Aug 25, 2023

Carlo Cipolla's Laws of Stupidity


 

 

"By creating a graph of Cipolla's two factors, we obtain four groups of people.

Helpless people contribute to society but are taken advantage of by it;  

Intelligent people contribute to society and leverage their contributions into personal benefits;  

Stupid people are counterproductive to both their and others' interests;  

Bandits pursue their own self-interest even when this poses a net detriment to societal welfare. An additional category of ineffectual people either exists in its own right or can be considered to be in the center of the graph."

Sep 5, 2022

Windows 11 bootable usb installer from MacOSX

  • Use 'Disk Utility' application to format the USB drive in MS-DOS (FAT) format
  • Download the windows ISO file from the Windows website or other source
  • Extract the ISO and copy all but the 'sources' directory into your USB
  • Create a 'sources' directory into your USB and copy everything from the ISO's 'sources' directory but 'install.wim'
  • Install Homebrew in your Macbook. Homebrew is a missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
  • Use Homebrew to install wimlib
    • $brew install wimlib
  • Use wimlib to split 'install.wim' into two files (install.swm and install2.swm) as follows into your installer USB:
    • $wimlib-imagex split /Volumes/.../sources/install.wim /Volumes/.../sources/install.swm 4000
  • Plugin the USB into your PC and select the boot option (by hitting the key F9/F11/ALT)
  • Follow the click and install rest of the process to successfully install Windows 11 into your PC

 

 

Reference: Create bootable Windows 11 installation USB from macOS

Sep 3, 2022

Eros and Psyche

 

Eros  -- mythical son of Penia (goddess of poverty) and Porus (god of wealth) -- forever in need and forever being pursued.

Down with the Dictatorship!

    "Let them hate me, so that they fear me" - Caligula 41AD