Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread lbland
You may think that is a small issue, but when you are trying to create market awareness you need a mascot that evokes simplicity and goodwill, not one that evokes evil and deception. ... and here I thought that giving software away for free to everyone in the world was a form of altruism and

Re: select(2)'s timeout argument

2004-06-29 Thread lbland
On Jun 29, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Why is the pointer to the `struct timeval' not declared as `const'? Can select(2) ever modify the structure pointed to? Thanks! hi- Some versions of Linux modified timeval. Posix.1g specifies const qualifier. I think most unixes don't modify it.

Re: [OT] Apple's contribution to OSX

2004-07-19 Thread lbland
Robert, OSX is the greatest thing since sliced bread ... now that that is out of the way. to question (3): try http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.3/ it uses a lot of FSF, FreeBSD, etc. just check the header files. gcc is a GNU licensed product (mac os

Re: Apple?

2004-01-26 Thread lbland
On Jan 26, 2004, at 3:55 PM, joost knetsch wrote: i wonder if its possible to install freebsd on a apple computer? I have a G4 500mhz macintosh. hi- did you try darwin? http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ -lance ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list htt

IPC with socket connection?

2003-10-21 Thread lbland
hi- I have two processes running on the same computer communicating with sockets created with AF_INET. It works extraordinarily well. I choose all the normal stuff to make the sockets, but I think if I choose some other flags, specific to IPC on the same computer, then the connection will be m

Re: [OT] Anyone know a good counterpart to this list for Mac OS X?

2004-10-01 Thread lbland
On Sep 26, 2004, at 8:56 PM, Eric Crist wrote: Sorry for the off-topic question. I was wondering if anyone is aware of a good counterpart to this list for Mac OS X. Possibly even containing people from this list who've moved to a Mac? I just moved my primary workstation to a PowerBook G4 and