Fun fact: Under QNX 6, pidin is the preferred way of getting a process listing, not ps. ps is a port that ships mostly under the philosophy of “well people expect it to be there”, which maybe explains why a bug like that could have gone unnoticed for so long. Incidentally, the process-listing command is different under every major version of QNX, and they have a long history of terrible easter eggs.
Haha, when you said “terrible easter eggs” I was expecting annoying bugs or weird incompatibilities. That’s cute!
For a while I was considering making a task manager called “tasukete” because it means “help!” and has ‘task’ as a subsequence. If you typed “tasukete eirin” I was gonna have it open up this video or something.
QNX was never open source (as in licensed under a license that follows the typical OSI definition of open source):
Access to QNX source code is free, but commercial deployments of QNX Neutrino runtime components still require royalties, and commercial developers will continue to pay for QNX Momentics® development seats.
Thanks! Unfortunately, it does not. It’s just a pile of simple PHP I wrote some time ago. I should implement it, I got that question a few times already.
Fun fact: Under QNX 6,
pidinis the preferred way of getting a process listing, notps.psis a port that ships mostly under the philosophy of “well people expect it to be there”, which maybe explains why a bug like that could have gone unnoticed for so long. Incidentally, the process-listing command is different under every major version of QNX, and they have a long history of terrible easter eggs.Haha, when you said “terrible easter eggs” I was expecting annoying bugs or weird incompatibilities. That’s cute!
For a while I was considering making a task manager called “tasukete” because it means “help!” and has ‘task’ as a subsequence. If you typed “tasukete eirin” I was gonna have it open up this video or something.
Fuck RIM. Let’s hope that after their long-overdue demise QNX is open-sourced again.
QNX was never open source (as in licensed under a license that follows the typical OSI definition of open source):
Source: http://www.qnx.com/news/pr_2471_1.html
Yeah but it was far more open than it is now. I ran it myself a couple times and could tinker around and explore the system. Not true anymore.
Does your blog have an RSS feed? Quite the fun read!
Thanks! Unfortunately, it does not. It’s just a pile of simple PHP I wrote some time ago. I should implement it, I got that question a few times already.
Also the “statistics” at the bottom, and the theme switcher! ❤️
.container’s background-image attributes lower readability. I have to hide them.