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diff --git a/sag-0.6.1-www/Invisible/sag-0.6/footnode.html b/sag-0.6.1-www/Invisible/sag-0.6/footnode.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a0226cf --- /dev/null +++ b/sag-0.6.1-www/Invisible/sag-0.6/footnode.html @@ -0,0 +1,1378 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> +<!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 96.1-h (September 30, 1996) by Nikos Drakos (nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk), CBLU, University of Leeds --> +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE>Footnotes</TITLE> +<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Footnotes"> +<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="sag"> +<META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> +<META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> +<LINK REL=STYLESHEET HREF="sag.css"> +</HEAD> +<BODY LANG="EN" > +<DL> <DT><A NAME="79">...simple.</A><DD>There are some people who <EM>do</EM> + call it that, but that's just because they have never + read this manual, poor things. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="74">...chapter.</A><DD>If you happen to be reading a version that + has a chapter on backups, that is. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="78">...work</A><DD>A comparison between the xia and ext2 + filesystems, the device list and a description of the + ext2 filesystem. These aren't part of the book any + more. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="111">...Rhyme</A><DD>The author + wishes to remain anonymous. It was posted to the + LDP mailing list by Matt Welsh. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="125">...system</A><DD>In fact, it is often mistakenly considered to be the + operating system itself, but it is not. An operating system + provides many more services than a plain kernel. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="231">...these</A><DD>Well, at least + there can be many. Network bandwidth still being a scarce + resource, there is still some practical upper limit to the + number of concurrent logins via one network connection. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="296">...printer.</A><DD>Instead, + they form a new queue <em>at</em> the printer, waiting for their + printouts, since no one ever seems to be able to get the queue + software to know exactly when anyone's printout is really finished. + This is a great boost to intra-office social relations. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="1028">...<b>platters</b>,</A><DD>The platters are made of + a hard substance, e.g., aluminium, which gives the hard disk its + name. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="1045">...BIOS</A><DD>The BIOS is some built-in software + stored on ROM chips. It takes care, among other things, of the + initial stages of booting. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="1047">...track</A><DD>The numbers are + completely imaginary. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="1067">...disk</A><DD>That is, the surface inside the disk, on the + metal disk inside the plastic coating. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="1070">...similar</A><DD>But completely + different, of course. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="1120">...primary</A><DD>Illogical? +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="1299">...everyone.</A><DD>It requires several seconds of hard + thinking on the users' behalf. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="1275">...magic.</A><DD>For more + information, see the kernel source or the Kernel Hackers' + Guide. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="1431">...NAME="1651"></A></A><DD>It should of course be + <tt>unmount</tt><A NAME="1653"> </A>, but the <TT>n</TT> mysteriously disappeared in + the 70's, and hasn't been seen since. Please return it to Bell + Labs, NJ, if you find it. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="1409">...disk.</A><DD>Sic transit discus mundi. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="1820">...anyway.</A><DD>Thus quite needlessly + annoying a number of computer scientists something horrible. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="1836">...2 GB.</A><DD>A gigabyte here, a gigabyte there, pretty soon + we start talking about real memory. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="1869">...disk</A><DD>Except a RAM disk, for obvious + reasons. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="1961">...loaded</A><DD>On early computers, it wasn't enough + to merely turn on the computer, you had to manually load the + operating system as well. These new-fangled thing-a-ma-jigs do + it all by themselves. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2102">...right,</A><DD>This is called + the <b>power on self test</b>, or <b>POST</b> for short. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2110">...NAME="2155"></A></A><DD><tt>sync</tt><A NAME="2157"> </A> flushes the buffer cache. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2308">...graphs.</A><DD><tt>init</tt><A NAME="2363"> </A> itself is not allowed + to die. You can't kill <tt>init</tt><A NAME="2365"> </A> even with SIGKILL. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2310">...signal;</A><DD>Using the command + <tt>kill -HUP 1</tt><A NAME="2387"> </A> as root, for example +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2311">...terminal.</A><DD>Different versions + of <tt>getty</tt><A NAME="2411"> </A> are run differently. Consult your manual page-and + make sure it is the correct manual page. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2312">...<tt>emergency</tt>.</A><DD>Kernel + command line arguments can be given via LILO, for example. See + section <A HREF="node78.html#secsingleusermode">7.5</A>. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2314">...location.</A><DD>Or to start <tt>nethack</tt><A NAME="2466"> </A>. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2315">...tasks,</A><DD>It probably shouldn't be used for playing + <tt>nethack</tt><A NAME="2473"> </A>. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2559">...it.</A><DD>Good Linux distributions do this out + of the box. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2722">...microcomputers.</A><DD>It might be quite embarrassing + if my sister could read my love letters. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2816">...password.</A><DD>Yes, this means + that the password file has all the information about a + user <em>except</em> his password. The wonder of development. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2772">...accounts</A><DD>Surreal users? +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2790">...alias.</A><DD>The + user's name might change due to marriage, for example, and + he might want to have his username reflect his new name. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2818">...work.</A><DD>But they can be <em>so</em> fun, if you're + a BOFH. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2915">...disasters.</A><DD>The fifth reason is ``something else''. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2916">...work.</A><DD>Don't laugh. This has happened to several people. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="2917">...work.</A><DD>Been there, done that... +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="3001">...reinstalled,</A><DD>You get + to decide what's easy. Some people consider installing from + dozens of floppies easy. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="3016">...drive.</A><DD>If a tape + drive doesn't data fast enough, it has to stop; this makes backups + even slower, and can be bad for the tape and the drive. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="3113">...round,</A><DD>According to + recent research. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE><DT><A NAME="3157">...time.</A><DD>Beware of the <tt>time</tt><A NAME="3167"> </A> command, which does + <em>not</em> show the current time. +<PRE>. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +. +</PRE> </DL> +<P><ADDRESS> +<I>Lars Wirzenius <BR> +Sat Nov 15 02:32:11 EET 1997</I> +</ADDRESS> +</BODY> +</HTML> |