Current Entries --------------- 04/29/2022 Software doesn't work in "O" mode: https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/29/on_call/ 04/21/2022 Tips on tuning ZFS recordsize: https://klarasystems.com/articles/tuning-recordsize-in-openzfs/ Suggested rules of thumb are: 1024K for general-purpose file sharing/storage 64K for KVM virtual machines using Qcow2 file-based storage 16K for MySQL InnoDB 8K for PostgreSQL 04/21/2022 A brief history of source code control systems: https://lemire.me/blog/2022/04/21/an-overview-of-version-control-in-programming/ 04/21/2022 LHC is back online today: https://www.science20.com/news_staff/after_3_years_of_maintenance_the_large_hadron_collider_is_getting_back_into_collision_shape-256027 Things to look forward to include "two new experiments, FASER and SND@LHC, designed to look for physics beyond the Standard Model; special proton-helium collisions to measure how often the antimatter counterparts of protons are produced in these collisions; and collisions involving oxygen ions that will improve physicists' knowledge of cosmic-ray physics and the quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter that existed shortly after the Big Bang." 04/20/2022 CMS' new measurement of the Top Quark's mass of "171.77 [+/-]0.38 GeV, is consistent with [] previous measurements and the prediction from the Standard Model": http://www.sci-news.com/physics/top-quark-mass-10730.html 04/19/2022 Thoughts on the CDF's measurment of the W boson's mass by Tommaso Doringo, who worked on the CDF: https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/is_the_cdf_w_mass_measurement_a_nail_in_the_sm_coffin-256017 As an aside, I still need to read Doringo's book "Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab" 04/16/2022 ST:TNG:TAS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyz2pVqrEkI 04/08/2022 HD1 is the most distant galaxy every observed: http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/hd1-galaxy-10692.html 04/08/2022 W boson's mass may deviate from the Standard Model's prediction: https://news.fnal.gov/2022/04/cdf-collaboration-at-fermilab-announces-most-precise-ever-measurement-of-w-boson-mass/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/fermilab-says-particle-is-heavy-enough-to-break-the-standard-model-20220407/ https://profmattstrassler.com/2022/04/07/the-w-boson-isnt-behaving/ https://profmattstrassler.com/2022/04/08/a-few-remarks-on-the-w-boson-mass-measurement/ https://non-trivial-solution.blogspot.com/2022/04/do-we-have-finally-found-new-physics.html 04/08/2022 Old style alerts on Big Sur (11.x) and Monterey (12.x): $ defaults write -g NSAlertMetricsGatheringEnabled -bool false From: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/04/01/wider-big-sur-alerts/ 04/06/2022 KeePassXC 2.7.1 is out: https://keepassxc.org/blog/2022-04-06-2.7.1-released/ 04/06/2022 Neutrinos may not be their own anti-particle: "CUORE has spent the last three years patiently waiting to see evidence of a distinctive nuclear decay process, only possible if neutrinos and antineutrinos are the same particle. CUORE's new data shows that this decay doesn't happen for trillions of trillions of years, if it happens at all." From: https://www.interactions.org/press-release/cuore-team-places-new-limits-bizarre-behavior-neutrinos 04/06/2022 Modify font smoothing on Big Sur (11.x) and Monterey (12.x): $ defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int [0-3] where 0 disables smoothing, 1 enables light smoothing, 2 enables moderate / medium smoothing, and 3 enables strong smoothing. This requires a restart to take effect. From: https://osxdaily.com/2022/04/06/change-remove-font-smoothing-macos/ Earlier Entries --------------- 03/##/2022 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/srirangav/motd/main/2022/03/motd.txt