thingfish

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by thingfish 1y ago
Thanks for taking the extra time making me consider dropping the term "kernel". But I need a term wich reflects my efforts. So I fed your description at the end into ChatGPT, asking for a one-word description. This is what it came
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by thingfish 1y ago
OpenBSD has pkg_add and friends. Which I can't release yet. They need Perl which I can't release yet either. Although stable already, there still is one vital thing I need implemented in MinC.
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by thingfish 1y ago
I wrote an entire 3-year (dutch) course around it [0]. My predecessor started his course making them do endless exercises with user rights and vim, which is very boring for 16-year olds. I start them on Apache webserver. This generates imme
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by thingfish 1y ago
My choice for this particular IRC client (not naming it) came from the Mr.Robot series (S04E04 at 59:38:00). I am teaching 16 year olds. They like that kind of thing.
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by thingfish 1y ago
Thanks for taking the time to read the source code and commenting on it. And you're right. My kernel is implemented in userspace, so I should use the term "kernel emulation". But I did find it fascinating to find out some of
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by thingfish 1y ago
Wait, I sense some genuine concern here. In fact, you tricked me into learning, which is what I also do with my students. I've read the article you provided in your earlier comment, plus the one from Microsoft [0]. They expose a dark s
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by thingfish 1y ago
> I've to say that you've clearly thought a lot about this, and though I've not tried it (and probably won't) you seem to have done an excellent job. Thank you. I needed that. I started the project in 2016 and have be
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by thingfish 1y ago
Cool. You found out why MinC is not Cygwin. To fork(), Cygwin starts a second copy of the entire executable. CreateThread() is much closer to what UNIX does. Any thoughts? BTW, there's another "easteregg".
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by thingfish 1y ago
I was a limper too, until I saw this demonstration by the creator of PowerShell from 2004: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBRA7pqITM
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by thingfish 1y ago
I understand your point, but I'm intrigued. Could you elaborate with some kind of example why it is disappointing that people don't date their web-pages? Is this a generic problem or is it with specific web-sites only?
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by thingfish 1y ago
Ah! You got it. Are you a teacher? You should try it.
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by thingfish 1y ago
I don't mind. Many of the comments are about my incorrect use of the term Linux. In a way, they are right. But if one wants to teach Automotive Technology to future BMW mechanics, you start them working on a VW Beetle. Wax on wax off.
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by thingfish 1y ago
It works now. I had to add -pix_fmt yuv420p to my ffmpeg parameters. Thanks for the comments on this.
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by thingfish 1y ago
Yes.
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by thingfish 1y ago
You hit an important point here. Teaching IT to 16 jear old children is very much like being an admin for a large corporation. Most of them have installed VMWare, VirtualBox, Hyper-V and pfSense, depending on the preference of the other tea
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by thingfish 1y ago
I added an .mp4 source. Still not playing in BlueStacks Android. Does it work in a real Andriod?
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by thingfish 1y ago
It is a .webm file. It won't play in my BlueStacks Android emulator either. Do I need to add an .mp4 file?
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by thingfish 1y ago
I started out by creating a dll file with all the system calls implemented. Later I learned how a kernel actually works. So I rewrote it, emulating an interrupt to run in a separate kernel space. Could you name some of the details you want
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by thingfish 1y ago
You're right. I'll change it to "Windows XP or later".
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by thingfish 1y ago
Yes. Teaching anything to children is to start simple. So I start with bare-bone UNIX. In their second year we move to Linux (all flavours). For their final exam in the third year, they must be able to use Suze Linux.
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MinC Is Not Cygwin(minc.commandlinerevolution.nl)
284 points by thingfish 1y ago|228 comments
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Need Feedback
1 points by thingfish 3y ago|0 comments