Mercury turned somewhat into.NET (at least the VM did), which lines Bill Gates' pockets, which is certainly the best programming language for Him (capitalization intentional, he seems to think he's god sometimes)
Dunno, this review is riddled with little niggling errors (I hate people that say medias, It's already plural). He also starts off as a handholding session, then drops it with "UNIX folks can handle this" when he doesn't want to dive in. And he doesn't list UFS as a filesystem type? BTW: ext2 in 4.1 is experimental. Idunno if they improved it greatly in 4.2, but likely also to be in that state. List it as unstable.
Barely any comparison to 4.1 or 4.0 (encryption, kernel accept filters might help speed up web servers and other daemons), nor how easy it is to upgrade from an old install.
I've been running mozilla-win32 since M14, the nightlies since M17. The current nightlies are loads better than the M18 build. Very slick. Hotmail (a necessary evil) is quite snappy, better than on IE even. Remember to install PSM to be able to surf SSL sites. I'm beginning to be surprised when it crashes (as opposed to before when I was surprised it didn't), and it's beginning to take over Netscape 4.7 as my browser of choice (I use IE only for HTML testing).
You should also check the build notes to see if the nightly is stable or not.
Hidden from casual human viewing yes. But not computers. It's just a font tag, meaning you can't see it, but search engines will. Anyone really doing a net search will find it.
FreeBSD has changed this a bit, backing away from/etc/rc.local and having startup/shutdown scripts in/usr/local/etc/rc.d/. Any daemons that I install from the/usr/ports (Samba, sshd) put stuff in here instead of trying to edit my (nonexistant)/etc/rc.local.
If you don't like that, go back to 18th centry Great Britain, where only land-owning adult white males could vote.
Not to make this a flamefest, just putting out facts. GB wasn't the only one doing that. In america, non-whites couldn't vote at all until after the Civil war, late 19th century, and poll taxes and other nasty tricks kept most disenfranchised until post civil rights, late 20th century.
Women couldn't vote until 1920, early 20th century.
That being said, we're using ancient 60's technology to vote (as a Chicagoan, I can say that Illinois is still using the butterfly system so heavily deriled in FLorida). Kinda weird that something as important as the President would be left to ancient tech. I just hope that we use Florida as a learning experience and fix the problems.
Trying to Trademark numbers, remember them trying to trademark 486 when they wanted to deep-six their contracts with AMD and Cyrix. Judge threw that out. Then they came out with i486 as a psuedo trademark until they came out with the majesty that is Pentium(TM).
Truth be told, their not alone here. Zilog wanted to trademark the Z for the Z80 and Z8000. Judge told them if he did that, them and 25 other people could corner the english language.
The Intel Inside thing. Though actually great marketing, pushes them towards the bad business practices. They reimburse for advertisements, up to 60% i think, but the computer line can't use CPUs from anybody else. If Intel was shown to be a monopoly (unlikely given their recent blunders) that would probably be seen as non-competitive.
DESCRIPTION
baby is initiated when one parent process polls another
server process through a socket connection in the BSD ver-
sion or through pipes in the System V implementation. baby
runs at low priority for approximately forty weeks and then
terminates with a heavy system load. Most systems require
constant monitoring when baby reaches its final stages of
execution.
Older implentations of baby did not require both initiating
processes to be present at the time of completion. In those
versions the initiating process which was not present was
awakened and notified of the results upon completion. It
has since been determined that the presence of both parent
processes result in a generally lower system load at comple-
tion, and thus current versions of baby expect both parent
processes to be active during the final stages.
Successful completion of baby results in the creation and
naming of a new process. Parent processes then broadcast
messages to all other processes, local and remote, informing
them of their new status.
OPTIONS
-sex define the gender of the created process
-name
assign a name to the new process
EXAMPLES
baby -sex f -name "Celeste Amanda Torvalds"
Completed successfully on November 20, 2000.
