One thing that might make the circle even more complete is the fact that Hyperreal is on the same server as http://www.apache.org/. Hyperreal has a lot of information on electronica and I believe the Aphex Twin FAQ lives there too. It also hosts the IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) mailinglist on which Richard James or many of his other names gets mentioned.
You mentioned that Aphex Twin (aka Richard James + other pseudonyms) used this. Very interesting. I'd like to know more. I heard he was using Macs to compose on.
I can't believe people are saying mp3 is as good as CD. If you ever actually listen to a jazz tune on the original LP and then hear the same tune as mp3 all the fine ringing sounds of the cymbals are transformed into what sounds worse than a worn conventinal tape. You can even hear the difference between a Jimi Hendricks CD and mp3 very clearly by the mangling of high-pitched sounds, and most Jimi recordings are quite poor.
You forgot "make modules_install". BTW. Can you make wget print contents to stdout? like "wget -stdout ftp://kernelorg/linux/patch.gz | zcat | patch -p0".
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Please use patches instead of downloading whole archives, saves a lot of bandwidth (bandwidth costs money for the mirrors). Here's how: First, get the patch (duh) now "cd/usr/src" and then "zcat/path/to/patch-2.2.10.gz | patch -p0" You will be required to have linux-2.2.9 installed in/usr/src/linux. If you have an older version patch incrementally. Now, "cd/usr/src/linux" and "make menuconfig".
In Denmark where I live, I pay what is equivalent to US$0.0314 pr. minute during daytime. Half that after 19.00 in the evening to 8.00 in the morning. On top of that is a $0.036 charge per call. I also have to pay for the dialup account (~$10/mo) and the phone-line ($14/mo). Net-wise Denmark is hell!
./fs/binfmt_aout.c:/* Fuck me plenty... */ ./lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up:-) ./include/asm-mips/mmu_context.h:/* Fuck. The f-word is here so you can grep for it:-) */ ./include/asm-sparc64/system.h:/* If you fuck with this, update ret_from_syscall code too. */ \ ./drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface ./drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* This card is _fucking_ hot... */ ./drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* This card is _fucking_ hot... */ ./drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* This card is _fucking_ hot... */ ./drivers/block/cmd640.c: * These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver ./fs/binfmt_aout.c:/* Fuck me plenty... */ ./lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up:-) ./include/asm-mips/mmu_context.h:/* Fuck. The f-word is here so you can grep for it:-) */ ./include/asm-sparc64/system.h:/* If you fuck with this, update ret_from_syscall code too. */ \ ./drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface ./drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* This card is _fucking_ hot... */ ./drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* This card is _fucking_ hot... */ ./drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* This card is _fucking_ hot... */ ./drivers/block/cmd640.c: * These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver ./drivers/scsi/esp.c: * how bad the target and/or ESP fucks things up. ./drivers/scsi/esp.c: * phase things. We don't want to fuck directly with ./drivers/scsi/esp.c:/* Be careful, we could really get fucked during synchronous ./drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h:/* Am I fucking pedantic or what? */ ./drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.c: * how bad the target and/or ESP fucks things up. ./drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.c: * phase things. We don't want to fuck directly with ./drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.c:/* Be careful, we could really get fucked during synchronous ./drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c: CURRENT=req->next;/* task can fuck it up GTL */ ./arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c:/* Some BIOS's are fucked and don't set all MTRRs the same! */ ./arch/sparc/kernel/head.S:/* XXX Fucking Cypress... */ ./arch/sparc/kernel/process.c:/* fuck me plenty */ ./arch/sparc/kernel/sunos_ioctl.c:/* Binary compatibility is good American knowhow fuckin' up. */ ./arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */ ./arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c:#if 0/* XXX No fucking way dude... */
Whereas "egrep -ri fuck sys bin sbin usr.sbin usr.bin lib libexec release crypto" in the/usr/src/ of FreeBSD only yields:
sys/alpha/tc/esp.c: * Things are seriously fucked up. sys/boot/alpha/libalpha/elf_freebsd.c: return(EFTYPE);/* XXX actually EFUCKUP */ sys/boot/i386/libi386/aout_freebsd.c: return(EFTYPE);/* XXX actually EFUCKUP */ sys/boot/i386/libi386/elf_freebsd.c: return(EFTYPE);/* XXX actually EFUCKUP */ sys/i386/isa/aic6360.c:/* Things are seriously fucked up.
