Sorry Steam! Why did you not treat me as a developer?

WTF were you thinking? I build Operating Systems & have for over 20 years. Your Steam deck uses Arch Linux. Took me one day to port my software to yours. You are fucked.

That is all I will say right now. Last check I am TheeMahn. What will happen tomorrow? I have a ThreadRipper Pro coming up tomorrow. I can promise you that you are hit in the mouth. I did offer to sell you my software. Now I will incorporate in an O/S I build & wipe you out. Mine will be free, and pretty hard to fuck with. Do you think I care about money? You are now screwed.

It is already in the works & just a matter of time. I do like Arch Linux, minus the learning curve. The same O/S Steam Deck uses. I could completely replace the O/S, why not do both? According to the info tool in Ram Booter will only be 5 times faster. I can’t wait to see ram-booter run on the ripper. It has 13 NVME’s won’t matter. I do not care if I had 50 NVME’s all raided, where does that data traverse? Through RAM. I just cut it out. The closer you get to the CPU the faster things get.

Let’s re-illiterate this Steam you are not only fucked, but you are screwed. I am a good guy I will let you know you should add Lutris (released today) to your repo minimally or incorporate it.

What a nice guy, I won’t for the most part tell you what I am doing.

TheeMahn,

I did have to order it 3 times, but a ThreadRipper Pro 5975WX is coming. That is the latest Gen ThreadRipper Pro Zen 3 Architecture. 32 core 64 Thread Monster. That is just the chip, I already have had the rest for over a year in total. Did you know it smokes even the fastest CPU money can buy in Gaming minus the AMD 5900X3D. AMD Ryzen 7000 series is coming in September. In Intel Land, there is absolutely ZERO that can touch it and I mean even in the server area. The chip is classified as an HEDT (High-End Desktop) or Sworkstation, they are NASTY. I do write software to boot from RAM. On the ThreadRipper Pro will be 8 channels. The Steam Deck is a quad Channel. I did offer to help them. We will talk about Steam deck at the end.

I did not buy it to play games I can assure you of that. Expensive sure, fast? Phenomenally. I do write software for multi-core or Parallel processing software. Get ‘r done.

ThreadRipper Pro 5975WX inbound? 32 core 64 thread. Only $4,190.00?

Like I said it does get better:

I went to Amazon to check on whether it had been shipped it has not thanked God. Had customer support call me. Found it on Amazon’s website $500.00 less. They canceled it without me canceling and restarting the process. Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). Those drives are filling BTW. 1/2 a GB a second across the network. Dual 10 Gigabit Fiber. They will drop in the ThreadRipper Pro. Most people do not understand just how fast they are. In Linux I do not deal with schedulers. Windows is poor in its support of a chip of that caliber. It is almost like an Epyc, faster in most cases.

The first Intel chip I see is almost $9000.00 and it is way below what is coming. If you look at the money, I probably made the best decision, however if money was no object should have waited until September 15th. I am sure they will drop the 5995WX, you can get them on EBay for $9,999.00 used. I hate price gougers.

They evidently are not going to release the top dog chip the ThreadRipper Pro 5995WX until September 15th. MSRP on that chip? $6500.00. I have waited a year to the day. I will take what I can get. I already have had the rest. Funny, I was reading that link & Steam sent me a link to buy my steam deck. Ironically Steam deck shut down my ability to buy a steam deck today. I did file a support ticket. We will see how that goes. They only gave me 72 hours to buy it. I do work. $3500.00 does not sound so bad now does it, yes you have to pay the tax man. Both are coming.

What do you think I will do with that? Play Games? I bet you are wrong.

The game is about to change,

TheeMahn

Software is on my side.

I have been writing software for 40 years. Pro bono I do not want your money. Great guy, not a money-hungry fella. I would have a ton of money if I wanted it.

Are you Ready for what is coming? Things are about to change. I scare the hell out of the big boys get SET.

Like my crypicness? Yes, it is a word. Makes it worse that they do not what is coming. Basically, what I am telling you I am about to drop a large hammer. That too is Crypic. What app do I infer or O/S?

Gamechanger.

TheeMahn,

Let’s get this out in the open I have been building Operating Systems for 16 Years. I own multiple websites and am very used to seeing heavy traffic. Even with Russia, that is lite to me. I suggest you read this article.

The forum is back up and 100% functional, err 99% functional. EDIT: 05/04/2022: The email portion is not working. I need to update the DNS settings for the server, I approved all your accounts manually. When I say this I suggest you make no mistake. I have the ability to be patrolling the forum and you never know I am there, same with all admin and moderators. I will be there minimally for the next 2 weeks daily. I am disapproving of the 13,000+ topics 1,000 per day the Russian bots put in place. I will fix the MX DNS issue tomorrow. I am betting that is gone. Check the “A” record. I have been very busy. The forum will be up under Cloudflare before I go back to Programming / OS Architecture.

