Terry Poulin

I knew it !!!

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I was toying with a Distro chooser, after all I’m thinking of setting up a Linux Distro on one box.

I’ve been thinking about a Linux From Scratch actually, the perk of defining my own file system hier (mostly) is hard to drop. I ran through it, and oddly enough it recomended two distros. The Second was Slackware which does not like the machine very well and the First recomendation which I knew it had to be !! HAHAHAAHAHHA

GENTOO !!!!

ROFLMBO I knew it had to do that to me!

Link to the Chooser

Rube

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*sigh*

I don’t have time for starting off learning Ada and not in the mood for reading. So I’m toying with Ruby. Its good really, and I should brush up with Perl too.

I dunno why but for some reason I seem fascinated by the Ada language 0.o

Photo Op

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PC-BSD 1.3/FreeBSD 6.1-Release and KDE 3.5.5. The system monitor is Gkrellm2, the console saver is cmatrix and the menu bar has a shredder and network browser applet installed.

Linux or BSD?

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Some how it figures, I always have more issues setting up a Linux system then a BSD one… Go figure

Linux supports newer hardware faster

but BSD tends to just detect it.

Heck, if the box in question had a Floppy disk I think I’d install OpenBSD on the thing and go /w the X11 option. But if it won’t dual boot FreeBSD and PC-BSD without hicups I doubt OpenBSD and PC-BSD would be any better….

Bloody hardware !!!

And thinking about early Linux systems, the term ‘Linux/GNU’ probably is more accurate then Linux or GNU/Linux =/

Link fest

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http://www.cs.wwc.edu/~aabyan/464/Book/index.html

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/GCC-Frontend-HOWTO-7.html

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7884

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I’m going out of my fucking mind.

During the day its impossimble to do _any_ thing that requires concintration.

At night I can only work till my mind shuts down due to lack of sleep.

AND THEY DARE COMPLANE ABOUT MY HOME WORK !????????????

Gee

Ether I throw all of you the fuck out of the house for a few hours.

Or life stays as is and I live with torture.

….

Ready to burst here…

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While I’m to tired to understand why this writes past the end of the array

#include <assert.h>
#define bounds(_i, _n)  (assert( (unsigned) (_i) < (_n) ), (_i) )
....

/*
 * fout is what we are appending to and should be open rw as necessary.
 * farray is an array of file pointers, "farsize" is the size of the array.
 */
void
concatenate( FILE *fout, FILE *farray[], const unsigned char *farsize) {

        int c;
        unsigned int fi = 1;
        FILE *fin;      /* current segment of farray[] to fout. */

        while ( (fi < farsize[0])) {
                fin = farray[bounds(fi, *farsize)];
                fi++;
                while ( (c = fgetc(fin )) != EOF ) {
                        fputc( c, fout );
                }
        }
}

I’m GOING TO BED. 0832 Zulu time on my clock…. must sleeep sleep….

what is that again?

Jingle All the Way

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Got to enjoy a few good movies tonight. The end of ‘The Man’, ‘Jingle All the Way’ – I love a few parts of that movie. Especially the one where he gets in a brawl with the Rain Deer & they go drinking lol.

Ep IV is on, the New Hope is one of my favorite Star Wars movies. And after that is Mr & Mrs Smith. Now thats a sweet flick. And the gun battle at the ends not half bad hehehe.

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Well since Windows lacks fgetln() but as far as I can tell the BSD and GNU C Libraries have it.

/* The origenal, basically the same as one of the functions in FreeBSDs head(1) implementation.

static void
read_top( FILE *fp, int lncnt ) {

        char *cp;
        size_t error, rlen;
        while ( lncnt && (cp = fgetln( fp, &rlen )) != NULL ) {
                error = fwrite( cp, sizeof(char), rlen, stdout );
                if ( error != rlen )
                        err( 1, "stdout" );
                lncnt--;
        }
}

/* A new version of read_top that *should* be a bit more standard compilent and simple to read */

static void
read_top( FILE *fp, int lncnt ) {

        int c = 0;
        int f = 0;

        while ( (c < lncnt) && (f != EOF ) ) {
                f = fgetc( fp );
                printf( "%c", f );
                if ( (f == 'n') ) {
                        c++;
                }
        }
}

The biggest problem with rf.c is the use of err()/errx(), a nice pair of Macros that expand to a fairly compatible meaning would be nice for portability. *cough* Windows *cough* and I don’t even want to know how groff works on WIN32 if at all….

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10 Thou shalt foreswear, renounce, and abjure the vile heresy which claimeth that “All the world’s a VAX”, and have no commerce with the benighted heathens who cling to this barbarous belief, that the days of thy program may be long even though the days of thy current machine be short.
This particular heresy bids fair to be replaced by “All the world’s a Sun” or “All the world’s a 386” (this latter being a particularly revolting invention of Satan), but the words apply to all such without limitation. Beware, in particular, of the subtle and terrible “All the world’s a 32-bit machine”, which is almost true today but shall cease to be so before thy resume grows too much longer.

Ten Commandments of C Programming

This some times reminds me of how I feel about assumtions. Uusally met with me thinking.

“I’m not running Windows, !@#$ you”

“I’m not running Linux, !@#$ you”

“I’m not using MS-DOS, !@#$ off!”

“I’m not working in Visual BASIC or Visual C++, really un-!@#$ you”

“What if I’m not on a 32-Bit system, oh go !@#$ your self”

lol.