I was just reading the linux kernel mailing list (which i *just* resubscribed to) and apparently, the kernel won't compile correctly with gcc 2.95. Here's an excerpt:
The linux kernel violates certain aliasing rules specified in the ANSI/ISO standard. Starting with GCC 2.95, the gcc optimizer by default relies on these rules to produce more efficient code and thus will produce malfunctioning kernels. To work around this problem, the flag -fno-strict-aliasing must be added to the CFLAGS variable in the main kernel Makefile.
Disclaimer: I haven't downloaded the new compiler and so I haven't tried it yet, but keep this in mind when you upgrade gcc.
no, the howtos and the book they got with linux are the tutorials. yeah, sometimes they need some help getting started, but the howtos are NOT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND!
NOT the UN. You think the US is bad, well the UN is evil. The day the UN gets any control over the internet is the day I start building cruise missiles. Don't get me wrong; the US shouldn't be at the middle of this. What I would like to know, is why anyone hasn't suggested expanding IANA. I don't know too much about this, but wasn't the IANA pretty much set up directly by Jon Postel? I think we could trust it.
it is scary - for one thing, it's another id for no specific purpose. Although, iirc, the mark of the beast is an ic embedded on the back of the hand, the similarities are disconcerting, to say the least
Wonder how it would feel. It would probably be better for my back, but then just about anything would... Probably not worth the price though. A good office chair could probably be just as good, but I'd like to try it.
Although I'd prefer a tower sitting under my desk and something like SGI's 21-inch flat panel screen. The custom case would make it pretty hard to upgrade most stuff, although it wouldn't be bad for the average user if the prices aren't too high. I believe there's some form-factor stuff for laptops that they might have used, and that could help keep them from jacking up the prices on upgrades.
How do you write assembly on the TIs? I have a TI-92 that I got for free in a math competition, and I'd kinda like to have some fun with it (maybe port linux to it... hehe)
What makes the biggest difference (especially with linux) isn't processor speed, it's ram. I've got a 486/33 that I use KDE on, with Netscape and the java version of ICQ. But it's runnable because I've got 20 meg of ram in it. With 32 - 48 meg of ram, anything you use for daily office work (not games or compiling XFree) will run fine on a fast 486.
I kinda know what you mean. My first version of Linux was Slackware 3.1. It used BSD init scripts. At the time, I really didn't know much about that, but now when I have to use RH6, I *HATE* the SYSV stuff. It seems like all the major distributions are SYSV now, although Stampede looks like it'll be good and if Slackware ever gets around to upgrading to glibc2.1, I'll switch to that. Slackware is simply the best distribution I've ever used (except for *possibly* stampede which is still in beta)
9th circut's pretty dang big - a lot of people in Alaska and the northwest want to split of from california. But anyways, if you can distribute source to encryption, you could just make the distribution so the installer compiles everything as it's installed. Slow, but maybe even more secure...
I'm sitting in front of a compaq presario 2256 right now, running linux. everything worked except the modem, and I just replaced that. I've booted of floppies plenty of times, and all the linux distros will boot of the cd
Windows helping me through the baby steps? HAHAHAHAHAHA. I started out on DOS 4. For a while at first, we didn't even have windows. I learded memory management, batch files, etc. right from the DOS 5.0 manual.
IIRC, Socrates (or it *might* have been Plato or Aristotle) knew that there couldn't be multiple, squabbling, *human* gods. He recognized that there had to be one god, that was far superior to us and wouldn't bicker and squable
yeah, but in the 60s a lot of things started going down the tubes. The liberals practically took over Vatican II because Pope John XXIII died just after it started, and then they elected a guy who was known to have worked with communists (got punished for it, too). Heck, even *Masons* were infiltrating the Church...the current Mass was written by a Mason (the Masons are very anti-catholic). It basically went downhill from Vatican II. Don't trust anything written by any *advisory council*.
Every school I've been in I've learned maybe half of what I could. Besides, the culture is in almost any school in the country - public or private. I'll bet that most of us have the time to homeschool our kids. I'm a freshman now, homeschooled 2nd - 5th, and if i get decent grades this quarter, I'm going to teach myself for the rest of high school.
We computer geeks all probably have the time. It's not that hard, do a little reading and you'll do a way better job than the screwed up system. LET'S JUST DITCH THE SYSTEM!
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I was just reading the linux kernel mailing list (which i *just* resubscribed to) and apparently, the kernel won't compile correctly with gcc 2.95. Here's an excerpt:
The linux kernel violates certain aliasing
rules specified in the ANSI/ISO
standard. Starting with GCC 2.95, the gcc
optimizer by default relies on these
rules to produce more efficient code and thus
will produce malfunctioning
kernels. To work around this
problem, the flag -fno-strict-aliasing must be
added to the CFLAGS variable in
the main kernel Makefile.
