I laughed so hard, I almost spit a mouthful of Dr. Pepper all over my monitor.

Lazarus and Half Light sound like classic PT, but So Called friend is a bit on the heavier side, with a Tool-like syncopated beat. Very cool -- and quite different (better) from PT's foray into radio-rock with the US single Shallow.

There is also an interview with Maynard James Keenan on the making of the video.

1) I forgot the "end" terminator for the if clauses. So when the recursion ended there was no termination and the macro "hung". Note to self: GDB is not as lax as C!

2) GDB variables are not scoped, so their contents are not preserved on the stack during a recurisve call. So when a leaf node was reached, and we started back up the call stack the previous value of the variable holding the node address was not restored and things went south. However, macro arguments are locally scoped (and hence preserved), so the fix is not to copy the argument into a variable.

Fixing both of these problems allows me to print all nodes in an RB-Tree with a simple recursive macro.

define sc_prb
printf "%d\n" $arg0->r_key

if ($arg0->r_left)
sc_prb $arg0->r_left
end
if ($arg0->r_right)
sc_prb $arg0->r_right
end
end


P.S. The recursion limit in GDB is 1024 (which can be changed with "set max-user-call-depth"). This is not a problem at all, as a ~60,000 node tree will only have 18 levels of recursion (the number of nodes between the root and a leaf).

Badnarik's answers about our freedoms and rights (get rid of the PATRIOT Act, DMCA, and veto INDUCE) have cemented him as my choice. Read this article and know that there is a choice other than 1 or 0.

I absolutely love the following quote, it sums up my feelings about government perfectly.

"With the support of my party, I'm offering Americans a chance to peacefully transition back to policies that served America well for more than a century -- free trade, a non-interventionist foreign policy, minimal government, minimal taxes, maximum freedom -- rationalized into the paradigm of the 21st century." -- Michael Badernilk

Here's the macro:

define sc_prb
set $scrb = (struct rbnode*)$arg0

printf "%d\n" $scrb->r_key

if ($scrb->r_left)
sc_prb $scrb->r_left
if ($scrb->r_right)
sc_prb $scrb->r_right
end


Anyone out there have experience with gdb recursive macros? Am I missing something?

I understand the developer's frustation with pirates, but this kind of action could end up with an FBI agent on his front stoop. He removed the "piracy prevention code" within a day, but the backlash is already huge. Slashdot will probably pick this story up soon, and that's when the bit-shit will really hit the fan.

BTW, the Unsanity post fails to mention the developer's name or his product, but this information is easily found elsewhere.

It was time to call AppleCare. They opened a case, and the tech was very nice. He walked me through a bunch of steps to confirm the iSight was the problem -- including plugging in my iPod and copying files to it. After a few hundred MB, the iSight disappeared from the machine (weird that it wasn't the iPod). He said he would pass the issue up to the next level and get back to me. That was a month ago. After I got back from WWDC, I emailed him to get the current status:

"Everything we're seeing indicates that the issues you're seeing were fixed in various OS updates. Since you're still having problems with it and are up to date regarding the OS, I'd suggest taking the computer to an Apple Authorized Service Provider for testing and hardware repairs."

Bullshit. I'd been reading Macintouch's various reports over the past few weeks about the numerous other users having the exact same problem. With the iSight connected, eventually it would cause problems for any other device on the same bus:

Macintouch Firewire report
Macintouch Panther Firewire report

So, two days ago, I ordered a FW PCI card from Other World Computing for $15 (including S&H). The card arrived around 2PM today, and I've been running since without issue. The iSight is plugged into the PCI card, and the RAID is plugged into the computer.

In addition to the RAID, I have an 80GB external FW drive, and my iPod. I can have all three plugged into the computer bus and no problems, but add the iSight and within a few minutes the RAID will disappear, stress the iPod and the iSight will disappear. This leads me to believe the problem is not with my computer but with the iSight itself. Despite Apple's claims, the problem is not fixed, and punting the issue off as a problem with the computer (which I'd loose for at least a week if I took it in for diagnostics) is not the right way to handle this.

I'll be responding to the tech's followup with my new experiences, but I'm not sure if it will actually lead to any further resolution.

I have a two week return period, so if things don't work out I can still get my money back, but I hope that won't be necessary.

Anyway, tomorrow is going to be when the real madness starts.

And before anyone asks, no I will not share the script. All I used was wget and grep; any self respecting UNIX nerd should be able to duplicate this script in about five minutes.

Thanks to everyone who dontated the accounts, and thanks to GMail Machine admins for their work.

I didn't work.

Instead I walked out of the store sans CD. Back home, within a minute of getting on the computer, I had several links to every single track on the album using one of the many P2P networks. I didn't download the songs, but this just proves that copy protection does not work in its intended role. Instead, it unfairly limits the paying customer from listening to the music in the multiple ways possible today. For instance, I rip songs from the CD's I do buy to listen to on my computer (without needing the CD) and to listen to on my iPod. Since I can't do that with the new Velvet Revolver CD, the band and the music label just lost some money.

Hopefully, if enough people opt out of this "customer" protection with their wallets, the music labels will get the idea and think of other ways to get people to buy the CD's (like including a DVD with band video, or some exclusive internet tie in).

So, should I drop the cash now or wait until October/November in the hopes of the Dual-Layer burner (CPU bumps are a given)? My sister is getting my current QS so of course she wants me to get a G5 today. :)