The actual path to schedule.c is \wince300\private\winceos\coreos\nk\kernel\schedul e.c. And it does not contain the work "fuck". Actually, none of the source files contain the word "fuck", "shit", or "Linus".
I briefly worked at a BSquare, a company that does LOTS of Windows CE contract work for Microsoft. Microsoft does not port CE to other processors; the hardware vendors PAY to license Microsoft's CE code and port it themselves. Microsoft does not even write their own CE compilers. BSquare and the hardware vendors do.
yes, I've read that too, but I don't understand why you would want the kernel to kill your processes. Just let malloc() return NULL and let the application deal with the low-memory condition. Part of the problem is that Linux's malloc() will NEVER return NULL because Linux overcommits RAM. That is, Linux uses a lazy algorithm and does not actually reserve pages in RAM when you call malloc() until you actually touch the page. If Linux cannot allocate the page lazily when you actually touch it, then you are screwed because there is no way for the kernel to signal a low-memory error condition to the program.
Thus your program can (uselessly) check all its malloc() calls for NULL and your program will still crash when you eventually touch the "allocated" memory.
Microsoft also renamed many of the standard C library functions with a leading underscore, such as _strdup(). Presumably, this is because some of the common C library functions are not "officially" defined by ANSI C, but conveniently the Microsoft function names make porting Win32 software more difficult.
btw, you shouldn't be using strcpy() anyways. Use strncpy() instead to avoid buffer overflows.;-)
Apple posts a $61 million profit this quarter (when other high-tech companies are having huge layoffs), has $4 billion in the bank, and releases several new, wildly successful products this year and Wall Street still doesn't like them.
Of course, you forgot to mention that Apple reported a net profit of $200 million in this same quarter last year. So Apple did post a $61 million profit, but their profits are down 70%. And now Steve Jobs is stoked to unveil his expensive, unproven retail stores. Unfortunately, Wall Street is not nearly as stoked on Apple retail stores..
This is exactly the classic computer science problem called the "Byzantine Generals Problem". Here's summary of an article from a 1982 ACM Transactions on Programming Languages written by Leslie Lamport of LaTeX fame:
Lamport describes his paper saying, "There is a problem in distributed computing that is sometimes called the Chinese Generals Problem, in which two generals have to come to a common agreement on whether to attack or retreat, but can communicate only by sending messengers who might never arrive. I stole that idea and posed the problem in terms of a group of generals, some of whom may be traitors, who have to reach a common decision. I wanted to assign the generals a nationality that would not offend any readers. At the time, Albania was a completely closed society, and I felt it unlikely that there would be any Albanians around to object, so the original title of this paper was The Albanian Generals Problem. Some time later, the obviously more appropriate Byzantine generals occurred to me."
BMW officials traveled to one of the nation's smoggiest cities to show off a fleet of luxury cars that run on rocket fuel, but belch virtually nothing more than water and steam from their tailpipes.
Company officials said Thursday that the hydrogen-powered cars are an important step in weaning the automotive industry from the oil that has nurtured it since the internal combustion engine first powered automobiles in the late 1800s.
or when Microsoft helped Sybase port its SQL database to Windows? Those Microsoft optimizations are doing well these days under the product name Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
Mother Jones has an interesting page called Debt to Society. It graphs the amount of per-state and federal money spent on prisons and higher education since 1980. Hint: since 1980, the amount of state and federal money spent per-capita on higher education rose 40%. The amount spent per-capita on prisons rose 200%.
I had read that the Smashing Pumpkins released MACHINA II on one dozen vinyl albums, not mp3s. The band gave the albums to their friends, whom they expected to rip into mp3s. So the mp3s are not technically the official release.
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Limit one entry per person or co-production team per Public Enemy "Track of the Week" contest. Contestants may not play or enter with multiple e-mail addresses, nor may contestants use any other device or artifice to play multiple times or as multiple contestants. Any contestant who attempts to play with multiple e-mail addresses, under multiple identities, or uses any other device or artifice to play multiple times, will be disqualified. Multiple contestants or co-production teams may use a single email address.
