Computer Science

Interesting OS Problem: chmod -x chmod

I seem to be finding quite a lot of interesting OS material to read nowadays. Here’s a kick ass example of one of them. What if an idiot decides to do “chmod -x chmod” These lecture slides describe how to fix that problem in detail: chmod -x chmod View more presentations from José Castro.

Fixing Schedule

So, my plan for semester #5 seems to be finalized. I did not do too well in the Physics test out – apparently they cover less in the summer iteration of the course than they test for in the test-out. This mean I will have to take Phys 272 in semester #6 (ah well, a [...]

Purdue HG Setup

I was trying to set up a personal repo on Purdue’s machines using hg and of course I was confronted with the dreaded lines: remote: bash: hg: command not found abort: no suitable response from remote hg! Well, this is really irritating. The solution to this problem is that you must specify hg’s path in [...]