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| 2000/5/19 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:18295 Activity:high |
5/18 http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~tpc/grrls Is this proper on CSUA? \_ doesn't seem to be violating any ucb rules. i'm not offended by it. \_ yes! thank you! \_ i fucking hate dorky ass girls. how bout more pics of brooke berry buckingham williams/whatever ==ham. \_ Possibly some copyright violation, but who's the owner? So who knows? |
| 2000/5/19 [Uncategorized/Multicategory] UID:18296 Activity:low |
5/18 On a DOS PC, how can software either detect if the floppy drive motor
is spinning, or turn the motor off? Is there BIOS API for that? If
not, how do I talk to the hardware directly. Any pointers? Thanks.
\_ There's the "hand on case" interface as well as the "sonic sensor"
unit built in to most end user units.
\_ Huh? |
| 2000/5/19 [Uncategorized] UID:18297 Activity:nil |
18MAY yo, does anyone have old legos they'd be willing to part with?
i want to build a castle for my tortoise. i don't need many.
it's only 2". butt it'd have to be a permanent giveaway,
seeing as how he smears shit all around town... eml ahm
if this is a go, yo. grassy ass.
\_ umm, i dont' really talk like that, but thanks
for the edit. ==ham. |
| 2000/5/19 [Computer/SW/Virus] UID:18298 Activity:high |
5/18 You heard it here first on the motd (pre-slashdot)
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/19/computer.virus.01/index.html
\_ I saw this yesterday on zdnet, lameoid. |
| 2000/5/19-21 [Computer/SW/Languages/Functional] UID:18299 Activity:high |
5/18 When people on the motd keep saying FoodP or ClueP, etc., what are
they refering to with that P suffix?
\_ predicate
\_ it comes from a MAGICAL and archaic anguage that those in the
know refer to as LISP, because noone really knows how to pronounce
its name. Unfortunately, LISP fell out of use MANY years ago,
before you were born.
\_ Lisp, please, why do people think it's an acronym? - scheme junky
\_ I am going to be interviewing the guy who presides over the
standards committee for Common Lisp. Anyone have any questions
they want answered? -- ilyas
\_ "Why?" -- bitter 188 victim
\_ You got a problem with Lisp? You d rather be using Java?
\_ And stop bitching, 188 was easy.
\_ I got an A+ in 188 without doing shit. And the
\_ I got an A+ in 188 without doing sh*t. And the
projects were pretty decent and probably would've
been worse without Lisp. But Lisp was still a pain
in my ass. -- original poster [bitter 188 victim]
\_ If you can't use any language fairly interchangably,
you'd better reconsider your goals as a CS major.
\_ READ, twink. Dislike!=can't.
\_ *YOU* need to _READ_, twink. Wimp boy did
*not* say he could do LISP but simply
didn't like it. You're a complete and
total moron. Insulting someone else for
not reading when they have and *you* have
_not_ ranks really high on the total moron
scale. You get a 10 of 10.
\_ Wimp. You took the wrong 188 anyway. We were language
\_ That's not a troll. You were called a wimp and
a wuss and an incompetent and a dumbass and
rightly so and now you feel bad so you try to
give real trolls a bad name. I know trolls and
you sir are no troll.
\_ Ladies and gentlemen. The dumbshits that
exist on the motd.
neutral in my 188. It was about AI, not LISP.
\_ I hate LISP too. -- bitter 61A victim
\_ I fucking hate lisp and that fucking tit-for-tats
project and that awful formatting project
-- bitter 60A victim
\_ If you think you were using LISP in 61A, you're more
of a dumbass than you think you are.
\_ Wuss. You must have missed the point. Or took the
wrong 61A. 61A wasn't about LISP, it was about
programming.
\_ I also hate people who take the troll bait.
--troll feeder (aka bitter 61A victim)
\_ Yeah, I want to know wtf he was smoking.
\_ Refer to the CSUA encyclopedia,
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~appel/csua.html
for usage history. -dans
\_ subseq.. why the end number is the way it is...
\- common lisp is like the deathstar. how can you hate the
deathstar? --psb
\_ They blew up my homeworld! |
| 2000/5/19-20 [Uncategorized] UID:18300 Activity:low |
5/18 Is American Ballet Theatre the best ballet company in the states?
Where can I find more info. about ballet in U.S.?
\_ Pansy.
\_ Pussy.
\_ "Best" is subjective. ABT and NYC Ballet are probably the top
two. Joffrey is right behind. Why does it matter? You can
find more info on the Web, or maybe alt.arts.ballet . Also
check out "Dance" magazine. --dim (whose girlfriend studies
ballet and who has taken a few
classes himself)
\_ Pansy.
