The decision to allow multiple processes to write to a single file was made by Ritchie and Thompson in the early days of Unix's development at Bell Labs. OS X is a BSD, so it inherits this characteristic.
early evangelical christians in roman-era pagan europe bumped into some major issues when it came to getting converts. namely, most of those pagans didn't give two shakes about christ, but they *did* care about their traditional festivals.
so in an effort to proselytize more of the locals, christians co-opted the local festivals, linking them to nearby christian holidays. (no one really had any idea when jesus was born anyway due to lowsy calendars and inaccurate information).
festivals they couldn't wrestle into christian days were ridiculed. the new year - i.e. the logical one starting in the spring - became known as April Fools' Day.
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there was that one time my hardware ran windows ...
poor box. never was the same.
The decision to allow multiple processes to write to a single file was made by Ritchie and Thompson in the early days of Unix's development at Bell Labs. OS X is a BSD, so it inherits this characteristic.
early evangelical christians in roman-era pagan europe bumped into some major issues when it came to getting converts. namely, most of those pagans didn't give two shakes about christ, but they *did* care about their traditional festivals.
so in an effort to proselytize more of the locals, christians co-opted the local festivals, linking them to nearby christian holidays. (no one really had any idea when jesus was born anyway due to lowsy calendars and inaccurate information).
festivals they couldn't wrestle into christian days were ridiculed. the new year - i.e. the logical one starting in the spring - became known as April Fools' Day.
dramage
The most important difference here is that, unlike guns, P2P can't be used to kill people.
dram
running a profitable e-business? quite an accomplishment for a such a tiny little man