Hardly you 500k. If I run strip on it: strip a.out ls -l a.out returns: -rwxr-xr-x 1 sgusz fidev 3300 Jul 7 13:29 a.out*
Just incase you are curios: uname -a returns: SunOS pintail 5.5.1 Generic_103640-24 sun4u
Now considering the stdio header file (stdio.h) alone is 11868 bytes on my machine, it is safe to assume that the entire stdio library was not included in my binary. Sorry to disapoint you, but you appear to be mistaken. Only the functions needed are taken from the libraries and the rest are not linked...
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With all the talk about being able to play back DVD's under linux, I was wondering why nobody has created a standard MPG player that uses hardware acceleration. I have many video cd's, but since all of the linux MPG decoder programs (such as MTV) only do software decoding playing the movie in double size skips horribly, and full screen is unwatchable (this is on a PII 400 with 128 Meg RAM). Is there some reason why Linux MPG decoder programs don't use the hardware on my video cards like Windows programs do? I hate booting into windows just to watch a Video CD...
Considering the amount of coffee the average programmer drinks, people can now say that the only things that will survive a nuclear war are cockroaches and computer geeks...
I've wondered this many times. One theory I came up with is this: Inside a Universe there are many galaxies, inside galaxies there can be many solar systems, so maybe there is something larger than a universe that contains many univereses. It's hard to believe that there would be absolutely nothing outside of our universe and that things leaving our universe would just disapear. To me that's equivalent to thinking the earth is flat and that people can fall off the edge.
Or maybe the universe curves back onto itself like the surface of a planet, making the universe one large object that keeps growing in size, but has no edge... It would be like a balloon getting blown up. Every point on the balloon keeps getting further away as the balloon gets blown, but there is no edge to the surface of the balloon.
Agreed. The first things you go for in a war are communications and supply lines. As stated above, without communications the opposing forces can not plan a large scale attack or strategy. You cut the supply lines because under fed soldiers will become fatigued and have less morale (making it more likely they will surrender). They can also run out of munitions making it practically impossible to defend themselves.
I worked for EB for 2 1/2 years while I was in college, then went to work for Waldenbooks for the remainder of my college career because the management at EB was clueless. I tried to wait it out hoping they would get rid of most of the clueless people, but instead the clueless people were promoted to district managers and to the home office. One time my district manager stopped by, and a customer asked him if Doom II was out yet, and he had no clue what the customer was talking about. Another time my friend (who I put up to it) had him searching the store for a copy of Quicken for the Nintendo Gameboy. Man that was funny.
"Excuse me, can you help me find Quicken for the Gamboy?"
I boot linux when I want to write code, experiment, play mp3's etc. I boot windows (unfortunately) when I want to play games, and Be OS when I want to do multimedia things. No offense people, I love linux, but have you people ever tried to watch a vcd on linux? You have MpegTV (which is commercial if you want the GUI), which skips horribly on a PII 400 if you double the size of the playing movie. It's even worse if you do full screen (which is a pain to set up). It's just a matter of using the right OS for the right task. BeOS does have a place, but if you don't need it's features, there is no reason to use it.
I don't know what college you people went to! I went to SUNY Stony Brook, and if you are not at least a decent coder you never would have made it through their program. The first year of CS is made up of classes that teach problem solving and basic programming skills. They also teach you data structures and how to implement them properly . From there you go on to Analysis of Algorithms which is a whole class on optimizing. There is Operating Systems, in which you write an OS; Compiler Design, where you write a compiler; etc. Other classes teach you low level things, like assembler and what exactly goes on inside a CPU when it executes instructions. In fact, the only classes I had that dealt heavily with design issues was a two semester software engineering class (CSE 308 and 309). In that class you went through the whole process of writing specs, getting approval, budgeting, time allocation, etc.
My point is that it all depends on the school. A student who couldn't remove white space from a file wouldn't even have been excepted to the comp sci. program (you have to get acceptable grades CSE 113,114,213,214,and 220 before they will even let you into the program) at Stony Brook. People who aren't at least decent coders would never get through those classes.
I am completely non-religious. I heard people talking about forming some form of geek church and that just didn't make sense to me. Geeks hanging out, talking about current issues and partying seems to make more sense to me.
A geek church might not be the way to go because the media would just label it as a cult of some sort. Instead we could have monthly get togethers where we could discuss current issues, trade stories, etc. It would be more like a support group for people who are different.
Does this sound like a good idea to anybody? If so email me. ferret@nassau.cv.net
A geek church might not be the way to go because the media would just label it as a cult of some sort. Instead we could have monthly get togethers where we could discuss current issues, trade stories, etc. It would be more like a support group for people who different.
Does this sound like a good idea to anybody? If so email me. ferret@nassau.cv.net
As usuall most people will only see this as a gun control problem. I don't really think that gun control is the issue. These kids made a large quantity of bombs also. These kids had some motivation to do this. If they didn't have access to guns they may have simply made more, or larger, bombs. They also could have used knives, forks, pencils, etc. I think we should be worrying more about what makes a child want to do something like this, not the fact that he used a gun to do it. If somebody is determined to do something, they will find a way to do it. Just removing guns from the wouldn't have stopped this kids from doing what they did. They just would have used some other method.
