May 2012

Wow, it’s 4:30 PM and I’m only just starting to do my daily journal entry. Today was dominated by meetings, but I also burned some time trying to advance my mission with Tiger2 and getting over the first hurdles. I’m making some interesting discoveries about the price of those qemu binaries for Mac, Linux and [...]

{ 0 comments }

Well, compiling a static version of QEMU on Mac OS X is turning out to be much harder than I anticipated. First, I’m not a big compiler guy, so I’m not strong in debugging all the many moving parts that are in play here—and there are a lot. Simple attempts to use ./configure reveal a [...]

{ 0 comments }

Note: Since I wrote this article, I’ve released my own Linux distro remix called Levinux, which runs with a double-click from a Mac, Windows or other Linux desktop. I gave up on compiling my own binaries for awhile. The latest QEMUs are to dependency-laden to get it to work perfectly the way I need across all [...]

{ 1 comment }

Maverick projects are fun and interesting. Skunkworks, rogue, call them what you will, but they are the little projects that make the big difference because ideas can take root that would normally be squelshed by the establishment. No matter how open-minded you think the establishment may be, any new idea or initiative is guaranteed to [...]

{ 0 comments }