ascii_field: '...sliced off his GPS ankle monitor and affixed it to a crudely built contraption in his rural New York residence "in order to give the appearance that he was still present and moving within his home."'
assbot: Is it legal for US military to scan the public’s computers for kid porn? | Ars Technica ... ( http://bit.ly/1DU8UUS )
ascii_field: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/is-it-legal-for-us-military-to-scan-the-publics-computers-for-kid-porn << unrelated lulz
nubbins`: "Guess we all know why theymos has been hanging out in the transvestite hangouts now. He's embezeld the forum donations to turn Bad Bears P into a V so he could be his B and he gave him admin privalges so you could come here to take out his frustrations after he rams it up his ass until he bleeds. "
ascii_field: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/dell-support-software-gets-flagged-by-antivirus-program << the vuln is a few weeks old but this is lulzy
mircea_popescu: takes a while to get to the valkyries.
mircea_popescu: of course, the original was a fucking cycle of operas.
mircea_popescu: this, of course, was pre HB. now they might be more amenable. lol.
mircea_popescu: it also doesn't work, necessarily. if it did, we wouldn't actually need bitcoin to solve the specific problems it solves.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: except that diseased state happily contracts the megalomania out to a hundred various 'mengeles' each of whom focuses on the insides of a particular variety of designated untermensch
mircea_popescu: generally, illness in humans is manifested as a contraction of the "presence bubble". you may sit in your bed thinking of things as far away as a continent, but the man in pain sees nothing past his nose. and the man in love, past HER nose.
mircea_popescu: wtf is this world where such great things can go out and not even a billion people show for the burial.
mircea_popescu: dude for all the pretense they put forth ... they've been gone for a month and i've not yet run into a mourning woman ?
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: almost a month ago: http://www.wsj.com/articles/big-names-put-cash-in-bitcoin-startup-21-inc-1426029318 (haven’t heard from them since)
ascii_field: ^ for anyone who was living in a sealed bunker for the past few yrs, 'palantir' is one of the direct subcontractors to nsa panopticon wares
mircea_popescu: aaanyways. it's a safe enough model for as long as inflation holds, because it's based on nominal figures. known as the hyperinflation debenture frenzy.
Pierre_Rochard: my favorite was “Data analytics provider Palantir Technologies Inc., which was valued at $15 billion last September, turned to an SPV arranged by Founders Fund, a San Francisco firm headed by billionaire investors Peter Thiel, according to people familiar with the deal.”
nubbins`: " The problem comes, I think, mainly from statically linking other GLIBC libraries, notably "libpthread"" <<< we're using that one
mircea_popescu: there's a correlation.
ascii_field: was speaking of brain mass, rather than bytewise.
mircea_popescu: as long as you shaved off the 95%, you've shaved.
mircea_popescu: give or take, but i'm not really crazy about the difference between 5% and 3% either way
mircea_popescu: less than glibc. weighs about the same as uc
ascii_field: (but so far does not appear to be the case)
trinque has trouble seeing the value in something that continues to lose money, but then, he's a simpleton
mircea_popescu: ascii_field except the last perso who bought was later indicted for terrorist bombmaking.
mircea_popescu: kinda not bodes well for government, either, this state of affairs.
mircea_popescu: luckily, the 80s are long gone, and this strat simply does not work.
ascii_field: their business model is unabashedly populistic-chumpatronic
mircea_popescu: was discussed here. that ho being their "image" what's her name ?
mircea_popescu: their yearly total gross attained 1% of yearly expenditure in no year since 2001.
mircea_popescu: the part i like best is the scamconferences they organise where they go to spend a coupla days in alt.universe where HUGE DEALS happen and stupidity is "an industry"
ascii_field: these schmucks bought up hundreds of thousands of 'valuable' domains. naturally they will try to monetize before fellating their pistols
mircea_popescu: i hope they're sending google proposals for muggle
mircea_popescu: this is a business now. derps actually hope to make money out of this. someone might care about domain names still, because they did pre 2001, because dotcom people were idiots
ascii_field: ^ i get these regularly
ascii_field: when i did a tour of duty as a perversely purposeless employee of university, the cellar below my office, one flight of steps down, was a dns root serv. peculiarly well-guarded and fortified for something so low-traffic (root dns servs get used hardly ever)
mircea_popescu: anyway, it was good enough for the webpage + guestbook era, which is back when it shone. everything goes away eventually, and the duct tape and chewed gum contraptions holding togethere the everyman's arpanet especially so.
