"The memory you get from malloc isn't actually allocated until you access it."
malloc(3) has a job to do, and that's to keep you from using memory you can't use. If it doesn't "allocate" it until you access it, then whatever system you're using is incontrovertibly broken.
malloc(3) is at least two layers above the actual memory. Plenty of room for the MMS and MMU to translate it.
Don't go assuming what I was running.
And if Linux limits memory to 3GB (which I did not know, as I don't often dig around the internals of toy computers) then what good is it?
Kids think of this hunk of crap the way us older folks thought of Star Wars, which was panned as mindless entertainment, too, but wrongly so, since it's got a strong story under all that cheesy blaster fire. The Matrix, by contrast, has a lousy story, no score, wasted effects (giant spiders?), empty acting, and very little merchandising value.
Here's hoping the producers of The Matrix put CyberEwoks into the sequel and fuck their fans the way Lucas fucked us.
So what you're saying is that ambiguity is your cinematic god.
I'll agree. The Matrix is plenty ambiguous.
Not because it's meant to be, but because it's full of holes.
A good story may have enough subtlety and nuances that your understanding of it changes on successive viewings, but a movie to which you can apply random and conflicting interpretations is illiterate impressionism.
Basic lesson taught to all writers when they are young: Don't mistake obscurity for depth.
--Blair
P.S. I'd like to thank all those who modded my original post, the one that started this thread, down to 0. Those of us who like knocking power-mad petty tyrants out of their trees need reassurance every once in a while that the human race hasn't lost its ability to whelp them out in the thousands.
The machines also had 4GB of ram, so it was fun to do: char * myStr = (char *)malloc(-1);
You're going back to school, m'laddo.
malloc(3) has overhead. You should have expected that to fail if you were thinking only of how much RAM you had. Fortunately, modren cowmpooterz has virtual memory. So you could have got away with that when you got your first 5GB hard drive.
Could be Harlan Ellison's edit of Last Dangerous Visions (I'd link to Christopher Priest's Last Deadloss Visions, the story of Ellison's failure, but Priest has taken it to print and forced it off the net...)
Laurence Fishburn was just plain wasted as Morpheus.
The only remotely interesting thing in it was people running on walls exploding with gunfire.
But it's plain from the total lack of an ending that they plan decades of sequels, and if it doesn't devolve into Police Academy or a geeky Halloween, I'll be mighty surprised.
Understand, this is the movie Wesley Crusher would have called "his".
The longer they wait to repeat that disaster the better.
The guy should sue the makers of the camera and the police and the relevant jurisdiction. Not for the invasion of his privacy, but because they used his image in their marketing without his permission.
Anyone know how much Hedy Lamarr got for that when she sued Photoshop?
I'm certain you don't know right from wrong, because you've defined your terms, and messed it up.
"Illegal" is not the same as "wrong".
"Legal" is not the same as "right".
Police typically check locks on doors. They can and do enter property they find open and unoccupied, and they can and do lock those doors if possible and if they think it's a reasonable thing to do given the neighborhood (hint: the internet "neighborhood" is roughly every machine on it, and everyone, good or bad, lives right next door to you). A warrant merely franks the search into evidence.
The fact that you don't like your neighbors is your problem. The rest of us will thank ours for looking out for us.
What I'm discouraging is people trespassing on my system without my prior consent. If I want a patch (as in your case of buggy software), I'll initiate the transaction thank you. I don't want anything pushed to me.
Then you might want to stop accepting unsolicited communications.
You might be competent to download and apply a patch. But the network is full of incompetent or apathetic people, and their incompetence results in the ability of dangerous worms to propagate.
Their computers are emanating viri and worms just as evilly as the computer that originally did it. If a bum who crawled in your open door and died was emitting a foul stench and bacteria that were wafting down the street infecting other houses, you can bet I and the local HazMat team would be, without a warrant or your permission, all over your door nailing it shut, and your pewling cries of "trespassers!" wouldn't impress a jury.
The problem is that the Internet hasn't got itself set up that way, and the real culprits, the ones who install and run buggy software on a public network, are not being prosecuted.
No. I mean continuously. 142537 hours and counting. I've only taken breaks to upgrade my fluids and network equipment. And I've got 39 lines of C code to pr0ve it!
--Blair
"How can anything be offtopic when the entire website is two characters of punctuation?"
A 64-bit bus is expensive because it doesn't go as fast as a serial bus (you have to slow it down deliberately to avoid timing problems making all 64 lines sync up) and it eats a lot of board space and chip pins.
Though it seems counterintuitive, a serial solution is currently more consumer-friendly than a wider bus is.
