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• Post #4162000

  Today I am mostly doing a git bisect on the QEMU codebase. So, yeah.

• Post #4161999

  Apropos absolutely nothing at all, my favourite ever meal was a simple Steak and Frites at the brasserie opposite Brussels Midi station. I try and eat there whenever I'm changing to/from the Eurostar to London. https://brasseriebelge.com/en

• Post #4161998

  For Sale * Diamond Viper V770 Ultra (nVidia Riva TNT2 Ultra) AGP graphics card, with driver CD and pamphlet. Tested working. * Sound Blaster Live! PCI Sound card. Tested Working. * Sound Blaster Audigy SE (CA0106) PCI Sound card. Tested working. * Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra PCI SCSI card (with 50-pin internal, 50-pin high-density external and on-board BIOS). Tested working. * Intel "Bayfield" D865GBF ATX Socket 478 motherboard, with Pentium 4 @ 3.0 GHz and 512 MB SDRAM. * Has 2...

• Post #4161997

  Rick Beato interviewed Billy Joel. It’s a masterclass in every respect. https://youtu.be/Q1Bebf3Y2rk

• Post #4161996

  Me, on the first 30 °C + day of the year: It’s so hot all I can do is lay naked on this concrete floor Me, into our fourth heatwave of the year: I think I’ll wear these jeans and cycle to work at noon

• Post #4161995

  Quake is 30 today. I know the press was done a month ago but today’s the day the full retail version shipped. A better game than Doom in every respect. I’m going to play it on my 1996 Silicon Graphics O2 later to celebrate.

• Post #4161994

  The whole He-Man movie was amazing but The Darkness … damn those guys understood the brief when doing the soundtrack.

• Post #2968511

  I wanted to write about asynchrous time, but first I have to give you a history lesson: https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2026-05-16/

• Post #2968510

  Well I was reading the blog by the xscreensaver author, but not any more. They totally grabbed the wrong end of the stick.

• Post #2968507

  You'll be pleased to note that I've typed long rants about people being jerks on The Internet into this box and I've deleted each and every one of them. Highly recommended.

• Post #2968506

  OK, maybe today's the day I move from Google Drive to pCloud.

• Post #2968505

  Excuse me, what now? https://malus.sh/ > Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems.

• Post #2968504

  Tickets for RetroFest in Swindon (UK) are now sold out for the Saturday, with some Sunday tickets left. So you should get one soon if you want to come. I will bring my: - Silicon Graphics O2 running IRIX and the Indigo Magic Desktop - Apple Power Macintosh G3 running Rhapsody - HP 9000 Model 712/60 running NeXTSTEP 3.3 - HP Visualise B-class running HP-UX and HP Vue - UltraSPARC tower thing, with an UltraSPARC II running GNOME 2 on Solaris, and a Celeron 733 MHz on a PCI card running Windows N...

• Post #2968492

  https://eurorust.eu/talks/tales-from-the-embedded-rust-frontier-bootstrapping-a-brand-new-ecosystem/ Lots of great talks at EuroRust. And this aging idiot banging on about ancient processors or something.

• Post #2968489

  Ok I have six vintage RISC UNIX machines, plus two Pis, four keyboards, four screens (one is a spare), two CD changers, a spare hard drive, a spare power supply, a box of mains leads and a box of scsi cables. I think we’re good to … Ah, crap. underwear. I should pack some.

• Post #1957359

  This paper finds that Rust on an microcontroller costs you about 10% extra flash space, actually saves you a bunch of RAM, and takes no extra time to deliver (as compared to C). Seems about right - especially as the C version needed a heap and the Rust version did not. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25679 Edit: replaced URL of PDF with URL of abstract

• Post #1790530

  I wrote some thoughts about Rust and how you can use it to talk to your hardware. TL;DR: Read your own docs, like your users have to. Seriously. Go read them. https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/hardware-access-rust/

• Post #1124363

  Got my PandaBoard to print to the console from bare-metal Rust, loaded with U-Boot over UART. This is my first example of bare-metal Rust running on real Cortex-A hardware, rather than QEMU (but others have done it before me, so nothing groundbreaking here).

• Post #1124362

  Happy New Financial Year.

• Post #1124361

  @wren6991 This is hand written in RISC-V assembly, apparently. The mind boggles. https://youtu.be/v8zKDotYh9A

• Post #1124359

  I see your Panic! At the Disco and raise you Confusion! At the Rail and Fresh. For some of you this makes no sense and for some of you it makes perfect sense and I suspect there’s no middle ground.

• Post #1005187

  I despise Daylight Savings because it doesn’t save anything (it moves it) and it gives everyone jet lag twice a year for no good reason. Just pick a time zone where Noon is roughly when the sun is at its highest, and let communities organise themselves around that.

• Post #970211

  https://xkcd.com/1133/

• Post #796267

  I already have a computer containing an actual Arm chip, FYI.

• Post #566831

  https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ

• Post #566830

  Eins, Zwei, Drei … with a slice of pepperoni. https://youtu.be/8XR2RvfZ-68