On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:25:16PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > [*] Once a piece of software did a direct program of my video > interface board to a frequency my monitor could not synch to, > and burnt up the flyback and deflection yoke. Modern monitors > are much less likely to suffer from that.
Flyback is a term I haven't heard in a while.Long ago I was a consumer electronics technician; in other words a tv repairman. All the older techs called the horz output transformer a flyback. As far as writing our own, I don't think one person could produce a system eqivalent to modern os's in a lifetime even if they had all the prerequsite skills to do so. I doubt that anyone could duplicate Linus's accomplishment today in the time frame that he did;ie, use an existing kernel as guideline and write an equivalent or better one. To get back on topic; the only reason I have ever installed Python or perl is to satisfy a dependency and I have never used either. I'm having enough trouble trying to learn C. I'll proceed without worrying about the testing with my original purpose for installing Python; to run the full suite of tests for libxml2 ! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
