biscuitman's blog

Wanted: straight grid layout keyboard

biscuitman — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:21:03 +0000

Is there a straight grid layout keyboard without a caps lock and windows key and number keypad out there? Please!

Anyone?

Or im going to start building one.

Wanted: standardised hardware classes

biscuitman — Tue, 29 May 2007 05:22:25 +0000

We really need standardised device classes similar to the USB device classes. If the major players dont want to then we should start talking to all the minor players. If still that would not work then we have to start making our own devices.

system programming language without pointers

biscuitman — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:11:07 +0000

Is it possible to write a kernel without using pointers? In order for a kernel to be effectively trace scheduled there should be no pointers. So how do we initialise the kernel memory allocator or boot monitor on bootup? use a small assembly language routine?

hacking exopc

biscuitman — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:06:32 +0000

I finally got to make the exopc exokernel to boot up.

I revived a slackware 7.1 distribution and i compiled the exopc from the old tarball from the mit website. My network card is not supported though so all i have was a kernel and no userspace since it cannot boot up from a local hard disk yet. Im going to continue using the openbsd aout format instead of switching to ELF. Im installing openbsd 3.3 on another machine since openbsd 2.2 has problems building the entire exopc distribution.

trusting a cryptographically signed certificate

biscuitman — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:12:10 +0000

who is willing to trust a cryptographically signed certificate? specially one from your friend?

pirate talk? or is it vikings?

biscuitman — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:09:02 +0000

Linux feeling like a pirate today? Or is it viking blood spiked with caffeine speaking. Not sure if the Finns have anything to do with the vikings though.

Vaguely reminds of this movie where they keep on saying "Great artists steal". The title had the word "Pirates" in it.

gcc depends on /usr

biscuitman — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:32:44 +0000

gcc crashes when its built with --prefix=/. i wonder why.

my /usr is a link to '/'. other packages are ok with this.

static build notes

biscuitman — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:30:02 +0000

just to remind myself:

static binutils use 'make LDFLAGS="-all-static"'
static gcc bootstrap 'make BOOT_LDFLAGS="-static"'
static gcc build 'make LDFLAGS="-static" '

all packages with libtool use LDFLAGS="-all-static"

Rugged PC

biscuitman — Sat, 27 May 2006 06:02:22 +0000

Anybody knows how to make a rugged pc system? At home? any tips?