[Novalug] short misc ( but numerous )

Walt Smith waltechmail@yahoo.com
Wed Mar 17 12:51:54 EDT 2010


1.  Thanks for new info link google.com/linux
2.  thanks for tip to linuxformat.com
    I subscribed to Byte for many years.  That was a mistake.
Many tech magazines today give just enough info to make one
want to pull out remaining hair.  I'm interested in good tech
articles that do more than make me take Prozac.  Does this
magazine do it ? 
3.  It's easy to do a google search and come up with links.
If the object is to demonstrate information is available, fine.
If would be great if links came with the word "recommended"
attached.
4.  I liked the simple flow steps a user posted for the operation
of udev, hal, dbus etc...  And the fact they admitted there was
a part they weren't sure about. kool.
5.  I find it interesting that a CDrom *DRIVE* can be installed but
recognizing the insertion of a  disk is the hotpluggable thingy.
I think this confuses many folks.  If someone could briefly clarify
the cdrom/DVDrom DRIVE as a "device" and /dev vs the disk ( and
it's /dev ???), it would be appreciated.
6. For old guys, slashdot had a brief article on a really really
small "hello world" vs the 11k "Hello Word"  ( using gcc and the
autoinclusion of some libc ).  Many engineers start life by writing
a program to "getchar" and "printchar" on a real piece of hardware
without an intervening bios/firmware/OS/VM... IOW: actually
do stuff with the registers on a 8251 serial chip.
7. Are there any "Developers" on this maillist ?  ( who aren't
afraid to say who they are? ).  By that, I mean those who might
write drivers, to process communications, to sockets to other 
low level stuff.
Call this the 2010 census.  I'm just curious since there are so
many sys admins and web people ( at various levels ) here...
( yes, I know many web people are called web developers ).

thanks for your patience.

Walt.........






      



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