On Ubuntu: Some Examples of the Use of The Web to Answer Questions About...
Here is a list of some of the search phrases that have brought views of this blog today. Each list entry gives the search string and the number of views: building a computer to run ubuntu 6 build your...
View ArticleLinux: The Last OS Standing
One of my favorite films is Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. It stars Toshiru Mifune, who plays a lone samurai who comes into a town where two factions are feuding, and then skillfully plays one against...
View ArticleHow to access, read, write, or mount a USB flash drive in Ubuntu Linux
My most viewed blog post is about how to access a flash drive on Ubuntu Linux. Written five years ago, it is my most-viewed post ever. For example, it now accounts for over a third of my views each...
View ArticleSPITBOL Status Report
Early this summer I started work on what I thought would be a modest change: convert SPITBOL from using the GNU GAS assembler to my favorite X86 assembler, NASM. I also wanted to do some code cleanup...
View ArticleSPITBOL Update: SPITBOL X86-64 can compile “hello world”
The SPITBOL project is pleased to announce some progress in porting MACRO SPITBOL to x86-64 Linux. (I use MINT, so this should also work on straight Ubuntu.) This version is able to compile such simple...
View ArticleUnix SPITBOL 13.01 Released
The SPITBOL Project is pleased to announce that Unix SPITBOL 13.01 is available. It can be downloaded from Github: HARDBOL/SPITBOL: 13.01 tar.gz 13.01 zip This release supports floating-point...
View ArticleUnix SPITBOL 13.05 Released, With Support for Unicode
The SPITBOL project is pleased to announce that Unix SPITBOL 13.05 is now available. It can be downloaded from http://spitbol.googlecode.com/files/spitbol-13.05.tar.gz. This release includes versions...
View ArticleOn the Merit of Transparent Console Windows in Ubuntu Linux
I use Linux Mint — a variant of Ubunbu Linux — for my day to day programming. Here’s a screen shot of what my screen usually looks like: Usual mode – two opaque terminal windows. Above you seen two...
View ArticleSPITBOL Status Report: NASM to GAS conversion complete
The conversion of asm.spt to generate gnu assembler (gas) code instead of nasm format is complete. For those who know of such matters, I now generate att syntax, as it’s easier to generate from a...
View ArticleSPITBOL for OSX is now available
The SPITBOL project is pleased to announce that an implementation for OSX is now available, and can be found at github.com/spitbol/spitbol. SPITBOL now supports the use of the gas (GNU as) assembler to...
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