Of course, in 5 years, when the PCI is becoming the bottleneck again, and even cranking it up to 24 or 48 GHz isn't enough, someone will put several of these in parallel and tout it as a great advancement.
I take it back. I predict we'll see someone doing that and marketing it as vapor it before we even buy the first one of these.
The Aeron chairs I've tried have not been adjustable enough (arm-rest height is critical; I need to have my elbows way up). That nylon burlap they use is a disaster. And the damped, geared cantilevering doesn't allow for a comforting rocking motion during pensive moments.
$700 was retarded enough for the lesser models; the most adjustable ones went for upwards of $1500.
I got a $199 Global at Staples or Office Depot or OfficeMax or somewhere.
Simple, well-padded cloth seat, adjustable back-height with lumbar bulge, and armrests that adjust in-out, up-down, and front-back tilt.
I've spent over 24 hours straight in that chair (modulo bathroom and fridge breaks) and had only stiff knees.
$700 Aerons, $500k Silicon Valley houses, and $40/hr Java "talent" really were the biggest boondoggles of the Internet boom.
>Personally, I feel a virus is a virus, regardless if your intentions were good.
It's probable that you don't understand the difference between right and wrong.
Think of cops and robbers. We have bad guys with guns running around on the streets, and we have good guys with guns running around on the streets. Neither group is very bright, and both are liable to shoot you for pulling your wallet out too fast in a darkened doorway. Still, we know which group we're going to train and pay to protect us using their own judgment.
A neighbor who checks and locks my door is far more neighborly than one who walks in, spray paints grafitti on my walls, craps on my carpet, leaves a dead rat hanging between the old coats in the closet, and says "oh, you have a security problem, you should get that fixed before someone does something bad to you".
People who bought buggy software got ripped off, and you're discouraging conscientious software engineers from providing free, automatic service to those people, and preventing them from becoming unwitting dupes in spreading the bad viri around the world.
But you shouldn't live in fear that this will become epidemic. People who do know right from wrong and who do choose to do right understand that doing right is often mistaken for doing wrong by people who don't know the difference, and our system of justice isn't based on right and wrong, it's based on perception, so they won't take the chance of being railroaded, Good Samaritan law or no.
I was in MicroCenter just this weekend looking at a loaded G4 with the gigundo LCD display. 30 seconds into clicking around looking for something that would play a movie so I could see what the LCD looked like with moving pictures on it, the system locked up.
Ahh, takes me back to the old days of Mac lockups with no chance of recovery, not even the chance that the BSOD is an overreaction, just hit return and keep working.
Every time I've tried to buy into the Mac hype, I've spent a few days using one, and the lockups chased me back to PCs or UNIX.
This time, brand new in-store HW chased me out before I even had a chance to get an impulse to buy.
Macs are pretty computers for pretty people who don't use them very often or for very long.
It does occur in an alternate universe where the president is a different person, so that might sneak it in to the very border of SciFi-ness. Ok, probably not, but don't limit yourself to scifi,
Nope. It counts, and not just for the alternate universe-ness.
They've shows have featured meteorology, cartography, air-traffic control, security technology, e-mail instability, crude-oil transport, and ichthyology (goldfish).
There was supposed to be a scene in the finale this year of some of them standing in front of the Einstein statue at NIST, but it got cut for time.
A few months ago, one of the local Silly Valley school districts (Los Altos, iirc) Yahoo-auctioned off a working Apple I, signed by Steve Wozniak, complete with a picture of the Woz signing it.
It went for $350.
I didn't buy it.
--Blair
"D'oh!"
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Oh that's funny.
I was kind of surprised that the i9000 had fallen off the face of the earth. But now I find out the 9000i is alive and kicking.
Heh.
And there were still three reviews of the i9000, available, too.
--Blair
"Oh, man. Diet coke, all up in my nose..."
The Nokia i9000 was the ideal form factor. But it was several years ahead of its time, and stupidly limited in its system compatibility. Now we'll never see it again.
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Just don't let any cats in your cube.
--Blair
If Bob Hope ever finds out he's being used on it.
--Blair
P.S. Nobody ever did say what Hedy got for her trouble.
"The memory you get from malloc isn't actually allocated until you access it."
malloc(3) has a job to do, and that's to keep you from using memory you can't use. If it doesn't "allocate" it until you access it, then whatever system you're using is incontrovertibly broken.
malloc(3) is at least two layers above the actual memory. Plenty of room for the MMS and MMU to translate it.
Don't go assuming what I was running.
And if Linux limits memory to 3GB (which I did not know, as I don't often dig around the internals of toy computers) then what good is it?
