Feedback requested r.e. tutorial site

[JamesM]

I've been making a few tutorials about OSDev. The first ones (first 5 are online) follow the same general route as Bran's tutorials. The later ones will move away from that. They are designed to be less of a 'theory based tutorial', more of a 'practical how-to mixed with theory'.

The idea being that anyone heavily interested in the theory can check the wiki, datasheets, google or other sources. It's aimed at getting people quickly through the initial gumph of setting everything up painlessly and into the practical ideas behind operating systems and how they fit together in a practical sense.

I've finished tutorials up to and including IRQs and the PIT - I would love for some feedback and/or your thoughts!

Cheers, JamesM

http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk

EDIT: should probably be in announcements and test requests. Sorry! :S

[vhg119]

Looks like you spent a lot of time on it. Good job. I like the formatting.

[jerryleecooper]

Me too, I like the colors of the code.

[JamesM]

Thanks for your responses guys.

[Dex]

Good work, you seem to have put alot of work into it, should help a lot of people.

[OrOS]

Wondeful tutorial, and a great addition to brans original tutorial.
Proper sytanx and indentation. However, you might want to add WC3 compliance, the page dies under IE with the div's (IE: Image is halfway under another layer )

You may want to add a color index for the attribute flag, say the first sixteen.

[JamesM]

However, you might want to add WC3 compliance, the page dies under IE with the div's (IE: Image is halfway under another layer )

Yes, I noticed that at my GF's house. Will have to sort it.

You may want to add a color index for the attribute flag, say the first sixteen.

Sorry, I don't quite understand what you are saying here!

JamesM

[kubeos]

None of the tutorial links are working... too bad, I really wanted to check it out.

[JamesM]

Yes, sorry about that, im updating it from static to dynamic generation and the perl modules are being cached when i want them reloaded! my changes aren't coming into effect grrr and I'm not server admin so I can't restart it! bear with and I'll repost here when its done.

Cheers!

EDIT: It's now working although the .htaccess file isn't reloading so for now use the link

http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/document.p ... =tutorial/

[JamesM]

I've set up a redirect so you can now get to it via the usual link and it'll work. Thanks for patience!

http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk

[Mark139]

I like the look.
You could explain the gcc compiler toolchain. explain (with links to wiki on this site) that a newbie will need a cross compiler.

EDIT:
Here's the wiki link
http://www.osdev.org/wiki/GCC_Cross-Compiler

[JamesM]

I didn't (and still don't) need a cross compiler. I suppose I could put that in as an addendum for cygwin...

[lukem95]

OFF TOPIC: isnt that pl file vuln to LFI?? it looks like it would be.

Im only having a quick look at OSD but if i had more time id pen test it.

[JamesM]

LFI? Wikipedia says "Link fragmentation and interleaving" but has no article for it. Is that what you meant?

I'm no CGI expert, I wrote a syntax highlighting lexer and a wikimedia parser as a learning exercise, and used that to create those tutorial pages.

[raevin]

LFI? Wikipedia says "Link fragmentation and interleaving" but has no article for it. Is that what you meant?

I'm no CGI expert, I wrote a syntax highlighting lexer and a wikimedia parser as a learning exercise, and used that to create those tutorial pages.

Nah, LFI in this case means "Local FIle Inclusion"...pretty much a way for someone to read files on your server that they shouldn't be reading.

On topic though, rather good website.

Only one problem, once you get to tutorial #4, the makefile errors out on me with this error: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'

And it seems like adding "-fno-stack-protector" to the CFLAGS doesn't work either like it should from other sites I have read.