\_ Pussy. |
| 2000/5/19-22 [Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:18301 Activity:high |
5/19 I'm writing a device driver for Solaris to access our PCI board.
I want to allow unlimited xxx_open() calls to the board in
read-only mode, but only one xxx_open() call in read-write
mode. I tried doing this with a flag to indicate that the board
is open in read-write only, but what I can't seem to figure
out is how to match a xxx_open() to the corresponding
xxx_close(). I though about using pid's to track the xxx_open()
and xxx_close() calls but I don't seem to be able to access
pid's in the xxx_open(). I must be missing something. Any ideas?
\_ WINDOWS. WINDOWS IS THE STANDARD OS.
\_ Really, does any OS out of M$ have support for
CPCI, hotswap, H110, RT processing, etc that are
required to do any real work. BTW, I'm working
on a VoIP switch which will be able to handle 6000
simultaneous calls. You think that any M$ OS can
keep up with that kind of call processing or
the associated memory access and setup for the
\_ you get passed a proc structure as argument to xxx_open(), don't you?
processing board? Don't delude yourself, your
M$ box is basically a KEWL MP3/DVD player and
Game console.
\_ Yes, MS has support for all those things.
you?
if not, there is a global variable, typically of type struct proc
which contains the pid.
\_ Real Time Windows, how do you do
that? I though that the NT kernel
is not interruptable and that the
time slice is not adjustable. Last
I checked CPCI hotswap was not
reliable, kept rebooting the stupid
kernel, or locking it up.
\_ We used M$ LoseNT as call agents @ cisco.
Guess how we get reliability, two boxes
that perodically reboot each other (once
ever few hours). I told them we should have
just deployed it on the cache engine with
IOS, or an RTOS or UNIX, but they wanted
to do LoseNT so bad. I can't begin to
express what a load of shit it is.
express what a load of sh*t it is.
\_ Oh GHOOOOOOD! NOOO! PLEEEEEASE TELL ME IT'S NOT TRUE!!!!!
\_ Ok, won't tell you it's true.
\_ Wow. never thought I'd see a solaris driver question on solaris.
Anyways, I think it might have something to do with using a
"clone" type device. Try looking at that alternative.
["send in the clones" jokes may now commence]
\_ If I understand this correctly, I should create one device
that is read-write and limit that to one rw access and
have another device that is read-only and have unlimited
access on that one. Sounds good. I have a library that
abstracts device usage, so I can do this under the covers.
BTW, I'm using mmap in my user programs to access the
device, rather than ioctls, so if there is some way to
just limit access in the xxx_*map routines that would
work too.
\_ Use a semaphore for rw open() requests. Use the thread/pid handle
1. thats not what he wants
2. there was something on c.u.solaris about 6 months ago saying
"dont do that", for some other vaguely similar proposition.
\_ Why not? I really want to prevent multiple writers on the
device, but debugging is really hard if I can't have a
couple of monitoring programs.
\_ yes, "debugging kernel drivers is really hard".
Decide whether you want to make it easy on yourself, or
if you want to write a proper driver.
No, I dont know myself. Go try to find the article,
if you care that much.
\_ you get passed a proc structure as argument to xxx_open(), don't
you? if not, there is a global variable, typically of type struct
proc which contains the pid. |
| 2000/5/19 [Uncategorized] UID:18302 Activity:high 62%like:18293 |
5/18 \_ Yes. I have tested the range of those 2.4 GHz cordless phones.
\_ Pretty long.
\_ These remarks brought to you by the Incredibly Moronic
\_ Is the domain name for sale?
\_ Pansy.
\_ Pussy. |
| 2000/5/19-20 [Uncategorized] UID:18303 Activity:nil |
5/18 slashdot crap deleted. go to slashdot. |
| 2000/5/19-22 [Science/Electric, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:18304 Activity:moderate |
5/19 Can anyone confirm this event of the Commonwealth/
Berkeley City club? ;)
When: June 6, 2000 7:00pm
Where: 2315 Durant Ave, Berkeley $16 for admission
Call 415-597-6705/6706 or 800-847-7730 for reservations
What: Bill Joy speaks about technology today and what we can
expect for tomorrow.
\_ what a fruitbasket. How embarrassing.
\_ Lose the smiley.
\_ >:(
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\_ Duh. You have a phone number. Use it, dumbshit.
\_ robots are going to take over the world! head for the hills!
\_ I think the hills are part of the world, too.
\_ (1) the robot statement was a joke and a dumb one
at that (2) the point was to get away from technology |