Well, i spent the last hour and a half reading up on PowerPC assembly code. It’s definitely interesting coming from an 80×86 background. (Even though I knew very little x86 assembly) I will say one thing right now, I can imagine it being pretty odd pulling all nighters with ppc asm, since there is no way to distinguish the type or register you are modifying. They are identified by just a digit, 1-32.
I definitely find the architecture to be cool though. One of the really nice things about it, is the insane backwards compatibility with 32bit ppc apps on ppc64 machines. The binaries usually work just great. Unlike going to longmode, where you have to actually try in the kernel so you have 32bit support.
For those of you who don’t know, I’m planning on porting my OS to my BeBox as soon as I have enough knowledge of the architecture. Hopefully, I can manage to get another OS going in the process too, maybe updating the netbsd port of porting haiku?
I would also like to say that the ThreadBound teaser page has done better than I thought it would in one day. We’ve already got quite a few email address sign up for the updates. Keep them coming. :)
If I don’t update for a while, I’m rushing to get my summer assignment finished. I have a huge precal packet to do and a report on Fahrenheit 451 and I haven’t started to read it yet…
Well, we came up with the new name and the teaser page is up. Have fun. ThreadBound.com I’ll make a logo soon as Alpaca gets back from Canada. Fill out the form if you want updates.
Okay, I’m going to make it very clear before I even write the rest of this. I am not a fan of myspace.com. In fact, I think it is the sludgepit of the internet. So no that we’ve made that clear…
So we’ve all seen the disasters of pages created by millions of teenagers (like myself :/ ), that are impossible to read or even look at without giving yourself a seizure. To top all of that off, they have annoying flash ads that even talk without a mute button. So, today I set out to get rid of them and create my own, special, page.
First off, here is a screenshot for you to drool over:
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ZooomrSo to start, the first thing I did was see if I could escape the tables. Once I did this, I knew I could get rid of the ads and every other piece of junk I could. So in the About Me section, I had the following:
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This allowed me to get out of the table-hell layout that is myspace.com, but I had to do one thing to make it not display the rest of the page. I had to reopen the tables. Code is below:
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Knowing this, I just added the CSS/HTML and images that can be found in the zip below to the About Me section.
Click here to download the zip file.
Click here to see the myspace live.
I hope that helps some of you.
NOTE: This *WILL* violate your agreement to the Myspace.com Terms of Service. Until they allow the iframe, we have no way to show their ads.
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