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New comment by drudru11 in "SubX: A minimalist assembly language for a subset of the x86 ISA (2019)"

drudru11 — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 04:12:20 +0000

Thank you for making that. There are are articles that mention how we forgot the octal connection to the x86 isa. Your ascii art table is just a really clean way of visualizing it.

New comment by drudru11 in "SubX: A minimalist assembly language for a subset of the x86 ISA (2019)"

drudru11 — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 04:08:56 +0000

Neat approach. I like how you are trying to simplify the problem.

K1sslinux – New URL and BDFL

drudru11 — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 03:44:48 +0000

Article URL: https://k1sslinux.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26472758

Points: 2

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New comment by drudru11 in "Fry's Electronics is closing all stores"

drudru11 — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 07:48:31 +0000

That was probably an amazing decade for the Bay Area. I wish I was there then to see it.

New comment by drudru11 in "Fry's Electronics is closing all stores"

drudru11 — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 07:45:55 +0000

Truth

New comment by drudru11 in "In the 90s part of Germany's air traffic control software ran on Emacs"

drudru11 — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 21:21:54 +0000

I think the Caltrain people ran their stuff on emacs too.

https://groups.google.com/g/iphonewebdev/c/s3h8PRyfmDI

Did k1ss Linux fade away?

drudru11 — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 06:09:59 +0000

Their site is now down. https://www.k1ss.org/ Anybody know what happened? They got some real good buzz here last year.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26176534

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by drudru11 in "Fixing a Bricked SSD with JTAG"

drudru11 — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 18:10:49 +0000

Ah, sry. I can no longer edit the title.

Fixing a Bricked SSD with JTAG

drudru11 — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 07:51:41 +0000

Article URL: https://fmad.io/blog-ssd-bricked-restore.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25998328

Points: 39

# Comments: 4

New comment by drudru11 in "Anti-Aging: State of the Art"

drudru11 — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 04:54:52 +0000

This is a great list. What is the truth about wine?

New comment by drudru11 in "What is the PDP-11 instruction set?"

drudru11 — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:04:16 +0000

What does that mov do?

New comment by drudru11 in "Windows XP source code has leaked"

drudru11 — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:37:18 +0000

Not a single person got the watchmen reference

New comment by drudru11 in "The compositor is evil"

drudru11 — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:38:36 +0000

Interestingly, many old workstations that did 3d (primarily SGI), had what was called an overlay plane. This was essentially a separate frame buffer using indexed color into a palette. One of the colors would indicate transparency. The overlay was traditionally used for all UI or debug output on top of a 3d scene. For example, the Alias/Wavefront 3d modeler required this feature in order to run. It allowed the slower 3d hardware of that era to focus on a complex scene vs the scene AND the UI.

New comment by drudru11 in "Moving from Common-Sense Knowledge About UEFI to Dumping UEFI Firmware"

drudru11 — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 03:29:28 +0000

Do most people have to go through all of this ceremony or is there typically a JTAG port on a motherboard that will do the trick?

New comment by drudru11 in "Hiding messages in x86 binaries using semantic duals"

drudru11 — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 03:13:59 +0000

Thanks for writing this up Ken.

Strangely enough, I was researching a related topic a few days ago. I was wondering if disassemblers did the right thing with these opcodes. I was wondering in particular if they could reproduce the exact binary after disassembly.

It turns out that most assemblers do not have a specific way to make a distinction. The gnu assembler (gas) does have a ‘.s’ suffix for mnemonics to differentiate.

New comment by drudru11 in "A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist"

drudru11 — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:30:54 +0000

At a job I had, they gave people a book titled: Your Mac Is Not A Typewriter

One of the big things was the single space rule.

Interesting thing tho. Many years later I read on Steve Losh’s blog that he uses two spaces after every period. Why? So he can just do a simple search to move through sentences.

New comment by drudru11 in "A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist"

drudru11 — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:26:58 +0000

Same story for me up to the IBM selectrics.

New comment by drudru11 in "G Suite Doesn't Let You Contact Support Until Logged In. Locked Out = Stuck"

drudru11 — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 22:50:04 +0000

Same thing with PayPal

New comment by drudru11 in "20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions"

drudru11 — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 04:33:59 +0000

Haha - thanks :-) I thought it was an abbreviation for some special tome on Operating Systems design.

New comment by drudru11 in "20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions"

drudru11 — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 23:43:45 +0000

Hi msbarnett: sorry unrelated to this thread. In an older thread you mention an acronym TFA. The thread was a discussion on sparse files and removing bytes from the front of a file. What is TFA?