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[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015#tech-editor] |
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Vim 15.2% |
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Emacs 3.8% |
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[https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016#technology-development-environments] |
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Vim 26.1% |
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Emacs 5.2% |
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% |
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Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel. |
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Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this" |
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R! /dir/.* destroys root. |
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Poettering: "I am not sure I'd consider this much of a problem. Yeah, it's a UNIX pitfall, but "rm -rf /foo/.*" will work the exact same way, no?" |
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Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege.. |
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Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here" |
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Systemd kill background processes after user logs out. |
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Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout." |
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'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.' |
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Poettering: "Yupp, journal corruptions result in rotation, and when reading we try to make the best of it. they are nothing we really need to fix hence." |
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'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr' |
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[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10927261&cid=54905721] |
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% |
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[raid controller vendor lock-in techniques] |
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>>> Are HP/PMCS doing the Intel/LSI thing with controllers only working on |
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>>> their own servers. |
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>> |
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>> you mean the DELL PERC5/i 6/i tape of smbus pins mod thing? (Dell first!) |
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> |
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> No the Intel where that trick doesn't work thing. |
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[https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/hp-p400-why-so-cheap-on-ebay.2308/page-2] |
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% |
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The way I see it, once you move to Firefox 57, you're ready for Chrome. |
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[from a discussion about how deleting all existing extensions and force-replacing |
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them by inferior webextensions (if at all) is a great idea] |
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% |
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Chronology of Significant Events |
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================================ |
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November 2002 |
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Rahman wearing only socks and diaper; supervisor has concern regarding |
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hypothermia Rahman subjected to 48 hours of sleep deprivation, rough |
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treatment, cold shower and other measures but remained noncompliant. |
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--- |
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Subjected to cold conditions and minimum food and sleep... confused due to |
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dehydration and fatigue. |
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--- |
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Cable recommends future use of continued environmental deprivations with |
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interrogations 18 out of 24 hours daily |
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--- |
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Linguist asks questions about the temperature at which hypothermia occurs |
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November 19 2200 hrs |
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guard check - Rahman is alive. |
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2300 hrs |
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guard check - Rahman is alive. |
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November 20 0400 hrs |
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guard check - Rahman is alive. |
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0800 hrs |
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guard check - Rahman is alive. |
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1000 hrs |
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guard check - Rahman is dead. |
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[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/09/cia-torture-black-site-enhanced-interrogation] |
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% |
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In the quiet moments, he set his hand terminal to the Eros feed. Back |
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when he’d been a kid, there had been a performance artist making |
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the rounds—Jila Sorormaya, her name was. As he recalled, she’d |
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intentionally corrupted data-storage devices and then put the data stream |
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through her music kit. She’d gotten into trouble when some of the |
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proprietary code of the storage device software got incorporated into her |
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music and posted. Miller hadn’t been a sophisticate. He’d figured |
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another nutcase artist had to get a real job, and the universe could only |
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be a better place. |
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[E. Corey, Leviathan Wakes, p. 466] |
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% |
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> Speaking of Apple... Anybody remember their ads against multitasking? I |
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> always assumed that was against the Amiga as well but probably any |
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> computer at the time that did multitasking. I think their tag line was |
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> like "One person. One computer. One Task." or something like. Those ads |
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> really tried to sell the distraction of multitasking. What a crazy time |
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> in technology. |
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-P |
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Not as bad as telling us we are holding the phone wrong. |
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[http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72811] |
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% |
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> Simon Cooke wrote: |
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> *shrugs* I don’t recall ever hearing that the length of a word was CPU specific. |
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I think I’m going to add this to my random signature collection. |
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[https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563] |
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% |
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Big congratulations to Acer, who used 55555555-5555-5555-5555-555555555555 |
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for this in one of their db entries. Not only did they win the random |
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number generator lottery to get that, but also experienced a minimum |
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of 3 single bit errors, since the closest valid GUID to that is |
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55555555-5555-4555-9555-555555555555 |
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[https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/10/23/uefi-security-databases/] |
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% |
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Contrary to what Carrier says, it is not clear to me that Amy Frank or |
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anyone else accused him of sexual assault. Carrier’s lawsuit makes |
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the tenuous argument that Amy Frank implied sexual assault by using the |
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hashtag #sexualassault. |
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[https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2017/01/04/i-liked-richard-carrier-past-tense/] |
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% |
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From: Linus Torvalds |
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And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can |
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trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why. |
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[https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577] |
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% |
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> How is the old way a problem? |
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That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known |
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things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks |
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it's smarter than you. |
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[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9170111&cid=52207557] |
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% |
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Systemd is a cancer and it will keep spreading until the host is |
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dead. Just like cancer it's not malicious, it sincerely believes it knows |
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better than the healthy cells it's infecting, but that doesn't make it |
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less lethal. |
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[https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9552479&cid=52745591] |
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% |
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From: Richard Stallman |
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[...] |
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> then that sounds like a layering violation. |
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The layering authority has no jurisdiction over GNU. |
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If this solution works, and nobody proposes a better one, |
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we won't let "layering" get in the way. |
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% |
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"Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to Teyrnas |
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"Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or Rìoghachd Aonaichte |
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"Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are |
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"also now legal names for the UK. |
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[Brian Inglis in 774ac519-ceb1-7c04-d2b5-2f2ed851cb61@SystematicSw.ab.ca] |
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% |
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From: Russ Allbery |
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To: tz@iana.org |
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Message-ID: <87h97n58bp.fsf@hope.eyrie.org> |
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> Companies are unlikely to change their processes unless changes break |
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> existing processes (like the version change) or changes are documented |
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> in an RFC, which can be presented to SOx auditors and their ilk, to |
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> document and justify why they spent money and changed a process, along |
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> with the documentation on change impact including budget, |
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> authorizations, and the dozens of other side efforts of production |
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> changes, summarized above by DG as "That doesn’t work for everyone." |
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A bit of a digression, but the way companies treat free software projects |
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and maintainers is a pet peeve of mine. |
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It should be obvious that the only people a company can expect to follow |
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any of those rules are people the company is paying or otherwise has a |
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contractual relationship with that requires following those rules. |
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Otherwise, the company should be prepared to pay one of their employees to |
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jump through those hoops if they want those hoops jumped through. |
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It's standard practice for companies who depend heavily on a free software |
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project to have an internal maintainer or advocate for that free software |
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project who will translate whatever the public maintainer does into the |
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form that the company needs to manage it internally, including maintaining |
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private branches as needed, pulling up unreleased patches as needed, and |
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adjusting for upstream changes that don't match the needs of the company |
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(or clearly advocating for compromises or modifications that work for the |
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entire community). This is a cost of doing business. My employer |
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certainly does this for free software we use. It's fairly normal. |
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Some companies don't *want* to spend that money, and try to do it on the |
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cheap by not having that person or the mechanisms for importing free |
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software properly. A few of them then complain at the free software |
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maintainer when they run into problems. But those complaints should not |
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carry any more weight than the complaints of any other user, and should be |
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weighed against the work style, goals, and available time of the free |
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software maintainer. After all, the actor in this situation that has (by |
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far) the most resources and hence the most ability to adopt to changes, |
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whether they want to or not, is the company, not the free software |
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maintainer. |
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% |
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[About the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) project, specifically, timezone names] |
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They also seem to think that abbreviations should be only used locally, |
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such as "BST" only being used by British English. One would think that if |
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an American was talking about DST in the UK they would also use the term |
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"BST", but no: |
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http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8498 |
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% |
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To: Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org> |
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Subject: Re: [tz] Request regarding IANA update for Novosibirsk Time Zone |
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Shruthi Venkataramanan -X (shruthve - WIPRO LIMITED at Cisco) wrote: |
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> When can we expect the updated version |
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About three weeks ago. |
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% |
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[...] trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water |
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not wet. -- Bruce Schneier |
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% |
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[...] in order to be a good Christian one must first be a great hypocrite. |
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[http://chatpilot-godisamyth.blogspot.de/2013/06/the-bible-is-nothing-but-hearsay.html] |
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% |
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Know that you suck, you suck so much that you suck the future you wich |
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was able to go back in time to suck you from the past. You are an |
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neverending paradoxial loop of suckage. Now suck the fuck off. |
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[http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/vats-vs-rtwp.23266/page-2] |
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% |
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From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> |
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Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes: |
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> From The Economist: "Why time may be running out for the leap second" |
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[http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/11/economist-explains-4] |
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| The first is simple, ancient and intuitive, and based on the rotation of |
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| the Earth, under which each complete rotation (or, equivalently, each of |
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| the Sun's apparent trips through the sky) counts as one day. |
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Of course, these are actually not equivalent; they're different by a |
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full day per year. |
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% |
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Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir |
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de la faire plus courte. -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters : Letter XVI. |
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[I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.] |
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% |
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File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters. |
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-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System" |
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% |
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Over the past 20 years - its never been a question of the "perfect |
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storage media vendor" - its been a question of "who has screwed |
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me - lately?". |
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-- JSS, former Amiga HW Engineer, Rework tech of 400,000 defective |
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Seagate HDD's, Class of '94. |
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[http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095235&cid=26492885] |
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% |
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I also proposed making malloc(0) perfectly fine, since zero is a perfectly |
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fine value. I also, in the same letter, proposed making zero-sized |
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arrays legal, mostly so you could do the extend-the-struct trick for a |
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variable-sized array as the last field of the struct. |
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I got two letters back as answer to my one. #1: Malloc(0) shouldn't work |
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because zero-sized arrays don't work. #2: Zero-sized arrays shouldn't work |
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because malloc(0) doesn't work. Well played, ANSI C committee, and may |
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your lives be a living hell. |
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[Rob Pike in https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4142#c2] |
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% |
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Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol. |
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accident] |
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% |
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Newbie: Hi. I've been using Lisp for about half a year now, programming |
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for three years. I discovered this group and wondered if you could help me |
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out with a problem I'm having? |
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Smug: Hi! Always glad to have new blood. Sure thing, just ask. |
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Snide: Heya New! You bet, ask anything and we'll try to help. |
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Newbie: Okay, I'm trying to filter a list, something like Perl's grep. I |
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want to set up a predicate and have the new list be only those elements |
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from the old list that satisfy it. I know there's some standard idiom for |
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doing this, I just can't find it anywhere... |
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Smug: Perl's grep was inspired by Lisp's higher-order functions, you know. :) |
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Newbie: Oh, cool. :) |
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Smug: But it's inferior since it has balky syntax. |
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Snide: You can do it with (mapcan (lambda (item) (when (predicate item) (list item))) list). |
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[http://c2.com/] |
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% |
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Unfortunately a Russian spy stole the last meg of a LISP program for |
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controlling our nuclear defense systems. Fortunately, it was all |
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right-parenthesis. |
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[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWeHateLisp] |
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% |
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Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of |
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yourself? |
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Software development is the career for you! |
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[https://twitter.com/Loh/status/411282297816498176] |
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% |
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[...] undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance. |
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-- Richard Dawkins |
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% |
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There are many choices of elliptic-curve signature systems. The standard |
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choice, ECDSA, is reasonable if you don't care about simplicity, speed, |
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and security. |
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[http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html] |
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% |
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[In answer to: "Is the NSA aware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS? The RSA?"] |
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We are unaware of any weaknesses in the DES or the DSS when properly implemented and |
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used for the purposes for which they both are designed. |
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-— National Security Agency, June 1992 |
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% |
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In the past decade there have been many attacks against TLS. With the |
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exception of CRIME, not one of them relied on any results that were not |
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known at the time the TLS 1.0 standard was being written. [...] Every time |
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this standards group has had a choice to make regarding cryptography, |
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they have made the wrong one. [...] Were TLS to be submitted by an |
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undergraduate as a solution to this problem it would earn an F. |
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[http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10598.html] |
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% |
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tiny hsv2rgb |
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float3 h2r(float h,float s,float v){return lerp(saturate((abs(frac(h+float3(1,2,3)/3)*6-3)-1)),1,s)*v;} |
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vec3 hsv(float h,float s,float v) { |
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return mix(vec3(1.),clamp((abs(fract(h+vec3(3.,2.,1.)/3.)*6.-3.)-1.),0.,1.),s)*v; |
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} |
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% |
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Haha, no FPS counter but rather a "Next frame"-button :) |
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Only Java makes it possible! |
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[http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7920&page=1] |
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% |
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'sth is poettering' means it acts invasive, possessive, destructive, and |
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generally in an egocentric exacerbating negative way. ``this cancer is |
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extremely poettering'' |
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% |
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"There is no use in arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus 1." |
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-- Pirates of Venus, Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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% |
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"I drank what?!" |
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-- Socrates |
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% |
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It would be bad for OpenPGP to have a standard that could not be |
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implemented on light bulbs (I used to say cell phones, but they're now |
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400MHz devices), forcing the light bulb people to use something else. |
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|
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Jon Callas in |
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http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06396.html |
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% |
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"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." |
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-- Conway's Law |
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% |
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The mac version doesn't work on older versions of the operating system |
| 381 |
(this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence hellhole; the latest version |
| 382 |
of xcode won't build for older systems but I'm forced to update to it |
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because the older ones won't build for newer systems and I've been forced |
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to update the operating system on my ipad so UGH; basically I have to |
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have multiple xcode versions installed and I really can't be bothered |
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untangling this mess right now so). |
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[http://mightyvision.blogspot.de/2013/03/7drl-success-86856527.html] |
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% |
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Option "NoPM" "boolean" |
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Disables something to do with power management events. Default: PM |
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enabled on platforms that support it. |
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[xorg.conf(5)] |
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% |
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> Yes, this would be something _in addition_ to what the FSF does. |
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> Grant money could be used to hire one or two fresh graduates that |
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> would work on code. |
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Graduates in which discipline? Computer science? This sounds to me |
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like the idea to hire one or two fresh graduates in English literature |
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and language with the idea to let them start writing novels. |
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[87liaj740v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org] |
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% |
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[and that's why I don't support gentoo anymore] |
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As with Francois, I used to use ccache for recompiling packages that |
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hadn’t finished the first time — but for a different reason. At |
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the time, I had overrated memory, and a BIOS without a memory clock |
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option. The system was generally fine, but once in awhile would scramble |
| 409 |
a memory transfer enough to cause a crash. CCache was a LOT of help in |
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that instance, as it’s what allowed me to even install Gentoo at all — |
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there’s no way I could have gotten thru gcc, (monolitic) X, glibc, or |
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the then unsplit KDE compiles, without it. |
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% |
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Kay, you are so full of sh*t that it's not funny. You're refusing to |
| 415 |
acknowledge your bugs, you refuse to fix them even when a patch is |
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sent to you, and then you make excuses for the fact that we have to |
| 417 |
work around *your* bugs, and say that we should have done so from the |
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very beginning. |
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[Linus in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384] |
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% |
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systemd creates user session information in |
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/run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would |
| 423 |
only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact |
| 424 |
that more than one session would ever be needed, because Gnome only |
| 425 |
allowed one session per user. |
| 426 |
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00751.html] |
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% |
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> Mailman archives! IIRC Heiko mentioned that there are more disputes |
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> about Lennart Poettering and his software on ALL mailing lists, than |
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> about anything else. |
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> |
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> Why is it like that? |
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|
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Probably because he has all the arrogance of DJB but none of the skill. |
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|
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[http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/44574] |
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% |
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[from a discussion about GNOME 3 "branding" mentality] |
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>> However, there are a number of serious problems: |
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>> |
| 442 |
>> 1. Extensions break with every release. As Paolo said earlier, "This is |
| 443 |
>> simply the result of not (yet) having a defined extension API." Yet this is |
| 444 |
>> also part of the design: extensions specify versions of gnome-shell they |
| 445 |
>> work with, so are trivially broken by new versions even if they might work. |
| 446 |
> |
| 447 |
> I don't think you understand well why this was designed this way. |
| 448 |
|
| 449 |
That's the sort of thing people say to the judge of a serial killer. |
| 450 |
The reasons don't matter for calling the results terrible. |
| 451 |
% |
| 452 |
(partial) Beaufort Table |
| 453 |
Name # km/h (min) m/s (min) |
| 454 |
Calm 0 0 0 |
| 455 |
Light Air 1 1.1 0.3 |
| 456 |
Light Breeze 2 5.6 1.6 |
| 457 |
Gentle Breeze 3 12 3.4 |
| 458 |
Moderate Breeze 4 20 5.5 |
| 459 |
Fresh Breeze 5 29 8 |
| 460 |
Strong Breeze 6 39 10.8 |
| 461 |
Moderate Gale 7 50 13.9 |
| 462 |
Fresh Gale 8 62 17.2 |
| 463 |
Strong Gale 9 75 20.8 |
| 464 |
% |
| 465 |
"I have an open mind (I did consider voting liberal democrat once)." |
| 466 |
- random imdb forum quote excerpt |
| 467 |
% |
| 468 |
"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure |
| 469 |
sign of a diseased mind." [Terry Pratchett] |
| 470 |
% |
| 471 |
The butcher who kills the baby to see how it comes apart did choose his |
| 472 |
profession because of his sensitive soul. He chose it because death and |
| 473 |
suffering, blood and gore, appeal to him. Dismembering the baby was always |
| 474 |
on the cards. |
| 475 |
% |
| 476 |
[random comment from amule sources] |
| 477 |
// trust noone ;-) |
| 478 |
// lol, useless comment but made me lmao |
| 479 |
// wtf you guys are weird. |
| 480 |
% |
| 481 |
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. |
| 482 |
- Kin Hubbard |
| 483 |
% |
| 484 |
[random .sig] |
| 485 |
I'm a muslim. |
| 486 |
|
| 487 |
No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to. |
| 488 |
% |
| 489 |
[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any |
| 490 |
of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck" |
| 491 |
before. |
| 492 |
|
| 493 |
[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO] |
| 494 |
% |
| 495 |
<imho> |
| 496 |
|
| 497 |
BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.) |
| 498 |
Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.) |
| 499 |
Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.) |
| 500 |
Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.) |
| 501 |
|
| 502 |
ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes. |
| 503 |
Java - public static void not fun. |
| 504 |
C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't. |
| 505 |
C - usually not fun. |
| 506 |
|
| 507 |
What about modern scripting languages? |
| 508 |
|
| 509 |
JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks. |
| 510 |
Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails. |
| 511 |
Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app. |
| 512 |
|
| 513 |
</imho> |
| 514 |
|
| 515 |
[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/] |
| 516 |
% |
| 517 |
"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- -------------------------- |
| 518 |
Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------" |
| 519 |
% |
| 520 |
|
| 521 |
* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED |
| 522 |
* |
| 523 |
* This routine sets the specified display mode. |
| 524 |
|
| 525 |
n = n%2 ? n : ++n; |
| 526 |
[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c] |
| 527 |
% |
| 528 |
# The user is always right. |
| 529 |
if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then |
| 530 |
[autoconf] |
| 531 |
% |
| 532 |
from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c: |
| 533 |
|
| 534 |
/* |
| 535 |
* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still |
| 536 |
* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of |
| 537 |
* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct |
| 538 |
* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if |
| 539 |
* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that |
| 540 |
* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting, |
| 541 |
* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications |
| 542 |
* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not. |
| 543 |
* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution" |
| 544 |
* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of |
| 545 |
* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor |
| 546 |
* tables and this condition does not arise without those. |
| 547 |
*/ |
| 548 |
% |
| 549 |
Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0) |
| 550 |
was new to me: |
| 551 |
|
| 552 |
switch(c) |
| 553 |
{ |
| 554 |
case 'x': base=16; type |= 4; if(0) { |
| 555 |
case 'o': base= 8; type |= 4; } if(0) { |
| 556 |
case 'u': base=10; type |= 4; } if(0) { |
| 557 |
case 'd': base=-10; } |
| 558 |
switch(type) |
| 559 |
{ |
| 560 |
case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break; |
| 561 |
case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break; |
| 562 |
case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break; |
| 563 |
case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break; |
| 564 |
case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break; |
| 565 |
case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break; |
| 566 |
default:val=0; break; |
| 567 |
} |
| 568 |
cp = __numout(val,base); |
| 569 |
if(0) { |
| 570 |
case 's': |
| 571 |
cp=va_arg(ap, char *); |
| 572 |
} |
| 573 |
% |
| 574 |
Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it |
| 575 |
is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC |
| 576 |
timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight |
| 577 |
at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an |
| 578 |
extra second and see how far you get :-) |
| 579 |
[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>] |
| 580 |
% |
| 581 |
> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the |
| 582 |
> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in |
| 583 |
> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous |
| 584 |
> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs). |
| 585 |
> |
| 586 |
> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not |
| 587 |
> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug. |
| 588 |
|
| 589 |
It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the |
| 590 |
infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs. |
| 591 |
|
| 592 |
[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com] |
| 593 |
% |
| 594 |
It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks |
| 595 |
should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other |
| 596 |
heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications. |
| 597 |
|
| 598 |
Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970) |
| 599 |
|
| 600 |
http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618 |
| 601 |
% |
| 602 |
(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this |
| 603 |
whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont |
| 604 |
know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only |
| 605 |
beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in |
| 606 |
nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite |
| 607 |
settings) |
| 608 |
|
| 609 |
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html |
| 610 |
% |
| 611 |
How do I deal with memory leaks? |
| 612 |
|
| 613 |
By writing code that doesn't have any. [...] |
| 614 |
|
| 615 |
[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ] |
| 616 |
% |
| 617 |
This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should |
| 618 |
ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one. |
| 619 |
|
| 620 |
http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm |
| 621 |
% |
| 622 |
The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the |
| 623 |
recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really |
| 624 |
hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin |
| 625 |
Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do. |
| 626 |
|
| 627 |
The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the |
| 628 |
public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the |
| 629 |
justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own |
| 630 |
children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and |
| 631 |
Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being |
| 632 |
rewarded for their creativity. |
| 633 |
|
| 634 |
Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright |
| 635 |
will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate |
| 636 |
that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066 |
| 637 |
librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he |
| 638 |
would never have made it in the first place. |
| 639 |
|
| 640 |
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573 |
| 641 |
% |
| 642 |
"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in |
| 643 |
future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling |
| 644 |
% |
| 645 |
Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured |
| 646 |
it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow |
| 647 |
Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB |
| 648 |
capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars |
| 649 |
to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy. |
| 650 |
|
| 651 |
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800 |
| 652 |
% |
| 653 |
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. |
| 654 |
Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." |
| 655 |
- Mohandas Gandhi |
| 656 |
% |
| 657 |
"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of |
| 658 |
the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the |
| 659 |
handiwork of the Lord." |
| 660 |
- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46) |
| 661 |
% |
| 662 |
Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure |
| 663 |
|
| 664 |
I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that |
| 665 |
Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people |
| 666 |
must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide. |
| 667 |
|
| 668 |
Scientific scrutiny works like this: |
| 669 |
Scientist A publishes results. |
| 670 |
|
| 671 |
Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y, |
| 672 |
and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me |
| 673 |
x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they? |
| 674 |
|
| 675 |
A: x, y, and z are such and such. |
| 676 |
B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you |
| 677 |
sure you did the procedures that you claimed? |
| 678 |
A: ... |
| 679 |
B: You fraud! |
| 680 |
|
| 681 |
Scientific scrutiny does not work like this: |
| 682 |
|
| 683 |
A publishes results. |
| 684 |
|
| 685 |
B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the |
| 686 |
Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data! |
| 687 |
A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the |
| 688 |
article. Did you have something specific in mind? |
| 689 |
B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the |
| 690 |
experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something. |
| 691 |
|
| 692 |
-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT) |
| 693 |
[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1] |
| 694 |
% |
| 695 |
[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block |
| 696 |
them because they need the money to operate] |
| 697 |
|
| 698 |
"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the |
| 699 |
readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the |
| 700 |
readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the |
| 701 |
site or its bottom line." |
| 702 |
% |
| 703 |
"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of |
| 704 |
the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those |
| 705 |
who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for |
| 706 |
enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state: |
| 707 |
that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been |
| 708 |
adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere |
| 709 |
contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not |
| 710 |
being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down |
| 711 |
their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves |
| 712 |
are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of |
| 713 |
Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ." |
| 714 |
– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent) |
| 715 |
% |
| 716 |
Ignorance is the state of not having the data. |
| 717 |
|
| 718 |
Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it. |
| 719 |
|
| 720 |
Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear. |
| 721 |
% |
| 722 |
["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"] |
| 723 |
|
| 724 |
>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide, |
| 725 |
>>>> and the beating of children? |
| 726 |
>>> |
| 727 |
>>> Subjugation of women... |
| 728 |
>> |
| 729 |
>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible |
| 730 |
>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all |
| 731 |
>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to |
| 732 |
>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best |
| 733 |
>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the |
| 734 |
>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then, |
| 735 |
>> shake partner. |
| 736 |
> |
| 737 |
> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it. |
| 738 |
> |
| 739 |
> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all |
| 740 |
> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured |
| 741 |
> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for |
| 742 |
> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her. |
| 743 |
> |
| 744 |
|
| 745 |
As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew |
| 746 |
was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral |
| 747 |
traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives |
| 748 |
of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he |
| 749 |
really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in |
| 750 |
those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you |
| 751 |
and your wife. |
| 752 |
% |
| 753 |
Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about |
| 754 |
cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could |
| 755 |
still kill you. - arestheblue |
| 756 |
% |
| 757 |
Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an |
| 758 |
abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF |
| 759 |
specifications for GSS-API. |
| 760 |
|
| 761 |
It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on |
| 762 |
the next-generation GSS-API specifications. |
| 763 |
|
| 764 |
There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on |
| 765 |
Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security. |
| 766 |
|
| 767 |
[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine] |
| 768 |
% |
| 769 |
[from the minix 3 users guide] |
| 770 |
|
| 771 |
ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands). |
| 772 |
% |
| 773 |
[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes] |
| 774 |
|
| 775 |
During the conversation make sure you explain a few points: |
| 776 |
[...] |
| 777 |
You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the |
| 778 |
complaintant to guess this is true. |
| 779 |
% |
| 780 |
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." |
| 781 |
- Ken Thompson. |
| 782 |
% |
| 783 |
http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html |
| 784 |
|
| 785 |
"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable" |
| 786 |
|
| 787 |
Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to |
| 788 |
universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs... |
| 789 |
source code excerpt: |
| 790 |
|
| 791 |
int sn() |
| 792 |
{ |
| 793 |
char pwr; |
| 794 |
|
| 795 |
int input1 = 0; |
| 796 |
double output1 = 0; |
| 797 |
|
| 798 |
system("clear"); |
| 799 |
cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<<endl; |
| 800 |
cin>>input1; |
| 801 |
output1 = (sin(input1)); |
| 802 |
cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<<output1<<endl; |
| 803 |
cout<<"Please press 'a' for recalculate or 'm' to return to main menu"<<endl; |
| 804 |
cin>>pwr; |
| 805 |
if(pwr == 'a') |
| 806 |
sq(); |
| 807 |
if(pwr == 'm') |
| 808 |
system("pause"); |
| 809 |
|
| 810 |
} |
| 811 |
% |
| 812 |
It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way |
| 813 |
full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection. |
| 814 |
|
| 815 |
[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11] |
| 816 |
|
| 817 |
http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html |
| 818 |
% |
| 819 |
From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your |
| 820 |
app for me" department: |
| 821 |
|
| 822 |
From: Evan LeCompte |
| 823 |
|
| 824 |
Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using |
| 825 |
Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the |
| 826 |
developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP. |
| 827 |
% |
| 828 |
"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being |
| 829 |
a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just |
| 830 |
indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views." |
| 831 |
|
| 832 |
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/ |
| 833 |
% |
| 834 |
"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ... |
| 835 |
Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone" |
| 836 |
– Steve Jobs[47] |
| 837 |
|
| 838 |
"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah." |
| 839 |
– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that |
| 840 |
the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store) |
| 841 |
% |
| 842 |
The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt. |
| 843 |
-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost" |
| 844 |
% |
| 845 |
Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;) |
| 846 |
From: Patrick Horgan |
| 847 |
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800 |
| 848 |
To: GIMP Users <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU> |
| 849 |
|
| 850 |
Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting, |
| 851 |
writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing |
| 852 |
documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled |
| 853 |
by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear |
| 854 |
posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on |
| 855 |
the gimp, and on other lists all the time. |
| 856 |
|
| 857 |
[...] |
| 858 |
% |
| 859 |
"Logic has made me hated among men" |
| 860 |
— Peter Abelard |
| 861 |
% |
| 862 |
A man said to the universe: |
| 863 |
"Sir I exist!" |
| 864 |
"However," replied the universe, |
| 865 |
"The fact has not created in me |
| 866 |
A sense of obligation." |
| 867 |
- Steven Crane |
| 868 |
% |
| 869 |
He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him. |
| 870 |
|
| 871 |
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him. |
| 872 |
|
| 873 |
He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him. |
| 874 |
|
| 875 |
He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him. |
| 876 |
|
| 877 |
– Sanskrit Saying |
| 878 |
% |
| 879 |
[anonymised discussion] |
| 880 |
AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ... |
| 881 |
Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong. |
| 882 |
% |
| 883 |
[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt] |
| 884 |
|
| 885 |
Additions to the WGL Specification |
| 886 |
|
| 887 |
First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually |
| 888 |
existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically |
| 889 |
appear. |
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% |
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"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, |
| 892 |
sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others." |
| 893 |
- Douglas Adams |
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% |
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I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German. |
| 896 |
[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884] |
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% |
| 898 |
“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will |
| 899 |
lose both, and deserve neither” -- Thomas Jefferson |
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% |
| 901 |
"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers |
| 902 |
in fitting a straight line to a circle!" |
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- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER" |
| 904 |
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html |
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% |
| 906 |
Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire) |
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% |
| 908 |
"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak." |
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- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and |
| 910 |
President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over |
| 911 |
Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked |
| 912 |
Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?" |
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% |
| 914 |
It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled |
| 915 |
programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his |
| 916 |
or her career. |
| 917 |
[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318] |
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% |
| 919 |
It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known |
| 920 |
as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend |
| 921 |
Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST). |
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% |
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I LOVE YOU |
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["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver] |
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% |
| 926 |
General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with |
| 927 |
the air impeller. |
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|
| 929 |
Alan Cox |
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% |
| 931 |
"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users |
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with a minimum computer science background." |
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% |
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From: Eric Sosman |
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Newsgroups: comp.std.c |
| 936 |
Subject: Re: about graphics |
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|
| 938 |
prince wrote: |
| 939 |
> how to get command over graphics in c language? |
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|
| 941 |
#include <stdio.h> |
| 942 |
int main(void) { |
| 943 |
puts("graphics\rcommand"); |
| 944 |
return 0; |
| 945 |
} |
