Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-26 Thread Steve Underwood
Rob Landley wrote: > > On Monday 25 June 2001 11:13, you wrote: > > > 1937 claude shannon A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits," > > > > 1948 claude shannon A mathematical theory of information. > > > > without those you're kind in trouble on the computing front... > > Yeah, I

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-26 Thread Steve Underwood
Rob Landley wrote: On Monday 25 June 2001 11:13, you wrote: 1937 claude shannon A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits, 1948 claude shannon A mathematical theory of information. without those you're kind in trouble on the computing front... Yeah, I know I've bumped

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Larry McVoy wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:20:37AM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:09:56AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > Another one that I can't believe I forgot is from Rob Pike: > > > > > > "If you think you need threads then your processes are too fat" >

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Larry McVoy wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:20:37AM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:09:56AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: Another one that I can't believe I forgot is from Rob Pike: If you think you need threads then your processes are too fat Also, I

Re: Where's Alan?

2001-03-22 Thread Steve Underwood
"David S. Miller" wrote: > > alterity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Haven't seen a post for sometime from the usually prolific Mr Cox. > >What's the gossip? > > They needed some help from him to position Mir for it's > final descent. Strange. I thought his key skill was stopping things from

Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?

2001-03-09 Thread Steve Underwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gaarden) wrote on 08.03.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You can accuse MS of a lot of things. Being stupid and ignorant > of the market is not one of them. I'd have to disagree there. In the mid 80's MS had never had a really successful applications product, even though

Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?

2001-03-09 Thread Steve Underwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gaarden) wrote on 08.03.01 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can accuse MS of a lot of things. Being stupid and ignorant of the market is not one of them. I'd have to disagree there. In the mid 80's MS had never had a really successful applications product, even though Word,

Re: Linux interrupt latency

2001-02-06 Thread Steve Underwood
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Mark Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm working on the Linux driver for the Tormenta public domain dual T1 > >card (see http://www.bsdtelephony.com.mx). > > Hmm.. Sounds like somebody has designed a truly crappy card.

Re: Linux interrupt latency

2001-02-06 Thread Steve Underwood
Linus Torvalds wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on the Linux driver for the Tormenta public domain dual T1 card (see http://www.bsdtelephony.com.mx). Hmm.. Sounds like somebody has designed a truly crappy card. Everything is

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread Steve Underwood
James Sutherland wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Ben Ford wrote: > > > David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > > > > > > > For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be > > > > useful - how many people on this list work in

Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift

2001-02-04 Thread Steve Underwood
"Michael B. Trausch" wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Josh Myer wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I know this _really_ isn't the forum for this, but a friend of mine has > > noticed major, persistent clock drift over time. After several weeks, the > > clock is several minutes slow (always slow).

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread Steve Underwood
James Sutherland wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Russell King wrote: > > > Albert D. Cahalan writes: > > > The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. > > > That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very > > > few others -- my memory fails me on this. > > > > iirc,

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread Steve Underwood
James Sutherland wrote: On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Russell King wrote: Albert D. Cahalan writes: The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very few others -- my memory fails me on this. iirc, SI comes from

Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift

2001-02-04 Thread Steve Underwood
"Michael B. Trausch" wrote: On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Josh Myer wrote: Hello all, I know this _really_ isn't the forum for this, but a friend of mine has noticed major, persistent clock drift over time. After several weeks, the clock is several minutes slow (always slow). Any thoughts on

Re: Probably Off-topic Question...

2001-01-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Alan Cox wrote: > > > if anyone finds a way of dimming the brightness make sure you post! > > besides killing the battery, it also makes it hard to use in dark > > places such as night flights. i feel as if i'm lighting up the > > cabin in these cases. > > http://samba.org/picturebook > >

Re: Probably Off-topic Question...

2001-01-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Alan Olsen wrote: > > This is probably a user-land and/or undocumented thing, but I am not > certain where to get the correct info. > > Does anyone know how to get the screen brightness control to work on a > Sony Vaio N505VE? There seems to be some sort of proprietary hook to get > it to work

Re: Probably Off-topic Question...

2001-01-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Alan Olsen wrote: This is probably a user-land and/or undocumented thing, but I am not certain where to get the correct info. Does anyone know how to get the screen brightness control to work on a Sony Vaio N505VE? There seems to be some sort of proprietary hook to get it to work that

Re: Probably Off-topic Question...

2001-01-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Alan Cox wrote: if anyone finds a way of dimming the brightness make sure you post! besides killing the battery, it also makes it hard to use in dark places such as night flights. i feel as if i'm lighting up the cabin in these cases. http://samba.org/picturebook should have it

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Unfortunately the C standards people don't seem to realise there are languages other than English. C99 had perfect timing to introduce UTF8 Unicode as acceptable in C source. Alas they missed the boat. I have been embedding Chinese in C source for years (mostly Big-5 - UTF8 is more likely to be

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Larry McVoy wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:04:50AM -0500, Jonathan Earle wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > > From: profmakx.fmp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > > So, every good programmer > > > should know where to put comments. And it is unnecessary to > > > put comments

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Larry McVoy wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:04:50AM -0500, Jonathan Earle wrote: -Original Message- From: profmakx.fmp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] So, every good programmer should know where to put comments. And it is unnecessary to put comments to explain what

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Unfortunately the C standards people don't seem to realise there are languages other than English. C99 had perfect timing to introduce UTF8 Unicode as acceptable in C source. Alas they missed the boat. I have been embedding Chinese in C source for years (mostly Big-5 - UTF8 is more likely to be