I don't know if you've read tom's hardware, but the TNT2 benches faster that the Voodoo3 and Voodoo2 SLI in most cases. This hardly qualifies the TNT as crap...
Doh, you beat me hear. I went to shoping.com where it costs $489.60, and has no mention of multiple books. Then I went to B&N. After searching for and looking at the results which had the $504 price, I followed the link to the more detailed description. There it was, on the bottom line of the description, pre-pack of 24 books.
Anybody know of a good book for learning X windows programming. Been trying to find one that will let me write programs that are not dependent on certain widget sets.
I am going to get this book and learn gtk+ though:)
The only reason I still run Windows at all is to play games. It might be wishful thinking, but it would be nice if games (like baldur's gate) were made for linux. Then I could drop windows completely. If there was some stardard that would make it easier for companies to make sure that their programs would run on all distributions, I think they may consider porting more seriously. A company isn't going to want to spend money to port a program to linux and then have it only run on one distribution. If you think interplay or or other commercial game companies are going to release the source to their current games so we can fix the problems your crazy. Also, a company doesn't want to have to deal with making multiple package files. If a company is going to sell a shrink wrapped game in a store they aren't going to package three cd's, one for rpm, one for deb, and one in gz because it costs more. This is assumning that the game is large enough that all all 3 package types wouldn't fit on one cd...
For the above reasons I think a standard would help.
Sony lost its suit against the people who made a commercial playstation emulator for the Mac, so I don't Nintendo will win its suit against people who made an emulator and aren't even charging for it.
Now if Nintendo went after sites that distributed N64 Roms they might have a chance...
The doctors could alwasy get together and pay somebody to make a web site in a similar fashion with all of the protestors names, addresses, family members, pictures and license plate numbers. Then they can see how the protestors respond to it. All we need is somebody to open fire on a couple of them and then see how fast they change their tune...
We should patent the process of getting a patent. We will list all the steps on how you go about doing this and submit it. When it gets approved we will sue anybody who makes a stupid patent. Hell, we could even sue ourselves!
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Hmm. I don't have g++ on my solaris system, but I tried your example using gcc.
The code:
#include
void main()
{
printf("TEST\n");
}
Compiled using:
gcc foo.c
Now:
ls -l a.out
returns:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sgusz fidev 4896 Jul 7 13:26 a.out*
Hardly you 500k. If I run strip on it:
strip a.out
ls -l a.out
returns:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sgusz fidev 3300 Jul 7 13:29 a.out*
Just incase you are curios:
uname -a
returns:
SunOS pintail 5.5.1 Generic_103640-24 sun4u
Now considering the stdio header file (stdio.h) alone is 11868 bytes on my machine, it is safe to assume that the entire stdio library was not included in my binary. Sorry to disapoint you, but you appear to be mistaken. Only the functions needed are taken from the libraries and the rest are not linked...
With all the talk about being able to play back DVD's under linux, I was wondering why nobody has created a standard MPG player that uses hardware acceleration. I have many video cd's, but since all of the linux MPG decoder programs (such as MTV) only do software decoding playing the movie in double size skips horribly, and full screen is unwatchable (this is on a PII 400 with 128 Meg RAM). Is there some reason why Linux MPG decoder programs don't use the hardware on my video cards like Windows programs do? I hate booting into windows just to watch a Video CD...
Considering the amount of coffee the average programmer drinks, people can now say that the only things that will survive a nuclear war are cockroaches and computer geeks...
I've wondered this many times. One theory I came up with is this: Inside a Universe there are many galaxies, inside galaxies there can be many solar systems, so maybe there is something larger than a universe that contains many univereses. It's hard to believe that there would be absolutely nothing outside of our universe and that things leaving our universe would just disapear. To me that's equivalent to thinking the earth is flat and that people can fall off the edge.
Or maybe the universe curves back onto itself like the surface of a planet, making the universe one large object that keeps growing in size, but has no edge... It would be like a balloon getting blown up. Every point on the balloon keeps getting further away as the balloon gets blown, but there is no edge to the surface of the balloon.
Just a thought...
I noticed this too. Also noticed that the windows requirements are only a p90 and 16 megs of ram. WTF!?
Agreed. The first things you go for in a war are communications and supply lines. As stated above, without communications the opposing forces can not plan a large scale attack or strategy. You cut the supply lines because under fed soldiers will become fatigued and have less morale (making it more likely they will surrender). They can also run out of munitions making it practically impossible to defend themselves.
I worked for EB for 2 1/2 years while I was in college, then went to work for Waldenbooks for the remainder of my college career because the management at EB was clueless. I tried to wait it out hoping they would get rid of most of the clueless people, but instead the clueless people were promoted to district managers and to the home office. One time my district manager stopped by, and a customer asked him if Doom II was out yet, and he had no clue what the customer was talking about. Another time my friend (who I put up to it) had him searching the store for a copy of Quicken for the Nintendo Gameboy. Man that was funny.