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% |
| 947 |
I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was |
| 948 |
amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the |
| 949 |
wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just |
| 950 |
detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /. |
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% |
| 952 |
[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba] |
| 953 |
|
| 954 |
While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed, |
| 955 |
it still is a constant-time attack. |
| 956 |
% |
| 957 |
"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!" |
| 958 |
-- Karl Joseph Simrock |
| 959 |
% |
| 960 |
From: David Damerell |
| 961 |
|
| 962 |
Quoting Epic Campaigns <NoS...@NoSpamMe.com>: |
| 963 |
>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different |
| 964 |
>caps to make it different. |
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|
| 966 |
Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be |
| 967 |
painful but will take less typing. |
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% |
| 969 |
Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence |
| 970 |
of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed |
| 971 |
compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush". |
| 972 |
|
| 973 |
Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net |
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% |
| 975 |
From: Hans-Jürgen Koch |
| 976 |
|
| 977 |
> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less |
| 978 |
> free than the BSD. |
| 979 |
> |
| 980 |
> Free code + restrictions = non-free code. |
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|
| 982 |
The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited |
| 983 |
by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so? |
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% |
| 985 |
[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics] |
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|
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State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *, struct CV *, |
| 988 |
struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’ |
| 989 |
from incompatible pointer type |
| 990 |
State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *, struct CV *, |
| 991 |
struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’ |
| 992 |
makes pointer from integer without a cast |
| 993 |
State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *, |
| 994 |
struct CV *, struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’ |
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% |
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The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The |
| 997 |
people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own |
| 998 |
convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their |
| 999 |
rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is |
| 1000 |
not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used |
| 1001 |
by society to accomplish certain specific things. |
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|
| 1003 |
[Chandon Seldon] |
| 1004 |
% |
| 1005 |
[Wikipedia] |
| 1006 |
Differences between vi and Emacs |
| 1007 |
|
| 1008 |
The neutrality of this article is disputed. |
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% |
| 1010 |
[lost the reference] |
| 1011 |
Remember that openssl is generally the upper |
| 1012 |
bound on how difficult a library can be to use. |
| 1013 |
% |
| 1014 |
"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless |
| 1015 |
to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and |
| 1016 |
elitist. No novices asking stupid questions." |
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% |
| 1018 |
[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability] |
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|
| 1020 |
Subject: Re: fcrack help |
| 1021 |
From: puezalb024@aol.com |
| 1022 |
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500 |
| 1023 |
To: schmorp@schmorp.de |
| 1024 |
X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD |
| 1025 |
|
| 1026 |
well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take |
| 1027 |
ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt |
| 1028 |
have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a |
| 1029 |
working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get |
| 1030 |
your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong, |
| 1031 |
yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would |
| 1032 |
piss on your leg. |
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|
| 1034 |
?????????????????????????????????? -my regards- |
| 1035 |
maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck |
| 1036 |
spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards |
| 1037 |
|
| 1038 |
[then, a day later] |
| 1039 |
|
| 1040 |
Subject: Re: fcrack help |
| 1041 |
From: puezalb024@aol.com |
| 1042 |
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500 |
| 1043 |
To: schmorp@schmorp.de |
| 1044 |
X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD |
| 1045 |
|
| 1046 |
just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant |
| 1047 |
aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read |
| 1048 |
your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the |
| 1049 |
previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement |
| 1050 |
all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz |
| 1051 |
quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my |
| 1052 |
response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u |
| 1053 |
fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple |
| 1054 |
copies n post em on your walls too buddy |
| 1055 |
|
| 1056 |
|
| 1057 |
-----Original Message----- |
| 1058 |
From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de> |
| 1059 |
To: puezalb024@aol.com |
| 1060 |
Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am |
| 1061 |
Subject: Re: fcrack help |
| 1062 |
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| 1063 |
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| 1064 |
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| 1065 |
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote: |
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> |
| 1067 |
> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards- |
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|
| 1069 |
I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :-> |
| 1070 |
|
| 1071 |
Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun, |
| 1072 |
I hope you don't object :) |
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% |
| 1074 |
>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist |
| 1075 |
>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern. |
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| 1077 |
You made my day |
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% |
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[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html] |
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|
| 1081 |
Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the |
| 1082 |
implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow |
| 1083 |
the naming, or the implementation is wrong. |
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|
| 1085 |
Linus |
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% |
| 1087 |
The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this: |
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|
| 1089 |
From: Christian Walde <mithaldu@yahoo.de> |
| 1090 |
|
| 1091 |
I'll be utterly blunt now and ask this in advance: Are you being an asshole on purpose? If so, please just stop reading now and ignore a person trying t ... |
| 1092 |
|
| 1093 |
[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted] |
| 1094 |
|
| 1095 |
As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted |
| 1096 |
emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate |
| 1097 |
when sending emails to other people: |
| 1098 |
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html |
| 1099 |
|
| 1100 |
[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line] |
| 1101 |
|
| 1102 |
[mail quoted with permission btw.] |
| 1103 |
% |
| 1104 |
* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like... |
| 1105 |
<k-god> OK. Two. One: A backscratcher. |
| 1106 |
<brendan> I believe muttng has one of those |
| 1107 |
<k-god> Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers. |
| 1108 |
<brendan> and I think outlook does that on its own :) |
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% |
| 1110 |
I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only |
| 1111 |
be used if run as administrator in windows. |
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| 1113 |
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos@gmail.com> |
| 1114 |
% |
| 1115 |
[on italy] |
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#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51 |
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|
| 1119 |
@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the |
| 1120 |
majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister |
| 1121 |
wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not |
| 1122 |
only politicized, but also spectacularized. |
| 1123 |
|
| 1124 |
Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled |
| 1125 |
corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated |
| 1126 |
by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of |
| 1127 |
funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I |
| 1128 |
suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking |
| 1129 |
on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url) |
| 1130 |
|
| 1131 |
http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html |
| 1132 |
|
| 1133 |
Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved |
| 1134 |
during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since |
| 1135 |
1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws |
| 1136 |
from fascism period. |
| 1137 |
|
| 1138 |
We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC, |
| 1139 |
cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to |
| 1140 |
them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An |
| 1141 |
author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his |
| 1142 |
song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally |
| 1143 |
created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the |
| 1144 |
royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if |
| 1145 |
they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from |
| 1146 |
SIAE. |
| 1147 |
|
| 1148 |
We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal |
| 1149 |
code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why |
| 1150 |
you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs) |
| 1151 |
elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't |
| 1152 |
explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't |
| 1153 |
explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing |
| 1154 |
your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not |
| 1155 |
electronic ones |
| 1156 |
|
| 1157 |
#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52 |
| 1158 |
|
| 1159 |
Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we |
| 1160 |
don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech |
| 1161 |
(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included |
| 1162 |
CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least |
| 1163 |
based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in |
| 1164 |
western country. |
| 1165 |
|
| 1166 |
I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our |
| 1167 |
very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister, |
| 1168 |
but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last |
| 1169 |
elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been |
| 1170 |
deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the |
| 1171 |
Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved |
| 1172 |
laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology |
| 1173 |
innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists, |
| 1174 |
also the governments of "center-left". |
| 1175 |
|
| 1176 |
Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand. |
| 1177 |
|
| 1178 |
If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little |
| 1179 |
great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and |
| 1180 |
without any restriction. |
| 1181 |
|
| 1182 |
Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth, |
| 1183 |
and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the |
| 1184 |
world. |
| 1185 |
|
| 1186 |
Long life to the Bay, forever. |
| 1187 |
Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand. |
| 1188 |
Thank you for reading. |
| 1189 |
% |
| 1190 |
> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers. |
| 1191 |
> |
| 1192 |
> don't even attempt to post a useful comment |
| 1193 |
|
| 1194 |
How very ironic. |
| 1195 |
% |
| 1196 |
With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and |
| 1197 |
evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that |
| 1198 |
takes religion." |
| 1199 |
|
| 1200 |
--Steve Weinberg |
| 1201 |
% |
| 1202 |
http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml |
| 1203 |
% |
| 1204 |
[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian] |
| 1205 |
[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,] |
| 1206 |
[if you don't understand how valgrind works] |
| 1207 |
|
| 1208 |
"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset() |
| 1209 |
solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls |
| 1210 |
solved all the warnings valgrind reported." |
| 1211 |
% |
| 1212 |
[From: "H.Merijn Brand"] |
| 1213 |
The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is |
| 1214 |
the right tool for me. |
| 1215 |
% |
| 1216 |
[deliantra] |
| 1217 |
02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible |
| 1218 |
% |
| 1219 |
I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me. |
| 1220 |
% |
| 1221 |
cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old |
| 1222 |
/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275 |
| 1223 |
Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die... |
| 1224 |
% |
| 1225 |
From the CFA633 datasheet: |
| 1226 |
|
| 1227 |
* Do not eat the LCD panel. |
| 1228 |
% |
| 1229 |
>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport". |
| 1230 |
>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English. |
| 1231 |
|
| 1232 |
It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end |
| 1233 |
actually tells you it's *American*. |
| 1234 |
% |
| 1235 |
[better do not hire this programmer] |
| 1236 |
From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com> |
| 1237 |
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c |
| 1238 |
Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer |
| 1239 |
|
| 1240 |
Hi |
| 1241 |
|
| 1242 |
I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe |
| 1243 |
someone here can advise me. |
| 1244 |
|
| 1245 |
I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs |
| 1246 |
that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the |
| 1247 |
wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to |
| 1248 |
dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it |
| 1249 |
happens with the customer looking on!!). |
| 1250 |
|
| 1251 |
I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd |
| 1252 |
like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry |
| 1253 |
on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In |
| 1254 |
Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an |
| 1255 |
exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the |
| 1256 |
corresponding thing in C? |
| 1257 |
|
| 1258 |
Thanks! |
| 1259 |
% |
| 1260 |
[from mozilla 1.7b sources] |
| 1261 |
|
| 1262 |
// See bug 53763. |
| 1263 |
nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip; |
| 1264 |
nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0); |
| 1265 |
if (shell) { |
| 1266 |
kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager(); |
| 1267 |
% |
| 1268 |
[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6 |
| 1269 |
amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool] |
| 1270 |
|
| 1271 |
0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>: mov %fs:0x94,%edx |
| 1272 |
0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>: cmp $0x0,%edx |
| 1273 |
0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov %edx,%eax |
| 1274 |
0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle 0x300049af41 <getpid+17> |
| 1275 |
0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq |
| 1276 |
% |
| 1277 |
(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight |
| 1278 |
zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk |
| 1279 |
error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista |
| 1280 |
must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like |
| 1281 |
“display quality too high”). |
| 1282 |
|
| 1283 |
[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html] |
| 1284 |
% |
| 1285 |
Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is? |
| 1286 |
|
| 1287 |
> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a |
| 1288 |
> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;) |
| 1289 |
|
| 1290 |
Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between |
| 1291 |
|
| 1292 |
x / y * z |
| 1293 |
|
| 1294 |
and |
| 1295 |
|
| 1296 |
x / y * z |
| 1297 |
|
| 1298 |
That'll *never* cause problems, right? :) |
| 1299 |
|
| 1300 |
(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique |
| 1301 |
design decisions.) |
| 1302 |
% |
| 1303 |
endergt: |
| 1304 |
> snoofle: |
| 1305 |
> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex |
| 1306 |
> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if |
| 1307 |
> > you understand what you are doing... |
| 1308 |
> |
| 1309 |
> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation? |
| 1310 |
|
| 1311 |
debug |
| 1312 |
% |
| 1313 |
C# is for people who want to have one arm strapped behind their back because it reduces the probability of making a mistake by 50%. |
| 1314 |
|
| 1315 |
Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off. |
| 1316 |
% |
| 1317 |
Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they |
| 1318 |
are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering |
| 1319 |
for hardware interop. Not software: hardware." |
| 1320 |
|
| 1321 |
Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems |
| 1322 |
pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article |
| 1323 |
6 Decompilation |
| 1324 |
|
| 1325 |
1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where |
| 1326 |
reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning |
| 1327 |
of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information |
| 1328 |
necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created |
| 1329 |
computer program with other programs, provided that the following |
| 1330 |
conditions are met: [...]" |
| 1331 |
% |
| 1332 |
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/ |
| 1333 |
% |
| 1334 |
Why Linux Sux ? |
| 1335 |
|
| 1336 |
Easy . |
| 1337 |
Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based . |
| 1338 |
Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will . |
| 1339 |
Help : try get help for linux . after exploring tons of sites and forums the help you got is useless . for windows you just call them . |
| 1340 |
Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many . |
| 1341 |
GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable . |
| 1342 |
Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ? |
| 1343 |
Cost : install linux as server ... it is free no ? but you have to pay a sysadmin . or learn a lot . buy a lot of books . using windows ... just click next . if you are not dumb you might make it secure too (reading help does HELP! ) . |
| 1344 |
Virus : due to the fact that windows is so flexible it is logcal to have viruses . afterall the human body has more than a monkeys one . |
| 1345 |
Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic . |
| 1346 |
|
| 1347 |
You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates |
| 1348 |
no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard |
| 1349 |
working ones . Screw linux users . |
| 1350 |
% |
| 1351 |
19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too? |
| 1352 |
19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure |
| 1353 |
19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :) |
| 1354 |
% |
| 1355 |
> The Dell 30"... |
| 1356 |
|
| 1357 |
It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather, |
| 1358 |
the glowing has been highly asymmetric. |
| 1359 |
% |
| 1360 |
Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials |
| 1361 |
|
| 1362 |
> > u don´t use your wealth with responsibility, you only think about yourself and shrug your shoulders with comments like, "we all have the same chance", I´m a selfmade man", "everyone has to take care of themselves". |
| 1363 |
> |
| 1364 |
> yeah, that's why your little brothers decided to save the world - including your grandparents' sorry asses - from hitler, because we think only of ourselves! |
| 1365 |
> |
| 1366 |
> your welcome, pinhead! |
| 1367 |
|
| 1368 |
Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a *beep* during ww2 I will respond. |
| 1369 |
|
| 1370 |
1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better? |
| 1371 |
2. You came into the war very late, and that was strictly for buisness reasons. You need countries to trade with. The true hero in WW2 was actually Russia doing alot more then US ever did, not saying that I support Russia today. |
| 1372 |
3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today. |
| 1373 |
4. With those retorics you will never learn anything from your own mistakes since you always can go back and talk about your effort 100 years ago. |
| 1374 |
% |
| 1375 |
[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn] |
| 1376 |
Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the |
| 1377 |
public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!) |
| 1378 |
% |
| 1379 |
ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig. |
| 1380 |
|
| 1381 |
Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist |
| 1382 |
es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat, |
| 1383 |
dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte. |
| 1384 |
|
| 1385 |
Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und |
| 1386 |
anderen betriebssystemen. |
| 1387 |
|
| 1388 |
Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es |
| 1389 |
auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr. |
| 1390 |
|
| 1391 |
habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3 |
| 1392 |
Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere |
| 1393 |
Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat |
| 1394 |
Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist |
| 1395 |
einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig. |
| 1396 |
|
| 1397 |
Frage? |
| 1398 |
Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc? |
| 1399 |
Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte? |
| 1400 |
Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert? |
| 1401 |
|
| 1402 |
Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer |
| 1403 |
% |
| 1404 |
"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive |
| 1405 |
Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son |
| 1406 |
of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by |
| 1407 |
religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations, |
| 1408 |
has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents, |
| 1409 |
and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks |
| 1410 |
% |
| 1411 |
19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox |
| 1412 |
19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht |
| 1413 |
19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas |
| 1414 |
19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hat |
| 1415 |
% |
| 1416 |
What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as |
| 1417 |
reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel: |
| 1418 |
|
| 1419 |
God bless the re-inventers |
| 1420 |
|
| 1421 |
Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking |
| 1422 |
what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing |
| 1423 |
|
| 1424 |
Crockford gets off a very pithy response: |
| 1425 |
|
| 1426 |
The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round |
| 1427 |
one. |
| 1428 |
% |
| 1429 |
[rfc2665] |
| 1430 |
The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated. |
| 1431 |
Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more |
| 1432 |
useful in theory than in practice. |
| 1433 |
% |
| 1434 |
15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend |
| 1435 |
15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats |
| 1436 |
mit windows zu tun |
| 1437 |
15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft |
| 1438 |
15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen |
| 1439 |
15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden |
| 1440 |
15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie |
| 1441 |
15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo |
| 1442 |
15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter |
| 1443 |
geaendert haben :-> |
| 1444 |
15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen) |
| 1445 |
15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach |
| 1446 |
15:30 |
| 1447 |
15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen) |
| 1448 |
15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht |
| 1449 |
% |
| 1450 |
[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394] |
| 1451 |
The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test. |
| 1452 |
If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works. |
| 1453 |
% |
| 1454 |
http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html |
| 1455 |
|
| 1456 |
Strictly for beginners |
| 1457 |
|
| 1458 |
Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life: |
| 1459 |
[...] |
| 1460 |
% |
| 1461 |
http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg |
| 1462 |
% |
| 1463 |
17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->: |
| 1464 |
17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar |
| 1465 |
17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat |
| 1466 |
17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl |
| 1467 |
17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben |
| 1468 |
17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt |
| 1469 |
17:35:08 <elmex> hehe |
| 1470 |
17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert |
| 1471 |
17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :- |
| 1472 |
17:35:48 <elmex> :-> |
| 1473 |
17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit |
| 1474 |
17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw. |
| 1475 |
17:36:18 <elmex> uh |
| 1476 |
17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr |
| 1477 |
17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran |
| 1478 |
17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX |
| 1479 |
17:38:29 <schmorp> genau! |
| 1480 |
17:38:30 <schmorp> :) |
| 1481 |
17:38:33 <elmex> sueees |
| 1482 |
17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/ |
| 1483 |
17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr |
| 1484 |
17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht |
| 1485 |
17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes |
| 1486 |
17:40:42 <elmex> lol |
| 1487 |
17:41:06 <schmorp> :) |
| 1488 |
% |
| 1489 |
[A Gentoo User] |
| 1490 |
First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux |
| 1491 |
distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features |
| 1492 |
doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards. |
| 1493 |
[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...] |
| 1494 |
Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact |
| 1495 |
environment and think LFS is to much work. |
| 1496 |
[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/] |
| 1497 |
% |
| 1498 |
20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically |
| 1499 |
20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons |
| 1500 |
20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for |
| 1501 |
20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war |
| 1502 |
20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience |
| 1503 |
20:10 <scortch> i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the |
| 1504 |
least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals |
| 1505 |
can do |
| 1506 |
20:11 <scortch> i.e. militarily |
| 1507 |
20:11 <scortch> ah wait. |
| 1508 |
20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around |
| 1509 |
20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :) |
| 1510 |
20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot |
| 1511 |
20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story |
| 1512 |
% |
| 1513 |
23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude |
| 1514 |
23:58 <Err> it seems logical that there is a strong correlation |
| 1515 |
between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's |
| 1516 |
processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million |
| 1517 |
times before) and (idiots) |
| 1518 |
23:58 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) ) |
| 1519 |
23:59 <Err> there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in |
| 1520 |
general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties |
| 1521 |
out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds |
| 1522 |
% |
| 1523 |
[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/] |
| 1524 |
Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier". |
| 1525 |
% |
| 1526 |
[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html] |
| 1527 |
|
| 1528 |
Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time |
| 1529 |
to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may |
| 1530 |
be slow in Windows 2000" |
| 1531 |
|
| 1532 |
In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that |
| 1533 |
upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth |
| 1534 |
that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles... |
| 1535 |
% |
| 1536 |
[so much for type-safety] |
| 1537 |
List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>; |
| 1538 |
lst.add(null); |
| 1539 |
int x = 1 + lst.get(0); |
| 1540 |
% |
| 1541 |
[just for reference] |
| 1542 |
Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden |
| 1543 |
kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt |
| 1544 |
einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und |
| 1545 |
dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten |
| 1546 |
weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird |
| 1547 |
es nicht. |
| 1548 |
|
| 1549 |
Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu |
| 1550 |
lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt |
| 1551 |
einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es |
| 1552 |
letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu |
| 1553 |
hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und |
| 1554 |
wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt! |
| 1555 |
|
| 1556 |
Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe |
| 1557 |
war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt |
| 1558 |
das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt |
| 1559 |
Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als |
| 1560 |
Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die |
| 1561 |
Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war, |
| 1562 |
die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und |
| 1563 |
mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles |
| 1564 |
regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste |
| 1565 |
Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat |
| 1566 |
man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese |
| 1567 |
Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren |
| 1568 |
Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich |
| 1569 |
verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen. |
| 1570 |
|
| 1571 |
Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur |
| 1572 |
Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft |
| 1573 |
anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf |
| 1574 |
in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu |
| 1575 |
tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge |
| 1576 |
verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar |
| 1577 |
nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt. |
| 1578 |
|
| 1579 |
Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um |
| 1580 |
mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum |
| 1581 |
soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es |
| 1582 |
letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später |
| 1583 |
krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich |
| 1584 |
nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die |
| 1585 |
Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen |
| 1586 |
Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das |
| 1587 |
mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche |
| 1588 |
oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir |
| 1589 |
leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine |
| 1590 |
Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie |
| 1591 |
alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett |
| 1592 |
anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz |
| 1593 |
für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die |
| 1594 |
slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin |
| 1595 |
alternativ' Idioten! |
| 1596 |
|
| 1597 |
Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein |
| 1598 |
Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich |
| 1599 |
bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit |
| 1600 |
euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004 |
| 1601 |
war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich |
| 1602 |
dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung, |
| 1603 |
Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das |
| 1604 |
ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich |
| 1605 |
lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so |
| 1606 |
brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den |
| 1607 |
Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen, |
| 1608 |
damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das |
| 1609 |
niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und |
| 1610 |
Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen! |
| 1611 |
|
| 1612 |
Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will |
| 1613 |
nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der |
| 1614 |
Ausgestossenen beitragen! |
| 1615 |
|
| 1616 |
Ich will R A C H E ! |
| 1617 |
|
| 1618 |
Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich |
| 1619 |
gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei |
| 1620 |
Dinge zu sagen: |
| 1621 |
|
| 1622 |
1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule. |
| 1623 |
|
| 1624 |
Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle |
| 1625 |
unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm |
| 1626 |
welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der |
| 1627 |
diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da |
| 1628 |
anfange. |
| 1629 |
|
| 1630 |
2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten, |
| 1631 |
denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen |
| 1632 |
haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf |
| 1633 |
dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf |
| 1634 |
dieser verdammten schule! |
| 1635 |
|
| 1636 |
Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was |
| 1637 |
die Welt zu bieten hat! |
| 1638 |
|
| 1639 |
S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod |
| 1640 |
|
| 1641 |
Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber |
| 1642 |
was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der |
| 1643 |
Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner, |
| 1644 |
Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den |
| 1645 |
allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können |
| 1646 |
oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem |
| 1647 |
eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche |
| 1648 |
Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der |
| 1649 |
Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar, |
| 1650 |
können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran! |
| 1651 |
|
| 1652 |
S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der |
| 1653 |
Einschulung. |
| 1654 |
|
| 1655 |
Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und |
| 1656 |
wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der |
| 1657 |
Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern, |
| 1658 |
und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von |
| 1659 |
Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen |
| 1660 |
wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu |
| 1661 |
zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man |
| 1662 |
wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine |
| 1663 |
Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier |
| 1664 |
herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie! |
| 1665 |
|
| 1666 |
WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND |
| 1667 |
SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT! |
| 1668 |
|
| 1669 |
Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme |
| 1670 |
Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir |
| 1671 |
müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen |
| 1672 |
sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung |
| 1673 |
zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt |
| 1674 |
sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn |
| 1675 |
Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten |
| 1676 |
Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse! |
| 1677 |
|
| 1678 |
Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle |
| 1679 |
sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken" |
| 1680 |
benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach |
| 1681 |
Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind, |
| 1682 |
weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der |
| 1683 |
Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine |
| 1684 |
Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS |
| 1685 |
NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben! |
| 1686 |
|
| 1687 |
Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst |
| 1688 |
ihr dafür bezahlen! |
| 1689 |
|
| 1690 |
Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher, |
| 1691 |
einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die |
| 1692 |
Hand genommen. |
| 1693 |
|
| 1694 |
Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals |
| 1695 |
gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen! |
| 1696 |
|
| 1697 |
Ich bin weg... |
| 1698 |
% |
| 1699 |
01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers |
| 1700 |
01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone |
| 1701 |
% |
| 1702 |
19:18 <elmex> schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen |
| 1703 |
kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt |
| 1704 |
wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja |
| 1705 |
die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch... |
| 1706 |
abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...' |
| 1707 |
19:19 <schmorp> *rofl* |
| 1708 |
19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld |
| 1709 |
19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :) |
| 1710 |
19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation |
| 1711 |
19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates' |
| 1712 |
19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich |
| 1713 |
% |
| 1714 |
http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf |
| 1715 |
% |
| 1716 |
[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/] |
| 1717 |
[The reason I left Perl 6] |
| 1718 |
|
| 1719 |
The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had |
| 1720 |
worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax |
| 1721 |
bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team |
| 1722 |
considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up |
| 1723 |
better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell. |
| 1724 |
% |
| 1725 |
http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png |
| 1726 |
% |
| 1727 |
00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface |
| 1728 |
00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit |
| 1729 |
00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge" |
| 1730 |
% |
| 1731 |
[very funny read] |
| 1732 |
Hack-a-Bike |
| 1733 |
USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html |
| 1734 |
% |
| 1735 |
Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to |
| 1736 |
be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more |
| 1737 |
Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they |
| 1738 |
still can. |
| 1739 |
|
| 1740 |
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html |
| 1741 |
% |
| 1742 |
23:52 <elmex> Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf: |
| 1743 |
Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin, |
| 1744 |
Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer. |
| 1745 |
% |
| 1746 |
[without words] |
| 1747 |
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html |
| 1748 |
% |
| 1749 |
[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn] |
| 1750 |
We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in |
| 1751 |
a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it |
| 1752 |
with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an |
| 1753 |
actual kid in an actual bath. |
| 1754 |
% |
| 1755 |
Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper, |
| 1756 |
today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006 |
| 1757 |
makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship) |
| 1758 |
may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with |
| 1759 |
absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the |
| 1760 |
government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing |
| 1761 |
what happened to you. |
| 1762 |
% |
| 1763 |
-- |
| 1764 |
Markus Schulz |
| 1765 |
|
| 1766 |
A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion |
| 1767 |
Q: Why is top posting bad? |
| 1768 |
% |
| 1769 |
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: |
| 1770 |
> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not |
| 1771 |
> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but |
| 1772 |
> important difference.) |
| 1773 |
|
| 1774 |
Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why |
| 1775 |
you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have |
| 1776 |
implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding |
| 1777 |
instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards |
| 1778 |
just because you don't have time for your arch? :-) |
| 1779 |
|
| 1780 |
- Ted |
| 1781 |
% |
| 1782 |
[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183] |
| 1783 |
"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus |
| 1784 |
Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them |
| 1785 |
as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in |
| 1786 |
Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse |
| 1787 |
me, but we have the truth!" |
| 1788 |
% |
| 1789 |
[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U] |
| 1790 |
(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths? |
| 1791 |
(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt |
| 1792 |
(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter |
| 1793 |
% |
| 1794 |
[nethack extinctionist faq] |
| 1795 |
The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can |
| 1796 |
tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he |
| 1797 |
didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256 |
| 1798 |
monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all |
| 1799 |
other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills |
| 1800 |
in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply |
| 1801 |
genociding every monster. |
| 1802 |
|
| 1803 |
I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then |
| 1804 |
genocide them for good measure! |
| 1805 |
%% |
| 1806 |
[nethack instadeath faq] |
| 1807 |
|
| 1808 |
* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses |
| 1809 |
|
| 1810 |
Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it! |
| 1811 |
% |
| 1812 |
17:57 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil |
| 1813 |
17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm? |
| 1814 |
17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines |
| 1815 |
Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen." |
| 1816 |
17:58 <Murch> lol |
| 1817 |
% |
| 1818 |
22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through |
| 1819 |
% |
| 1820 |
[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror] |
| 1821 |
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html |
| 1822 |
% |
| 1823 |
http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/ |
| 1824 |
% |
| 1825 |
http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/ |
| 1826 |
|
| 1827 |
There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage |
| 1828 |
or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install |
| 1829 |
adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style! |
| 1830 |
% |
| 1831 |
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html |
| 1832 |
|
| 1833 |
At the United Nations today President George W. Bush |
| 1834 |
announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones |
| 1835 |
into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as |
| 1836 |
the Eastern Time Zone. |
| 1837 |
[...] |
| 1838 |
Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means |
| 1839 |
sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our |
| 1840 |
allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad |
| 1841 |
daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue." |
| 1842 |
% |
| 1843 |
Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so) |
| 1844 |
|
| 1845 |
_dl_profile_output |
| 1846 |
= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0]; |
| 1847 |
% |
| 1848 |
[CRYPTO-GRAM] |
| 1849 |
By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have |
| 1850 |
a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private |
| 1851 |
watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for |
| 1852 |
security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we |
| 1853 |
can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get |
| 1854 |
that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly. |
| 1855 |
|
| 1856 |
http://tinyurl.com/zl5af |
| 1857 |
% |
| 1858 |
[famous last words] |
| 1859 |
11:22 <kaizoku> what do you mean by *plonk*? |
| 1860 |
% |
| 1861 |
What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider... |
| 1862 |
|
| 1863 |
"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson." |
| 1864 |
|
| 1865 |
"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor". |
| 1866 |
|
| 1867 |
-- |
| 1868 |
Jay Hennigan |
| 1869 |
% |
| 1870 |
http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System |
| 1871 |
% |
| 1872 |
[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being |
| 1873 |
held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department |
| 1874 |
of homeland security] |
| 1875 |
http://tinyurl.com/ourlr |
| 1876 |
% |
| 1877 |
"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64 |
| 1878 |
seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of |
| 1879 |
Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit |
| 1880 |
version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like |
| 1881 |
are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full |
| 1882 |
range of spyware available to us?" |
| 1883 |
|
| 1884 |
[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1] |
| 1885 |
% |
| 1886 |
[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html] |
| 1887 |
00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) { |
| 1888 |
00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++? |
| 1889 |
% |
| 1890 |
<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man |
| 1891 |
to fix and he will run urxvt all his life |
| 1892 |
% |
| 1893 |
The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective |
| 1894 |
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html |
| 1895 |
% |
| 1896 |
Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin |
| 1897 |
did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way |
| 1898 |
I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person |
| 1899 |
shooter. |
| 1900 |
|
| 1901 |
The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were |
| 1902 |
done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having |
| 1903 |
to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis |
| 1904 |
they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want |
| 1905 |
opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds |
| 1906 |
puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers. |
| 1907 |
|
| 1908 |
Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG |
| 1909 |
in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named |
| 1910 |
Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat, |
| 1911 |
apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained |
| 1912 |
way. |
| 1913 |
|
| 1914 |
And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go |
| 1915 |
bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney |
| 1916 |
key graphic good. Make me happy." |
| 1917 |
|
| 1918 |
*shrugs* But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. |
| 1919 |
% |
| 1920 |
> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most |
| 1921 |
> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them |
| 1922 |
> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see |
| 1923 |
> above comment about Hitler). |
| 1924 |
|
| 1925 |
I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to |
| 1926 |
mention Hitler loses. |
| 1927 |
% |
| 1928 |
[siggraph '99 course 12] |
| 1929 |
Unfortunately, including <windows.h> has the unfortunate side effect of |
| 1930 |
introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into |
| 1931 |
your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution" |
| 1932 |
can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your |
| 1933 |
program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for |
| 1934 |
UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with |
| 1935 |
including <windows.h>. |
| 1936 |
[...] |
| 1937 |
Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag, |
| 1938 |
but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and |
| 1939 |
gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest; |
| 1940 |
wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about |
| 1941 |
programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and |
| 1942 |
coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL |
| 1943 |
extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32 |
| 1944 |
environments. |
| 1945 |
% |
| 1946 |
http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID |
| 1947 |
% |
| 1948 |
[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos] |
| 1949 |
"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine" |
| 1950 |
% |
| 1951 |
[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15] |
| 1952 |
[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your |
| 1953 |
computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can |
| 1954 |
do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that |
| 1955 |
use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver |
| 1956 |
advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are |
| 1957 |
software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only |
| 1958 |
their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these |
| 1959 |
companies want to own your computer. |
| 1960 |
|
| 1961 |
Some examples: |
| 1962 |
|
| 1963 |
1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had |
| 1964 |
distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of |
| 1965 |
software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit |
| 1966 |
secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer. |
| 1967 |
Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that |
| 1968 |
Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of |
| 1969 |
software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been |
| 1970 |
an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for |
| 1971 |
wanting to own its customers' machines. |
| 1972 |
|
| 1973 |
2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect |
| 1974 |
Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the |
| 1975 |
security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it, |
| 1976 |
because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the |
| 1977 |
software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong. |
| 1978 |
|
| 1979 |
3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail |
| 1980 |
addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam |
| 1981 |
trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail |
| 1982 |
from Microsoft? You can't. |
| 1983 |
|
| 1984 |
4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected |
| 1985 |
the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up |
| 1986 |
blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them |
| 1987 |
useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't |
| 1988 |
just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It |
| 1989 |
isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would |
| 1990 |
adversely affect its business partners. |
| 1991 |
|
| 1992 |
5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your |
| 1993 |
computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to |
| 1994 |
their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent -- |
| 1995 |
about your behavior. |
| 1996 |
|
| 1997 |
6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies |
| 1998 |
try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving |
| 1999 |
security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to |
| 2000 |
disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other |
| 2001 |
presumed infractions. |
| 2002 |
|
| 2003 |
Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all |
| 2004 |
examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted |
| 2005 |
Computing will only make the problem worse. |
| 2006 |
|
| 2007 |
There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own |
| 2008 |
people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers' |
| 2009 |
legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems |
| 2010 |
invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a |
| 2011 |
user's device against him. |
| 2012 |
[...] |
| 2013 |
You can fight back against this trend by only using software that |
| 2014 |
respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve |
| 2015 |
their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users |
| 2016 |
like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and |
| 2017 |
owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no |
| 2018 |
back-room marketing deals. |
| 2019 |
% |
| 2020 |
[John Carmack on Java] |
| 2021 |
Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four |
| 2022 |
platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All |
| 2023 |
the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each |
| 2024 |
(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful |
| 2025 |
performance. |
| 2026 |
% |
| 2027 |
[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html] |
| 2028 |
|
| 2029 |
"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir |
| 2030 |
ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions- |
| 2031 |
und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene |
| 2032 |
Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern. |
| 2033 |
% |
| 2034 |
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html |
| 2035 |
% |
| 2036 |
"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that |
| 2037 |
once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into |
| 2038 |
a technology- and civilization-free zone???" |
| 2039 |
http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31 |
| 2040 |
% |
| 2041 |
http://funroll-loops.org/ |
| 2042 |
% |
| 2043 |
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL] |
| 2044 |
When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard |
| 2045 |
initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the |
| 2046 |
goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding |
| 2047 |
a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order |
| 2048 |
to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account |
| 2049 |
of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support |
| 2050 |
it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in |
| 2051 |
celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of |
| 2052 |
Fahrenheit documentation. |
| 2053 |
% |
| 2054 |
[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats |
| 2055 |
the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100% |
| 2056 |
sure its much slower than CVS] |
| 2057 |
cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/ |
| 2058 |
svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.' |
| 2059 |
svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files |
| 2060 |
[Exit 1] |
| 2061 |
cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/ |
| 2062 |
svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked |
| 2063 |
[Exit 1] |
| 2064 |
cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff |
| 2065 |
svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked |
| 2066 |
[Exit 1] |
| 2067 |
[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on |
| 2068 |
humanity deserves to be shot or something like that] |
| 2069 |
% |
| 2070 |
[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12] |
| 2071 |
|
| 2072 |
... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC |
| 2073 |
role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ... |
| 2074 |
% |
| 2075 |
Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features |
| 2076 |
|
| 2077 |
> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating |
| 2078 |
> systems ? |
| 2079 |
|
| 2080 |
Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can |
| 2081 |
probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-) |
| 2082 |
|
| 2083 |
Jesper |
| 2084 |
% |
| 2085 |
[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer] |
| 2086 |
|
| 2087 |
"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company. |
| 2088 |
YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four." |
| 2089 |
|
| 2090 |
~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you. |
| 2091 |
% |
| 2092 |
http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html |
| 2093 |
% |
| 2094 |
[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541] |
| 2095 |
|
| 2096 |
You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't |
| 2097 |
like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is |
| 2098 |
evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for |
| 2099 |
measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong |
| 2100 |
direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back |
| 2101 |
into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want, |
| 2102 |
but that's the truth. |
| 2103 |
% |
| 2104 |
[de.alt.ufo] |
| 2105 |
|
| 2106 |
Braun Ludwig <Wick84@gmx.de> wrote: |
| 2107 |
|
| 2108 |
> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen |
| 2109 |
> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer |
| 2110 |
> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer |
| 2111 |
> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des |
| 2112 |
|
| 2113 |
Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber |
| 2114 |
einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt |
| 2115 |
ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter |
| 2116 |
gekommen. Ich sicher auch. |
| 2117 |
|
| 2118 |
Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage |
| 2119 |
was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit |
| 2120 |
der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben |
| 2121 |
gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell |
| 2122 |
in Richtung Boden. |
| 2123 |
|
| 2124 |
[...] |
| 2125 |
|
| 2126 |
> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und |
| 2127 |
> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt. |
| 2128 |
|
| 2129 |
Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es |
| 2130 |
da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den |
| 2131 |
Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht? |
| 2132 |
|
| 2133 |
[...] |
| 2134 |
|
| 2135 |
> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte. |
| 2136 |
> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug |
| 2137 |
> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind. |
| 2138 |
|
| 2139 |
Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche |
| 2140 |
mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch |
| 2141 |
schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben, |
| 2142 |
die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser |
| 2143 |
Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich |
| 2144 |
sofort. |
| 2145 |
% |
| 2146 |
[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm] |
| 2147 |
By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax |
| 2148 |
like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your |
| 2149 |
software from Microsoft.) |
| 2150 |
% |
| 2151 |
http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/ |
| 2152 |
% |
| 2153 |
> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU |
| 2154 |
|
| 2155 |
Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were |
| 2156 |
gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am |
| 2157 |
afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do |
| 2158 |
much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret. |
| 2159 |
% |
| 2160 |
http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg |
| 2161 |
http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html |
| 2162 |
% |
| 2163 |
Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114 |
| 2164 |
From: Rodrigo Severo |
| 2165 |
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200 |
| 2166 |
To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov |
| 2167 |
|
| 2168 |
On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote: |
| 2169 |
|
| 2170 |
"David Braverman" <david@inner-drive.com> writes: |
| 2171 |
It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing |
| 2172 |
obviously-broken regulations like this. |
| 2173 |
|
| 2174 |
I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer |
| 2175 |
isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm |
| 2176 |
brazilian ;) |
| 2177 |
Rodrigo Severo |
| 2178 |
% |
| 2179 |
[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :] |
| 2180 |
|
| 2181 |
http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13 |
| 2182 |
% |
| 2183 |
[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":] |
| 2184 |
|
| 2185 |
I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/. |
| 2186 |
|
| 2187 |
Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)". |
| 2188 |
|
| 2189 |
Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by |
| 2190 |
squid (in mostly default debian config). |
| 2191 |
|
| 2192 |
*sigh* |
| 2193 |
% |
| 2194 |
A LIBERAL DECALOGUE |
| 2195 |
By Bertrand Russell |
| 2196 |
|
| 2197 |
Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new |
| 2198 |
decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement |
| 2199 |
it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, |
| 2200 |
might be set forth as follows: |
| 2201 |
|
| 2202 |
1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. |
| 2203 |
|
| 2204 |
2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the |
| 2205 |
evidence is sure to come to light. |
| 2206 |
|
| 2207 |
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed. |
| 2208 |
|
| 2209 |
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband |
| 2210 |
or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by |
| 2211 |
authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory. |
| 2212 |
|
| 2213 |
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always |
| 2214 |
contrary authorities to be found. |
| 2215 |
|
| 2216 |
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you |
| 2217 |
do the opinions will suppress you. |
| 2218 |
|
| 2219 |
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted |
| 2220 |
was once eccentric. |
| 2221 |
|
| 2222 |
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, |
| 2223 |
for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper |
| 2224 |
agreement than the latter. |
| 2225 |
|
| 2226 |
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is |
| 2227 |
more inconvenient when you try to conceal it. |
| 2228 |
|
| 2229 |
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's |
| 2230 |
paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness." |
| 2231 |
|
| 2232 |
"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, |
| 2233 |
Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2. |
| 2234 |
% |
| 2235 |
[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx] |
| 2236 |
John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made |
| 2237 |
the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003 |
| 2238 |
Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings: |
| 2239 |
|
| 2240 |
"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc |
| 2241 |
that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to |
| 2242 |
purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play |
| 2243 |
European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license |
| 2244 |
or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the |
| 2245 |
United States." |
| 2246 |
--- |
| 2247 |
It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually |
| 2248 |
outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by |
| 2249 |
communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;) |
| 2250 |
--- |
| 2251 |
"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray |
| 2252 |
discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to |
| 2253 |
quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next |
| 2254 |
street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of |
| 2255 |
$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions." |
| 2256 |
|
| 2257 |
This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only |
| 2258 |
play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar. |
| 2259 |
% |
| 2260 |
[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:] |
| 2261 |
Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC |
| 2262 |
% |
| 2263 |
[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/] |
| 2264 |
|
| 2265 |
Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an |
| 2266 |
almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...] |
| 2267 |
|
| 2268 |
Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television |
| 2269 |
set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television? |
| 2270 |
|
| 2271 |
Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them. |
| 2272 |
|
| 2273 |
[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives, |
| 2274 |
believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security. |
| 2275 |
% |
| 2276 |
[Copyright History - US view] |
| 2277 |
http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm |
| 2278 |
% |
| 2279 |
[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook] |
| 2280 |
X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock |
| 2281 |
tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all |
| 2282 |
the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough |
| 2283 |
to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed |
| 2284 |
656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing. |
| 2285 |
% |
| 2286 |
[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:] |
| 2287 |
|
| 2288 |
"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should |
| 2289 |
they care about it?" |
| 2290 |
-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President. |
| 2291 |
|
| 2292 |
[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php] |
| 2293 |
% |
| 2294 |
Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure! |
| 2295 |
-- Gregory Chaitin |
| 2296 |
% |
| 2297 |
13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den |
| 2298 |
gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade |
| 2299 |
13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart! |
| 2300 |
[...] |
| 2301 |
13:51 <RayTracer> wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font, |
| 2302 |
wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist |
| 2303 |
wieder alles groß |
| 2304 |
% |
| 2305 |
[man perlsub] |
| 2306 |
That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues |
| 2307 |
having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question |
| 2308 |
for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped, |
| 2309 |
those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this |
| 2310 |
sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.)))) |
| 2311 |
% |
| 2312 |
[glibc's bits/socket.h] |
| 2313 |
|
| 2314 |
if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr)) |
| 2315 |
/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */ |
| 2316 |
return 0; |
| 2317 |
% |
| 2318 |
http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html |
| 2319 |
|
| 2320 |
> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den |
| 2321 |
> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die |
| 2322 |
> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben |
| 2323 |
> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder |
| 2324 |
> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt |
| 2325 |
> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der |
| 2326 |
> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern |
| 2327 |
> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht |
| 2328 |
> transparent. |
| 2329 |
|
| 2330 |
Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film, |
| 2331 |
der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche |
| 2332 |
die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen |
| 2333 |
Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit. |
| 2334 |
% |
| 2335 |
Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche, |
| 2336 |
aber falsche Lösungen. |
| 2337 |
% |
| 2338 |
A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long, |
| 2339 |
and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such |
| 2340 |
as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java |
| 2341 |
is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun |
| 2342 |
% |
| 2343 |
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote: |
| 2344 |
> |
| 2345 |
> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot |
| 2346 |
> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against |
| 2347 |
> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing |
| 2348 |
> than useful to the user. |
| 2349 |
|
| 2350 |
I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. |
| 2351 |
|
| 2352 |
This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of |
| 2353 |
Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will |
| 2354 |
use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long |
| 2355 |
since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. |
| 2356 |
|
| 2357 |
Please, just tell people to use KDE. |
| 2358 |
|
| 2359 |
Linus |
| 2360 |
% |
| 2361 |
Move 80, Node 81 |
| 2362 |
theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future |
| 2363 |
setzer [?]: what about 9d |
| 2364 |
theodore [22k?]: they control it |
| 2365 |
% |
| 2366 |
[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ] |
| 2367 |
Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum? |
| 2368 |
|
| 2369 |
Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser |
| 2370 |
als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT! |
| 2371 |
-- |
| 2372 |
Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben? |
| 2373 |
|
| 2374 |
Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner? |
| 2375 |
% |
| 2376 |
[Are people responsible for the company they work at?] |
| 2377 |
I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this: |
| 2378 |
|
| 2379 |
Person: What do you do? |
| 2380 |
Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft. |
| 2381 |
Person: <viciously> I hate you. |
| 2382 |
|
| 2383 |
If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless |
| 2384 |
agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not |
| 2385 |
exactly getting off on the right foot. |
| 2386 |
|
| 2387 |
[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software] |
| 2388 |
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx |
| 2389 |
% |
| 2390 |
"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament |
| 2391 |
extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute |
| 2392 |
illegal downloaders." |
| 2393 |
|
| 2394 |
Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary: |
| 2395 |
|
| 2396 |
"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make |
| 2397 |
profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil |
| 2398 |
liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve |
| 2399 |
to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will |
| 2400 |
have to emerge." |
| 2401 |
|
| 2402 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm |
| 2403 |
% |
| 2404 |
>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit |
| 2405 |
>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst |
| 2406 |
|
| 2407 |
Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi |
| 2408 |
immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :) |
| 2409 |
|
| 2410 |
Bye, Andy |
| 2411 |
% |
| 2412 |
[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind] |
| 2413 |
>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein |
| 2414 |
>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte |
| 2415 |
>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur |
| 2416 |
|
| 2417 |
Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen. |
| 2418 |
Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt |
| 2419 |
System, die das wegstrippen :( |
| 2420 |
Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt |
| 2421 |
halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt |
| 2422 |
wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein |
| 2423 |
Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :) |
| 2424 |
- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY- |
| 2425 |
Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben, |
| 2426 |
ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber |
| 2427 |
alle Benutzer. |
| 2428 |
Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen |
| 2429 |
Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in |
| 2430 |
irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder |
| 2431 |
probieren (bis es knallt)? |
| 2432 |
Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja, |
| 2433 |
der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :( |
| 2434 |
Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :) |
| 2435 |
Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :) |
| 2436 |
Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben, |
| 2437 |
insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt |
| 2438 |
es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden... |
| 2439 |
% |
| 2440 |
[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?] |
| 2441 |
|
| 2442 |
cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update |
| 2443 |
svn: Working copy '.' locked |
| 2444 |
svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details) |
| 2445 |
cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup |
| 2446 |
svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory |
| 2447 |
cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update |
| 2448 |
svn: Working copy '.' locked |
| 2449 |
svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details) |
| 2450 |
cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup |
| 2451 |
cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming |
| 2452 |
unfinished operations, etc. |
| 2453 |
usage: cleanup [PATH...] |
| 2454 |
|
| 2455 |
Valid options: |
| 2456 |
--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command |
| 2457 |
--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG |
| 2458 |
|
| 2459 |
[Thanks for the details. Not.] |
| 2460 |
% |
| 2461 |
But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the |
| 2462 |
ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_ |
| 2463 |
_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed |
| 2464 |
to provide. |
| 2465 |
- perl6-language - michele dondi |
| 2466 |
% |
| 2467 |
[From: perl6-language] |
| 2468 |
|
| 2469 |
The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should |
| 2470 |
alarm people more. |
| 2471 |
|
| 2472 |
-Nate |
| 2473 |
|
| 2474 |
[...] |
| 2475 |
|
| 2476 |
My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of |
| 2477 |
Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the |
| 2478 |
image of the language that is created here. |
| 2479 |
|
| 2480 |
Juerd |
| 2481 |
|
| 2482 |
[...] |
| 2483 |
|
| 2484 |
(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use |
| 2485 |
'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the |
| 2486 |
perl526 translator will dump core on those) |
| 2487 |
|
| 2488 |
-- |
| 2489 |
H.Merijn Brand |
| 2490 |
% |
| 2491 |
Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag, |
| 2492 |
dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das |
| 2493 |
Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen. |
| 2494 |
Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004) |
| 2495 |
% |
| 2496 |
[Come on, "kidtalk"???] |
| 2497 |
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx |
| 2498 |
% |
| 2499 |
[Priceless :)] |
| 2500 |
http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html |
| 2501 |
% |
| 2502 |
[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss] |
| 2503 |
>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive. |
| 2504 |
[...] |
| 2505 |
> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice. |
| 2506 |
"Windows is broken." |
| 2507 |
% |
| 2508 |
[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:] |
| 2509 |
Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient |
| 2510 |
is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils. |
| 2511 |
% |
| 2512 |
[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist |
| 2513 |
on being able to kill their children legally] |
| 2514 |
http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp |
| 2515 |
% |
| 2516 |
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test] |
| 2517 |
The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining |
| 2518 |
whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...] |
| 2519 |
% |
| 2520 |
[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html] |
| 2521 |
"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe |
| 2522 |
that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become |
| 2523 |
the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you |
| 2524 |
personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected |
| 2525 |
by law enforcement policies all over the country." |
| 2526 |
-- |
| 2527 |
"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush |
| 2528 |
administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the |
| 2529 |
war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and |
| 2530 |
rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a |
| 2531 |
reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom |
| 2532 |
DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated |
| 2533 |
wasteful government spending." |
| 2534 |
% |
| 2535 |
[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!] |
| 2536 |
http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html |
| 2537 |
% |
| 2538 |
[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: <SLAP> <SLAP> Wake up!] |
| 2539 |
http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html |
| 2540 |
% |
| 2541 |
["It's such a moving story, it must be true"] |
| 2542 |
http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277 |
| 2543 |
% |
| 2544 |
[Pencil Carving] |
| 2545 |
http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html |
| 2546 |
% |
| 2547 |
[Copyright] |
| 2548 |
http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html |
| 2549 |
% |
| 2550 |
[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit] |
| 2551 |
http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236 |
| 2552 |
% |
| 2553 |
23:10 <mmead> schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen |
| 2554 |
captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the |
| 2555 |
nation from terrorist attacks. |
| 2556 |
23:10 <mmead> A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers |
| 2557 |
necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United |
| 2558 |
States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said. |
| 2559 |
23:10 <mmead> The decision by a three-judge panel was written by Judge J. Michael Luttig, who sources have said is under |
| 2560 |
consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 2561 |
% |
| 2562 |
[Looks extreme] |
| 2563 |
http://www.counterpunch.org/ |
| 2564 |
% |
| 2565 |
[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans] |
| 2566 |
"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the |
| 2567 |
foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing |
| 2568 |
their weapons over our heads." |
| 2569 |
http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html |
| 2570 |
% |
| 2571 |
[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates] |
| 2572 |
http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg |
| 2573 |
% |
| 2574 |
[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/] |
| 2575 |
Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care |
| 2576 |
about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user |
| 2577 |
space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the |
| 2578 |
sole reason for the existance of cygwin. |
| 2579 |
% |
| 2580 |
[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php] |
| 2581 |
% |
| 2582 |
The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite |
| 2583 |
several requests for clarification. |
| 2584 |
|
| 2585 |
Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed, |
| 2586 |
not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control |
| 2587 |
unter TCG definitions. |
| 2588 |
% |
| 2589 |
But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to |
| 2590 |
force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the |
| 2591 |
policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you |
| 2592 |
do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to. |
| 2593 |
% |
| 2594 |
It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts |
| 2595 |
terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to |
| 2596 |
get people on board. |
| 2597 |
% |
| 2598 |
To have a secure computer, you must download the latest |
| 2599 |
patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must |
| 2600 |
accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary |
| 2601 |
DRM. |
| 2602 |
|
| 2603 |
The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be |
| 2604 |
injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed. |
| 2605 |
% |
| 2606 |
[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109] |
| 2607 |
switch ($decade) { |
| 2608 |
case "the 50's": |
| 2609 |
s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g; |
| 2610 |
break; |
| 2611 |
case "the 60's": |
| 2612 |
s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g; |
| 2613 |
break; |
| 2614 |
case "the 70's": |
| 2615 |
s/the Boogyman/disco/g; |
| 2616 |
break; |
| 2617 |
case "the 80's": |
| 2618 |
s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g; |
| 2619 |
break; |
| 2620 |
case "the 90's": |
| 2621 |
s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g; |
| 2622 |
break; |
| 2623 |
case "the 00's": |
| 2624 |
s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g; |
| 2625 |
break; |
| 2626 |
} |
| 2627 |
% |
| 2628 |
http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html |
| 2629 |
|
| 2630 |
"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included |
| 2631 |
in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the |
| 2632 |
assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking |
| 2633 |
suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears" |
| 2634 |
|
| 2635 |
"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches |
| 2636 |
at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises |
| 2637 |
thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter." |
| 2638 |
|
| 2639 |
""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean, |
| 2640 |
why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I |
| 2641 |
fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of |
| 2642 |
that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That |
| 2643 |
is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a |
| 2644 |
sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a |
| 2645 |
latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to |
| 2646 |
question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am |
| 2647 |
I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my |
| 2648 |
plastic lover, pondering my existence." |
| 2649 |
% |
| 2650 |
"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said |
| 2651 |
that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is |
| 2652 |
married or unmarried." |
| 2653 |
|
| 2654 |
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102 |
| 2655 |
http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml |
| 2656 |
http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml |
| 2657 |
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556 |
| 2658 |
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324 |
| 2659 |
% |
| 2660 |
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996 |
| 2661 |
|
| 2662 |
[I like this comparison between of and watching television:] |
| 2663 |
Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned |
| 2664 |
to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to |
| 2665 |
watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these |
| 2666 |
are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or |
| 2667 |
conditioning. |
| 2668 |
|
| 2669 |
[And this is religion at its best:] |
| 2670 |
Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the |
| 2671 |
Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced |
| 2672 |
this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire. |
| 2673 |
% |
| 2674 |
[Racism] |
| 2675 |
http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/ |
| 2676 |
% |
| 2677 |
[A link, just a link] |
| 2678 |
http://www.oilcrisis.com/ |
| 2679 |
% |
| 2680 |
As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to |
| 2681 |
the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through. |
| 2682 |
|
| 2683 |
I apologise for this. |
| 2684 |
|
| 2685 |
If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow |
| 2686 |
me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now. |
| 2687 |
% |
| 2688 |
PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs |
| 2689 |
induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern |
| 2690 |
el says: ich kenn da wen |
| 2691 |
el says: bei dem wars so |
| 2692 |
[...] |
| 2693 |
PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert |
| 2694 |
el says: und bekam augenkrebs |
| 2695 |
el says: gehirntumor auch |
| 2696 |
el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war |
| 2697 |
% |
| 2698 |
wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg |
| 2699 |
% |
| 2700 |
[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make |
| 2701 |
no sense in the kernel] |
| 2702 |
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> |
| 2703 |
|
| 2704 |
[...] |
| 2705 |
|
| 2706 |
Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical |
| 2707 |
models. |
| 2708 |
|
| 2709 |
In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical |
| 2710 |
models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that |
| 2711 |
they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand. |
| 2712 |
% |
| 2713 |
[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638] |
| 2714 |
There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded |
| 2715 |
contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn. |
| 2716 |
-- |
| 2717 |
Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure. |
| 2718 |
-- |
| 2719 |
This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that |
| 2720 |
you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't |
| 2721 |
like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to |
| 2722 |
jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue. |
| 2723 |
% |
| 2724 |
An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of |
| 2725 |
Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since |
| 2726 |
1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist |
| 2727 |
attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear |
| 2728 |
strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military |
| 2729 |
forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland." |
| 2730 |
<http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html> |
| 2731 |
[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15] |
| 2732 |
% |
| 2733 |
[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote, |
| 2734 |
which you currently do not posess] |
| 2735 |
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html |
| 2736 |
% |
| 2737 |
Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!" |
| 2738 |
Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere." |
| 2739 |
[Nach: Time Bandits] |
| 2740 |
% |
| 2741 |
http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html |
| 2742 |
% |
| 2743 |
Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off |
| 2744 |
a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.." |
| 2745 |
% |
| 2746 |
Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures |
| 2747 |
is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of |
| 2748 |
paragraphs. |
| 2749 |
% |
| 2750 |
[the average IQ seems to be declining] |
| 2751 |
http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html |
| 2752 |
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/ |
| 2753 |
% |
| 2754 |
[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219] |
| 2755 |
> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats |
| 2756 |
|
| 2757 |
Most catholics aren't American. |
| 2758 |
% |
| 2759 |
[Some things possibly cannot exist...] |
| 2760 |
|
| 2761 |
[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html] |
| 2762 |
In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted |
| 2763 |
Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy |
| 2764 |
against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly |
| 2765 |
fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4 |
| 2766 |
|
| 2767 |
[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939] |
| 2768 |
How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets |
| 2769 |
% |
| 2770 |
[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html] |
| 2771 |
Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he |
| 2772 |
replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion, |
| 2773 |
because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing |
| 2774 |
civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of |
| 2775 |
criminals." |
| 2776 |
% |
| 2777 |
The Black Hole in the Galactic Center |
| 2778 |
[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html] |
| 2779 |
% |
| 2780 |
To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more |
| 2781 |
than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac |
| 2782 |
% |
| 2783 |
[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination] |
| 2784 |
http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml |
| 2785 |
% |
| 2786 |
The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem |
| 2787 |
I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and |
| 2788 |
card (They went up in flames). |
| 2789 |
% |
| 2790 |
05:46 <mmead> AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that |
| 2791 |
it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two |
| 2792 |
higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action |
| 2793 |
was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's |
| 2794 |
white flag factories, disabling their military. |
| 2795 |
05:47 <mmead> it's obviously been recirculated recently: |
| 2796 |
http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html |
| 2797 |
% |
| 2798 |
[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much |
| 2799 |
we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part |
| 2800 |
by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.] |
| 2801 |
|
| 2802 |
"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff." |
| 2803 |
|
| 2804 |
[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt] |
| 2805 |
% |
| 2806 |
[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/] |
| 2807 |
Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to |
| 2808 |
the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card |
| 2809 |
application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to |
| 2810 |
violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any |
| 2811 |
elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no", |
| 2812 |
but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide |
| 2813 |
a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind |
| 2814 |
of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway. |
| 2815 |
-- |
| 2816 |
Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number |
| 2817 |
of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these |
| 2818 |
people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all... |
| 2819 |
but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so |
| 2820 |
the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the |
| 2821 |
explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins. |
| 2822 |
% |
| 2823 |
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html |
| 2824 |
The Obfuscated V contest |
| 2825 |
% |
| 2826 |
Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires |
| 2827 |
soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles, |
| 2828 |
shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and |
| 2829 |
cigarette lighters." |
| 2830 |
http://tinyurl.com/7z8my |
| 2831 |
% |
| 2832 |
<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/> |
| 2833 |
Does it run under Windows ? |
| 2834 |
- Who cares? |
| 2835 |
% |
| 2836 |
[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?] |
| 2837 |
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html |
| 2838 |
% |
| 2839 |
http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html |
| 2840 |
Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO |
| 2841 |
[...] |
| 2842 |
Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed! |
| 2843 |
[...] |
| 2844 |
Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up |
| 2845 |
to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask |
| 2846 |
is (remember: the room is completely darkened). |
| 2847 |
% |
| 2848 |
[de.alt.ufo] |
| 2849 |
> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die |
| 2850 |
> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im |
| 2851 |
> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO- |
| 2852 |
> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.- |
| 2853 |
> www.ufo-finder.de |
| 2854 |
> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht |
| 2855 |
> mehr! |
| 2856 |
> richy. |
| 2857 |
|
| 2858 |
Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen?? |
| 2859 |
% |
| 2860 |
[de.alt.ufo] |
| 2861 |
> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit |
| 2862 |
> zugetragen hat? |
| 2863 |
|
| 2864 |
Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst, |
| 2865 |
warum behauptest Du es dann? |
| 2866 |
[später] |
| 2867 |
> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit? |
| 2868 |
|
| 2869 |
Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg. |
| 2870 |
Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes |
| 2871 |
naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen: |
| 2872 |
ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts, |
| 2873 |
aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus. |
| 2874 |
|
| 2875 |
Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos. |
| 2876 |
|
| 2877 |
Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet |
| 2878 |
von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast, |
| 2879 |
ist eigentlich selbst schuld. |
| 2880 |
% |
| 2881 |
[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel] |
| 2882 |
Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen, |
| 2883 |
dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen. |
| 2884 |
% |
| 2885 |
[res_nsend.c] |
| 2886 |
/* give the hook another try */ |
| 2887 |
if (++loops < 42) /*doug adams*/ |
| 2888 |
break; |
| 2889 |
% |
| 2890 |
[sr_port/mdq.h] |
| 2891 |
/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl" |
| 2892 |
in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */ |
| 2893 |
#define dqadd(o,n,q) ((o)->q.fl->q.bl=(n)->q.bl,(n)->q.bl->q.fl=(o)->q.fl,(o)->q.fl=(n)->q.fl,(n)->q.fl->q.bl=(o)) |
| 2894 |
% |
| 2895 |
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. |
| 2896 |
% |
| 2897 |
* Andreas Waechter <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [06-25-05 00:58]: |
| 2898 |
> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the |
| 2899 |
> current settings of the list. |
| 2900 |
> |
| 2901 |
> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to |
| 2902 |
> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of |
| 2903 |
> the original sender, not the list. |
| 2904 |
> |
| 2905 |
> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply |
| 2906 |
> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender |
| 2907 |
> as TO). |
| 2908 |
> |
| 2909 |
> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list. |
| 2910 |
|
| 2911 |
Your *mail* client is *not* being blamed. It is *your* |
| 2912 |
responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it |
| 2913 |
*is* your responsibility to see that *your* posts are properly |
| 2914 |
addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are |
| 2915 |
being discourteous to. |
| 2916 |
|
| 2917 |
The *fault* is *all* yours. It is/was your choice. |
| 2918 |
-- |
| 2919 |
Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 |
| 2920 |
% |
| 2921 |
[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/] |
| 2922 |
"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so." |
| 2923 |
% |
| 2924 |
An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption |
| 2925 |
software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent. |
| 2926 |
http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581 |
| 2927 |
http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html |
| 2928 |
http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm |
| 2929 |
% |
| 2930 |
[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm] |
| 2931 |
"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said |
| 2932 |
what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ... |
| 2933 |
you don't have any'." |
| 2934 |
|
| 2935 |
[I also am very fond of this quote:] |
| 2936 |
"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I |
| 2937 |
would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy." |
| 2938 |
[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...] |
| 2939 |
% |
| 2940 |
[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En] |
| 2941 |
Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until |
| 2942 |
3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer |
| 2943 |
Implemented Inventions Common Position! |
| 2944 |
% |
| 2945 |
[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm] |
| 2946 |
The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the |
| 2947 |
execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays |
| 2948 |
should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code. |
| 2949 |
Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good |
| 2950 |
reason will not win many fans. |
| 2951 |
|
| 2952 |
[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice |
| 2953 |
documents in the algorithm section] |
| 2954 |
% |
| 2955 |
["Blue in the Face"] |
| 2956 |
Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses |
| 2957 |
irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert... |
| 2958 |
und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden |
| 2959 |
die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen... |
| 2960 |
|
| 2961 |
Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York. |
| 2962 |
% |
| 2963 |
And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central |
| 2964 |
Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear |
| 2965 |
that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format |
| 2966 |
of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey |
| 2967 |
Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3. |
| 2968 |
[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html] |
| 2969 |
% |
| 2970 |
[Better know what they actually do...] |
| 2971 |
[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung] |
| 2972 |
http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf |
| 2973 |
[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks] |
| 2974 |
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt |
| 2975 |
% |
| 2976 |
[rfc4096] |
| 2977 |
The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was |
| 2978 |
amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left |
| 2979 |
or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say, |
| 2980 |
the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic |
| 2981 |
Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly. |
| 2982 |
% |
| 2983 |
[just a really nice md5sum] |
| 2984 |
99421268df476006401f11f96b655248 |
| 2985 |
% |
| 2986 |
[a comment in some g729 sample implementation] |
| 2987 |
* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com |
| 2988 |
* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking |
| 2989 |
* at their price list. |
| 2990 |
% |
| 2991 |
[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921] |
| 2992 |
You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single |
| 2993 |
time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who |
| 2994 |
wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've |
| 2995 |
had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null |
| 2996 |
terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the |
| 2997 |
level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use. |
| 2998 |
% |
| 2999 |
21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken |
| 3000 |
21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :) |
| 3001 |
% |
| 3002 |
03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1 |
| 3003 |
03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja |
| 3004 |
03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1 |
| 3005 |
03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder |
| 3006 |
% |
| 3007 |
[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI] |
| 3008 |
http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf |
| 3009 |
% |
| 3010 |
[some SPAM] |
| 3011 |
Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken |
| 3012 |
% |
| 3013 |
cowsay -f head-in oink | cowthink -n -f sodomized |
| 3014 |
% |
| 3015 |
[star wars episode guide] |
| 3016 |
1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace |
| 3017 |
2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans |
| 3018 |
3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit |
| 3019 |
4 = Episode 4: A New Hope |
| 3020 |
5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.) |
| 3021 |
6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies). |
| 3022 |
[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411] |
| 3023 |
% |
| 3024 |
[God knows his enemies] |
| 3025 |
http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif |
| 3026 |
[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"] |
| 3027 |
http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless] |
| 3028 |
% |
| 3029 |
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/ |
| 3030 |
[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?] |
| 3031 |
% |
| 3032 |
[http://www.bildblog.de/] |
| 3033 |
Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die |
| 3034 |
rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt" |
| 3035 |
hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in |
| 3036 |
Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise. |
| 3037 |
|
| 3038 |
Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr: |
| 3039 |
|
| 3040 |
Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer |
| 3041 |
Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde |
| 3042 |
ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen |
| 3043 |
Zigarette sucht. |
| 3044 |
|
| 3045 |
Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr: |
| 3046 |
|
| 3047 |
[usw.] |
| 3048 |
|
| 3049 |
Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie" |
| 3050 |
geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den |
| 3051 |
bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind: |
| 3052 |
|
| 3053 |
Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine |
| 3054 |
brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes |
| 3055 |
Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50 |
| 3056 |
Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn |
| 3057 |
der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht. |
| 3058 |
% |
| 3059 |
[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...] |
| 3060 |
http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html |
| 3061 |
http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html |
| 3062 |
% |
| 3063 |
[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229] |
| 3064 |
Which fanboy are you? |
| 3065 |
|
| 3066 |
1. Windows |
| 3067 |
|
| 3068 |
You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother |
| 3069 |
would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling |
| 3070 |
in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but |
| 3071 |
in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from |
| 3072 |
MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn |
| 3073 |
to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk |
| 3074 |
about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be |
| 3075 |
"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up |
| 3076 |
dates in bars but women laugh at you. |
| 3077 |
|
| 3078 |
2. Apple |
| 3079 |
|
| 3080 |
You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall |
| 3081 |
in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment |
| 3082 |
next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture |
| 3083 |
is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve" |
| 3084 |
would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller |
| 3085 |
Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because |
| 3086 |
they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them |
| 3087 |
you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you. |
| 3088 |
|
| 3089 |
3. Linspire |
| 3090 |
|
| 3091 |
You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have |
| 3092 |
too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at |
| 3093 |
pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you |
| 3094 |
continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he |
| 3095 |
installed Linspire on your machine. |
| 3096 |
|
| 3097 |
4. Umbongo |
| 3098 |
|
| 3099 |
You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the |
| 3100 |
multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this |
| 3101 |
operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you |
| 3102 |
knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee |
| 3103 |
houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations |
| 3104 |
such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have |
| 3105 |
very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would |
| 3106 |
never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading |
| 3107 |
themselves. |
| 3108 |
|
| 3109 |
5. Gentoy |
| 3110 |
|
| 3111 |
You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy |
| 3112 |
yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even |
| 3113 |
Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes |
| 3114 |
from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your |
| 3115 |
matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried |
| 3116 |
to tell you that your house violates every known building code and |
| 3117 |
law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't |
| 3118 |
read those complicated regulatory documents. |
| 3119 |
|
| 3120 |
6. Linux From Scratch |
| 3121 |
|
| 3122 |
Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic |
| 3123 |
sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from |
| 3124 |
matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the |
| 3125 |
matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next |
| 3126 |
because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to |
| 3127 |
alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far |
| 3128 |
and no one has replied. You remain hopeful. |
| 3129 |
% |
| 3130 |
[/usr/bin/cowsay] |
| 3131 |
if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek! |
| 3132 |
% |
| 3133 |
[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement] |
| 3134 |
|
| 3135 |
In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more |
| 3136 |
in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution... |
| 3137 |
|
| 3138 |
Coda 6.0.10 is out |
| 3139 |
% |
| 3140 |
<opine@orifice2.com> wrote: |
| 3141 |
|
| 3142 |
> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote |
| 3143 |
> |
| 3144 |
> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die |
| 3145 |
> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4 |
| 3146 |
> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem |
| 3147 |
> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch |
| 3148 |
> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte? |
| 3149 |
> |
| 3150 |
> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the |
| 3151 |
> smell attracting flies of course... |
| 3152 |
> |
| 3153 |
I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this |
| 3154 |
request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along. |
| 3155 |
cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte |
| 3156 |
% |
| 3157 |
00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte |
| 3158 |
% |
| 3159 |
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce |
| 3160 |
% |
| 3161 |
98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%. |
| 3162 |
% |
| 3163 |
[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC |
| 3164 |
show "Correspondent"] |
| 3165 |
|
| 3166 |
[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many |
| 3167 |
years, long before even anybody knew what reality was. |
| 3168 |
|
| 3169 |
[so know we know who creates reality now] |
| 3170 |
% |
| 3171 |
[from wordnet] |
| 3172 |
cock sucking, blowjob |
| 3173 |
=> fellatio, fellation |
| 3174 |
=> oral sex, head |
| 3175 |
=> perversion, sexual perversion |
| 3176 |
=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity |
| 3177 |
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity |
| 3178 |
=> organic process, biological process |
| 3179 |
=> process |
| 3180 |
=> phenomenon |
| 3181 |
% |
| 3182 |
10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out |
| 3183 |
10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text |
| 3184 |
% |
| 3185 |
[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//] |
| 3186 |
[slightly edited] |
| 3187 |
Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America |
| 3188 |
(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more |
| 3189 |
than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is |
| 3190 |
that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated. |
| 3191 |
|
| 3192 |
About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is |
| 3193 |
sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new |
| 3194 |
laws on terrorism and drugs. |
| 3195 |
|
| 3196 |
Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody |
| 3197 |
told them about emancipation proclamation?). |
| 3198 |
% |
| 3199 |
"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren." |
| 3200 |
(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>) |
| 3201 |
% |
| 3202 |
Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the |
| 3203 |
advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy. |
| 3204 |
% |
| 3205 |
A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for. |
| 3206 |
I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing |
| 3207 |
realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy. |
| 3208 |
- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson |
| 3209 |
% |
| 3210 |
"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads" |
| 3211 |
- oesi |
| 3212 |
% |
| 3213 |
[US, Metric] |
| 3214 |
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html |
| 3215 |
% |
| 3216 |
[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal] |
| 3217 |
[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting] |
| 3218 |
Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM |
| 3219 |
Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments | #23269 ] |
| 3220 |
|
| 3221 |
It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up, |
| 3222 |
started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of |
| 3223 |
important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and |
| 3224 |
increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me |
| 3225 |
to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this |
| 3226 |
post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used |
| 3227 |
to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was |
| 3228 |
that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to |
| 3229 |
spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids |
| 3230 |
have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from |
| 3231 |
your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They |
| 3232 |
seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to |
| 3233 |
truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now |
| 3234 |
days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for |
| 3235 |
their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much |
| 3236 |
more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a |
| 3237 |
few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments |
| 3238 |
yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange |
| 3239 |
for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of |
| 3240 |
Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a |
| 3241 |
servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly |
| 3242 |
becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the |
| 3243 |
ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past |
| 3244 |
petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users. |
| 3245 |
|
| 3246 |
This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed, |
| 3247 |
rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a |
| 3248 |
fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far |
| 3249 |
more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small |
| 3250 |
repute yourself and initially forego payment. |
| 3251 |
|
| 3252 |
Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related |
| 3253 |
tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the |
| 3254 |
basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when |
| 3255 |
appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of |
| 3256 |
subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never |
| 3257 |
question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching |
| 3258 |
as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none, |
| 3259 |
and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were |
| 3260 |
not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain |
| 3261 |
perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of |
| 3262 |
the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise. |
| 3263 |
|
| 3264 |
In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl |
| 3265 |
programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched |
| 3266 |
some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on |
| 3267 |
their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment |
| 3268 |
myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever |
| 3269 |
student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period |
| 3270 |
of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and |
| 3271 |
trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding |
| 3272 |
of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see |
| 3273 |
everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go |
| 3274 |
unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a |
| 3275 |
sovereign nation. |
| 3276 |
|
| 3277 |
While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on |
| 3278 |
jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the |
| 3279 |
hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to |
| 3280 |
sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a |
| 3281 |
test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides |
| 3282 |
CSPAN, don't post here. |
| 3283 |
|
| 3284 |
-scott |
| 3285 |
% |
| 3286 |
But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a |
| 3287 |
University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain |
| 3288 |
capacity to feel pain. |
| 3289 |
|
| 3290 |
"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works |
| 3291 |
as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission. |
| 3292 |
% |
| 3293 |
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows |
| 3294 |
From: Sven Neumann |
| 3295 |
|
| 3296 |
Hi, |
| 3297 |
|
| 3298 |
Rubén de Diego Martínez writes: |
| 3299 |
> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it? |
| 3300 |
|
| 3301 |
Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them |
| 3302 |
that |
| 3303 |
|
| 3304 |
ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL); |
| 3305 |
|
| 3306 |
does not do what you would expect it to do. |
| 3307 |
% |
| 3308 |
http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg |
| 3309 |
the original comment says: |
| 3310 |
This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test. |
| 3311 |
Waiting at the gate means you fail. |
