Politcal statements in OSX!

thinkingdifferent

Tonight I got bored so I took a look at the symbol table of the mach kernel and found 2 very interesting entries:



00090b30 a MakeSureThatNoTerroristsCanHurtUsByGod

00091704 a ProtectTheAmericanWay



These were found in the 10.2.4 kernel. If anybody wants to see for themselfs, do the following:



Open a terminal window

Execute the command: nm /mach.sym |more

You will have to press the spacebar a few times



I wonder how popular OSX is in Iraq??

barto

They are in the 10.1.5 kernel as well.



However, Mach is maintained by (from memory) Carnegie-Mellon University, NOT Apple.



And Uni Students are intensly political.



What do terrorists who attack US targets have to do with Iraq, praytell?



Barto

barto

000909e8 a NoPreemption



Barto



PS I'm aware that this is not a political statement

123

[quote]Originally posted by Barto:

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However, Mach is maintained by (from memory) Carnegie-Mellon University, NOT Apple.

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Mach is darwin and darwin is Apple.



Edit: By mach I mean the kernel used in OS X, it is based on Mach 2.0 and 3.0 which were developed at CMU, but the Darwin Mach&BSD kernel is now maintained by Apple.



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123

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ast3r3x

[quote]Originally posted by Barto:

<strong>They are in the 10.1.5 kernel as well.



However, Mach is maintained by (from memory) Carnegie-Mellon University, NOT Apple.



And Uni Students are intensly political.



What do terrorists who attack US targets have to do with Iraq, praytell?



Barto</strong><hr></blockquote>





i guess its apparent u live in austrailia and not the US...i think its obvious that iraq=terrorism,i mean bush pushes that idea left and right, and if he says its, it must be tru, i mean its not like he is a war monger or anything, why would he want war? (failing economy...well not failing but down stroke)

ericj551

[quote]Originally posted by ast3r3x:

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i guess its apparent u live in austrailia and not the US...i think its obvious that iraq=terrorism,i mean bush pushes that idea left and right, and if he says its, it must be tru, i mean its not like he is a war monger or anything, why would he want war? (failing economy...well not failing but down stroke)</strong><hr></blockquote>



I was so gonna flame you until I read the rest of your post

frank777

I just always assumed...I mean, aren't all the Aqua controls always positioned on the left?

seb

I get the message nm: command not found



does nm stand for something?



me=unix dolt

barto

<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />

costique

If you ever chance to have enough time to look up symbols in all the apps on your computer, you are going to be really surprised.

amorph

I remember someone in Microsoft's MBU discovering an internal function call whose name was basically &lt;long stream of epithets&gt;Microsoft.



Made my day.

kingofsomewherehot

I feel lame enough just 'cause I read these forums regularly ....



I can't imagine what it must be like to have so much dead time (read : no life) that I'd even consider browsing through code to see what messages from satan might pop up !







...or maybe I'm jealous that you have that much free time to yourself.