mircea_popescu: "no that doesn't happen" "right" "you don't understand how the world works!"
ascii_field: (solidly usg-controlled and no one other than us appears to smell the stink of the beast!)
mircea_popescu: at least from what i've pieced together from what people have been reciting to me as bedstories since my involvement in bitcoin
ascii_field: can you 'fix' a roadkill baking in the sun ?
mircea_popescu: you being one of the perhaps five people that did it this year,
ascii_field: must say that 'fix' is not the appropriate word
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i began reading the glibc source last night
mircea_popescu: anyway, if one's interested feel free to contact me and i'll either say gtfo or tell you what you have to do. if you'd rather avoid the record of the gtfo feel free to discuss privately.
ascii_field: why not shoot it in the head and maintain uclibc's ?
mircea_popescu: you will be helped by the glibc team but you.absolutely.must.know.what.you're.doing.
mircea_popescu: in the wake of my "who shat the libnss" investigation tptb have agreed something must be done about this.
mircea_popescu: so acthung panzers as the expression goes :
ascii_field: and other things. It's supposed to make application programs independent of the separately configured actual network environment of the machine. A nice idea, but changes to GLIBC can lead to problems loading it. And you can't statically link "libnss", since it is configured for each machine individually. The problem comes, I think, mainly from statically linking other GLIBC libraries, notably "libpthread", "libm", and
ascii_field: '"I suppose the idea is that everything will be in the downloaded file, so nothing depends on the local libraries on the target system. Unfortunately with Linux, and I think anything else using GLIBC, this still isn't quite true. There's this "libnss" (name service switch, some people seem to call it network security system) which provides functions for accessing various databases for authentication, network information,
ascii_field: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2011q4/001207.html << 'dropbear not compiling statically' << just about every major security-themed lib affected, it appears
ascii_field: ^ examples from folks noticing The Boojum and grasping at air while trying to understand why they are being lied to
nubbins`: fwiw it's just a matter of ripping out the chunks of boost that don't belong
nubbins`: and my patience has limits so this is on the back burner for the next week or so, at least.
nubbins`: so i'm still not able to reproduce the portartronic pogotronic static build
mircea_popescu: of course, in the converse view, a sysadmin that actually fucks with your binary on a valuable box...
cazalla: "Cobb allegedly uploaded images of child pornography to the social networking site, Tumblr."
cazalla: ooh looks like this australian didn't wanna play ball any longer http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/military-adviser-adam-cobb-arrested-in-us-on-child-pornography/story-e6frg6nf-1227293195488
mircea_popescu: We were unable to connect to the Hackpad synchronization server. This may be due to an incompatibility with your web browser or internet connection."
mircea_popescu: "We're having trouble talking to the Hackpad synchronization server. You may be connecting through an incompatible firewall or proxy server.
mircea_popescu: the people who take decisions aren't on skype. the people who are on skype don't take decisions.
mircea_popescu: which hackpad thing reminds me : re the earlier hacker news piece - i find it hysterical the agitprop is seriously pushing the "and they got on skype" angle.
fluffypony: heh there we go
fluffypony: after that they seemed to veer off and create a "buttercoin team" and "productise" it
fluffypony: no, not beyond commenting on the hackpad
fluffypony: I commented on the Hackpad where we were shooting ideas around
fluffypony: right at the beginning
mircea_popescu: well luckily ver invested the money he doesn't have into a new way to butter the coin!
cazalla: <mircea_popescu> there wa sa buttercoin ?! <<< been around a while actually but done the pivot thing a few times or something
mircea_popescu: ie, they really abandoned any attempt to communicate at all, and satisfy themselves with browbeat. supposedly this works on the stupidest of the working class.
