[TAG] Booting a "Live CD" image without a CD

[Robos]

On Thu, 24.03.05, John Karns <jkarns at etb.net.co> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Robos wrote:

Hi John.

> >Well, if you only want to show her the livecd, how about you use and
> >emulator?  Lately I've been using qemu a lot and it works like hell!
> >Fabrice Bellard is really a god.
> 
> Hmm, that name sounds familiar ...
> 
> ===============================================
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
> 
> Bellard was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France.  He went to school in Joffre
> (Montpellier), where he already created a widely known program, the
> executable compressor LZEXE.
> 
> ===============================================
> 
> Ahh, that's it.  He must have been all of 17 or 18 years old when he wrote 
> that, as I remember it from 1989 or '90.  I think he sold the idea to Phil 
> Katz who incorporated it into his product.  It was an algorithm that would 
> uncompress a DOS executable, transparent to DOS, after being loaded by the 
> program loader, before being executed.  Handy for saving space in the days 
> of 40 MB disk drives.

If you take a look at his page:
fabrice.bellard.free.fr and look at his projects - you can't be anything but
impressed to the max. Winner of obfuscated c contest and such. Also take a
look at his "old projects page". Such people are inpiring to me.
Cheers
Robos

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