What is your geekiness rating?

[DrV]

35.50296% - Major Geek

Whee! 8) And no Star Trek whatsoever. Speaking of Dr. Demento, I love Dirty Deeds Done with Sheep

[LooseCaboose]

1. I should have know what BSS was, 'cause I am *currently* making a compiler for an assignment and we are generating code for the C-Machine and putting those unitialized symbols into the BSS section... But our excellent professor didn't have the time to mention what BSS meant

I found out what it meant after doing an assignment on memory managment. My textbooks simply refered to the segment at the BSS, but failed to explain what it stood for. I asked in one of the architecture newsgroups and several experts didn't know, or had the wrong answer. Someone who had worked with early IBM machines was able to explain it for me.

2. About the register window, I have been completely wrong 'cause in my language it is called some kinda "registry pool" (bad traductions!!!).

Ah, the Sparc is the only architecture that I know of that uses them, and they are a nightmare to work with at low-level because you need to keep track of which window you are currently in and whether or not the stack is being used to save anything.

Didn't Classic C have the void type, nor size_t? wow, goodbye to portability. So routines that didn't return a value simply didn't have a type? and... how did you do an "abstract pointer"? Those void * pointers are really useful... How to walk around them?

malloc and other functions that use abstract pointers used to have the prototype char *malloc(int size), in Classic C. To get a concrete type you needed an explicit cast of the char * pointer. Im not sure how functions that dont return a type work in Classic C, possibly by simply returning an arbitary int or char.

Odd, 'cause WinXP is now based upon the WinNT/2K tray but orientated to low-end users like the 9X/Me saga... Scary.

Yeah, the everyone gets to be an adminstrator idea is weird, if Microsoft had designed Windows as a proper multiuser operating system then they wouldn't have to give all users admin rights just so that they can install software and make other changes.

[na_th_an]

Yeah, the everyone gets to be an adminstrator idea is weird, if Microsoft had designed Windows as a proper multiuser operating system then they wouldn't have to give all users admin rights just so that they can install software and make other changes.

Yeah. That is what makes Windows XP suck, IMHO. I have evil XP installed in my new computer (cracked, of course), and I began exploring the multiuser capabilities of the ¿new? system. When I first learnt about that feature I thought "well, at last microsoft did something intelligent", and it looked to work well. I could shift between users leaving programs running, like I did in *nix systems. The prob comes from the lack of security. Simply hiding files and file extensions doesn't make your system more secure. To be able to install stuff the user has to be an admin, and an admin can "see" the whole computer, so an admin can easily browse another admin files. That sucks big time.

[toonski84]

meh. People bitch about windows and stuff, but really, I havent had a prob with it. So far, my legal copy of XP hasnt crashed once, and it's customizable enough for what I do. Linux sounds nice, but it's a biatch to maintain and it lacks support.

[na_th_an]

I haven't had any problems though. I was just undelining the difference between what they say it is and what it is actually.

And Linux has plenty of support: There are thousand of people working for it, and thousand of forums, newsgroups. I'm not into it, but I know it exists.

[Agamemnus]

That sucks.
I just read about two's complement.
So is 0100 0000 0000 0000 = zero?
Or is it 0100 0000 0000 0001?

[rCX]

11.63708% I guess I'm not that much of a geek.....

[LooseCaboose]

What sucks about two's complement Agamemnus? Positive numbers (including zero) are expressed normally, and negative numbers are represented by taking the positive equivalent, flipping all the bits and adding one. For example in a four bit system.

3: 0011
2: 0010
1: 0001
0: 0000
-1: 1111
-2: 1110
-3: 1101

[Agamemnus]

ah, well i guess it makes for an easier negative function.

edit: or not.

[barok]

14.39842% - Geekish Tendencies

i'm only 14.whatever because some of that stuff i learn in school or have to take, and i just have that good a memory.