It was pretty trippy, Photon seemed cool, but it wasn't X (you could get X for Photon, it you were willing to shell out even more cash). The gotchas never seemed to end though, everything was a wee bit different than the rest of the world. And you had to pay $$$$ for a compiler. At the time, I couldn't find gcc binaries for it.
And the software we were using (also from Ottawa area, IIRC) needed QNX Windows (AUUUUGGGGGGH!) even though we didn't give a rats ass about a GUI even needing to run.
The coolest thing about it though was that we also had obtained Phindows (i think it was called that) which allowed you to run Photon in Windows. Big deal you say? Well, Photon also allows you to view another Photon session within your own, share it, etc.. (i'm fuzzy on the details)
The point I'm eventually trying to get to without too much reminising is that I was able to get a photon session looking in on itself looked like it does when you point a camera at the monitor it's displaying on, although I think I had to reboot 'cause it was recursing too quickly. (oops)
Egosurfing, I found it quite refreshing to NOT see my old web pages that died 4 months ago, yet found a large number of hits to people I'm apparantly related to. (gasp) Still no sign of my current web page tho. Curious. More time perhaps.
But did anyone else find there's number of identical links? (I'm used to metacrawler, so maybe this is normal for search engines?)
Slashdot Mirror
Groan. You've got an nicely ambiguous sentence. I assume you're meaning "[under unix] Handling of ".." is done by the shell. "
No. .. is a directory entry pointing to the inode of the parent directory. Except on a root directory, it points to itself. (convenient, eh?)
[lurk]
Again, more dated experience, mine was in '97.
It was pretty trippy, Photon seemed cool, but it wasn't X (you could get X for Photon, it you were willing to shell out even more cash).
The gotchas never seemed to end though, everything was a wee bit different than the rest of the world. And you had to pay $$$$ for a compiler. At the time, I couldn't find gcc binaries for it.
And the software we were using (also from Ottawa area, IIRC) needed QNX Windows (AUUUUGGGGGGH!) even though we didn't give a rats ass about a GUI even needing to run.
The coolest thing about it though was that we also had obtained Phindows (i think it was called that) which allowed you to run Photon in Windows. Big deal you say? Well, Photon also allows you to view another Photon session within your own, share it, etc.. (i'm fuzzy on the details)
The point I'm eventually trying to get to without too much reminising is that I was able to get a photon session looking in on itself looked like it does when you point a camera at the monitor it's displaying on, although I think I had to reboot 'cause it was recursing too quickly. (oops)
Egosurfing, I found it quite refreshing to NOT see my old web pages that died 4 months ago, yet found a large number of hits to people I'm apparantly related to. (gasp) Still no sign of my current web page tho. Curious. More time perhaps.
But did anyone else find there's number of identical links? (I'm used to metacrawler, so maybe this is normal for search engines?)