mircea_popescu: but the pretense that his thinly veiled propaganda is "real journalism" is indicative of the state of the usg propaganda machine, be it daily beast or wapo.
mircea_popescu: if this were how the world worked everyone'd be john oliver.
mircea_popescu: the ordinary streetwalker couldn't explain how a car engine works, either. that doesn't make car engines unimportant.
mircea_popescu: in any case : that particular leak, and the much less publicised but much ampler leaks since, are not important because "people on the street"
mircea_popescu: there wa sa buttercoin ?!
mats: only the first third is worth reading
assbot: John Oliver Grills Edward Snowden on ‘Last Week Tonight’ - The Daily Beast ... ( http://bit.ly/1NN9UuV )
mats: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/06/john-oliver-grills-edward-snowden-on-last-week-tonight.html
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://38.media.tumblr.com/a60bb63e5b9b4567e95c25aac83c1744/tumblr_nhqagdQuIB1u5z1ezo1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: yeah well... it seems reasonably obvious that the usg's very uppity policy is insanity on the mid term. they need us a lot more than we could ever need them. obviously a bit of humility today will save a lot of abject humiliation in 2025, but in any case
mats: “What they are doing with patrols is just the tip of the iceberg. It is not just the number of the ships, but within five to eight years they will have about 82 submarines in the Asia Pacific area and we will have about 32 to 34"
mircea_popescu: mats anything above and beyond the "they succeeded making their own nuke, further sanctions superfluous" ?
mats: ^Parameters of the nuclear deal with Iran
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> -somebody- saw it fit to break static linking on gnu platform in the traditional microshit way - suddenly, silently, and 'for your own good' (TM) << and the fact that silently worked tells mike_c why qntra market cap would reasonably exceed the sum of the market cap of all computing publications available.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> in other words, it only applies to code that the user himself has compiled << in other words, it is by its very definition dekulakization. run the fucking code usg & dept of friend computer say you run, terrorist!
mircea_popescu: anyway asciilifeform no you're not the first to notice. you're the first to notice who is actually connected and thus powerful.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm not entirely sure this is to go on the head of Andreas Jaeger.
assbot: The failure modes of "democracy", from people who actually know what they're talking about. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/19X3dsV )
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/the-failure-modes-of-democracy-from-people-who-actually-know-what-theyre-talking-about/ <
mircea_popescu: hey mthreat is the search borkt ?
decimation: asciilifeform: part of the problem is that glibc has a 'colorful' history
asciilifeform: obligatory: r. sheckley's 'hour of battle' and mircea_popescu's remake thereof, http://trilema.com/2014/the-hour-of-reckoning
asciilifeform: i still want to know precisely what patch it was that made it into various non-gentoo things, that silenced the alarm bell and deceived folks into 'yes this is a static build'
decimation: at any rate, I think the responsible option here is to settle on uclibc with the desired features enabled
decimation: for instance, if you want to resolve the names of 'cifs' hosts running on microshit servers
asciilifeform: -somebody- saw it fit to break static linking on gnu platform in the traditional microshit way - suddenly, silently, and 'for your own good' (TM)
decimation: what amuses me is that the excuse of 'it fixes bugs' only applies to code that isn't otherwise distributed by the 'distro'
asciilifeform: the stab-in-the-back method of dropping support for staticlinking in no way can be justified.
decimation: asciilifeform: to be fair, their reasoning kinda makes sense in the world where libc is providing the 'global namespace'
asciilifeform: there we have it.
asciilifeform: 'I do not know where to find the historic references, but yes, static linking is dead on GNU systems. (I believe it died during the transition from libc4/libc5 to libc6/glibc 2.x.) The feature was deemed useless in light of: Security vulnerabilities. Application which was statically linked doesn't even support upgrade of libc....'
asciilifeform: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3430400/linux-static-linking-is-dead << i'm not remotely the first to notice the gorilla shitting in the kitchen
asciilifeform: 3) The C library image is smaller.'
asciilifeform: 2) The modules can be updated separately.
