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alobbs.com is a personal blog at alobbs.com about systems and programming. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link alobbs.com's macchanger page, which covers changing a MAC address with GNU macchanger, and discuss EINTR handling in close(), with the man page cited as support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
Not just on many machines. You can change your MAC address on any manchine using GNU macchanger http://www.alobbs.com/macchanger/
Comment linking /macchanger/
on “Herding Firesheep in a NYC Starbucks: Do Users Care?”Submitted The Coca-Cola Company got a range of 16M MAC addresses reserved as a story · 13 points
HN discussion> EINTR is a promise that no progress was made. If only.... on many operating systems, you shouldn't retry close on EINTR, e.g. From [linux man page]( http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/close.2.html ): > In particular close() should not be retried after an EINTR since this may cause a reused descriptor from another thread to be closed. Worse, it's different per operating system! - HP-UX you must try again - Linux,…
Comment linking /post/54503240599/close-and-eintr
on “EINTR and PC Loser-Ing: The “Worse Is Better” Case Study (2011)”Submitted Cherokee (Web Server) Annouces Streaming WebM (VP8) One Day Later as a story · 7 points
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