Search results

and if you want to make it halfway efficient find / -name .DS_Store -print | xargs rm -rf otherwise rm(1) gets fork(2)ed and execve(2)d every time .DS_Store is found

If you are really interested in these topics, a number of PhD's have been granted for answers to some of them. Some major books have been written about it, and the best advice I can give you is to try to get a hold of few. The better (i.e. more suited to the Mach3/BSD marriage) are documents...

Probably both. UNIX kernel notwithstanding, a bug in a Kernel Loadable Module is a direct way to panic; KLDs, by their very nature, execute in the kernel address space, and can destroy anything. One has to be very careful about things one loads into ones kernels.

You know more than the previous poster: it is integer math that iAPX32 and PPC are roughly equivalent MHz for MHz. Floating point performance of iAPX is nothing short of abysmal, thanks to their stack based FPU model (impossible to optimize to using anything short of black magic and intimate...

first of all, there isn't one. But, comparing the tasks I put to my FreeBSD/x86 boxen, G4 is slightly faster MHz for MHz than Pentium III; I ttribute that to bigger L2 cache. In all honesty, I would expect a Xeon to perform better, but these are even more expensive than Apple hardware...

Standard stack limit on OS X is 512K; max seems to be 64M. use limit or ulimit to increase the stack (refer to the manual of your favorite shell, (u)limit is a builtin)

1) main() is int, not void, Schildt notwithstanding 2) scanf() behavior is conforming to the standard. man 3 scanf. repeat if needed.

have always performed predictably badly when attempting to translate slang spelled in quasi-phonetic form (even though the German spelling was not so bad; one should see burgenländisch in order to appreciate it; suffice to say, knowledge of standard German is of no help)

is a bad news to any system admin. Fortunately, it is not true :) Modern SCSI theoretical max rate is 320 Mega words per second (which is 320 * 16 = 5120 Mbps; yes, 5 Gbps). Even the quite common Ultra 160 wide SCSI will do more than 2.5 Gbps. Needless to say, there is not a single...

Those people who buy books by the meter (foot, furlong) because their binding matches the predominant color in their study.

it is, obviously, Bourne shell multiline construct continuation prompt.

I'm not much of a TCP/IP guru, and it has been a long time since I pulled the Stevens books out of a cupboard (the fact that the cupboard is in a different country does not help either :) Increasing send and recv spaces helps with dealing with burstiness of the traffic on fat long pipes...

I've seen a couple of NOS Cubes in Vobis shop in Rome, Italy. Don't know if this really helps.

It does not use domain at all; your problems can be routed back to the fact that your computer is in one DNS domain, whereas Exchange is in a different one. Outlook is remembers only the unqualified name of the exchange server, and insists on searching in your domain (where it does not find...

1) by not having been reaped by one of its ancestor processes (or init) 2) see 1 3) you don't; it has terminated or been killed already; see 1 4) it is a sign of programmer error; it uses some storage for its slot in the process list, containing its name and exit status. This is very...

but at least I got mine a few weeks ago, when the price has already been dropped :)

Most of the time "scars" are just finger/hand grease offset printed from the keyboard to the screen. It does take some effort with eyeglasses cleaner (soap or alcohol based; I avoid alcohol) to get them off, because they are very dry grease.

and, at least I'm grateful for it. There ain't no share command (you edits /etc/exports and HUPs the mountd), and there ain't no F option in mount either (it's t) Seems your nick does not predate Solaris 2 :)

pmake is the original name of the make integrated into BSD; it was the first make program with parallel compilation capabilities (hence p). pmake, with some modifications, goes nowadays under names pmake, bmake, bsdmake, and (on BSD systems) make :)

if one chooses to believe Dante, Larry, or Jerry :)