--Blair
Which obviates your point.
A 32-bit CPU can address 2^32 bytes of virtual memory just fine.
--Blair
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Matrix zealots abound on /.
Kids think of this hunk of crap the way us older folks thought of Star Wars, which was panned as mindless entertainment, too, but wrongly so, since it's got a strong story under all that cheesy blaster fire. The Matrix, by contrast, has a lousy story, no score, wasted effects (giant spiders?), empty acting, and very little merchandising value.
Here's hoping the producers of The Matrix put CyberEwoks into the sequel and fuck their fans the way Lucas fucked us.
--Blair
So what you're saying is that ambiguity is your cinematic god.
I'll agree. The Matrix is plenty ambiguous.
Not because it's meant to be, but because it's full of holes.
A good story may have enough subtlety and nuances that your understanding of it changes on successive viewings, but a movie to which you can apply random and conflicting interpretations is illiterate impressionism.
Basic lesson taught to all writers when they are young: Don't mistake obscurity for depth.
--Blair
P.S. I'd like to thank all those who modded my original post, the one that started this thread, down to 0. Those of us who like knocking power-mad petty tyrants out of their trees need reassurance every once in a while that the human race hasn't lost its ability to whelp them out in the thousands.
The machines also had 4GB of ram, so it was fun to do: char * myStr = (char *)malloc(-1);
You're going back to school, m'laddo.
malloc(3) has overhead. You should have expected that to fail if you were thinking only of how much RAM you had. Fortunately, modren cowmpooterz has virtual memory. So you could have got away with that when you got your first 5GB hard drive.
--Blair
Could be worse.
Could be Harlan Ellison's edit of Last Dangerous Visions (I'd link to Christopher Priest's Last Deadloss Visions, the story of Ellison's failure, but Priest has taken it to print and forced it off the net...)
--Blair
The Matrix stank.
More holes than a pre-SMT circuit board.
Keanu is a waste of envy.
Laurence Fishburn was just plain wasted as Morpheus.
The only remotely interesting thing in it was people running on walls exploding with gunfire.
But it's plain from the total lack of an ending that they plan decades of sequels, and if it doesn't devolve into Police Academy or a geeky Halloween, I'll be mighty surprised.
Understand, this is the movie Wesley Crusher would have called "his".
The longer they wait to repeat that disaster the better.
--Blair
"Did you ever try to avoid hype?"
"There's nothing more useless than an internet account with a monthly cap."
--Blair
"You'll find truth only in mathematics."
The guy should sue the makers of the camera and the police and the relevant jurisdiction. Not for the invasion of his privacy, but because they used his image in their marketing without his permission.
Anyone know how much Hedy Lamarr got for that when she sued Photoshop?
--Blair
"Illegal" is not the same as "wrong".
"Legal" is not the same as "right".
Police typically check locks on doors. They can and do enter property they find open and unoccupied, and they can and do lock those doors if possible and if they think it's a reasonable thing to do given the neighborhood (hint: the internet "neighborhood" is roughly every machine on it, and everyone, good or bad, lives right next door to you). A warrant merely franks the search into evidence.
The fact that you don't like your neighbors is your problem. The rest of us will thank ours for looking out for us.
Then you might want to stop accepting unsolicited communications.
You might be competent to download and apply a patch. But the network is full of incompetent or apathetic people, and their incompetence results in the ability of dangerous worms to propagate.
Their computers are emanating viri and worms just as evilly as the computer that originally did it. If a bum who crawled in your open door and died was emitting a foul stench and bacteria that were wafting down the street infecting other houses, you can bet I and the local HazMat team would be, without a warrant or your permission, all over your door nailing it shut, and your pewling cries of "trespassers!" wouldn't impress a jury.
The problem is that the Internet hasn't got itself set up that way, and the real culprits, the ones who install and run buggy software on a public network, are not being prosecuted.
--Blair
No. I mean continuously. 142537 hours and counting. I've only taken breaks to upgrade my fluids and network equipment. And I've got 39 lines of C code to pr0ve it!
--Blair
"How can anything be offtopic when the entire website is two characters of punctuation?"
All machines need cheap speed.
A 64-bit bus is expensive because it doesn't go as fast as a serial bus (you have to slow it down deliberately to avoid timing problems making all 64 lines sync up) and it eats a lot of board space and chip pins.
Though it seems counterintuitive, a serial solution is currently more consumer-friendly than a wider bus is.
Of course, in 5 years, when the PCI is becoming the bottleneck again, and even cranking it up to 24 or 48 GHz isn't enough, someone will put several of these in parallel and tout it as a great advancement.
