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June 2015

Microsoft Kinect…but for Nintendo…and in 1989!

Microsoft Kinect…but for Nintendo…and in 1989!
Microsoft Kinect…but for Nintendo…and in 1989!

Continuing now my exploration of The Computer Chronicles television series. It’s the end of 1989 and Stewart and crew are discussing Chris...

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Computer Chronicles
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Conversion Specifiers For Fun and Profit

Conversion Specifiers For Fun and Profit
Conversion Specifiers For Fun and Profit

You’ll never believe it, but I think I actually found something interesting to say about CONVERSION SPECIFIERS, of all things.  What is a co...

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Dell is Hiring BIOS Developers!

Dell is Hiring BIOS Developers!
Dell is Hiring BIOS Developers!

Are you a BIOS engineer looking for a job?  Or maybe just looking for a better job?  How about a job at a better company?  I bet you want a ...

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Spring 2015 UEFI Plugfest: Presentation Materials Now Available

Spring 2015 UEFI Plugfest: Presentation Materials Now Available
Spring 2015 UEFI Plugfest: Presentation Materials Now Available

The Spring 2015 UEFI Plugfest just completed.  This year it was held at the lovely Embassy Suites hotel in fabulous Seattle, WA, U.S.A.  ...

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  • Introduction to Slim Bootloader
    Slim Bootloader (SBL) is an open-source boot firmware built from the ground up for Intel x86 systems. Designed to be small, fast, and secure...
  • Reverse Engineering UEFI with Ghidra
    Ghidra is a free and open-source tool for software reverse engineering.  It is extensible, and allows for application-specific capabilities...
  • “Hello World” Quick-Start with edk2-stable201908
    Periodically, I've written articles describing how to setup the EDK on a system and configure it to build a basic "Hello, World...
  • JEDEC Manufacturer IDs Are a Mess
    The Vendor ID .  Seems like a pretty prosaic topic.  What's to say?  Every vendor has a numeric identifier that is globally unique so th...
  • Guide to the SWEBOK v4.0 Has Been Released
    The Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 was released on October 15, 2024. The Guide is a publication of the ...
  • UEFIGame
    For something lighter, I wanted to mention a package of "UEFI games" called, appropriately enough, UEFIGame . The story is actuall...

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