:)
"Excuse me, can you help me find Quicken for the Gamboy?"
Hah
I boot linux when I want to write code, experiment, play mp3's etc. I boot windows (unfortunately) when I want to play games, and Be OS when I want to do multimedia things. No offense people, I love linux, but have you people ever tried to watch a vcd on linux? You have MpegTV (which is commercial if you want the GUI), which skips horribly on a PII 400 if you double the size of the playing movie. It's even worse if you do full screen (which is a pain to set up). It's just a matter of using the right OS for the right task. BeOS does have a place, but if you don't need it's features, there is no reason to use it.
I don't know what college you people went to! I went to SUNY Stony Brook, and if you are not at least a decent coder you never would have made it through their program. The first year of CS is made up of classes that teach problem solving and basic programming skills. They also teach you data structures and how to implement them properly . From there you go on to Analysis of Algorithms which is a whole class on optimizing. There is Operating Systems, in which you write an OS; Compiler Design, where you write a compiler; etc. Other classes teach you low level things, like assembler and what exactly goes on inside a CPU when it executes instructions. In fact, the only classes I had that dealt heavily with design issues was a two semester software engineering class (CSE 308 and 309). In that class you went through the whole process of writing specs, getting approval, budgeting, time allocation, etc.
My point is that it all depends on the school. A student who couldn't remove white space from a file wouldn't even have been excepted to the comp sci. program (you have to get acceptable grades CSE 113,114,213,214,and 220 before they will even let you into the program) at Stony Brook. People who aren't at least decent coders would never get through those classes.
I said forming a church would NOT be the way to go. I suggested a support group type environment.
I am completely non-religious. I heard people talking about forming some form of geek church and that just didn't make sense to me. Geeks hanging out, talking about current issues and partying seems to make more sense to me.
A geek church might not be the way to go because the media would just label it as a cult of some sort. Instead we could have monthly get togethers where we could discuss current issues, trade stories, etc. It would be more like a support group for people who are different.
Does this sound like a good idea to anybody? If so email me. ferret@nassau.cv.net
A geek church might not be the way to go because the media would just label it as a cult of some sort. Instead we could have monthly get togethers where we could discuss current issues, trade stories, etc. It would be more like a support group for people who different.
Does this sound like a good idea to anybody? If so email me. ferret@nassau.cv.net
As usuall most people will only see this as a gun control problem. I don't really think that gun control is the issue. These kids made a large quantity of bombs also. These kids had some motivation to do this. If they didn't have access to guns they may have simply made more, or larger, bombs. They also could have used knives, forks, pencils, etc. I think we should be worrying more about what makes a child want to do something like this, not the fact that he used a gun to do it. If somebody is determined to do something, they will find a way to do it. Just removing guns from the wouldn't have stopped this kids from doing what they did. They just would have used some other method.
I don't know if you've read tom's hardware, but the TNT2 benches faster that the Voodoo3 and Voodoo2 SLI in most cases. This hardly qualifies the TNT as crap...
check out www.tomshardware.com
Doh, you beat me hear. I went to shoping.com where it costs $489.60, and has no mention of multiple books. Then I went to B&N. After searching for and looking at the results which had the $504 price, I followed the link to the more detailed description. There it was, on the bottom line of the description, pre-pack of 24 books.
Anybody know of a good book for learning X windows programming. Been trying to find one that will let me write programs that are not dependent on certain widget sets.
:)
I am going to get this book and learn gtk+ though
The only reason I still run Windows at all is to play games. It might be wishful thinking, but it would be nice if games (like baldur's gate) were made for linux. Then I could drop windows completely. If there was some stardard that would make it easier for companies to make sure that their programs would run on all distributions, I think they may consider porting more seriously. A company isn't going to want to spend money to port a program to linux and then have it only run on one distribution. If you think interplay or or other commercial game companies are going to release the source to their current games so we can fix the problems your crazy. Also, a company doesn't want to have to deal with making multiple package files. If a company is going to sell a shrink wrapped game in a store they aren't going to package three cd's, one for rpm, one for deb, and one in gz because it costs more. This is assumning that the game is large enough that all all 3 package types wouldn't fit on one cd...
For the above reasons I think a standard would help.
Sony lost its suit against the people who made a commercial playstation emulator for the Mac, so
I don't Nintendo will win its suit against people
who made an emulator and aren't even charging
for it.
Now if Nintendo went after sites that distributed
N64 Roms they might have a chance...
The doctors could alwasy get together and
pay somebody to make a web site in a similar
fashion with all of the protestors names,
addresses, family members, pictures and
license plate numbers. Then they can
see how the protestors respond to it. All
we need is somebody to open fire on a couple
of them and then see how fast they change
their tune...
We should patent the process of getting a
patent. We will list all the steps on how
you go about doing this and submit it. When
it gets approved we will sue anybody who
makes a stupid patent. Hell, we could even
sue ourselves!