This has *nothing* to do with monolithic kernels. It has to do with having a stable interface, something that can and should exist just fine without a microkernel.
--- Joseph Foley Akamai Technologies
Re:Device drivers are the key.
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Creating BSODs?
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KeBugCheckEx() will cause one in a device driver. Buy an off the shelf package to generate a driver skeleton and stick this call in the first driver call back or, even better, an IOCTL handler. You can open the device with a usermode program and call the ioctl to stop the machine. It's possible (though I haven't looked) that BugCheck() (which, for all you zelots out there is the function that causes bsods), is exported into the NT "native call" interface, which I think is int 2e. If it is you don't need a device driver. Get a book on undocumented nt.
It seems to me that often the battle cry "Protect the children" is really expressing the ideal "Protect everyone from what society says i should be afraid of". Most issues that revolve around censorship deal with taboos that simply don't make sense anymore. A taboo about sex made sense when sex directly lead to pregnancy. With education, it doesn't anymore. Rather than hiding, perhaps we should educate. Not everyone will make the right choice, but that is their right. To choose.
Considering how much the industry has grown up around them? Probably few. They've created far more than they've destroyed. The US wouldn't be in the middle of such an economic boom if not for them, and it might be argued people would be in a far more precarious position to bitch.
Most nerds & geeks have *very* low self esteem. Whether 1 is true or not is debatable. I know personally that my parents are very poor socializers and placed me in a position where achievement was important to receiving attention, hence my focus on school. I doubt this is uncommon. If no one teaches you to be social, you probably won't be. At least until the hormones catch up to you.
Sony is pricing the damn thing so they take the smallest bath they can. That thing is *expensive* to make... And they (right now, as I type) can't get the GPU *or* CPU to run at the rated speeds listed in the article. In fact, a bunch of developer's kits were delivered running at half speed... not a good sign. And it looks like a mini-pc.
The marketing for this is going to be interesting to watch. It's not really a gaming console anymore, and I don't think us buyers are going to understand the multi-function nature... (At BetBuy: "You mean it plays DVDs *and* games... " "Well, it plays DVD MOVIES, playstation games, and special playstation 2 games" "Hey, what a rip! Playstation games suck!..." etc.)
Why is this "not ok"? Because society tells you it NEVER ok to kill? Most revolutions involve killing because the two paridgms involved are too deeply ingrained to grow to each other. The internet brings revoltion with it the same way the new world did. The problem is that people are only moving in their minds and not on the land. This will eventually reach a crisis, it is inevitible unless people are so programmed now by tv that they cannot be reeducated to realize the freedoms are raped on a daily basis.
The OS in on the CD, and is only an option to assist PC savy programmers in porting to the console. There is also an old-school bare metal SEGA OS that most serious games will (are) use(ing). Each CD is different. There are no licencing fees to be refunded.
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There's nothing I can do in windows that I can't do in unix. Except those things I can't do.
Yeah. Right.
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Joseph Foley
Akamai Technologies
This has *nothing* to do with monolithic kernels. It has to do with having a stable interface, something that can and should exist just fine without a microkernel.
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Joseph Foley
Akamai Technologies
KeBugCheckEx() will cause one in a device driver. Buy an off the shelf package to generate a driver skeleton and stick this call in the first driver call back or, even better, an IOCTL handler. You can open the device with a usermode program and call the ioctl to stop the machine. It's possible (though I haven't looked) that BugCheck() (which, for all you zelots out there is the function that causes bsods), is exported into the NT "native call" interface, which I think is int 2e. If it is you don't need a device driver. Get a book on undocumented nt.
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Joseph Foley
Akamai Technologies
Advanced Windows (3rd Ed) by Jeffrey Richter
ISBN: 1572315482
About 40$
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Joseph Foley
Akamai Technologies
com.sucks
amazon.com.sucks
etc.
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Joseph Foley
Akamai Technologies
Oil is hard to find. This makes it valuable. Water and algae are not. This is bad for OPEC et al.
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Joseph Foley
Akamai Technologies
This is macrovision copy protection. There are boxes that are supposed to defeat them, but i've never seen one. I had the same problem.
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Joseph Foley
Akamai Technologies
It seems to me that often the battle cry "Protect the children" is really expressing the ideal "Protect everyone from what society says i should be afraid of". Most issues that revolve around censorship deal with taboos that simply don't make sense anymore. A taboo about sex made sense when sex directly lead to pregnancy. With education, it doesn't anymore. Rather than hiding, perhaps we should educate. Not everyone will make the right choice, but that is their right. To choose.
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Joseph Foley
Akamai Technologies
Ironically, so are you, logged in as AC.
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Joseph Foley
Akamai Technologies
PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?!?!?
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
That and smalltalk has no place on a *users* desktop =)
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
Considering how much the industry has grown up around them? Probably few. They've created far more than they've destroyed. The US wouldn't be in the middle of such an economic boom if not for them, and it might be argued people would be in a far more precarious position to bitch.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
The point is that it's too expensive for what you get, not that it's too expensive to afford.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
Only to a very small percentage of installed systems. 99% of them run one ins set: x86. It's all a matter of perspecitve.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
Did you... ummm... read the rest of them?
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
Hey now... Work in Cambridge... Live in Arlington... To be fair, the sphere is a *little* bigger than that =)
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
Ummmmm, no.
Most nerds & geeks have *very* low self esteem.
Whether 1 is true or not is debatable. I know personally that my parents are very poor socializers and placed me in a position where achievement was important to receiving attention, hence my focus on school. I doubt this is uncommon. If no one teaches you to be social, you probably won't be. At least until the hormones catch up to you.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
Sony is pricing the damn thing so they take the smallest bath they can. That thing is *expensive* to make... And they (right now, as I type) can't get the GPU *or* CPU to run at the rated speeds listed in the article. In fact, a bunch of developer's kits were delivered running at half speed... not a good sign. And it looks like a mini-pc.
The marketing for this is going to be interesting to watch. It's not really a gaming console anymore, and I don't think us buyers are going to understand the multi-function nature... (At BetBuy: "You mean it plays DVDs *and* games... " "Well, it plays DVD MOVIES, playstation games, and special playstation 2 games" "Hey, what a rip! Playstation games suck!..." etc.)
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
*Rubs hands together* And this just happens to be the one I ordered at work! Muhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahha!
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
Why is this "not ok"? Because society tells you it NEVER ok to kill? Most revolutions involve killing because the two paridgms involved are too deeply ingrained to grow to each other. The internet brings revoltion with it the same way the new world did. The problem is that people are only moving in their minds and not on the land. This will eventually reach a crisis, it is inevitible unless people are so programmed now by tv that they cannot be reeducated to realize the freedoms are raped on a daily basis.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
ummmmm... Games?
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
The poster should have said "more separate CPU platform support." There are so many x86 hardware devices that more hardware support is true.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
It's no more or less useful than printf("Hello, World!\n"); =)
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
The first poster did NOT know anything about what he was speaking...
hello.c: (win32)
#include "windows.h"
int WinMain(void)
{
MessageBox("Hello", "Hello", MK_OK);
ExitThread(0);
}
... or something like that. The parameters are close but not exact.
All the people yelling things like "use NCURSES!" are completely missing the point. The guy wants a *GUI* toolkit. GUIs have a place, as do CLIs.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
Folks,
The OS in on the CD, and is only an option to assist PC savy programmers in porting to the console. There is also an old-school bare metal SEGA OS that most serious games will (are) use(ing). Each CD is different. There are no licencing fees to be refunded.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.