This post was published 13 years 1 month 26 days ago. A number of changes have been made to the site since then, so please contact me if anything is broken or seems wrong.You may recall me quoting my friend i80and recently in my post about the new features in Gmail Chat. Well, he just posted a new entry to his blog last night, and the idea looks quite interesting.
Basically, what he wants to do is speed up boot times on FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software, like Linux) systems. So his idea was to have init (the default boot script) call a C program of his own writing that would basically optimize the boot process and help bring the system up faster. He explains it better than I can, so I’ll just point you to the mod-boot post from last night and let you read the details there.
I will say one thing, though. If my friend’s work goes into the Linux core, I just might have to switch to Linux. It already sounds appealing, to not have to deal with Windows…
PS: Congratulations to i80and for being this blog’s post #300!
Ooh, thanks for the link!
PageRank++! Yay!
What language is that statement? Shouldn’t it be unsigned char PageRank++?
PS: Why are you still using the Queiba Wars avatar?
Well, maybe
static unsigned char PageRank++;
PageRank has been defined before, and without knowing what arguments Google passes to websites, the assumption that PageRank is a static variable seems logical. And yes, C. 😛
As for my avatar, it’s because I’m too lazy to make another one. Someday I’ll either make it look nicer or make a new avatar.
Hmm, static? Whoops! Though if it’s already been defined, your original statement was probably right. 😀
I figured you were using C. Though the syntax in PHP isn’t much different; we just don’t have to cast types. 🙂