It seems to work pretty well for Applescript.. If you have never tried it, I recommend looking at it (just for curiosity's sake).. Granted, it doesn't offer the same flexibility as perl, but it's great for easy automation.
I agree.. Parrot is really what I'm waiting for in Perl 6. Parrot seems to promise for all platforms what.NET is promising for windows. I know there is currently work being done as we speak to make a parrot bytecode compiler for ruby.. It will also probably be done before Ruby's implementation that Matz is working on called 'Rite'. I really hope that parrot gets lots of community support and wide adoption, because it could really play a major role in the future of scripting..
The BSD bits are in the kernel as well. Examples would be BSD sockets, ipfw, etc. It all really depends on what your definition of 'in the kernel' is. When you're talking about Mach, you're not going to find as much that you might consider to be 'in the kernel' as you would with FreeBSD or Linux. I consider it "in the kernel" though since syscalls are still made to those services.
Just informational.. I've been running an XFree86 4.3.0 beta on my OS X desktop for a while now and it is MUCH more responsive than 4.2.. I can run KDE in full screen mode and it is actually usable. With 4.2, it was slower than using VNC over a T1. So, for all those who wished apple would have included a full screen mode in its X11 betas, 4.3.0 is what you're looking for. I believe the changes they incorporated were actually from Apple anyway (they released the source back).
And that site in a nice clickable format.. allofmp3.. They limit bandwidth to about 50KBytes/sec per connection for 'vip' MP3s (the ones you pay $0.01/mb for) which is just about all of them. That's usually plenty fast for MP3s though.
well.. I doubt this would be legal if it were in the US.. But if the RIAA could come up with a site like this, I'd be there. Just like I'm at this site:).. Check out http://www.allofmp3.com/.. $0.01/mb for MP3s. Many tracks are "online encode" as well, which means you can encode them to whatever bitrate and format you want, including WMA, MP3 and OGG (yes, OGG).. Be sure to click the 'English' link at the top if your russian isn't that great;)
Darwin currently has better threading (read: true kernel level threading) in SMP machines than any of the other stable releases of BSD do. But I'm not sure if that's available on Darwin x86 or if it's only ppc. I'm going to guess the latter.
I know NetBSD has LFS (log-structured file system), which I assume is journaled. Does anyone know anything about this? I know it's been getting some attention from the developers lately after a period of being stale.
This decision was made due to space concerns. For users with small filesystems, it was a common problem, during an installkernel, to run out of space on / because the previously unlinked blocks from things such as/modules/ or/boot/kernel/ were not deallocated yet (deallocation can take time using softupdates, but happens eventually). The solution to this problem was to have the root filesystem default to not having softupdates. This was just due to the fact that you do not want your root filesystem filling up, and this really made it a pain for many users to upgrade. Perhaps a better decision would be to have sysinstall toggle it based on how large the filesystem is, but it's really a tough call. But anyway, there's some fairly recent history for you:)
the hourly rate which the law demands is calculated based on a 40 hour work week. They are required to pay you overtime if you work over 40 hours a week OR you work over 8 hours in one day. So basically, you could work 9 hours one day and get time and a half for it even if you worked only 40 hours that week. If you were non-exempt salary (which is what most of the people affected by that law become) then you get paid for all 40 hours plus time and a half for one hour.
Nope. If you make less than $85,000 in CA in the "technology" field, they are required to make you non-exempt. Non-exempt salary, the best of both worlds:)
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This is irrelevant in an international (national security) matter.
It seems to work pretty well for Applescript.. If you have never tried it, I recommend looking at it (just for curiosity's sake).. Granted, it doesn't offer the same flexibility as perl, but it's great for easy automation.
I agree.. Parrot is really what I'm waiting for in Perl 6. Parrot seems to promise for all platforms what .NET is promising for windows. I know there is currently work being done as we speak to make a parrot bytecode compiler for ruby.. It will also probably be done before Ruby's implementation that Matz is working on called 'Rite'. I really hope that parrot gets lots of community support and wide adoption, because it could really play a major role in the future of scripting..
