From: "michele.paolino" <michele.paolino@studio.unibo.it>
To: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: generate random numbers
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:52:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14f366f91003022352p60afaa73va9c29f9c0eaeb6cd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B8D0B6D.6030607@eu.citrix.com>
thanks,
I have solved the timer.c problem right now. I am able to start dom0.
Michele
On 3/2/10, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> michele.paolino wrote:
>> I'm really sorry, maybe I misunderstood your mail. I don't want
>> anyone to work for me.:-)
> Whenever you ask a question, you're asking someone to work for you,
> because it takes time and effort for someone to answer it. Even a short
> e-mail response may take 5 minutes of reading, understanding, thinking,
> and typing. To answer your question about the BUG() requires me to
> download the repository you're using, look at and trace around code I've
> never looked at before, and possibly to read and understand your code.
> That's probably at least a half-hour of my time.
>
> And that's OK. I like helping people, I like solving problems. It's
> also an investment: if you become a good OS coder, the computer industry
> as a whole (and myself included in that) benefit; and if you become
> better at Xen, I benefit more directly.
>
> However, I don't want to waste my time. How you can demonstrate to me
> that you are committed to learning this, and that you are capable of
> becoming an OS coder, is by demonstrating that you've spent effort and
> thought on something before answering a question.
>
> I'll take a closer look and try to answer your question either later
> today or tomorrow.
>
> -George
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-03 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-11 20:31 generate random numbers michele.paolino
2010-02-12 1:51 ` James Harper
2010-02-12 8:32 ` michele.paolino
2010-02-12 12:15 ` George Dunlap
2010-02-12 22:42 ` michele.paolino
2010-02-12 23:12 ` Daniel Stodden
2010-02-25 18:31 ` michele.paolino
2010-02-25 21:25 ` George Dunlap
2010-02-26 17:43 ` michele.paolino
2010-02-26 17:44 ` George Dunlap
2010-02-26 18:54 ` michele.paolino
2010-03-01 11:41 ` George Dunlap
2010-03-01 16:56 ` michele.paolino
2010-03-02 12:58 ` George Dunlap
2010-03-03 7:52 ` michele.paolino [this message]
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