Josta sounds quite bad in Brazilian Portuguese, as does the Episode I character name "Captain Panaka" (something like "Captain Jerk" or "Captain Stupid").
OTOH there's a bus company in Brazil called "Ass". In Southern Brazil you can find a couple of companies called "Fuck".
The best keyboard I've ever used is the keyboard of the green terminal that comes with series 800 HP9000. The ESC key is in the place of Caps Lock in a PC keyboard, it's just great for vi(1). Very good mechanical action too, almost as good as a Sun keyboard.
My dream keyboard is a PFU-like compact keyboard with Sun action, HP layout and a Toshiba Accupoint device. Oh well, just a plain PFU would be far better than the keyboard I'm currently using, but they're kind of expensive. -- I wonder if cheaper Asian clones are available.
I'm surprised I didn't see it in the previous comments (or perhaps I just missed it), but most of the obfuscation techinques mentioned above have been used in the IOCCC and commented in Don Libes' Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries (the book is currently out of print). I highly recommend it!:)
Any information about the ancillary buffers available in the ATI card? I've been working with a TNT2 card and the results are pretty poor if you need stenciling or accumulation, using the 16 bpp X server provided by NVIDIA. I'm working with robotics simulation and I would be better served with an SGI box -- but most people (including the lab managers etc) can't see the difference between a high-end PC with a 3D card designed for games and a low end SGI workstation with a slightly higher price. And the 3D hacks in xscreensaver don't work in full screen mode with my card (in fact they work, but in single buffer mode). I've been offered an Ultra 1 box with a Creator card, which is slower than an average PC (ok, I guess an Elite 3D card would help me there). I'm now waiting for that workstation-class NVIDIA card, or perhaps this ATI card if it has the extra buffers.
So we could say that an operating system is something that
manages memory (allocating and deallocating memory for processes, and taking care of virtual memory paging)
provides mechanisms to access the computer hardware (isolating them from the application -- think of the same OS running in different hardware platforms)
Manages the processes themselves (scheduling them, etc)
Manages the file system.
and is usually made up of a kernel and a set of utilities to tune and set up its operating parameters. (Perhaps this definition is a bit UNIX-centric but anyway.) So in the GNU/Linux case the kernel, a shell and the file utilities are part of the operating system, but X certainly is not. Following the definition strictly, I see the text utilities as a set of applications bundled with the operating system, but not part of the system itself.
Applying it to Windows, the GUI seems to be just a graphics application running in kernel mode, unless it is monolithically integrated to the memory management system. Would it be possible to remove the GUI (not in the final product of course) and still have windows booting and managing it memory and talking to the hardware and opening and reading files, i.e., would it be possible to write a console version of windows without rewriting its core management units? I wouldn't say that Windows' "OS" is just the old DOS underneath because the old DOS doesn't have the memory management capabilities used by Windows, but OTOH saying that Solitaire is part of the OS doesn't sound reasonable.
This one seems to be working for quite a long time. Here's an excerpt from the page:
"Magic is a Dual Pentium Pro running Linux (...) with 128MB RAM, 3.4GB of disk space and a shared T1 to the internet. (...) Originally was used as a small network computer in some big company, hen was sold for a song to Halted Specialties Co. where it was sold without hard drive and RAM for $99 to James Neal."
More features == more bloat == more delay == more bugs. BTW have the bus error crashes and DNS hangs been fixed? I think what I really want is lynx with tables, frames and graphics.
And I thought Mozilla would allow us to have have a clean, fast, debloated browser. Does anyone know if will it be possible to leave Java, Javascript, and all the useless chrome (i.e. drag and drop support, chat, addressbook etc) out when compiling? I dislike the idea of having an all-in-one application -- stand-alone, highly specialized applications seem to be much better.
"Accurately aligning the perceptions of the marketplace and potential customers with what the company has to offer is fundamental to effective marketing. The move to create a corporate identity that reflects our position is a logical next step in the company's turnaround."
So perhaps SGI won't be working with silicon anymore. Any news about carbon-based CPUs?:)
This seems to be another step in a sequence of bad ideas. First SGI releases Intel-based hardware running NT. Now they kill the neat looking 3D cube replacing it a terribly designed, ugly logo. The next move will will probably drop IRIX, stop MIPS hardware and turn OpenGL into ProprietaryGL. Just now when I was about to order an O2 machine for Robotics simulation (Linux and Mesa are not being fast enough for me. What about 15 seconds per frame in anti-aliased mode?).
