User: jonathan_ingram

Re:doesn't work/compile for me...

On: Linux 2.3.46 Released Unto the World

There is a one line typo in ll_rw_blk.c. The name of a variable had an 's' added to it accidentally. See this linux-kernel message or just apply this diff:

diff -u linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c.orig linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
--- linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c.orig Wed Feb 16 20:15:56 2000
+++ linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c Wed Feb 16 20:45:56 2000
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&q->queue_head);
q->elevator = ELEVATOR_DEFAULTS;
q->request_fn = rfn;
- q->back_merges_fn = ll_back_merge_fn;
+ q->back_merge_fn = ll_back_merge_fn;
q->front_merge_fn = ll_front_merge_fn;
q->merge_requests_fn = ll_merge_requests_fn;
q->make_request_fn = NULL;

(modulo the way that Slashdot mangles quotes, of course.)

This new kernel release actually *IS* news.

On: Linux 2.3.46 Released Unto the World

Normally, I agree that announcing the latest development kernel on Slashdot is a little silly - after all, if you're running the devel kernels, you know where to look for them.

However, this kernel release IS newsworthy. Why? Well, take a look at this posting to the linux-kernel mailing list:

[PATCH] devfs v158 available

If you can't be bothered to follow the link, here's the important sentence from that posting: This is the patch that was sent to Linus and included in 2.3.46-pre5. That's right boys and girls, DevFS is now part of the standard Linux kernel. This is wonderful news, and amazingly hasn't yet sparked off any great flamewars on the mailing list (those of you that read the list will know that mentioning DevFS on it has seemed akin to posting about atheism on an evangenical Christian newsgroup). For more information about DevFS, have a look at Richard Gooch's kernal patch page.

I'm still amazed that this has happened.

Re:I like AMD, but I wouldn't count Intel out...

On: AMD's David to Intel's Goliath

Interesting point, bad example.

Processor IDs are a good idea.

Re:No, YOU are wrong

On: Mastering Algorithms with Perl

> The classes *I* took used "NP-complete", "NP-hard" and "hard for NP" synonymously.

NP-hard : every problem in NP can be reduced to this problem.

NP-complete : NP and NP-hard.

> Prime Factorization is known to be NP (NP-complete, in fact).

Do you have a reference for this? How do you reduce Satisfiability to factorization?

Re:Words From The Grits Boy

On: Cursor Software Tracks You On Web

Only one question - not coming from the US, I don't know what 'grits' are. Could you enlighten me?

Re:Internet Connectivity is so cheap now...

On: Red Hat to fund Mozilla and Sendmail?

Repeat 3 times: the US is not the world.

You are in an enormously priviledged position in the US - you probably have no idea how much we in the UK envy your free local calls.

Re:A simple solution exists, of course

On: New Virus Can Strike Via HTML E-Mail

You can say virusses if you want (although just writing that makes me shudder...) - I'll stick with virii.

Oh, and you knew what he meant when he said "ascii mail" - no need to get so picky.

Re:Creation For Dummies

On: IDG and 'Trademark Dilution' For Dummies

INTERCAL
For Dummies.

Now that's a book I *would* buy.

Re:Show me the money!

On: Major Star Wars Character To Die in Next Books

Spares
by Michael Marshall Smith.

The best book I've read for a very long time. It's not quite as good as his previous book ('Only Forward') but not very many books are.

Read it.