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I just had a call from a customer who needs a few things done quickly and it's going to be me who will have to do them. My apologies, but I will not have the time to think up something for the CCC and I don't want to grab the first thing I find with Google. With my luck it would probably be a L(eslie)CCC.
And tonight, when everything is over, I'm going to do the same as William Shatner and (in elongation) Captain Kirk do on this date: Eat some birthday cake.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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That's OK.
Just make the documentation for your changes as cryptic as you can, and we'll mark it as a win.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks. As if that thing was not cryptic enough already. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Party time?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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New helicopter time. 
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Don't tempt me[^].
Except for it not being new and shiny and no 'Dominator' in the name, my old 'Rex is still perfectly ok.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Not quite. Programming time, but there is still a weekend comming up...
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Happy birthday!
Take the missing CCC as a present
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Thanks!
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Hi,
I could do with some help in understanding how the different kernels know what CPU they are talking to etc. if i have a windows or Linux disk,i can install them on different computers with different CPU types etc. how do they know what they are talking to ? do they have a place in memory where all the different CPU drivers live and it runs through trying them until it work ?!
I could do with an explanation which carries on from where the bios has finished running its POST test and now loads the OS?? this is where things get fuzzy for me
Thank you for your help
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The problem is that you are asking for a few books worth of explanation...
In nutshell - The Lounge is not for such...
In more details - OS has a hardware specific core and other parts (mostly in C) are compiled to fit the CPU architecture, so when you install the same OS on different platforms, you are actually installing different binaries...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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hey,
hey i understand, just looking for some pointers in right direction
so are you saying the OS is read from the disk and compiled there and then to work with that specific architecture? that kinda makes sense
thank you
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No, the OS source is compiled and linked according to its target system. The final binaries will then be written to an installation disk. But that installation disk will not load if you try it on the wrong hardware.
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No! OS does not compile nothing. All is there pre-compiled and installed for the specific platform...
See here: Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Netboot[^]
Also all packages are pre-installed for different platforms and you have to install the right one from the repository (if you install via the OS, it will set the platform to the same as its own): Ubuntu – Details of package 0install in yakkety[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It's still not very clear sorry, do you know anywhere i can read up on this or what exactly i need to search for? thank you
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I can't see what more to say...
If you have access to a GCC compiler, than write a simple 'Hello World' in C/C++ and as GCC to compile it for different platforms...
After that check the result with some hex editor, to see the differences...
When a Linux distro (like Ubuntu) prepared, they compile it 7 times (at least) each time for a different platform. When you are to download an installer, you pick the proper for your platform... It will install the proper (pre-compiled) binaries fitting to your platform, and defines the update channels and the package sources to point to the repositories of that platform...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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ahh ok now i understand, the os is precompiled for the given CPU architecture and stored on disk, the PC then writes this to disk with the Master Boot Record. The when the computer is turned on the bios does its tests, runs the POST test and then loads the OS entry point and then it hands control to the kernel, who handles system calls from various applications running on the OS
Is that correct ?
Thank you very much for your time
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Real simple:
The installed operating system matches the hardware upon which it is installed.
The onboard components match the CPU and it's capabilites. You'd have no luck if you could somehow install an intel CPU on an AMD mother board.
When you boot the system, it really doesn't have to ask as it has no choices in its world.
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Each desktop and laptop computer contains a tiny shard of the Eye of Magaam, which allows the Eytbit sprites that live within the machine to see just long enough into the future to know which versions of the executables will cause serious problems, if implemented.
In recent years, this has resulted in two major problems:
0. microsoft decided to redefine the Eytbit sprites as single-colour squares, with no Pareetibit to govern them, so inappropriate and damaging executables and libraries are sometimes linked, during implementation.
1. The Eye of Magaam is a finite resource, and not enough people properly recycle their PCs and laptops, so it is fast running out -- which is why people say that the PC and laptop era is coming to an end.
HTH
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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One man knows about fish... one man knows about plants.
One man doesn't know about plants... One man doesn't know about fish.
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Well, you just eat your broccoli as well as your fish [edit] or spam [/edit], or no pudding for you!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 22-Mar-17 9:49am.
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I was kind of hoping you were real enough to understand.... now I know your just shell of a man 
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Shortest answer: go to osdev.org and start reading. This was great place that helped me start developing several level-0 applications (not full OS, though).
Short answer: For most of the things, there is no way to know at Runtime. For OS level this notation *-amd64, *-x86, *-arm64 means a little more than "compiled using that option". There are different system registers and other differences described in a ~1000+ pages manuals for each processor. Due to pre-processor you can make a slightly different version for each CPU architecture at compile time.
Honest answer: Take a look at the code of working linux/windows kernel. You will notice that programmers creating operating systems find that part a little fuzzy, too. Just accept it and live with it.
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Ok so in windows the install comes with various HALs, hardware abstraction layer, which is written specifically for a particular CPU, At install the type of CPU is detected by logic and the right HAL installed.
NT 4 used to support 4 CPU s I recall. It's less these days.
Linux probably wotks in a similar way.
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...when you travel. UK flight ban on electronic devices announced - BBC News[^]
OK, it's only inbound and a few countries at the moment, but ... my Nexus 7 is too long, too wide - and I wouldn't want to read a book on anything smaller. And you know as well as I do that security restrictions don't get eased, they get toughened up. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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