28 January 2001
Submitted by eve on Sun, 01/28/2001 - 1:55am. News
Pardon the lack of updates, but IP's having technical problems.
There was an attempt to recompile the kernel on the machine the site is hosted on, which resulted in one bad drive being replaced with one that was worse. Finally the site's back up, but it's running on a machine with an old (compiled in 1999) kernel. For some reason, this means I can't post anything with the quote symbol, oddly enough.
At any rate, I'm going to bed. As much as I love this site, it's 2am on a Saturday and I'm tired of pulling my hair out trying to identify the problem.
I promise updates (and good ones, too) hopefully sometime tomorrow.
Goodnight. :-)
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Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 01/29/2001 - 6:40am.
Archived comment by Jon:
What's the matter, Colonel Sanders - chicken?

I didn't know what a software kernel was until recently, when the Unix base for Mac OS X began to be discussed. (Ack, bad passive tense usage)

It could be the computer game Driver. Which would be more confusing if it required a driver to run: Driver driver.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 01/29/2001 - 5:33am.
Archived comment by Carl:
If you can't use quotes, use colons.

Guy: My ass is a peach.
Girl1: Is it fuzzy?
Girl2: I don't want to see the pit.

Hope this helps because I think it would help the reader to tell the people apart in the absence of quote marks.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Sun, 01/28/2001 - 11:21pm.
Archived comment by Larry Hosken:
The kernel is like the core piece of software on your computer. Other software is built on top of it. The kernel is deep, deep in there, behind your desktop background picture.

The only part of your computer's software more fundamental than the kernel is the boot loader. The boot loader brings the kernel into memory. I wouldn't have been able to remember the kernel at all, but my boot loader brought it into my memory.

The drivers are also low-level, with the possible exception of Minnie Driver, whom even non-computer people have heard of. When Minnie Driver receives an Oscar(tm) and thanks all the "little people," she's not talking about midgets. She's talking about your keyboard driver, your hard drive driver. She's especially talking about your video driver, who returns your videos to the rental place, if only you can configure it correctly.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Sun, 01/28/2001 - 8:58am.
Archived comment by Mike:
S'okay, take your time, We tech morons will just entertain ourselves while trying to figure out what the hell a "kernel" is.
Hey, whatever "technical problem" it is that's keeping the banner ads from appearing, keep it in! Without them, this page loads like lightning!
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