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Viva La Revolución
admin — Mon, 2010-03-29 18:30
Well, I think after my post of random thoughts my mind is taking revenge. Its natural robotic and dull nature was circumvented... it has bitten back with a vengance. I have free time now and feel inspired to in part, begin my quest for... a computer revoluton, or something crazy like that. I started the day I was born almost, but this is maybe a truer start. Or it's just totally ordinary and overhyped, I'm not sure. Maybe it's because I'm listening to the Blood Red Shoe's Box of Secrets album right now, but I've had these ideas for a long time now. Anyways, here I go.
I'm not going to type out all this revolution stuff entitles, so I'm just going to make it confusing and mysterious. I will begin my quest at the bottom of it all. My initial expereince is that PC architecture is awesome, but we'll see. Maybe I need to be going SPARC or something, but I think the way to do this revolution is have it portable to any architecture. First though, I need to learn something about my x86 up bringing. And I'm not stating with just assembler. Machine code, here I come!
So, maybe sometime this year we'll see my bootable serial console done up in assembly. And a proposal for autonegotiated encryption and serial setup (bit/s at least, anyways).
My first venture in hand coding machine code was a VGA drawn red heart for my ex. I doubt the code is valid and you might have to try booting it a couple times. Anyways, it should run in qemu with something like `qemu -fda heart` (or you can dd it to a floppy, of course). For those of you who don't get it, there is no source code. Open that in hexcurse and that's the source right as it is. Also, here is the file (SHA256: 9ec1438e24795cae231223fddf9a751bc5322567ea67492f8cba78a365805b4d) if you want to check it out. I don't know of many people who've done something like that before, but that's where I'm going to keep learning.
So, machine code + assembly here I come, with a bias on machine code. Woo!
--Teran
I'm not going to type out all this revolution stuff entitles, so I'm just going to make it confusing and mysterious. I will begin my quest at the bottom of it all. My initial expereince is that PC architecture is awesome, but we'll see. Maybe I need to be going SPARC or something, but I think the way to do this revolution is have it portable to any architecture. First though, I need to learn something about my x86 up bringing. And I'm not stating with just assembler. Machine code, here I come!
So, maybe sometime this year we'll see my bootable serial console done up in assembly. And a proposal for autonegotiated encryption and serial setup (bit/s at least, anyways).
My first venture in hand coding machine code was a VGA drawn red heart for my ex. I doubt the code is valid and you might have to try booting it a couple times. Anyways, it should run in qemu with something like `qemu -fda heart` (or you can dd it to a floppy, of course). For those of you who don't get it, there is no source code. Open that in hexcurse and that's the source right as it is. Also, here is the file (SHA256: 9ec1438e24795cae231223fddf9a751bc5322567ea67492f8cba78a365805b4d) if you want to check it out. I don't know of many people who've done something like that before, but that's where I'm going to keep learning.
So, machine code + assembly here I come, with a bias on machine code. Woo!
--Teran
Console Time Tracker
admin — Sun, 2009-10-25 03:18
Hey,
I had been needing a time tracker for my new job (haven't told you about that, have I ;-) ), so I wrote one In Bash shell script.
If you understand the phrase "/bin/bash ~/ctimetracker-0.0.1/ctimetracker", then this might be understandable to you, and more than that, it *could* be useful.
So, checkout the public domain code, all on it's very own, special page. It took a whole day to write that (almost) mess :-(. Have fun with it!
One of these days I'll work on the menu and layout so ctimetracker isn't so prominent but is still findable. We'll see though.
Console Time Tracker
Off to bed. Thanks for reading :-).
--Teran (sega01)
I had been needing a time tracker for my new job (haven't told you about that, have I ;-) ), so I wrote one In Bash shell script.
If you understand the phrase "/bin/bash ~/ctimetracker-0.0.1/ctimetracker", then this might be understandable to you, and more than that, it *could* be useful.
So, checkout the public domain code, all on it's very own, special page. It took a whole day to write that (almost) mess :-(. Have fun with it!
One of these days I'll work on the menu and layout so ctimetracker isn't so prominent but is still findable. We'll see though.
Console Time Tracker
Off to bed. Thanks for reading :-).
--Teran (sega01)