So I am about to finish math

My friends, I am about to finish Discrete Structures, using a book that is focused on algorithms.

I am excited, my friends, to be close to done with school.

I am somewhat annoyed at the propensity of spam coming up here. I am not sure how to prevent that.

FOSS and patches

Something that explains better than I did:

 

Corporate IT staff frequently do not immediately patch their critical software until they know what the patch will actually do and that it will not cause other problems or expose other vulnerabilities. Apple’s distributing of FOSS patches to its commercial customers requires a similar delay. FOSS projects can blow out patches fast and furiously, but Apple can’t or we’d all be annoyed to see patch updates in Software Update on a daily basis. Apple’s commercial customers demand software that “just works,” which requires a very different approach to version management than the “do it yourself” model in the Linux world.

 

As we know, Firefox is a FOSS project, so it must update furiously because it is open source: Vulnerabilities are too well-known to be left unpatched, but this means that users are sometimes frequently annoyed by pop-up boxes telling them to upgrade. This stands in contrast with Apple’s secretiveness, allowing it to release updates in less hectic intervals.

defining variables

short and unsigned short use 2 bytes

int and unsigned int use 4 bytes

long and unsigned long use 4 bytes as well

float use 4 bytes

double and long double use 8 bytes

char makes a data type, single quote of letter

bool is a data type to store either true or false

common escape sequences in C++

\n newline go to next line

\t horizontal tab skip to next tab stop

\a alarm beep

\b backspace move left one position the cursor

\r return move to beginning of current line the cursor

\\ backslash print backslash

\’ single quote print single quote

\” double quote print double quote