Disclaimer: I haven't downloaded the new compiler and so I haven't tried it yet, but keep this in mind when you upgrade gcc.
It was an okay book. I prefered Shakespeare, but it wasn't bad.
no, the howtos and the book they got with linux are the tutorials. yeah, sometimes they need some help getting started, but the howtos are NOT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND!
NOT the UN. You think the US is bad, well the UN is evil. The day the UN gets any control over the internet is the day I start building cruise missiles. Don't get me wrong; the US shouldn't be at the middle of this. What I would like to know, is why anyone hasn't suggested expanding IANA. I don't know too much about this, but wasn't the IANA pretty much set up directly by Jon Postel? I think we could trust it.
it is scary - for one thing, it's another id for no specific purpose. Although, iirc, the mark of the beast is an ic embedded on the back of the hand, the similarities are disconcerting, to say the least
SCO owns the AT&T source code, but the trademark is owned by The Open Group (I think)
Wonder how it would feel. It would probably be better for my back, but then just about anything would... Probably not worth the price though. A good office chair could probably be just as good, but I'd like to try it.
with that much power, the birds wouldn't just start to cook, they'd explode...
the colors are off, and everything else is kinda too "perfect" to look real - not bad, but it still looks *really* fake
Although I'd prefer a tower sitting under my desk and something like SGI's 21-inch flat panel screen. The custom case would make it pretty hard to upgrade most stuff, although it wouldn't be bad for the average user if the prices aren't too high. I believe there's some form-factor stuff for laptops that they might have used, and that could help keep them from jacking up the prices on upgrades.
And first post too!
How do you write assembly on the TIs? I have a TI-92 that I got for free in a math competition, and I'd kinda like to have some fun with it (maybe port linux to it... hehe)
What makes the biggest difference (especially with linux) isn't processor speed, it's ram. I've got a 486/33 that I use KDE on, with Netscape and the java version of ICQ. But it's runnable because I've got 20 meg of ram in it. With 32 - 48 meg of ram, anything you use for daily office work (not games or compiling XFree) will run fine on a fast 486.
I kinda know what you mean. My first version of Linux was Slackware 3.1. It used BSD init scripts. At the time, I really didn't know much about that, but now when I have to use RH6, I *HATE* the SYSV stuff. It seems like all the major distributions are SYSV now, although Stampede looks like it'll be good and if Slackware ever gets around to upgrading to glibc2.1, I'll switch to that. Slackware is simply the best distribution I've ever used (except for *possibly* stampede which is still in beta)
9th circut's pretty dang big - a lot of people in Alaska and the northwest want to split of from california. But anyways, if you can distribute source to encryption, you could just make the distribution so the installer compiles everything as it's installed. Slow, but maybe even more secure...
Exactly that was done with unix (i don't remember which one) and it took quite awhile to find - i think it was over a decade
How hard are externel cases to use? I've heard of them for scsi, but will they work for ide too? Does it just require some special cabling?
Anyone got an url for this open cpu project?
I'm sitting in front of a compaq presario 2256 right now, running linux. everything worked except the modem, and I just replaced that. I've booted of floppies plenty of times, and all the linux distros will boot of the cd
Windows helping me through the baby steps? HAHAHAHAHAHA. I started out on DOS 4. For a while at first, we didn't even have windows. I learded memory management, batch files, etc. right from the DOS 5.0 manual.
All the BIOSes that I've seen had a setting for whether the keyboard was installed. If you selected , it just didn't check for a keyboard.
IIRC, Socrates (or it *might* have been Plato or Aristotle) knew that there couldn't be multiple, squabbling, *human* gods. He recognized that there had to be one god, that was far superior to us and wouldn't bicker and squable
I thought St. Joseph Cupertino was the patron saint of test-takers?
yeah, but in the 60s a lot of things started going down the tubes. The liberals practically took over Vatican II because Pope John XXIII died just after it started, and then they elected a guy who was known to have worked with communists (got punished for it, too). Heck, even *Masons* were infiltrating the Church...the current Mass was written by a Mason (the Masons are very anti-catholic). It basically went downhill from Vatican II. Don't trust anything written by any *advisory council*.
Every school I've been in I've learned maybe half of what I could. Besides, the culture is in almost any school in the country - public or private. I'll bet that most of us have the time to homeschool our kids. I'm a freshman now, homeschooled 2nd - 5th, and if i get decent grades this quarter, I'm going to teach myself for the rest of high school.
We computer geeks all probably have the time. It's not that hard, do a little reading and you'll do a way better job than the screwed up system. LET'S JUST DITCH THE SYSTEM!
Keyed ribbon cables!? What else have I been missing!?