The real props should go to Microsoft for designing a flexible bootmanager and boot-time-application framework that is flexible and firmware independent (x86 BIOS, IA32 EFI, IA64 EFI, x64 EFI).
Your project was inconsequential? You felt it was for nothing? Then your mentor sucked. Not only is that not representative of the whole company or division - it's likely not even representative of your group. Why didn't you talk to someone in recruiting?
Or did you expect someone to hand you off an important chunk of work that was due to be integrated into a shipping product? To whom? You? They don't know you. If you fuck it up - they get the shaft.
I am not enamored of the VIsta Expose knockoff. More aesthetic? Nope. More useless. Cycle through one by one? Apple's Expose actually increases my productivity, while Vista's looks more like a tech demo. Nice thing to "wow" your friends with or whatever, but completely useless in the long run.
Note that the TP600 laptops (I still have a 600X) were notorious for flaky batteries that would give up the ghost in a month or two (there were several IBM FRUs that worked okay, but a) hard to find b) probably worth their weight in gold), so the battery is most likely third party. That doesn't make me very happy:). The actual laptop is built like a tank... its probably 8 years old now, but the quality is amzing. It basically feels like new, although its obviously quite slow (PIII 500Mhz). It's perfect for a light Linux distro.
...which cued about a 1001 different "memory clear" hacks, ranging from ones that looked like the real thing and mimicked the behaviour, to ones that actively hacked the OS to simulate a memory clear while just hiding the files.
The "kernel" is not "everything to complete the boot process". See where you get with a Linux kernel and no rootfs if you don't believe me.
Also, your claim on Linux kernel fixes is crap too. A lot of updates either fix broken code (it doesn't really matter if it's theoretical or not - but the majority fixes are Ooops fixes), or add functionality.
Asterisk is a realy nice package, but not very stable, although it gets better with each release. As in, it "works", until suddenly... you get dropped calls. Or the incoming caller gets a high-pitched squeal into the phone instead of your PBX menu.
Of course, a lot of these issues have more to do with the zaptel drivers, rather than Asterisk itself. But trust me - you WANT to stay up to date with the Asterisk releases. Do not run anything below 1.2.X.
Does it really matter if you "render" text into a framebuffer or just write an image to it? PowerPC macs do not have any legacy PC "text-mode" video support (no b8000/b0000, no mode 3, etc), so you can only access the video through the fb.
Uh, all I mentioned is that yea... privacy is eroding even further. Did I mention anything about violating my privacy? Uh, no, again, since I was talking about Facebook.
Funny as it is, I don't really give a damn if they want to scour my phone records. Go ahead. I'd be naive to assume they weren't already, anyway. I am more so worried about tarded peers.
I, like countless other college and highschool students, happen to be a Facebook user. Admittedly, the initial concept seemed harmless enough. Over time, more and more and more ways were added in which participants could put even more personal information on the pages. More convoluted privacy access controls were added, which in their default settings expose your data to EVERYONE, including people you don't know and that are in none of your communities/groups.
The latest addition to Facebook, however, took the cake. Now for each partecipant there is a "news feed" which provides a nice and easy way to see ALL changes done by the user: this includes changes to their private info, as well as any text messages sent to other people. In short, while this info was available before - it required WORK to get all of it. Stalking took time. Stalking was hard. Like it is supposed to be. Now, logging in to Facebook, I am immediately presented with everything happening to all of my friends - whether I want to see it or not.
In that case, Rat Shack is still a terrible place to go.
Simply because.... they're likely not to even HAVE what you're looking for.
For example: the local Rat Shack in Elgin, IL seems to concentrate on selling cheap, shitty, electronic gadgets, mostly made by no-known-brand companies. They also sell cell phones, crappy A/V equipment, overpriced cables (thaaanks, I think I'll just crimp my own, or buy 10 online for $1), and an assortment of oddball "parts" for computers, like... oh.... internal serial ports for old AT-style mobos, CPU fans, etc.