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OTOH there's a bus company in Brazil called "Ass". In Southern Brazil you can find a couple of companies called "Fuck".
(Ok, I know. I'm not funny)
My dream keyboard is a PFU-like compact keyboard with Sun action, HP layout and a Toshiba Accupoint device. Oh well, just a plain PFU would be far better than the keyboard I'm currently using, but they're kind of expensive. -- I wonder if cheaper Asian clones are available.
Perl, vi, the zx81 and demos are really great hacks, but I nominate the Soundtracker and Protracker. They're simple, elegant and efficient hacks.
I'm surprised I didn't see it in the previous comments (or perhaps I just missed it), but most of the obfuscation techinques mentioned above have been used in the IOCCC and commented in Don Libes' Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries (the book is currently out of print). I highly recommend it! :)
Any information about the ancillary buffers available in the ATI card? I've been working with a TNT2 card and the results are pretty poor if you need stenciling or accumulation, using the 16 bpp X server provided by NVIDIA. I'm working with robotics simulation and I would be better served with an SGI box -- but most people (including the lab managers etc) can't see the difference between a high-end PC with a 3D card designed for games and a low end SGI workstation with a slightly higher price. And the 3D hacks in xscreensaver don't work in full screen mode with my card (in fact they work, but in single buffer mode). I've been offered an Ultra 1 box with a Creator card, which is slower than an average PC (ok, I guess an Elite 3D card would help me there). I'm now waiting for that workstation-class NVIDIA card, or perhaps this ATI card if it has the extra buffers.
- manages memory (allocating and deallocating memory for processes, and taking care of virtual memory paging)
- provides mechanisms to access the computer hardware (isolating them from the application -- think of the same OS running in different hardware platforms)
- Manages the processes themselves (scheduling them, etc)
- Manages the file system.
and is usually made up of a kernel and a set of utilities to tune and set up its operating parameters. (Perhaps this definition is a bit UNIX-centric but anyway.) So in the GNU/Linux case the kernel, a shell and the file utilities are part of the operating system, but X certainly is not. Following the definition strictly, I see the text utilities as a set of applications bundled with the operating system, but not part of the system itself.Applying it to Windows, the GUI seems to be just a graphics application running in kernel mode, unless it is monolithically integrated to the memory management system. Would it be possible to remove the GUI (not in the final product of course) and still have windows booting and managing it memory and talking to the hardware and opening and reading files, i.e., would it be possible to write a console version of windows without rewriting its core management units? I wouldn't say that Windows' "OS" is just the old DOS underneath because the old DOS doesn't have the memory management capabilities used by Windows, but OTOH saying that Solitaire is part of the OS doesn't sound reasonable.
"Magic is a Dual Pentium Pro running Linux (...) with 128MB RAM, 3.4GB of disk space and a shared T1 to the internet. (...) Originally was used as a small network computer in some big company, hen was sold for a song to Halted Specialties Co. where it was sold without hard drive and RAM for $99 to James Neal."
More features == more bloat == more delay == more bugs. BTW have the bus error crashes and DNS hangs been fixed? I think what I really want is lynx with tables, frames and graphics.
And I thought Mozilla would allow us to have have a clean, fast, debloated browser. Does anyone know if will it be possible to leave Java, Javascript, and all the useless chrome (i.e. drag and drop support, chat, addressbook etc) out when compiling? I dislike the idea of having an all-in-one application -- stand-alone, highly specialized applications seem to be much better.
So perhaps SGI won't be working with silicon anymore. Any news about carbon-based CPUs? :)
This seems to be another step in a sequence of bad ideas. First SGI releases Intel-based hardware running NT. Now they kill the neat looking 3D cube replacing it a terribly designed, ugly logo. The next move will will probably drop IRIX, stop MIPS hardware and turn OpenGL into ProprietaryGL. Just now when I was about to order an O2 machine for Robotics simulation (Linux and Mesa are not being fast enough for me. What about 15 seconds per frame in anti-aliased mode?).