The test will be how well these cards will render Doom 3 when it comes out :)
When's the next Klan meeting?
I haven't seen your stdio.h or libc ;)
Damn you.. You've defeated me both in the speed of your response and wit as well..
I surrender.
Wow.. This makes more sense than any comment I've ever read. Thanks Mr. Coward!
The BSD bits are in the kernel as well. Examples would be BSD sockets, ipfw, etc. It all really depends on what your definition of 'in the kernel' is. When you're talking about Mach, you're not going to find as much that you might consider to be 'in the kernel' as you would with FreeBSD or Linux. I consider it "in the kernel" though since syscalls are still made to those services.
Just informational.. I've been running an XFree86 4.3.0 beta on my OS X desktop for a while now and it is MUCH more responsive than 4.2 .. I can run KDE in full screen mode and it is actually usable. With 4.2, it was slower than using VNC over a T1. So, for all those who wished apple would have included a full screen mode in its X11 betas, 4.3.0 is what you're looking for. I believe the changes they incorporated were actually from Apple anyway (they released the source back).
Cheers,
-JD-
Although it's not a state :)
And that site in a nice clickable format.. allofmp3.. They limit bandwidth to about 50KBytes/sec per connection for 'vip' MP3s (the ones you pay $0.01/mb for) which is just about all of them. That's usually plenty fast for MP3s though.
well.. I doubt this would be legal if it were in the US.. But if the RIAA could come up with a site like this, I'd be there. Just like I'm at this site :).. Check out http://www.allofmp3.com/ .. $0.01/mb for MP3s. Many tracks are "online encode" as well, which means you can encode them to whatever bitrate and format you want, including WMA, MP3 and OGG (yes, OGG).. Be sure to click the 'English' link at the top if your russian isn't that great ;)
I don't see any 3rd party software listed in there.. Does anyone else? I just see windows info + driver/hardware info.
Darwin currently has better threading (read: true kernel level threading) in SMP machines than any of the other stable releases of BSD do. But I'm not sure if that's available on Darwin x86 or if it's only ppc. I'm going to guess the latter.
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-JD-
(waiting for KSEs to be finished . .
I'm glad you feel comfortable making that call for every unix guy on the planet. I'm a unix guy and prefer OS X on the desktop, personally.
To correct myself, it appears that log-structured filesystems are not the same as journaled filesystems..
Mm.. does anyone remember 4.4 (or was it 4.3?), when write caching was disabled by default? That was painful.. :)
I know NetBSD has LFS (log-structured file system), which I assume is journaled. Does anyone know anything about this? I know it's been getting some attention from the developers lately after a period of being stale.
Cheers,
-JD-
Maybe not enabled by default, but that doesn't mean it won't make the base install. That didn't stop GPL_MATH_EMULATE :-)
This decision was made due to space concerns. For users with small filesystems, it was a common problem, during an installkernel, to run out of space on / because the previously unlinked blocks from things such as /modules/ or /boot/kernel/ were not deallocated yet (deallocation can take time using softupdates, but happens eventually). The solution to this problem was to have the root filesystem default to not having softupdates. This was just due to the fact that you do not want your root filesystem filling up, and this really made it a pain for many users to upgrade. Perhaps a better decision would be to have sysinstall toggle it based on how large the filesystem is, but it's really a tough call. But anyway, there's some fairly recent history for you :)
Cheers,
-JD-
the hourly rate which the law demands is calculated based on a 40 hour work week. They are required to pay you overtime if you work over 40 hours a week OR you work over 8 hours in one day. So basically, you could work 9 hours one day and get time and a half for it even if you worked only 40 hours that week. If you were non-exempt salary (which is what most of the people affected by that law become) then you get paid for all 40 hours plus time and a half for one hour.
Cheers,
-JD-
Nope. If you make less than $85,000 in CA in the "technology" field, they are required to make you non-exempt. Non-exempt salary, the best of both worlds :)
They have redundant power supplies.
or in 5.0, gbde (GEOM Based Disk Encryption)