Hey, doesn't anybody like Orson Scott Card?
His books (specially Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow) are probably
among my top-5.
--
Juan Cespedes
http://www.cespedes.org/
I very much enjoy Samuel R. Delany
(http://www2.pcc.com/staff/jay/delany/); especially Babel-17, Nova,
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand and Dhalgren. The latter one is
a good one for the holiday, as it's a tad longer. His short stories
are well worth seeking out as well. His stories are chara
Say I have a couple of structs like:
typedef struct A A;
typedef struct B B;
struct A
{
int a1;
int a2;
};
struct B
{
A;
int b1;
int b2;
};
Now I want to declare a variable of kind B with parts initialized. Is
there anyway to initialize the A inside the B?. I have tri
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Gorka Guardiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Say I have a couple of structs like:
>
> typedef struct A A;
> typedef struct B B;
>
> struct A
> {
> int a1;
> int a2;
> };
>
> struct B
> {
> A;
> int b1;
> int b2;
> };
>
> Now I want to declare a
typedef struct A A;
typedef struct B B;
struct A
{
int a1;
int a2;
};
struct B
{
A;
int b1;
int b2;
};
B bvar = {
.B = {
.a1 = 2,
.b1 = 2,
},
};
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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Gorka Guardiola <[EMAIL PRO
i think the linux kernel is winning due
to the wonders of gcc
http://lwn.net/Articles/308586/
that's not jewelry. a doctor should
look at that.
- erik
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Sape Mullender
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> B bvar = {
>.B = {
>.a1 = 2,
>.b1 = 2,
>},
> };
that doesn't work for me.
i get:
x.c:18 structure element not found B
x.c:18 more initializers than structure: bvar
changing
i feel extremely hypocritical responding to this thread,
because it really *is* so very off topic, but i have to
put in a plug for Greg Egan. absolutely brilliant for extreme
(and well thought out) technological extrapolation. he's got a computer-sciency
background (he might even have heard of plan
> AFS has its warts, but, trust me, if you've used it for a while,
> you will not find yourself excitedly perusing the volume location
> database to see where your bits are coming from.
Is there an AFS client for plan9 anywhere?
Just curious.
-Steve
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Sape Mullender
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> B bvar = {
>>.B = {
>>.a1 = 2,
>>.b1 = 2,
>>},
>> };
>
> that doesn't work for me.
> i get:
> x.c:18 structure element not found B
> x.c:18 more initializers than struc
On Dec 4, 2008, at 8:01 AM, roger peppe wrote:
i feel extremely hypocritical responding to this thread,
because it really *is* so very off topic, but i have to
put in a plug for Greg Egan. absolutely brilliant for extreme
(and well thought out) technological extrapolation. he's got a
computer-
>> secondly, "reveal" is meant to drop into background, accepting
>> connections on TCP/4523 where it replies with the concatenation of the
>> originating IPv4 address and port number.
>
> is there a reason for not using listen(8)? all that is needed is a
> script in /bin/service/tcp4523 nearly i
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 02:39 -0500, Dave Eckhardt wrote:
> > P.S. I've seen this disbelief in the fact that automoter + NFS
> > actually can be really convenient mostly come from Linux people.
>
> Perspective depends on experience.
>
> AFS has its warts, but, trust me, if you've used it for a whil
> i feel extremely hypocritical responding to this thread,
> because it really *is* so very off topic, but i have to
> put in a plug for Greg Egan. absolutely brilliant for extreme
> (and well thought out) technological extrapolation. he's got a
> computer-sciency
> background (he might even have
> Hey, doesn't anybody like Orson Scott Card?
>
> His books (specially Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow) are probably
> among my top-5.
>
> --
> Juan Cespedes
> http://www.cespedes.org/
Ender's Game is fine. I don't think I read Ender's Shadow. However,
I read the Homecoming books and got susp
> At some distant point in the past (last century, actually)
> I was drawn to AFS because of the features, but left in
> horror because of the complexity.
The goal was adding an enterprise-scale distributed file
system to an existing operating system (Unix), where
"enterprise-scale" meant 5,000 us
On Thu Dec 4 23:37:02 EST 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> supported 400 users on 120 workstations in 1984; this
> evening CMU's AFS cell hosts 30,821 user volumes, roughly
> half a gigabyte each; there are cells with more users and
> cells with more bits.
31000/2 is about 15tb. that seems prett
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:58:15PM +, Steve Simon wrote:
> > AFS has its warts, but, trust me, if you've used it for a while,
> > you will not find yourself excitedly perusing the volume location
> > database to see where your bits are coming from.
>
> Is there an AFS client for plan9 anywhe
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:24 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the real performance issue for hardware where the frame buffer is in
> the PCIe shared memory apperture is that writes are write-through/coalesced
> on their way across the PCIe, but reads can't be, and so incur huge stalls.
H
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:33 AM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Very true, the only exception to this I know of is some of the modern
>> Dual PCIExpress cards which use a bus in each direction.
>>
>
> do you have a reference for "dual pciexpress"? as far as i know,
> pcie/agp/pci c
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