I am sorry it took so long. I found the problem was that Russian Bots were swarming the website. 218,251 hits from the Russian Federation in less than 3 days. I am sorry I had to go to extremes to fix that first before fixing the actual website.


Let me tell you how I fixed that first. I am sorry to plagiarise myself from FaceBook:

You do understand I used to be a hacker right? Proper term is a cracker.

• a person who breaks into a computer system, typically for an illegal purpose.” computer crackers will push the outer limits of network security”

I want you to look at the second screen. Watch Mother Russia vacate my site. I am not worried about the functionality of the website right now. I want them GONE!!! These are not small domains they feed the internet, all from Russia initially. In the USA it is called ARPA.

I pulled down a database of Russian IP’s used 4 commands:
cat banlist | tr ' ' '\n' > banlist <<- this command split the IP addresses into single IP per line
sed -i 's/^/deny from /' banlist <<– This command goes to the beginning of the line and inserts deny from
sed 's/$.0/.*/' banlist <<-Searches for .0 from the end of each line and replaces them with wildcards. Blocking potentially 65,025 domains at a time. Per line and there are 4,237 lines in code.
I did not stop there.
sed -i 's/\.255\>/.*/g' banlist <<- this was probably too “Greedy” That probably banned millions in one sweep because of the /g meaning global.

At the end of the day, I banned the entire country. Sorry, Russia. I do think I may have hit a couple in Finland as well. A few bad Apples will screw things up for all.


I am sorry for 2 reasons.
1. I blocked any of our Russian users.
2. Potentially blocked other users we have in other countries such as Finland.

Then I fixed the website 😉

The New hosting company is THE BOMB! Please note I did use an affiliate link. They transferred and set up the website for me. I used the “Honey” addon and it saved me almost $400.00 for a 4-year plan. I was not going to do that, but it saves you 20%. I do not want the money.

Do you have a website? I am going to provide you with the ban list I generated. All you need to do is open your .htaccess (hidden file) file and add that to the beginning of the file. I have been asked, what are you going to do when China does the same? I will rinse and repeat. I can promise you it stops right now, they are wondering how I did that. They actually want to know how I got that list. Ukraine is rolling on the forum as if they own it. Safe haven, I am happy to provide. Even if it is virtual. I am probably the last guy you want to mess with.

Enjoy your website back,

TheeMahn,

Let me tell you about this hosting company. Php version is not set to yet, at least we have a functioning website. A fast one to top it off. As soon as I degrade the PHP version 5.7.4 it is on. They took the time to import it and get it functioning. Most hosting providers do not do that. They are awesome. I have a 97% effectiveness. I am going to request them to degrade php 7.28. If it is not broken, do not fix it.

Once it is fixed I will tell you who they are. It is still broken because of php. I am over there looking at 80,000 79K to be honest, they did take the beating. This website takes a beating, way beyond that. That is daily.

They have better stats than the current hosting company. I can see it hour by hour. I do have 10 of them. The tech was right on top of asking me to add him to my LinkedIn account. He knows who I am. I am like a celebrity in the computer world.

The Forum https://forumubuntusoftware.info/ is partially back up. SSL security all that good stuff.

This I want you to pay attention to:
In total there are 28 users online :: 2 registered, 0 hidden and 26 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 4597 on Wed Oct 07, 2020 3:56 am

That is almost 5,000 users in 5 minutes. If I make an announcement here what happens? Do you find it ironic I see Millions? I still would not register. They told me 18 hours and we will bring up your website. It is up. I am going to ask them to degrade php. If it is not broken do not fix it. I want you to think about that if in 5 minutes One website is pulling in 80K people? Main is in the millions. I mean per day.

I scare the hell out of Facebook, now you know why. You do know I write software right? I hate to end it this way, but Facebook can suck a dick. I make you look like a joke.

TheeMahn,

I would suggest NOT registering on the forum until I get it back up to normal. I paid for 4 years of premium hosting under a new service. They set up a generic phpbb & within minutes I already have a new user registered. You are wasting your time. I have to upload 9.1GB of files and restore the database, it will be a long minute. No data will be lost. Please be patient with me. I will let you know when all is good. I will tell you this they made set-up a breeze even if I was a new user. I will not tell you the hosting company yet.

Thanks for your patience,

TheeMahn

I am bringing you a storm.

I am going to be easy about what is coming your way.

I wish I could tell you what is coming. I am going to shut down that server, I do not need it. I wish I could share with you the software I am writing does. When I am done it is all over but the crying. They say a picture says a thousand words, that video must scream a million. I am TheeMahn.

I launched an application I am writing (ue-tweaker) went from Ultimate Edition Developer 6.7 LTS to Ultimate Edition Developer 7.5 LTS. Focal based to Jammy based to put it in perspective. All in-house servers are now down.

I want you to think about this I skipped 7 Operating Systems I have wrote LTS to LTS.

TheeMahn,

Networking is being taken care of first. That Thread Ripper is a reality.