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A One Thousand Dollars (US) Check will be made payable to each of the four (4) Grand Prize Winners selected by the Judge for the best original production work submitted for each of the four (4) Public Enemy Vocal "Track(s) of the Week". Limit one prize per person or group (using same e-mail entry address) for each "Track of the Week". Total approximate prize values of $4,000.00 US Dollars. In addition, Grand Prize winners shall be eligible for the inclusion and placement of their contest submission materials on a soon to be commercially released Public Enemy Album. The Grand Prize Winners, whose entries are selected for inclusion on the Public Enemy Album, shall be publicized and noted as album "Producers" on the future Public Enemy Album. Grand Prize Winners selected to participate in a future Public Enemy Album shall be required to further submit their original multiple track masters to Slam Jamz in compliance with all Slam Jamz technical requirements. Any contestant submissions that contain any obvious and/or known "Samples" shall not be eligible for inclusion on the album.
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Winners will be selected by Chuck D ("Judge") whose decisions are final in all matters related to this promotion. Judge may, at his discretion, enlist public opinion regarding contest entries through use of an on-line voting system.
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Winner will be announced prior to September 14, 2001. Contestants will be notified of their winning entry by e-mail message at which time their mailing address will be confirmed. Return of any prize notification as undeliverable will result in disqualification and the selection of an alternate winner. Slam Jamz.com is not responsible for incorrect mailing information or e-mail information provided by a contestant during registration.
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The competition is open to worldwide residents who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry and who have an established e-mail account as of July 12, 2001 and who have completed the registration process. Contestants may not play with multiple e-mail addresses, nor may contestants use any other device or artifice to play multiple times or as multiple contestants. Any contestant who attempts to play with multiple e-mail addresses, under multiple identities, or uses any other device or artifice to play multiple times, will be disqualified. Group contestants or co-production teams may use a single email address.
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8391 Beverly Blvd #352
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As Windows licenses get more and more expensive, that value proposition gets shakier and something like Linux that's free (as in beer) looks a heck of a lot more attractive.
Actually, I suspect that Microsoft will have to compete on price within the next 1-3 years. Look at how Sun has changed its Solaris pricing ($75?) to react to Linux. As physicists know, when you have a zero in your equation (ie $0), you are bound to get some crazy answers.
Microsoft crushed Netscape with a free IE (poor Spyglass licensed its browser code to Microsoft for per-sale royalties, there's another equation with a 0). Might Microsoft dare to give Windows away for free, now that the DOJ heat is cooling off? With a free Windows, Microsoft could continue is Office monopoloy and profitably reach for its upcoming Hailstorm/Passport/.NET stranglehold.
I seriously doubt that any future versions of Windows NT will ever run on MIPS again. NT development originally began on Intel i860. NT 3.51 runs on x86, Alpha, MIPS, and Power PC. NT4 runs on only x86 and Alpha. Win2K runs on only x86 (though 64-bit Win2K might still run on Alpha).
I worked at Microsoft for a few years on Windows NT5. All internal development was on x86 and Alpha, but eventually support for Alpha was officially dropped. I don't see why Microsoft would decide that MIPS is suddenly such an important market.
tip to the author of the photo gallery web pages: put the navigation -/+ buttons at the TOP of the pictures, where they won't move. The buttons are currently located at the bottom of the pictures and they jump around the page as each differently sized photo is loaded. I really want to see your photos, so don't make it annoying or slow for your viewers.:-(
Maybe users are searching for "Shakespear" because they want to widen their search to include "Shakespear" and "Shakespeare". Shakespear is the greatest common denominator of the two words.
Okay, *BSD so far lacks SMP support (except in Darwin/MacOS X).
btw, FreeBSD has supported SMP since FreeBSD 3.0. Yes, its SMP support has been weak (ala Linux 2.0), but FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT has much better SMP support (ala BSDI).
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She showed me the suit of commands like mfeel, gsex, msex
What do the mfeel, gsex, and msex commands actually do?
Microsoft's compilers allow C++ style comments in C code. In fact, the C99 standard does too, so you can't really call them "C++ comments" any longer.
The actual path to schedule.c is \wince300\private\winceos\coreos\nk\kernel\schedul e.c. And it does not contain the work "fuck". Actually, none of the source files contain the word "fuck", "shit", or "Linus".
I briefly worked at a BSquare, a company that does LOTS of Windows CE contract work for Microsoft. Microsoft does not port CE to other processors; the hardware vendors PAY to license Microsoft's CE code and port it themselves. Microsoft does not even write their own CE compilers. BSquare and the hardware vendors do.
yes, I've read that too, but I don't understand why you would want the kernel to kill your processes. Just let malloc() return NULL and let the application deal with the low-memory condition. Part of the problem is that Linux's malloc() will NEVER return NULL because Linux overcommits RAM. That is, Linux uses a lazy algorithm and does not actually reserve pages in RAM when you call malloc() until you actually touch the page. If Linux cannot allocate the page lazily when you actually touch it, then you are screwed because there is no way for the kernel to signal a low-memory error condition to the program.