I take it back. I predict we'll see someone doing that and marketing it as vapor it before we even buy the first one of these.
Or maybe I just did.
--Blair
A chair is a chair.
The Aeron chairs I've tried have not been adjustable enough (arm-rest height is critical; I need to have my elbows way up). That nylon burlap they use is a disaster. And the damped, geared cantilevering doesn't allow for a comforting rocking motion during pensive moments.
$700 was retarded enough for the lesser models; the most adjustable ones went for upwards of $1500.
I got a $199 Global at Staples or Office Depot or OfficeMax or somewhere.
Simple, well-padded cloth seat, adjustable back-height with lumbar bulge, and armrests that adjust in-out, up-down, and front-back tilt.
I've spent over 24 hours straight in that chair (modulo bathroom and fridge breaks) and had only stiff knees.
$700 Aerons, $500k Silicon Valley houses, and $40/hr Java "talent" really were the biggest boondoggles of the Internet boom.
--Blair
>Personally, I feel a virus is a virus, regardless if your intentions were good.
It's probable that you don't understand the difference between right and wrong.
Think of cops and robbers. We have bad guys with guns running around on the streets, and we have good guys with guns running around on the streets. Neither group is very bright, and both are liable to shoot you for pulling your wallet out too fast in a darkened doorway. Still, we know which group we're going to train and pay to protect us using their own judgment.
A neighbor who checks and locks my door is far more neighborly than one who walks in, spray paints grafitti on my walls, craps on my carpet, leaves a dead rat hanging between the old coats in the closet, and says "oh, you have a security problem, you should get that fixed before someone does something bad to you".
People who bought buggy software got ripped off, and you're discouraging conscientious software engineers from providing free, automatic service to those people, and preventing them from becoming unwitting dupes in spreading the bad viri around the world.
But you shouldn't live in fear that this will become epidemic. People who do know right from wrong and who do choose to do right understand that doing right is often mistaken for doing wrong by people who don't know the difference, and our system of justice isn't based on right and wrong, it's based on perception, so they won't take the chance of being railroaded, Good Samaritan law or no.
--Blair
I was in MicroCenter just this weekend looking at a loaded G4 with the gigundo LCD display. 30 seconds into clicking around looking for something that would play a movie so I could see what the LCD looked like with moving pictures on it, the system locked up.
Ahh, takes me back to the old days of Mac lockups with no chance of recovery, not even the chance that the BSOD is an overreaction, just hit return and keep working.
Every time I've tried to buy into the Mac hype, I've spent a few days using one, and the lockups chased me back to PCs or UNIX.
This time, brand new in-store HW chased me out before I even had a chance to get an impulse to buy.
Macs are pretty computers for pretty people who don't use them very often or for very long.
--Blair
I've been on the net since before some of you were born.
--Blair
They're similar to Gummy Bears, but a little larger and not so rubbery.
--Blair
"It takes seven days to make a jelly bean."
I mean, it's obvious.
Even if you only need room for a sonic screwdriver, a bag of jelly babies, and a key to the TARDIS.
--Blair
It does occur in an alternate universe where the president is a different person, so that might sneak it in to the very border of SciFi-ness. Ok, probably not, but don't limit yourself to scifi,
Nope. It counts, and not just for the alternate universe-ness.
They've shows have featured meteorology, cartography, air-traffic control, security technology, e-mail instability, crude-oil transport, and ichthyology (goldfish).
There was supposed to be a scene in the finale this year of some of them standing in front of the Einstein statue at NIST, but it got cut for time.
The West Wing is science fiction.
--Blair
A few months ago, one of the local Silly Valley school districts (Los Altos, iirc) Yahoo-auctioned off a working Apple I, signed by Steve Wozniak, complete with a picture of the Woz signing it.
It went for $350.
I didn't buy it.
--Blair
"D'oh!"
Oh that's funny.
I was kind of surprised that the i9000 had fallen off the face of the earth. But now I find out the 9000i is alive and kicking.
Heh.
And there were still three reviews of the i9000, available, too.
--Blair
"Oh, man. Diet coke, all up in my nose..."
That's all I want.
The Nokia i9000 was the ideal form factor. But it was several years ahead of its time, and stupidly limited in its system compatibility. Now we'll never see it again.
I can't even browse up a picture to link to. Just An old TalkBack review, a mention in a Slashdot thread, and something a furriner wrote.
--Blair
Would somebody PLEASE write a mail worm that DISABLES SCRIPT EXECUTION after mailing itself to everyone on the recipient's lists?
--Blair
"I had the chicken pox. ONCE."