I definitely need to read his stuff again, because I was scarred by "Foucault's Pendulum" when I read it in my early teens. (It was what I read after the Dune series.) Utterly confused me, but I finished it.
Then again, if I hadn't read it I probably whould have been scared to read any big books. I never would have even tried to pick "The Illuminatus Trilogy" or "Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminatus w/ Robert Shea.) Not in the same league as Eco, or even the same type of book, but truely enlightened me. Drugs, sex, madness, conspiacies, and pseudo histories in one book! Happy days. And to think, I got them all at my local library.
Needs to find library card,
chris
PS It was probably the movie and sheer boredom that let me get through the Dune series. It's a little better read nowadays.
PPS Kevin J Anderson should die a slow painful death. Kinda like reading his books. Frank Herbert is dead, long live Frank Herbert.
I had no idea MS Money was that good. Is anyone going to patch gnucach for this? Will I have to wait for Quicken to do it first?
I mean, just think how useful it would be if I could have bills introduced into the Senate from my OSS program anytime I couldn't legally use (or afford) something. Hell, maybe they could implement it for the EU as well. That would be kick ass.
Why are we still harping on Sandman, all these years later?
Umm... this is slashdot. We are running a rehash of a 30 year old operating system if we're lucky. The creators don't even approve.
We know what we like and we like what we know.
Thanks,
chris
PS I've bookmarked this so next time I have money for comics I can check your recommendations out.
PPS No, I'm not making fun of linux. Or BSD.
PPPS Between my brother and I, we can't keep a full set of the Sandman because they seem to be loaned out:)
PPPPS AFAIK, nothing above a PS is a proper acronym.
No, I'm glad they didn't. I already had a c:\programs dir. Wasn't the point of Win95 to use the long filenames?
At least c:\PROGRA~1 didn't add anything to where my assembly programs lived. That would have scared me. (I wrote some bad ones, including an extremely small.com to overwrite the 80h drive.)
Then I found linux. echo hello >/dev/hda. I'm still scared of root (you should be too.)
To get back on topic, the author says that the inode is the unique identifcatation of the file. No, the inode is the file. If you move it, the inode stays the same, assuming you didn't move it across devices. Or rename it first then write the file like most editors. We have symbolic links for a reason. Oh well.
I think that's what I'm talking about. I was trying to make a joke about how these things were already tried w/ transistors. Maybe it is time to reexamine that thinking. (Or not.)
Thanks, cts
P.S. Ya, I know, but when REP MOVSB was cool, so was 64k (Ok, it lasted through the 286, but you know what I mean.) And why don't we use the >2 levels of privilege? (I don't know, but it's probably on lkml. Are the other ports better w/ this?)
P.P.S wouldn't "mov ip,Word Processor" be cool!!!!
Well, the problem is that libraries are mapped into the executable (or the other way around.) What makes libprivfunctions.so special? Notice that there isn't a suid libc.so.
The kernel is seperated from user code. That's why system calls are special. In fact, the processor helps w/ this. It usually has some sort of privilege level to seperate the i/o, mmu from user land.
<sarcasm> Or, we could make processors with more levels of priviliges. Ah, hell, put the string functions in the chip. Screw that, let's put the kernel in a chip. </sarcasm>
Thanks, cts
P.S. If anyone can put a "good kernel" in a chip, please do!!! Screw RISC.
P.P.S I'd like to hear about more OS's like this. (I mean a good implementation of Multics)
I still reminisce for those days as well. I enjoyed figuring out the different build systems (scripts, editing.h files, imake, Makefile (vs. makefile).) I still remember how long the X11 build took for me to figure out (and then compile.)
Although, I suspect the BOFH made all those configure scripts, libtool and such (which would be much better if they worked on SunOS again.)
P.S. You are too trusting, I always tar tvzf first.
P.P.S make -n install is just plain confusing now.
