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klange

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About klange

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/klange; my proof: https://keybase.io/klange/sigs/rfkkoBOy_waRt0hn2kwcbqhvvl0UMy4PiCQhPMgeJIk ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #29063221

    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 learnin…

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    Comment #29061870

    I am one of the more active channel ops, so it's not an unreasonable mistake to make.

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    Comment #29061165

    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 …

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    Comment #29061075

    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 de…

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    Comment #23962736

    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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    Comment #15005743

    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…

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    Comment #12434927

    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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    Comment #12434641

    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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    Comment #12434130

    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 sa…

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    Comment #10188871

    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…

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    Comment #10188859

    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 …

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    Comment #9218637

    My actual résumé is written in BSD mandoc: http://r.dakko.us/

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