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  1. Re:This couldn't have happened with Linux... on The 25-Year-Old BSD Bug · · Score: 1
    And telldir/seekdir are a PITA to implement on any FS where directories aren't just regular files (formatted as a list of dir entries).

    I think those interfaces should be deprecated, rather than forcing people to do horrible things under the hood, and give the false impression that this kind of stream-like approach to directories still makes any sense.

  2. Re:This couldn't have happened with Linux... on The 25-Year-Old BSD Bug · · Score: 1
    I've hit a similar bug when trying to do a seekdir/telldir on a NFS filesystem.

    (both the NFS server and client were linux machines).

  3. Re:What? on Donald Knuth Rips On Unit Tests and More · · Score: 1

    It did work just fine for me with 'longtable'.

  4. Re:Literate programming... on Donald Knuth Rips On Unit Tests and More · · Score: 5, Funny
    why, have you ever read the source to the original, one-true unix bourne shell ?

    http://unix-archive.kalwun.de/PDP-11/Trees/V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/mac.h

  5. Re:"Open source" and Stanford policy on Donald Knuth Rips On Unit Tests and More · · Score: 1

    But the source of TAOCP unfortunately isn't.

  6. Re:Assembly isn't obsolete! on Obsolete Technical Skills · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't think GCC works that way. It probably generates machine code directly.
    No, GCC generates plain old text assembly, then calls the assembler (as) on that.

    In fact, the gcc or g++ commands are 'drivers' that first call a preprocessor, then a compiler, then an assembler and finally a linker (all of them separate executables).

  7. Re:A modest proposal for Tanenbaum on The Great Microkernel Debate Continues · · Score: 2, Interesting
    There was however a version of linux hosted as a server on Mach (MkLinux) - the Mach kernel being considered a 'hardware' platform of sorts as seen from the linux kernel perspective.

    And linux was similarly ported to the L4 microkernel.

    I don't know how Debian/Hurd manages to get all that array of kinky linuxish apps working on Hurd, but the idea of actually running the whole linux as some Hurd server shouldn't be that weird.

  8. Re:hmmm... on Command Line Life Partner Wanted · · Score: 1

    On Debian that would probably be redirected to undocumented(7).

  9. Re:hmmm... on Command Line Life Partner Wanted · · Score: 1
    For a moderate load (hundreds of files) it will be much slower than the xargs version. Just try it.

    For many thousands of small files (as typical with large source codes) it will be two or three order of magnitude slower than the xargs version.

  10. Re:hmmm... on Command Line Life Partner Wanted · · Score: 1
    Solaris does come with GNU grep (and it's installed by default with all of Sun Freeware, at least in the 'Solaris Express Developer' distro I'm using), it's just called ggrep.

    Of course, you have to have /usr/sfw/bin in the path.

  11. Re:A very niche OS on FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE Now Available · · Score: 1
    ZFS ? I don't think it's stable on FreeBSD yet. It's just crashing and locking hard.

    Will it be stable by the time the hippies end arguing ?

    At which point everybody will realize ZFS will NEVER live up to the hype, and find something better to waste one's time with ;-)

  12. Re: it's programmed to be this way on Scientist Suggests We Explore 'Universe is a VR Simulation' Theory · · Score: 1
    Those 'few people' can GF themselves.

    Nobody is obligated to get defensive about his religion or his lack thereof. It's the same boring shit to drag people into 'debates' about strawmans and assumed complacencies.

    No Christian has any obligation to have an opinion about the latest vomit one of those American right-wing 'thinktanks' has produced. In fact, if I was a bishop or something, I would threaten disciplinary action against any subordinate getting into ID debates. It's absolutely distasteful.

  13. Re:Informative? on eBay vs. Romania's Online Scammers · · Score: 1
    Following the same line, I could claim that 'most' Americans or Swedes are 'basically slime' too.

    And then pretend that everybody who doesn't agree is either naively wishful-thinking or self-defensive.

    You're either a troll or some dangerous species of the-world-is-evil-because-i-can't-get-laid imbecile.

    Get real. The internet scamming phenomenon in Romania has about the same social & statistical significance as the cannibalism of Armin Meiwes in Germany.

  14. Re:Google Cache Reveals Cause of Death on NetBSD 4.0 Has Been Released · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It may not be that simple.

    Many people that are treated for depression have the bad habit of mixing booze and medicine. And sometimes shit happens.

    I did that too. I've almost killed myself. Nobody believed it was simply an accident, despite this being the pure truth.

    My advice wrt itojun would be to let him RIP. He was an IPv6 and BSD hacker, not Britney Spears.

  15. Re:Not really an issue on US Control of Internet Remains an Issue · · Score: 1

    why unpleasant ?

  16. Re:At least they saw it coming on Germany Implements Sweeping Data Retention Policies · · Score: 1

    go learn how SMTP works.

    The addresses in the 'From:' and 'To:' headers don't have to be the
    same as the ones in the 'envelope' (the ones used in the 'MAIL FROM'
    and 'RCPT TO' SMTP commands).