:-D Sure am, and I do believe I've heard or seen the name "Miro" around the traps.
My username was/is bfabry, or "FABRY,BEAUJONATHAN" as blackboard likes to call me for some reason.
Hopefully this encourages universities to move away from Blackboard if anything.. it's a steaming pile of crap, really.
Doesn't affect me anyway, as any school of comp sci should be, all our labs are thin x-servers.
The rest of the uni can suffer in Novell hell for all I care, stupid ITS.
Dust and crap I don't see, doesn't exist.
The old man is an asthmatic and even he wouldn't see the point in that, a lot of our time is spent outside in a VERY dusty/unclean environment, some invisible dead skin cells and cat hairs are not going to hurt you.
Solid? My parents have had the same vacuum cleaner, in a very big house with 3 kids for 23 years.
It's not even really any more awkward than a new vacuum cleaner, and seems to pick up dust fine.
But oh noes! It has a paper bag to replace every few months!:S
So about when did/etc become the de-facto standard in Unix for configuation?
"It was designed a long time ago" is not a valid argument for how something is today.
"Users" aren't supposed to modify the registry, but it's still where apps store settings, what app is storing settings in/sbin or/boot?
How is the interface to/etc not standard..? Last I checked we have the navigation of filesystems pretty down-pat.
Obviously what an app puts into its configuration files is undefined, but I'm pretty sure you can put Strings in the registry as well?
The registry is essentially a (bad) re-implementation of a filesystem, it's no more standardised (less so really) than just USING the filesystem.
You are of course right, this is the difference between a "Most Recently Used" linked list, and a hash table.
The hash table requires a tiny bit of extra time on insertion, but is worth it for anything you're doing a lot.
Nooo.. not garbage collection! If it were garbage collection then the used items would never leave the desk and the non-used would never be accessible again:P
I'm going to go with the "tidy_process" is very memory intensive (it wants the WHOLE desk now), as a result you (the memory manager), swap out everything on the desk to disk, but once that is done the "tidy_process" terminates, and "work_process" wakes up and starts requesting things it needs from memory again, so when "work_process" starts back up it's going to generate a whole heap of page-faults for a while and run pretty slow, but eventually all the oft-used stuff will be back in memory.
So, from this, we can deduce that the "tidy_process" is a complete waste of time and of no benefit to the "work_process"
I'm so glad that my Operating Systems class wasn't useless after all:D
Difference being you're not supposed to modify things in/boot and/sbin for all your settings, and/etc is text and therefore much harder to screw up. (you could put an EOF as the first byte in the file, but the system will still probably at least give you a "file x is empty" error message).
What you've said is correct, the gp's gripe is really about using a binary configuration file.. a fairly stupid decision but that is only my opinion.
My argument for flat text (or xml or whatever) over binary, is the same as every argument about the two for the past 5 years, binary is too system specific, reading/writing it is almost always more painful (faster though), reverse-engineering the format is always a much bigger job.
The "defined interfaces" argument doesn't really wash, you can define an interface just as easily for a text file as you can for binary, however with text someone may be able to edit it by hand or write their own interface, with binary this is much more difficult.
I think what it really comes down to is this; If you decided to write a new OS today from scratch and wanted to have a central configuration database (a good idea, as shown by/etc), would YOU come up with the windows registry?
Sounds like what you're talking about is "exigent circumstances", which we have here too, but don't these require the warrant to be supplied to the telco at a later date?
And if so then how does this not get followed up on?
I don't get this.. do you not have privacy laws in the U.S.?
I work (through three contractor levels of abstraction) for a telco here in Aus, and there are laws and BIG penalties for giving out customer records to anyone, including the police, who doesn't have the correct authority
What I'm trying to say is, aren't the US telco's here breaking a few laws?
I imagine a few years after the last piece of the staggering amount of enterprise Java code out there has been phased out.
Seeing that COBOL is still being maintained, and Java is getting taken up more and more atm, I guess that'd make it around 50 years from now.
Not a huge fan of censorship to begin with, at least not on cable tv.
But that said I'd prefer everyone got a little more de-sensitized to sex and boobies and a little more sensitive towards torture.
Copying the standard "this header file defines the standard error codes used by the blah blah blah..." comment is not the same as copying code that implements those things.
Mostly because, as a parent or not, you don't understand how the internet works.
As MANY have pointed out, this gives no more protection than the.xxx domain name, and is only about a billion times harder to implement.
Not an American, I'm Australian and I fully support our racial/religious vilification laws, as well as the laws against inciting crime.
However I do not support our sedition laws and for good reason.
You're right that if you change the article to be more benign your point makes sense though, however the actual example in tfa was
Mohite talks of a citizen who had complained to the police in November regarding a photograph of her posted on Orkut, along with derogatory text.
Hardly encouraging a riot.
Saying I'm adopting a holier-than-thou attitude seems a little far-fetched as well, seeing as it was Google I was criticising, not the Indian govt.
It's amazing how many people don't get this.. but can you imagine how badly Zelda:TP would sell if half its fanbase weren't "skilled" enough to play it?
I love single player games, I love Zelda, but if you want an actual test of how good you are, that's what online is for. (NB: you will be dissapointed in yourself:-P)
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Oh.. don't tease, I dream of the day when the US is as "irrelevant" as France...
Because 2.0 has it by default?
:-D Sure am, and I do believe I've heard or seen the name "Miro" around the traps.
My username was/is bfabry, or "FABRY,BEAUJONATHAN" as blackboard likes to call me for some reason.
