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2002/5/21-22 [Uncategorized] UID:24898 Activity:nil |
5/20 need command line link checker. recommendations? \_ checkbot |
2002/5/21-22 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD, Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:24899 Activity:insanely high |
5/20 Anyone have any luck with Sparc64 + FreeBSD? Do you recommend it? \_ God No! Are you insane??? \_ OpenBSD Sparc64 is mostly usable. FreeBSD Sparc64 barely runs \_ Why not Solaris? \_ commercial software is wrong. --cowboy \_ wrong? take it to the church, son. \_ But was it included when you bought the Sparc? \_ Solaris 8 is freely downloadable or $75 for a media kit. \_ "yeah but i cant get the source and make my own solaris distro so it doesnt count! how will i fix bugs and release them to the community? i mean like i know i dont even code and couldnt find a bug if it bit my nose off but yeah!" \_ And releasing source code will endanger our soldiers in Afganistan! --msft \_ most of Solaris 8/FCS source code is available for download. You are free to fix the bugs but you must submit them to Sun. If your organization asks nicely you could get the source for other releases too. \_ "most? thats evil! i want the whole source and the right to make my own kewl-d00de d1st0! awl 0p3n s0urc3 un1t3!!!! d00dez!!1" \_ sun wants to make everything available, but the patent/copyright holders on parts of the kernel and userland won't let them. \_ "if sun cared about open source they'd rec0de all the evil parts and release as GPL! Death to Sun!" \_ been running debian sparc on an ultra 1. works fine. (potato) \_ How about Open vs Net ? \_ Real sparc64 (HAL/Fujitsu) or UltraSparc? \_ hahahahahh.... HaL... Real.... sparc64.... ow... \_ Well, if it's SPARC64[tm], it must be HaL. Unfortunately some stupid opensource people use "sparc64" when they really mean UltraSPARC[tm]. \_ Whee.. I worked at HaL, back when they were trying to rush their 2.5.1 out the door while Sun was prepping Solaris 7. Neat boxes, though. --scotsman \_ I have an E250? Is that "real" or just ultrasparc? Where is the confusion coming from? Who invented the "fake" sparc64? \_ HaL was to be Fujitsu's big bid in the processor market. They grabbed the trademark "sparc64" out from under Sun, seriously pissing them off. The hardware was really pretty cool. At the time, one of the few things around that could take 4G of RAM. They just couldn't get the OS dev schedule up fast enough to compete against Sun at their own game. --scotsman \_ Doesn't sparc64 run a stock Sun Microsystems version of Solaris? \_ not at the time. (this was in like '97. I dunno what they run now, or even if sparc64 machines are still being built) --scotsman \_ Strangely enough, http://daily.daemonnews.org just reports that the Sparc64 port is "fully self-hosting"-- meaning it can actually compile itself and run. Short answer-- it's not ready yet. And it doesn't work with YOUR cable modem. |
2002/5/21 [Uncategorized] UID:24900 Activity:nil |
5/20 http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/story.php?article_id=23658&layout=printer 'Take Your Humanities Buddy To School Day' a success at Duke |
2002/5/21-22 [Uncategorized] UID:24901 Activity:kinda low |
5/20 What is an effective way of representing data in a timing diagram? specific information that needs to be included is: what signal it is, when it goes on, how long it is on for. Is it better to record, at every possible timestep, what signal is on/off; or is it better to represent it as, for a given signal, the time the pulse go on and then how long they last? (the pulses do not all stay on for the same time). \_ That's really vague. What kind of data? Usually it's shown relative to the clocks that drive the data. \_ sorry. the clock isn't really relevant since this sequence can start at any time. specifically, I need to somehow store how I want ~50 signals to go off (in terms of duration and when the pulses begins. what I'm looking for is an efficient way of storing this information. that information will later be used to actually drive those 50 different signals (which are just pulses). \_ "better" is a funny word. What constraints do you have? If you store the state for each tick you'll use more space. If you need to check against 50 different signal data points each tick you'll use more time and probably have more complex code. |
2002/5/21-22 [Computer/HW/Drives, Computer/SW] UID:24902 Activity:high |
5/21 ant question: I have a big heirarchy of ant files I want to define something at the base (the grandparent) ant file but I want to be able to run from a child ant file. How do I do this? (in Make it was "include") -brain \_ If you have too many ants I suggest RAID. \_ okay losers- it's the "property" tag with the "file" attribute set. This reads in the file. -brain [formatd] \_ property is evil. open source forever! |
2002/5/21-22 [Uncategorized] UID:24903 Activity:nil |
5/21 "Transvestite Ancient Roman Unearthed in Britain" http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20020521/od_nm/roman_dc_1 |
2002/5/21-22 [Uncategorized] UID:24904 Activity:low |
5/21 Who killed the scifi thread. Anyway my recs are James Morrow and Jonathan Lethem for "new" school and Lem/Dick for old school. \_ Stanislav Lem rocks! |
2002/5/21-22 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:24905 Activity:moderate |
5/21 M$ Software so buggy that protocols and api's can't be made public without compromising national security: http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp \_ Not good enough for nuclear reactors or air traffic control, but good enough for nuclear missles and banking. \_ Because, like hey, its only a few nukes and some other people's money. And with the recent treaty with the russians, even fewer nukes soon, so load up minesweeper on your WinXP server and we're ready to safe guard the country's weapons and financial system! \_ Let's roll. \_ All I need now is my slim picken's hat with MS logo. \_ "Windows NT Cripples US Navy Cruiser" http://www.info-sec.com/OSsec/OSsec_080498g_j.shtml M$ has planned for this anti-trust lawsuit years in advance by inserting bugs into its code. |
2002/5/21-22 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:24906 Activity:high |
5/21 How do I set the default font in emacs 21's Global-Font-Lock-Mode? I can set the default face, and I can set the "special" features of GFLM (strings, function names, et al), but every time I enter GFLM (Java mode) I lose my default face to regular black text on white background. Specifically, I'd like a black background under white text. Thanks. \_ Try either: (setq default-frame-alist (append default-frame-alist '((foreground-color . "white") (background-color . "black")))) or: (set-foreground-color "WHITE") (set-background-color "BLACK") I forget which one is the one you'll need. \_ Tried both of these. When I first enter emacs, it starts off white on black (as I prefer), but when it enters GFLM with syntaxt highlighting, it reverses to black on white. Is there a way I can set the GFLM to use white on black? \_ Something else in your .emacs is setting the colors back then. Which mode are you in? \_ Can you start emacs with "emacs -r"? -- yuen \_ Nope, doesn't seem to change anything. \_ It works for me in Emacs20 under both Solaris and NT. Guess it's different for 21. -- yuen \_ Here's the relevant part from my .emacs: (custom-set-variables '(fill-column 79) '(default-frame-alist '((foreground-color . "white") (background-color . "black") (cursor-color . "gold") (height . 45) (width . 86))) ) \_ I stick that stuff in my .Xdefaults emacs*Background: Black emacs*Foreground: White |