Hi, Ferret wrote: > An interesting evening.
Things that I heard get a mention... An OS being written by some Googlers, Fuschia, based on the LK "little kernel". https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/08/12/2259212/google-working-on-new-fuchsia-os https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+/master/docs/mg_and_lk.md https://github.com/littlekernel/lk#readme How to check if your CPU offers hardware virtualisation support, e.g. for VMware or VirtualBox. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-xen-vmware-kvm-intel-vt-amd-v-support/ $ egrep -w 'vmx|svm|aes' /proc/cpuinfo # Not on this Intel Atom D525. $ Raspberry Pi 3 uses a Broadcom BCM2837 SoC with a 1.2 GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Processor That's the new, 64-bit architecture, AArch64 with the A64 instruction set. Raspberry Pi provide only a 32-bit kernel and userland though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A53 The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or "bugs") to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviets to the US Ambassador to Moscow on August 4, 1945. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) Questions over how a CPU works, what an assembler does, and how it all fits together. I always recommend this book that explains Boolean logic first and has you built a tiny CPU, write an assembler, compiler, and virtual-machine runtime for a little language. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles. http://amzn.to/1qlmwCy The Android game Tim had on his phone. Euclidea. Have your compass, ruler, and penicillin to hand. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hil_hk.euclidea&hl=en Another Android game, Brain it on has 2D physics where you have to create objects by drawing them to fulfil the level's aim. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orbital.brainiton&hl=en_GB Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-11-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:[email protected] / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