decimation: right, the bums who vote to expel you after taking up residence on your property are morally superior, being bums
asciilifeform: aka 'how the world works' (TM)
asciilifeform: decimation: importantly - in a way calculated to 'steal the sense of having been stolen from'
decimation: asciilifeform: in other words, the dim mob wants 'process' precisely to dictate redistribution to them
asciilifeform: 'I might be stepping on some people's toes, but to me it looked like a high-school class where the dimmest students drew up guidelines on how smart students "should" behave, and gave that to the teacher in order to earn brownie points - including clauses like 'not contradicting the teacher'.'
assbot: In the future, all British characters will be played by Idris Elba | RWCG ... ( http://bit.ly/1D9NSRn )
decimation: https://rwcg.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/in-the-future-all-british-characters-will-be-played-by-idris-elba/ < "The basic situation seems to be that people (including me!) really really love Idris Elba & think he’s awesome, and also really really don’t want to appear racist. Ergo, Idris Elba should play every possible and conceivable British character who could in principle appear in a movie that you can name! "
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the expression in romanian was " a face rost" , which meant to procure. which meant, talk to someone who knows someone.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i meant inside the "democracy"
decimation: well, munger comes to the same conclusion as moldbug, that is usg is highly resistant to voting - because to be otherwise would be terrifying
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: people employing a wot are so much more successful than people who do not << completely. see italians, somalis, jooz, whoever. the rest are but chumps.
mircea_popescu: seriously, very thin ice sheets to shade you from the sun.
mircea_popescu: the notion that "democracy", ie, an implementation of democracy without a martial population and strict limits on the franchise is even practicable...
mircea_popescu: then representatives of the democracy are shot on xmas day and you can get a beating just by saying you think communism may be a thing.
mircea_popescu: then it pierces through
mircea_popescu: that in short order the wot is mandatory
mircea_popescu: but from the inside of a "democracy", i can tell you this : people employing a wot are so much more successful than people who do not
mircea_popescu: decimation that's not even the biggest deal. arguably the biggest deal one outside could ever figure out.
asciilifeform: manipulation of 'voting rules' manipulates outcomes << this is actually a very undergrad-level game-theoretical result (arrow's theorem & related)
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: haven't seen le grand blond but will add it to the list.
decimation: ^ the 'result' is simply that outcomes are not process-neutral, so manipulation of 'voting rules' manipulates outcomes. thus, dictatorship by process, ie usg
decimation: " So, what that means is, this is actually terrifying. Democracy is radically indeterminate. The outcome can be manipulated. But that manipulation will not be apparent to people unless they have seen this technical result. Which means that you sort of--you can have shamans, people who know the rules, be in charge in ways that are tantamount to dictatorship. So, we should be very skeptical about claims that 'this is what the people
pete_dushenski: the most telling line, and keep in mind that this is in the late 60s/early 70s, was hawking saying "physics is business"
pete_dushenski: watched theory of everything'
mircea_popescu: make it just like the bond franchise, but with handicapped people and science.
decimation: ^there's a 'democratic' effort to get a black guy to play james bond
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski old joke, americans ask russians how do they keep discovering their secret agents. "you could try not sending black people..."
mircea_popescu: and why la serenissima is not a democracy, and why no democracy can be anything but "a popular democracy", as in the popular democratic republic of <insert etnonym>
mircea_popescu: back to that "you have no rights" fisher quote for a second : it splendidly illustrates the difference between democracy and republic,
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: who are these blacks who were sorted ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they bought (with guess what kind of money) sizeable stakes in various swiss concerns (including, best-known publicly, crypto ag)
mircea_popescu: i think this is even mentioned in meanwhile declassified soviet stuff. they actually sorted the blacks by "switzerland or germany"
mircea_popescu: but somehow the geeks felt switzerland was more "technical"
mircea_popescu: (the cia used germany as a cover for its people)
mircea_popescu: amusingly, it's traditionally what the nsa used
pete_dushenski: swiss will go hide in the mountains, play defense, sell out who they like the least, one by one until the asker fucks off
mircea_popescu: in a rather disgusting turn of events.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: eh, not really a proponent of said theory.