| 3312 |
% |
| 3313 |
{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn |
| 3314 |
{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen |
| 3315 |
{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus |
| 3316 |
{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster |
| 3317 |
{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja |
| 3318 |
{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :) |
| 3319 |
% |
| 3320 |
[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still |
| 3321 |
interesting read] |
| 3322 |
http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html |
| 3323 |
% |
| 3324 |
[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference] |
| 3325 |
http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/ |
| 3326 |
http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm |
| 3327 |
% |
| 3328 |
In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked |
| 3329 |
gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for |
| 3330 |
various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks |
| 3331 |
linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not |
| 3332 |
the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the |
| 3333 |
locks can open the gate. |
| 3334 |
|
| 3335 |
This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's |
| 3336 |
simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want, |
| 3337 |
with different locks in parallel and in series. |
| 3338 |
% |
| 3339 |
http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf |
| 3340 |
Safecracking for the computer scientist |
| 3341 |
% |
| 3342 |
Fact: Something that you observe to be true. |
| 3343 |
|
| 3344 |
Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground |
| 3345 |
|
| 3346 |
Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new |
| 3347 |
species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory |
| 3348 |
and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process |
| 3349 |
'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more |
| 3350 |
explanation of this. |
| 3351 |
|
| 3352 |
Theory: An explanation of an observation |
| 3353 |
|
| 3354 |
Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space, |
| 3355 |
which explains why the hammer falls. |
| 3356 |
|
| 3357 |
Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains |
| 3358 |
how a population's genome can change over time. |
| 3359 |
|
| 3360 |
Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a |
| 3361 |
mathematical relationship between two values. |
| 3362 |
|
| 3363 |
Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the |
| 3364 |
brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance. |
| 3365 |
|
| 3366 |
Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times |
| 3367 |
acceleration. |
| 3368 |
|
| 3369 |
Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory |
| 3370 |
of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of |
| 3371 |
evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of |
| 3372 |
evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian |
| 3373 |
evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining |
| 3374 |
useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have |
| 3375 |
longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach |
| 3376 |
high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be |
| 3377 |
false. |
| 3378 |
|
| 3379 |
[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)] |
| 3380 |
% |
| 3381 |
[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling, |
| 3382 |
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003] |
| 3383 |
|
| 3384 |
Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und |
| 3385 |
Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten |
| 3386 |
sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit |
| 3387 |
Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft |
| 3388 |
und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich |
| 3389 |
und wollen andere nicht dominieren. |
| 3390 |
|
| 3391 |
Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal, |
| 3392 |
Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich |
| 3393 |
außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die |
| 3394 |
sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf |
| 3395 |
sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die |
| 3396 |
Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig, |
| 3397 |
risikobereit und körperlich aktiv. |
| 3398 |
|
| 3399 |
Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling |
| 3400 |
Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik |
| 3401 |
(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein |
| 3402 |
umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich, |
| 3403 |
fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen |
| 3404 |
sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine |
| 3405 |
Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für |
| 3406 |
sportlich. |
| 3407 |
|
| 3408 |
Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap, |
| 3409 |
Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er |
| 3410 |
ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein |
| 3411 |
wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives |
| 3412 |
Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern. |
| 3413 |
|
| 3414 |
Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden |
| 3415 |
Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem |
| 3416 |
Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe. |
| 3417 |
während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon |
| 3418 |
vorzuweisen hat. |
| 3419 |
|
| 3420 |
"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die |
| 3421 |
Forscher. |
| 3422 |
% |
| 3423 |
[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and |
| 3424 |
the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a |
| 3425 |
EULA-style license] |
| 3426 |
http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453 |
| 3427 |
% |
| 3428 |
The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users |
| 3429 |
a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a |
| 3430 |
cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's |
| 3431 |
pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware, |
| 3432 |
Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country |
| 3433 |
in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion |
| 3434 |
of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up. |
| 3435 |
% |
| 3436 |
Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman) |
| 3437 |
% |
| 3438 |
[Happy New Year] |
| 3439 |
23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus] |
| 3440 |
Day changed to 01 Jan 2005 |
| 3441 |
00:24 <schmorp> re |
| 3442 |
% |
| 3443 |
[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php] |
| 3444 |
Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente |
| 3445 |
liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden |
| 3446 |
sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer |
| 3447 |
wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen. |
| 3448 |
% |
| 3449 |
[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk" |
| 3450 |
bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the |
| 3451 |
proponents of such theories.] |
| 3452 |
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm |
| 3453 |
"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret |
| 3454 |
evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers |
| 3455 |
took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with |
| 3456 |
`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of |
| 3457 |
spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same |
| 3458 |
procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford |
| 3459 |
University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph, |
| 3460 |
it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by |
| 3461 |
intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it |
| 3462 |
(below, right)." |
| 3463 |
% |
| 3464 |
[wonderful info...] |
| 3465 |
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/ |
| 3466 |
[useful info...] |
| 3467 |
http://www.snopes.com/ |
| 3468 |
% |
| 3469 |
Computer analyst to programmer: |
| 3470 |
"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want." |
| 3471 |
% |
| 3472 |
[Fun!] |
| 3473 |
http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm |
| 3474 |
% |
| 3475 |
[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All] |
| 3476 |
"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre |
| 3477 |
Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein." |
| 3478 |
% |
| 3479 |
[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true] |
| 3480 |
ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true |
| 3481 |
#!/usr/bin/sh |
| 3482 |
# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T |
| 3483 |
# All Rights Reserved |
| 3484 |
|
| 3485 |
# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T |
| 3486 |
# The copyright notice above does not evidence any |
| 3487 |
# actual or intended publication of such source code. |
| 3488 |
|
| 3489 |
#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */ |
| 3490 |
ddev5:~$ |
| 3491 |
% |
| 3492 |
22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert |
| 3493 |
22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept? |
| 3494 |
22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;) |
| 3495 |
% |
| 3496 |
[Gtk2/Makefile.PL] |
| 3497 |
# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but |
| 3498 |
# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib. |
| 3499 |
# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation |
| 3500 |
# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when |
| 3501 |
# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files. |
| 3502 |
# |
| 3503 |
# say it with me: "i hate win32." |
| 3504 |
% |
| 3505 |
Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59 |
| 3506 |
Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt |
| 3507 |
worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender. |
| 3508 |
-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/> |
| 3509 |
% |
| 3510 |
http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif |
| 3511 |
% |
| 3512 |
[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm] |
| 3513 |
Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen |
| 3514 |
gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt. |
| 3515 |
% |
| 3516 |
http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html |
| 3517 |
[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html |
| 3518 |
are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.] |
| 3519 |
% |
| 3520 |
http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/ |
| 3521 |
% |
| 3522 |
[From: CRYPTO-GRAM] |
| 3523 |
Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been |
| 3524 |
Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing |
| 3525 |
that you have a problem.) |
| 3526 |
<http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1> |
| 3527 |
% |
| 3528 |
[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process] |
| 3529 |
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND |
| 3530 |
25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01 |
| 3531 |
26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl |
| 3532 |
|
| 3533 |
[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked |
| 3534 |
and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...] |
| 3535 |
% |
| 3536 |
That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different |
| 3537 |
sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them: |
| 3538 |
|
| 3539 |
Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable |
| 3540 |
declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness, |
| 3541 |
etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing |
| 3542 |
exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other |
| 3543 |
programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks |
| 3544 |
because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1 |
| 3545 |
code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also |
| 3546 |
it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly |
| 3547 |
less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call |
| 3548 |
themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single |
| 3549 |
namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing |
| 3550 |
techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are |
| 3551 |
that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff |
| 3552 |
got implemented in main-stream compilers. |
| 3553 |
|
| 3554 |
Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term |
| 3555 |
"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming |
| 3556 |
paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to |
| 3557 |
create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend |
| 3558 |
programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is |
| 3559 |
hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like |
| 3560 |
MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in: |
| 3561 |
% |
| 3562 |
[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:] |
| 3563 |
|
| 3564 |
Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you *only* |
| 3565 |
have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I |
| 3566 |
doubt any game or even system runs for that long. |
| 3567 |
% |
| 3568 |
[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html] |
| 3569 |
"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer |
| 3570 |
knows this, and it's true for software too. |
| 3571 |
% |
| 3572 |
> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL" |
| 3573 |
|
| 3574 |
... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!" |
| 3575 |
;) |
| 3576 |
% |
| 3577 |
[this is not a blogggggg] |
| 3578 |
One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline, |
| 3579 |
having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the |
| 3580 |
proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with: |
| 3581 |
|
| 3582 |
NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors |
| 3583 |
|
| 3584 |
Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any |
| 3585 |
framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either... |
| 3586 |
% |
| 3587 |
[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody |
| 3588 |
using so many abbreviations...] |
| 3589 |
|
| 3590 |
Hi Volker - |
| 3591 |
|
| 3592 |
alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat |
| 3593 |
Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu |
| 3594 |
spät ... |
| 3595 |
|
| 3596 |
Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...) |
| 3597 |
|
| 3598 |
Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA .. |
| 3599 |
|
| 3600 |
schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im |
| 3601 |
nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...) |
| 3602 |
|
| 3603 |
herzliche Grüsse |
| 3604 |
|
| 3605 |
tom |
| 3606 |
|
| 3607 |
PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema |
| 3608 |
'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV |
| 3609 |
... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b. |
| 3610 |
Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ... |
| 3611 |
schon ein paar Wochen her ...) |
| 3612 |
% |
| 3613 |
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> |
| 3614 |
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
| 3615 |
Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com> |
| 3616 |
|
| 3617 |
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: |
| 3618 |
> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion |
| 3619 |
> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with |
| 3620 |
> someone else? |
| 3621 |
|
| 3622 |
Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS |
| 3623 |
=================================================================== |
| 3624 |
--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700 |
| 3625 |
+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700 |
| 3626 |
@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@ |
| 3627 |
S: 79098 Freiburg |
| 3628 |
S: Germany |
| 3629 |
|
| 3630 |
+N: Hans Reiser |
| 3631 |
+E: reiser@namesys.com |
| 3632 |
+W: http://www.namesys.com/ |
| 3633 |
+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic |
| 3634 |
+S: 6979 Exeter Dr |
| 3635 |
+S: Oakland, CA 94611 |
| 3636 |
+S: USA |
| 3637 |
+ |
| 3638 |
N: Joerg Reuter |
| 3639 |
E: jreuter@yaina.de |
| 3640 |
W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/ |
| 3641 |
% |
| 3642 |
Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief": |
| 3643 |
[poeppel_magenta.gif] |
| 3644 |
% |
| 3645 |
[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security] |
| 3646 |
Better ligthing does not affect crime rates |
| 3647 |
% |
| 3648 |
[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf] |
| 3649 |
Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph" |
| 3650 |
% |
| 3651 |
[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)] |
| 3652 |
[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864] |
| 3653 |
[...] |
| 3654 |
Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is |
| 3655 |
within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets |
| 3656 |
$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they |
| 3657 |
ever visit Sydney, Australia ;) |
| 3658 |
[...] |
| 3659 |
Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward - |
| 3660 |
$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that |
| 3661 |
(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute |
| 3662 |
to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in.. |
| 3663 |
% |
| 3664 |
[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html] |
| 3665 |
[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html] |
| 3666 |
Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen |
| 3667 |
Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener |
| 3668 |
Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter |
| 3669 |
Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na |
| 3670 |
% |
| 3671 |
[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html] |
| 3672 |
[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel |
| 3673 |
button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't |
| 3674 |
fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will |
| 3675 |
be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by |
| 3676 |
clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not |
| 3677 |
to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards |
| 3678 |
anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it |
| 3679 |
anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...] |
| 3680 |
% |
| 3681 |
[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html] |
| 3682 |
I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I |
| 3683 |
picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula: |
| 3684 |
A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay. |
| 3685 |
% |
| 3686 |
[bts show 215647] |
| 3687 |
[yes, the whole thing] |
| 3688 |
% |
| 3689 |
[bts show 254316] |
| 3690 |
> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap; |
| 3691 |
> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first |
| 3692 |
> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022. |
| 3693 |
> |
| 3694 |
> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-) |
| 3695 |
|
| 3696 |
We'll use a larger wall. |
| 3697 |
% |
| 3698 |
[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB] |
| 3699 |
This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a |
| 3700 |
horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed |
| 3701 |
by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch. |
| 3702 |
|
| 3703 |
The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a |
| 3704 |
non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends. |
| 3705 |
|
| 3706 |
There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah, |
| 3707 |
but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned. |
| 3708 |
|
| 3709 |
It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all |
| 3710 |
cost. |
| 3711 |
["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?] |
| 3712 |
% |
| 3713 |
When searching on google for: |
| 3714 |
|
| 3715 |
kakerlake schabe made |
| 3716 |
|
| 3717 |
Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for: |
| 3718 |
|
| 3719 |
kakerlake _schwabe_ made |
| 3720 |
% |
| 3721 |
What we learned this week; |
| 3722 |
"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps" |
| 3723 |
% |
| 3724 |
"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are |
| 3725 |
Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago" |
| 3726 |
% |
| 3727 |
[translated] |
| 3728 |
23:07 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken |
| 3729 |
23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ... |
| 3730 |
23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration |
| 3731 |
23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag' |
| 3732 |
23:07 <schmorp> ... |
| 3733 |
23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu |
| 3734 |
23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu |
| 3735 |
23:07 <schmorp> and it works |
| 3736 |
% |
| 3737 |
History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other. |
| 3738 |
-- Lord Balfour |
| 3739 |
% |
| 3740 |
The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug. |
| 3741 |
% |
| 3742 |
<Beerman> When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then |
| 3743 |
I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked |
| 3744 |
him to forgive me. |
| 3745 |
% |
| 3746 |
[slashdot] |
| 3747 |
> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television |
| 3748 |
|
| 3749 |
I have been to NZ. You have no television. |
| 3750 |
% |
| 3751 |
[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski] |
| 3752 |
"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but |
| 3753 |
get bored during the sex scenes. |
| 3754 |
% |
| 3755 |
I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston |
| 3756 |
strangler is to the woman home alone. |
| 3757 |
- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA) |
| 3758 |
% |
| 3759 |
[Bruce Schneier] |
| 3760 |
SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is |
| 3761 |
widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly |
| 3762 |
pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me |
| 3763 |
to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more |
| 3764 |
secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit. |
| 3765 |
% |
| 3766 |
[From Paul Eggert] |
| 3767 |
[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this |
| 3768 |
violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a |
| 3769 |
HP-UX customer. [...] |
| 3770 |
% |
| 3771 |
>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH? |
| 3772 |
>> |
| 3773 |
>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are) |
| 3774 |
>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to |
| 3775 |
>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992) |
| 3776 |
>>spelled it in UC. |
| 3777 |
> |
| 3778 |
> |
| 3779 |
> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't. |
| 3780 |
|
| 3781 |
C isn't all caps, just the initial letter. |
| 3782 |
% |
| 3783 |
[comp.lang.c] |
| 3784 |
> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language |
| 3785 |
|
| 3786 |
I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C |
| 3787 |
usage. |
| 3788 |
|
| 3789 |
Richard |
| 3790 |
% |
| 3791 |
I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go |
| 3792 |
tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike |
| 3793 |
at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their |
| 3794 |
creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in |
| 3795 |
play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will |
| 3796 |
repair that weakness before your program notices it." |
| 3797 |
% |
| 3798 |
21:40 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :) |
| 3799 |
21:40 <sansho> oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt |
| 3800 |
% |
| 3801 |
MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected |
| 3802 |
% |
| 3803 |
A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are |
| 3804 |
competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that |
| 3805 |
make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you |
| 3806 |
don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You |
| 3807 |
will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to |
| 3808 |
anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth, |
| 3809 |
no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that |
| 3810 |
nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human |
| 3811 |
existence means and implies. |
| 3812 |
|
| 3813 |
[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz] |
| 3814 |
% |
| 3815 |
> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C. |
| 3816 |
> |
| 3817 |
> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and |
| 3818 |
> said you were wrong I'll get more... |
| 3819 |
> |
| 3820 |
> You're WRONG! |
| 3821 |
|
| 3822 |
void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3 |
| 3823 |
and §7.20.3.1). |
| 3824 |
% |
| 3825 |
From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> |
| 3826 |
In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really |
| 3827 |
knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none. |
| 3828 |
% |
| 3829 |
[another variation, more useful] |
| 3830 |
A. It should be obvious. |
| 3831 |
Q. How is it hard? |
| 3832 |
A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations. |
| 3833 |
Q. Why is top-posting bad? |
| 3834 |
% |
| 3835 |
[windows is a good place to learn programming] |
| 3836 |
Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....? |
| 3837 |
|
| 3838 |
Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris. |
| 3839 |
The error message was something like "can't execute a.out" |
| 3840 |
|
| 3841 |
- works ok on linux |
| 3842 |
- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx |
| 3843 |
|
| 3844 |
Any clues why? |
| 3845 |
I am new to the non windows world. |
| 3846 |
|
| 3847 |
Thanks |
| 3848 |
% |
| 3849 |
[comp.lang.c] |
| 3850 |
> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via |
| 3851 |
> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform |
| 3852 |
> this ? |
| 3853 |
|
| 3854 |
This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where |
| 3855 |
we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC. |
| 3856 |
% |
| 3857 |
[comp.std.c] |
| 3858 |
In message <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch> |
| 3859 |
Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote: |
| 3860 |
|
| 3861 |
> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes: |
| 3862 |
> |
| 3863 |
> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation. |
| 3864 |
> |
| 3865 |
> Yup, mine! |
| 3866 |
% |
| 3867 |
[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog] |
| 3868 |
Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas: |
| 3869 |
|
| 3870 |
Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit |
| 3871 |
% |
| 3872 |
[an old question, revisited] |
| 3873 |
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/ |
| 3874 |
% |
| 3875 |
[comp.lang.c] |
| 3876 |
> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes, |
| 3877 |
|
| 3878 |
This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into |
| 3879 |
obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++. |
| 3880 |
% |
| 3881 |
[comp.lang.c] |
| 3882 |
I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot. |
| 3883 |
% |
| 3884 |
according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-) |
| 3885 |
% |
| 3886 |
[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:] |
| 3887 |
Installing additional mozilla Debian packages |
| 3888 |
deletes additionally installed mozilla packages |
| 3889 |
% |
| 3890 |
[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt |
| 3891 |
aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als |
| 3892 |
Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie |
| 3893 |
DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...] |
| 3894 |
|
| 3895 |
"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt" |
| 3896 |
|
| 3897 |
Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode |
| 3898 |
dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht, |
| 3899 |
wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte |
| 3900 |
Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker |
| 3901 |
diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau |
| 3902 |
abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren |
| 3903 |
schützen können. |
| 3904 |
% |
| 3905 |
[Reiner Gamma] |
| 3906 |
http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm |
| 3907 |
% |
| 3908 |
>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read |
| 3909 |
[...] |
| 3910 |
>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult". |
| 3911 |
[...] |
| 3912 |
Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was |
| 3913 |
crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will |
| 3914 |
never get your message. |
| 3915 |
% |
| 3916 |
[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl] |
| 3917 |
As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32 |
| 3918 |
filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted. |
| 3919 |
% |
| 3920 |
[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html] |
| 3921 |
(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's |
| 3922 |
a sourceforge project called GT.M). |
| 3923 |
% |
| 3924 |
bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax |
| 3925 |
01:15 <Sesse> we all the backslashes? |
| 3926 |
01:15 <schmorp> no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too |
| 3927 |
01:15 <schmorp> it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change |
| 3928 |
01:15 <Sesse> sounds like php |
| 3929 |
01:15 <schmorp> i guess it's written in php |
| 3930 |
01:15 <schmorp> *g* |
| 3931 |
01:15 <Sesse> :-D |
| 3932 |
% |
| 3933 |
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/ |
| 3934 |
[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed, |
| 3935 |
since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I |
| 3936 |
think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself |
| 3937 |
when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally |
| 3938 |
reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to |
| 3939 |
work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain |
| 3940 |
dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...] |
| 3941 |
% |
| 3942 |
[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html] |
| 3943 |
[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily |
| 3944 |
disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...] |
| 3945 |
% |
| 3946 |
[Eugene Spafford] |
| 3947 |
During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of |
| 3948 |
email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for |
| 3949 |
Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating |
| 3950 |
systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix |
| 3951 |
systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence |
| 3952 |
of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences. |
| 3953 |
% |
| 3954 |
[http://MarginalHacks.com/] |
| 3955 |
If you can't vi it, it sucks. |
| 3956 |
% |
| 3957 |
[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq] |
| 3958 |
GNOME TERMINAL |
| 3959 |
[...] |
| 3960 |
The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the |
| 3961 |
author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program |
| 3962 |
fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi. |
| 3963 |
[.. later] |
| 3964 |
There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt |
| 3965 |
bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it |
| 3966 |
interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name. |
| 3967 |
% |
| 3968 |
[I *love* X programs] |
| 3969 |
[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c] |
| 3970 |
/* |
| 3971 |
* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing. |
| 3972 |
*/ |
| 3973 |
void blip() |
| 3974 |
{ |
| 3975 |
fflush(stdout); |
| 3976 |
fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n"); |
| 3977 |
fflush(stderr); |
| 3978 |
} |
| 3979 |
% |
| 3980 |
[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch] |
| 3981 |
+ int alternative_order = 999; |
| 3982 |
|
| 3983 |
Why not 666? :-). |
| 3984 |
% |
| 3985 |
[yosh on gimp-developer] |
| 3986 |
It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't |
| 3987 |
sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows |
| 3988 |
users are clueless. |
| 3989 |
% |
| 3990 |
[modularity makes unix systems more secure] |
| 3991 |
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html |
| 3992 |
% |
| 3993 |
[beware german translations] |
| 3994 |
dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen! |
| 3995 |
% |
| 3996 |
[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there] |
| 3997 |
NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes |
| 3998 |
% |
| 3999 |
The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that |
| 4000 |
is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se |
| 4001 |
and", and finally, ampersand. |
| 4002 |
% |
| 4003 |
[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c] |
| 4004 |
[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients |
| 4005 |
which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it |
| 4006 |
themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future, |
| 4007 |
when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...] |
| 4008 |
% |
| 4009 |
[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig] |
| 4010 |
WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you |
| 4011 |
use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't |
| 4012 |
destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother, |
| 4013 |
or re-appoint George W. Bush. |
| 4014 |
% |
| 4015 |
[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html] |
| 4016 |
Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming |
| 4017 |
the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like |
| 4018 |
sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau," |
| 4019 |
and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms |
| 4020 |
from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta" |
| 4021 |
[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at." |
| 4022 |
% |
| 4023 |
17:07 <oesi> schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch |
| 4024 |
die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an" |
| 4025 |
17:08 <oesi> Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?" |
| 4026 |
% |
| 4027 |
[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:] |
| 4028 |
Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this |
| 4029 |
standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written. |
| 4030 |
% |
| 4031 |
[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd] |
| 4032 |
confused about file platform.h -- ignoring |
| 4033 |
% |
| 4034 |
[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml] |
| 4035 |
And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it |
| 4036 |
is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't |
| 4037 |
ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence |
| 4038 |
% |
| 4039 |
http://www.bash.org/?178890 |
| 4040 |
% |
| 4041 |
[http://www.bash.org/?75016] |
| 4042 |
<ig3l|Guel> If Osama B. isn't in Afghanistan, and if he isn't dead, we believe he is in another country" - US army General |
| 4043 |
% |
| 4044 |
00:56 <oesi> ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail |
| 4045 |
nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs |
| 4046 |
einfach :) |
| 4047 |
00:56 <ulpfr> Weichei |
| 4048 |
% |
| 4049 |
[spca50x.sourceforge.net] |
| 4050 |
/* |
| 4051 |
* Function compares two strings. |
| 4052 |
* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate |
| 4053 |
* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise. |
| 4054 |
*/ |
| 4055 |
static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2) |
| 4056 |
{ |
| 4057 |
int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string |
| 4058 |
[...] |
| 4059 |
% |
| 4060 |
http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat |
| 4061 |
% |
| 4062 |
rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs |
| 4063 |
% |
| 4064 |
[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]] |
| 4065 |
/* grab colors before netscape does */ |
| 4066 |
Get_Colours (); |
| 4067 |
% |
| 4068 |
[oesi über apache-2.0] |
| 4069 |
03:10 <oesi> ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter... |
| 4070 |
03:10 <oesi> ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :) |
| 4071 |
03:11 <oesi> ich kann apache nicht stoppen. |
| 4072 |
03:11 <oesi> apachectl stop |
| 4073 |
03:11 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf: |
| 4074 |
03:11 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl> |
| 4075 |
03:12 <oesi> wie konnte ich den starten? |
| 4076 |
03:12 <schmorp> *rofl* |
| 4077 |
[...] |
| 4078 |
03:29 <oesi> es ist kein scherz. wirklich: |
| 4079 |
03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart |
| 4080 |
03:29 <oesi> asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop |
| 4081 |
03:29 <oesi> Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf: |
| 4082 |
03:29 <oesi> Expected </Perl>> but saw </Perl> |
| 4083 |
% |
| 4084 |
[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/] |
| 4085 |
[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...] |
| 4086 |
% |
| 4087 |
[rxvt/src/screen.C] |
| 4088 |
#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT |
| 4089 |
assert(screen.cur.row >= 0); |
| 4090 |
#else /* drive with your eyes closed */ |
| 4091 |
MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0); |
| 4092 |
#endif |
| 4093 |
% |
| 4094 |
[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html] |
| 4095 |
[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the |
| 4096 |
UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...] |
| 4097 |
% |
| 4098 |
> > Ceterum censeo | PGP encrypted mail preferred. |
| 4099 |
> > Redmond esse delendam. | PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/ |
| 4100 |
> |
| 4101 |
> Willkomme im Club .... :-))) |
| 4102 |
|
| 4103 |
Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-) |
| 4104 |
-- |
| 4105 |
OpenVMS @ 25 | Martin Vorlaender | VMS & WNT programmer |
| 4106 |
% |
| 4107 |
Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen |
| 4108 |
IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog. |
| 4109 |
Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also |
| 4110 |
mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum |
| 4111 |
auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der |
| 4112 |
Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär, |
| 4113 |
Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär... |
| 4114 |
% |
| 4115 |
http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote |
| 4116 |
http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm |
| 4117 |
% |
| 4118 |
Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face. |
| 4119 |
% |
| 4120 |
"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or |
| 4121 |
victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead |
| 4122 |
bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" |
| 4123 |
-- Robert Fisk |
| 4124 |
% |
| 4125 |
[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive] |
| 4126 |
http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf |
| 4127 |
[see also the small satellites homepage] |
| 4128 |
http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/ |
| 4129 |
% |
| 4130 |
[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm] |
| 4131 |
"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,' |
| 4132 |
high-violence culture" |
| 4133 |
[...] |
| 4134 |
"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the |
| 4135 |
resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to |
| 4136 |
suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators, |
| 4137 |
that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion. |
| 4138 |
This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement |
| 4139 |
that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of |
| 4140 |
a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military |
| 4141 |
policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...] |
| 4142 |
|
| 4143 |
Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that |
| 4144 |
they are the only ones who do such dirty things. |
| 4145 |
% |
| 4146 |
From: <[...]@aol.com> |
| 4147 |
Subject: Re: [...] |
| 4148 |
|
| 4149 |
Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM: |
| 4150 |
|
| 4151 |
> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a |
| 4152 |
> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away |
| 4153 |
> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you |
| 4154 |
> saved it :) |
| 4155 |
|
| 4156 |
Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email |
| 4157 |
addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :). |
| 4158 |
[...] |
| 4159 |
% |
| 4160 |
From: Alan Cox |
| 4161 |
> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV? |
| 4162 |
> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or |
| 4163 |
> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the |
| 4164 |
> code to use prefetch is seriously broken. |
| 4165 |
|
| 4166 |
Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline |
| 4167 |
prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing |
| 4168 |
what you find when you actually measure stuff 8) |
| 4169 |
[...] |
| 4170 |
% |
| 4171 |
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html |
| 4172 |
% |
| 4173 |
http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html |
| 4174 |
% |
| 4175 |
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic |
| 4176 |
% |
| 4177 |
[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist |
| 4178 |
even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays |
| 4179 |
claim to have decades of java experience] |
| 4180 |
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros <robert@soros.ca> wrote: |
| 4181 |
> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be |
| 4182 |
> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java |
| 4183 |
> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What |
| 4184 |
% |
| 4185 |
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html |
| 4186 |
% |
| 4187 |
http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html |
| 4188 |
% |
| 4189 |
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic |
| 4190 |
% |
| 4191 |
[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause] |
| 4192 |
[mail not to be delivered] |
| 4193 |
> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS. |
| 4194 |
> |
| 4195 |
> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :) |
| 4196 |
|
| 4197 |
My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that |
| 4198 |
bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long. |
| 4199 |
% |
| 4200 |
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote: |
| 4201 |
|
| 4202 |
> David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> writes: |
| 4203 |
> |
| 4204 |
> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote: |
| 4205 |
> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing. |
| 4206 |
> > |
| 4207 |
> > I don't *think* anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail |
| 4208 |
> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other |
| 4209 |
> > language which does support this? |
| 4210 |
> |
| 4211 |
|
| 4212 |
Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other. |
| 4213 |
|
| 4214 |
In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the |
| 4215 |
other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never |
| 4216 |
heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with |
| 4217 |
a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but |
| 4218 |
since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other |
| 4219 |
than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss. |
| 4220 |
% |
| 4221 |
echo $package has manual pages available in source form. |
| 4222 |
echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you." |
| 4223 |
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution |
| 4224 |
% |
| 4225 |
AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the |
| 4226 |
spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish |
| 4227 |
Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia. |
| 4228 |
|
| 4229 |
Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the |
| 4230 |
extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is |
| 4231 |
a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the |
| 4232 |
Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the |
| 4233 |
rising and setting of the sun, only God." |
| 4234 |
|
| 4235 |
Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't |
| 4236 |
explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist |
| 4237 |
on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward |
| 4238 |
and thwart them that way. |
| 4239 |
% |
| 4240 |
[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C] |
| 4241 |
There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus |
| 4242 |
that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an |
| 4243 |
unfortunate decision. |
| 4244 |
% |
| 4245 |
02:23 <oesi> Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr |
| 4246 |
fest ;) |
| 4247 |
% |
| 4248 |
[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html] |
| 4249 |
|
| 4250 |
Last updated: - Invalid Date |
| 4251 |
% |
| 4252 |
http://www.bash.org/?99060 |
| 4253 |
% |
| 4254 |
[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo] |
| 4255 |
http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html |
| 4256 |
% |
| 4257 |
Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended? |
| 4258 |
|
| 4259 |
A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a |
| 4260 |
similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the |
| 4261 |
local object as a "he": |
| 4262 |
|
| 4263 |
"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He |
| 4264 |
has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! |
| 4265 |
He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't |
| 4266 |
nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His |
| 4267 |
metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's |
| 4268 |
kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down |
| 4269 |
the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN |
| 4270 |
EX-PARROT!" |
| 4271 |
|
| 4272 |
- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci) |
| 4273 |
% |
| 4274 |
[ach du schande] |
| 4275 |
"pflichtpfandfrei" |
| 4276 |
% |
| 4277 |
[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london] |
| 4278 |
The police will shoot you. |
| 4279 |
|
| 4280 |
OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will |
| 4281 |
arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade. |
| 4282 |
|
| 4283 |
Just another average day in central London. |
| 4284 |
% |
| 4285 |
[this signature gave me a laugh...] |
| 4286 |
[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp |
| 4287 |
reply. |
| 4288 |
|
| 4289 |
pls. cc my email address |
| 4290 |
|
| 4291 |
tia |
| 4292 |
pd |
| 4293 |
|
| 4294 |
|
| 4295 |
-- |
| 4296 |
^X^C |
| 4297 |
q |
| 4298 |
quit |
| 4299 |
:q |
| 4300 |
^C |
| 4301 |
end |
| 4302 |
x |
| 4303 |
exit |
| 4304 |
ZZ |
| 4305 |
^D |
| 4306 |
? |
| 4307 |
help |
| 4308 |
shit |
| 4309 |
. |
| 4310 |
% |
| 4311 |
* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow. |
| 4312 |
% |
| 4313 |
[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir] |
| 4314 |
Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending |
| 4315 |
with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string, |
| 4316 |
because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...] |
| 4317 |
% |
| 4318 |
[I love it] |
| 4319 |
http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm |
| 4320 |
http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm |
| 4321 |
% |
| 4322 |
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by." |
| 4323 |
- Douglas Adams |
| 4324 |
% |
| 4325 |
Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure |
| 4326 |
PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar |
| 4327 |
to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed |
| 4328 |
an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago. |
| 4329 |
|
| 4330 |
The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code |
| 4331 |
wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the |
| 4332 |
software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred |
| 4333 |
this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up |
| 4334 |
their software properly. |
| 4335 |
|
| 4336 |
He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security |
| 4337 |
patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame |
| 4338 |
because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates |
| 4339 |
told the publication. |
| 4340 |
|
| 4341 |
And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater |
| 4342 |
number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because |
| 4343 |
"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by |
| 4344 |
malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people |
| 4345 |
who want visibility and glory. |
| 4346 |
% |
| 4347 |
[In the FAQ for a bootp client:] |
| 4348 |
|
| 4349 |
o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server |
| 4350 |
|
| 4351 |
x Try not using it. |
| 4352 |
% |
| 4353 |
[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm] |
| 4354 |
The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High |
| 4355 |
School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen, |
| 4356 |
to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted |
| 4357 |
Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she |
| 4358 |
had given. |
| 4359 |
|
| 4360 |
Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be |
| 4361 |
showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war |
| 4362 |
person as well." |
| 4363 |
% |
| 4364 |
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/] |
| 4365 |
"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche |
| 4366 |
habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen". |
| 4367 |
% |
| 4368 |
["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"] |
| 4369 |
[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html] |
| 4370 |
|
| 4371 |
Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung |
| 4372 |
des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden. |
| 4373 |
[...] |
| 4374 |
Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch |
| 4375 |
ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig. |
| 4376 |
[...] |
| 4377 |
Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat |
| 4378 |
oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens? |
| 4379 |
% |
| 4380 |
http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1 |
| 4381 |
% |
| 4382 |
[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements |
| 4383 |
on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't |
| 4384 |
mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM. |
| 4385 |
-- Ulrich Drepper |
| 4386 |
% |
| 4387 |
GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled. |
| 4388 |
-- Ulrich Drepper |
| 4389 |
% |
| 4390 |
Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well |
| 4391 |
written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not |
| 4392 |
correct. -- Ulrich Drepper |
| 4393 |
% |
| 4394 |
Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film |
| 4395 |
and music industry I cannot endorse piracy. |
| 4396 |
-- Ulrich Drepper |
| 4397 |
% |
| 4398 |
Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication. |
| 4399 |
-- Ulrich Drepper |
| 4400 |
% |
| 4401 |
[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp] |
| 4402 |
Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und |
| 4403 |
zuverlässiger |
| 4404 |
% |
| 4405 |
[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c] |
| 4406 |
/* |
| 4407 |
* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24 |
| 4408 |
* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were |
| 4409 |
* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs). |
| 4410 |
*/ |
| 4411 |
% |
| 4412 |
[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it. |
| 4413 |
Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so |
| 4414 |
you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your |
| 4415 |
dlls so that they aren't shared...] |
| 4416 |
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp |
| 4417 |
% |
| 4418 |
[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html] |
| 4419 |
Pirating Movies |
| 4420 |
|
| 4421 |
[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting |
| 4422 |
them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making |
| 4423 |
illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market. |
| 4424 |
% |
| 4425 |
[Look at the time scale...] |
| 4426 |
http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf |
| 4427 |
% |
| 4428 |
[Just funny] |
| 4429 |
http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/ |
| 4430 |
% |
| 4431 |
[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html] |
| 4432 |
The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the |
| 4433 |
sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious |
| 4434 |
hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his |
| 4435 |
company's engineers would end up in jail? |
| 4436 |
% |
| 4437 |
[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145] |
| 4438 |
Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA". |
| 4439 |
and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc |
| 4440 |
etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about |
| 4441 |
sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did) |
| 4442 |
|
| 4443 |
Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but |
| 4444 |
left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted? |
| 4445 |
|
| 4446 |
Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on |
| 4447 |
9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70 |
| 4448 |
million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for |
| 4449 |
$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls |
| 4450 |
the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund |
| 4451 |
them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in |
| 4452 |
the first place! |
| 4453 |
% |
| 4454 |
Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when |
| 4455 |
you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you |
| 4456 |
a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive. |
| 4457 |
-- Philip Greenspun |
| 4458 |
% |
| 4459 |
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we |
| 4460 |
don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky |
| 4461 |
% |
| 4462 |
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right |
| 4463 |
to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire |
| 4464 |
% |
| 4465 |
"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the |
| 4466 |
platform." |
| 4467 |
[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN] |
| 4468 |
% |
| 4469 |
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in |
| 4470 |
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that |
| 4471 |
frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses |
| 4472 |
and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not |
| 4473 |
raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. |
| 4474 |
[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/] |
| 4475 |
% |
| 4476 |
[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....] |
| 4477 |
http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf |
| 4478 |
% |
| 4479 |
[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp] |
| 4480 |
So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks |
| 4481 |
if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some |
| 4482 |
database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar |
| 4483 |
crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does |
| 4484 |
Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates |
| 4485 |
made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical. |
| 4486 |
Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice |
| 4487 |
daily. |
| 4488 |
% |
| 4489 |
"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..." |
| 4490 |
[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr |
| 4491 |
Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.] |
| 4492 |
% |
| 4493 |
[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm] |
| 4494 |
Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation |
| 4495 |
to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in |
| 4496 |
Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the |
| 4497 |
convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun |
| 4498 |
revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful |
| 4499 |
consideration in all articles published by the APA." |
| 4500 |
% |
| 4501 |
"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics." |
| 4502 |
-- Bruce Schneier |
| 4503 |
% |
| 4504 |
[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...] |
| 4505 |
[...so it must be good] |
| 4506 |
http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/ |
| 4507 |
% |
| 4508 |
[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c] |
| 4509 |
[real uses a novel protection scheme...] |
| 4510 |
raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol. |
| 4511 |
% |
| 4512 |
[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump] |
| 4513 |
I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout. |
| 4514 |
No idea why I announce it here... |
| 4515 |
http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo |
| 4516 |
% |
| 4517 |
[Oh My God!] |
| 4518 |
Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66 |
| 4519 |
% |
| 4520 |
[How many squares are on a go-board?] |
| 4521 |
http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2 |
| 4522 |
% |
| 4523 |
[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html] |
| 4524 |
When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose |
| 4525 |
father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about |
| 4526 |
life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have |
| 4527 |
been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said. |
| 4528 |
|
| 4529 |
'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied |
| 4530 |
Sacha. |
| 4531 |
% |
| 4532 |
[From CRYPTO-GRAM] |
| 4533 |
A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security |
| 4534 |
desk one morning: |
| 4535 |
|
| 4536 |
Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please? |
| 4537 |
|
| 4538 |
Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number? |
| 4539 |
|
| 4540 |
Employee: 123456 |
| 4541 |
|
| 4542 |
[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a |
| 4543 |
photograph of the employee.] |
| 4544 |
|
| 4545 |
Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of |
| 4546 |
identification which has your picture on it? |
| 4547 |
|
| 4548 |
Employee: Why would you need that? |
| 4549 |
|
| 4550 |
Security Guard: To match against our records. |
| 4551 |
|
| 4552 |
Employee: A picture of my face? |
| 4553 |
|
| 4554 |
Security Guard: Yes |
| 4555 |
|
| 4556 |
Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head. |
| 4557 |
|
| 4558 |
Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to |
| 4559 |
compare against this one. |
| 4560 |
% |
| 4561 |
[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future] |
| 4562 |
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml |
| 4563 |
[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes] |
| 4564 |
% |
| 4565 |
MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds. |
