Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-21 Thread Michael Bacarella
how much butt MacOS X would kick and that it'd be like Linux, but have a better application layer. Whatever. No one says that now that it's out. As if Apple would really try to appeal to us. :) -- Michael Bacarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Staff / System Development, New Y

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-20 Thread Michael Bacarella
es, the talk given that day was in fact done with MagicPoint) -- Michael Bacarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Staff / System Development, New York Connect.Net, Ltd. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Question about /proc/kmsg semantics..

2001-04-30 Thread Michael Bacarella
. Also, why is reading /proc/kmsg a privileged operation, yet dmesg can happily print out the entire ring via (do_)syslog() ? Thanks -- Michael Bacarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Staff / System Development, New York Connect.Net, Ltd. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: [OT] Linux Worm (fwd)

2001-03-23 Thread Michael Bacarella
red in djbdns. I've been thrilled with it ever since I installed it a few months ago. -- Michael Bacarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Staff / System Development, New York Connect.Net, Ltd. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

New ld must have --oformat instead of -oformat ?

2001-03-16 Thread Michael Bacarella
Riding the bleeding edge of debian leaves some interesting tastes. Here's one: [..much of build process omitted..] make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' gcc -E -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__BIG_KERNEL__ -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect.S -o bbootsec

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-17 Thread Michael Bacarella
;open-source" community openly shuns binary distributions (A. Cox never > misses an opportunity), so there is no avenue for commercial innovation > that is "worthwhile". As they should. Binary distributions are always inferior. I'm glad to have a binary instead of nothing, but I

Trying to fix 3dfx.o + question about char drivers..

2001-02-14 Thread Michael Bacarella
ar driver so that a userland process can map a region of (video?) memory on the card. The process calls ioctl() after opening /dev/3dfx. That ioctl() triggers an mmap() call, the driver gets addresses it's totally not expecting, and it returns -EPERM. Why does mmap get called first?? Am

Re: KERNELBASE

2000-09-18 Thread Michael Bacarella
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Tulika Pradhan wrote: > can i use change the value of KERNELBASE from 0xc000 to 0x ? > does this cause any problems ? I'm pretty sure setting KERNELBASE to 0x000 leaves no room at all for user space, which would suck. Unless you plan on hacking a lot of oth

thread rant

2000-09-01 Thread Michael Bacarella
Q: Why do we need threads? A: Because on some operating systems, task switches are expensive. Q: So, threads are a hack to get around operating systems that suck? A: Basically. Q: So, why must Linux support threads? A1: : | A2: So other programs can be easily ported to Linux! That can already