Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-01-26 Thread deeptech71
Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5.1-RELEASE tested, yielded the same result: Missing operating system. The installation can boot on a new machine, but can not boot on the 486. Seems like the source of the error is the capabilitiy of the mainboard. I've given up. FreeBSD will

fork(2) - The Prestige movie

2007-01-26 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
Some googling showed I'm not the first to notice this, but if you ever need to explain how fork(2) works to someone without a clue, tell them to watch this movie. Some writers scrutinized the topic of copying yourself and continuing to live in two bodies at the same time long before this film,

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-01-26 Thread deeptech71
Kevin Kinsey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8MB RAM That's likely the issue, although I don't remember if you've mentioned exactly when it fails. The installer attempts to create a memory disk that's a good bit larger than 8MB; IIRC, with current FreeBSD versions you can't even install

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-01-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8MB RAM That's likely the issue, although I don't remember if you've mentioned exactly when it fails. The installer attempts to create a memory disk that's a good bit larger than 8MB; IIRC, with current FreeBSD versions

Re: fork(2) - The Prestige movie

2007-01-26 Thread Adrian Wontroba
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:41:41AM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: Some writers scrutinized the topic of copying yourself and continuing to live in two bodies at the same time long before this film, but I think many will prefer wasting 2 hours on one of IMDb top 250 movies (not that great if