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Wed 09 Oct 2019 08:53:09 AM EDT Slept from ten to six without waking. High of sixty-nine and sunny today. Work: - Catch-up meeting with Julie Done. - Patch Tuesday Done. - LT rent increases Done. - Schedule Entrata follow-up demo(s) Done. Scott took the afternoon off. He's feeling sick too. Twenty-five-minute walk at lunch. Saw a groundhog, a couple turkey vultures, a little white butterfly, and medium-size ocher butterfly. Sound of crickets. Home: - Go to bed not late Ten-minute walk after I got home from work. One cicada, clicking tentatively. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21198325 https://gorgonia.org/ https://github.com/gorgonia/gorgonia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21202905 https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2019/10/ken-thompson-s-unix-password.html > Somewhere around 2014 I found an /etc/passwd file in some dumps of the BSD 3 source tree, containing passwords of all the old timers such as Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Brian W. Kernighan, Steve Bourne and Bill Joy. > > However, kens password eluded my cracking endeavor. Even an exhaustive search over all lower-case letters and digits took several days (back in 2014) and yielded no result. > > > From: Nigel Williams <nw@retrocomputingtasmania.com> > > > > Subject: Re: [TUHS] Recovered /etc/passwd files > > > > ken is done: > > > > ZghOT0eRm4U9s:p/q2-q4! > > > > took 4+ days on an AMD Radeon Vega64 running hashcat at about 930MH/s > > during that time (those familiar know the hash-rate fluctuates and > > slows down towards the end). > > > > This is a chess move in descriptive notation, and the beginning of many common openings. It fits very well to Ken Thompson’s background in computer chess. https://inbox.vuxu.org/tuhs/CAG=a+rj8VcXjS-ftaj8P2_duLFSUpmNgB4-dYwnTsY_8g5WdEA@mail.gmail.com/ > From: Ken Thompson via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org> > congrats. Watched a little anime. At the end of the day, I feel OK. Yesterday's rest broke the back of this cold. Servings: grains 5/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 3/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0.5/0.5 Breakfast: two eggs, banana, carrots, orange Brunch: bagel, coffee Lunch: yogurt, tomato, cucumber Afternoon snack: orange, coffee Dinner: rice and bean burrito, potato chips 129/75

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