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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Hardware arrived by FedEx in the morning; worked away at it,
new BIOS, and slogging away at grub's MBR code. All manner of
excitement, forgetting that switching
%ds has an
unfortunate effect on trying to access those local string error
messages. The joys of not having either printf, or a debugger -
exciting stuff.
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While trying to cram code into the 400 some bytes we have;
stumbled upon this; why does (AT&T syntax):
test:
inc %si
jnz test
complete - where:
test:
mov (%si), %ax
inc %si
jnz test
never complete - at least on my Atom & Core DUO - though
KVM / QEMU seem to like it. Clearly my 16 bit, segmented
understanding is obsolete.
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Mary Rogers over for dinner, really lovely to spend the
evening with her.
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)