mircea_popescu: decimation in fairness, they had all switched to those alcohol based swipes in the 90s.
mircea_popescu: so, yes. carrie bradshaw of philosophy writing for the toptenz of nyt has heard of cornel but not of chomsky.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: it was a nato possession since day 1 of nato (and possibly earlier depending on whether you're a dulles et al '3rd as prequel to 4th' reich proponent)
mircea_popescu: note that they DO list that imbecile west. who has contributed as much to human knowledge as obama has : being black.
pete_dushenski: or more precisely, who he knows there with a spare couch
mircea_popescu: and this is how the carrie bradshaw selected hearing works. she'd have heard of the new york times, but not of... hm
mircea_popescu: "are you her mates or what then ?!"
mircea_popescu: that's the idea, generally. like going to a rave, orwhatever. sleep on the floor of a squatted building.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski if you recall the famous "conference" held in london by nefario, taaki and the rest of "bitcoinica consultancy" crowd...
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: heh, well this particular whore recently claimed to have never heard of #b-a, which must be like carrie bradshaw never having heard of the new york times
mircea_popescu: decimation in fairness, california has always been past its demographic limits. people were paying more for hay there than anywhere in the world cca 1850
mircea_popescu: just like the actresses waiting tables and turning tricks.
mircea_popescu: not journalists like every other whore you fucked whenever you didn't mind getting filmy.
mircea_popescu: you know, "journalists" just like the fictional carriew bradshaw,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this was taken to hilarious heights in j. brunner's 'stand on zanzibar', where virtually the entire fuckable female population of planet earth lives that way
mircea_popescu: like hearn, like everyone else on github. like the names on social media, like the leah goodmans trying to convince you they're "journalists".
mircea_popescu: that's pretty much the life of the whore, and of the mentally ill, and of the "student" and so on. bums, the lot of them.
mircea_popescu: no fixed place of residence, some nights in a hotel, or a car, or someone's livingroom, or the park.
mircea_popescu: the "easy" situation has created this particular inferno for the underclass, that they are literally a mob now.
mircea_popescu: note pete_dushenski the guy starts by inquiring whether the tramp is "in a room tonight"
decimation: re: california > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/us/california-drought-tests-history-of-endless-growth.html?_r=0 < "“Mother Nature didn’t intend for 40 million people to live here,” said Kevin Starr, a historian at the University of Southern California who has written extensively about this state. “This is literally a culture that since the 1880s has progressively invented, invented and reinvented itself. At what point
mircea_popescu: i think hearn is one of the... how shall i put this.
pete_dushenski: fine, hearn then!
pete_dushenski: "The 25 percent cut in water consumption ordered by Gov. Jerry Brown raises fundamental questions about what life in California will be like in the years ahead, and even whether this state faces the prospect of people leaving for wetter climates"
assbot: Y’know that post-industrial service economy thing ? Ya, it’s just another shitty command economy. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/19WNKsN )
pete_dushenski: aaand scoop: http://www.contravex.com/2015/04/05/yknow-that-post-industrial-service-economy-thing-ya-its-just-another-shitty-command-economy/
pete_dushenski: lol i was wondering when the last 5k was going to disappear from the 'ethereum wallet'
mircea_popescu: tales from the early soviets.
mircea_popescu: "I don't remember that," Fisher says. "But the inmates did tell me they had never eaten so good until I arrived."
asciilifeform: 'With that he interrupted me and said, `Mr. Fisher, you as an individual have no inalienable rights. You live in a democracy subject to the will of the majority, and the will of the majority, through an act of Congress can deprive you of any right.''
TomServo: Ethereum wallet down to 486 BTC.
mircea_popescu: much like the same idiots have reclassified natural phenomena like wildfire as "bad", notwithstanding that coniferous trees will only open the seedpods if they get scorched.
mircea_popescu: the important part being that the pansy-ass ten year olds masquerading as adults have reclassified as "trauma" a large swath of life experiences that are exactly necessary for the woman.
mircea_popescu: http://mad0uleurexquise.tumblr.com/post/108802990037/trauma-is-complicated-after-a-couple-of-years-of << what an actual feminist actually sounds like. *like*. copying the form does not result in being a feminist.
