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Thursday, January 20, 2022

Surge 2 - Metal Armor

After 2 weeks of frustration trying to defeat the Metal Armor boss in Surge 2, I found this: https://cheatevolution.com/downloads.php

Downloaded the file, unzipped the file, double clicked "CheatEvolution.exe", searched Surge 2, turned on unlimited health after starting the Steam game, and I finally got through the Metal Armor boss in Surge 2. Can't wait to use this tool to just complete the darn thing and uninstall it. I suck at poke, dodge and parry game play. Just don't have the patience nor is the repetition fun.

This is me all armored up with a bad ass weapon, and I still suck

Thursday, January 13, 2022

How Big is 2**256 ( 2 to the power of 256)

Excerpt from the book Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song

How Big is 2**256?

2**256 doesn’t seem that big because we can express it succinctly, but in reality, it is an enormous number. To give you an idea, here are some relative scales:
2**256 ~ 10**77

  • Number of atoms in and on Earth ~ 10**50
  • Number of atoms in the solar system ~ 10**57
  • Number of atoms in the Milky Way ~ 10**68
  • Number of atoms in the universe ~ 10**80

  • A trillion (10**12) computers doing a trillion computations every trillionth (10 **–12) of a second for a trillion years is still less than 10**56 computations. Think of finding a private key this way: there are as many possible private keys in Bitcoin as there are atoms in a billion galaxies.

    Friday, January 7, 2022

    Kali Linux Add HP Printer

  • First of all going here: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01174360 did not work.
  • Followed these steps from here: https://subba-lakshmi.medium.com/how-to-install-and-configure-printers-on-kali-linux-78a0476b3cfe
  • sudo apt-get install cups cups-client "foomatic-db"
  • sudo /usr/sbin/adduser root lpadmin
  • sudo /usr/sbin/adduser s33me lpadmin
  • sudo service cups restart
  • sudo systemctl enable cups
  • sudo systemctl start cups
  • Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:631/
  • [Administration] [add printer]
  • The only snafu was setting the default print settings to "draft-grayscale". This caused a "filter" error. After specifying print quality as "normal", my text document printed out; however, I do not want to spend a great deal of ink printing out test code. Naturally, I will eventually have to find a way to print at draft quality, or reboot into Windows and print from there.