All off topic discussions go here. Everything from the funny thing your cat did to your favorite tv shows. Non-programming computer questions are ok too.
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by pcmattman » Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:14 am
That's really quite cool! Thanks for posting
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by Troy Martin » Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:44 am
Okay, now that's just awesome. We should use that in noob topics
Solar wrote: It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.
I wish I could add more tex
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by AJ » Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:11 am
I should perhaps point out that the link is just for fun and the idea
isn't that every newcomer gets pointed there indiscriminately
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by Colonel Kernel » Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:16 pm
Shrek, if you're going to write .NET code to drive a search engine, it really ought to be
http://www.live.com .
Top three reasons why my OS project died:
Too much overtime at work Got married My brain got stuck in an infinite loop while trying to design the memory manager
Don't let this happen to you!
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by DeletedAccount » Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:21 pm
Hi,
Sorry deleted the post
. There is a remote possibility that I may cause trouble
, so why take chances . Its a worthless little piece of code which i wrote quickly
.
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by Solar » Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:35 am
That is so brilliant, I feel like crying.
Every good solution is obvious once you've found it.
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by DeletedAccount » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:33 am
Oh Solar , don't mention it
. { Hands over a tissue paper for wiping your tears }
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by 01000101 » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:13 am
neat site.
weird, it says I'm the first person to push the little green array next to osdev.org in Google, that can't be right.
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by Craze Frog » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:48 pm
The problem is that it leads people back here.
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by frank » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:17 pm
That might be a good idea if the info they seek is already on the site somewhere. The on site search is sometimes less than perfect. Or you could try adding " -osdev.org" to the search string.
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by pcmattman » Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:27 pm