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Re: [ProgSoc] ipod battery
Roland Turner wrote:
On the latter, rather more reasonable basis, UTS has long since ceased
being a technical school. Indeed its largest constituent part at
establisment (NSWIT) had arguably already started to transcend being a
technical school.
I'm not so sure. My last experience of UTS was sitting in a room being
told to click about on some bogus Cicso (TM) University Degree In A Box
(R) material while listening to a tutor attempt to explain a bitmask to
a dumbstruck second year.
I've actually been to TAFE (I was training as a chef), and frankly
TAFE's standards felt higher by comparison.
Who knows, maybe I have a chip on my shoulder? :)
Scary. Remind me not to shake your hand.
I'll wash 'em for you, Raz. ;)
p.s. Since our recent conversation I'm up to page 220 of Advanced
Programming in the UNIX Environment, Second Edition. I know what
O_CREAT, and dup2, and *everything* is now. :) Still haven't got to the
bit where they explain how the kernel goes about ensuring atomicity of
writes without locks, but I understand that the file isn't
pessimistically write-locked by a process (as it is in Windows). There
has been some mention of record locks, but I'm not up to the details of
that yet. Overall, it's been very enlightening reading.
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