klange

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by klange 5y ago
I really like xv6 for its simplicity and restricted scope. It feels like a better Minix in the sense of being a codebase intended for university coursework. If your goal is learning the very basics of what an OS does, xv6 is a good place to
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by klange 5y ago
I am one of the more active channel ops, so it's not an unreasonable mistake to make.
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by klange 5y ago
I wouldn't say I "own" that channel in any respect, I'm just responsible for dragging it over from Freenode during the exodus... we've got the same same staff as we did before the move and I'm not even the &quo
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by klange 5y ago
When I started the project a decade ago, my aim was specifically to understand POSIX/Unix and to "learn by doing", so of course there's some POSIX-like elements underpinning the design. Back before I decided that literal
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by klange 6y ago
Both toaruos.org and ponyos.org are on the same server; seems my little DO droplet couldn't take the traffic.
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by klange 9y ago
A few years ago, some colleagues and I wrote a NES "demake" of Splatoon, in C, over the course of ~2 days. https://github.com/SplatooD/splatood I definitely think our ability to do interesting things quickly
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by klange 10y ago
The code in the repository builds a multiboot-compatible x86 "kernel" that can be booted with GRUB or iPXE or any number of other bootloaders supporting the format.
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by klange 10y ago
The trick is that ISO 9660 sector IDs used in file offsets are relative to the start of the disk, so you can craft a file entry with offset 0 and size equal to the length of the CD.
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by klange 10y ago
I'm the author. This wasn't something anyone was supposed to 'find', it's not even really a 'project', just a quick hack to demonstrate a point; I don't even think it's valid to say the project n
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by klange 10y ago
Yes.
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by klange 11y ago
We had the physical buttons wired up and replaced the touchscreen with a larger (non-touch) LCD panel circa late 2011. We wanted to get some LCD modules to replace the empty panels next to the buttons, but I don't know if they were eve
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by klange 11y ago
When avuserow says "upgraded" he means we "replaced it with a not-much-newer HP desktop running Ubuntu", so it's still a random x86, running Linux, on a full-sized motherboard. It lives outside the case these days,
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by klange 12y ago
My actual résumé is written in BSD mandoc: http://r.dakko.us/
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PonyOS - A hobby operating system for everypony(ponyos.org)
10 points by klange 14y ago|2 comments