Ah, and of course, they have some shelves dedicated for "electronics".... which mostly implies LEDs, screw nuts, wires, the oddball CMOS equivalents of TTL logic (and they seem to be pretty random about choices too - sure, we'll sell you buffers, but not AND gates, or OR gates... or whatever), and oddball IC (like a 30-second audio recorder). Somehow, everytime I wanted to buy some analog components like resistors or caps, they ended up not having what I was looking for (thankfully, plenty of broken VCRs and CRTs home to desolder).
...you know of ANOTHER functional, cross-platform and free C compiler?
Oh wait. No, you don't. Yup, looks like there is NO REAL ALTERNATIVE to GNU tools, at least from the perspective of development.
And as others have mentioned, having to deal with BSD tools, coming from a GNU world, is downright painful - missing functionality, obscure features, etc, gah.
I tend to reply as quickly as I can (that might depend on a lot of factors), but I never take into account how slowly someone responded. Just because (for example) someone doesn't have any respect for me to convey a timely reponse to me via email/sms/im/pm, doesn't mean I need to lower myself to that level.
The only WMDs the guy had were the ones Rummy sold him to gas the Kurds and the Iranians with (the irony). They probably "didn't find any", because the ones they found had "made in USA" all over them.
to see if my good friend jrock made a biting comment about "debugging" shit under OS X, so I'll mention it anyway...
OS X gives you a system-supported method for being debugger-unfriendly. Invoking ptrace with a special flag will kill any further attempts to ptrace the processes. Try gdb'ing iTunes. Oh whats that? SIGSEGV?
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Welcome to the USSR #2, Komrades. Seriously :-/
The real props should go to Microsoft for designing a flexible bootmanager and boot-time-application framework that is flexible and firmware independent (x86 BIOS, IA32 EFI, IA64 EFI, x64 EFI).
Your project was inconsequential? You felt it was for nothing? Then your mentor sucked. Not only is that not representative of the whole company or division - it's likely not even representative of your group. Why didn't you talk to someone in recruiting?
Or did you expect someone to hand you off an important chunk of work that was due to be integrated into a shipping product? To whom? You? They don't know you. If you fuck it up - they get the shaft.
Why do you capitialize Cedega in such a weird way? It's not an acronym. It used to be called WineX.
I am not enamored of the VIsta Expose knockoff. More aesthetic? Nope. More useless. Cycle through one by one? Apple's Expose actually increases my productivity, while Vista's looks more like a tech demo. Nice thing to "wow" your friends with or whatever, but completely useless in the long run.
Anyone else feel like they're looking at Apple.com? The web page has an amazingly... OS X-ish feel to it. Kinda weird.
Overall, at least it doesn't look like crap (hello MySpace!!!).
Incorrect - you can get the info of what happened, and by default, Apple mails the crash report.
Note that the TP600 laptops (I still have a 600X) were notorious for flaky batteries that would give up the ghost in a month or two (there were several IBM FRUs that worked okay, but a) hard to find b) probably worth their weight in gold), so the battery is most likely third party. That doesn't make me very happy :). The actual laptop is built like a tank... its probably 8 years old now, but the quality is amzing. It basically feels like new, although its obviously quite slow (PIII 500Mhz). It's perfect for a light Linux distro.
Treat it any way you want, but that STILL would not make any of the user level Windows components "parts of the kernel."
...which cued about a 1001 different "memory clear" hacks, ranging from ones that looked like the real thing and mimicked the behaviour, to ones that actively hacked the OS to simulate a memory clear while just hiding the files.
Uh, no.
The NT kernel is exactly one file: ntoskrnl.exe.
The "kernel" is not "everything to complete the boot process". See where you get with a Linux kernel and no rootfs if you don't believe me.
Also, your claim on Linux kernel fixes is crap too. A lot of updates either fix broken code (it doesn't really matter if it's theoretical or not - but the majority fixes are Ooops fixes), or add functionality.
Asterisk is a realy nice package, but not very stable, although it gets better with each release. As in, it "works", until suddenly... you get dropped calls. Or the incoming caller gets a high-pitched squeal into the phone instead of your PBX menu.
