The Unofficial Official ShoutBox

IllBashU · 06-30-2008, 04:00 AM

i am back, i went to 1000 islands (in ontario, and i saw so many small islands (they were about the size of like 2 normal houses land) with houses on them and they use submarine cables so the get power and phone lines.) man now i want an island

it must be so sick living on your own island...

paintba||er · 06-30-2008, 04:11 AM

It'd suck to live on an island. It'd be very difficult and slow to get anywhere. And internet probably isn't available.

IllBashU · 06-30-2008, 07:08 AM

but then u can show off and tell everyone u live on an island.. and you can swim when ever u want and u can take a boat to one of the other island that is close buy and explore...

paintba||er · 06-30-2008, 07:15 AM

I'd rather just have a house the size of ten islands, but on a continental land mass. Or, to truly become an über 1337 h4xx0r, you could buy a huge skyscraper in NYC to live in. That would truly be teh pwnage. Much better than a stupid island.

paintba||er · 06-30-2008, 08:54 AM

Behold, my epic profile visits count!

http://www.xbox360chat.com/forums/me...aintba-er.html

TTR Dr Payne · 06-30-2008, 09:37 AM

yea well I've had 166, so take that!

lol

I've gone into that area two, maybe 3 times..I never go to profiles n read those stupid messages...I pretty much had forgotten that area existed.

paintba||er · 06-30-2008, 09:41 AM

Lies! You can obviously tell that you go into the profiles since you're one of the last ten people to visit mine.

TTR Dr Payne · 06-30-2008, 09:44 AM

ok paint, name 10 other active members of this forum that would be able to knock me out of the last 10 visits list.

IllBashU · 06-30-2008, 06:24 PM

paint u just got served!

paintba||er · 06-30-2008, 07:13 PM

..........................

paintba||er · 06-30-2008, 10:24 PM

Wow. I just experienced my first OS X crash. And it was caused by my own program. I was trying to write a shell, and somehow, I made the fork() system call...stop working. If you don't know what fork() does, it makes a complete copy of the process that calls it. The way all new processes are created is by calling fork, then making the new copy execute whatever you want the new process to do. So this basically means that no new processes can be created. So I can't open anything that isn't already opened.

My CPU also seems to be fully utilized, judging by my fan speeds. I can't check it though, since I can't open anything to do so, because nothing can be forked. My assumption of what is happening, is that there is an infinite loop of my shell being forked, which is tying up fork() so none of the other processes can use it. Anyway, I'm going to reboot now...something I haven't had to do since I used Windoze... :/

Edit: *Gasp* I had to do a hard reboot!

I suppose that OS X probably has some shutdown scripts that couldn't get forked.

Edit: I also just found a lolable hypocrisy in Apple Console while I was looking for error reports.

Quote:

6/30/08 3:30:37 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder[99] CPSGetProcessInfo(): This call is deprecated and should not be called anymore.

The (Apple) Finder is making deprecated calls! And an Apple app is saying that it shouldn't!

paintba||er · 07-01-2008, 12:06 AM

Well, I have written a...slightly functional shell. But it doesn't work well yet, so I think I'm just going to use an existing shell for my OS. It'd take too long to write a new one, and there wouldn't be much benefit. When I was testing what I have so far, I ran "/usr/bin/man man", and man warned me that "terminal is not fully functional". Then when trying to scroll, it would jump back up to the top. Then when I pressed q to quit, all of the characters became...well, a screenshot will be more descriptive.

That's the login prompt. In Bash. The jumbledness carried over outside of the shell. Oh, and as you can see, I'm testing it on Debian in a VM so that I don't crash OS X again.