I am trying to work with the devs of Ubiquiti catch this his name is also Glenn. I hope I do not get mad. Do not buy into the “Not secure” Do you see the port? That is not an issue. The Asus Router has dual 10 Gigabit ports & can be aggregated. Solid 20 Gigabit throughput throughout the house. A NVME would be slow in comparison. Funny, I will be able to boot from the network @ 20 Gigabit. The Main server has been down since the routers arrived. I do not have time to drop it in. I have to work this weekend, it will wait.

I will rip the top one out. I am moving to solid Fiber Optic. I suppose since both are here and installed. I should tell you what I purchased:
ASUS RT-AX89X AX6000 Wireless Dual-Band Gigabit Gaming Router (poor packaging), I had to fix the Antenna. They are sending me a new one tomorrow. I tried to cancel it. They charged me $482.61 for that & had to fix it. I am still pretty pissed off about that.
Ubiquiti UniFi Switch Aggregation | Managed Layer 2 Switch with 8 SFP+ 10G Ports

I also bought a Server Rack accessories kit.

I will need a computer & network speed & it is not free. Dropping money like a “Drunken sailor”, that is right. I have been drinking and a sailor. I do not take donations and don’t use ads. I have got this. Just got a raise today. I also find that funny the company made it effective 03/12/2022. I hired in 03/11/2021. I love the company I work for. I actually like my job there. I run a CNC (Computer Numeric Controlled) Plasma Burner.

When I worked at Timken I liked the money & hated to be honest the Supervisor. He was a condescending prick, worse then me. Hated going to work. I seen seven people quit in one week because of him. I will admit my faults, I have a low tolerance for stupidity. That fella was off the chain. I told him I build Operating Systems & he immediately left me alone, but he came back. They need to fire him.

I have a new domain I have not told you about yet. The ThreadRipper Pro will roll on that domain.

TheeMahn,

I have been writing software and manuals. I told you I hate writing manuals.

We will leave it at manuals, well maybe not:
UNO (Ultimate Net Optimizer): UNO
Repostorm: Repostorm
Ram Booter: Ram-booter << this will shock you.
Ue-Tweaker: UE-tweaker.

I upgraded my server after 74+ days, now runs in RAM:

theemahn@JackHammer:~$ ssh sledgehammer
sledgehammer@192.168.1.189’s password:
Welcome to Ultimate Edition 7.5 Minimal-server LTS (GNU/Linux 5.13.0-21-lowlatency x86_64)

---

Hostname: sledgehammer
CPU Model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor Base:(4672.0698 Bogomips: 7599.86) Max: 4650 MHz

Total Memory: 32780948 kB
Free Memory: 12991284 kB

Swap Total: 0 kB
Swap Free: 0 kB

Uptime………….: 74 days, 01h37m07s
Load Averages……: 0.55, 0.77, 0.87 (1, 5, 15 min)
Running Processes..: 400

---

/: 469G, 35%

/media/56TB: 51T, 72%

/media/12TB: 11T, 96%

Networking Information
▒ DEVICE UP/DOWN SPEED DUPLEX TYPE
▒ bond1 UP 20000Mb/s Full Other
▒ enp4s0f0 UP 10000Mb/s Full Direct
▒ enp4s0f1 UP 10000Mb/s Full Direct
▒ enp6s0 DOWN N/A N/A N/A
▒ wlp5s0 DOWN N/A N/A N/A
▒ Active Network: bond1 speed detected at: 20000Mb/s▒

Storage Information
▒ DEVICE MOUNTPOINT HDTEMP HDSIZE
▒ rootfs / N/A 503G
▒ /dev/sdc media12TB N/A (USB?) 12T
▒ /dev/md1 media56TB N/A 56T
▒ /dev/nvme0n1p1 N/A (USB?) 503G
▒ total 69T 52T 17T 76% -▒

• Documentation: http://forumubuntusoftware.info/
  Last login: Tue Feb 15 00:31:46 2022 from 192.168.1.137

You have no clue what is coming. A ThreadRipper Pro is 8 channel RAM. That is only dual channel. Do you know how many people have Ram-booter? The answer is ONE. DDR5 etc. I could go on. I do not know about you, but that is scary shit.

Everything is instant. As soon as I lift my finger off the mouse it is loaded. 256GB of ECC RAM. I do not care what game I want, when I release my finger instant. I am not talking 8 channel ram yet.

I am a programmer. I am done writing manuals for a minute.

TheeMahn,

Do you think I would take the time to write a manual for it? I absolutely hate writing manuals. I do love writing software. I got a “D” in English when I was in high school. Straight “A”‘s in any computer course I have taken. Sure I know 50 cent words and my vocabulary is off the chain. I know many Languages all self taught, enough to get me by not fluent.

What do you call someone that can speak 3 Languages?
Tri-lingual.
What do you call someone that can speak 2 languages?
Bi-lingual.

What do you call a person that can only speak one language?
An American.

Did I mention I hate writing manuals? I have more to write. Where is persistence?