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The Boot Code Tango

April 28th, 2004 Posted in General

I’m really coming to believe that Geof is determined to keep me from working today. So far, I’ve been bouncing between his various posts (finally getting around to using this little trackback feature) and trying to get some boot code working. Boot code doesn’t work like normal application code, so I can’t trust my Slingshot to tell me the truth. As a result, I’ve got to make a minor change, comile, package, upload, restart…. does it work? (the only answer until a few minutes ago had been a pair of amber leds laughing in my phase) Repeat this process a good 20-30 times in a morning and insert reading Geof’s mussings and you’ve got my morning. Oh, and posting here. I move on to pspice homework over my lunch break today! Yippee!

Here are my responses:

The post on Homesteading the Noosphere so far has been very interesting. And it’s giving me a definite push in the direction of taking a more active role in the development of everyone’s favorite tool, WordPress.

As for the other, the truth is that I only barely remember that camping trip. I want to think that I was one of the only juniors that made that trip. And Geof was correct in what I was thinking. I spent the whole time saying, “Where the heck is he! How am I supposed to get all this crap by myself AND catch up with the canoe!”. I could be wrong on this (and we’ll have Geof’s post now to be proof in the future), but I believe that this story, as all good stories do, has grown just a bit over the years. (but I get a good smile everytime I hear it)

Now back to making boot code work. Having application and boot code sharing the same RAM is not as easy as one might think!

  1. 7 Responses to “The Boot Code Tango”

  2. By Geof on Apr 28, 2004

    You will happily note that I did not, at all, mention how far down I was nor how long I was under water. I found that, every time I told the story, I was under for longer. Next thing you know, I was going to have been swept into the Gulf and have lungs of steel and gills so I could breathe like a fish.

    I never embellish any of my stories. Ever.

  3. By Rick on Apr 28, 2004

    I’m sure over the next few years we’ll build up a few more stories that get told like this. This weekend will probably be one of them and by the time it’s all said and done we’ll have gone from California to Maine and back to Huntsvegas all in about a 36 hour time-frame and in-between we picked up 5 different concerts (and two baseball games on the side too)!

  4. By Geof on Apr 28, 2004

    Something like that.

    If I’d had a Weblog then, this wouldn’t be an issue. :)

  5. By Rick on Apr 28, 2004

    If you’de have had a weblog back then, I’d hate to see how much power you would wield today in the ‘reputation game’ of the blogger world. Then again, you might have been able to come up with a cooler name.

  6. By Geof on Apr 28, 2004

    What, you think The Indiana Jones School of Management sucks? :x

    You’re in for it, dude. :lol:

    I would be a nothing in the Weblogger world, like I am now. I get brief flashes of reflections of Weblogger glory, and that’s too much.

  7. By Rick on Apr 28, 2004

    In refering to the name, I was referencing ‘blog’. You provided your alternative name in your response “Weblogger”.

    If you had the foresite all the way back in the fall of ’97 to have put out a weblog, though not the first I imagine you would have been one of the first, and you’d have had major input (i’d imagine) throughout college in the way the weblogger community developed.

    That’s all I was trying to say man!

  8. By Geof on Apr 29, 2004

    Come on … we both know that everyone gets tired of what I have to say after a while. :lol:

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