Thus your program can (uselessly) check all its malloc() calls for NULL and your program will still crash when you eventually touch the "allocated" memory.
HW Engineers ... tend to over look their CS counter parts and often work themselves in to a O(n^n) corner.
Please describe this supposed O(n^n) algorithm that EEs "often work themselves into".
After about a 60 day "grace period" the domain goes "on hold" for about six days and then it expires at a few minutes after 6:30 am Eastern.
Is this by-design or is this a race condition bug in Network Solution's domain registration/renewal process?
Dave Cutler did not quit Microsoft. He is now working on Win64, Microsoft's 64-bit API. So he's not in the NT limelight as much, but he still roxxors.
Microsoft also renamed many of the standard C library functions with a leading underscore, such as _strdup(). Presumably, this is because some of the common C library functions are not "officially" defined by ANSI C, but conveniently the Microsoft function names make porting Win32 software more difficult.
btw, you shouldn't be using strcpy() anyways. Use strncpy() instead to avoid buffer overflows.
Apple posts a $61 million profit this quarter (when other high-tech companies are having huge layoffs), has $4 billion in the bank, and releases several new, wildly successful products this year and Wall Street still doesn't like them.
Of course, you forgot to mention that Apple reported a net profit of $200 million in this same quarter last year. So Apple did post a $61 million profit, but their profits are down 70%. And now Steve Jobs is stoked to unveil his expensive, unproven retail stores. Unfortunately, Wall Street is not nearly as stoked on Apple retail stores..
Source: Apple Juiced on Earnings
This is exactly the classic computer science problem called the "Byzantine Generals Problem". Here's summary of an article from a 1982 ACM Transactions on Programming Languages written by Leslie Lamport of LaTeX fame:
The Byzantine Generals Problem
Lamport describes his paper saying, "There is a problem in distributed computing that is sometimes called the Chinese Generals Problem, in which two generals have to come to a common agreement on whether to attack or retreat, but can communicate only by sending messengers who might never arrive. I stole that idea and posed the problem in terms of a group of generals, some of whom may be traitors, who have to reach a common decision. I wanted to assign the generals a nationality that would not offend any readers. At the time, Albania was a completely closed society, and I felt it unlikely that there would be any Albanians around to object, so the original title of this paper was The Albanian Generals Problem. Some time later, the obviously more appropriate Byzantine generals occurred to me."
BMW showcases cars that run on hydrogen
BMW officials traveled to one of the nation's smoggiest cities to show off a fleet of luxury cars that run on rocket fuel, but belch virtually nothing more than water and steam from their tailpipes.
Company officials said Thursday that the hydrogen-powered cars are an important step in weaning the automotive industry from the oil that has nurtured it since the internal combustion engine first powered automobiles in the late 1800s.
or when Microsoft helped Sybase port its SQL database to Windows? Those Microsoft optimizations are doing well these days under the product name Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
Mother Jones has an interesting page called Debt to Society . It graphs the amount of per-state and federal money spent on prisons and higher education since 1980. Hint: since 1980, the amount of state and federal money spent per-capita on higher education rose 40%. The amount spent per-capita on prisons rose 200%.
I had read that the Smashing Pumpkins released MACHINA II on one dozen vinyl albums, not mp3s. The band gave the albums to their friends, whom they expected to rip into mp3s. So the mp3s are not technically the official release.
Do you have any more information or links about caffeine and ADD? According to this article "Pharmacotherapy of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Nonstimulant Treatments
", caffeine is an ineffective treatment for ADD.
What is the LD-50 lethal dose of LSD?
Public_Enemy_Number_One_Acappella.mp3 2.5 MB
Official Contest Rules
Limit one entry per person or co-production team per Public Enemy "Track of the Week" contest. Contestants may not play or enter with multiple e-mail addresses, nor may contestants use any other device or artifice to play multiple times or as multiple contestants. Any contestant who attempts to play with multiple e-mail addresses, under multiple identities, or uses any other device or artifice to play multiple times, will be disqualified. Multiple contestants or co-production teams may use a single email address.
Grand Prize.