Hopefully this encourages universities to move away from Blackboard if anything.. it's a steaming pile of crap, really.
Doesn't affect me anyway, as any school of comp sci should be, all our labs are thin x-servers.
The rest of the uni can suffer in Novell hell for all I care, stupid ITS.
Dust and crap I don't see, doesn't exist.
The old man is an asthmatic and even he wouldn't see the point in that, a lot of our time is spent outside in a VERY dusty/unclean environment, some invisible dead skin cells and cat hairs are not going to hurt you.
Solid? My parents have had the same vacuum cleaner, in a very big house with 3 kids for 23 years. :S
It's not even really any more awkward than a new vacuum cleaner, and seems to pick up dust fine.
But oh noes! It has a paper bag to replace every few months!
Yes and explorer is a (bad) clone of xtree... C'mon man, do you really think explorer was the first file manager to look like it does?
or just thinking, conveniently enough ;-)
So about when did /etc become the de-facto standard in Unix for configuation? /sbin or /boot?
"It was designed a long time ago" is not a valid argument for how something is today.
"Users" aren't supposed to modify the registry, but it's still where apps store settings, what app is storing settings in
How is the interface to /etc not standard..? Last I checked we have the navigation of filesystems pretty down-pat.
Obviously what an app puts into its configuration files is undefined, but I'm pretty sure you can put Strings in the registry as well?
The registry is essentially a (bad) re-implementation of a filesystem, it's no more standardised (less so really) than just USING the filesystem.
You are of course right, this is the difference between a "Most Recently Used" linked list, and a hash table.
The hash table requires a tiny bit of extra time on insertion, but is worth it for anything you're doing a lot.
Nooo.. not garbage collection! If it were garbage collection then the used items would never leave the desk and the non-used would never be accessible again :P :D
I'm going to go with the "tidy_process" is very memory intensive (it wants the WHOLE desk now), as a result you (the memory manager), swap out everything on the desk to disk, but once that is done the "tidy_process" terminates, and "work_process" wakes up and starts requesting things it needs from memory again, so when "work_process" starts back up it's going to generate a whole heap of page-faults for a while and run pretty slow, but eventually all the oft-used stuff will be back in memory.
So, from this, we can deduce that the "tidy_process" is a complete waste of time and of no benefit to the "work_process"
I'm so glad that my Operating Systems class wasn't useless after all
Difference being you're not supposed to modify things in /boot and /sbin for all your settings, and /etc is text and therefore much harder to screw up. (you could put an EOF as the first byte in the file, but the system will still probably at least give you a "file x is empty" error message).
/etc), would YOU come up with the windows registry?
What you've said is correct, the gp's gripe is really about using a binary configuration file.. a fairly stupid decision but that is only my opinion.
My argument for flat text (or xml or whatever) over binary, is the same as every argument about the two for the past 5 years, binary is too system specific, reading/writing it is almost always more painful (faster though), reverse-engineering the format is always a much bigger job.
The "defined interfaces" argument doesn't really wash, you can define an interface just as easily for a text file as you can for binary, however with text someone may be able to edit it by hand or write their own interface, with binary this is much more difficult.
I think what it really comes down to is this; If you decided to write a new OS today from scratch and wanted to have a central configuration database (a good idea, as shown by
Sounds like what you're talking about is "exigent circumstances", which we have here too, but don't these require the warrant to be supplied to the telco at a later date?
And if so then how does this not get followed up on?
I don't get this.. do you not have privacy laws in the U.S.?
I work (through three contractor levels of abstraction) for a telco here in Aus, and there are laws and BIG penalties for giving out customer records to anyone, including the police, who doesn't have the correct authority
What I'm trying to say is, aren't the US telco's here breaking a few laws?
I imagine a few years after the last piece of the staggering amount of enterprise Java code out there has been phased out.
Seeing that COBOL is still being maintained, and Java is getting taken up more and more atm, I guess that'd make it around 50 years from now.
Not a huge fan of censorship to begin with, at least not on cable tv.
But that said I'd prefer everyone got a little more de-sensitized to sex and boobies and a little more sensitive towards torture.
The difference between the Linux bloat, and the Vista bloat, is that I can (and do) still use fluxbox as my wm if that's what I prefer.
comments.. are not code.
Copying the standard "this header file defines the standard error codes used by the blah blah blah..." comment is not the same as copying code that implements those things.
Mostly because, as a parent or not, you don't understand how the internet works. .xxx domain name, and is only about a billion times harder to implement.
As MANY have pointed out, this gives no more protection than the
It's a Governments job to define things such as that, laws.
Kiwi's getting anywhere near the WC... BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
However I do not support our sedition laws and for good reason.
You're right that if you change the article to be more benign your point makes sense though, however the actual example in tfa was Mohite talks of a citizen who had complained to the police in November regarding a photograph of her posted on Orkut, along with derogatory text.
Hardly encouraging a riot.
Saying I'm adopting a holier-than-thou attitude seems a little far-fetched as well, seeing as it was Google I was criticising, not the Indian govt.
Last I checked the Nuremberg defence was invalid.
I'm usually in the "whatever, they have to do business" crowd with google, but this isn't in any grey area, it's downright black.
It's amazing how many people don't get this.. but can you imagine how badly Zelda:TP would sell if half its fanbase weren't "skilled" enough to play it? :-P)
I love single player games, I love Zelda, but if you want an actual test of how good you are, that's what online is for. (NB: you will be dissapointed in yourself