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I took out two tagnut books from the Library yesterday

Jeremy Reimer

Fri Apr 19 19:15:12 2002

The two books are "Modern Operating Systems" (Andrew Tannenbaum, 1991), the seminal tone that inspired Linus Torvalds to write his own crappy knockoff OS, and TCP/IP Networking in Unix.

I have never taken out anything quite so geeky before.  After two or three pages of reading Tannenbaum's book, I have to take a little rest, but I keep soldiering on.

Forward, geek!

HitScan

Fri Apr 19 19:25:56 2002

I have injected a heretofor unheard of level of geekiness into this library. TCP/IP Illustrated, and Game Engine Programming in C++ are a couple of books you wouldn't expect to see in a puny lib like this one, heh.
AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Fri Apr 19 19:40:17 2002

That tannenbaum book would indeed qualify as tagnuts galore
DrPizza

Sat Apr 20 00:43:31 2002

I've been meaning to read the OS book.  But amazon.co.uk don't seem to have the second edition, only the [much older] first.

Its pricing is more reasonable than most, however; £31 for almost 1000 pages and 1.5 kg of hardback goodness.

Jeremy Reimer

Sat Apr 20 03:29:02 2002

The library is apparently processing the latest 2000-ish edition, so I am forced to read the 1991 edition instead, but I have a hold on the new edition already.  He makes some interesting predictions about the "future", some of them really far off, but some of them closer to what we think of as the Internet today.

Lots of tagnuts.  I've started skipping bits, because it gets a little dry.  But you get a good appreciation for the complexity of what a modern operating system is expected to do.

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Sat Apr 20 03:51:44 2002

I believe this particular book is at the local Border's Bookstore, now that I have gainfull employment I shall buy some Tomes of Tagnuttry.

Jeremy, why not check out some Hennesey and Patterson.  that thing is chock-full of T.O.U.S.'s

Jeremy Reimer

Sat Apr 20 23:29:15 2002

I am now reading about Amoeba, an OS designed to run on a whole shitload of CPUs at the same time, where multiple users sign on using X Terminals and depending on what they need, they automagically use as many of the "CPU bank" processors as possible.  It was written from scratch with a BSD emulation on top.  When you read stuff like this, you realize how much Linux is just a cheap knockoff hack.. but don't take my word for it, read the entire flamewar:

[url]http://www.feep.net/~roth/linux/linux_is_obsolete.txt[/url]

Imitation Gruel

Sun Apr 21 01:34:12 2002

OS tagnutry would probably be within my reach if I cared enough to make it so. Alas, I do not. :sagrin:
Harbinger

Sun Apr 21 23:50:57 2002

from AllYorBaseRBelong2Us posted at 11:51 pm on April 19, 2002
[Jeremy, why not check out some Hennesey and Patterson.  that thing is chock-full of T.O.U.S.'s

Tagnuts Of Unusual Size?  ;)

Imitation Gruel

Sun Apr 21 23:57:56 2002

Tagnuts Of Unusual Size?

Heh. The Princess Bride is certainly one of my all-time favorite movies.

Harbinger

Mon Apr 22 00:31:37 2002

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less famous is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on the line!

HAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA
/drop dead

Imitation Gruel

Mon Apr 22 00:36:50 2002

You almost got it, Harb.

Take out the 'of which' and change 'famous' to 'well-known' and it'll be right. Also I'm not sure on the number of 'HA' you should have. It's an excuse to watch the whole movie again I think.

:sagrin:

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Mon Apr 22 02:59:44 2002

Tagnuts Of Unusual Size?  

indeed!

"never go in against AYB, when Smam is on the line!"
-OW knows this all too well. :)

Harbinger

Mon Apr 22 03:06:36 2002

from Imitation Gruel posted at 8:36 pm on April 21, 2002

You almost got it, Harb.

Take it easy on me, I've been mostly dead all day.

:D