delphij's Chaos

昨天毕设讨论的时候 端木 提到一件事，就是百度公司的一位高层提到，有90%的人的思维方式，和计算机专业的学生是完全不一样的，例如，当他们的浏览器主页被修改之后，他们会尝试去用那个主页提供的功能，而不是想把它改回原状。

From Microsoft’s KB:

You can configure Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to write debugging information to three different file formats (also known as memory dump files) when your computer stops unexpectedly as a result of a Stop error (also known as a “blue screen”, system crash, or bug check). You can also configure Windows not to write debugging information to a memory dump file. Windows can generate any one of the following three memory dump file types:

1. Complete memory dump
2. Kernel memory dump
3. Small memory dump (64 KB)

Well, the story has end, beastie.frontfree.net ends its life because an overheat caused by mechanism fault of its fan on CPU and power supply. The hardware components were then replaced with some new ones.

Several servers I manage running FreeBSD 5-CURRENT as of 20040228 appears to bearing wierd deadlocks, which could be triggered by ps(1), top(1) and w(1).

junsu and I have discussed about some big hacks to FreeBSD kernel, and the implementation of a minidump is a good idea, I think.

On Windows there’s a minidump mechanism. The minidump will save ‘crashing’ pages only, while full dump will save the whole core memory when the system going to crash.

It’s the latest NetBSD stable RELEASE. This version is dedicated to Erik Reid, a NetBSD developer who contributed many MIPS related port efforts, as well as the XFree86 DRI interface, and were dead in an sailing accident in February 18, 2004.

This is really insteresting one. With an “advertised” shell link, Windows Installer will automatically executed to install on demand.

I finally understood what he want, according to his post today:

" Hey, here’s an idea… using the VFS wrapper idea our
‘ports’ system could create a namespace that makes everything
appear to be preinstalled. So instead of CDing somewhere and
typing make, or running an apt-get type of utility, you would
simply run the program you want to run and our package manager
would download and install it on the fly."

Despite being hurt in an accident, he finally committed the newtoken commit to DragonFlyBSD!!

It is really Orphean strains.

The ablum was “If I Could Tell You”, published in 2000. I am not sure whether I can finally obtain a original CD copy or two, but I think it is valuable to have one.