fire all these guys and start over again.

They were leaking dope on the Zumwalt before it came out of drydock and anybody who had seen it performing in the field said the thing was a four billion dollar floating turd. It was rumored to be all form, no substance - like a Hollywood prop. Once you got past the show it was absolutely unseaworthy and did not stand a chance against the next generation of mostly remoted craft.

This would make an excellent stage for a Village People reunion video remake of  "In The Navy." As a weapon of war it is a joke.

I just see the Chinese teenage kid piloting one of those hypersonic drones in World War Three suddenly realizing he has cut the ship in half accidentally before it could even register him coming on radar. "Holee Cow! I think I just hit something!!!" (Potato chips flying everywhere) He turns around to make a second pass trying to balance a Mountain Dew on his knee. "I tink it iz sunk! Dammed Yankee sailors go home! Okay, nice try capitalist dogs! I drop some atomic cluster grenades just to be on safe side they also double as depth charges! Oh gosh I just got the bonus insta-kill perk! Look at me I am high scoreboard leader! Right on!" (Zumwalt vanishes with all aboard forever)

A Message For Special Snowflakes Everywhere

This is from back when people used to watch television.

Even back then, the snowflakes insisted on ridiculous haircuts. Snowflakes never change.

Junk Science Gets Junked

Will they void out their paycheques for the past 100 years? I would not hold my breath.

... also return all that Nobel Prize money!! The applied sciences appear to have died with John F. Kennedy!! We've had a half century of "breakthroughs" with no apparent practical applications! We're constantly getting "physicists" claiming responsibility for the achievements of real engineers like Flash Ram and storage substrates! Like Stephen Gould calling himself an "anthropologist" after getting himself attached to a paper by Lewontin!! Gould actually managed to buffalo his way onto the front cover only after it was being prepared for publication.

I knew the wheel was going to come around again like this.

Thanks to Vault-Co reader for this link.