Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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Up early, chat with some Taiwanese friends; spent a while
faffing around porting / building a nasty, 16bit disassembler
before being shown:
objdump -D -b binary -mi386 -Maddr16,data16 <file>
neat; works well on your mbr: sudo dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 of=/tmp/my-mbr
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Spent much of the day unwinding 16bit, segmented assembler
fun - a really good resource on the new write-your-own-MBR trend is
here,
I never realised the primary partiton table is crammed into the same
sector too.
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Back to sreadahead for some light relief; switched to polling
every 1/2 a second using trace_poll, and added some termination when
a magic filename is opened: far easier than getting a user process to
signal it. Prodded mutter-moblin to open, close & unlink said
magic file. Pushed to github.
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Out for a date with my beautiful wife, for the first time in
ages: nice.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
