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phl0at
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Searched high and low and still found no way to change user name! My buddy "helped" me on the keyboard #-o hopefully I am not stuck with gofer! Could someone enlighten me on how to change the entry, please.
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Why not just create a new account? The loss of your posting record is hardly a big deal.
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User Control Panel > Profile > Edit account settings > Username

It's right there.
When you start writing an OS you do the minimum possible to get the x86 processor in a usable state, then you try to get as far away from it as possible.

Syntax checkup:
Wrong: OS's, IRQ's, zero'ing
Right: OSes, IRQs, zeroing
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phl0at
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Boy do I feel sheepish. :shock:
Thank you.
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iansjack wrote:The loss of your posting record is hardly a big deal.
At least, I judge the credibility and trustworthiness of the users based on their number of stars and join-date. It indicates a lot of things.


P.S. I've changed my user name with the capital M to indicate that it's my real first name. I didn't that we could change that, thanks.
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Judging a poster on two posts, one of which is asking how to change their username may make a lot of sense to you. Not to me.
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iansjack wrote:Judging a poster on two posts, one of which is asking how to change their username may make a lot of sense to you. Not to me.
I meant, the user with more posts is more trust worthy, and vice versa. That's not always correct but is a good approximation.

The user that joined 10 years ago and is still here indicates that he's serious about OS development as compared to the one that joined, asked a question, and never returned.
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The person I referred to had a total of two posts when I made that comment. (Now three.) Hardly a sufficient record to make any useful judgement.
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Well, I'm sorry. I got you wrong.

I thought, you were saying that post-count didn't matter for ANYONE, not just for the OP.
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