| 4566 |
Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But |
| 4567 |
my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category. |
| 4568 |
|
| 4569 |
<http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-5053063.html> |
| 4570 |
<http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/> |
| 4571 |
% |
| 4572 |
Eppur si muove! |
| 4573 |
% |
| 4574 |
[bwahahaha] |
| 4575 |
"RV K-17" |
| 4576 |
% |
| 4577 |
"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World |
| 4578 |
electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. |
| 4579 |
% |
| 4580 |
[where NOT to learn german :)] |
| 4581 |
[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/] |
| 4582 |
<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn. |
| 4583 |
=> Son las once menos cuarto. |
| 4584 |
% |
| 4585 |
ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam |
| 4586 |
ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse |
| 4587 |
% |
| 4588 |
[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1] |
| 4589 |
Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt |
| 4590 |
ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist |
| 4591 |
mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird |
| 4592 |
sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu |
| 4593 |
erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«. |
| 4594 |
% |
| 4595 |
http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif |
| 4596 |
% |
| 4597 |
[D-Info 2003, on my box:] |
| 4598 |
Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein. |
| 4599 |
% |
| 4600 |
[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me] |
| 4601 |
[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV] |
| 4602 |
<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......]. |
| 4603 |
>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......]. |
| 4604 |
% |
| 4605 |
[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc] |
| 4606 |
This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs. |
| 4607 |
Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using |
| 4608 |
an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my |
| 4609 |
grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of |
| 4610 |
RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert |
| 4611 |
to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k." |
| 4612 |
She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against |
| 4613 |
it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital |
| 4614 |
Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0 |
| 4615 |
of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's |
| 4616 |
entire market and eventually build a new software empire on |
| 4617 |
the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut |
| 4618 |
tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port |
| 4619 |
Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source |
| 4620 |
code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting |
| 4621 |
bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC |
| 4622 |
diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You |
| 4623 |
should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer. |
| 4624 |
% |
| 4625 |
[what high dan players in go think while playing:] |
| 4626 |
"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die" |
| 4627 |
% |
| 4628 |
[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer] |
| 4629 |
rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited |
| 4630 |
% |
| 4631 |
[Wasteland] |
| 4632 |
Lester Moore, |
| 4633 |
Shot in the head with a .44. |
| 4634 |
No Les, no more. |
| 4635 |
% |
| 4636 |
[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//] |
| 4637 |
Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking |
| 4638 |
|
| 4639 |
STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION |
| 4640 |
[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite] |
| 4641 |
% |
| 4642 |
[Fallout] |
| 4643 |
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake |
| 4644 |
Stepped on the gas instead of the brake |
| 4645 |
% |
| 4646 |
[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html] |
| 4647 |
As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the |
| 4648 |
different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some |
| 4649 |
of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them |
| 4650 |
are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol. |
| 4651 |
[...] |
| 4652 |
It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated. |
| 4653 |
[...] |
| 4654 |
The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response, |
| 4655 |
and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes |
| 4656 |
the result with SHA. |
| 4657 |
% |
| 4658 |
> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden |
| 4659 |
> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg |
| 4660 |
> ist! |
| 4661 |
Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts |
| 4662 |
plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust |
| 4663 |
Du denn? Analphabeten? |
| 4664 |
% |
| 4665 |
"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++" |
| 4666 |
[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003] |
| 4667 |
% |
| 4668 |
17:21 <elmex> ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;) |
| 4669 |
% |
| 4670 |
[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen] |
| 4671 |
64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms |
| 4672 |
64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms |
| 4673 |
64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms |
| 4674 |
64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms |
| 4675 |
64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms |
| 4676 |
% |
| 4677 |
[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:] |
| 4678 |
tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1 |
| 4679 |
% |
| 4680 |
[links are free ;)] |
| 4681 |
http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html |
| 4682 |
% |
| 4683 |
[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/] |
| 4684 |
Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style? |
| 4685 |
% |
| 4686 |
[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c] |
| 4687 |
|
| 4688 |
/* One positive side-effect of US's export |
| 4689 |
* control history, is that we should at least |
| 4690 |
* be able to avoid using US mispellings of |
| 4691 |
* "initialisation"? */ |
| 4692 |
EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR); |
| 4693 |
% |
| 4694 |
[man pem] |
| 4695 |
Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL. |
| 4696 |
% |
| 4697 |
[pth_native.c] |
| 4698 |
|
| 4699 |
/* ``If you can't do it in |
| 4700 |
ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.'' |
| 4701 |
-- Unknown */ |
| 4702 |
% |
| 4703 |
[subculture] |
| 4704 |
... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen |
| 4705 |
mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann |
| 4706 |
skillig vorkommen ... |
| 4707 |
|
| 4708 |
[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365] |
| 4709 |
% |
| 4710 |
[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but |
| 4711 |
this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)] |
| 4712 |
00:16 <elmex> 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine |
| 4713 |
gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer' |
| 4714 |
00:18 <oesi> elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen. |
| 4715 |
ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32 |
| 4716 |
00:18 <elmex> oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;) |
| 4717 |
% |
| 4718 |
[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm] |
| 4719 |
... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut |
| 4720 |
suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im |
| 4721 |
Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin |
| 4722 |
im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder |
| 4723 |
Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat |
| 4724 |
an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht |
| 4725 |
vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ... |
| 4726 |
% |
| 4727 |
sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene |
| 4728 |
aber wenig freude. |
| 4729 |
% |
| 4730 |
[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny] |
| 4731 |
- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge |
| 4732 |
and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities. |
| 4733 |
That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you |
| 4734 |
must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network |
| 4735 |
based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools |
| 4736 |
to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in |
| 4737 |
Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems |
| 4738 |
and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system |
| 4739 |
in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks. |
| 4740 |
% |
| 4741 |
17:39 <schmorp> marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt |
| 4742 |
doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt |
| 4743 |
17:39 <marco> schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die |
| 4744 |
fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet *g* |
| 4745 |
% |
| 4746 |
For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models |
| 4747 |
don't work well in practise. |
| 4748 |
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml |
| 4749 |
% |
| 4750 |
[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview] |
| 4751 |
There is an old saying, in the pentagon: |
| 4752 |
"ready, fire, aim." |
| 4753 |
% |
| 4754 |
[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the |
| 4755 |
license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in |
| 4756 |
free countries like Germany [1]. |
| 4757 |
[...] |
| 4758 |
Regards |
| 4759 |
Henning |
| 4760 |
|
| 4761 |
[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this |
| 4762 |
part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who |
| 4763 |
might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels. |
| 4764 |
% |
| 4765 |
[...] |
| 4766 |
The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to |
| 4767 |
establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives |
| 4768 |
to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the |
| 4769 |
same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law |
| 4770 |
itself give you none of these rights at all. |
| 4771 |
[...] |
| 4772 |
Wolfgang Walter |
| 4773 |
% |
| 4774 |
burro: i once played against a computer |
| 4775 |
burro: it seemed very clever |
| 4776 |
burro: but then all its groups died in yose |
| 4777 |
burro: it forgot to defend later.. |
| 4778 |
burro: oops |
| 4779 |
burro: accidental poetry |
| 4780 |
% |
| 4781 |
[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur, |
| 4782 |
where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it] |
| 4783 |
yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7! |
| 4784 |
% |
| 4785 |
[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd] |
| 4786 |
#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE |
| 4787 |
% |
| 4788 |
"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people." |
| 4789 |
-- Oscar Wilde |
| 4790 |
% |
| 4791 |
[a principle used in florida's law] |
| 4792 |
"guilty until proven innocent" |
| 4793 |
[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm] |
| 4794 |
% |
| 4795 |
Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital, |
| 4796 |
said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the |
| 4797 |
information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is |
| 4798 |
getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice |
| 4799 |
on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room |
| 4800 |
number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He |
| 4801 |
said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two |
| 4802 |
full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back |
| 4803 |
as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of |
| 4804 |
hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send |
| 4805 |
her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's |
| 4806 |
wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The |
| 4807 |
man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a |
| 4808 |
close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel |
| 4809 |
in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit! |
| 4810 |
% |
| 4811 |
[gcc-3.2/.../sstream> |
| 4812 |
// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an |
| 4813 |
// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the |
| 4814 |
// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to |
| 4815 |
// suit particular needs. |
| 4816 |
_M_buf_size_opt = 512; |
| 4817 |
% |
| 4818 |
[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm] |
| 4819 |
[Walkthrough SANITARIUM] |
| 4820 |
... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als |
| 4821 |
Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du |
| 4822 |
kannst als Olmec die Melodie ... |
| 4823 |
% |
| 4824 |
[Onibaba - Great Movie] |
| 4825 |
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430 |
| 4826 |
% |
| 4827 |
[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(] |
| 4828 |
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136 |
| 4829 |
% |
| 4830 |
[<Sesse> microsoft finally takes security seriously] |
| 4831 |
[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304] |
| 4832 |
Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords |
| 4833 |
% |
| 4834 |
GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300 |
| 4835 |
vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333 |
| 4836 |
XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881 |
| 4837 |
JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576 |
| 4838 |
% |
| 4839 |
[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml] |
| 4840 |
|
| 4841 |
[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing |
| 4842 |
[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of |
| 4843 |
the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping |
| 4844 |
out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa |
| 4845 |
is not [...] |
| 4846 |
% |
| 4847 |
Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd |
| 4848 |
all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to |
| 4849 |
repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 |
| 4850 |
% |
| 4851 |
[some hilights from:] |
| 4852 |
[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html] |
| 4853 |
|
| 4854 |
_Einfach erklärt_ |
| 4855 |
|
| 4856 |
GUI |
| 4857 |
Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms |
| 4858 |
Globale Variable |
| 4859 |
Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs |
| 4860 |
objektorientiert |
| 4861 |
Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt. |
| 4862 |
strukturiert |
| 4863 |
dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen |
| 4864 |
Multithreaded |
| 4865 |
Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen. |
| 4866 |
Windows 95 |
| 4867 |
Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen |
| 4868 |
Emacs |
| 4869 |
Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem |
| 4870 |
ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm |
| 4871 |
ein vernünftiger Editor. |
| 4872 |
IPv6 |
| 4873 |
$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de |
| 4874 |
Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247. |
| 4875 |
2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634. |
| 4876 |
2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923. |
| 4877 |
Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers |
| 4878 |
Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn. |
| 4879 |
PHP |
| 4880 |
Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die |
| 4881 |
in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter |
| 4882 |
die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als |
| 4883 |
e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind. |
| 4884 |
Alleinstellungsmerkmal |
| 4885 |
Bunt. |
| 4886 |
Plattformunabhängig |
| 4887 |
Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch |
| 4888 |
plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator! |
| 4889 |
[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url] |
| 4890 |
% |
| 4891 |
[logic & fallacies] |
| 4892 |
http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html |
| 4893 |
% |
| 4894 |
http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php |
| 4895 |
% |
| 4896 |
[nah] |
| 4897 |
In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an |
| 4898 |
appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching |
| 4899 |
paint dry." |
| 4900 |
% |
| 4901 |
http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf |
| 4902 |
http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm |
| 4903 |
http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm |
| 4904 |
% |
| 4905 |
[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender] |
| 4906 |
The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital |
| 4907 |
importance. |
| 4908 |
% |
| 4909 |
[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html] |
| 4910 |
[_very_ good pages, read them all!] |
| 4911 |
Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using |
| 4912 |
Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects: |
| 4913 |
|
| 4914 |
You have to trust Microsoft. |
| 4915 |
|
| 4916 |
There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust |
| 4917 |
Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98 |
| 4918 |
release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust |
| 4919 |
Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such |
| 4920 |
that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support |
| 4921 |
useless chrome. |
| 4922 |
|
| 4923 |
But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year |
| 4924 |
whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things |
| 4925 |
I'd like to trust them with. |
| 4926 |
[...] |
| 4927 |
% |
| 4928 |
[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu] |
| 4929 |
[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)] |
| 4930 |
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity |
| 4931 |
Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml |
| 4932 |
Line Number 90, Column 15: |
| 4933 |
<li>Copyright © 1998-2002 by <a href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to |
| 4934 |
--------------^ |
| 4935 |
% |
| 4936 |
[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README] |
| 4937 |
[http://haeleth.port5.com/] |
| 4938 |
A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence, |
| 4939 |
which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know |
| 4940 |
English grammar, I assure you. |
| 4941 |
% |
| 4942 |
Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when |
| 4943 |
a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of |
| 4944 |
these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the |
| 4945 |
hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive |
| 4946 |
en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the |
| 4947 |
hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees |
| 4948 |
can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets. |
| 4949 |
|
| 4950 |
Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive |
| 4951 |
strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the |
| 4952 |
entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has |
| 4953 |
the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather |
| 4954 |
than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over |
| 4955 |
1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the |
| 4956 |
hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers |
| 4957 |
surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their |
| 4958 |
body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees |
| 4959 |
from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest. |
| 4960 |
|
| 4961 |
This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail |
| 4962 |
in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets |
| 4963 |
stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer |
| 4964 |
numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees. |
| 4965 |
|
| 4966 |
Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect |
| 4967 |
Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996. |
| 4968 |
% |
| 4969 |
[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html] |
| 4970 |
[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)] |
| 4971 |
The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely |
| 4972 |
crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I |
| 4973 |
don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your |
| 4974 |
work etc first: |
| 4975 |
|
| 4976 |
#include <stdio.h> |
| 4977 |
|
| 4978 |
int main (void) { |
| 4979 |
while (1) |
| 4980 |
printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b"); |
| 4981 |
|
| 4982 |
return 0; |
| 4983 |
} |
| 4984 |
% |
| 4985 |
[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it |
| 4986 |
contains a lot of funny FUD ;)] |
| 4987 |
http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm |
| 4988 |
% |
| 4989 |
[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html] |
| 4990 |
Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of |
| 4991 |
the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a |
| 4992 |
rigorous government certification confirming this. |
| 4993 |
% |
| 4994 |
[mms_client after finishing the download] |
| 4995 |
everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing |
| 4996 |
proprietary and patentend technology. |
| 4997 |
% |
| 4998 |
I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur! |
| 4999 |
-- Aki Kaurismäki |
| 5000 |
% |
| 5001 |
[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html] |
| 5002 |
"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated |
| 5003 |
with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to |
| 5004 |
construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to |
| 5005 |
the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality." |
| 5006 |
% |
| 5007 |
1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen |
| 5008 |
Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen |
| 5009 |
Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und |
| 5010 |
geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen |
| 5011 |
Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also |
| 5012 |
verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge |
| 5013 |
kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will. |
| 5014 |
|
| 5015 |
2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz |
| 5016 |
2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind |
| 5017 |
Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden |
| 5018 |
und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei |
| 5019 |
gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch |
| 5020 |
unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die |
| 5021 |
Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine |
| 5022 |
Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats. |
| 5023 |
|
| 5024 |
3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen |
| 5025 |
Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus |
| 5026 |
Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für |
| 5027 |
Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr |
| 5028 |
einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten |
| 5029 |
besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit |
| 5030 |
(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich |
| 5031 |
überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung |
| 5032 |
der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im |
| 5033 |
Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens |
| 5034 |
von 1.531 Mrd. Euro. |
| 5035 |
% |
| 5036 |
[just FMI (for my information)] |
| 5037 |
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html |
| 5038 |
% |
| 5039 |
[perldoc perlboot] |
| 5040 |
Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means |
| 5041 |
multiple inheritance and multiple headaches) |
| 5042 |
% |
| 5043 |
[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that |
| 5044 |
"linux" thing will fail] |
| 5045 |
In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote: |
| 5046 |
[...] |
| 5047 |
Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the |
| 5048 |
compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day |
| 5049 |
to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time, |
| 5050 |
effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation. |
| 5051 |
|
| 5052 |
Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he |
| 5053 |
deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his |
| 5054 |
life to the public good. |
| 5055 |
|
| 5056 |
You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product. |
| 5057 |
You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly |
| 5058 |
Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software, |
| 5059 |
so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my |
| 5060 |
software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!" |
| 5061 |
|
| 5062 |
You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have |
| 5063 |
a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have |
| 5064 |
treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked |
| 5065 |
on free software projects that could potentially compete with your |
| 5066 |
software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your |
| 5067 |
software to work on the linux kernel! |
| 5068 |
|
| 5069 |
Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however, |
| 5070 |
are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping |
| 5071 |
stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting |
| 5072 |
rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't |
| 5073 |
deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS. |
| 5074 |
% |
| 5075 |
[perldoc perlreftut] |
| 5076 |
What does line 4 do here? |
| 5077 |
[...] |
| 5078 |
This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing. |
| 5079 |
% |
| 5080 |
[perldoc perlreftut] |
| 5081 |
Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of |
| 5082 |
blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer |
| 5083 |
program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush". |
| 5084 |
% |
| 5085 |
[rise and fall of free software standards] |
| 5086 |
* GNU Gettext and %expect |
| 5087 |
GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that |
| 5088 |
Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be |
| 5089 |
too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect |
| 5090 |
does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'. |
| 5091 |
% |
| 5092 |
Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers. |
| 5093 |
-- Leonard Brandwein |
| 5094 |
% |
| 5095 |
[11:57] <schmorp> email@wanadoo.fr |
| 5096 |
[11:57] <schmorp> you know what wannados are? |
| 5097 |
[11:58] <Arvoreen> the french pendant of aol users ?? |
| 5098 |
[11:58] <schmorp> nope |
| 5099 |
[11:58] <Arvoreen> then no clue |
| 5100 |
[11:58] <schmorp> "people who fail before they even try" |
| 5101 |
[12:00] <Zeograd> wanadoo was actually named following this idea, *sigh* |
| 5102 |
[12:00] <schmorp> not really, yes? |
| 5103 |
[12:00] <Zeograd> yes |
| 5104 |
[12:00] <schmorp> ;);) |
| 5105 |
[12:03] <schmorp> that "yes" sounded really painful |
| 5106 |
[12:03] <Zeograd> more than you could imagine :) |
| 5107 |
% |
| 5108 |
[11:37] <Arvoreen> Oui mon francais est un peu |
| 5109 |
[11:38] <Zeograd> Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :) |
| 5110 |
% |
| 5111 |
A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the |
| 5112 |
United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an |
| 5113 |
interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in |
| 5114 |
his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to |
| 5115 |
collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's |
| 5116 |
assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international |
| 5117 |
jurisprudence fun? |
| 5118 |
<http://in.tech.yahoo.com/021005/137/1w2bq.html> |
| 5119 |
% |
| 5120 |
[02:58] <Sesse> microsoft finally gets it: |
| 5121 |
[02:58] <Sesse> Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic |
| 5122 |
[02:58] <Sesse> developers--fewer bugs in the code they write. |
| 5123 |
[...] |
| 5124 |
[03:00] <Sesse> "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-) |
| 5125 |
% |
| 5126 |
[found at www.imdb.com] |
| 5127 |
the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots. |
| 5128 |
- Paul Ginsparg. |
| 5129 |
% |
| 5130 |
prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and |
| 5131 |
said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody |
| 5132 |
home.":)) |
| 5133 |
[erm...] |
| 5134 |
% |
| 5135 |
> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI. |
| 5136 |
|
| 5137 |
Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare |
| 5138 |
% |
| 5139 |
[05:06] <elmex> windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS |
| 5140 |
% |
| 5141 |
[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf] |
| 5142 |
|
| 5143 |
[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some |
| 5144 |
implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First, |
| 5145 |
UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3 |
| 5146 |
bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations). |
| 5147 |
% |
| 5148 |
.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'' |
| 5149 |
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / |
| 5150 |
.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' |
| 5151 |
% |
| 5152 |
From: "David S. Miller" |
| 5153 |
|
| 5154 |
> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++ |
| 5155 |
|
| 5156 |
If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines |
| 5157 |
to use in future emails? |
| 5158 |
% |
| 5159 |
Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's, |
| 5160 |
please? |
| 5161 |
|
| 5162 |
I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them |
| 5163 |
a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home. |
| 5164 |
|
| 5165 |
Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds |
| 5166 |
% |
| 5167 |
Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the |
| 5168 |
Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will |
| 5169 |
last until February 16th 2003. |
| 5170 |
|
| 5171 |
So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be |
| 5172 |
changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil |
| 5173 |
will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the |
| 5174 |
end. |
| 5175 |
|
| 5176 |
The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil. |
| 5177 |
|
| 5178 |
Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and |
| 5179 |
the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first |
| 5180 |
round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President, |
| 5181 |
Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is |
| 5182 |
counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second |
| 5183 |
round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will |
| 5184 |
take place on October 27th. |
| 5185 |
|
| 5186 |
The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands |
| 5187 |
of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the |
| 5188 |
Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM , |
| 5189 |
the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the |
| 5190 |
Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change |
| 5191 |
the clock)... |
| 5192 |
% |
| 5193 |
[boycot your enemies] |
| 5194 |
> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to |
| 5195 |
> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the |
| 5196 |
> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to |
| 5197 |
> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own |
| 5198 |
|
| 5199 |
Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as |
| 5200 |
cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay *you* to do kernel |
| 5201 |
development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside |
| 5202 |
RedHat and SuSE). |
| 5203 |
|
| 5204 |
I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here. |
| 5205 |
|
| 5206 |
Pavel |
| 5207 |
% |
| 5208 |
Rik |
| 5209 |
-- |
| 5210 |
A: No. |
| 5211 |
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? |
| 5212 |
% |
| 5213 |
> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only |
| 5214 |
> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of |
| 5215 |
> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis. |
| 5216 |
|
| 5217 |
I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain |
| 5218 |
no useful data. |
| 5219 |
|
| 5220 |
-- |
| 5221 |
bill davidsen |
| 5222 |
% |
| 5223 |
In the switching software (written in C) |
| 5224 |
there was a long do..while construct, |
| 5225 |
which contained a switch statement, |
| 5226 |
which contained an if clause, |
| 5227 |
which contained a break, |
| 5228 |
which was intended for the if clause, |
| 5229 |
but instead broke from the switch statement. |
| 5230 |
|
| 5231 |
- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance |
| 5232 |
network January 15, 1990 |
| 5233 |
% |
| 5234 |
[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:] |
| 5235 |
|
| 5236 |
They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have |
| 5237 |
told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the |
| 5238 |
stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a |
| 5239 |
violation of network policies. |
| 5240 |
|
| 5241 |
[the same document, explaining K:Lines] |
| 5242 |
|
| 5243 |
K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect. |
| 5244 |
The format is as follows: |
| 5245 |
|
| 5246 |
K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer |
| 5247 |
% |
| 5248 |
[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.] |
| 5249 |
"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing." |
| 5250 |
http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp |
| 5251 |
% |
| 5252 |
http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml |
| 5253 |
"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of |
| 5254 |
Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of |
| 5255 |
developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer |
| 5256 |
conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our |
| 5257 |
customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security." |
| 5258 |
... |
| 5259 |
"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at |
| 5260 |
Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth |
| 5261 |
the effort." |
| 5262 |
% |
| 5263 |
http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml |
| 5264 |
% |
| 5265 |
[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive |
| 5266 |
gay people mad at me with this one...] |
| 5267 |
[10:16] <pixelpapst> Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie |
| 5268 |
Lukas vergleicht :) |
| 5269 |
[10:16] <elmex> Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant |
| 5270 |
% |
| 5271 |
http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html |
| 5272 |
% |
| 5273 |
http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm |
| 5274 |
% |
| 5275 |
I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the |
| 5276 |
same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken. |
| 5277 |
[Albert Cahalan] |
| 5278 |
% |
| 5279 |
The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its |
| 5280 |
externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at |
| 5281 |
least as bad, but lesser known. |
| 5282 |
% |
| 5283 |
There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command |
| 5284 |
line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all |
| 5285 |
different. |
| 5286 |
% |
| 5287 |
A common disease in programs written at Berkeley is to open /dev/kmem and grub the load averages out by the dirtiest means possible. |
| 5288 |
% |
| 5289 |
[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline] |
| 5290 |
http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html |
| 5291 |
% |
| 5292 |
[about the early CD-R dyes] |
| 5293 |
The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain |
| 5294 |
popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit |
| 5295 |
of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much |
| 5296 |
consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly |
| 5297 |
without a show. |
| 5298 |
% |
| 5299 |
[more of a timestamp] |
| 5300 |
"SANS, SOUCI" |
| 5301 |
% |
| 5302 |
http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html |
| 5303 |
% |
| 5304 |
The Ten Commandments for C Programmers |
| 5305 |
http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html |
| 5306 |
% |
| 5307 |
[Bruce Schneier] |
| 5308 |
A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA, |
| 5309 |
the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if |
| 5310 |
they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is |
| 5311 |
going on. |
| 5312 |
[...] |
| 5313 |
People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven |
| 5314 |
otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry |
| 5315 |
as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight. |
| 5316 |
% |
| 5317 |
[06:20] <Draxxon> BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical |
| 5318 |
opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"??? |
| 5319 |
% |
| 5320 |
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. |
| 5321 |
% |
| 5322 |
http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859 |
| 5323 |
% |
| 5324 |
[practical go humor] |
| 5325 |
Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :] |
| 5326 |
id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and *insist* you've won. |
| 5327 |
% |
| 5328 |
[windows API rocks] |
| 5329 |
The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with |
| 5330 |
the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the |
| 5331 |
returned data. |
| 5332 |
|
| 5333 |
typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS { |
| 5334 |
FindExInfoStandard |
| 5335 |
} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ; |
| 5336 |
% |
| 5337 |
[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip] |
| 5338 |
[05:10] <Arvoreen> 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB |
| 5339 |
[05:13] <Arvoreen> oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354% |
| 5340 |
kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden) |
| 5341 |
% |
| 5342 |
[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder |
| 5343 |
it doesn't work:] |
| 5344 |
1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not |
| 5345 |
known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns |
| 5346 |
this MIME type as the final determination. |
| 5347 |
% |
| 5348 |
[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed] |
| 5349 |
|
| 5350 |
Recode 0.1.1 |
| 5351 |
by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT |
| 5352 |
|
| 5353 |
About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between |
| 5354 |
three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R. |
| 5355 |
|
| 5356 |
Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage. |
| 5357 |
% |
| 5358 |
http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt |
| 5359 |
% |
| 5360 |
$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({}); |
| 5361 |
% |
| 5362 |
[From CRYPTO-GRAM] |
| 5363 |
|
| 5364 |
Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be |
| 5365 |
just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by |
| 5366 |
claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity. |
| 5367 |
<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701%26a=26605,00.asp> |
| 5368 |
<http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp> |
| 5369 |
A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken |
| 5370 |
the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to |
| 5371 |
keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st |
| 5372 |
century." |
| 5373 |
|
| 5374 |
Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article, |
| 5375 |
where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs |
| 5376 |
that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security |
| 5377 |
carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft |
| 5378 |
has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad |
| 5379 |
that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until |
| 5380 |
such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going |
| 5381 |
to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable |
| 5382 |
decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the |
| 5383 |
past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly |
| 5384 |
naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently |
| 5385 |
motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your |
| 5386 |
clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony: |
| 5387 |
<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/allchin.asp> |
| 5388 |
|
| 5389 |
At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source |
| 5390 |
software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is |
| 5391 |
much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is |
| 5392 |
hilarious in light of the above. |
| 5393 |
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html> |
| 5394 |
|
| 5395 |
A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a |
| 5396 |
secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United |
| 5397 |
States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have |
| 5398 |
been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in |
| 5399 |
which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer |
| 5400 |
said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land? |
| 5401 |
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52861,00.html> |
| 5402 |
|
| 5403 |
Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that |
| 5404 |
someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card |
| 5405 |
numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art, |
| 5406 |
Star Wars-style security and encryption technology." |
| 5407 |
<http://www.lendingintelligence.com/news.ez?viewStory=1123&Form.sess_id=845521234&Form.sess_key=1022430845> |
| 5408 |
% |
| 5409 |
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html |
| 5410 |
% |
| 5411 |
ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123" |
| 5412 |
zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95" |
| 5413 |
% |
| 5414 |
"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it |
| 5415 |
so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it |
| 5416 |
so complicated that there are no obvious errors." |
| 5417 |
|
| 5418 |
Tony Hoare |
| 5419 |
% |
| 5420 |
Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung |
| 5421 |
vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr |
| 5422 |
_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme |
| 5423 |
Maßeinheit verwendet. |
| 5424 |
% |
| 5425 |
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> |
| 5426 |
|
| 5427 |
[...] |
| 5428 |
The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported |
| 5429 |
by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either |
| 5430 |
system. Basically its windows computer |
| 5431 |
% |
| 5432 |
[go figure...] |
| 5433 |
<JanMan> read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process) |
| 5434 |
% |
| 5435 |
Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated |
| 5436 |
|
| 5437 |
> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads |
| 5438 |
> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of |
| 5439 |
> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML |
| 5440 |
> software developers... |
| 5441 |
|
| 5442 |
Homeopathic approach to software development? |
| 5443 |
% |
| 5444 |
> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the |
| 5445 |
> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle |
| 5446 |
> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option. |
| 5447 |
> |
| 5448 |
> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-) |
| 5449 |
|
| 5450 |
Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty |
| 5451 |
badly with respect to patches, so far. |
| 5452 |
|
| 5453 |
- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory |
| 5454 |
in their source directory. I can't import patches into that. |
| 5455 |
|
| 5456 |
- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch', |
| 5457 |
but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts |
| 5458 |
off by throwing away the patch. |
| 5459 |
|
| 5460 |
Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not |
| 5461 |
create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for |
| 5462 |
patch any time soon. |
| 5463 |
|
| 5464 |
-- |
| 5465 |
Daniel |
| 5466 |
% |
| 5467 |
From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl> |
| 5468 |
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC) |
| 5469 |
[...] |
| 5470 |
Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to |
| 5471 |
be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the |
| 5472 |
next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working. |
| 5473 |
% |
| 5474 |
[no comments ;)] |
| 5475 |
|
| 5476 |
I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7). |
| 5477 |
It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why? |
| 5478 |
Is it realy needed? |
| 5479 |
% |
| 5480 |
[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:] |
| 5481 |
|
| 5482 |
int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout); |
| 5483 |
|
| 5484 |
[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is |
| 5485 |
specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as |
| 5486 |
an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.) |
| 5487 |
% |
| 5488 |
[www.intel.com] |
| 5489 |
Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) |
| 5490 |
extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on |
| 5491 |
the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video |
| 5492 |
download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution, |
| 5493 |
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| 5494 |
and enlarged images with smoother frame rates. |
| 5495 |
% |
| 5496 |
From: Alexander Viro |
| 5497 |
|
| 5498 |
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote: |
| 5499 |
> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be |
| 5500 |
> > found in the CML2 sources. |
| 5501 |
> |
| 5502 |
> Btw, what happened to CML2? |
| 5503 |
|
| 5504 |
This is an ex-parrot |
| 5505 |
% |
| 5506 |
From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> |
| 5507 |
|
| 5508 |
> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something |
| 5509 |
> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as |
| 5510 |
> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting |
| 5511 |
> > algorithm ever" etc. |
| 5512 |
> |
| 5513 |
> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not, |
| 5514 |
> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.) |
| 5515 |
|
| 5516 |
I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort. |
| 5517 |
|
| 5518 |
while (!sorted(data)) |
| 5519 |
; |
| 5520 |
% |
| 5521 |
Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues |
| 5522 |
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> |
| 5523 |
|
| 5524 |
> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you... |
| 5525 |
|
| 5526 |
You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant |
| 5527 |
to computing |
| 5528 |
% |
| 5529 |
From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> |
| 5530 |
|
| 5531 |
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote: |
| 5532 |
>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system? |
| 5533 |
|
| 5534 |
Common sense, one would hope. |
| 5535 |
% |
| 5536 |
From: Toon Moene |
| 5537 |
[...] |
| 5538 |
|
| 5539 |
Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the |
| 5540 |
backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to |
| 5541 |
translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this: |
| 5542 |
|
| 5543 |
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html |
| 5544 |
|
| 5545 |
"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that |
| 5546 |
Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system |
| 5547 |
programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he |
| 5548 |
created instead a language of his own, which he called B" |
| 5549 |
|
| 5550 |
:-) |
| 5551 |
% |
| 5552 |
"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, |
| 5553 |
lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of |
| 5554 |
their C programs." |
| 5555 |
|
| 5556 |
Robert Firth |
| 5557 |
% |
| 5558 |
[miri@ccc.de] |
| 5559 |
Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen... |
| 5560 |
[and after some quarrel...] |
| 5561 |
Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren! |
| 5562 |
% |
| 5563 |
[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(] |
| 5564 |
Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd. |
| 5565 |
% |
| 5566 |
[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files] |
| 5567 |
Content-Type: application/x-msdownload |
| 5568 |
% |
| 5569 |
[from windows' wininet.h] |
| 5570 |
#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53) |
| 5571 |
% |
| 5572 |
Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier |
| 5573 |
in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die |
| 5574 |
selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute, |
| 5575 |
dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für |
| 5576 |
eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei |
| 5577 |
erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was |
| 5578 |
vermutlich von Microsoft stammt). |
| 5579 |
|
| 5580 |
Aber ich arbeite weiter dran... |
| 5581 |
|
| 5582 |
\Gisbert |
| 5583 |
% |
| 5584 |
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
| 5585 |
% |
| 5586 |
P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the |
| 5587 |
world like English did. Er, *as* English did... |
| 5588 |
--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org> |
| 5589 |
% |
| 5590 |
From: Felix von Leitner <usenet-20020216@fefe.de> |
| 5591 |
Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers |
| 5592 |
|
| 5593 |
I don't have python. Any version of python. |
| 5594 |
[...] |
| 5595 |
% |
| 5596 |
[perldoc Test::Harness] |
| 5597 |
Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines. |
| 5598 |
Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them. |
| 5599 |
|
| 5600 |
ok 1 |
| 5601 |
# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap. |
| 5602 |
not ok 2 |
| 5603 |
# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore' |
| 5604 |
% |
| 5605 |
I specialize in storage, and C is self taught. |
| 5606 |
|
| 5607 |
Cheers, |
| 5608 |
|
| 5609 |
Andre Hedrick |
| 5610 |
Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development |
| 5611 |
% |
| 5612 |
> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore. |
| 5613 |
> |
| 5614 |
> Spinaphore :-) |
| 5615 |
|
| 5616 |
Or mutabloat :-( |
| 5617 |
% |
| 5618 |
Microsoft Outlook *IS* the problem. Blaming it *IS* correct. Removing |
| 5619 |
Outlook *IS* the solution. |
| 5620 |
% |
| 5621 |
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. |
| 5622 |
% |
| 5623 |
From: Ricky Beam |
| 5624 |
|
| 5625 |
Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously |
| 5626 |
never bought anything from UUNet. |
| 5627 |
% |
| 5628 |
deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ... |
| 5629 |
that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work |
| 5630 |
by delving below its surface meaning) |
| 5631 |
% |
| 5632 |
http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz |
| 5633 |
% |
| 5634 |
From: Alan Cox |
| 5635 |
|
| 5636 |
> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you |
| 5637 |
> just go to court and say: |
| 5638 |
|
| 5639 |
Oh glorious naivety. |
| 5640 |
|
| 5641 |
> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c |
| 5642 |
> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they |
| 5643 |
> can do the work better than I). |
| 5644 |
|
| 5645 |
You release the code |
| 5646 |
|
| 5647 |
The next day an injunction arrives in the post |
| 5648 |
|
| 5649 |
The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you |
| 5650 |
preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative |
| 5651 |
by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he |
| 5652 |
doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably |
| 5653 |
|
| 5654 |
Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed |
| 5655 |
by a couple of thousand discovery requests. |
| 5656 |
|
| 5657 |
A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement |
| 5658 |
because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over |
| 5659 |
|
| 5660 |
Then the court costs bankrupt you. |
| 5661 |
|
| 5662 |
Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case |
| 5663 |
is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis, |
| 5664 |
or that the good guys win. |
| 5665 |
|
| 5666 |
This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the |
| 5667 |
US, and outside of most of the EU. |
| 5668 |
% |
| 5669 |
From: Alan Cox |
| 5670 |
|
| 5671 |
[...] |
| 5672 |
I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free |
| 5673 |
country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK |
| 5674 |
is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a |
| 5675 |
year to kill. |
| 5676 |
% |
| 5677 |
[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002] |
| 5678 |
Windows UPnP Vulnerability |
| 5679 |
|
| 5680 |
[...] |
| 5681 |
Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response |
| 5682 |
center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware |
| 5683 |
of for Windows desktop systems." |
| 5684 |
[...] |
| 5685 |
eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two |
| 5686 |
months before Microsoft released its patch. |
| 5687 |
[...] |
| 5688 |
UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer |
| 5689 |
networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of |
| 5690 |
Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's |
| 5691 |
turned on by default. |
| 5692 |
[...] |
| 5693 |
The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to |
| 5694 |
delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of |
| 5695 |
these kind of vulnerabilities surface. |
| 5696 |
[...] |
| 5697 |
Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some |
| 5698 |
fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products |
| 5699 |
are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've |
| 5700 |
done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they |
| 5701 |
repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because |
| 5702 |
they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie |
| 5703 |
anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities |
| 5704 |
as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this |
| 5705 |
kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products. |
| 5706 |
% |
| 5707 |
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html |
| 5708 |
% |
| 5709 |
[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510] |
| 5710 |
Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund |
| 5711 |
|
| 5712 |
technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt. |
| 5713 |
|
| 5714 |
Monday, 06. November 2000 |
| 5715 |
% |
| 5716 |
[01:42] <reeler> 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht. |
| 5717 |
[01:42] <reeler> #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002 |
| 5718 |
% |
| 5719 |
[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google] |
| 5720 |
* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have |
| 5721 |
* the legal right to export/download/view this program. |
| 5722 |
[too late, I broke the law, again!] |
| 5723 |
% |
| 5724 |
Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no |
| 5725 |
matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than |
| 5726 |
that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to |
| 5727 |
launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute. |
| 5728 |
% |
| 5729 |
> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to |
| 5730 |
> manually mount CD-ROMs at all. |
| 5731 |
|
| 5732 |
Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of |
| 5733 |
existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the |
| 5734 |
student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn" |
| 5735 |
% |
| 5736 |
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> |
| 5737 |
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] |
| 5738 |
|
| 5739 |
> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to |
| 5740 |
> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of |
| 5741 |
> dropped patches. |
| 5742 |
|
| 5743 |
Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more |
| 5744 |
wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from |
| 5745 |
people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the |
| 5746 |
lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really |
| 5747 |
know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the |
| 5748 |
patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them. |
| 5749 |
% |
| 5750 |
I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to |
| 5751 |
the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess |
| 5752 |
it: Just the bloody damn Installer. |
| 5753 |
% |
| 5754 |
From: "David S. Miller" |
| 5755 |
|
| 5756 |
From: Bill Huey |
| 5757 |
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800 |
| 5758 |
|
| 5759 |
Like the Java folks ? few and far between ? |
| 5760 |
|
| 5761 |
Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be |
| 5762 |
relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding |
| 5763 |
themselves. |
| 5764 |
|
| 5765 |
Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for |
| 5766 |
certain. |
| 5767 |
% |
| 5768 |
> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was |
| 5769 |
> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan |
| 5770 |
> complains about kernel bloat" :) |
| 5771 |
|
| 5772 |
And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an |
| 5773 |
appropriate approach to a problem. |
| 5774 |
% |
| 5775 |
From: Pekka Pietikäinen <pp@netppl.fi> |
| 5776 |
^^^^ |
| 5777 |
[...] |
| 5778 |
Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural: |
| 5779 |
[...] |
| 5780 |
-20 Long underwear is a good idea |
| 5781 |
-15 Nice winter day |
| 5782 |
-10 Slightly warm winter day |
| 5783 |
-5 Nice warm winter day |
| 5784 |
0 Slippery as hell outside, beware! |
| 5785 |
% |
| 5786 |
No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on |
| 5787 |
entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard |
| 5788 |
of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President, |
| 5789 |
suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there. |
| 5790 |
% |
| 5791 |
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: |
| 5792 |
> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8) |
| 5793 |
|
| 5794 |
Anything is a win over Java's threading model. |
| 5795 |
|
| 5796 |
-ben |
| 5797 |
% |
| 5798 |
[...] |
| 5799 |
[11:55] <|Pixel|> no, not spanish :) |
| 5800 |
[11:55] <|Pixel|> and I'm closer to germany than spania |
| 5801 |
[11:55] <|Pixel|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros |
| 5802 |
[11:55] <JanMan> I'm closer to toulouse than to china |
| 5803 |
[11:56] <schmorp> i am closer to france than to janman |
| 5804 |
[11:56] <|Pixel|> err |
| 5805 |
[11:56] <|Pixel|> well :) |
| 5806 |
[11:57] <schmorp> (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;) |
| 5807 |
[11:57] <|Pixel|> ho yes but I live just below 'em |
| 5808 |
[11:57] <schmorp> ;-> |
| 5809 |
[11:57] <|Pixel|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian |
| 5810 |
% |
| 5811 |
Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf |
| 5812 |
debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die |
| 5813 |
Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche |
| 5814 |
Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu |
| 5815 |
unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet |
| 5816 |
wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das |
| 5817 |
Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden |
| 5818 |
könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf |
| 5819 |
debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand |
| 5820 |
statt... |
| 5821 |
% |
| 5822 |
http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html |
| 5823 |
% |
| 5824 |
[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15] |
| 5825 |
Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info. |
| 5826 |
In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values |
| 5827 |
to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal |
| 5828 |
values." Who writes this stuff? |
| 5829 |
% |
| 5830 |
http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security |
| 5831 |
% |
| 5832 |
> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-) |
| 5833 |
> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese). |
| 5834 |
> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example. |
| 5835 |
> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say |
| 5836 |
> "Macao". |
| 5837 |
> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French. |
| 5838 |
> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits. |
| 5839 |
% |
| 5840 |
[09:20] <JanMan> 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater] |
| 5841 |
% |
| 5842 |
Beitrag |
| 5843 |
FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198 |
| 5844 |
|
| 5845 |
fucklinux |
| 5846 |
|
| 5847 |
IP: 217.83.123.198 |
| 5848 |
|
| 5849 |
1. FUCK LINUX |
| 5850 |
|
| 5851 |
Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG |
| 5852 |
|
| 5853 |
Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12 |
| 5854 |
% |
| 5855 |
From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado |
| 5856 |
|
| 5857 |
[...] |
| 5858 |
Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only |
| 5859 |
understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it |
| 5860 |
when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should |
| 5861 |
read... |
| 5862 |
% |
| 5863 |
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man |
| 5864 |
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress |
| 5865 |
depends on the unreasonable man. |
| 5866 |
|
| 5867 |
-George Bernard Shaw |
| 5868 |
% |
| 5869 |
[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!] |
| 5870 |
|
| 5871 |
Filename: R16OS0B.zip |
| 5872 |
Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD |
| 5873 |
% |
| 5874 |
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:03:50 +0100 "A." <pcg@goof>,MISSING_MAILBOX_TERMINATOR@.SYNTAX-ERROR.,UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR. wrote: |
| 5875 |
% |
| 5876 |
[06:46] <Arvoreen> marco kannst du mir die sources von Nvidia auf die uni kopieren. Nvidia ist aschlahhm heute 92 bytes/sec |
| 5877 |
[06:46] <marco> Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber? |
| 5878 |
[06:47] <marco> Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen |
| 5879 |
[06:48] <Arvoreen> marco: du stellst fragen |
| 5880 |
[06:49] <marco> Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam |
| 5881 |
% |
| 5882 |
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V <gadilus@hotmail.com> wrote: |
| 5883 |
> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes". |
| 5884 |
> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say |
| 5885 |
> to set retries atleast 60 minutes? |
| 5886 |
> Thanks for clearing this up. |
| 5887 |
% |
| 5888 |
It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow. |
| 5889 |
It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated. |
| 5890 |
It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not. |
| 5891 |
It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific. |
| 5892 |
It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows) |
| 5893 |
It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems. |
| 5894 |
It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog. |
| 5895 |
It is more virtuous to write programs that are adapted to the most convenient modes of use than to be generic (example: vi is better than emacs). |
| 5896 |
It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not. |
| 5897 |
It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware. |
| 5898 |
% |
| 5899 |
[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group] |
| 5900 |
Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the |
| 5901 |
prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used |
| 5902 |
on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way, |
| 5903 |
found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been |
| 5904 |
removed in Windows XP. |
| 5905 |
|
| 5906 |
We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are |
| 5907 |
configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We |
| 5908 |
also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and |
| 5909 |
crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far. |
| 5910 |
% |
| 5911 |
[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure] |
| 5912 |
The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on |
| 5913 |
security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels |
| 5914 |
Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption |
| 5915 |
System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the |
| 5916 |
DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days: |
| 5917 |
they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system |
| 5918 |
was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's |
| 5919 |
system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to |
| 5920 |
trust either Ferguson or Intel. |
| 5921 |
|
| 5922 |
Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came |
| 5923 |
without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The |
| 5924 |
developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were |
| 5925 |
withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or |
| 5926 |
less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that |
| 5927 |
you have no details? |
| 5928 |
[...] |
| 5929 |
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/22423.html> |
| 5930 |
<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/columns/2001/40/barrett.html> |
| 5931 |
Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and |
| 5932 |
counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He |
| 5933 |
said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns |
| 5934 |
-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what |
| 5935 |
the industrial terrorists want." |
| 5936 |
% |
| 5937 |
[Bruce Schneier] |
| 5938 |
Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich). |
| 5939 |
% |
| 5940 |
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl |
| 5941 |
% |
| 5942 |
In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25 |
| 5943 |
of each 50 days |
| 5944 |
% |
| 5945 |
"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes: |
| 5946 |
|
| 5947 |
>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise |
| 5948 |
>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize |
| 5949 |
>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you |
| 5950 |
% |
| 5951 |
> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was |
| 5952 |
> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms |
| 5953 |
> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now? |
| 5954 |
% |
| 5955 |
On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote: |
| 5956 |
> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module. |
| 5957 |
> |
| 5958 |
> <...> |
| 5959 |
> |
| 5960 |
> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules, |
| 5961 |
> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I |
| 5962 |
> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a |
| 5963 |
> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules. |
| 5964 |
% |
| 5965 |
They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression. |
| 5966 |
This was a lie and we could not let them publish it. |
| 5967 |
-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship |
| 5968 |
% |
| 5969 |
> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot |
| 5970 |
> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't |
| 5971 |
> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers). |
| 5972 |
|
| 5973 |
You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to |
| 5974 |
graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical |
| 5975 |
environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what |
| 5976 |
servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things |
| 5977 |
like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot, |
| 5978 |
changing run level, interactive boot. |
| 5979 |
|
| 5980 |
Alan |
| 5981 |
% |
| 5982 |
[http://thefreeworld.net/] |
| 5983 |
|
| 5984 |
I'm a US citizen, but why would I care? |
| 5985 |
The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right? |
| 5986 |
|
| 5987 |
First they came for the Communists, |
| 5988 |
and I didn't speak up, |
| 5989 |
because I wasn't a Communist. |
| 5990 |
Then they came for the Jews, |
| 5991 |
and I didn't speak up, |
| 5992 |
because I wasn't a Jew. |
| 5993 |
Then they came for the Catholics, |
| 5994 |
and I didn't speak up, |
| 5995 |
because I was a Protestant. |
| 5996 |
Then they came for me, |
| 5997 |
and by that time there was no one |
| 5998 |
left to speak up for me. |
| 5999 |
|
| 6000 |
by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945 |
| 6001 |
% |
| 6002 |
http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html |
| 6003 |
% |
| 6004 |
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. |
| 6005 |
-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9 |
| 6006 |
% |
| 6007 |
> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray |
| 6008 |
> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of |
| 6009 |
> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with |
| 6010 |
> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However, |
| 6011 |
|
| 6012 |
I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter. |
| 6013 |
% |
| 6014 |
[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm] |
| 6015 |
|
| 6016 |
"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another |
| 6017 |
area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing |
| 6018 |
to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was |
| 6019 |
bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and |
| 6020 |
used databases!" |
| 6021 |
% |
| 6022 |
From: Alexander Viro |
| 6023 |
|
| 6024 |
> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a |
| 6025 |
|
| 6026 |
Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the |
| 6027 |
change that was not? |
| 6028 |
[...] |
| 6029 |
% |
| 6030 |
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> |
| 6031 |
|
| 6032 |
[...] |
| 6033 |
|
| 6034 |
I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data |
| 6035 |
dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we |
| 6036 |
lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me. |
| 6037 |
|
| 6038 |
I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very |
| 6039 |
natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used |
| 6040 |
them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use |
| 6041 |
them anywhere else"). |
| 6042 |
|
| 6043 |
But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are |
| 6044 |
hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more |
| 6045 |
descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have |
| 6046 |
to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right |
| 6047 |
order.. |
| 6048 |
|
| 6049 |
(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be |
| 6050 |
borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway"). |
| 6051 |
% |
| 6052 |
On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said: |
| 6053 |
> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains |
| 6054 |
> corruption not expected by reiserfsck) |
| 6055 |
|
| 6056 |
Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature? |
| 6057 |
% |
| 6058 |
[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber |
| 6059 |
vertauschen (links-rechts). |
| 6060 |
[02:15] <JanMan> schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :) |
| 6061 |
[02:15] <schmorp> wohl kaum |
| 6062 |
[02:16] <JanMan> ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer. |
| 6063 |
% |
| 6064 |
From: Bill Davidsen |
| 6065 |
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org |
| 6066 |
|
| 6067 |
I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to |
| 6068 |
management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases |
| 6069 |
new versions of *stable* kernel series with cosmetic changes which break |
| 6070 |
existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel |
| 6071 |
series. |
| 6072 |
|
| 6073 |
[...] |
| 6074 |
% |
| 6075 |
[11:40] <JanMan> Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel |
| 6076 |
fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :) |
| 6077 |
% |
| 6078 |
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: |
| 6079 |
>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image |
| 6080 |
>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line". |
| 6081 |
|
| 6082 |
Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you, |
| 6083 |
then save." *g* |
| 6084 |
|
| 6085 |
/* Steinar */ |
| 6086 |
% |
| 6087 |
> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :( |
| 6088 |
> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :(( |
| 6089 |
|
| 6090 |
That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports. |
| 6091 |
You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and |
| 6092 |
they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending *them* |
| 6093 |
a bill... |
| 6094 |
% |
| 6095 |
[a new patch for the linux-kernel] |
| 6096 |
>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an |
| 6097 |
>> additional _7_ CPUs! |
| 6098 |
|
| 6099 |
Sorry. Mea culpa |
| 6100 |
|
| 6101 |
--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001 |
| 6102 |
+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001 |
| 6103 |
@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@ |
| 6104 |
* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the |
| 6105 |
* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly |
| 6106 |
*/ |
| 6107 |
- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) { |
| 6108 |
+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) { |
| 6109 |
/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */ |
| 6110 |
int fpu_exception; |
| 6111 |
% |
| 6112 |
From: Alexander Viro |
| 6113 |
|
| 6114 |
> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc. |
| 6115 |
|
| 6116 |
*ding* *ding* *ding* we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been |
| 6117 |
started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it. |
| 6118 |
ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there - |
| 6119 |
they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get |
| 6120 |
a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged". |
| 6121 |
% |
| 6122 |
From: Linux Torvalds |
| 6123 |
|
| 6124 |
In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd |
| 6125 |
people. |
| 6126 |
% |
| 6127 |
Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks: |
| 6128 |
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010918/ts/attack_investigation_dc_23.html> |
| 6129 |
|
| 6130 |
Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption |
| 6131 |
laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last |
| 6132 |
week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon |
| 6133 |
in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood |
| 6134 |
the question. |
| 6135 |
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7215723.html?tag=mn_hd> |
| 6136 |
% |
| 6137 |
[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html] |
| 6138 |
1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress, |
| 6139 |
I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March) |
| 6140 |
2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl. |
| 6141 |
(September) |
| 6142 |
% |
| 6143 |
Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous" |
| 6144 |
% |
| 6145 |
[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us |
| 6146 |
idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet |
| 6147 |
throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time] |
| 6148 |
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257 |
| 6149 |
[nice -n-20 /bin/laden] |
| 6150 |
% |
| 6151 |
"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?" |
| 6152 |
-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc |
| 6153 |
% |
| 6154 |
<JabberWork> Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10) |
| 6155 |
<JabberWork> Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10) |
| 6156 |
<JabberWork> infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10) |
| 6157 |
<JabberWork> Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10) |
| 6158 |
<JabberWork> Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10) |
| 6159 |
% |
| 6160 |
Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX. |
| 6161 |
% |
| 6162 |
EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf / |
| 6163 |
% |
| 6164 |
It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain |
| 6165 |
age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this |
| 6166 |
state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple |
| 6167 |
wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support |
| 6168 |
so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell |
| 6169 |
these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever |
| 6170 |
you tell them. |
| 6171 |
% |
| 6172 |
But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive |
| 6173 |
cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink |
| 6174 |
alcohol. |
| 6175 |
|
| 6176 |
Regards |
| 6177 |
Henning |
| 6178 |
% |
| 6179 |
> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle. |
| 6180 |
> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant |
| 6181 |
> on a desktop system. |
| 6182 |
|
| 6183 |
Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that |
| 6184 |
wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8) |
| 6185 |
|
| 6186 |
C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the |
| 6187 |
transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is. |
| 6188 |
|
| 6189 |
Alan |
| 6190 |
% |
| 6191 |
Hi Keith, |
| 6192 |
kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>: |
| 6193 |
|
| 6194 |
> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild. |
| 6195 |
> |
| 6196 |
> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH |
| 6197 |
> Use Welsh |
| 6198 |
|
| 6199 |
Don't forget |
| 6200 |
|
| 6201 |
CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN |
| 6202 |
Use Finnish |
| 6203 |
|
| 6204 |
(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right) |
| 6205 |
|
| 6206 |
And while we're at it, |
| 6207 |
|
| 6208 |
CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR |
| 6209 |
Use German |
| 6210 |
|
| 6211 |
CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS |
| 6212 |
Use English |
| 6213 |
|
| 6214 |
MfG Kai |
| 6215 |
% |
| 6216 |
[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08] |
| 6217 |
|
| 6218 |
This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the |
| 6219 |
bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to |
| 6220 |
verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one |
| 6221 |
forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan |
| 6222 |
Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like |
| 6223 |
there's no one thinking there. |
| 6224 |
<http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/168397.html> |
| 6225 |
% |
| 6226 |
Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn |
| 6227 |
scores the rules: |
| 6228 |
|
| 6229 |
[*] |
| 6230 |
Score:: =-9999 |
| 6231 |
Content-Type: multipart/alternative |
| 6232 |
Content-Type: text/html; |
| 6233 |
X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla |
| 6234 |
X-Mailer: Mozilla |
| 6235 |
X-Newsreader: Microsoft |
| 6236 |
|
| 6237 |
(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules); |
| 6238 |
that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been |
| 6239 |
getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise |
| 6240 |
levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are |
| 6241 |
going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-). |
| 6242 |
|
| 6243 |
I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the |
| 6244 |
Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a |
| 6245 |
wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them |
| 6246 |
clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me. |
| 6247 |
% |
| 6248 |
99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit |
| 6249 |
98 IIS servers online... |
| 6250 |
% |
| 6251 |
BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of |
| 6252 |
Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents |
| 6253 |
produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and |
| 6254 |
only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant. |
| 6255 |
|
| 6256 |
US law does *not* apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes |
| 6257 |
it to be otherwise. |
| 6258 |
|
| 6259 |
Abigail |
| 6260 |
% |
| 6261 |
4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one. |
| 6262 |
% |
| 6263 |
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be |
| 6264 |
attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del |
| 6265 |
was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any. |
| 6266 |
% |
| 6267 |
[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no] |
| 6268 |
si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport) |
| 6269 |
% |
| 6270 |
Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to |
| 6271 |
disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying |
| 6272 |
to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the |
| 6273 |
software people doing the same) |
| 6274 |
|
| 6275 |
In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both, |
| 6276 |
and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit |
| 6277 |
irrelevant |
| 6278 |
|
| 6279 |
Alan |
| 6280 |
% |
| 6281 |
[from rfc2822] |
| 6282 |
Comments may nest. |
| 6283 |
% |
| 6284 |
[from findas] |
| 6285 |
# there are only two problems with arin's whois database: |
| 6286 |
# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong |
| 6287 |
# b) the database format is nonparsable |
| 6288 |
# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;) |
| 6289 |
# of course, the only source to find out about global |
| 6290 |
# address distributino is... arin. |
| 6291 |
% |
| 6292 |
Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: |
| 6293 |
"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)" |
| 6294 |
% |
| 6295 |
[From perl5-porters] |
| 6296 |
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote: |
| 6297 |
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: |
| 6298 |
> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm |
| 6299 |
> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing. |
| 6300 |
> |
| 6301 |
> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread? |
| 6302 |
|
| 6303 |
$foot->insert($mouth); |
| 6304 |
|
| 6305 |
# or is that |
| 6306 |
|
| 6307 |
$mouth->insert($foot); |
| 6308 |
|
| 6309 |
You expect me to remember email messages from few days back? |
| 6310 |
How utterly optimistic :-) |
| 6311 |
% |
| 6312 |
[From perl5-porters] |
| 6313 |
>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation |
| 6314 |
>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree. |
| 6315 |
>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99 |
| 6316 |
>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence |
| 6317 |
>can see why it happens) |
| 6318 |
>Is there any language we actually all like? :-) |
| 6319 |
|
| 6320 |
Well, there's perl... :) |
| 6321 |
% |
| 6322 |
[From pth-1.4.0] |
| 6323 |
* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so |
| 6324 |
* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about |
| 6325 |
* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to |
| 6326 |
* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386 |
| 6327 |
* boxes. |
| 6328 |
% |
| 6329 |
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html |
| 6330 |
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html |
| 6331 |
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html |
| 6332 |
% |
| 6333 |
Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die |
| 6334 |
zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet |
| 6335 |
% |
| 6336 |
Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails |
| 6337 |
From: Juergen Christoffel |
| 6338 |
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200 |
| 6339 |
To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de |
| 6340 |
|
| 6341 |
Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran |
| 6342 |
|
| 6343 |
a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als |
| 6344 |
Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum |
| 6345 |
einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext |
| 6346 |
schon; |
| 6347 |
|
| 6348 |
b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im |
| 6349 |
Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann |
| 6350 |
auch mehr zum faedeln. |
| 6351 |
|
| 6352 |
Danke, JC |
| 6353 |
% |
| 6354 |
[perl.c] |
| 6355 |
#undef REASONABLE |
| 6356 |
% |
| 6357 |
And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking |
| 6358 |
about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would |
| 6359 |
|
| 6360 |
Alan |
| 6361 |
% |
| 6362 |
George Bonser writes: |
| 6363 |
> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not |
| 6364 |
> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully |
| 6365 |
> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the |
| 6366 |
> client population that is out there without having to make them change |
| 6367 |
> anything. |
| 6368 |
|
| 6369 |
You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people |
| 6370 |
who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't |
| 6371 |
care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together |
| 6372 |
something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing |
| 6373 |
hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and |
| 6374 |
eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work. |
| 6375 |
|
| 6376 |
To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have |
| 6377 |
chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works. |
| 6378 |
Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is |
| 6379 |
always a good idea. |
| 6380 |
% |
| 6381 |
Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane? |
| 6382 |
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi |
| 6383 |
|
| 6384 |
First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten |
| 6385 |
years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's. |
| 6386 |
% |
| 6387 |
[From the DOSEMU homepage] |
| 6388 |
We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer |
| 6389 |
versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such |
| 6390 |
as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run". |
| 6391 |
% |
| 6392 |
Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ |
| 6393 |
% |
| 6394 |
>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap |
| 6395 |
|
| 6396 |
WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL |
| 6397 |
enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy... |
| 6398 |
% |
| 6399 |
[the world will end soon. i promise!] |
| 6400 |
I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems |
| 6401 |
like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have |
| 6402 |
to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case? |
| 6403 |
% |
| 6404 |
..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999 |
| 6405 |
% |
| 6406 |
Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good |
| 6407 |
programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer |
| 6408 |
good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without |
| 6409 |
burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be |
| 6410 |
misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned |
| 6411 |
ME off for a couple years, anyway.) |
| 6412 |
% |
| 6413 |
From: Victor Yodaiken |
| 6414 |
|
| 6415 |
There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large |
| 6416 |
set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago |
| 6417 |
I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had |
| 6418 |
an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads |
| 6419 |
created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more |
| 6420 |
than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now |
| 6421 |
we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again). |
| 6422 |
% |
| 6423 |
[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that |
| 6424 |
good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the |
| 6425 |
future. Bleeeh] |
| 6426 |
|
| 6427 |
From: Larry McVoy |
| 6428 |
|
| 6429 |
I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few |
| 6430 |
are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just |
| 6431 |
like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that |
| 6432 |
exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average |
| 6433 |
programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few |
| 6434 |
exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers, |
| 6435 |
the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case, |
| 6436 |
not for the exceptional case. |
| 6437 |
% |
| 6438 |
Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two |
| 6439 |
semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the |
| 6440 |
overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later |
| 6441 |
versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous. |
| 6442 |
Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily |
| 6443 |
created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the |
| 6444 |
stack. |
| 6445 |
|
| 6446 |
Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a |
| 6447 |
garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to |
| 6448 |
relocate objects to do this at all reliably...) |
| 6449 |
|
| 6450 |
So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's |
| 6451 |
going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits. |
| 6452 |
% |
| 6453 |
From: Larry McVoy |
| 6454 |
|
| 6455 |
> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad |
| 6456 |
> > *if* threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might |
| 6457 |
> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right |
| 6458 |
> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end |
| 6459 |
> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...). |
| 6460 |
> |
| 6461 |
> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much |
| 6462 |
> on the CPU? |
| 6463 |
|
| 6464 |
Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks |
| 6465 |
that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a |
| 6466 |
died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance, |
| 6467 |
system design, or any elegance whatsoever. |
| 6468 |
|
| 6469 |
It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are. |
| 6470 |
What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square |
| 6471 |
and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over |
| 6472 |
the point again". |
| 6473 |
% |
| 6474 |
From: Alan Cox |
| 6475 |
|
| 6476 |
> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system. |
| 6477 |
> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to |
| 6478 |
> be GPL'd header files. |
| 6479 |
> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL. |
| 6480 |
> |
| 6481 |
> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that |
| 6482 |
> scenario. |
| 6483 |
|
| 6484 |
Yes but the concern is the USA 8) |
| 6485 |
% |
| 6486 |
[configure --help] |
| 6487 |
--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails) |
| 6488 |
--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)], |
| 6489 |
--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)], |
| 6490 |
% |
| 6491 |
I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8 |
| 6492 |
tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by |
| 6493 |
others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated |
| 6494 |
character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local |
| 6495 |
very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and |
| 6496 |
they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the |
| 6497 |
world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same |
| 6498 |
if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about |
| 6499 |
anything. |
| 6500 |
% |
| 6501 |
[01:53] <JanMan> Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft. |
| 6502 |
% |
| 6503 |
[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz] |
| 6504 |
http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm |
| 6505 |
% |
| 6506 |
[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote] |
| 6507 |
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org> wrote: |
| 6508 |
> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an |
| 6509 |
> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely |
| 6510 |
> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time. |
| 6511 |
|
| 6512 |
you mean, before 2.4 gets released? |
| 6513 |
% |
| 6514 |
From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com |
| 6515 |
|
| 6516 |
On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote: |
| 6517 |
|
| 6518 |
>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names. |
| 6519 |
>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned |
| 6520 |
>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably |
| 6521 |
>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the |
| 6522 |
>basics, I understood the power of the system. |
| 6523 |
|
| 6524 |
My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm |
| 6525 |
package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the |
| 6526 |
only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix |
| 6527 |
either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training |
| 6528 |
consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For |
| 6529 |
the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi |
| 6530 |
seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never |
| 6531 |
seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started |
| 6532 |
to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important |
| 6533 |
for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems. |
| 6534 |
It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience |
| 6535 |
to work through the learning curve. |
| 6536 |
% |
| 6537 |
[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt] |
| 6538 |
Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement. |
| 6539 |
% |
| 6540 |
[VERY good movie] |
| 6541 |
Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952) |
| 6542 |
% |
| 6543 |
[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm] |
| 6544 |
Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt. |
| 6545 |
% |
| 6546 |
[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm] |
| 6547 |
Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige |
| 6548 |
großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme |
| 6549 |
sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung - |
| 6550 |
erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS! |
| 6551 |
% |
| 6552 |
[alt.bible] |
| 6553 |
Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he |
| 6554 |
is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent. |
| 6555 |
% |
| 6556 |
[02:42] <JanMan> Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL. |
| 6557 |
[02:43] <JanMan> GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage. |
| 6558 |
% |
| 6559 |
[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste] |
| 6560 |
Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch |
| 6561 |
unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen |
| 6562 |
die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997 |
| 6563 |
festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via |
| 6564 |
E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O |
| 6565 |
3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein |
| 6566 |
Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt. |
| 6567 |
|
| 6568 |
Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 - |
| 6569 |
"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von |
| 6570 |
E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung |
| 6571 |
wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis |
| 6572 |
zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt. |
| 6573 |
|
| 6574 |
Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs |
| 6575 |
verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die |
| 6576 |
guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und |
| 6577 |
verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die |
| 6578 |
in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit, |
| 6579 |
insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen |
| 6580 |
Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn |
| 6581 |
§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs |
| 6582 |
bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung; |
| 6583 |
vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung |
| 6584 |
m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85) |
| 6585 |
% |
| 6586 |
[comment found in the source for gnu-tar] |
| 6587 |
/*---. |
| 6588 |
| ? | |
| 6589 |
`---*/ |
| 6590 |
% |
| 6591 |
Nautilus: Best workout for your VM |
| 6592 |
% |
| 6593 |
[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release] |
| 6594 |
From: Joe Buck |
| 6595 |
> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition? |
| 6596 |
Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points. |
| 6597 |
% |
| 6598 |
[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug] |
| 6599 |
Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value, |
| 6600 |
% |
| 6601 |
04:57] <JanMan> schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage: |
| 6602 |
Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :) |
| 6603 |
% |
| 6604 |
[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier] |
| 6605 |
[07:35] <JanMan> hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :) |
| 6606 |
% |
| 6607 |
[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall] |
| 6608 |
[03:02] <schmorp> beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;) |
| 6609 |
... |
| 6610 |
[03:03] <JanMan> larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :) |
| 6611 |
% |
| 6612 |
[From: Alan Cox] |
| 6613 |
> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said, |
| 6614 |
> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you |
| 6615 |
> know, we have a lot of lawyers." |
| 6616 |
|
| 6617 |
I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;) |
| 6618 |
|
| 6619 |
Alan |
| 6620 |
% |
| 6621 |
[JanMan über O'Reilly] |
| 6622 |
[07:41] <JanMan> naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende. |
| 6623 |
[07:42] <JanMan> Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment. |
| 6624 |
[07:42] <JanMan> nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus. |
| 6625 |
[07:42] <JanMan> aber die DE-Leute sind ok. |
| 6626 |
% |
| 6627 |
[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL] |
| 6628 |
[07:05] <JanMan> das nenne ich russisch: |
| 6629 |
[07:05] <JanMan> EVP_PKEY *key = NULL; |
| 6630 |
[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL; |
| 6631 |
[07:05] <JanMan> STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL; |
| 6632 |
[07:05] <JanMan> PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL; |
| 6633 |
[07:08] <JanMan> (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type) |
| 6634 |
% |
| 6635 |
Hlade's Law: |
| 6636 |
If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they |
| 6637 |
will find an easier way to do it. |
| 6638 |
% |
| 6639 |
[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf |
| 6640 |
"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] \(Micro$oft-Fetischist\)" gesetzt hat.] |
| 6641 |
Paul wrote: |
| 6642 |
>Marc wrote: |
| 6643 |
>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-) |
| 6644 |
> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts |
| 6645 |
> den richtigen. |
| 6646 |
% |
| 6647 |
[from janmans .sig] |
| 6648 |
> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. " |
| 6649 |
% |
| 6650 |
[a small perl program] |
| 6651 |
:(); { :: | :: } ; |
| 6652 |
% |
| 6653 |
[a small fork-bomb for bash] |
| 6654 |
:() { : | : ;} ; : |
| 6655 |
% |
| 6656 |
[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server] |
| 6657 |
New: 464 files, 0 symlinks |
| 6658 |
<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000 |
| 6659 |
<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000 |
| 6660 |
<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000 |
| 6661 |
% |
| 6662 |
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi |
| 6663 |
[...] |
| 6664 |
|
| 6665 |
>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp |
| 6666 |
|
| 6667 |
Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/ |
| 6668 |
% |
| 6669 |
> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded |
| 6670 |
> constants. |
| 6671 |
|
| 6672 |
I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine. |
| 6673 |
Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution |
| 6674 |
would be conducive for further discussion. |
| 6675 |
% |
| 6676 |
> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think |
| 6677 |
> it might be useful? |
| 6678 |
|
| 6679 |
I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a |
| 6680 |
room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has |
| 6681 |
much to do with IRC. |
| 6682 |
% |
| 6683 |
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> |
| 6684 |
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown. |
| 6685 |
|
| 6686 |
[...] |
| 6687 |
Cool. Somebody actually found a real case. |
| 6688 |
|
| 6689 |
I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it |
| 6690 |
ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major. |
| 6691 |
% |
| 6692 |
[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)] |
| 6693 |
[07:17] <marco2> elmex heisst jetzt plagiator... |
| 6694 |
% |
| 6695 |
[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html] |
| 6696 |
|
| 6697 |
Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese. |
| 6698 |
Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building |
| 6699 |
clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might. |
| 6700 |
|
| 6701 |
Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a |
| 6702 |
lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks, |
| 6703 |
man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which |
| 6704 |
shows how much you know, pal. |
| 6705 |
|
| 6706 |
The Japanese don't have daylight saving time. |
| 6707 |
% |
| 6708 |
[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration] |
| 6709 |
/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!! |
| 6710 |
Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!! |
| 6711 |
% |
| 6712 |
[a JAPH using doubled characters only] |
| 6713 |
s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;; |
| 6714 |
y yzzyyccss;;##s |
| 6715 |
s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;; |
| 6716 |
% |
| 6717 |
[from the FWP mailinglist] |
| 6718 |
> OR is spelled "|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :) |
| 6719 |
Your version of perl sucks. |
| 6720 |
% |
| 6721 |
[01:43] <elmex_> ah-oh-uh |
| 6722 |
[01:44] <schmorp> leitung durchhacken |
| 6723 |
[01:44] <elmex_> wieso? welche? |
| 6724 |
[01:45] <schmorp> die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9 |
| 6725 |
[02:03] <elmex_> das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch |
| 6726 |
[02:03] <elmex_> da isn stahltraeger in der wand |
| 6727 |
[02:04] <elmex_> muss ich erst drumherum |
| 6728 |
[02:04] <elmex_> ;) |
| 6729 |
[02:04] <schmorp> ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken |
| 6730 |
[02:04] <elmex_> nich? aber du sachstes doch? |
| 6731 |
[02:05] <schmorp> *sigh* |
| 6732 |
% |
| 6733 |
I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means |
| 6734 |
before you can understand it :) |
| 6735 |
% |
| 6736 |
> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen |
| 6737 |
> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it |
| 6738 |
> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object |
| 6739 |
> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4 |
| 6740 |
> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or |
| 6741 |
> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That |
| 6742 |
> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think |
| 6743 |
|
| 6744 |
IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD |
| 6745 |
There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always |
| 6746 |
the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can |
| 6747 |
easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is |
| 6748 |
what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to |
| 6749 |
be worth attempting). |
| 6750 |
|
| 6751 |
I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper |
| 6752 |
floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally |
| 6753 |
caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway... |
| 6754 |
|
| 6755 |
Nick. |
| 6756 |
% |
| 6757 |
From: "Mike Rebane" <reba0002@algonquincollege.com> |
| 6758 |
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500 |
| 6759 |
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) |
| 6760 |
|
| 6761 |
I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it |
| 6762 |
goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on |
| 6763 |
how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and |
| 6764 |
have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is |
| 6765 |
magic_bone@hotmail.com |
| 6766 |
% |
| 6767 |
> > > I guess then someone would want |
| 6768 |
> > > { ... } for (...) if ...; |
| 6769 |
> > > to work :-) |
| 6770 |
> > |
| 6771 |
> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday. |
| 6772 |
> |
| 6773 |
> Eh? |
| 6774 |
> |
| 6775 |
> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a' |
| 6776 |
> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if" |
| 6777 |
|
| 6778 |
He didn't say it worked. :) |
| 6779 |
% |
| 6780 |
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi |
| 6781 |
|
| 6782 |
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: |
| 6783 |
> I find it irksome that |
| 6784 |
> |
| 6785 |
> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...; |
| 6786 |
|
| 6787 |
...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy. |
| 6788 |
% |
| 6789 |
[a perl5 bug report] |
| 6790 |
From: Simon Cozens |
| 6791 |
|
| 6792 |
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote: |
| 6793 |
> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''}))); |
| 6794 |
> Produces SIGSEGV. |
| 6795 |
|
| 6796 |
Looks like a feature to me. |
| 6797 |
% |
| 6798 |
[Lukilein...] |
| 6799 |
"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..." |
| 6800 |
% |
| 6801 |
[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser |
| 6802 |
intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)] |
| 6803 |
|
| 6804 |
"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth |
| 6805 |
continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore |
| 6806 |
is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the |
| 6807 |
other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]" |
| 6808 |
|
| 6809 |
"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by |
| 6810 |
simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That |
| 6811 |
would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If |
| 6812 |
you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a |
| 6813 |
large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing |
| 6814 |
part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?" |
| 6815 |
% |
| 6816 |
[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315] |
| 6817 |
I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of |
| 6818 |
security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high |
| 6819 |
level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of |
| 6820 |
this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a |
| 6821 |
great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works |
| 6822 |
only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's |
| 6823 |
security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this |
| 6824 |
reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with |
| 6825 |
the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and |
| 6826 |
secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair, |
| 6827 |
accurate and not subject to tampering." |
| 6828 |
|
| 6829 |
Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel |
| 6830 |
better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some |
| 6831 |
hacker might read about it and break it. Who *are* these guys? |
| 6832 |
|
| 6833 |
<http://www.iballot.com/faq2.cfm?docid=28> |
| 6834 |
% |
| 6835 |
It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one |
| 6836 |
more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus |
| 6837 |
impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as |
| 6838 |
Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from |
| 6839 |
Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most |
| 6840 |
likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus |
| 6841 |
replication." |
| 6842 |
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp> |
| 6843 |
% |
| 6844 |
[just some private thoughts] |
| 6845 |
Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow? |
| 6846 |
|
| 6847 |
IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really |
| 6848 |
shows. |
| 6849 |
|
| 6850 |
First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates |
| 6851 |
transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This |
| 6852 |
totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol. |
| 6853 |
|
| 6854 |
Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without |
| 6855 |
defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode |
| 6856 |
is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since |
| 6857 |
this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some |
| 6858 |
MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1). |
| 6859 |
|
| 6860 |
Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy |
| 6861 |
to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come |
| 6862 |
up with a saner protocol. |
| 6863 |
% |
| 6864 |
[voting by television, the american way...] |
| 6865 |
"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush |
| 6866 |
and Gore running,' " Tyson said. |
| 6867 |
|
| 6868 |
Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and |
| 6869 |
cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian |
| 6870 |
voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said. |
| 6871 |
% |
| 6872 |
IBM has withdrawn CPRM... |
| 6873 |
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-201-4922288-0.html?tag=mn_hd> |
| 6874 |
...and replaced it with something almost identical: |
| 6875 |
<http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/23/2134255.shtml> |
| 6876 |
A good analysis by John Gilmore: |
| 6877 |
<http://cryptome.org/cprm-smoke.htm> |
| 6878 |
% |
| 6879 |
[Midori-Linux FAQ] |
| 6880 |
Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing? |
| 6881 |
A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to |
| 6882 |
seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape |
| 6883 |
is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product |
| 6884 |
does not come with source code. The workaround is to run |
| 6885 |
Netscape in a loop. |
| 6886 |
% |
| 6887 |
Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go? |
| 6888 |
% |
| 6889 |
[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)] |
| 6890 |
marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert |
| 6891 |
mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien! |
| 6892 |
marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2 |
| 6893 |
hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur |
| 6894 |
% |
| 6895 |
[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:] |
| 6896 |
"ist mir egal" |
| 6897 |
% |
| 6898 |
From: Hans Reiser |
| 6899 |
Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found! |
| 6900 |
|
| 6901 |
Dad, make sure the docs get updated. |
| 6902 |
% |
| 6903 |
[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software] |
| 6904 |
hallole |
| 6905 |
% |
| 6906 |
I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or |
| 6907 |
have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when |
| 6908 |
most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft. |
| 6909 |
% |
| 6910 |
1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty |
| 6911 |
1929 The high sign of refreshment |
| 6912 |
1929 The pause that refreshes |
| 6913 |
1930 It had to be good to get where it is |
| 6914 |
1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing |
| 6915 |
1935 The pause that brings friends together |
| 6916 |
1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed |
| 6917 |
1938 The best friend thirst ever had |
| 6918 |
1939 Thirst stops here |
| 6919 |
1942 It's the real thing |
| 6920 |
1947 Have a Coke |
| 6921 |
1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING |
| 6922 |
1963 Things go better with Coke |
| 6923 |
1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand |
| 6924 |
1979 Have a Coke and a smile |
| 6925 |
1982 Coke is it! |
| 6926 |
-- Coca-Cola slogans |
| 6927 |
% |
| 6928 |
[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo] |
| 6929 |
model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB) |
| 6930 |
% |
| 6931 |
[02:24] <elmex> schmorp: |
| 6932 |
[02:24] <elmex> ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung |
| 6933 |
% |
| 6934 |
[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul] |
| 6935 |
Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen |
| 6936 |
erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi |
| 6937 |
islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der |
| 6938 |
Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines |
| 6939 |
ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die |
| 6940 |
Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf |
| 6941 |
wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung" |
| 6942 |
erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum |
| 6943 |
booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD |
| 6944 |
einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer |
| 6945 |
Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden |
| 6946 |
- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten |
| 6947 |
(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine |
| 6948 |
Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer. |
| 6949 |
|
| 6950 |
Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an |
| 6951 |
hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de |
| 6952 |
% |
| 6953 |
[RMS about gcc snapshots] |
| 6954 |
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
| 6955 |
|
| 6956 |
[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an |
| 6957 |
uncool thing to do. [...] |
| 6958 |
% |
| 6959 |
"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch |
| 6960 |
betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..." |
| 6961 |
[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38] |
| 6962 |
% |
| 6963 |
"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes |
| 6964 |
Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die |
| 6965 |
Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt." |
| 6966 |
|
| 6967 |
"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr, |
| 6968 |
daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge |
| 6969 |
vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0,5 bis 2 Jahren |
| 6970 |
von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen |
| 6971 |
die Maschinen Platz." |
| 6972 |
[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964] |
| 6973 |
% |
| 6974 |
My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing |
| 6975 |
software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between |
| 6976 |
Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT! |
| 6977 |
work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start |
| 6978 |
doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability |
| 6979 |
problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff |
| 6980 |
like that is hell when you don't have the source. |
| 6981 |
|
| 6982 |
And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do, |
| 6983 |
run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the |
| 6984 |
whole system? Ugh, the horror. |
| 6985 |
% |
| 6986 |
> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR). |
| 6987 |
|
| 6988 |
US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc. |
| 6989 |
% |
| 6990 |
Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared |
| 6991 |
to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something |
| 6992 |
to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers |
| 6993 |
beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look |
| 6994 |
at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this |
| 6995 |
one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered... |
| 6996 |
% |
| 6997 |
From: David Woodhouse |
| 6998 |
> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I |
| 6999 |
> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent? |
| 7000 |
|
| 7001 |
Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted |
| 7002 |
is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US. |
| 7003 |
|
| 7004 |
After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art? |
| 7005 |
% |
| 7006 |
http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9 |
| 7007 |
% |
| 7008 |
[recently on linux-kernel] |
| 7009 |
From: Alan Cox |
| 7010 |
> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by |
| 7011 |
> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all. |
| 7012 |
> |
| 7013 |
> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland? |
| 7014 |
|
| 7015 |
Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain |
| 7016 |
users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face |
| 7017 |
% |
| 7018 |
From: Russell King |
| 7019 |
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT) |
| 7020 |
To: Albert D. Cahalan |
| 7021 |
|
| 7022 |
Albert D. Cahalan writes: |
| 7023 |
> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. |
| 7024 |
> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very |
| 7025 |
> few others -- my memory fails me on this. |
| 7026 |
|
| 7027 |
iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres" |
| 7028 |
|
| 7029 |
[flames to /dev/null please] ;) |
| 7030 |
% |
| 7031 |
[11:19] <pho3nix> ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch, |
| 7032 |
der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit |
| 7033 |
dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END |
| 7034 |
[11:19] <schmorp> pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum? |
| 7035 |
% |
| 7036 |
[über "Mediengestaltung"] |
| 7037 |
[10:39] <elmex|Zz> pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern |
| 7038 |
[10:40] <schmorp> elmex|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage? |
| 7039 |
% |
| 7040 |
[perldoc perlembed] |
| 7041 |
You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl. |
| 7042 |
% |
| 7043 |
[03:34] <JanMan> Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :) |
| 7044 |
% |
| 7045 |
[09:26] <JanMan> bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder. |
| 7046 |
[09:34] <JanMan> elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht: |
| 7047 |
nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server |
| 7048 |
% |
| 7049 |
[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c] |
| 7050 |
/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful' |
| 7051 |
talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try |
| 7052 |
to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something |
| 7053 |
eloquent like `fuck'. */ |
| 7054 |
% |
| 7055 |
[20:44] <elmex|aw> ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme...... |
| 7056 |
% |
| 7057 |
[09:40] <kiki> zu spaet |
| 7058 |
[09:40] <JanMan> kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr... |
| 7059 |
[09:41] <kiki> lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen |
| 7060 |
[09:41] <kiki> aushungern schon |
| 7061 |
[09:41] <JanMan> elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun. |
| 7062 |
[09:41] <elmex> ? |
| 7063 |
[09:42] <elmex> JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung |
| 7064 |
% |
| 7065 |
[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin] |
| 7066 |
for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/} |
| 7067 |
% |
| 7068 |
[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to |
| 7069 |
perl:] |
| 7070 |
|
| 7071 |
$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns |
| 7072 |
|
| 7073 |
[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn |
| 7074 |
to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the |
| 7075 |
above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character" |
| 7076 |
warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs |
| 7077 |
in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just |
| 7078 |
disable the message and pray it works"] |
| 7079 |
% |
| 7080 |
[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)] |
| 7081 |
From: "Alexander Daskalov" <alexanderd@alexsmail.com> |
| 7082 |
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800 |
| 7083 |
X-Mailer: <IMail v6.05> |
| 7084 |
|
| 7085 |
I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+ |
| 7086 |
can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+ |
| 7087 |
i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+ |
| 7088 |
know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+ |
| 7089 |
better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list! |
| 7090 |
% |
| 7091 |
[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local" |
| 7092 |
language, if applicable, and came up with this:] |
| 7093 |
http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf |
| 7094 |
% |
| 7095 |
[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c] |
| 7096 |
* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and |
| 7097 |
* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix |
| 7098 |
* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after |
| 7099 |
* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver. |
| 7100 |
% |
| 7101 |
[from qmail's maildir(5)] |
| 7102 |
Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the |
| 7103 |
operating system vendor does not offer anything else. |
| 7104 |
% |
| 7105 |
[Lukas Grundwald] |
| 7106 |
Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt. |
| 7107 |
% |
| 7108 |
[waiting for windows...] |
| 7109 |
http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg |
| 7110 |
% |
| 7111 |
[x86 really is a cool design] |
| 7112 |
> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache |
| 7113 |
> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a |
| 7114 |
> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think |
| 7115 |
> it's a hard requirement. |
| 7116 |
|
| 7117 |
Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack |
| 7118 |
if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some |
| 7119 |
experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in |
| 7120 |
another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will |
| 7121 |
cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of |
| 7122 |
a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in |
| 7123 |
the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better |
| 7124 |
have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble. |
| 7125 |
% |
| 7126 |
> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load |
| 7127 |
> Netscape?" |
| 7128 |
|
| 7129 |
can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using |
| 7130 |
netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?" |
| 7131 |
% |
| 7132 |
The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of |
| 7133 |
commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence |
| 7134 |
structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was |
| 7135 |
created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to |
| 7136 |
them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform |
| 7137 |
the specified task step-by-step. |
| 7138 |
% |
| 7139 |
There is an old programmer's rule. |
| 7140 |
|
| 7141 |
"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should |
| 7142 |
be damned hard to understand." |
| 7143 |
% |
| 7144 |
[Linus] |
| 7145 |
Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never |
| 7146 |
will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just |
| 7147 |
wrong. It's that simple. |
| 7148 |
% |
| 7149 |
[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)] |
| 7150 |
09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp |
| 7151 |
[09:32] <Unkn0wn> Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your |
| 7152 |
site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl |
| 7153 |
never take a moment to thank someone. =P <Bows, and heads back to #VB on |
| 7154 |
Undernet> |
| 7155 |
% |
| 7156 |
[character normalization might be harmful] |
| 7157 |
> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing |
| 7158 |
> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the |
| 7159 |
> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me. |
| 7160 |
|
| 7161 |
Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed |
| 7162 |
document that contains an element or attribute named |
| 7163 |
"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit"). |
| 7164 |
A forged version of the document that contained the name |
| 7165 |
"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass |
| 7166 |
a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor |
| 7167 |
might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit" |
| 7168 |
and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger |
| 7169 |
now appears to have unlimited credit! |
| 7170 |
% |
| 7171 |
["my spam"] |
| 7172 |
99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other |
| 7173 |
numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of |
| 7174 |
protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr |
| 7175 |
or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those |
| 7176 |
TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts. |
| 7177 |
% |
| 7178 |
[from linux-kernel] |
| 7179 |
Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard |
| 7180 |
who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX. |
| 7181 |
[... snip ...] |
| 7182 |
never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek |
| 7183 |
tragedy... |
| 7184 |
% |
| 7185 |
From: "Mike A. Harris" |
| 7186 |
|
| 7187 |
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: |
| 7188 |
>---- A notice to spammers ---- |
| 7189 |
>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is |
| 7190 |
>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions |
| 7191 |
>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail |
| 7192 |
>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per |
| 7193 |
>message plus attorney's fees. |
| 7194 |
[SNIP long sig] |
| 7195 |
|
| 7196 |
O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as |
| 7197 |
most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam, |
| 7198 |
all you're doing is contributing to it. |
| 7199 |
|
| 7200 |
I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time. |
| 7201 |
However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily |
| 7202 |
procmailable address. |
| 7203 |
|
| 7204 |
One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else |
| 7205 |
means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all |
| 7206 |
just a waste of bandwidth. |
| 7207 |
% |
| 7208 |
rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits |
| 7209 |
% |
| 7210 |
[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain] |
| 7211 |
/bin/true --version | read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\! |
| 7212 |
% |
| 7213 |
[stefan thought this would be better] |
| 7214 |
/bin/true --version | read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff. |
| 7215 |
% |
| 7216 |
[Java-Design] |
| 7217 |
[02:53] <schmorp> in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen |
| 7218 |
[02:53] <JanMan> schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen. |
| 7219 |
[02:54] <JanMan> ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll. |
| 7220 |
[02:55] <JanMan> es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate |
| 7221 |
klasse, alles muell. |
| 7222 |
[02:56] <JanMan> (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..) |
| 7223 |
[02:56] <JanMan> und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt... |
| 7224 |
[02:57] <JanMan> klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString. |
| 7225 |
% |
| 7226 |
[02:38] <JanMan> Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert" |
| 7227 |
% |
| 7228 |
[02:30] <JanMan> schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one. |
| 7229 |
[02:32] <JanMan> schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error: |
| 7230 |
missing "broken" but class seems "broken". |
| 7231 |
% |
| 7232 |
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote: |
| 7233 |
The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened |
| 7234 |
using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return |
| 7235 |
immediately and not block the calling process. |
| 7236 |
|
| 7237 |
the man pages are wrong |
| 7238 |
|
| 7239 |
--cw |
| 7240 |
% |
| 7241 |
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> |
| 7242 |
... |
| 7243 |
My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage. |
| 7244 |
% |
| 7245 |
[Subject: line on linux-kernel] |
| 7246 |
Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20 |
| 7247 |
% |
| 7248 |
From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" |
| 7249 |
> tar cvpf - foo | ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - ) |
| 7250 |
> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and |
| 7251 |
|
| 7252 |
How fast does it oops? |
| 7253 |
% |
| 7254 |
From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com> |
| 7255 |
|
| 7256 |
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: |
| 7257 |
> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to |
| 7258 |
> touch is 2Gig. |
| 7259 |
|
| 7260 |
In theory, yes. |
| 7261 |
In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the |
| 7262 |
2GB limit is a theoretical one. :) |
| 7263 |
% |
| 7264 |
[10:44] <elmex> -------------------------------------------------------- |
| 7265 |
[10:44] <elmex> | | | | | | | |
| 7266 |
[10:44] <elmex> | | | |-----| | | | |
| 7267 |
[10:44] <elmex> | |-------------------------| | | | |
| 7268 |
[10:44] <elmex> | |-| | .---------------------------.| |-------| |
| 7269 |
[10:44] <elmex> | | | |Welcome on elmex.x-paste.de|| | | |
| 7270 |
[10:44] <elmex> | |-| | `---------------------------'| | | |
| 7271 |
[10:44] <elmex> | |----------| |-----------------------| | |
| 7272 |
[10:44] <elmex> | | |-| | | | | |
| 7273 |
[10:44] <elmex> |-| | | | |-----| | |
| 7274 |
[10:44] <elmex> | |------------|-------------- | | | |
| 7275 |
[10:44] <elmex> | |-----------------------------------|-| |----| |
| 7276 |
[10:44] <elmex> | |-| |-| | | | | |
| 7277 |
[10:44] <elmex> | |-| | | | | | |
| 7278 |
[10:44] <elmex> |-| | | | | | |
| 7279 |
[10:44] <elmex> -------------------------------------------------------- |
| 7280 |
% |
| 7281 |
Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount. |
| 7282 |
% |
| 7283 |
"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me |
| 7284 |
like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the |
| 7285 |
[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to |
| 7286 |
take in more money then you put out, or you're toast." |
| 7287 |
-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center |
| 7288 |
% |
| 7289 |
"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das." |
| 7290 |
[Lukas Grunwald] |
| 7291 |
% |
| 7292 |
[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog] |
| 7293 |
From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> |
| 7294 |
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100 |
| 7295 |
To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com |
| 7296 |
|
| 7297 |
Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl): |
| 7298 |
> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell |
| 7299 |
> > prompt. |
| 7300 |
> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors |
| 7301 |
> /proc/info/authors? |
| 7302 |
|
| 7303 |
Grand idea. |
| 7304 |
Let's also add /proc/info/spammers, |
| 7305 |
/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus, |
| 7306 |
/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser, |
| 7307 |
/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and |
| 7308 |
/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes. |
| 7309 |
|
| 7310 |
NOT. |
| 7311 |
[...] |
| 7312 |
% |
| 7313 |
[Nick and I used to fight a LOT] |
| 7314 |
Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later |
| 7315 |
From: Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk> |
| 7316 |
|
| 7317 |
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: |
| 7318 |
> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be |
| 7319 |
> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be |
| 7320 |
> an interesting experiment. |
| 7321 |
|
| 7322 |
Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree |
| 7323 |
about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest |
| 7324 |
to disagree... |
| 7325 |
% |
| 7326 |
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER |
| 7327 |
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize! |
| 7328 |
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize! |
| 7329 |
[und Lukas sagt:] |
| 7330 |
... man beachte die logarithmische Skala! |
| 7331 |
% |
| 7332 |
[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse |
| 7333 |
report:] |
| 7334 |
... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket |
| 7335 |
the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1 |
| 7336 |
second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great |
| 7337 |
excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think. |
| 7338 |
% |
| 7339 |
[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME] |
| 7340 |
http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html |
| 7341 |
% |
| 7342 |
["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"] |
| 7343 |
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> |
| 7344 |
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100 |
| 7345 |
|
| 7346 |
Alexander Viro wrote: |
| 7347 |
> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just |
| 7348 |
> > about any language that has ORBit bindings. |
| 7349 |
> |
| 7350 |
> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated |
| 7351 |
> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME |
| 7352 |
> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with |
| 7353 |
> UNIX. |
| 7354 |
|
| 7355 |
Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs, |
| 7356 |
compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME |
| 7357 |
docs... ew! |
| 7358 |
% |
| 7359 |
> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we |
| 7360 |
> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter |
| 7361 |
> protected mode? |
| 7362 |
|
| 7363 |
From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function |
| 7364 |
with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment |
| 7365 |
registers loaded ;) |
| 7366 |
% |
| 7367 |
> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it |
| 7368 |
[...] |
| 7369 |
> backports hurt forward progress. |
| 7370 |
|
| 7371 |
beware of content free dogma |
| 7372 |
% |
| 7373 |
> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just |
| 7374 |
> wondering. |
| 7375 |
|
| 7376 |
Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS |
| 7377 |
has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because |
| 7378 |
unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of |
| 7379 |
Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing |
| 7380 |
and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS |
| 7381 |
machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that |
| 7382 |
no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem. |
| 7383 |
|
| 7384 |
Markus [G. Kuhn] |
| 7385 |
% |
| 7386 |
>Keith, |
| 7387 |
> |
| 7388 |
>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions |
| 7389 |
>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and |
| 7390 |
>RedHat derived Linux distributions. |
| 7391 |
|
| 7392 |
I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to |
| 7393 |
utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest |
| 7394 |
of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are |
| 7395 |
not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had |
| 7396 |
added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors |
| 7397 |
are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular |
| 7398 |
do the right thing. |
| 7399 |
|
| 7400 |
Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i" |
| 7401 |
and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is |
| 7402 |
unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by |
| 7403 |
distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication |
| 7404 |
and they have to fix it. |
| 7405 |
% |
| 7406 |
10:44] <JanMan> falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst: |
| 7407 |
[10:45] <JanMan> connect reset; |
| 7408 |
[10:45] <JanMan> connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin; |
| 7409 |
[10:45] <JanMan> select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<''; |
| 7410 |
% |
| 7411 |
[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:] |
| 7412 |
printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2 |
| 7413 |
% |
| 7414 |
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote: |
| 7415 |
> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and |
| 7416 |
> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business |
| 7417 |
> midgets and what I should expect or not. |
| 7418 |
|
| 7419 |
You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience. |
| 7420 |
You've just proved that killfiles are useful. |
| 7421 |
% |
| 7422 |
[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:] |
| 7423 |
gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration) |
| 7424 |
% |
| 7425 |
[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when |
| 7426 |
glibc-2.2 was released] |
| 7427 |
Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli |
| 7428 |
% |
| 7429 |
[08:05] <JanMan> elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :) |
| 7430 |
% |
| 7431 |
# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7::: |
| 7432 |
# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7::: |
| 7433 |
# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : : |
| 7434 |
% |
| 7435 |
<JanMan_> soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ? |
| 7436 |
<schmorp> klar.. %hash->generate |
| 7437 |
<JanMan_> oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate |
| 7438 |
% |
| 7439 |
[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann] |
| 7440 |
|
| 7441 |
(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is |
| 7442 |
standards-compliant. |
| 7443 |
(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";" |
| 7444 |
(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx¬es=77" doesn't contain a valid |
| 7445 |
entity, so the browser must use it as is. |
| 7446 |
(2b) [corollary] "<blubb>" is not a valid html element, so the browser |
| 7447 |
must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore). |
| 7448 |
(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others. |
| 7449 |
% |
| 7450 |
[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)] |
| 7451 |
> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it |
| 7452 |
> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.) |
| 7453 |
|
| 7454 |
That's your problem. |
| 7455 |
|
| 7456 |
There is no PCI Ethernet device listed. |
| 7457 |
|
| 7458 |
Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot. |
| 7459 |
(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->) |
| 7460 |
% |
| 7461 |
> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow |
| 7462 |
> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users |
| 7463 |
> > out there) in the foot? |
| 7464 |
|
| 7465 |
> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux? |
| 7466 |
|
| 7467 |
True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot |
| 7468 |
themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it |
| 7469 |
for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-) |
| 7470 |
% |
| 7471 |
> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if |
| 7472 |
> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day |
| 7473 |
> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will. |
| 7474 |
|
| 7475 |
No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake, |
| 7476 |
after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that |
| 7477 |
perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the |
| 7478 |
PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it |
| 7479 |
_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-) |
| 7480 |
-- |
| 7481 |
Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl |
| 7482 |
% |
| 7483 |
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes: |
| 7484 |
|
| 7485 |
> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes: |
| 7486 |
> |
| 7487 |
> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals |
| 7488 |
> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction. |
| 7489 |
> |
| 7490 |
> Why are you talking such a nonsense? |
| 7491 |
|
| 7492 |
[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.] |
| 7493 |
% |
| 7494 |
[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste, |
| 7495 |
daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:] |
| 7496 |
"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge |
| 7497 |
Gurupunkte bei mir verloren." |
| 7498 |
% |
| 7499 |
[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt, |
| 7500 |
which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for |
| 7501 |
Bullschildt below ;)] |
| 7502 |
|
| 7503 |
"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time |
| 7504 |
do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard." |
| 7505 |
% |
| 7506 |
Stefan Traby wrote: |
| 7507 |
> |
| 7508 |
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: |
| 7509 |
> |
| 7510 |
> > We have a few websites floating around, [...] |
| 7511 |
> |
| 7512 |
> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :) |
| 7513 |
% |
| 7514 |
> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15. |
| 7515 |
|
| 7516 |
I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and |
| 7517 |
it did the same thing. |
| 7518 |
|
| 7519 |
Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about |
| 7520 |
a week ago. :( |
| 7521 |
|
| 7522 |
--Jack |
| 7523 |
% |
| 7524 |
"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet" |
| 7525 |
% |
| 7526 |
[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time. |
| 7527 |
-- K&R |
| 7528 |
% |
| 7529 |
<elmex> JanMan: "||01:42:20|| <elmex> schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren" |
| 7530 |
% |
| 7531 |
[please kids, don't try this at home] |
| 7532 |
indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss |
| 7533 |
% |
| 7534 |
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg |
| 7535 |
% |
| 7536 |
[PApp.pm] |
| 7537 |
$modules => { "" => "" }; |
| 7538 |
% |
| 7539 |
Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes. |
| 7540 |
% |
| 7541 |
<JanMan> elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :) |
| 7542 |
% |
| 7543 |
[From Russel Coker's .sig] |
| 7544 |
> -- |
| 7545 |
> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a |
| 7546 |
> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :( |
| 7547 |
% |
| 7548 |
[the two sides of the medal] |
| 7549 |
From: "David Schwartz" |
| 7550 |
|
| 7551 |
> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from |
| 7552 |
> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll() |
| 7553 |
> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time, |
| 7554 |
> pretty spiffy. |
| 7555 |
|
| 7556 |
Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000 |
| 7557 |
to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a |
| 7558 |
factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll |
| 7559 |
implementation is horribly broken for the most common case. |
| 7560 |
% |
| 7561 |
[lukas grunwald...] |
| 7562 |
[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ... |
| 7563 |
% |
| 7564 |
[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card] |
| 7565 |
> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed |
| 7566 |
> of having bough one. |
| 7567 |
|
| 7568 |
Not an uncommon thought :) |
| 7569 |
% |
| 7570 |
From: Stefan Traby |
| 7571 |
|
| 7572 |
Hi Marc ! |
| 7573 |
|
| 7574 |
keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group |
| 7575 |
keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group |
| 7576 |
keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift |
| 7577 |
|
| 7578 |
Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :) |
| 7579 |
% |
| 7580 |
[I hope you get the point(s)...] |
| 7581 |
From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au> |
| 7582 |
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100 |
| 7583 |
To: <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov> |
| 7584 |
|
| 7585 |
At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote: |
| 7586 |
>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is |
| 7587 |
>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told). |
| 7588 |
|
| 7589 |
Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and |
| 7590 |
all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another |
| 7591 |
which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all |
| 7592 |
remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use |
| 7593 |
[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US |
| 7594 |
and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use. |
| 7595 |
|
| 7596 |
>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used |
| 7597 |
>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out. |
| 7598 |
|
| 7599 |
And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different |
| 7600 |
separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of |
| 7601 |
them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written |
| 7602 |
right to left. |
| 7603 |
|
| 7604 |
>But no culture |
| 7605 |
>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely |
| 7606 |
>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone |
| 7607 |
>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to |
| 7608 |
>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a |
| 7609 |
>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format. |
| 7610 |
|
| 7611 |
Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have. |
| 7612 |
|
| 7613 |
--Alex |
| 7614 |
% |
| 7615 |
[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list] |
| 7616 |
From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com> |
| 7617 |
To: "Jon.Hinks" <Jon.Hinks@berkeley-ifa.co.uk> |
| 7618 |
|
| 7619 |
[most of the reply snipped...] |
| 7620 |
|
| 7621 |
> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It |
| 7622 |
> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may |
| 7623 |
> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley |
| 7624 |
|
| 7625 |
[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]] |
| 7626 |
|
| 7627 |
These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold |
| 7628 |
the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you |
| 7629 |
grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related |
| 7630 |
forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media, |
| 7631 |
and quotes from questions in FAQs. |
| 7632 |
|
| 7633 |
(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically |
| 7634 |
attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why |
| 7635 |
try to claim that they do?) |
| 7636 |
% |
| 7637 |
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: |
| 7638 |
|
| 7639 |
> void go_take_a_dump (float load) |
| 7640 |
> { |
| 7641 |
> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants()) |
| 7642 |
> flush(load); |
| 7643 |
> else |
| 7644 |
> wear(load); |
| 7645 |
> } |
| 7646 |
|
| 7647 |
But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where |
| 7648 |
purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?). |
| 7649 |
|
| 7650 |
In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure |
| 7651 |
calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs. |
| 7652 |
|
| 7653 |
-- |
| 7654 |
dwmw2 |
| 7655 |
% |
| 7656 |
Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that |
| 7657 |
are are overturned. |
| 7658 |
% |
| 7659 |
"Going into court is throwing the dice." |
| 7660 |
% |
| 7661 |
[Dipl. Ing. W******* D*******] |
| 7662 |
"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch |
| 7663 |
für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den |
| 7664 |
verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden." |
| 7665 |
% |
| 7666 |
[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:] |
| 7667 |
Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot. |
| 7668 |
Marc gives some dumb comments. |
| 7669 |
Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck. |
| 7670 |
Marc: Yeah.. and? |
| 7671 |
Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found" |
| 7672 |
Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock... |
| 7673 |
% |
| 7674 |
[t-online is just sooo cool:] |
| 7675 |
Subject: mail failed, returning to sender |
| 7676 |
From: <MAILER-DAEMON@fmrl01.sul.t-online.de> |
| 7677 |
|
| 7678 |
|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------| |
| 7679 |
<service@t-online.de> ... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll. |
| 7680 |
|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------| |
| 7681 |
% |
| 7682 |
[a play with a well-known-signature:] |
| 7683 |
Deadlock, n.: |
| 7684 |
Deceased Rasterman. |
| 7685 |
% |
| 7686 |
[Jeff Williams & friends] |
| 7687 |
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt |
| 7688 |
http://IPv8.vrx.net/ |
| 7689 |
http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html |
| 7690 |
% |
| 7691 |
[some .signature] |
| 7692 |
This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security. |
| 7693 |
% |
| 7694 |
[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!] |
| 7695 |
Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon |
| 7696 |
mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach |
| 7697 |
Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur |
| 7698 |
zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber |
| 7699 |
nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu |
| 7700 |
reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept", |
| 7701 |
das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine |
| 7702 |
Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher |
| 7703 |
Positionen für unwählbar. |
| 7704 |
|
| 7705 |
Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher) |
| 7706 |
% |
| 7707 |
From: (Albert Y. C. Lai) |
| 7708 |
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional |
| 7709 |
Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros) |
| 7710 |
|
| 7711 |
Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes: |
| 7712 |
|
| 7713 |
> Their opinion: "well, *everybody* knows that this is not professional, |
| 7714 |
> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we |
| 7715 |
> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. - |
| 7716 |
> but *WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN* was to write these programs in Haskell. |
| 7717 |
> Almost no run-time errors, ever!" |
| 7718 |
|
| 7719 |
A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students. |
| 7720 |
She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course |
| 7721 |
on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The |
| 7722 |
students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it |
| 7723 |
refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong |
| 7724 |
results simply because I make a mistake! |
| 7725 |
|
| 7726 |
In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the |
| 7727 |
students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time |
| 7728 |
errors. |
| 7729 |
|
| 7730 |
So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in |
| 7731 |
North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about |
| 7732 |
European programmers liking to do programming right and American |
| 7733 |
programmers liking to chase after bugs. |
| 7734 |
% |
| 7735 |
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote: |
| 7736 |
> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote: |
| 7737 |
> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that |
| 7738 |
> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process. |
| 7739 |
> |
| 7740 |
> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work. |
| 7741 |
% |
| 7742 |
"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost |
| 7743 |
of nothing." |
| 7744 |
% |
| 7745 |
[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine] |
| 7746 |
Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: |
| 7747 |
> |
| 7748 |
> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory? |
| 7749 |
> CPU? |
| 7750 |
|
| 7751 |
Root password? :) |
| 7752 |
|
| 7753 |
John.Fulmer |
| 7754 |
% |
| 7755 |
I think there is a world market for about five computers. |
| 7756 |
|
| 7757 |
Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943 |
| 7758 |
% |
| 7759 |
> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO *IF* this is available to them. If not, they |
| 7760 |
> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know |
| 7761 |
> which I prefer... |
| 7762 |
|
| 7763 |
Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need |
| 7764 |
to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only |
| 7765 |
works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB |
| 7766 |
scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the |
| 7767 |
updater for the new SCSI controller. |
| 7768 |
-- |
| 7769 |
Horst von Brand |
| 7770 |
% |
| 7771 |
[de.comp.lang.iso-c++] |
| 7772 |
|
| 7773 |
>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden. |
| 7774 |
|
| 7775 |
[...] |
| 7776 |
|
| 7777 |
Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich. |
| 7778 |
% |
| 7779 |
[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware |
| 7780 |
at your problem:] |
| 7781 |
|
| 7782 |
The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with |
| 7783 |
a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you |
| 7784 |
had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble. |
| 7785 |
% |
| 7786 |
[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)] |
| 7787 |
cp is inherently inefficient. |
| 7788 |
% |
| 7789 |
>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over |
| 7790 |
>breaking seals on them. |
| 7791 |
|
| 7792 |
Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked |
| 7793 |
nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a |
| 7794 |
hard drive then it's not strong enough! |
| 7795 |
|
| 7796 |
... |
| 7797 |
|
| 7798 |
There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC |
| 7799 |
did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which |
| 7800 |
killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It |
| 7801 |
could be just an urban myth though. |
| 7802 |
|
| 7803 |
Russell Coker |
| 7804 |
% |
| 7805 |
>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend. |
| 7806 |
>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea. |
| 7807 |
|
| 7808 |
Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem. |
| 7809 |
% |
| 7810 |
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: |
| 7811 |
> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote: |
| 7812 |
> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on |
| 7813 |
> > deleting. |
| 7814 |
> |
| 7815 |
> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :( |
| 7816 |
|
| 7817 |
Wrong. Yury does. |
| 7818 |
:( |
| 7819 |
|
| 7820 |
-- |
| 7821 |
Stefan |
| 7822 |
% |
| 7823 |
"Jeff V. Merkey" writes: |
| 7824 |
> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those |
| 7825 |
> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do |
| 7826 |
> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist |
| 7827 |
> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is |
| 7828 |
> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the |
| 7829 |
> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it. |
| 7830 |
|
| 7831 |
DDK == "Disk Death Kit"? |
| 7832 |
|
| 7833 |
Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu |
| 7834 |
% |
| 7835 |
[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...] |
| 7836 |
00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The |
| 7837 |
Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 - |
| 7838 |
Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in |
| 7839 |
einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis. |
| 7840 |
% |
| 7841 |
[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"] |
| 7842 |
> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen |
| 7843 |
> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was |
| 7844 |
> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die |
| 7845 |
> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche |
| 7846 |
> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser |
| 7847 |
> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will - |
| 7848 |
> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons |
| 7849 |
> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen |
| 7850 |
> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis. |
| 7851 |
% |
| 7852 |
[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm |
| 7853 |
installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:] |
| 7854 |
Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig |
| 7855 |
aus! |
| 7856 |
% |
| 7857 |
[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer] |
| 7858 |
http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html |
| 7859 |
% |
| 7860 |
[On the reality of random numbers] |
| 7861 |
> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need |
| 7862 |
> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works) |
| 7863 |
Alan Cox [as usual ;)] |
| 7864 |
% |
| 7865 |
[Flame Warriors] |
| 7866 |
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html |
| 7867 |
% |
| 7868 |
A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative, |
| 7869 |
functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or |
| 7870 |
more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not |
| 7871 |
fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons. |
| 7872 |
|
| 7873 |
--tom |
| 7874 |
% |
| 7875 |
To: bugs@gimp.org |
| 7876 |
X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105 |
| 7877 |
|
| 7878 |
Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having |
| 7879 |
problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile |
| 7880 |
it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds |
| 7881 |
editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a |
| 7882 |
whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support. |
| 7883 |
% |
| 7884 |
["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"] |
| 7885 |
VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It |
| 7886 |
lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in |
| 7887 |
a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise |
| 7888 |
solutions. |
| 7889 |
|
| 7890 |
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP |
| 7891 |
|
| 7892 |
[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify, |
| 7893 |
rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in |
| 7894 |
the background] |
| 7895 |
% |
| 7896 |
[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction] |
| 7897 |
Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft |
| 7898 |
Security Response Center: |
| 7899 |
|
| 7900 |
This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a |
| 7901 |
virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00) |
| 7902 |
|
| 7903 |
[and later] |
| 7904 |
Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00): |
| 7905 |
|
| 7906 |
This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability. |
| 7907 |
|
| 7908 |
[Phil closes] |
| 7909 |
Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down. |
| 7910 |
|
| 7911 |
[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html] |
| 7912 |
[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html] |
| 7913 |
% |
| 7914 |
[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus] |
| 7915 |
Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office |
| 7916 |
2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses |
| 7917 |
even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the |
| 7918 |
system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is |
| 7919 |
vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet |
| 7920 |
Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft. |
| 7921 |
% |
| 7922 |
>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is |
| 7923 |
>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one |
| 7924 |
>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I |
| 7925 |
>was almost convinced that there is no such place :) |
| 7926 |
|
| 7927 |
[Trashey / Quasars] |
| 7928 |
% |
| 7929 |
Tom Christiansen writes: |
| 7930 |
> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix |
| 7931 |
> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks. |
| 7932 |
|
| 7933 |
Irony potential in |
| 7934 |
|
| 7935 |
man perlrtfm |
| 7936 |
|
| 7937 |
is left to the reader. |
| 7938 |
|
| 7939 |
Nat |
| 7940 |
% |
| 7941 |
Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression |
| 7942 |
and encryption as in NTFSv2? |
| 7943 |
|
| 7944 |
(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with |
| 7945 |
private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-) |
| 7946 |
% |
| 7947 |
[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!] |
| 7948 |
Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich... |
| 7949 |
Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen... |
| 7950 |
% |
| 7951 |
"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the |
| 7952 |
same manner that fish follow migrating caribou." |
| 7953 |
Paul Tomblin |
| 7954 |
% |
| 7955 |
[recently on p5p] |
| 7956 |
>I am morally |
| 7957 |
>convinced that map() was written based on grep() |
| 7958 |
|
| 7959 |
Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct |
| 7960 |
possibility... |
| 7961 |
|
| 7962 |
Dan |
| 7963 |
% |
| 7964 |
[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:] |
| 7965 |
<jan> bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf |
| 7966 |
<Bordeaux> after listening to this crap, and hearing *zugabe zugabe* i finally have the proof that all german c64 sceners are gay :) |
| 7967 |
<Mr> zugabe |
| 7968 |
% |
| 7969 |
"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees." |
| 7970 |
Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature |
| 7971 |
% |
| 7972 |
DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE |
| 7973 |
[cobol, *sigh*] |
| 7974 |
% |
| 7975 |
It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is |
| 7976 |
operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation |
| 7977 |
on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is |
| 7978 |
desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public |
| 7979 |
scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an |
| 7980 |
age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future |
| 7981 |
system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible |
| 7982 |
so as to reveal the basic system issues. |
| 7983 |
|
| 7984 |
Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965 |
| 7985 |
% |
| 7986 |
"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence. |
| 7987 |
|
| 7988 |
"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is |
| 7989 |
not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply |
| 7990 |
may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan |
| 7991 |
after they regain their composure." |
| 7992 |
|
| 7993 |
-- Paul Rinaldo |
| 7994 |
[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html] |
| 7995 |
% |
| 7996 |
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote: |
| 7997 |
> |
| 7998 |
> In case you guys havn't noticed... |
| 7999 |
> |
| 8000 |
> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released. |
| 8001 |
|
| 8002 |
Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports: |
| 8003 |
|
| 8004 |
Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server (). |
| 8005 |
|
| 8006 |
;-} |
| 8007 |
|
| 8008 |
-- |
| 8009 |
|
| 8010 |
ciao - |
| 8011 |
Stefan |
| 8012 |
|
| 8013 |
% |
| 8014 |
> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the |
| 8015 |
> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly |
| 8016 |
|
| 8017 |
No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor |
| 8018 |
mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe |
| 8019 |
guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with |
| 8020 |
'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old |
| 8021 |
one' type remarks. |
| 8022 |
[Alan Cox] |
| 8023 |
% |
| 8024 |
Godwin's Law |
| 8025 |
|
| 8026 |
As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison |
| 8027 |
involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. |
| 8028 |
|
| 8029 |
[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/] |
| 8030 |
% |
| 8031 |
["Stefan im IRC."] |
| 8032 |
|
| 8033 |
[01:53:07] <coda> anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files? |
| 8034 |
[01:53:24] <JanMan> alias emacs=vi |
| 8035 |
[01:53:31] <coda> haha |
| 8036 |
% |
| 8037 |
[remaining problems with OpenBIOS] |
| 8038 |
Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code. |
| 8039 |
The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!); |
| 8040 |
requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!). |
| 8041 |
% |
| 8042 |
[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path] |
| 8043 |
> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things. |
| 8044 |
|
| 8045 |
Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea |
| 8046 |
is to me ok. |
| 8047 |
% |
| 8048 |
"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer. |
| 8049 |
|
| 8050 |
"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer. |
| 8051 |
% |
| 8052 |
[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:] |
| 8053 |
Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung! |
| 8054 |
% |
| 8055 |
Remember, never ask a geek "why"; |
| 8056 |
just nod your head and back away slowly... |
| 8057 |
% |
| 8058 |
The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for |
| 8059 |
files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse |
| 8060 |
to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-) |
| 8061 |
|
| 8062 |
Ralf |
| 8063 |
% |
| 8064 |
It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't |
| 8065 |
care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses |
| 8066 |
95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable. |
| 8067 |
|
| 8068 |
david parsons |
| 8069 |
% |
| 8070 |
["some time ago on p5p"] |
| 8071 |
> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost'); |
| 8072 |
|
| 8073 |
>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file |
| 8074 |
>so that trick is not portable. |
| 8075 |
|
| 8076 |
% grep localhost /etc/hosts |
| 8077 |
127.0.0.1 localhost |
| 8078 |
|
| 8079 |
--tom |
| 8080 |
% |
| 8081 |
["some time ago on p5p"] |
| 8082 |
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote: |
| 8083 |
> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this, |
| 8084 |
> >the question is moot. |
| 8085 |
> |
| 8086 |
> I'll send you a free Unix system. |
| 8087 |
|
| 8088 |
Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-) |
| 8089 |
|
| 8090 |
Ilya |
| 8091 |
% |
| 8092 |
[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list] |
| 8093 |
> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from |
| 8094 |
> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that |
| 8095 |
> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth |
| 8096 |
> trying. |
| 8097 |
|
| 8098 |
Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to |
| 8099 |
fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it... |
| 8100 |
% |
| 8101 |
[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list] |
| 8102 |
... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running |
| 8103 |
ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could |
| 8104 |
outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS. |
| 8105 |
% |
| 8106 |
[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP] |
| 8107 |
I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of |
| 8108 |
his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell. |
| 8109 |
% |
| 8110 |
[David Schwartz on linux-kernel] |
| 8111 |
> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL |
| 8112 |
> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve |
| 8113 |
> blocking :-) |
| 8114 |
|
| 8115 |
That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of |
| 8116 |
validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of |
| 8117 |
people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the |
| 8118 |
people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their |
| 8119 |
reasons. |
| 8120 |
|
| 8121 |
DS |
| 8122 |
% |
| 8123 |
[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel] |
| 8124 |
Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang |
| 8125 |
geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten |
| 8126 |
und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er |
| 8127 |
hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert. |
| 8128 |
|
| 8129 |
Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika |
| 8130 |
üblich, erschossen wurde. |
| 8131 |
% |
| 8132 |
> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely |
| 8133 |
[...] |
| 8134 |
> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as |
| 8135 |
[...] |
| 8136 |
|
| 8137 |
You committed a mortal sin in ATA............ |
| 8138 |
You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why. |
| 8139 |
Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable |
| 8140 |
with each other on the same channel. |
| 8141 |
|
| 8142 |
IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of |
| 8143 |
hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's. |
| 8144 |
|
| 8145 |
This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent. |
| 8146 |
% |
| 8147 |
[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch] |
| 8148 |
"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte." |
| 8149 |
% |
| 8150 |
Physicists write FORTRAN in any language. |
| 8151 |
% |
| 8152 |
[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":] |
| 8153 |
ANY word at all is a candidate. |
| 8154 |
USE words to see the entire dictionary. |
| 8155 |
ok |
| 8156 |
% |
| 8157 |
[SDF for POD Users] |
| 8158 |
... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-) |
| 8159 |
% |
| 8160 |
<Xach> schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately |
| 8161 |
<schmorp> xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :( |
| 8162 |
<Xach> schmorp: Mitch |
| 8163 |
<schmorp> xach: ok. |
| 8164 |
<Xach> schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans |
| 8165 |
<Xach> schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!! |
| 8166 |
<Xach> burrito, focus |
| 8167 |
<Burrito> FOCUS you BABOON! |
| 8168 |
% |
| 8169 |
[Paul Miller] |
| 8170 |
... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about |
| 8171 |
using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't |
| 8172 |
tested it." ... |
| 8173 |
% |
| 8174 |
Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside! |
| 8175 |
% |
| 8176 |
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth |
| 8177 |
|
| 8178 |
Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>... |
| 8179 |
>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote: |
| 8180 |
> |
| 8181 |
>>So we must compete with Windows CE. |
| 8182 |
> |
| 8183 |
>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down." |
| 8184 |
> |
| 8185 |
>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot." |
| 8186 |
> |
| 8187 |
>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be |
| 8188 |
>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded |
| 8189 |
>systems. |
| 8190 |
|
| 8191 |
|
| 8192 |
Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once |
| 8193 |
had. |
| 8194 |
|
| 8195 |
-- |
| 8196 |
Neal Bridges |
| 8197 |
% |
| 8198 |
On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote: |
| 8199 |
|
| 8200 |
> Hi folks, |
| 8201 |
> i got some problem in using linux.When segmentation fault happens four five times continously OS is not working properly,insted of I remove the core dump and core dump bug ,Why? |
| 8202 |
> please reply to |
| 8203 |
> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com |
| 8204 |
> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com |
| 8205 |
|
| 8206 |
Parse error. |
| 8207 |
|
| 8208 |
--- |
| 8209 |
Alex |
| 8210 |
% |
| 8211 |
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> |
| 8212 |
|
| 8213 |
> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when |
| 8214 |
> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program? |
| 8215 |
|
| 8216 |
Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The |
| 8217 |
amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of |
| 8218 |
the sort, has to be seen to be believed. |
| 8219 |
|
| 8220 |
That doesn't mean that I don't want *my* program to be clean ANSI C. |
| 8221 |
% |
| 8222 |
[one of the few good us movies] |
| 8223 |
Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis. |
| 8224 |
% |
| 8225 |
[guess the language AND the language revision ;)] |
| 8226 |
ii = 44; |
| 8227 |
p = ⅈ |
| 8228 |
*p = ii/*p; |
| 8229 |
ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */ |
| 8230 |
printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p ); |
| 8231 |
% |
| 8232 |
> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect |
| 8233 |
> Linux time then. |
| 8234 |
|
| 8235 |
Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM): |
| 8236 |
|
| 8237 |
They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like |
| 8238 |
Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...) |
| 8239 |
|
| 8240 |
Roger. |
| 8241 |
% |
| 8242 |
<Tommer> schmorp, for the next trick, do <frameset> <frame src=dataurl:> <frame src=dataurl:> </frameset> :) |
| 8243 |
% |
| 8244 |
auto accident; |
| 8245 |
register voters; |
| 8246 |
static electricity; |
| 8247 |
struct by_lightning; |
| 8248 |
void *where_prohibited; |
| 8249 |
char broiled; |
| 8250 |
short circuit; |
| 8251 |
short changed; |
| 8252 |
long johns; |
| 8253 |
unsigned long letter; |
| 8254 |
double entendre; |
| 8255 |
double trouble; |
| 8256 |
union organizer; |
| 8257 |
float valve; |
| 8258 |
short pants; |
| 8259 |
union station; |
| 8260 |
void check; unsigned check; |
| 8261 |
struct dumb by[sizeof member]; |
| 8262 |
% |
| 8263 |
[I like TV Movie's nexTView comments] |
| 8264 |
22:40-00:05 (21) ( -34) ARD Mord auf hoher See Inflammable Thriller - USA |
| 8265 |
- 1995 - Regie: Peter Werner * Stephen King |
| 8266 |
verhunzt als Regisseur sein Buch im großen Stil. |
| 8267 |
% |
| 8268 |
Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges wrote: |
| 8269 |
|
| 8270 |
I have a program written in Fortran that runs on an IBM RS/6000 |
| 8271 |
worstation. |
| 8272 |
% |
| 8273 |
I wrote |
| 8274 |
> I hope not. chomp() should match the string in $?, no more or less. |
| 8275 |
$/ |
| 8276 |
|
| 8277 |
Damn shift key. |
| 8278 |
|
| 8279 |
|
| 8280 |
Mike Guy |
| 8281 |
% |
| 8282 |
[rfc2635] |
| 8283 |
The term "spam" as it is used to denote mass unsolicited mailings or |
| 8284 |
netnews postings is derived from a Monty Python sketch set in a |
| 8285 |
movie/tv studio cafeteria. During that sketch, the word "spam" takes |
| 8286 |
over each item offered on the menu until the entire dialogue consists |
| 8287 |
of nothing but "spam spam spam spam spam spam and spam." This so |
| 8288 |
closely resembles what happens when mass unsolicited mail and posts |
| 8289 |
take over mailing lists and netnews groups that the term has been |
| 8290 |
pushed into common usage in the Internet community. |
| 8291 |
% |
| 8292 |
[CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 1999] |
| 8293 |
|
| 8294 |
The Doghouse: Microsoft Windows CE |
| 8295 |
|
| 8296 |
Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE |
| 8297 |
device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they |
| 8298 |
simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards. Pegasus |
| 8299 |
is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's staggering. |
| 8300 |
|
| 8301 |
http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm |
| 8302 |
% |
| 8303 |
: Isn't the point that (void)'grep EXPR, LIST' is now better written as |
| 8304 |
: 'EXPR for LIST'? Or am I misunderstanding your point here? |
| 8305 |
|
| 8306 |
It really doesn't bother me if people want to use grep or map in a void |
| 8307 |
context. It didn't bother me before there was a for modifier, and |
| 8308 |
now that there is one, it still doesn't bother me. I'm just not very |
| 8309 |
easy to bother. |
| 8310 |
|
| 8311 |
The argument against using an operator for other than its primary |
| 8312 |
purpose strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have |
| 8313 |
sex for other than procreational purposes. Sometimes side effects |
| 8314 |
are more enjoyable than the originally intended effect. |
| 8315 |
|
| 8316 |
That being said, I'd never grep someone in a void context myself. |
| 8317 |
|
| 8318 |
Larry |
| 8319 |
% |
| 8320 |
[that one's only for insiders...] |
| 8321 |
> : BASE @ . \ = 10, verified original base was restored |
| 8322 |
Yeah. :-) |
| 8323 |
% |
| 8324 |
[comp.lang.forth] |
| 8325 |
> Old Antactic Explorers Penguin Recipe: |
| 8326 |
[...] |
| 8327 |
> Start fire under pot, raise seawater to boiling point. |
| 8328 |
|
| 8329 |
Since it is very difficult to find wood on Antarctica, typically |
| 8330 |
penguins are used to light the fire (due to their fat, they burn well). |
| 8331 |
I also woudln't use any water, the penguins are fried fine in their own |
| 8332 |
fat (you can use old fat to heat up the pot for another penguin). |
| 8333 |
|
| 8334 |
Note that most people in Antarctica have been seal-slayers and |
| 8335 |
whale-killers, so they were rough people. Usually, they didn't bother |
| 8336 |
with killing the penguins before setting them on fire. I'm glad this |