A One Thousand Dollars (US) Check will be made payable to each of the four (4) Grand Prize Winners selected by the Judge for the best original production work submitted for each of the four (4) Public Enemy Vocal "Track(s) of the Week". Limit one prize per person or group (using same e-mail entry address) for each "Track of the Week". Total approximate prize values of $4,000.00 US Dollars. In addition, Grand Prize winners shall be eligible for the inclusion and placement of their contest submission materials on a soon to be commercially released Public Enemy Album. The Grand Prize Winners, whose entries are selected for inclusion on the Public Enemy Album, shall be publicized and noted as album "Producers" on the future Public Enemy Album. Grand Prize Winners selected to participate in a future Public Enemy Album shall be required to further submit their original multiple track masters to Slam Jamz in compliance with all Slam Jamz technical requirements. Any contestant submissions that contain any obvious and/or known "Samples" shall not be eligible for inclusion on the album.
Selection of Winners
Winners will be selected by Chuck D ("Judge") whose decisions are final in all matters related to this promotion. Judge may, at his discretion, enlist public opinion regarding contest entries through use of an on-line voting system.
Winners Notification & Verification
Winner will be announced prior to September 14, 2001. Contestants will be notified of their winning entry by e-mail message at which time their mailing address will be confirmed. Return of any prize notification as undeliverable will result in disqualification and the selection of an alternate winner. Slam Jamz.com is not responsible for incorrect mailing information or e-mail information provided by a contestant during registration.
Eligibility
The competition is open to worldwide residents who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry and who have an established e-mail account as of July 12, 2001 and who have completed the registration process. Contestants may not play with multiple e-mail addresses, nor may contestants use any other device or artifice to play multiple times or as multiple contestants. Any contestant who attempts to play with multiple e-mail addresses, under multiple identities, or uses any other device or artifice to play multiple times, will be disqualified. Group contestants or co-production teams may use a single email address.
Employees and consultants of Slam Jamz.com are not eligible to enter or receive prizes. Notwithstanding, this contest is void where prohibited by law.
All contestant submissions must be received by Slam Jamz via digital upload, at SlamJamz.com, by and no later than August 31, 2001, or if submitted by hard copy Compact Disc (CD), than such CD shall be postmarked by sender no later than August 25, 2001 and received by August 31, 2001 at the following address:
Slam Jamz.com Records
8391 Beverly Blvd #352
Los Angeles, CA 90048
As Windows licenses get more and more expensive, that value proposition gets shakier and something like Linux that's free (as in beer) looks a heck of a lot more attractive.
Actually, I suspect that Microsoft will have to compete on price within the next 1-3 years. Look at how Sun has changed its Solaris pricing ($75?) to react to Linux. As physicists know, when you have a zero in your equation (ie $0), you are bound to get some crazy answers.
Microsoft crushed Netscape with a free IE (poor Spyglass licensed its browser code to Microsoft for per-sale royalties, there's another equation with a 0). Might Microsoft dare to give Windows away for free, now that the DOJ heat is cooling off? With a free Windows, Microsoft could continue is Office monopoloy and profitably reach for its upcoming Hailstorm/Passport/.NET stranglehold.
I seriously doubt that any future versions of Windows NT will ever run on MIPS again. NT development originally began on Intel i860. NT 3.51 runs on x86, Alpha, MIPS, and Power PC. NT4 runs on only x86 and Alpha. Win2K runs on only x86 (though 64-bit Win2K might still run on Alpha).
I worked at Microsoft for a few years on Windows NT5. All internal development was on x86 and Alpha, but eventually support for Alpha was officially dropped. I don't see why Microsoft would decide that MIPS is suddenly such an important market.
Isn't President's Choice a Safeway private label brand? That would explain why Grocery Gateway doesn't sell a Safeway brand product.
tip to the author of the photo gallery web pages: put the navigation -/+ buttons at the TOP of the pictures, where they won't move. The buttons are currently located at the bottom of the pictures and they jump around the page as each differently sized photo is loaded. I really want to see your photos, so don't make it annoying or slow for your viewers.
Maybe users are searching for "Shakespear" because they want to widen their search to include "Shakespear" and "Shakespeare". Shakespear is the greatest common denominator of the two words.
Okay, *BSD so far lacks SMP support (except in Darwin/MacOS X).
btw, FreeBSD has supported SMP since FreeBSD 3.0. Yes, its SMP support has been weak (ala Linux 2.0), but FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT has much better SMP support (ala BSDI).