Welcome to decuser’s blog

Topics on this blog include computing, retro-computing, operating systems, math, and whatever other technical subjects I happen to be exploring that I find interesting enough to take and share notes about.

Posts

• Nov 23, 2015

  Installing and Using Research Unix Version 6 in SimH PDP-11/40 Emulator

  This note is intended to document the process of running v6 in a PDP-11/40 emulated environment. A subsequent note covers v7

• Feb 23, 2015

  Raspberry Pi B+, i2c, and DS3231 RTC

  Here are some notes on how to get your pi talking to a cheapo DS3231 Realtime clock using nothing more than a pi, an ethernet cable (for downloads), a serial cable, and an RTC.

• May 6, 2004

  HelloMono - Mono on Windows XP

  An article I wrote back in the day (2004-05-06)and published on CodeProject. The article is rated 4.11 and has been viewed more than 229k times as of October 21, 2025.

  https://www.codeproject.com/articles/HelloMono-Mono-on-Windows-XP

• Apr 30, 2004

  hello, world - A primitive view of the state of the art

  An article I wrote back in the day (2004-04-30) and published on CodeProject. The article is rated 4.67 and has been viewed more than 161k times as of October 21, 2025.

  https://www.codeproject.com/articles/hello-world-A-primitive-view-of-the-state-of-the-a

• Jan 4, 2002

  LogDriver - A simplified log4j using C++

  An article I wrote back in the day (2002-01-04) and published on CodeProject. The article is rated 4.73 and has been viewed more than 192k times as of October 21, 2025.

  https://www.codeproject.com/articles/LogDriver-A-simplified-log4j-using-C-