Tag: GitHub
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VMUFAT: almost done (I hope)
About a decade ago I first wrote some Linux kernel code that would handle the filesystem on the little slab of flash storage that came with a SEGA Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit (VMU). A few attempts to get this in the kernel mainline then followed. It was a bruising experience and unsuccessful. But I am…
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GitHub message confirmed genuine
It seems the GitHub message is genuine, though looking through Twitter suggests there is a lot of unhappiness about the way the message was spread, its timing and its content. Not sending such a message from your own mailservers also looks very foolish to me – checking the headers of a dodgy looking email is,…
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Writing more code to avoid writing any of the report?
I have managed to churn out 160 lines of working C today – which I think is quite good going, though, according to this, maybe I could have churned out 400 of C++ or even 960 of Perl (I love Perl but the mind boggles). My program will tell you how pages pages are present…
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Getting peace of mind – at a price
I confess that one of my biggest fears has been that any work I do on my MSc project will be lost in some sort of catastrophic computer disk crash. Git – and the various free services available, such as github, offered a good way of backing the work up. But given that the project…
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