/* * [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum * possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP * to talk to the University of Mars. * PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once implemented * ftp to mars will work nicely. */ -- from/usr/src/linux/net/inet/tcp.c, concerning RTT [round trip time]
The comment is not there any longer -- too bad:*(
Is there a collection of some sort with interesting comments in the sourcecode of various projects?
Rumours has it that they will begin making the Gimp core toolkit independent. This should make it easier to port to KDE/Qt and Windows. There are some KDE developers who are interested in porting to KDE.
I don't have exact sources, but if you look at how the BSD projects have splintered into three just because of some flamewars on their mailinglists. For instance look at http://www.theos.com/deraadt/coremail.ht ml. Similarily the developer of Beowulf (I forget his name, the 3com driver guy) also had problems with getting help with modifications of the kernel (which he also didn't very stable) to suit his special task.
Try to mention Linux positively on freebsd newsgroups (they'll come to your door at night, heavily armed).
Could you please be specific about what is non-robust in debian? Which distribution is more robust than debian?
And I've personally felt the robustness of FreeBSD for the past 3 months (3.2-STABLE, cvsupped every week). It has given me about four panics/reboots in that short period of time (seemed pretty random to me). I haven't experienced panics in linux for a very long time, and actually think the linux kernel is more stable than the FreeBSD kernel right now (the userland is another story). Beware: this only applies to my hardware -- and all the reboots happened while in X (That might be the specific problem, it's running as root nevertheless). I can only speak for my particular hardware configuration. FreeBSD might be a better performer these days, but I think the stability of Linux has reached that of FreeBSD's, at least for XFree. Another issue is the developer resources. Many external developers have complained about the big egos of the FreeBSD core and developer team. I've seen pretty good communication between Corel and the Debian community on debian-devel lately.
No flames please. I know the FreeBSD team are better coders than the averae Linux-developer, there are just fewer of them. A shame, really.
I tried to summarize some of the points posted and mailed to Nintendo.
Subject: Nintendo Boycott! Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 01:15:12 +0200 From: Hroi Sigurdsson To: nintendo@nintendo.com
For your actions against http://www.snes9x.com/ and your general attitude expressed in http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faqs/legal.html, I have no option but to boycott your products and warn future potential Nintendo customers about Nintendo's barbaric business practices.
Your statements in http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faqs/legal.html are for the most part bogus and do not enlighten readers of legal facts but only goes to show how Nintendo thwarts truth, common right and sense in the name of commerce. Stating that emulators are illegal is an outright lie! If an emulator is a cleanroom product it is perfectly legal. You can only patent mechanisms, but not concepts and no Nintendo code (=mechanisms) were used in the emulator (implementation of concept of running a specific instruction set).
And stating that linking to ROMS from a homepage is a legal offence, is completely bogus. (Try suing Yahoo/Infoseek etc. for linking to illegal ROMS).
Your scare campaign is only scaring off customers. And I will do what I can to scare your customers away from you (and I do know a few Nintendo users).
>I was wondering though, what kind of compiler >does it come with? FreeBSD 3.1 came with gcc >2.7.x which is much slower than egcs. Though I >was impressed by FreeBSD's speed, some code I >built ran much slower than on Linux with egcs.
Try FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT, it currently has egcs-1.1.2 and binutils-2.9.1 And it works very well for me -- no problems.
The RELNOTES.TXT says Support for USB devices further improved.
I justed switched to 4.0-CURRENT after 3.2-STABLE had been out for some days. I recall that they removed the sample usb options from the LINT and GENERIC config files, and the cvs-log stated something like "Not ready for mass consumption." Was this released to early?? Correct me if these are bogus claims.
You must be running as root. Remember Ctrl-Alt-Del does not work in X (for me at least). Try switching consoles for that or better killall -9 netscape (or whatever the netscape binary is called on your distro).
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One thing that might make the circle even more complete is the fact that Hyperreal is on the same server as http://www.apache.org/. Hyperreal has a lot of information on electronica and I believe the Aphex Twin FAQ lives there too. It also hosts the IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) mailinglist on which Richard James or many of his other names gets mentioned.
You mentioned that Aphex Twin (aka Richard James + other pseudonyms) used this. Very interesting. I'd like to know more.
I heard he was using Macs to compose on.
Unisys applied for the patent in the early eighties so it should be in 2003, I believe.
Once you've read the page linked above you need to read this as well.
It seems to have been posted 10th of July 1999. Look at the bottom of the page.