My thermostat is at 66 (and I pay the bills), I use network TV (and only one VCR), most of them understand a double short cappuccino (which is good 1 out of 5 times, just like most places), and finally, mmm... Martha Stewart... cake... or cookies... or cooked food...(and I shop at K-Mart!!!) What me worry?
Thanks,
chris
PS
I'm just waiting for good fusion reactors, true broadband media (any movie, anytime), a good barista, and a butler/maid/chef. Oh, well.
I mean you didn't hide under bridges and attack this project, right? You didn't create this project through goading the creator(s), eh? If you were trollin' why post to slashdot? (mmm.... better trolls.)
I'm gettin' confused now. You can't troll sourceforge like slashdot.
Ohh, you mean like fishing.
Chr*st, sometimes overloaded statements mean nothing to me.
RFC 1591 The country codes are 2 letters. The codes come from IANA which refers to
ISC country codes, so complain to ISO. Besides.sa and.se are taken. They could go to.oc (ocean), but who'd want that?
Slashdot Mirror
Does it matter? All bunnies look the same to me :)
I think the name comes from the movie "Glen or Glenda", where Ed Wood (director of "Plan 9 from Outer Space") justifies being a transvestite.
Astronauts are cool,
chris
I vote for xfce as having the dang cutest logo yet.
My vote goes to Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny. Astronaut bunnys, can't get much cuter.
I definitely need to read his stuff again, because I was scarred by "Foucault's Pendulum" when I read it in my early teens. (It was what I read after the Dune series.) Utterly confused me, but I finished it.
Then again, if I hadn't read it I probably whould have been scared to read any big books. I never would have even tried to pick "The Illuminatus Trilogy" or "Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminatus w/ Robert Shea.) Not in the same league as Eco, or even the same type of book, but truely enlightened me. Drugs, sex, madness, conspiacies, and pseudo histories in one book! Happy days. And to think, I got them all at my local library.
Needs to find library card,chris
PS It was probably the movie and sheer boredom that let me get through the Dune series. It's a little better read nowadays.
PPS Kevin J Anderson should die a slow painful death. Kinda like reading his books. Frank Herbert is dead, long live Frank Herbert.
I had no idea MS Money was that good. Is anyone going to patch gnucach for this? Will I have to wait for Quicken to do it first?
I mean, just think how useful it would be if I could have bills introduced into the Senate from my OSS program anytime I couldn't legally use (or afford) something. Hell, maybe they could implement it for the EU as well. That would be kick ass.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx? ID=36606
Why are we still harping on Sandman, all these years later?
Umm... this is slashdot. We are running a rehash of a 30 year old operating system if we're lucky. The creators don't even approve.
We know what we like and we like what we know.
Thanks,
chris
PS I've bookmarked this so next time I have money for comics I can check your recommendations out.
PPS No, I'm not making fun of linux. Or BSD.
PPPS Between my brother and I, we can't keep a full set of the Sandman because they seem to be loaned out:)
PPPPS AFAIK, nothing above a PS is a proper acronym.
The only chip design methodology that still has its original meaning is VLIW. That original meaning is "bankruptcy."
No, it's Intel / HP's EPIC (.pdf) now. I imagine IA-64 will be around for a while :)
Here's a nice page with some history and links. Even lists the real backrupt VLIWs
. Have Fun,chris
P.S. Isn't PlayDoh a way better name than IA-64?
[b]Personally, I'm suspicious of "received wisdom" that's much older then 10 or 20 years[/b]
Perhaps I can finally stop wearing this dismal fashion statement of an aluminum foil hat.
Upgrade man, upgrade. I wear these. The ladies are all over me in my baseball cap, underwear, t-shirt, and scarf.
I'm joking of course. I'd have to leave the house.
No, I'm glad they didn't. I already had a c:\programs dir. Wasn't the point of Win95 to use the long filenames?
At least c:\PROGRA~1 didn't add anything to where my assembly programs lived. That would have scared me. (I wrote some bad ones, including an extremely small .com to overwrite the 80h drive.)
