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Quotes of the week
So remember guys. Windows suspend/resume may work just fine. Mac
too. But Linux's suspend/resume isn't a buggy pile of crap. It's an
intelligent buggy pile of crap, that just wants to be loved.
-- Christian
Hammond
My initial impression was also that power savings was Android's
single supreme goal, but a careful reading of this thread and the
ones preceding it taught me otherwise. Please see below for my
current understanding of what they are trying to accomplish.
-- Paul McKenney
When a user says, "Show the changes to the lower file system in my
overlaid file system," they are actually saying, "Replace
everything in /bin, but not /etc/hostname, and merge the lower
package database with the upper package database, and update
/etc/resolv.conf, unless it's the mailserver..."
-- Valerie Aurora
Actually, it's not that complicated:
-- Language lessons from Al Viro
1) base and suffices choose the possible types. That's it. (Log in to post comments)
Quotes of the week Posted Aug 19, 2010 10:47 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
You would pick unsigned whenever it makes sense, except when you want to store/return negative values and ~0U is not acceptable to pose as -1. After that comes signed.
Quotes of the week Posted Aug 19, 2010 14:52 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] What he says is what the C standard (modulo GCCisms) says, not what would me right/nicest for Linux (the kernel).
Quotes of the week Posted Aug 20, 2010 0:46 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
"So remember guys. Windows suspend/resume may work just fine. Mac too. But Linux's suspend/resume isn't a buggy pile of crap. It's an intelligent buggy pile of crap, that just wants to be loved."
I noticed the same pattern with my webcam. It refuses to work sometimes, mostly when I need it to speak with my gf.
I think it's jealous.
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