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/a6adfb6ada69f528204781e135fb3b8d/tumblr_nga4gxtFcR1qgv7t5o1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: re this entire "powdered alcohol" bs : why the fuck would i drink a galon of cyclodextrine slog for a quart of alcohol ?
mircea_popescu: The likelihood of widespread Palcohol abuse particularly among underage consumers carries a real possibility of tragic consequences, Mr. Franchot said in a statement, which is why Im so pleased by the industrys unified response to protect the public from such a dangerous product.
assbot: Logged on 05-04-2015 19:39:37; ben_vulpes: me pogo's at the office
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-04-2015#1089515 << a man with just one pogo is like the woman trying to get pregnant off a single spermatozoid.
mircea_popescu: feel the need for silverware nubbins` ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-04-2015#1089477 << exactly the right name for that comment lol
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-04-2015#1089472 << ahh the excitement of the geek that laid an egg :D
mircea_popescu: so it's done once not just at level you, but at the whole wot level.
assbot: Logged on 05-04-2015 14:14:53; ascii_modem: that part takes me 1h at most. it is deliberately manual, like the sub reactors, or therealbitcoin
mircea_popescu: beijing accords or wtf they were called
mircea_popescu: this is not exactly new. was discussed here back in the lead-up to the cn-ru financial compact
Birdman: [20:57] <Birdman> thoughts on the Chinese's AIIB? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-02/us-has-screwed-its-approach-chinas-aiib-former-us-secretary-state-blasts
mircea_popescu: marginally amusing read, stuff like http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/announcing-starfighter/ (grep for "Sounds like BS, right. I know. Im a generic web programmer (yay Ruby, meh JavaScript, boo low-level anything). The last time I played a CTF, written by my cofounders, they had me breaking into locks controlled by micro controllers which ran embedded assembly code.")
mircea_popescu: it is kind-of fascinating for me that they were actually this unprepared for gavin getting headshot.
mircea_popescu: pretense to the contrary is just that, pretense, readily explained by the desperation in usg quarters post their loss of their main asset in here.
mircea_popescu: it's entirely untrue, and a poor attempt at trying to salvage some clout for the power rangers.
asciilifeform: ^ anything from that link other than factual ?
nubbins`: absent title: "the bitcoin protocol doesn't exist"
BingoBoingo: mats: "The packages, at 4 inches by 6 inches, are not easily concealed, he said. And because of the single-use packaging, he said, it would be easier to spike a punchbowl with a large bottle of rum." << I was telling people you wouldn't lose volume by powdering the stuff
gribble: The operation succeeded.
nubbins`: mildly annoying that i've got a binary but can't reproduce the process
nubbins`: anyway, the general idea is to use bcp to rip everything out of boost that doesn't belong there
ben_vulpes: me pogo's at the office
nubbins`: i did this by running make nconfig after make pogoplug_defconfig and adding them manually
nubbins`: if you want to be able to build bitcoind with your buildroot toolchain, you'll have to add a few options to the config
nubbins`: also see http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-March/thread.html last few posts
ben_vulpes: awww shit yee i have sshd into the gentoo box!
ben_vulpes: but hory shit have i learned things about the linux shitpile
nubbins`: has anyone besides me and alf attempted the portatronic buildroot?
assbot: Logged on 05-04-2015 05:54:27; trinque: someone could solve this; gentoo has this neckbeard orthodoxy which imo is the only thing preventing it from having a proper installer
trinque: ascii_modem | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-04-2015#1089297 << lol installer?!! as in copying other folks' bins over? ick << nah, just bash script that plonks you into a partition editor, then a list of architectures, then has you pick a stage, etc; script the scriptable parts of the manual, and leave everything that should be.. manual :D
nubbins`: but i don't think it's a *terrible* idea for our install script to only compile the parts of boost that we need