Celeste's vital statistics: 7 pounds 5 oz.
The parent processes are reportedly doing fine.
SEE ALSO
cigar(6), dump(5), cry(3).
BUGS
Despite its complexity, baby only knows one signal, SIGCHLD,
(or SIGCLD in the System V implementation), which it uses to
contact the parent processes. One or both parent processes
must then inspect the baby process to determine the cause of
the signal.
The sleep command may not work as expected on either parent
process for some time afterward, as each new instance of
baby sends intermittent signals to the parent processes
which must be handled by the parents immediately.
A baby process will frequently dump core, requiring either
or both parent processes to clean up after it.
Despite the reams of available documentation on invoking and
maintaining baby, most parent processes are overwhelmed.
That said, it's actually usable as an everyday browser (which is more than can be said for M18).
Hmm, I;ve been using nightlies since M18 came out. I'm sure it's loaded with debug code, but it's still pushing towards my normal everyday browser. I basically only use netscape 4.7 only for mail and news, which is not as polished as the web browser.
Although I don't agree with all you say (Mozilla has a lot better functionality than NN4.7 does, and crashes less, at least until I "upgraded" to using
PSM so I can finally have https:// URLs work.
I don't agree with the Motif thing. As a toolkit, Motif sucked, and it was ugly. Unstable, bloated and a bitch to program in. New UI features (like Microsquishie combo-boxes) that added functionality were slow in coming.
I do 100% agree with the pretty-GUI syndrome that's taken over what's called GUI design these days. If it's themable, it's cool. You can spend 20 minutes trying to find a theme that you can read through. Blue text on dark woodgrain may sound like a good idea at first, but just try using it first. Mozilla chrome even goes past this by allowing you to change the UI. Put the buttons anywhere. Terrible for usability.
there's a programmers editor that allows you to have a pixmap as a background for your text window. One of the big features of the product in fast. Do I really want to try reading through this when I can easily waste a couple hours on a bad semi-colon placement? Nedit has no such feature, but has (most) of what I need in an editor, and is one of the first things I install on a new box.
I believe Apple had two cards. Teh one I know more about was the later one, a NuBus based 486sx (not PCI, macs didn't have PCI in those days). Didn't play with it much, only thing I did was play Windows Solitaire with it. No one had a use for it.
Not a bad setup, if that's what you need. Took a sh*tload of disk space to do it. You basically created a disk container for it. Thre was soe clipboard translation, and you could run both computers at the same time. They shared the net and serial ports (good this, Idunno if anyone remembers the horror of Win3.1 winsocks).
OK, where do I find the documentation on the undocumented Kernel config params in LINT? There's one that looks cool, VM coloring based on cache size. Supposedly makes the VM subsystem MUCH better on memory allocation and paging. Is this in the book? No, I find it wandering the net. Does it explain the cache values and when to use them? nope.
Nobody will read this anyway, a day old BSD story isn't news.
I'm not a BSD bigot. I follow no OS religion, I have not anointed myself at the feet of the Daemon or the Penguin. They are tools people. There are many more important fights in this world than splitting the hairs on which free 32 bit UNIX based operating system with the same base toolchain rulez and rockz.
The thing I don't like is how hard it is to get BSD news and info. I can go to a local bookstore, they have 6 different Linux distros. That doesn't count the scores of Linux books. For FreeBSD, one book, the Official FreeBSD book, and that's got an old version (4.0) that they upgraded from 3.4 when 4.1.1 came out. Drives me nuts.
Maybe I should stop whining and fill the void myself, but I don't have the time nor resources right now.
I'd personally refute most of the stuff he says, 70 hour weeks lead to burnout and sloppy code. The wuality of my environment has never been as important as the quality of the people around me. Mentoring is probably the most important for me, and creating an atmosphere where asking questions is encouraged. Testing is part of the process, not something left to the last second. But the above link does all that pretty well.
Tht sure as hell has a lot of untyped stuff, must fly.
