Possibly he wasn't keen on the time investment required to implement SMP. If these guys do all the work, it may well make it in.
It might. Even if Theo doesn't accept these patches, the patches will still be available. I just hope they keep maintaining them and keep them up to date if Theo says no for any reason.
OTOH, it may be that SMP code is more difficult to audit, and that this is the reason it won't make it in. Remember, SMP allows for the possibility of race conditions within the kernel itself, which would be a nightmare to validate for security.
If Theo would deny this work, it would probably be on those grounds. It was indeed one of the reasons he mentioned to me.
The most likely place for race conditions to occur on SMP systems is with threading. I have yet to see a totally solid threading implementation that is totally devoid of race conditions of any kind wrt locking/freeing/semaphores/etc. Usually kernel developers solve most of the problems by passing one big lock around (like linux does, and FreeBSD (ever heard of Giant?))
All in all good news that these guys are working on it indeed. My main concern is seeing this project die because it has the chance of being shot down by Theo. I really hope they persist in pushing Theo to accept it. I also hope they have a lot of patience while dealing with Theo, he's also not the easiest to get along with:)
if they can learn about the philosophy and design of UNIX? You can choode between Linux, BSD/OS X, or whatever, but if you teach 'em about AT&T and BSD, they can adapt what they've learned to any UNIX-ish OS they come across.
That way, they can let their parent buy any box they want, and yet install any *NIX like OS they like on there.:)
Because human skin and muscle tone (or lack thereof) is VERY hard to emulate with a pork roast.
Also, being able to work around human dimentions is something that needs practice. If you want to tattoo the underside of a pork shouler, you just turn it around. Humans aren't that flexible.
Also, it's something psychological. A tattoo artist should be able to put their canvasses at ease, because he/she's subjecting them to a lot of pain (relatively speaking).
Pork shoulders have no emotions, humans do. That's why tattoo artists must train on humans. Also, humans are more capable of kicking the artist's ass if he/she fucks up.
Useless? Useless my foot. Being able to play quake on my vt320 serial terminal is what I call usefull. Also, being able to play movies with it (with mplayer) is useful too. VGA cards are way to expensive for me:)
That's the library you'd want to use. Also, check out "bb", which is a very cool OPEN SOURCE text mode demo, with good music, and playable on any terminal out there.
Uhhhhh... how the F*CK am I going to play this under FreeBSD? Yeah I hear everyone scream Mplayer, but they chucked it out of the ports for some unknown reason...
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Didn't you see the hair that guy's palms? Oh wait duh... He was wairing the gloves
Get an answering machine. Take control back.
It might. Even if Theo doesn't accept these patches, the patches will still be available. I just hope they keep maintaining them and keep them up to date if Theo says no for any reason.
OTOH, it may be that SMP code is more difficult to audit, and that this is the reason it won't make it in. Remember, SMP allows for the possibility of race conditions within the kernel itself, which would be a nightmare to validate for security.
If Theo would deny this work, it would probably be on those grounds. It was indeed one of the reasons he mentioned to me.
The most likely place for race conditions to occur on SMP systems is with threading. I have yet to see a totally solid threading implementation that is totally devoid of race conditions of any kind wrt locking/freeing/semaphores/etc. Usually kernel developers solve most of the problems by passing one big lock around (like linux does, and FreeBSD (ever heard of Giant?))
All in all good news that these guys are working on it indeed. My main concern is seeing this project die because it has the chance of being shot down by Theo. I really hope they persist in pushing Theo to accept it. I also hope they have a lot of patience while dealing with Theo, he's also not the easiest to get along with :)
The last time I spoke to Theo in person, he wasn't too keen on SMP. That wasn't too long ago.
The thing is that the XHTML has _NO_ formatting/styling at all, it's dominated by what's around it, and sitting snugly in place.
Blame Rob, not Joe.
Although it is a nice idea. To let *foreign* countries have a say in what the U.S. does in the future, instead of the other way round :)
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4) apt-get remove foo
What's your beef?
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Oh I'm being too harsh I think... I know there's aptitude, tasksel and apt-* but this is good news too.
pi can not be computed, it can merely be approximated.
But hey, that's just my opinion. The target of the slashdotting can always take their server down temporarily.
Read the damn slashdot faq and quit yer whining.
Of course, KDE on VMS would be hella cool too.
That way, they can let their parent buy any box they want, and yet install any *NIX like OS they like on there. :)
*sigh*
Guess not. I liked their scheme with sol 7 and 8 better. I'm not paying $20 for something I'll probably test once.
(leaves rest to reader's imagination)
Also, being able to work around human dimentions is something that needs practice. If you want to tattoo the underside of a pork shouler, you just turn it around. Humans aren't that flexible.
Also, it's something psychological. A tattoo artist should be able to put their canvasses at ease, because he/she's subjecting them to a lot of pain (relatively speaking).
Pork shoulders have no emotions, humans do. That's why tattoo artists must train on humans. Also, humans are more capable of kicking the artist's ass if he/she fucks up.
Useless? Useless my foot. Being able to play quake on my vt320 serial terminal is what I call usefull. Also, being able to play movies with it (with mplayer) is useful too. VGA cards are way to expensive for me :)
That's the library you'd want to use. Also, check out "bb", which is a very cool OPEN SOURCE text mode demo, with good music, and playable on any terminal out there.
Since when did they move it all to multimedia? Hrmpf. Oh well... :)
We are the borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
(and, we have lots of money and lawyers to make that happen)
Signed,
The Microsoft Collective.
> ls -ld /us/ports/graphics/mplayer /usr/ports/graphics/mplayer: No such file or directory
ls:
Even after cvsupping it's still gone. Really weird.
*grumble*
A mindset more graphics cards companies should adopt.
Didn't you know that linux does asp? Try ChiliASP sometime.