Of course, a lot of these issues have more to do with the zaptel drivers, rather than Asterisk itself. But trust me - you WANT to stay up to date with the Asterisk releases. Do not run anything below 1.2.X.
Probably as in... here is a fine example of how NOT to make a CMS :-P
Does it really matter if you "render" text into a framebuffer or just write an image to it? PowerPC macs do not have any legacy PC "text-mode" video support (no b8000/b0000, no mode 3, etc), so you can only access the video through the fb.
Uh, all I mentioned is that yea... privacy is eroding even further. Did I mention anything about violating my privacy? Uh, no, again, since I was talking about Facebook.
Funny as it is, I don't really give a damn if they want to scour my phone records. Go ahead. I'd be naive to assume they weren't already, anyway. I am more so worried about tarded peers.
What will SGI do? Make overpriced IA-32, X64 or IA-64 clones?
I, like countless other college and highschool students, happen to be a Facebook user. Admittedly, the initial concept seemed harmless enough. Over time, more and more and more ways were added in which participants could put even more personal information on the pages. More convoluted privacy access controls were added, which in their default settings expose your data to EVERYONE, including people you don't know and that are in none of your communities/groups.
The latest addition to Facebook, however, took the cake. Now for each partecipant there is a "news feed" which provides a nice and easy way to see ALL changes done by the user: this includes changes to their private info, as well as any text messages sent to other people. In short, while this info was available before - it required WORK to get all of it. Stalking took time. Stalking was hard. Like it is supposed to be. Now, logging in to Facebook, I am immediately presented with everything happening to all of my friends - whether I want to see it or not.
In that case, Rat Shack is still a terrible place to go.
Simply because.... they're likely not to even HAVE what you're looking for.
For example: the local Rat Shack in Elgin, IL seems to concentrate on selling cheap, shitty, electronic gadgets, mostly made by no-known-brand companies. They also sell cell phones, crappy A/V equipment, overpriced cables (thaaanks, I think I'll just crimp my own, or buy 10 online for $1), and an assortment of oddball "parts" for computers, like... oh.... internal serial ports for old AT-style mobos, CPU fans, etc.
Ah, and of course, they have some shelves dedicated for "electronics".... which mostly implies LEDs, screw nuts, wires, the oddball CMOS equivalents of TTL logic (and they seem to be pretty random about choices too - sure, we'll sell you buffers, but not AND gates, or OR gates... or whatever), and oddball IC (like a 30-second audio recorder). Somehow, everytime I wanted to buy some analog components like resistors or caps, they ended up not having what I was looking for (thankfully, plenty of broken VCRs and CRTs home to desolder).
...you know of ANOTHER functional, cross-platform and free C compiler?
Oh wait. No, you don't. Yup, looks like there is NO REAL ALTERNATIVE to GNU tools, at least from the perspective of development.
And as others have mentioned, having to deal with BSD tools, coming from a GNU world, is downright painful - missing functionality, obscure features, etc, gah.
Fuck the DMCA. Do you know what happens to stupid laws when everyone follows them? They become not only de jure, but de facto.
I tend to reply as quickly as I can (that might depend on a lot of factors), but I never take into account how slowly someone responded. Just because (for example) someone doesn't have any respect for me to convey a timely reponse to me via email/sms/im/pm, doesn't mean I need to lower myself to that level.
Your blatant racism aside, you should note that Persians have very little to do, ethnically and linguistically speaking, with Arabs.
The only WMDs the guy had were the ones Rummy sold him to gas the Kurds and the Iranians with (the irony). They probably "didn't find any", because the ones they found had "made in USA" all over them.
...of course, XNU being OSS, its trivial to have a kext remove this "feature" from the kernel... but....
to see if my good friend jrock made a biting comment about "debugging" shit under OS X, so I'll mention it anyway...
OS X gives you a system-supported method for being debugger-unfriendly. Invoking ptrace with a special flag will kill any further attempts to ptrace the processes. Try gdb'ing iTunes. Oh whats that? SIGSEGV?