Jon Masters
On The Metal
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Evolution of Windows OS and Tech Support Challenges
The chapter delves into the speaker's experiences with installing various Windows operating systems, reminiscing about the challenges with older technology like floppy disks and slow internet speeds. They also reflect on the evolution of tech support from seeking help on mailing lists to using modern platforms like Facebook Messenger.
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You can find Jon on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jonmasters.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
- "Negative Result: Reading Kernel Memory From User Mode" (blog post from July 2017): https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-memory-from-user-mode/
- Spectre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability)
- Meltdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability)
- Speculative execution: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261792-what-is-speculative-execution
- ICL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_Limited
- Hacker News front page, January 1st, 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-01-01
- Boogie Nights, the death of Little Bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFX-qfYbHKg
- BBC Micro 6502: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
- BBC Master: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Master
- Storage Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_Wars
- PA-8000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-8000
- SPARCbook 3000ST: https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/04/01/sparcbook-3000st-the-coolest-90s-laptop-sparc-vintagecomputing-retrocomputing-eckmeister/
- Itanium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium
- McKinley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Itanium_microprocessors#McKinley_(180_nm)
- Leon Czolgosz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Czolgosz
- Humartia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartia
- Transmeta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta
- Transmeta Crusoe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe
- Richard (Dick) Sites: https://sites.google.com/site/dicksites/
- Dick Sites, "It's the Memory, Stupid!": http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/architects_look_to_future.pdf
- John Crawford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crawford_(engineer)
- John Hennessy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy
- Kernel page-table isolation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_page-table_isolation
- Hot Chips 30 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XzVF0sAZo
- Panel at Hot Chips 30 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XzVF0sAZo#t=1h17m
- The Omega Directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_Directive
- L1TF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshadow_(security_vulnerability)
- iDRACula: https://www.servethehome.com/idracula-vulnerability-impacts-millions-of-legacy-dell-emc-servers/
- MDS, including Zombieload and RIDL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microarchitectural_Data_Sampling
- Heartbleed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed
- Lazy FPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_FP_state_restore
- Pentium FDIV bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
- Pentium F00F bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug
- Hyper-threading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading
- Acorn Archimedes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes
- Acorn RISC machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
- RISC-V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
- ARM Thumb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Thumb
- ARMv8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARMv8-A
- Chris Celio et al., "Avoiding ISA Bloat with Macro-Op Fusion for RISC-V": https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02318
- Chris Celio, "ISA Shootout": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii_pEXKKYUg
- BeagleBoard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard
- ARM Ares: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures/neoverse_n1
- SeaMicro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMicro
- Calxeda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calxeda
- AppliedMicro X-Gene: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/apm/x-gene
- UEFI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
- Broadcom Vulcan: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/cavium/microarchitectures/vulcan
- Savaged by Systemd: An Erotic Unix Encounter by Michael Warren Lucas: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36190710-savaged-by-systemd
- Coreboot kexec'ing Linux: https://twitter.com/hugelgupf/status/1158466881373630464
- IOMMU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_memory_management_unit
- Slackware: https://en.wikipedi...
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