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Recent Articles
- Spam is not an effective e-marketing strategy!
- Homosexuals granted right to apply for asylum
- Alpha Course poll says there is no god
- Extortionate immigration fees & gratuitous hurdles
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- Atheism and morality
- Identifying installed floppy drives
- Russian Knights of Spamalot!
- Migrating my web presence to this site
- The importance of experimental observation
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Archive for September, 2009
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Extortionate immigration fees & gratuitous hurdles
Posted on September 16, 2009 | No CommentsI’m extremely annoyed that legitimate immigrants are financially penalized and gratuitously impeded while illegal immigrants can take advantage of free support and representation via legal aid etc.. One of my staff, a hard working professional who pays all her taxes, is married to a United... -
Should I use a physical or virtual memory model?
Posted on September 9, 2009 | No CommentsOne of the most important considerations for your OS kernel is memory management. For all but the very simplest of environments, your kernel is going to need memory allocation and deallocation (free) facilities. This, of course, means carving off a “chunk” of memory each time... -
Atheism and morality
Posted on September 6, 2009 | No CommentsThose who are antipathetic to atheism sometimes assert that atheists are inherently immoral, as morality is derived from God via scripture and therefore a rejection of religion denies the atheist from that moral frame of reference. It’s particularly important to debunk this argument because it... -
Identifying installed floppy drives
Posted on September 4, 2009 | No CommentsIf you’re implementing support for floppy drive controllers in your hobby OS kernel, then one of your first tasks is to identify what floppy drives are installed in the system. This is pretty easy to do, as we can interrogate the system configuration to find... -
Russian Knights of Spamalot!
Posted on September 4, 2009 | 2 CommentsThere seems to be a surge of “Russian” spamming these days. I’m getting daily “comments” from spammers linking to “somesite.ru” and customers with HTML forms, especially the “contact us” variety, are getting inundated. The customers complain that they’re getting a lot of spam via their... -
Migrating my web presence to this site
Posted on September 2, 2009 | 1 CommentMaintaining a blog is not something I find easy to do, not least of all because it can be difficult to know what to write. After all, who is really that interested in the mundane aspects of my life? And as for the juicier bits,...