... To select a block quickly: SHIFT-FN-CMD + UP/DOWN ARROW KEYS .. this solution got me on the right path - thanks! – Gene Bo Apr 14 '15 at 19:05 ...

... By downloading the .pkg file from MacPorts and installing it, it does the trick for me. share | improve this answer | follow ...

...ame problem by making the socket non-blocking and then putting the fd in a select/poll loop with a timeout value equal to the amount of time we are willing to wait for the connect to succeed. I found this for Visual C++ and the explanation there also bends towards the select/poll mechanism I expla...

...t/context the notified event belongs to and proceed processing the request from there. Note that this will necessarily mean you'll be on a different stack frame from the one that originated the request to the OS as the latter had to yield to a process' dispatcher in order for a single threaded proce...

...uirement is now enforced With Android 9, you cannot start an activity from a non-activity context unless you pass the intent flag FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK. If you attempt to start an activity without passing this flag, the activity does not start, and the system prints a message to the log....

... Disclaimer: please note this property is sent by the browser and can thus be faked, just like user agent strings. Never rely on the navigator object to be completely accurate. The definition As far as I know there isn't a single public list of all possible `navigator.platform` values, ...

...be independent and part of a persistent virtual store. The idea was taken from the 1966 Multics operating system, that treated files as simply addressable memory segments. No BS "Open file, write record, close file", just "Store this value into that virtual data segment" with dirty page flushing. ...

...d I came across a nice post (link) on the Linux kernel mailing list. It's from 2000, so there have been many improvements to IO and virtual memory in the kernel since then, but it nicely explains the reason why mmap or read might be faster or slower. A call to mmap has more overhead than read (ju...

...thread (usually thread 0 in core 0 in processor 0) starts up fetching code from address 0xfffffff0. All the other threads start up in a special sleep state called Wait-for-SIPI. As part of its initialization, the primary thread sends a special inter-processor-interrupt (IPI) over the APIC called a...

... re-compiled or run inside some type of emulation layer that can translate from one binary format to another. IIRC, Windows currently uses the Portable Executable (or, PE) format. There are links in the "external links" section of that Wikipedia page with more information about the PE format. Als...