ohxten - Slashdot User

Submission Summary: 0 pending, 12 declined, 2 accepted (14 total, 14.29% accepted)

Submission + - goosh - the Unofficial Google Shell (goosh.org)

Submitted by

ohxten

on Monday June 02, 2008 @05:02PM

ohxten writes: "Stefan Grothkopp has come up with a pretty neat tool called goosh. It's essentially a browser oriented shell-like interface that allows you to quickly search Google and Wikipedia and get information in a text-only format.

This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen in a good while."

Submission + - GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug (lwn.net)

Submitted by

ohxten

on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @04:34PM

ohxten writes: "It appears that GCC 4.3.0's new behavior of not clearing the direction flag (DF) before a string operation on x86 systems poses problems with kernels — such as Linux and BSD — that do not clear the direction flag before a signal handler is called, despite the ABI specification."

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