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In the original CD days (when 2x drives were COOL) all Macs had SCSI, most PCs have/had IDE/ATA. If The drives were different busses, then you can't compare them. If they were both SCSI, they're interchangeable and no such thing as a Mac or PC drive.
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Mercury turned somewhat into .NET (at least the VM did), which lines Bill Gates' pockets, which is certainly the best programming language for Him (capitalization intentional, he seems to think he's god sometimes)
Alpha EV8 (Part 1): Simultaneous Multi-Threat
I thought the threat part was Microsoft's job?
this was posted some time back, forgot when.
Now would that be the BSD licensce, or GPL?
I read it in the LINT kernel config file. Lot of stuff in there, a lot of stuff undocumented.
Dunno, this review is riddled with little niggling errors (I hate people that say medias, It's already plural). He also starts off as a handholding session, then drops it with "UNIX folks can handle this" when he doesn't want to dive in.
And he doesn't list UFS as a filesystem type? BTW: ext2 in 4.1 is experimental. Idunno if they improved it greatly in 4.2, but likely also to be in that state. List it as unstable.
Barely any comparison to 4.1 or 4.0 (encryption, kernel accept filters might help speed up web servers and other daemons), nor how easy it is to upgrade from an old install.
Hmm, grouchy, must be nap time. Night night.
You should also check the build notes to see if the nightly is stable or not.
Hidden from casual human viewing yes. But not computers. It's just a font tag, meaning you can't see it, but search engines will. Anyone really doing a net search will find it.
FYI, one was SoftFPU, a control panel. Was dog-slow, but the only way to get some apps running on Performas and LC4xx's.
FreeBSD has changed this a bit, backing away from /etc/rc.local and having startup/shutdown scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. Any daemons that I install from the /usr/ports (Samba, sshd) put stuff in here instead of trying to edit my (nonexistant) /etc/rc.local.
Not to make this a flamefest, just putting out facts. GB wasn't the only one doing that. In america, non-whites couldn't vote at all until after the Civil war, late 19th century, and poll taxes and other nasty tricks kept most disenfranchised until post civil rights, late 20th century.
Women couldn't vote until 1920, early 20th century.
That being said, we're using ancient 60's technology to vote (as a Chicagoan, I can say that Illinois is still using the butterfly system so heavily deriled in FLorida). Kinda weird that something as important as the President would be left to ancient tech. I just hope that we use Florida as a learning experience and fix the problems.
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Truth be told, their not alone here. Zilog wanted to trademark the Z for the Z80 and Z8000. Judge told them if he did that, them and 25 other people could corner the english language.
The Intel Inside thing. Though actually great marketing, pushes them towards the bad business practices. They reimburse for advertisements, up to 60% i think, but the computer line can't use CPUs from anybody else. If Intel was shown to be a monopoly (unlikely given their recent blunders) that would probably be seen as non-competitive.
baby(1) USER COMMANDS baby(1)
NAME
baby - create new process from two parents
SYNOPSIS
baby -sex m | f [ -name name ]
DESCRIPTION
baby is initiated when one parent process polls another
server process through a socket connection in the BSD ver-
sion or through pipes in the System V implementation. baby
runs at low priority for approximately forty weeks and then
terminates with a heavy system load. Most systems require
constant monitoring when baby reaches its final stages of
execution.
Older implentations of baby did not require both initiating
processes to be present at the time of completion. In those
versions the initiating process which was not present was
awakened and notified of the results upon completion. It
has since been determined that the presence of both parent
processes result in a generally lower system load at comple-
tion, and thus current versions of baby expect both parent
processes to be active during the final stages.
Successful completion of baby results in the creation and
naming of a new process. Parent processes then broadcast
messages to all other processes, local and remote, informing
them of their new status.
OPTIONS
-sex define the gender of the created process
-name
assign a name to the new process
EXAMPLES
baby -sex f -name "Celeste Amanda Torvalds"
Completed successfully on November 20, 2000.
