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April 2006 - Posts

I could get to like this "Internet" thing.

Last Thursday, when Daniel was at his music lesson, I got an email from a friend of ours. We have a vacation home in the San Juan Islands (just north west of Seattle), and he was visiting his place on the island and looked in on our house. He had noticed Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:15 PM by LarryOsterman | 11 Comments

This one's for you John. The core OS team didn't forget you

Way back when, back in the very early days of this blog (actually it was the 3rd post to my blog), I wrote a story about John Vert complaining about CTRL-C not working on network commands . Well, yesterday I got a piece of email from one of the developers Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 10:38 AM by LarryOsterman | 24 Comments
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The purpose of an operating system, redux

Something changed in the stress mix last week, and I've been swamped with stress failures, that's what caused the lack of posts last week. But I've spent a fair amount of time while driving into work thinking about my last post (on the purpose of an operating Read More...
Posted Monday, April 10, 2006 10:44 AM by LarryOsterman | 44 Comments

Riffing on Raymond - the purpose of an operating system

In Raymond's post today ( Adding flags to APIs to work around driver bugs doesn't scale ), Raymond wrote: Perhaps it's just me, but I don't believe that workarounds for driver issues should become contractual. I would think that one of the goals of an Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 9:45 AM by LarryOsterman | 30 Comments

It was a dark and stormy last night

It was a dark and stormy night... The band of infiltrators crept into the deserted building. After checking to make sure that the authorities weren't present, they crept up to the sixth floor. At this point, they were committed, there was no going back. Read More...
Posted Monday, April 03, 2006 11:24 AM by LarryOsterman | 14 Comments
 
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