The Unix directory problem and the history of directories
Back in the beginning, Unix was a surprisingly simple, straightforward,and limited operating system. Many things were implemented in prettymuch the most straightforward way possible, including the filesystemand especially including directories.
In V7, directories were very simple. Directory entries were 16-bytestructures with 2 bytes for the inode number and 14 for the filename. Directories were just a linear array of some size of thesestructures (stored in a series of disk blocks like a regular file);unused entries had
My brief snapshot of the Fall 2010 anime season first episodes
Another season, another flood of first episodes, some of which I'veseen and some of which I currently have no interest in. Because I feellike it (and because I want to keep track and make sure I don't missanything), here's a snapshot in an extremely abbreviated form.
Short summary of this season: I haven't seen anything yet that'slikely to make Author happy .
Shows I have seen (more or less in the order seen):
- Hyakka Ryouran
Something that struck me about My Sister Cannot Be This Cute
The genesis of this was reading the following by Splitter of Chocolate Syrup Waffles (via Author, who quoted it in his roundup ):
[...] After getting everything off her chest, [Kirino] gives the bestmoment of the series where she chastises her brother for thinking thethings she enjoys in 2D is something she wants to experience in 3D.This works on so many levels.
For me, one of the interesting things about Kirino is what I'll callher otaku blindness. This
A real commentary on Otome Youkai Zakuro
(Okay, time to write something more serious about this show.)
I feel conflicted about Zakuro .
On the one hand, I'm enjoying it and this counts for a lot. Zakuroherself is the main draw for me ( as seen ), partly becauseI always like seeing competent and strong female protagonists in anime(given that they're so rare). The rest of the ingredients are not bad;the setting is novel, the rest of the characters are at least amusing,what's