Celeste's vital statistics: 7 pounds 5 oz.
The parent processes are reportedly doing fine.
SEE ALSO
cigar(6), dump(5), cry(3).
BUGS
Despite its complexity, baby only knows one signal, SIGCHLD,
(or SIGCLD in the System V implementation), which it uses to
contact the parent processes. One or both parent processes
must then inspect the baby process to determine the cause of
the signal.
The sleep command may not work as expected on either parent
process for some time afterward, as each new instance of
baby sends intermittent signals to the parent processes
which must be handled by the parents immediately.
A baby process will frequently dump core, requiring either
or both parent processes to clean up after it.
Despite the reams of available documentation on invoking and
maintaining baby, most parent processes are overwhelmed.
AUTHORS
From a man page by Joe Beck.
I think the quote used billion dollars, but metaphor is the same.
Hmm, I;ve been using nightlies since M18 came out. I'm sure it's loaded with debug code, but it's still pushing towards my normal everyday browser. I basically only use netscape 4.7 only for mail and news, which is not as polished as the web browser.
I don't agree with the Motif thing. As a toolkit, Motif sucked, and it was ugly. Unstable, bloated and a bitch to program in. New UI features (like Microsquishie combo-boxes) that added functionality were slow in coming.
I do 100% agree with the pretty-GUI syndrome that's taken over what's called GUI design these days. If it's themable, it's cool. You can spend 20 minutes trying to find a theme that you can read through. Blue text on dark woodgrain may sound like a good idea at first, but just try using it first. Mozilla chrome even goes past this by allowing you to change the UI. Put the buttons anywhere. Terrible for usability.
there's a programmers editor that allows you to have a pixmap as a background for your text window. One of the big features of the product in fast. Do I really want to try reading through this when I can easily waste a couple hours on a bad semi-colon placement? Nedit has no such feature, but has (most) of what I need in an editor, and is one of the first things I install on a new box.
Thank you. I never got Hotmail to work, even filed a bug report on it. Gee, I wonder if having SSL might help here.
Damn, I had mod points yesterday. May someone mod you up so others see this.
I believe Apple had two cards. Teh one I know more about was the later one, a NuBus based 486sx (not PCI, macs didn't have PCI in those days). Didn't play with it much, only thing I did was play Windows Solitaire with it. No one had a use for it.
Not a bad setup, if that's what you need. Took a sh*tload of disk space to do it. You basically created a disk container for it. Thre was soe clipboard translation, and you could run both computers at the same time. They shared the net and serial ports (good this, Idunno if anyone remembers the horror of Win3.1 winsocks).
He doesn't have Mark Hammil shout out "Carrie" when calling Leia.
BTW: www.easybakeoven.com is taken by some squatters. The bastards.
Nobody will read this anyway, a day old BSD story isn't news.
The thing I don't like is how hard it is to get BSD news and info. I can go to a local bookstore, they have 6 different Linux distros. That doesn't count the scores of Linux books. For FreeBSD, one book, the Official FreeBSD book, and that's got an old version (4.0) that they upgraded from 3.4 when 4.1.1 came out. Drives me nuts.
Maybe I should stop whining and fill the void myself, but I don't have the time nor resources right now.
They write the Right Stuff
I'd personally refute most of the stuff he says, 70 hour weeks lead to burnout and sloppy code. The wuality of my environment has never been as important as the quality of the people around me. Mentoring is probably the most important for me, and creating an atmosphere where asking questions is encouraged. Testing is part of the process, not something left to the last second. But the above link does all that pretty well.
Tht sure as hell has a lot of untyped stuff, must fly.
In the original CD days (when 2x drives were COOL) all Macs had SCSI, most PCs have/had IDE/ATA. If The drives were different busses, then you can't compare them. If they were both SCSI, they're interchangeable and no such thing as a Mac or PC drive.