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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) A program crashed my iMac so bad that it could not start up. Post 302448673 by ASL123 on Thursday 26th of August 2010 03:40:35 PM
Old 08-26-2010
The harddrive was not damaged.

Quote:
Originally Posted by tlarkin
I highly doubt the game caused the issue. It was most likely file system corruption or perhaps early signs of failing hardware, ie a bad hard drive. OS X is based off of NeXT which is BSD based Unix. If you installed a game, most likely that game was self contained and it would have to have your admin credentials to modify any of the system level stuff.
The harddrive was not damaged. In fact it is quite new (< year).

---------- Post updated at 02:40 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:32 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
iMac internal hard discs are liable to fail mechanically or corrupt at random.
Local Apple repairer said that total disc failure after only 3 years use was common.

Always take a backup and make sure that you keep your all your install CDs safe.
My purpose for posting this thread, was solely to see if someone could verify that it is not possible for a program (when crashing) to damage the UNIX installation.

I am not an UNIX expert myself, but I know that UNIX is regarded as a secure operating system.

My harddisk is quite new, and I have had no sign before or afterwards that there is something wrong with it.
 

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TRIG(3) 						User Contributed Perl Documentation						   TRIG(3)

NAME
PDL::GSLSF::TRIG - PDL interface to GSL Special Functions DESCRIPTION
This is an interface to the Special Function package present in the GNU Scientific Library. SYNOPSIS
Functions FUNCTIONS
gsl_sf_sin Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Sin(x) with GSL semantics. gsl_sf_sin does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_cos Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Cos(x) with GSL semantics. gsl_sf_cos does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_hypot Signature: (double x(); double xx(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Hypot(x,xx) with GSL semantics. gsl_sf_hypot does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_complex_sin Signature: (double zr(); double zi(); double [o]x(); double [o]y(); double [o]xe(); double [o]ye()) Sin(z) for complex z gsl_sf_complex_sin does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_complex_cos Signature: (double zr(); double zi(); double [o]x(); double [o]y(); double [o]xe(); double [o]ye()) Cos(z) for complex z gsl_sf_complex_cos does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_complex_logsin Signature: (double zr(); double zi(); double [o]x(); double [o]y(); double [o]xe(); double [o]ye()) Log(Sin(z)) for complex z gsl_sf_complex_logsin does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_lnsinh Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Log(Sinh(x)) with GSL semantics. gsl_sf_lnsinh does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_lncosh Signature: (double x(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Log(Cos(x)) with GSL semantics. gsl_sf_lncosh does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_polar_to_rect Signature: (double r(); double t(); double [o]x(); double [o]y(); double [o]xe(); double [o]ye()) Convert polar to rectlinear coordinates. gsl_sf_polar_to_rect does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_rect_to_polar Signature: (double x(); double y(); double [o]r(); double [o]t(); double [o]re(); double [o]te()) Convert rectlinear to polar coordinates. return argument in range [-pi, pi]. gsl_sf_rect_to_polar does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_angle_restrict_symm Signature: (double [o]y()) Force an angle to lie in the range (-pi,pi]. gsl_sf_angle_restrict_symm does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_angle_restrict_pos Signature: (double [o]y()) Force an angle to lie in the range [0,2 pi). gsl_sf_angle_restrict_pos does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_sin_err Signature: (double x(); double dx(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Sin(x) for quantity with an associated error. gsl_sf_sin_err does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. gsl_sf_cos_err Signature: (double x(); double dx(); double [o]y(); double [o]e()) Cos(x) for quantity with an associated error. gsl_sf_cos_err does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output piddles if the flag is set for any of the input piddles. AUTHOR
This file copyright (C) 1999 Christian Pellegrin <chri@infis.univ.trieste.it> All rights reserved. There is no warranty. You are allowed to redistribute this software / documentation under certain conditions. For details, see the file COPYING in the PDL distribution. If this file is separated from the PDL distribution, the copyright notice should be included in the file. The GSL SF modules were written by G. Jungman. perl v5.12.1 2010-07-05 TRIG(3)
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