User: nickbrown

Re:GitLab is open source, hosted and self-hosted o

On: Developers Frustrated with GitHub Prod For Changes In Bug Reports, Transparency

GitLab discuss their public development, bug tracking and future direction in a recent blog post: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/...

Re:Mars-Earth comparison offends Martians deeply

On: Maps Show Mars Was Once More Like Earth

Olympus Mons is indeed 27km high, however Mount Everest is only just under 9km high, not 19km.

Re:The Stolen Code

On: SCO Claims Kernel Contains UnixWare Code

D'oh! No warning this time, but it still loops forever!

[localhost]$ cat test.c
int main()
{
unsigned char i;
for (i=0; i<256; i++){}
}
[localhost]$ gcc -S test.c
[localhost]$ cat test.s
.file "test.c"
.text
.align 2
.globl main
.type main,@function
main:
pushl %ebp
movl %esp, %ebp
subl $8, %esp
andl $-16, %esp
movl $0, %eax
subl %eax, %esp
movb $0, -1(%ebp)
.L2:
leal -1(%ebp), %eax
incb (%eax)
jmp .L2
.Lfe1:
.size main,.Lfe1-main
.ident "GCC: (GNU) 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0)"
[localhost]$

Re:The Stolen Code

On: SCO Claims Kernel Contains UnixWare Code

Wrong! It will loop forever.

[localhost]$ cat test.c
int main()
{
char i;
for (i=0; i<256; i++){}
}
[localhost]$ gcc test.c
test.c: In function `main':
test.c:4: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
[localhost]$ cat test.s
.file "test.c"
.text
.align 2
.globl main
.type main,@function
main:
pushl %ebp
movl %esp, %ebp
subl $8, %esp
andl $-16, %esp
movl $0, %eax
subl %eax, %esp
movb $0, -1(%ebp)
.L2:
leal -1(%ebp), %eax
incb (%eax)
jmp .L2
.Lfe1:
.size main,.Lfe1-main
.ident "GCC: (GNU) 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0)"
[localhost]$

error in article.

On: Negative CTE material

You need to change the second link in the article to include the shrink tag.
Thus;
http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0299web/tech.html#shrin king

Uptodate in Europe?

On: Amazon Offers Discounted Mac OS X 10.2

I just bought a Mac G4 5 days ago from a Apple authorized dealer and it comes with OS X v10.1.
Looking at the Mac uptodate webpage I cannot see any link that allows me, as a european customer, to upgrade to v10.2. There are only links for US and Canadian customers.
Does anyone know where I can get the upgrade from?
I feel really left out :-(

Re:When comments are more than comments...

On: Pet Bugs?

Even stranger! try this;

>gcc bob.c
>./a.out
10 = 9
>gcc -O2 bob.c
>./a.out
10 = 10
>

Is this a known bug?

Re:My Thoughts (No Spoilers)

On: Review: Star Wars Episode II, Attack of the Clones

- Yoda's climactic fight scene...everyone has heard it's coming, but you can't be prepared to see Yoda in a lightsaber duel...the crowd in my theatre was literally cheering the whole time, at how cool it was...

Only in America would people cheer and applaud a cinema screen! (its only a moving picture not real people.)
I would find that very annoying and hope that as the americanization of the UK contiunes it does not catch on over here.

No Region 2 Disc available!

On: Tron Special Edition On Sale January 15th

It is suprising how many movies are only avaiable as Region 1 discs. This just one more for the list.

I would love to get this movie on DVD but I have a Region 2 only player (Toshiba SD210). I could get it chipped but this is expensive (£75) and I don't really fancy it.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Breakfast Club are other examples.