andreiw

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by andreiw 10y ago
Did something very similar 10 years ago for Linux. PAM plugin. https://sourceforge.net/projects/pampka/ Don't hate, I was in my second year of college ;-). Of course it probably has bit rotted quite a bit by
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by andreiw 10y ago
Experienced same with an iPhone 5s and a three-prong Belkin charger in a Puerto Rico rental. Scared the hell out of me, too. Brushing the metallic back I'd feel sticking. I think I licked it too, and it felt sour.
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by andreiw 11y ago
I was initially going to type something along the lines of not speaking for others, but then realized that it comes down to projecting your own sense of self-worth. (Yes, projecting without having anything to back it up with is asinine.) In
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by andreiw 11y ago
That "ugly white notebook" was one of the most usable laptops in its day, *nix or windows, and it still isn't that ancient - computing innovation really has slowed down significantly. Compare to notebooks from '96 and p
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by andreiw 11y ago
Don't get me wrong - great work, it takes real skill to put something like this together and a good understanding of the architecture / platform, but why would anyone adopt this over Multiboot v2 or UEFI? The later are cross-arch&
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by andreiw 11y ago
I agree. Don't read it and tell everyone else not to. Keep the competition low for the rest of us ;-).
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by andreiw 11y ago
There's a big difference to hiding and simply not knowing about. If you write a kernel you will need to write architecture-specific primitives (and some non-quite-primitive code, since you bring up SMP) to deal with all the categories
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by andreiw 11y ago
That Russian plane carried 224 human beings - in many cases these were entire families spanning three generations. There were more than 25 children killed. Thanks for objectifying the tragedy. It's only a plane, after all, right?
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by andreiw 11y ago
nVidia...are you listening? Uncripple your firmware so booting custom images is not a song-and-dance (you broke it in 1.4!) and at least TELL us where the UART pads are on the motherboard. If you're really cool put together an "of
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Tegra X1 Freestanding EL2 Demo on Shield TV (why Buy the TX1?)(github.com)
2 points by andreiw 11y ago|0 comments
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by andreiw 11y ago
Dunno, depending on what you're doing the Shield TV costs less and does about the same. People are running Ubuntu on these today, and you get the video, XHCI USB, GigE ethernet and WiFi working fine. Of course having a more "norma
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by andreiw 11y ago
OT: those are some skewed definitions of meritocracy... The real issue the feminist camp is missing is that in a real meritocracy no one looks at your gender or background. The real issue at stake in the corporate world today is that a meri
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by andreiw 11y ago
Yeah, having graduated in '08 I still have way too vivid recollections of dealing with this horrible-horrible web app...
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by andreiw 11y ago
Wow, neat! Looking forward to hearing back. Fortunately, with the exception of a single use of SIM_WRITE_CONSOLE_CODE (main.c:L356), no other callthru facilities are used.
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by andreiw 11y ago
The hearsay is that Power8 and GPUs seem like a convenient marriage as far as HPC in the data center goes, and GPUs are little endian. And although part of the problems are solvable at the driver level, no one wants to spend time making a
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by andreiw 11y ago
Power8 and OpenPOWER has seen some mentions on HN, but not a whole lot of focus has been made on the software aspect of the platform. I became intrigued because OpenPOWER finally makes little-endian PowerPC a first-class ecosystem. I decide
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Freestanding “Hello World” for OpenPower(github.com)
11 points by andreiw 11y ago|8 comments
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by andreiw 11y ago
Keep in mind this article was written in 2007 about the majority of NT installations at that time. Vista introduced a new unified boot architecture that replaced NTLDR with something that could work on BIOS and UEFI as well (and removed the
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by andreiw 11y ago
(U)EFI has a very open architecture. MS could well write an NTFS driver and register it with the firmware to be loaded prior to handing off to the NT boot manager. These sort of things tend to go against the grain of platform portability, t
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by andreiw 12y ago
The IFS kit was a separate purchase from the DDK, even. There's a pieced-together header floating around on the web (as well as some OSS drivers for things like ext2)...
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by andreiw 12y ago
I was hoping for a JIT into BASIC...
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by andreiw 12y ago
Well, I don't think it's valid to call that non-native, given that it has no other mode of operation. x86 hasn't been "native" for a long time either, since it's microcoded at the very least (although not to th
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by andreiw 12y ago
The oem unlock allows you run a custom OS (e.g. a custom Android build) that is not signed. This is well known, and is what allows this demo to work. However, the comment I was making is whether the firmware (i.e. the bootloader, "BIOS
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by andreiw 12y ago
A short demo showing that your Nexus 9 is actually the cheapest and most accessible 64-bit ARM development platform for systems programming.
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64-bit ARM Kernel Development Demo on a Nexus 9(osdevnotes.blogspot.com)
89 points by andreiw 12y ago|36 comments