Then I found linux. echo hello > /dev/hda. I'm still scared of root (you should be too.)
To get back on topic, the author says that the inode is the unique identifcatation of the file. No, the inode is the file. If you move it, the inode stays the same, assuming you didn't move it across devices. Or rename it first then write the file like most editors. We have symbolic links for a reason. Oh well.
tar cf - .|(cd /mp3 && tar xvpf -)
/mp3 && gzip -dc|tar xvpf -'
It keeps permissions as well. You can even throw in a ssh and copy things over to another machine i.e.:
tar cf -|ssh -C machinename tar xvpf -
or
tar cf -|gzip -c|ssh machinename 'cd
Or throw in your favorite archive (cpio, pax) and compress (compress, bzip2) program
I think that's what I'm talking about. I was trying to make a joke about how these things were already tried w/ transistors. Maybe it is time to reexamine that thinking. (Or not.)
Thanks,
cts
P.S.
Ya, I know, but when REP MOVSB was cool, so was 64k (Ok, it lasted through the 286, but you know what I mean.) And why don't we use the >2 levels of privilege? (I don't know, but it's probably on lkml. Are the other ports better w/ this?)
P.P.S
wouldn't "mov ip,Word Processor" be cool!!!!
Lenoluim,
Thanks.
But will it emulate a 360??? I hope it will (or won't as that code should die)
The Power series is no longer under the RISC/Station 6000. I don't know if it ever was properly RISC.
That being said, one of the Power4 w/ 4 processors on a chip just sounds cool.
Thanks,
cts
P.S. I read realworldtech.com for my processor news. What do you read?
Well, the problem is that libraries are mapped into the executable (or the other way around.) What makes libprivfunctions.so special? Notice that there isn't a suid libc.so.
The kernel is seperated from user code. That's why system calls are special. In fact, the processor helps w/ this. It usually has some sort of privilege level to seperate the i/o, mmu from user land.
<sarcasm>
Or, we could make processors with more levels of priviliges. Ah, hell, put the string functions in the chip. Screw that, let's put the kernel in a chip.
</sarcasm>
Thanks,
cts
P.S.
If anyone can put a "good kernel" in a chip, please do!!! Screw RISC.
P.P.S
I'd like to hear about more OS's like this. (I mean a good implementation of Multics)
1) BOFH
.h files, imake, Makefile (vs. makefile).) I still remember how long the X11 build took for me to figure out (and then compile.)
2) tar -xzf
3) gcc
I still reminisce for those days as well. I enjoyed figuring out the different build systems (scripts, editing
Although, I suspect the BOFH made all those configure scripts, libtool and such (which would be much better if they worked on SunOS again.)
P.S. You are too trusting, I always tar tvzf first.
P.P.S make -n install is just plain confusing now.
My thermostat is at 66 (and I pay the bills), I use network TV (and only one VCR), most of them understand a double short cappuccino (which is good 1 out of 5 times, just like most places), and finally, mmm... Martha Stewart... cake... or cookies... or cooked food...(and I shop at K-Mart!!!) What me worry?
Thanks,
chris
PS
I'm just waiting for good fusion reactors, true broadband media (any movie, anytime), a good barista, and a butler/maid/chef. Oh, well.
PPS
I broke my old casio.
I mean you didn't hide under bridges and attack this project, right? You didn't create this project through goading the creator(s), eh? If you were trollin' why post to slashdot? (mmm.... better trolls.)
I'm gettin' confused now. You can't troll sourceforge like slashdot.
Ohh, you mean like fishing.
Chr*st, sometimes overloaded statements mean nothing to me.
Maybe he will add functional programming to C++. It can hang out with OO, generic, and structural programming. That would be awesome.
I'm joking... kindof.
RFC 1591 .sa and .se are taken. They could go to .oc (ocean), but who'd want that?
The country codes are 2 letters. The codes come from IANA which refers to ISC country codes, so complain to ISO. Besides