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Monday, July 19, 2004
/dev/null
Ok, I promised I'd explain what it is that /dev/null... is...
If you are from the windoze world, I'll try to sum this up as simply as I can.
If you are from the linux/unix/BSD world... move to the next subject because you don't need this explanation.
Everything in the linux/unix/bsd/etc operating system is viewed by the system as a file. Yes, that means the precious $350 DVD burner you bought will be viewed as a lowly FILE by the operating system (if it's even recognized at all...), the same as the file I use to store all my serial numbers to my programs/web sites. The ultimate in democracy - we are all, literally, created equal in the eyes of UNIX. If you don't know what UNIX/Linux is... go away! Just kidding.. I won't try to explain it, though. Do a search. http://www.yahoo.com should help you out.
With the background that everything is a file, /dev/null is therefore a file in the linux/unix operating system. What is it for? Basically, it is a place to which you can banish any output with which you don't want to deal. Your debugger is producing thousands of lines of exceptions? Send it to /dev/null... you get the point.
So, instead of just sending all my random thoughts and rants to /dev/null, I'm going to post some of them here for everyone to enjoy in perpetuity. I think that's spelled correctly.
that is all
more to come...
¶ 9:28:00 PM 0 comments
If you are from the windoze world, I'll try to sum this up as simply as I can.
If you are from the linux/unix/BSD world... move to the next subject because you don't need this explanation.
Everything in the linux/unix/bsd/etc operating system is viewed by the system as a file. Yes, that means the precious $350 DVD burner you bought will be viewed as a lowly FILE by the operating system (if it's even recognized at all...), the same as the file I use to store all my serial numbers to my programs/web sites. The ultimate in democracy - we are all, literally, created equal in the eyes of UNIX. If you don't know what UNIX/Linux is... go away! Just kidding.. I won't try to explain it, though. Do a search. http://www.yahoo.com should help you out.
With the background that everything is a file, /dev/null is therefore a file in the linux/unix operating system. What is it for? Basically, it is a place to which you can banish any output with which you don't want to deal. Your debugger is producing thousands of lines of exceptions? Send it to /dev/null... you get the point.
So, instead of just sending all my random thoughts and rants to /dev/null, I'm going to post some of them here for everyone to enjoy in perpetuity. I think that's spelled correctly.
that is all
more to come...
¶ 9:28:00 PM 0 comments
Welcome!
Welcome, I'm glad you could make it!
I'm Jonethan DeLaughter. I'm a 3rd year medical student. I started this web log (blog) to share some opinions and save some things for the future. If you decide you want to rummage around, feel free. It's just basically a shitload of my thoughts dumped to the keyboard rather than /dev/null.
You DO know what /dev/null is, don't you? Well, if not, I'm sure I'll talk about it in here somewhere.
Again, welcome and feel free to browse. The links to the right are to my other sites and places I like. You might find something that interests you and decide to stay awhile. Maybe only to find out what a loon like me will write next.
more to come... ¶ 11:45:00 AM 0 comments
I'm Jonethan DeLaughter. I'm a 3rd year medical student. I started this web log (blog) to share some opinions and save some things for the future. If you decide you want to rummage around, feel free. It's just basically a shitload of my thoughts dumped to the keyboard rather than /dev/null.
You DO know what /dev/null is, don't you? Well, if not, I'm sure I'll talk about it in here somewhere.
Again, welcome and feel free to browse. The links to the right are to my other sites and places I like. You might find something that interests you and decide to stay awhile. Maybe only to find out what a loon like me will write next.
more to come... ¶ 11:45:00 AM 0 comments
