I don't know about veterans service organizagions as I'm not part of one...and the VA simply sux. So you may be right. I don't know. I just glad when someone makes it home.
John On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 22:34 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > John B Pace wrote: > > Welcome home! We got a lot of dirty looks just by being in during > > Vietnam, so I go out of my way to welcome vets home...so once again, > > Welcome Home" > > Thanks. > > I think this whole thing is turning out to be rather > therapeutic for the Vietnam vets -- those involved > with the VA and veterans' service organizations are > finally getting appreciation for what they endured, > in the course of giving advice to us. > > > > > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:29 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > >> Kain, Becki (B.) wrote: > >>> Where do you work? > >> I recently returned from a year in Baghdad with E Company, > >> 1-125th Infantry Battalion, so not anywhere at the moment. > >> The rest of the Bn just got mobilized for about 9 months > >> in Kuwait. > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: Aaron Kulkis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:46 AM > >>> To: Kain, Becki (B.) > >>> Subject: Re: [opensuse] Top/lsof > >>> > >>> Kain, Becki (B.) wrote: > >>>> Or it means that the first process never says "i'm finished, you can > >>>> swap me out". > >>> There's no mechanism for that, other than the sleep(2) > >>> system call. The other ways that the process gives up > >>> the CPU are > >>> 1: waiting for resources (such as opening or reading > >>> a file, executing a wait(2) to collect the exit codes > >>> of child processes, etc). > >>> 2: The time-slice timer runs out, and the process is > >>> forcibly interrupted, and execution is given to the > >>> process schedulre. > >>> > >>> What you're thinking of is the cooperative multi-tasking > >>> model (pre OS X Macs would be a good example). > >>> > >>> I suggest you get "The Design of the Unix Operating System". > >>> I believe the author's name is Maurice J. Bach. > >>> > >>> Yes, here we go: > >>> <http://www.amazon.com/Design-Unix-Operating-System-Hardcover/dp/B000M85 > >>> BS6/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200475812&sr=8-2> > >>> > >>> $15.00 is an excellant price. My copy of the previous > >>> edition cost by around $85.00 > >>> > >>> While this is the Unix operating system, not Linux, > >>> the general principles of the process scheduler still > >>> appply, because the Unix process scheduler is the > >>> definition of the expected behavior -- therefore, Linux > >>> imitates it almost exactly (except that Linux can have > >>> real-time processes, and circa 1990 Unix did not). > >>> > >>>> > >>>> It's not a desktop, it's just a web server. Where are you, that > >>> you're > >>>> 30 miles from deaborn? Just curious > >>> I'm in Royal Oak. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
