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  1. Re:Oh yeah.. on Apple Releases Free, OS-Independent, FireWire SDK · · Score: 2

    higher higher (speeds)

  2. Re:I used F77 for a while on Is FORTRAN Still Kicking? · · Score: 2

    C now has a built-in type for complex, look at the ISO C99 standard.
    Also it is Ada not ADA, it is a name of a person and it is now comes with gcc's source, to compile it you need an older version of it. Also gcc comes with a Java compiler which can compile to native code and get rid of some of the runtime checks.

  3. Re:of course it's still kicking on Is FORTRAN Still Kicking? · · Score: 2

    It is not because of c pointer aliasing issues, it is because nothing in c was allowed to be inline, this is all mute with C99. The keyword inline works in gcc 3.0 and above.

  4. Re:Use Fortran 90 on Is FORTRAN Still Kicking? · · Score: 2

    The only aliasing issues is because they do not use the allowed aliasing rules from ISO C90.

    In fact in gcc 3.0 and above, the aliasing rules work for c but the aliasing rules are turned off in the c++ front-end of gcc.

  5. Re:Liscence ? on Security Bug Doesn't Discriminate · · Score: 2

    BSD like, I think and still is.

  6. Re:What creds does this guy have? on Intel Inside For Apple? · · Score: 2

    It is only possible because of the file format apple uses for executables, mach-o, no other OS uses it.
    And it is apple's extensions to gcc to have the ability to make phat (as apple calls it in the source of gcc) binaries.

  7. Re:What creds does this guy have? on Intel Inside For Apple? · · Score: 2

    I do not totally disagree with this post but:
    The compiler bit is a little off the only part Apple will have to compile for ia32 (which they do not do already publicly) is the all libraries that go with Mac OS X instead of Darwin, this includes Cocoa, Carbon (since Cocoa is using Carbon for menus and other things) and the window server.

    The kernel is almost compiled fat so is most of the UNIX apps for both ppc and ia32 for Darwin.
    In fact you can compile gcc so it will make fat binaries with one command line.

  8. Mac OS X and USB/Firewire on Booting from USB Drives? · · Score: 3, Informative

    On macs with os X, the OF reads from the devices and then the os sends messages to the of to read particular blocks from the device to get the driver and then loads the drive and lets the driver take over. In fact this is how they do scsi and ide. The OF(BIOS) contains generic drivers to load the kernel and also to read from the device.

  9. Need a better bios for most pcs on Booting from USB Drives? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Most PC have sh*t bios, they have no concept of booting from any device than the ide bus.

    Intel and AMD should go out and implement an OF base bios then companies could make one card for ia32, ppc, and sparc base machines without writing different bios for the card, they would write in forth.

    There is a project somewhere that is writing an open source base OF bios.

  10. Re:Simple answer... on Cheap KVM Over IP? · · Score: 2

    Also Apple's Xserve also offers serial OF (BIOS) booting.

  11. Re:If you want it, start writing it. on Will Darwin be Ported to the IBM Power 4? · · Score: 2

    Actually the original Power was a different kind of chip, PowerPC was based on it. The 601 had backwards support for the Power. The 603 and higher got rid of that support. Now the Power series are just PPC processors with Power support in software. The PPC abi and instructions is almost compatible with the original Power's. There are a few removals and few additions to the instruction set. When AIM came together, IBM had the instruction set, Mot had the (funny though) process to make the chips, Apple needed them for their machines.

  12. Re:Couple of questions... on Click-Thru Licensing on Open Source Software? · · Score: 2

    There was a case that says that click-thru/shrink-wrapped licensing is useless. The adobe case about selling used copies of their software.

  13. Re:How many people do check the MD5 checksum? on OpenSSH Package Trojaned · · Score: 2

    except where on most OS (unlike most BSD) there is no port system where it checks the MD5 unless you do it by hand by then they could have changed the one on the ftp server also.

    The port system includes MD5 sums when you download the port system or checkout it from cvs.

  14. Re:tkgdb on What Good Linux Debuggers Are There? · · Score: 1

    He needs a new gdb to fix some of his mutithread problems, os when he downloads gsb he gets one there too. Any way gdb is very good with threads, you can call any gdb function in a different thread.

    Also he needs to compile with gcc 3.1.1 to get better support of c++.

    Also I think there are no other debugger for linux because nobody wants to make one when gsb is there and it is the best one period.

  15. tkgdb on What Good Linux Debuggers Are There? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    download gdb source and compile it with tk support, it works great.

  16. Chefs get upset before that on EFF Lists Wi-Fi-Friendly ISPs · · Score: 2

    Some restaurants get upset even if they do not share, witness Homer Simson.

  17. real reason on HP Uses DMCA To Quash Vulnerability Publication · · Score: 2

    The real reason, they are pissed is that they fired the Tru64 people already and HP does not want to make a patch for it. HP was pissed at OpenSSH when the vulnerability in it came out. They had to hire the people back to fix the problem, now they have to hire back again.

  18. linked list with an array on Probing Hash Tables? · · Score: 2

    What about a linked list with an array?

    What about another hash table that holds the conflicts (kind of like double hash functions but cooler)?

  19. Re:Open Source vs Free Software on Internet Security Standards · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is neither free or open source because you cannot change the code legally.

  20. Re:Goto is not a cuss word when used wisely on Codeplay Responds to NVidia's Cg · · Score: 2

    2. label break is more equivalent to goto than 1. try...catch because exceptions have more overhead.

  21. Re:Red Hat: 3.2 is in Rawhide on GCC 3.1.1 Released · · Score: 2

    This 3.2 might be what really what 3.3 is going to be.

  22. Re:open source ? on Take a Mac User to Lunch · · Score: 2

    FSF says it is not free because one clause and only one. Apple has tried to make it more compatible with GNU but one clause they have to change, but you have to force their lawyers to change it.

  23. Re:now all that's left is for iTunes to support it on Real Will Include Ogg Vorbis Support · · Score: 2

    All someone needs to do is wrap libogg into a quicktime codec api. And you can even add RTP support for ogg vorbis (like mp3) to quicktime streaming server and quicktime, for more information look at http://www.apple.com/developer.

  24. Re:Default compiler on the Mac? on gcc3 Available for Mac OS X · · Score: 2

    It is not removed for Cygwin, it was just not compiled when Cygwin released binaries for it.

    You can still download the source for gcc and compile it and get objective-c support. If you want a clone of the OpenStep libraries (Cocoa) you can download GNUStep.

  25. Re:Default compiler on the Mac? on gcc3 Available for Mac OS X · · Score: 2

    VMS is obsoleted only on vax, vax-*-vms* on alpha, the support is still there.