I can't believe people are saying mp3 is as good as CD. If you ever actually listen to a jazz tune on the original LP and then hear the same tune as mp3 all the fine ringing sounds of the cymbals are transformed into what sounds worse than a worn conventinal tape. You can even hear the difference between a Jimi Hendricks CD and mp3 very clearly by the mangling of high-pitched sounds, and most Jimi recordings are quite poor.
You forgot "make modules_install". BTW. Can you make wget print contents to stdout? like "wget -stdout ftp://kernelorg/linux/patch.gz | zcat | patch -p0".
Please use patches instead of downloading whole archives, saves a lot of bandwidth (bandwidth costs money for the mirrors). /usr/src" /path/to/patch-2.2.10.gz | patch -p0" /usr/src/linux. If you have an older version patch incrementally. /usr/src/linux" and "make menuconfig".
Here's how:
First, get the patch (duh)
now "cd
and then
"zcat
You will be required to have linux-2.2.9 installed in
Now, "cd
Thank you.
PS. zcat is the equivalent of "gzip -d -c"
In Denmark where I live, I pay what is equivalent to US$0.0314 pr. minute during daytime. Half that after 19.00 in the evening to 8.00 in the morning. On top of that is a $0.036 charge per call. I also have to pay for the dialup account (~$10/mo) and the phone-line ($14/mo).
Net-wise Denmark is hell!
egrep -ri fuck /usr/src/linux yields:
/* Fuck me plenty... */ :-) :-) */ /* If you fuck with this, update ret_from_syscall code too. */ \ /* This card is _fucking_ hot... */ /* This card is _fucking_ hot... */ /* This card is _fucking_ hot... */ /* Fuck me plenty... */ :-) :-) */ /* If you fuck with this, update ret_from_syscall code too. */ \ /* This card is _fucking_ hot... */ /* This card is _fucking_ hot... */ /* This card is _fucking_ hot... */ /* Be careful, we could really get fucked during synchronous /* Be careful, we could really get fucked during synchronous /* task can fuck it up GTL */ /* XXX Fucking Cypress... */ /* fuck me plenty */ /* Binary compatibility is good American knowhow fuckin' up. */ /* XXX No fucking way dude... */
/usr/src/ of FreeBSD only yields:
/* XXX actually EFUCKUP */ /* XXX actually EFUCKUP */ /* XXX actually EFUCKUP */ /* Things are seriously fucked up.
./fs/binfmt_aout.c:
./lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up
./include/asm-mips/mmu_context.h:/* Fuck. The f-word is here so you can grep for it
./include/asm-sparc64/system.h:
./drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface
./drivers/net/sunhme.c:
./drivers/net/sunhme.c:
./drivers/net/sunhme.c:
./drivers/block/cmd640.c: * These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver
./fs/binfmt_aout.c:
./lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up
./include/asm-mips/mmu_context.h:/* Fuck. The f-word is here so you can grep for it
./include/asm-sparc64/system.h:
./drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface
./drivers/net/sunhme.c:
./drivers/net/sunhme.c:
./drivers/net/sunhme.c:
./drivers/block/cmd640.c: * These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver
./drivers/scsi/esp.c: * how bad the target and/or ESP fucks things up.
./drivers/scsi/esp.c: * phase things. We don't want to fuck directly with
./drivers/scsi/esp.c:
./drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h:/* Am I fucking pedantic or what? */
./drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.c: * how bad the target and/or ESP fucks things up.
./drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.c: * phase things. We don't want to fuck directly with
./drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.c:
./drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c: CURRENT=req->next;
./arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c:/* Some BIOS's are fucked and don't set all MTRRs the same! */
./arch/sparc/kernel/head.S:
./arch/sparc/kernel/process.c:
./arch/sparc/kernel/sunos_ioctl.c:
./arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
./arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c:#if 0
Whereas "egrep -ri fuck sys bin sbin usr.sbin usr.bin lib libexec release crypto" in the
sys/alpha/tc/esp.c: * Things are seriously fucked up.
sys/boot/alpha/libalpha/elf_freebsd.c: return(EFTYPE);
sys/boot/i386/libi386/aout_freebsd.c: return(EFTYPE);
sys/boot/i386/libi386/elf_freebsd.c: return(EFTYPE);
sys/i386/isa/aic6360.c:
This fortune just popped up:
/* * [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum /usr/src/linux/net/inet/tcp.c, concerning RTT [round trip time]
:*(
* possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP
* to talk to the University of Mars.
* PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once implemented
* ftp to mars will work nicely.
*/
-- from
The comment is not there any longer -- too bad
Is there a collection of some sort with interesting comments in the sourcecode of various projects?
Rumours has it that they will begin making the Gimp core toolkit independent. This should make it easier to port to KDE/Qt and Windows. There are some KDE developers who are interested in porting to KDE.
I don't have exact sources, but if you look at how the BSD projects have splintered into three just because of some flamewars on their mailinglists. For instance look at http://www.theos.com/deraadt/coremail.ht ml.
Similarily the developer of Beowulf (I forget his name, the 3com driver guy) also had problems with getting help with modifications of the kernel (which he also didn't very stable) to suit his special task.
Try to mention Linux positively on freebsd newsgroups (they'll come to your door at night, heavily armed).
Could you please be specific about what is non-robust in debian? Which distribution is more robust than debian?
And I've personally felt the robustness of FreeBSD for the past 3 months (3.2-STABLE, cvsupped every week). It has given me about four panics/reboots in that short period of time (seemed pretty random to me). I haven't experienced panics in linux for a very long time, and actually think the linux kernel is more stable than the FreeBSD kernel right now (the userland is another story). Beware: this only applies to my hardware -- and all the reboots happened while in X (That might be the specific problem, it's running as root nevertheless). I can only speak for my particular hardware configuration.
FreeBSD might be a better performer these days, but I think the stability of Linux has reached that of FreeBSD's, at least for XFree.
Another issue is the developer resources. Many external developers have complained about the big egos of the FreeBSD core and developer team.
I've seen pretty good communication between Corel and the Debian community on debian-devel lately.
No flames please. I know the FreeBSD team are better coders than the averae Linux-developer, there are just fewer of them. A shame, really.
(sarcasm)
A really big improvement. I can see the uptime has now reached several years in just a few hours.
(/sarcasm)
Yes, a piece of exploit code has been posted today on BUGTRAQ that panics Linux-2.2 boxen. See the archives at Geek Girl
It would be excellent to have IE handy to test browser compatibility while developing webpages.
Subject: Nintendo Boycott!
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 01:15:12 +0200
From: Hroi Sigurdsson
To: nintendo@nintendo.com
For your actions against http://www.snes9x.com/ and your general attitude expressed in http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faqs/legal.html, I have no option but to boycott your products and warn future potential Nintendo customers about Nintendo's barbaric business practices.
Your statements in http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faqs/legal.html are for the most part bogus and do not enlighten readers of legal facts but only goes to show how Nintendo thwarts truth, common right and sense in the name of commerce. Stating that emulators are illegal is an outright lie! If an emulator is a cleanroom product it is perfectly legal. You can only patent mechanisms, but not concepts and no Nintendo code (=mechanisms) were used in the emulator (implementation of concept of running a specific instruction set).
And stating that linking to ROMS from a homepage is a legal offence, is completely bogus. (Try suing Yahoo/Infoseek etc. for linking to illegal ROMS).
Your scare campaign is only scaring off customers. And I will do what I can to scare your customers away from you (and I do know a few Nintendo users).
Scrapping his SNES,
Hroi Sigurdsson
hroi@get2net.dk
>I was wondering though, what kind of compiler
>does it come with? FreeBSD 3.1 came with gcc
>2.7.x which is much slower than egcs. Though I
>was impressed by FreeBSD's speed, some code I
>built ran much slower than on Linux with egcs.
Try FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT, it currently has egcs-1.1.2 and binutils-2.9.1
And it works very well for me -- no problems.
You can find some really nifty OpenBSD images at http://www.monkey.org/~nemickol/openbs d.html
There's some other OpenBSD stuff here
See http://www.freebsd. org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
The sample USB configuration was removed Mon Apr 19:
Remove the lines for the USB support. It is not ready for public consumption.
The RELNOTES.TXT says
Support for USB devices further improved.
I justed switched to 4.0-CURRENT after 3.2-STABLE had been out for some days. I recall that they removed the sample usb options from the LINT and GENERIC config files, and the cvs-log stated something like "Not ready for mass consumption."
Was this released to early??
Correct me if these are bogus claims.
There are only "binaries" on that page :)
You must be running as root. Remember Ctrl-Alt-Del does not work in X (for me at least). Try switching consoles for that or better killall -9 netscape (or whatever the netscape binary is called on your distro).
Why was this moderated down???