| 8337 |
receipts aren't used anymore. |
| 8338 |
% |
| 8339 |
Sie muessen einen PC nicht einschalten um herauszufinden ob Windows |
| 8340 |
installiert ist. Sehen Sie einfach nach, ob die Aufschrift auf der |
| 8341 |
Reset-Taste noch lesbar ist. |
| 8342 |
% |
| 8343 |
> Erinnert mich an den Kerl bei mir in der Videothek. Hab mir DHY ausgeliehen |
| 8344 |
> und er sagt doch zu mir: "Ist aber mit Untertiteln." Sag ich: "Na prima!" |
| 8345 |
> Fragt er: "Wieso, was ist denn daran so interessant, wenn man nichts |
| 8346 |
> versteht?" |
| 8347 |
% |
| 8348 |
[de.alt.anime] |
| 8349 |
Bei meiner Videothek fliegt ein "Ghost in the Shell" Tape |
| 8350 |
"Ab18" rum. Das machte mich irgendwie stutzig weil auf |
| 8351 |
der Schachtel meiner 16er zwei Szenenfotos sind, die im |
| 8352 |
Film gar nicht vorkommen (ironischer Weise direkt über |
| 8353 |
dem "Uncut & Unzesored" Schildchen). Andererseits ist |
| 8354 |
mir völlig schleierhaft, was es bei dem Filmchen zu zensieren |
| 8355 |
geben soll. Nur die oben beschriebene Feststellung hat diese |
| 8356 |
Frage erneut aufgeworfen. |
| 8357 |
ji! |
| 8358 |
% |
| 8359 |
I do worry about syntactic clutter, ever since my daughter came |
| 8360 |
in, looked over my shoulder, and said, "What is that, swearing?" |
| 8361 |
[Larry Wall] |
| 8362 |
% |
| 8363 |
Der letzte untergegangene altisraelitische Stamm war der der |
| 8364 |
Altpreussen. |
| 8365 |
- Norbert Marzahn am 15.8.98 in |
| 8366 |
de.soc.politik.deutschland |
| 8367 |
% |
| 8368 |
> > Aber die Theorien, die Norbert aufstellt, ueber zum Beispiel die |
| 8369 |
> > gegossenen Steinformen, die sich hochdruecken, den fuerchterlichen |
| 8370 |
> > Kometen, der im vergangenen August die Erde zerstoert hat und solche |
| 8371 |
> > Sachen find ich wirklich Klasse ;-) |
| 8372 |
> |
| 8373 |
> Jau. Und erstmal seine Erklärungsversuche, wenn's mal wieder nichts |
| 8374 |
> geworden ist (wo bleibt eigentlich der Planet X, der während der |
| 8375 |
> Syonnenfinsternis auftauchen sollte?)... |
| 8376 |
|
| 8377 |
Drei Tage Dunkelheit und viele Trümmerteile sollte er bringen, gell, |
| 8378 |
Norbert? |
| 8379 |
% |
| 8380 |
Marzahnismen: http://www.bruhaha.de/normarz.html |
| 8381 |
Norbert Marzahn sagt: Ich besitze die Mittel, um |
| 8382 |
"Rechts"- und "Links"-Radikalismus auszuloeschen. |
| 8383 |
% |
| 8384 |
http://welcome.to/levitenbuero/ |
| 8385 |
% |
| 8386 |
<Xach> babelfish.pitney.org: "We may not get it right, but boy are we fast!" |
| 8387 |
% |
| 8388 |
Subject: GNU compiler |
| 8389 |
From: "Steve" |
| 8390 |
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:05:03 -0400 |
| 8391 |
To: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> |
| 8392 |
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 |
| 8393 |
|
| 8394 |
[the following was a single line, of course] |
| 8395 |
I downloaded the compiler and am trying to install it and the |
| 8396 |
instructions seem to be very complicated. Can you help me understand |
| 8397 |
how to install them? There is no setup file and I have downloaded from |
| 8398 |
several sites in the thought that I might have the wrong version. Your |
| 8399 |
assistance would be greatly appreciated |
| 8400 |
|
| 8401 |
Thanks, |
| 8402 |
|
| 8403 |
Steve |
| 8404 |
% |
| 8405 |
[an "I am doing high end graphic design" type of person:] |
| 8406 |
> Also, could someone tell me how to calculate DPI of an image? I have not |
| 8407 |
> managed to figure this DPI system out, for example, if an image is a |
| 8408 |
> 100?50 pixels, what's the DPI?? |
| 8409 |
% |
| 8410 |
<tigert> xachbot, op |
| 8411 |
<XachBot> tigert: I have an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools. |
| 8412 |
<tigert> ahem |
| 8413 |
% |
| 8414 |
<tc> xachbot, acro FOOBAR |
| 8415 |
-XachBot:#gimp- FOOBAR: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records | See FUBAR [Net jargon] (cached) |
| 8416 |
<tc> just when you thought you had something to baffle xachbot |
| 8417 |
% |
| 8418 |
[the release of perl 5.000] |
| 8419 |
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 16:48:04 -0700 |
| 8420 |
From: Larry Wall <lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com> |
| 8421 |
Subject: It's soup. |
| 8422 |
|
| 8423 |
Okay, it's there. |
| 8424 |
|
| 8425 |
ftp://ftp.netlabs.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.000.tar.gz |
| 8426 |
|
| 8427 |
The first one who tells me about a bug in it gets shot. |
| 8428 |
|
| 8429 |
Larry |
| 8430 |
% |
| 8431 |
l33+ h4X0rz |
| 8432 |
% |
| 8433 |
# A random text generator using Markov chains |
| 8434 |
perl -e 'while(<>){$f.= $_}@l=split(/\s+/, $f);for($i=0;$i<@l-1;$i++){$W{$l[$i] |
| 8435 |
}.=" ".$l[$i+1];}sub a{$w=$l[1]}&a;sub b{print "\n"}while($w){if(!($W{$w})){&b; |
| 8436 |
&b;&a;last if ($q++>3);}print"$w ";@p=split(/ /,$W{$w});$c=@p;until($s=int(rand |
| 8437 |
($c))){1}$w=$p[$s]}&b' big_text_file |
| 8438 |
% |
| 8439 |
> && d'oh! i knew that! can she allow her lusers to use deja? here is the url |
| 8440 |
> && for the post with the whole description of how i used -P |
| 8441 |
> |
| 8442 |
> Well, access to deja isn't forbidden, but access to the keyboard is. |
| 8443 |
> And there's no mouse. |
| 8444 |
> |
| 8445 |
> Abigail |
| 8446 |
|
| 8447 |
Wow. Someone else who reads usenet by osmosis... cool. |
| 8448 |
|
| 8449 |
Matt. |
| 8450 |
% |
| 8451 |
Ok, our threads aren't so bad. Python's have one big |
| 8452 |
giant global interpreter lock. :-) |
| 8453 |
|
| 8454 |
- --tom |
| 8455 |
% |
| 8456 |
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> |
| 8457 |
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT) |
| 8458 |
|
| 8459 |
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote: |
| 8460 |
> |
| 8461 |
> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final |
| 8462 |
> 2.2.11 release? |
| 8463 |
|
| 8464 |
[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ] |
| 8465 |
|
| 8466 |
Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way? |
| 8467 |
|
| 8468 |
Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK. |
| 8469 |
% |
| 8470 |
Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you *want* to get the point? |
| 8471 |
% |
| 8472 |
["MVS uses quite heavy algorithms for swapping"] |
| 8473 |
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Lieven Marchand wrote: |
| 8474 |
> Last time I looked at it, it got to the point they had moved some |
| 8475 |
> ASSISTs into microcode. IIRC, some manipulations of the process |
| 8476 |
> block. I doubt Intel/Sun/MIPS/IBM is going to accomodate Linux quite |
| 8477 |
> that much ;-) |
| 8478 |
|
| 8479 |
IBM is really really good on process technology. They have had to be. |
| 8480 |
% |
| 8481 |
MVS spends a lot of time running OS algorithms to allow full |
| 8482 |
preemption that Linux wastes on running user applications. |
| 8483 |
% |
| 8484 |
[comments on the gcc-2.95 release] |
| 8485 |
<QUOTE> |
| 8486 |
I'm having problems compiling it for HP-UX 10.20. Any ideas? |
| 8487 |
|
| 8488 |
(I haven't actually finished downloading it yet, but I just know I'm |
| 8489 |
gonna have problems with this crappy OS ;-) |
| 8490 |
</QUOTE> |
| 8491 |
% |
| 8492 |
The Internet interprets Windows as damage, |
| 8493 |
and routes around it. |
| 8494 |
|
| 8495 |
Roger Larsson |
| 8496 |
Skellefteå |
| 8497 |
% |
| 8498 |
[configuring gcc] |
| 8499 |
Noone should use --prefix=/usr without --with-local-prefix=/usr/local |
| 8500 |
% |
| 8501 |
'You can solve any programming problem with another level of indirection, |
| 8502 |
except the problem of too many levels of indirection.' |
| 8503 |
% |
| 8504 |
[http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0015.html] |
| 8505 |
|
| 8506 |
Z-code interpreters have also been written in Java; unfortunately, when it |
| 8507 |
comes to cross-platform compatibility, Java's user-interface classes are |
| 8508 |
finicky and unstable--just ask anyone who's tried to reason with the AWT |
| 8509 |
on different JVMs. |
| 8510 |
|
| 8511 |
[and later] |
| 8512 |
|
| 8513 |
Pilfer is a practical implementation of two of the cardinal rules of |
| 8514 |
adventure gaming: |
| 8515 |
|
| 8516 |
1.Anything that is not nailed down is mine. |
| 8517 |
2.Anything that I can pry loose is not nailed down. |
| 8518 |
% |
| 8519 |
[the ||-operator can be thought of as "or", && can be thought of as |
| 8520 |
"and", but how would you call the ??-operator?] |
| 8521 |
|
| 8522 |
>>>>> "NK" == Nathan Kurz <nate@valleytel.net> writes: |
| 8523 |
|
| 8524 |
NK> ?? -> huh? |
| 8525 |
|
| 8526 |
That's a great name. The huh? operator. |
| 8527 |
|
| 8528 |
<chaim> |
| 8529 |
% |
| 8530 |
`One of the reasons we continue to use Fortran is that it's easier to fix |
| 8531 |
code written without attention to such details in Fortran than in other |
| 8532 |
languages. To put it another way, Fortran is the only language where |
| 8533 |
people who barely get by with their numerical skills can "write useful |
| 8534 |
numerical code." Many times those people are the only experts in their |
| 8535 |
specialty available to put a needed procedure into practice.' |
| 8536 |
% |
| 8537 |
[Moderator der Sending "Teatime" auf "Radio Okerwelle", 1999-07-12] |
| 8538 |
Ich muß schließlich hören was ich sage, damit ich weiß, was ich denke. |
| 8539 |
% |
| 8540 |
[Dr. Dobbs #8, 1999, describing how you can AVOID downloading or executing |
| 8541 |
Java applets, scripts and ActiveX controls while _parsing_(!) an html |
| 8542 |
page] |
| 8543 |
... you must utilize IOleControl::OnAmbientPropertyChange with the |
| 8544 |
value DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Before you can do this, however, you |
| 8545 |
must call IOleObject::SetClientSite so that IOleControl will work |
| 8546 |
properly. This is the reason you derive from IOleClientSite, even |
| 8547 |
though you don't extend its functionality in any way. After the call to |
| 8548 |
OnAmbientPropertyChange, IE4 will call your Invoke method to check the |
| 8549 |
value of DISPID_AMBIENT_DLCONTROL. Invoke simply sets the correct bits to |
| 8550 |
disable the behaviour you don't want and returns NOERROR. |
| 8551 |
[Still interested in knowing how you can disable the "file not found" |
| 8552 |
dialog box that will pop up when you try to parse a non-accessible file?] |
| 8553 |
% |
| 8554 |
[Linus, whom I quote rarely ;-] |
| 8555 |
Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an |
| 8556 |
excercise in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you |
| 8557 |
don't actually get anything DONE. |
| 8558 |
% |
| 8559 |
Advantages of Windows NT over Linux: |
| 8560 |
* It's easier to explain the crash was not your fault. |
| 8561 |
* You've to remember only one solution all to your problems: Reboot. |
| 8562 |
* You can use your mouse to type an email-message. |
| 8563 |
% |
| 8564 |
> 1) On the PIII, there is the capability to get a system unique serial |
| 8565 |
> number from the CPU. Does Linux read this data already? Is there plans to |
| 8566 |
> read the serial number and then disable the capability (maybe so you could |
| 8567 |
> get the serial number from the OS)? |
| 8568 |
|
| 8569 |
Current Linux disables it and doesn't save the value. |
| 8570 |
% |
| 8571 |
[CRYPTO-GRAM 1999-06-15] |
| 8572 |
"Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and |
| 8573 |
they have continued that legacy to this day." |
| 8574 |
% |
| 8575 |
[From "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature", by Thomas Scoville] |
| 8576 |
"In a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg |
| 8577 |
files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word." |
| 8578 |
% |
| 8579 |
> If it is clearly documented that will not happen. |
| 8580 |
|
| 8581 |
Yeah, sure. Unfortunately, if the "correct" treatment of this feature |
| 8582 |
means to change a dozen source files (and rth's comments make me fear |
| 8583 |
that that's the case), the chance that someone, somewhere forgets to say |
| 8584 |
exactly why these changes were necessary (and on what other changes in |
| 8585 |
other files they depend) is far larger than I want to consider. We've |
| 8586 |
seen this before. Lucky we are that some long time gcc-hackers are |
| 8587 |
still among us, who might remark: Oh yes, that's undefined by the C |
| 8588 |
Standard, but it happens to be an extension gcc supports ... Seen that, |
| 8589 |
got the T-shirt. |
| 8590 |
% |
| 8591 |
Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing? |
| 8592 |
From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM> |
| 8593 |
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 99 10:00:16 PDT |
| 8594 |
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) |
| 8595 |
Cc: craig@jcb-sc.com, jbuck@Synopsys.COM, mark@codesourcery.com, |
| 8596 |
davem@redhat.com, chip@perlsupport.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com |
| 8597 |
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] |
| 8598 |
|
| 8599 |
Linus writes, to Craig: |
| 8600 |
|
| 8601 |
> I haven't maintained a compiler long-term. I _have_ maintained a larger, |
| 8602 |
> and arguably mode complex system with many more degrees of freedom and |
| 8603 |
> thus choices than gcc. |
| 8604 |
|
| 8605 |
No, gcc is substantially larger than the Linux kernel (on the order of 10x |
| 8606 |
larger, as anyone can easily verify). gcc does not need to deal with race |
| 8607 |
conditions, so in that sense it is simpler, but in other respects it is |
| 8608 |
far more complex than the kernel. |
| 8609 |
|
| 8610 |
[NOTE for the reader: this is not really true, as the device drivers |
| 8611 |
bomb the comparison away, but the complexity argument still holds] |
| 8612 |
|
| 8613 |
[ personal insults deleted, perhaps the author is in need of a vacation ] |
| 8614 |
% |
| 8615 |
Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing? |
| 8616 |
From: craig@jcb-sc.com |
| 8617 |
To: torvalds@transmeta.com |
| 8618 |
|
| 8619 |
>I want the _user_ to be able to give input. |
| 8620 |
[...] |
| 8621 |
>I happen to think that the "explicit cast invalidates the alias |
| 8622 |
>information" rule is the simplest and best one, and gives the user the |
| 8623 |
>best control without adding things like new attributes or other ways to |
| 8624 |
>let the user be in control. |
| 8625 |
|
| 8626 |
In other words, you believe you are a better language designer than |
| 8627 |
the ISO C people as well as the gcc maintainers, despite the fact |
| 8628 |
that you know, what, *nothing* about language design, and *nothing* |
| 8629 |
about compiler design and, especially, long-term maintenance of |
| 8630 |
compilers? |
| 8631 |
% |
| 8632 |
Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing? |
| 8633 |
From: Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM> |
| 8634 |
|
| 8635 |
Linus writes: |
| 8636 |
> Oh, you don't expect me to complain about bad code generation when I know |
| 8637 |
> gcc could do better? |
| 8638 |
|
| 8639 |
Oh, don't worry, we expect you to complain, and in a rude and insulting |
| 8640 |
matter at that. We're used to it. It seems that you were a nicer guy |
| 8641 |
before you had so many worshippers. |
| 8642 |
% |
| 8643 |
Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing? |
| 8644 |
From: Branko Cibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si> |
| 8645 |
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:07:09 +0200 |
| 8646 |
To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com |
| 8647 |
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) |
| 8648 |
|
| 8649 |
Linus Torvalds wrote: |
| 8650 |
|
| 8651 |
> I think it's a damn shame that instead of technical arguments _everything_ |
| 8652 |
> revolves around people reading the standard as if it was the bible, and |
| 8653 |
> trying to make people feel guilty for not really caring. It's not a sin to |
| 8654 |
> just want to get good code without having to do magic contortions, guys. |
| 8655 |
|
| 8656 |
Why, Linus, it's trivial to do! Use MSVC instead of egcs, then you can do |
| 8657 |
|
| 8658 |
#pragma optimize("a", on/off) |
| 8659 |
|
| 8660 |
around every single statement, if you like. It even supports anonymous unions |
| 8661 |
_and_ structs, and is only slightly influenced by the ISO C standard. |
| 8662 |
|
| 8663 |
They'll even sell you a version that can generate code for the alpha! |
| 8664 |
|
| 8665 |
>:-> |
| 8666 |
|
| 8667 |
Brane |
| 8668 |
|
| 8669 |
|
| 8670 |
P.S.: Just for the record: I, a "real user" and (imnsho) a "clever programmer" |
| 8671 |
who "know what I'm doing", at least most of the time, and who do not "read the |
| 8672 |
standard as if it were a bible", vote for having a standard-conforming |
| 8673 |
compiler that's not bloated by a ton of marginally useful (or even useless) |
| 8674 |
features. If I want featuritis, I know where I can get it. |
| 8675 |
|
| 8676 |
|
| 8677 |
P.P.S: They can't even spell "optimise" ... |
| 8678 |
% |
| 8679 |
You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose *two* |
| 8680 |
% |
| 8681 |
"Scientific" studies have found that a 2.2.x Linux router with |
| 8682 |
fast-switching enabled, using Tulip 100baseT cards, can melt a |
| 8683 |
high-end Cisco's 100baseT interfaces. |
| 8684 |
% |
| 8685 |
1) Thread switching is faster than process switching by a little bit on Linux |
| 8686 |
2) Process switching on linux is faster than thread switching on NT |
| 8687 |
3) Almost anything is faster than process switching on NT |
| 8688 |
% |
| 8689 |
[gimp-developers, on the use of keyboard modifiers for drawing tools] |
| 8690 |
|
| 8691 |
> Simple. Powerful. Fast. Choose at most two. |
| 8692 |
|
| 8693 |
Perhaps this should be an option in the preferences dialog? :) |
| 8694 |
% |
| 8695 |
[perl is cryptic??] |
| 8696 |
Subject: @{$${->{{{{~{}~{{{NO CARRIER |
| 8697 |
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> |
| 8698 |
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:55:37 +0300 (EET DST) |
| 8699 |
|
| 8700 |
We have still a long way to go-- from the zsh-workers mailing list: |
| 8701 |
|
| 8702 |
: Just thought of a trivial way to take a lot of grief out of parameter |
| 8703 |
: substitution. This patch makes the following valid: |
| 8704 |
: |
| 8705 |
: ${${${${(f)"$(typeset)"}:#*local *\=*}%%\=*}##* } |
| 8706 |
: |
| 8707 |
: replacing the equivalent but grotesquer |
| 8708 |
: |
| 8709 |
: "${(@)${(@)${(@)${(@f)$(typeset)}:#*local *\=*}%%\=*}##* }" |
| 8710 |
% |
| 8711 |
Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier |
| 8712 |
% |
| 8713 |
> |> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but |
| 8714 |
> |> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not |
| 8715 |
> |> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for |
| 8716 |
> |> interpreting words in any human language. |
| 8717 |
> |
| 8718 |
> This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und |
| 8719 |
> "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair"). |
| 8720 |
|
| 8721 |
The classic example: |
| 8722 |
|
| 8723 |
"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow. |
| 8724 |
"Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow. |
| 8725 |
% |
| 8726 |
[do we need oo-style IO::File class in perl?] |
| 8727 |
>_You_ aren't gonna code "use IO::File". |
| 8728 |
|
| 8729 |
And there's no reason for anyone else to, either, especially |
| 8730 |
once Nick finishes the Larry-blessed autovivification of |
| 8731 |
lvaluabled undefs in open(), socket(), etc. |
| 8732 |
|
| 8733 |
What's next, a String class for Perl? |
| 8734 |
|
| 8735 |
--tom |
| 8736 |
% |
| 8737 |
[some example of the kind of mail I sometimes receive:] |
| 8738 |
i was just trying to help u out not hurt you in anyway ok i have the fbi |
| 8739 |
working on something for me |
| 8740 |
u havent done anything to me ok and the sherriffs department came by to talk |
| 8741 |
to me nutting concerning y ok |
| 8742 |
piece |
| 8743 |
russ |
| 8744 |
% |
| 8745 |
[From "Basic Information about Unix", common commands:] |
| 8746 |
|
| 8747 |
pico (text editor for beginners) |
| 8748 |
vi (text editor for advanced users) |
| 8749 |
emacs (text editor for advanced users) |
| 8750 |
ed (text editor for beginners) |
| 8751 |
% |
| 8752 |
There is no reason in principle that a Perl script shouldn't start with |
| 8753 |
|
| 8754 |
use Python; |
| 8755 |
|
| 8756 |
and appear to work exactly like Python from there to the end of the file. |
| 8757 |
Except maybe faster. :-) |
| 8758 |
|
| 8759 |
Larry |
| 8760 |
% |
| 8761 |
> Perl6 gives us an opportunity to re-examine every feature at a microscopic level. |
| 8762 |
|
| 8763 |
just what I'm afraid of... I thought this was to be Perl6, not Perl |
| 8764 |
2010. |
| 8765 |
|
| 8766 |
(Perl 2010: The Spaced Oddity?) |
| 8767 |
% |
| 8768 |
The X.25 specification is not a particularly easy document to |
| 8769 |
read. Contrary to expectations, it does not make great use of diagrams |
| 8770 |
and tables that help to explain the workings of the protocols that |
| 8771 |
it contains. Instead the document makes use of many ambiguous English |
| 8772 |
descriptions of the actions that should take place, allied with a complete |
| 8773 |
lack of fluency in its prose descriptions, make for a very confusing |
| 8774 |
document. It is a wonder that any correct X.25 implementations have ever |
| 8775 |
been created. |
| 8776 |
% |
| 8777 |
> Joe: (walking into McDonalds) Hi, I'd like a Big Mac. |
| 8778 |
> |
| 8779 |
> Cashier: Okay, here's your Big Mac and here's your Coke. That'll be |
| 8780 |
> $3.99. |
| 8781 |
> |
| 8782 |
> Joe: Uh, I don't want a Coke. |
| 8783 |
> |
| 8784 |
> Cashier: Sorry, they're bundled. |
| 8785 |
> |
| 8786 |
> Joe: What? I'm not paying for a Coke! |
| 8787 |
> |
| 8788 |
> Cashier: You don't; the Coke is free. |
| 8789 |
> |
| 8790 |
> Joe: But wasn't a Big Mac $2.49 last week? |
| 8791 |
> |
| 8792 |
> Cashier: Sure, but this latest Big Mac is far more innovative. It's |
| 8793 |
> got integrated Coke! |
| 8794 |
> |
| 8795 |
> Joe: I already bought a Snapple across the street... I'm not going |
| 8796 |
> to drink the Coke. |
| 8797 |
> |
| 8798 |
> Cashier: Then you can't have the burger. |
| 8799 |
> |
| 8800 |
> Joe: Okay, fine, I will pay the $3.99 and throw the Coke away. |
| 8801 |
> |
| 8802 |
> Cashier: Oh, you can't do that. They're seamlessly integrated. Totally |
| 8803 |
> inseparable. |
| 8804 |
> |
| 8805 |
> Joe: How can that be? They're two totally separate things! |
| 8806 |
> |
| 8807 |
> Cashier: No, watch. (takes Big Mac, dunks it in a tank of Coke) See? |
| 8808 |
> |
| 8809 |
> Joe: Why did you just do that?! |
| 8810 |
> |
| 8811 |
> Cashier: It's a benefit to the consumer. Otherwise you'd end up with |
| 8812 |
> two different, inconsistent tastes. This way you're assured of a |
| 8813 |
> continuous taste across all your foods. |
| 8814 |
% |
| 8815 |
Threads are like salt. I like salt, you like salt, we all |
| 8816 |
like salt, but we eat more pasta than salt. |
| 8817 |
Rob Pike |
| 8818 |
% |
| 8819 |
From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com> |
| 8820 |
|
| 8821 |
Don't be bitten by Perl, get crushed by Python. |
| 8822 |
Python: Perl for the punctuation-phobic. |
| 8823 |
It takes 4 days for a python to digest a hamster, but only 2 days |
| 8824 |
for you to digest this book. |
| 8825 |
Python: it's really better but nobody uses it. |
| 8826 |
Python: just for the whitespace of it. |
| 8827 |
Join The Trickle |
| 8828 |
Python: more popular than Dylan! |
| 8829 |
Python: not written by crackheads in a gutter! |
| 8830 |
Are you uptight? Try our new Python Hangups series. |
| 8831 |
% |
| 8832 |
Well Microsoft announced this new language called COOL which I can |
| 8833 |
honestly say that I have seen NO CRAPPY CODE written in. OTOH it appears |
| 8834 |
that to achieve this miraculous status by the simple technique of being |
| 8835 |
complete and utter vapourware. |
| 8836 |
|
| 8837 |
Microsoft, taking the Business out of COBOL. |
| 8838 |
% |
| 8839 |
[From "Programming Perl"] |
| 8840 |
|
| 8841 |
We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a |
| 8842 |
programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris |
| 8843 |
% |
| 8844 |
[Alexander Stepanov, creator of the STL]: |
| 8845 |
|
| 8846 |
Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is |
| 8847 |
almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to |
| 8848 |
see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In |
| 8849 |
a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI |
| 8850 |
Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's |
| 8851 |
Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might |
| 8852 |
not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman |
| 8853 |
(Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I |
| 8854 |
find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in |
| 8855 |
terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real |
| 8856 |
problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that |
| 8857 |
span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that |
| 8858 |
everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting - |
| 8859 |
saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP |
| 8860 |
methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians |
| 8861 |
would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with |
| 8862 |
proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you |
| 8863 |
come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in |
| 8864 |
programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you |
| 8865 |
understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them |
| 8866 |
work. |
| 8867 |
[...] |
| 8868 |
You can't write a generic max() in Java that takes two arguments of some |
| 8869 |
type and has a return value of that same type. Inheritance and interfaces |
| 8870 |
don't help. And if they cannot implement max or swap or linear search, |
| 8871 |
what chances do they have to implement really complex stuff? These are my |
| 8872 |
litmus tests: if a language allows me to implement max and swap and linear |
| 8873 |
search generically - then it has some potential. |
| 8874 |
[...] Java is clearly an example of a money oriented programming (MOP). |
| 8875 |
It might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a |
| 8876 |
profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no |
| 8877 |
intellectual value whatsoever. |
| 8878 |
|
| 8879 |
[Later, on OMG protocols like CORBA] |
| 8880 |
I am old enough to remember all the networking standards that were coming |
| 8881 |
out in the seventies. Who remembers them now? |
| 8882 |
% |
| 8883 |
[Stiftung Warentest "test", WDR 19990419:] |
| 8884 |
"Schlechtes muß nicht billig sein..." |
| 8885 |
% |
| 8886 |
[/bin/false on solaris] |
| 8887 |
#!/usr/bin/sh |
| 8888 |
# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T |
| 8889 |
# All Rights Reserved |
| 8890 |
|
| 8891 |
# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T |
| 8892 |
# The copyright notice above does not evidence any |
| 8893 |
# actual or intended publication of such source code. |
| 8894 |
|
| 8895 |
#ident "@(#)false.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.3 */ |
| 8896 |
[obvious invocation of exit snipped to avoid lawsuit. Yup, *1* line.] |
| 8897 |
% |
| 8898 |
<Aspirin> but ee uses imlib, and imlib is documented to take 4.7 days to start up on a 486 by Alan Cox. |
| 8899 |
% |
| 8900 |
When a tar built for SunOS runs under Solaris, it's incapable of opening |
| 8901 |
or creating files with "lib/locale" in the path. It replaces that part of |
| 8902 |
the path with "lib/oldlocale". |
| 8903 |
% |
| 8904 |
[Bruce Schneier in CRYPTO-GRAM, 19990315] |
| 8905 |
|
| 8906 |
"Microsoft prefers to treat security holes as a public relations problem, |
| 8907 |
rather than fixing the actual problem." |
| 8908 |
|
| 8909 |
[further down: the official answer from Microsoft about a problem where |
| 8910 |
just viewing a website would invisibly run unrestricted code on your |
| 8911 |
machine] |
| 8912 |
|
| 8913 |
"Microsoft appreciates your input regarding this issue, however in lieu |
| 8914 |
of modern technology being what it is, we all need to be personally |
| 8915 |
responsible for knowing what we are downloading off the internet." |
| 8916 |
|
| 8917 |
[see http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/sec/chrono.html] |
| 8918 |
% |
| 8919 |
[Steve Funston wrote to me, after I unsubscribed him from gimp-perl for |
| 8920 |
spamming:] |
| 8921 |
|
| 8922 |
>fuck you ass hole duh you are just a big fucker |
| 8923 |
>> |
| 8924 |
>>An error was generated by your request to our servers: |
| 8925 |
>>------------------------------------------------------ |
| 8926 |
>> |
| 8927 |
>>Your Email: bfunston@mich.com |
| 8928 |
>> |
| 8929 |
>>ERROR: You are not a member of this list. |
| 8930 |
|
| 8931 |
[and later, misquoting my name:] |
| 8932 |
>mark is not only a big fat liar but he is an ass hole. |
| 8933 |
% |
| 8934 |
[How much of the microsoft shares does Bill Gates hold?] |
| 8935 |
He has 19.8%. Paul Allen has 5.5%. Steve Ballmer has 4.7%. |
| 8936 |
% |
| 8937 |
> And what's wrong with being named Peter? |
| 8938 |
If linus was peter, Linux would be called penix? (just guessing) ;) |
| 8939 |
% |
| 8940 |
According to Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q216641, Microsoft Windows |
| 8941 |
95/98 are limited to an uptime of *exactly* 49.7 days. |
| 8942 |
|
| 8943 |
--found by Vincent Janelle (Random) |
| 8944 |
% |
| 8945 |
> Leave that to RMS. |
| 8946 |
|
| 8947 |
If you had just sat through the horrific panel with Larry, |
| 8948 |
RMS, Richard, and Linus, you would want to leave a whole lot |
| 8949 |
else to RMS -- like a couple of megatons of the manure that |
| 8950 |
he's full of. |
| 8951 |
|
| 8952 |
Support BSD/Linux. |
| 8953 |
|
| 8954 |
--tom |
| 8955 |
% |
| 8956 |
"The FSF is a cult -- don't support them." --Rob Pike |
| 8957 |
% |
| 8958 |
We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point. |
| 8959 |
% |
| 8960 |
> Perhaps the cracker himself (itself? ;) isn't bright enough to delete shell |
| 8961 |
> history, but his shrink-wrapped cracking tools might be a lot brighter... |
| 8962 |
|
| 8963 |
Some of them are. A surprising number aren't. A personal favorite of |
| 8964 |
mine was the log from a cracker who couldn't figure out how to untar |
| 8965 |
and install the trojan package he'd ftped onto the machine. he tried a |
| 8966 |
few times, and then eventually gave up and logged out. |
| 8967 |
% |
| 8968 |
[on channel #gimp] |
| 8969 |
|
| 8970 |
[msg(Xachbot)] insult me |
| 8971 |
[XachBot(xachbot@home.xach.com)] schmorp: David Miller would never approve of that. |
| 8972 |
% |
| 8973 |
[the creation] |
| 8974 |
http://www.toodarkpark.org/caffeine-cgi-bin/textfile/net-hx.txt |
| 8975 |
% |
| 8976 |
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP |
| 8977 |
|
| 8978 |
This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of |
| 8979 |
an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said |
| 8980 |
to be useful in protheththing lithtth. |
| 8981 |
% |
| 8982 |
Ich zog hier nur einen Pseudoschluss aus dieser sache, den ich nicht |
| 8983 |
selbst schliesse. |
| 8984 |
Norbert Harry Marzahn, selbsternannter "Judaaer" |
| 8985 |
am 13.12.98 in de.alt.ufo |
| 8986 |
% |
| 8987 |
According to Gurusamy Sarathy: |
| 8988 |
> "Resistance is futile, you will be modularized." |
| 8989 |
|
| 8990 |
No: |
| 8991 |
|
| 8992 |
use Borg; |
| 8993 |
make_threat(-type => 'standard', -doom => 'modularized'); |
| 8994 |
|
| 8995 |
-- |
| 8996 |
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com> |
| 8997 |
% |
| 8998 |
"And over here, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to |
| 8999 |
the 'posicks box', a mechanism within one of the late 20th century |
| 9000 |
sub-I hardware gestalt integration agents (then called 'operating |
| 9001 |
systems', this particular one being referred to as 'windows' by |
| 9002 |
its commercial-mimetic sustainer), designed so as to provide the |
| 9003 |
appearance and functionality required to comply with one of the few |
| 9004 |
agreed-upon integration schemas (sub-I, of course) available at the |
| 9005 |
time. Unsurprising given the non-integration imperitives used by the |
| 9006 |
agent's sustainter, this mechanism was demonstrated to be an ingenious |
| 9007 |
non-integration ploy that, while supporting the integration schema, |
| 9008 |
failed to support the local interconnect schemas that this agent |
| 9009 |
specialized in. This produced a classic focus rift in the knowledge |
| 9010 |
pool, benefiting the sustainer in the short run due to the focus |
| 9011 |
concentration facilities available to commericial-class mimetic |
| 9012 |
sustainers. Practically, this wasn't a significant loss, in the long |
| 9013 |
run, as neither the 'windows' or 'posicks' schemas were relevant to |
| 9014 |
modern quasi-I agents. These two do live on, however, in a few niches. |
| 9015 |
'posicks' is used as the integration schema between most nano-scale |
| 9016 |
logic units (a fact that only a few meta-experts still need to be |
| 9017 |
aware of), and 'windows' survives, for religious-mimetic reasons, as |
| 9018 |
the human-communication agent in a few stereotypical toasters and soap |
| 9019 |
dispensers." |
| 9020 |
|
| 9021 |
[Kenneth Albanowski] |
| 9022 |
% |
| 9023 |
Perl ist ein Schmerzmittel. |
| 9024 |
Wenn Du bei der Speicherverwaltung oder der Stringverarbeitung |
| 9025 |
unter C Schmerzen hast, nimm Perl. |
| 9026 |
-- Kristian Koehntopp |
| 9027 |
% |
| 9028 |
> Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a |
| 9029 |
> topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or |
| 9030 |
> marketing, not an article on information technology -- John Kirch |
| 9031 |
% |
| 9032 |
[bei einer mündlichen Nachprüfung in BWL, Uni Hamburg] |
| 9033 |
|
| 9034 |
Prof: "Was ist Agio?" |
| 9035 |
Student: "Weiß ich nicht." |
| 9036 |
Prof: "OK, durchgefallen! |
| 9037 |
Student: "Ich habe aber Anspruch auf drei Fragen in der mündlichen Prüfung!" |
| 9038 |
Prof: "Klar, was ist Disagio?" |
| 9039 |
Student: "..." |
| 9040 |
Prof: "...und was ist der Unterschied zwischen Agio und Disagio?" |
| 9041 |
Student: "..." |
| 9042 |
Prof: "...durchgefallen!" |
| 9043 |
% |
| 9044 |
Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com> writes: |
| 9045 |
|
| 9046 |
> Just morbid curiosity, |
| 9047 |
> |
| 9048 |
> Are there _any_ unix boxes that _can't_ build Perl? |
| 9049 |
|
| 9050 |
Yes. Broken ones. |
| 9051 |
|
| 9052 |
dgris |
| 9053 |
% |
| 9054 |
"The kerastion is a musical instrument which cannot be heard." |
| 9055 |
-- A Borges story in ten words. |
| 9056 |
% |
| 9057 |
"C combines the power of assembly language |
| 9058 |
with the flexibility of assembly language." |
| 9059 |
% |
| 9060 |
... |
| 9061 |
|
| 9062 |
<AOL> |
| 9063 |
|
| 9064 |
Me too! |
| 9065 |
|
| 9066 |
</AOL> |
| 9067 |
|
| 9068 |
Tig |
| 9069 |
% |
| 9070 |
ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d <hostname> |
| 9071 |
% |
| 9072 |
unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep |
| 9073 |
% |
| 9074 |
From: Dick Balaska <dick@buckosoft.com> |
| 9075 |
|
| 9076 |
I sit behind an NT dual P2/400 256MB for too many hours each day. It is |
| 9077 |
"slow". One of my (fun) tasks is CD mastering. When i'm loading a 500MB |
| 9078 |
wav file into the editor, the machine goes useless for two minutes while |
| 9079 |
loading the wave file. Basically its just reading the file and writing it |
| 9080 |
to swap. The CPU is at 5%. No Alt-Tab between apps during that time. No |
| 9081 |
chance of putting the mouse over a button (too many dropped ticks). The |
| 9082 |
NT kernel is just sitting waiting for I/O completions. |
| 9083 |
|
| 9084 |
Linux would be embarrassed to be that bad. |
| 9085 |
|
| 9086 |
I expected M$ to never fix this because its not "broken". However, i |
| 9087 |
expect billg to start reading the above mentioned literal benchmarks and |
| 9088 |
get really really pissed. |
| 9089 |
|
| 9090 |
Especially since i believe 1999 and 2000 to see Linux *really* start |
| 9091 |
to cut into M$'s server market share. |
| 9092 |
% |
| 9093 |
> Hello I'm wondering if there's a lower traffic mailing list that exists |
| 9094 |
> that's strictly important kernel announcements and not general chat. I |
| 9095 |
> need to stay informed but I can't handle 250 messages in a 24 hour |
| 9096 |
> period. |
| 9097 |
> |
| 9098 |
> Sorry for the insignificant post.. |
| 9099 |
> Nic |
| 9100 |
> |
| 9101 |
|
| 9102 |
Thank you for contributing to the problem. |
| 9103 |
|
| 9104 |
-hpa |
| 9105 |
% |
| 9106 |
grep... grep... grep... (frog with unix stuck in his throat) |
| 9107 |
% |
| 9108 |
"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to |
| 9109 |
make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made |
| 9110 |
happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system |
| 9111 |
administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made |
| 9112 |
happy." |
| 9113 |
- - -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97) |
| 9114 |
% |
| 9115 |
From: "Daniel P. Stasinski" <dannys@KAREMOR.COM> |
| 9116 |
Subject: Microsoft Hotmail |
| 9117 |
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG |
| 9118 |
|
| 9119 |
I contacted Microsoft/Hotmail asking them to close the account |
| 9120 |
of that was listed in the backdoored tcp wrapper source code. |
| 9121 |
I also forwarded the offending code. |
| 9122 |
|
| 9123 |
The word back from them is that they will not close it. Theft |
| 9124 |
of passwords and hacking does not violate thier terms of |
| 9125 |
service. |
| 9126 |
|
| 9127 |
Daniel |
| 9128 |
% |
| 9129 |
Any UNIX-killer must also have: |
| 9130 |
... |
| 9131 |
* cool name like Linux (serious, these fail: GNU Hurd FreeBSD 386BSD) |
| 9132 |
% |
| 9133 |
"Not all things worth doing are worth doing well." |
| 9134 |
It's a phrase I use a lot. :-) |
| 9135 |
[RJL] |
| 9136 |
% |
| 9137 |
As John Whittaker says: ``It's UNIX. That doesn't necessarily mean it's |
| 9138 |
right.'' |
| 9139 |
% |
| 9140 |
[Richard Stallman on the new _Pragma operator in C9X:] |
| 9141 |
|
| 9142 |
Amazing--they actually listened. |
| 9143 |
% |
| 9144 |
That "UNIX" term is very negative. People often associate it with |
| 9145 |
SCO OpenServer, Wyse terminals, and 60 people on a 386. The UNIX |
| 9146 |
that people know is just awful. It looks something like this: |
| 9147 |
|
| 9148 |
# less foo |
| 9149 |
sh: command not found |
| 9150 |
# more foo |
| 9151 |
sh: command not found |
| 9152 |
# emacs foo |
| 9153 |
sh: command not found |
| 9154 |
# ed foo |
| 9155 |
0 |
| 9156 |
help |
| 9157 |
? |
| 9158 |
quit |
| 9159 |
? |
| 9160 |
exit |
| 9161 |
? |
| 9162 |
DIE!!!!!!!!!! |
| 9163 |
? |
| 9164 |
|
| 9165 |
[Albert D. Cahalan] |
| 9166 |
% |
| 9167 |
Subject: Re: Stop blib warning in future releases? |
| 9168 |
From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig) |
| 9169 |
Date: 05 Jan 1999 03:15:37 +0100 |
| 9170 |
|
| 9171 |
tim> Sure. Strictly speaking |
| 9172 |
|
| 9173 |
tim> use blib ':quiet'; |
| 9174 |
|
| 9175 |
tim> would be most correct in style. |
| 9176 |
|
| 9177 |
Only German native speakers are allowed to treat adverbs adjectively. |
| 9178 |
For the rest I'd recommend [...] |
| 9179 |
% |
| 9180 |
[A new U.S. Law implementing a WIPO treaty] |
| 9181 |
No person shall circumvent a technological protection measure that |
| 9182 |
effectively controls access to a work protected under this title |
| 9183 |
[Or, in other words, applied cryptanalysis will be illegal. |
| 9184 |
too bad --- ] |
| 9185 |
% |
| 9186 |
Microsoft - Is it going to work today? |
| 9187 |
% |
| 9188 |
Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] GIF plugin legal issues |
| 9189 |
|
| 9190 |
> Actually, my understanding is that Unisys doesn't currently enforce the |
| 9191 |
> licensing cost on free software, but maybe I am mistaken. |
| 9192 |
|
| 9193 |
The general wording, spoken by an unnamed GIMP developer, is, if you'll |
| 9194 |
pardon the language, "Unisys can go fuck itself." |
| 9195 |
% |
| 9196 |
[once on linux-kernel:] |
| 9197 |
> >who are you why on yahoo when iprint sf16fmi i fond you i need drv |
| 9198 |
> Does anyone have the secret decoder ring to make sense of this? |
| 9199 |
he's confused about us showing up in a search match on yahoo, but needs |
| 9200 |
driver(s) for his sf16fmi thingy. |
| 9201 |
% |
| 9202 |
> Did you try to compile kdeadmin from the CVS tree ? |
| 9203 |
|
| 9204 |
No I ran the KDE binaries. Im not interested in broken programs that |
| 9205 |
include wrong #include files in their source. |
| 9206 |
% |
| 9207 |
[unix-faq] |
| 9208 |
|
| 9209 |
Someday, you are going to accidentally type something like |
| 9210 |
"rm * .foo", and find you just deleted "*" instead of "*.foo". |
| 9211 |
Consider it a rite of passage. |
| 9212 |
% |
| 9213 |
"There's one word that strikes fear into nuclear scientists..." |
| 9214 |
"Oops." |
| 9215 |
-- MST3K |
| 9216 |
% |
| 9217 |
Seems like 80-bit spills would be closer to IEEE, if not close enough to |
| 9218 |
claim full support. Off-hand I'd say people would be happier with |
| 9219 |
those numeric properties than with the current situation. |
| 9220 |
|
| 9221 |
I'll think about the esoterica (probably break down and ask people here). |
| 9222 |
It would certainly make gcc the most reliable x86 floating-point compiler |
| 9223 |
I know. Sun's does something similar to -ffloat-store by default (gee, |
| 9224 |
look at how fast that ultra is), and Microsoft's runs off the end of the |
| 9225 |
stack at run-time . I don't know what Intel's does, so I'm not considering |
| 9226 |
it. ;) |
| 9227 |
% |
| 9228 |
>I was using the localtime function to change time_t into it's various |
| 9229 |
>human-readable parts. I noticed that $year gets returned as 98 and |
| 9230 |
>not 1998. I tested a few different unices and got the same result. |
| 9231 |
>This is expected behavior based on the examples I've seen and my own |
| 9232 |
>testing. My question is how is this y2k compliant? |
| 9233 |
|
| 9234 |
What part of your C library's documentation on localtime(3), the perlfunc |
| 9235 |
documentation on the Perl localtime function, the perlfaq4 entry on `Does |
| 9236 |
Perl have a year 2000 problem?', and the Y2K document on www.perl.com |
| 9237 |
did you find to be unclear on the answer to this question? |
| 9238 |
|
| 9239 |
--tom |
| 9240 |
% |
| 9241 |
> * Have you ever wondered how life began ? |
| 9242 |
|
| 9243 |
In a laboratory somewhere at Bell Labs. |
| 9244 |
|
| 9245 |
>Why does it end ? |
| 9246 |
|
| 9247 |
Ask the X3J11 committee. |
| 9248 |
|
| 9249 |
> * Can you tell WHY there is life ? What is the purpose of it ? |
| 9250 |
> * Can YOU do anything to make your life worth living ? WHAT ? |
| 9251 |
|
| 9252 |
To promote the the DEATH OF ANSI C! K+R FOREVER! DOWN WITH PORTABILITY! |
| 9253 |
% |
| 9254 |
"Unix *is* Perl's IDE!" |
| 9255 |
-- Tom Christiansen |
| 9256 |
% |
| 9257 |
[Sputnik] |
| 9258 |
|
| 9259 |
Do you honestly think the Americans would mention a Soviet success? :-) |
| 9260 |
A number of years back I saw an exhibition in the US on the development of |
| 9261 |
supersonic passenger aircraft. They forgot to mention Concorde. It |
| 9262 |
wouldn't surprise me in the least if most people at NASA had never heard |
| 9263 |
of Sputnik. |
| 9264 |
% |
| 9265 |
NTFS by default adds unnecessary serialization to an extent that |
| 9266 |
even older file systems such as FFS do not, and its performance |
| 9267 |
characteristics reflect that. In fairness, it should be said that it is |
| 9268 |
the superior approach for most removable media without software control |
| 9269 |
of ejection (e.g. IBM PC floppies). |
| 9270 |
% |
| 9271 |
Never attribute to malice what could as well be explained by stupidity. |
| 9272 |
- Hanlons razor - |
| 9273 |
% |
| 9274 |
Shallit's Razor: Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately |
| 9275 |
explained by stupidity or incompetence. |
| 9276 |
% |
| 9277 |
According to Chris Nandor: |
| 9278 |
> I thought about creating a web interface to input, edit, delete entries, |
| 9279 |
> but that would have taken me longer, been more complex and less secure, and |
| 9280 |
> offered no significant advantages. |
| 9281 |
|
| 9282 |
That one's in the quotes file. Thanks. |
| 9283 |
% |
| 9284 |
My friend who had a Compaq called one day when his built-in cdrom drive |
| 9285 |
stopped responding. Their answer "its a virus. Reinstal Windows". So he did |
| 9286 |
(?) and it still didn't work. He called them and they said "its a virus, |
| 9287 |
reinstall." "But I just installed. If there is a virus, it came from YOUR |
| 9288 |
quick restore disk." "No, no virus there, but you DO have a virus. My paper |
| 9289 |
in front of me says so." |
| 9290 |
|
| 9291 |
He took it back and bought a Gateway. |
| 9292 |
% |
| 9293 |
9. Deinde, ne in posterum a XII kalendas aprilis aequinoctium recedat, |
| 9294 |
statuimus bissextum quarto quoque anno (uti mos est) continuari debere, |
| 9295 |
praeterquam in centesimis annis; qui, quamvis bissextiles antea semper |
| 9296 |
fuerint, qualem etiam esse volumus annum MDC, post eum tamen qui |
| 9297 |
deinceps consequentur centesimi non omnes bissextiles sint, sed in |
| 9298 |
quadringentis quibusque annis primi quique tres centesimi sine bissexto |
| 9299 |
transigantur, quartus vero quisque centesimus bissextilis sit, ita ut |
| 9300 |
annus MDCC, MDCCC, MDCCCC bissextiles non sint. Anno vero MM, more |
| 9301 |
consueto dies bissextus intercaletur, februario dies XXIX continente, |
| 9302 |
idemque ordo intermittendi intercalandique bissextum diem in |
| 9303 |
quadringentis quibusque annis perpetuo conservetur. |
| 9304 |
% |
| 9305 |
You obviously have not dealt with Microsoft Winnt 4.0 |
| 9306 |
and all the Service Pack then. While one Service Pack |
| 9307 |
did somewhat correct the Y2K problem was not aware that |
| 9308 |
2000 was in fact a leap year. There was no way to set |
| 9309 |
the date to Feb 29, 2000. |
| 9310 |
% |
| 9311 |
"Ernst Lehmann, die Organisationsredundanz beim Cluster-Treffen" |
| 9312 |
% |
| 9313 |
HP Computer NEWS 3/98 about HP 2000/CN printer (page 24): "Darüber |
| 9314 |
hinaus ... hat der HP 2000C/CN durch den Einsatz von Intel MMX- |
| 9315 |
Technologie Zugriff auf deren Farbtabellen und kann so Farbbilder |
| 9316 |
schneller verarbeiten" (A mistake made when translating. It's hard to |
| 9317 |
get the wrong meaning if translated back to English, sorry.) |
| 9318 |
% |
| 9319 |
From: Robert Lipe |
| 9320 |
> > I program computers with no screens and no keyboards for a living. |
| 9321 |
> > Switches and front-panels are a LUXURY! :-) |
| 9322 |
> |
| 9323 |
> But I guess you are not _programming_ these computers without a keyboard |
| 9324 |
> and/or screen. |
| 9325 |
|
| 9326 |
Are you familiar with the Vulcan Mind Meld? |
| 9327 |
% |
| 9328 |
Subject: Re: [fwd from comp.lang.python] Re: Python 2 ideas [Re: access |
| 9329 |
From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu> |
| 9330 |
|
| 9331 |
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: |
| 9332 |
> use pedantic; |
| 9333 |
> use strict 'code'; |
| 9334 |
> |
| 9335 |
> or whatever is the syntax to switch Perl into 'dull'/'pythonish' mode. |
| 9336 |
|
| 9337 |
use syntax 'python'; |
| 9338 |
|
| 9339 |
Let's just embrace&extend'em ;) ;) |
| 9340 |
|
| 9341 |
% |
| 9342 |
Thus it was written in the epistle of Larry Wall, |
| 9343 |
> |
| 9344 |
> Having discussed all this thoroughly at the Hacker's Conference this |
| 9345 |
> past weekend, I've come to the conclusion that Y2K will be traumatic |
| 9346 |
> primarily because people *think* it will be traumatic. A panic is a |
| 9347 |
> panic whether or not it's justified. People get trampled in panics. |
| 9348 |
> |
| 9349 |
> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy. :-) |
| 9350 |
% |
| 9351 |
[rfc1925] |
| 9352 |
Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three). |
| 9353 |
% |
| 9354 |
[Alan Cox, why not port hurd to sgi, instead of linux] |
| 9355 |
> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might |
| 9356 |
> be time-consuming. |
| 9357 |
|
| 9358 |
"Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying |
| 9359 |
% |
| 9360 |
UNIX versions of ctags handle the C language, and often Pascal and Fortran |
| 9361 |
77. Sometimes, they even handle assembly language. Almost universally, |
| 9362 |
however, they do not handle C++... |
| 9363 |
[from "learning the vi editor"] |
| 9364 |
% |
| 9365 |
> correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a thread about this a few |
| 9366 |
> months back that resolved the ping -f localhost as a ping bug. |
| 9367 |
|
| 9368 |
Indeed, as Alan Cox said: |
| 9369 |
|
| 9370 |
So get a non-buggy ping(8) client. |
| 9371 |
|
| 9372 |
and as Ecclesiastes said: |
| 9373 |
|
| 9374 |
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been |
| 9375 |
already of old time, which was before us. |
| 9376 |
There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any |
| 9377 |
remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. |
| 9378 |
|
| 9379 |
Regards, |
| 9380 |
Tigran. |
| 9381 |
% |
| 9382 |
SNMP stands for Security Not My Problem |
| 9383 |
% |
| 9384 |
[slightly broken, though...] |
| 9385 |
/* "Hello World" in B for 64-bit hardware! */ |
| 9386 |
hw [0] "Hello World.*n"; |
| 9387 |
main(){ |
| 9388 |
extrn hw; |
| 9389 |
putchar(0[hw]); |
| 9390 |
hw=+1; |
| 9391 |
putchar(0[hw]); |
| 9392 |
} |
| 9393 |
% |
| 9394 |
> So what comes first the chicken or the egg? :) |
| 9395 |
|
| 9396 |
The egg. Always. By definition. |
| 9397 |
% |
| 9398 |
> > PPS: Robert, I just made my first y2k fix to that script ;() |
| 9399 |
> |
| 9400 |
> Better check your scsi cables. |
| 9401 |
% |
| 9402 |
Arroganz durch Wissen |
| 9403 |
[Dirk Jagdmann] |
| 9404 |
% |
| 9405 |
[Re: Pegasus - Gut oder Boese?] |
| 9406 |
> Weil er sie dabei ja unterstuetzt. Da er aber (abgesehen von den ersten |
| 9407 |
> ein- oder zweimal) nur auf Anrufen von Rosa-Girl erscheint, koennte man es |
| 9408 |
> auch anders herum sagen. wenn CU Pfeift, kommt er angaloppiert 8)) |
| 9409 |
|
| 9410 |
was aber leider bedeutet, daß usa die Rennsemmel ständig mit |
| 9411 |
sich rumschleppen mu?. ^_- |
| 9412 |
Nur weil die Kleine die Bimmel hat! |
| 9413 |
|
| 9414 |
Und wer weiß, was dieses pädophile Pferd eigentlich noch so |
| 9415 |
bezwecken will... ^_- |
| 9416 |
% |
| 9417 |
>James :\ |
| 9418 |
> |
| 9419 |
>I apologize for adding a message to this possibly trivial thread. |
| 9420 |
|
| 9421 |
I like your sig. I hope you use it for everything you post. |
| 9422 |
% |
| 9423 |
From: Mason <mason@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu> |
| 9424 |
Subject: night of the undead ip stack |
| 9425 |
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:03:19 -0600 (CST) |
| 9426 |
% |
| 9427 |
> The person who decides to invent UNICODE support for Linux |
| 9428 |
> is just asking for a black eye. |
| 9429 |
|
| 9430 |
But Unicode for NT is such fun! |
| 9431 |
|
| 9432 |
For example, the checked DbgPrint() bluescreens above DISPATCH_LEVEL |
| 9433 |
if you try to print a Unicode string--the Unicode->ASCII |
| 9434 |
translation tables are marked as pageable. |
| 9435 |
|
| 9436 |
Since as far as I know, printk() does not have any format specifiers |
| 9437 |
that cause obscure kernel panics, Linux is clearly behind in this |
| 9438 |
area. |
| 9439 |
% |
| 9440 |
Linux: a no problem operating system for no problem people. |
| 9441 |
[Lukas Grunwald] |
| 9442 |
% |
| 9443 |
http://dd.sh/perlfs/: |
| 9444 |
|
| 9445 |
THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL (PRE-ALPHA) VERSION OF THE PERL FILESYSTEM. |
| 9446 |
EVEN WHEN IT LOADS WITHOUT CAUSING A KERNEL PANIC, IT WILL LOCK UP |
| 9447 |
YOUR MACHINE, DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA, KIDNAP YOUR FAMILY AND |
| 9448 |
(DEPENDING ON SAID FAMILY'S CONFIGURATION) SHOOT YOUR CAT, DOG, AND/OR |
| 9449 |
FIRST-BORN CHILD. |
| 9450 |
% |
| 9451 |
[a comment on http://dd.sh/perlfs/] |
| 9452 |
Forget GNU/Linux. /PerL/inux will conquer all. |
| 9453 |
|
| 9454 |
kill 0,1 if -x '/PerL/inux'; # request kernel mode |
| 9455 |
% |
| 9456 |
[Tim Hollebeek on real arithmetic] |
| 9457 |
On a machine with a sane floating point model, the results make sense. |
| 9458 |
For example, my SGI workstation prints: |
| 9459 |
|
| 9460 |
0.00000000000000011102 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000020000 1.00000000000000040000 |
| 9461 |
|
| 9462 |
However, a machine with the Intel FPU from hell gives: |
| 9463 |
|
| 9464 |
0.00000000000000000005 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 1.00000000000000000000 |
| 9465 |
|
| 9466 |
due to the fact that whether 1+x and 1 are the same number depends on whether |
| 9467 |
the numbers are in the FPU or not. |
| 9468 |
% |
| 9469 |
[Grüner Tip/Arte] |
| 9470 |
Ihre Nachbarn sind zu laut und feiern andauernd Parties? Kein Problem, ihr |
| 9471 |
Bohrer wird nachts um zwei spielend mit _jedem_ Lärm fertig.... |
| 9472 |
% |
| 9473 |
Remember, eating healthy doesn't make you live longer, it just makes it seem |
| 9474 |
longer... |
| 9475 |
% |
| 9476 |
[M$ about unix development tools like GCC] |
| 9477 |
By the standards of the novice / intermediate developer accustomed to |
| 9478 |
VB/VS/VC/VJ, these tools are incredibly primitive. |
| 9479 |
% |
| 9480 |
> > Praha is nice and our university is interesting, since it is according |
| 9481 |
> > to tests most complex and impractical computer science university on the |
| 9482 |
> > world :) I just love it... |
| 9483 |
> |
| 9484 |
> Oh well, great that I won't be studying there... |
| 9485 |
> |
| 9486 |
It is really fun.... just now I have lesson (that reminds me that I really |
| 9487 |
should go now) about set theory and infinity... it is really fun and very |
| 9488 |
practical... |
| 9489 |
for example that you have cinema with infinity chairs and infinity plus one |
| 9490 |
person wants to see movie... what do yo do? |
| 9491 |
Just let sit down the first infinity persons and then last person ask first |
| 9492 |
one to move to second chair, second one to move to third and so on and |
| 9493 |
everyone fits.. isn't that great to know? :)) |
| 9494 |
|
| 9495 |
Jan Hubicka |
| 9496 |
% |
| 9497 |
> template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> A {}; |
| 9498 |
[...] |
| 9499 |
> I think that this construction is allowed by the ANSI C++. |
| 9500 |
|
| 9501 |
No, it is not. What you meant is |
| 9502 |
|
| 9503 |
template< template< template<class> class > class Tmpl> class A {}; |
| 9504 |
% |
| 9505 |
Jan Dubois writes: |
| 9506 |
> A) perl-5.00553 |
| 9507 |
> path = \perl\5.00553\bin\MsWin32-x86\perl.exe |
| 9508 |
> cc = cl.exe |
| 9509 |
A performance analysis compiling with M$ compiler? Get real! |
| 9510 |
|
| 9511 |
[...] |
| 9512 |
|
| 9513 |
Ilya |
| 9514 |
% |
| 9515 |
>Shouldn't the kernel compile with all combinations of options. |
| 9516 |
|
| 9517 |
Yes. Feel free to fix it and send a patch. |
| 9518 |
|
| 9519 |
p. |
| 9520 |
% |
| 9521 |
[tomc] |
| 9522 |
Jean-Louis provides four arguments in favor of the overloading of the |
| 9523 |
logical && and || operators. Here they are: |
| 9524 |
|
| 9525 |
+------------------------------------------+ |
| 9526 |
| Other languages, notably C++, permit it. | |
| 9527 |
+------------------------------------------+ |
| 9528 |
|
| 9529 |
This one is hardly persuasive. Many languages do innumerable things |
| 9530 |
that Perl does not do. Just for example, take: |
| 9531 |
|
| 9532 |
* Csh reparses and re-evals interpolated strings, allowing something |
| 9533 |
like C<$cmd $var> to do interesting things. |
| 9534 |
* The Fortran lexer (as it were), having no need of white space to |
| 9535 |
infer tokens, allows C<DO I=1.10> and C<DO I=1,10> to coexist in an |
| 9536 |
interesting way. |
| 9537 |
* Icon has an entirely different notion of success and failure, |
| 9538 |
allowing expressions like (X < Y < Z) to do interesting things. |
| 9539 |
* Scheme has call-with-continuation, allowing co-routines to do |
| 9540 |
interesting things. |
| 9541 |
* C++ has template classes with abnormal typing rules even for that |
| 9542 |
language, allowing parameterized meta-classes to do interesting |
| 9543 |
things. |
| 9544 |
% |
| 9545 |
Make is like Pascal: everybody likes it, so they go in and change it. |
| 9546 |
--Dennis Ritchie |
| 9547 |
% |
| 9548 |
perl -wlpe '}{$_=$.' file # Count the number of lines. |
| 9549 |
% |
| 9550 |
[not quite duff's device, but...] |
| 9551 |
|
| 9552 |
switch (x) |
| 9553 |
default: |
| 9554 |
if (prime(x)) |
| 9555 |
case 2: case 3: case 5: case 7: |
| 9556 |
process_prime(x); |
| 9557 |
else |
| 9558 |
case 4: case 6: case 8: case 9: case 10: |
| 9559 |
process_composite(x); |
| 9560 |
% |
| 9561 |
Is there any truth to the rumor that the number appearing |
| 9562 |
after the words "Microsoft Windows" is the minimum amount of memory, |
| 9563 |
in megabytes, required for execution? |
| 9564 |
|
| 9565 |
Craig Milo Rogers |
| 9566 |
% |
| 9567 |
Mark Mielke writes: |
| 9568 |
> This statement is false. The simple fact that school textbooks teach it |
| 9569 |
> to be indeterminate should be enough to convince you of that. |
| 9570 |
|
| 9571 |
This is just another reference point about the state of education in |
| 9572 |
US (apparently in Canada too?). |
| 9573 |
|
| 9574 |
Ilya |
| 9575 |
% |
| 9576 |
[from p5p] |
| 9577 |
> Now you know why threading is experimental and all, buddy. |
| 9578 |
|
| 9579 |
Experimental schexperimental. Anything that doesn't cause an |
| 9580 |
immediate coredump is not experimental. :-) (Observant readers will |
| 9581 |
note that this is a more rigorous standard than Microsoft's.) |
| 9582 |
|
| 9583 |
Nat |
| 9584 |
% |
| 9585 |
Needless to say, Linux awk is probably gawk, which has been taking too |
| 9586 |
much steroids for a while. =) |
| 9587 |
|
| 9588 |
--Albert Dvornik |
| 9589 |
<bert@genscan.com> |
| 9590 |
% |
| 9591 |
Subject: Re: zero width lookbehind considered slow |
| 9592 |
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com> |
| 9593 |
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:40:37 -0500 |
| 9594 |
|
| 9595 |
>*You* do not understand? Perl is slow... |
| 9596 |
|
| 9597 |
Ilya: You are formerly invited to go play in the python |
| 9598 |
or tcl crowd instead of here. |
| 9599 |
|
| 9600 |
--tom |
| 9601 |
% |
| 9602 |
>What's it? Can linux be improved too? Or has it already been improved? |
| 9603 |
|
| 9604 |
Linux has never done anything so stupid in the first place. |
| 9605 |
|
| 9606 |
Linus |
| 9607 |
% |
| 9608 |
On the 8th day god created email. And got noted the world was good. Then the |
| 9609 |
devil added HTML mail... |
| 9610 |
% |
| 9611 |
linux/lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-) |
| 9612 |
linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty... */ |
| 9613 |
linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */ |
| 9614 |
% |
| 9615 |
On 1998-10-11T02:37:57, |
| 9616 |
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said: |
| 9617 |
|
| 9618 |
> Believe me Microsoft think Linux is a threat now. Its level with things like |
| 9619 |
> java in their perceived threat list, so you can expect all the usual MS |
| 9620 |
> techniques to start coming this way and very soon. |
| 9621 |
|
| 9622 |
Arm the gnus! |
| 9623 |
% |
| 9624 |
[David Miller after (another) endless discussion with Richard Kenner] |
| 9625 |
|
| 9626 |
Anyways, I tired (just like everyone else) of arguing endlessly with |
| 9627 |
you, you're in the past, you no longer constrain my ability to improve |
| 9628 |
gcc, so go away. |
| 9629 |
% |
| 9630 |
I received my copy of Visual Studio 6.0 today. I couldn't believe that it |
| 9631 |
wanted to install the C++ compiler into a directory called: |
| 9632 |
|
| 9633 |
"\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98" |
| 9634 |
|
| 9635 |
But anyways, I just had to find out if it was finally possible to compile |
| 9636 |
Perl (without PERL_OBJECT) with optimization (-O2). |
| 9637 |
% |
| 9638 |
[on perl version numbering] |
| 9639 |
> So it could be 5.006 for the developers, but "ThreadPerl" or "Perl with |
| 9640 |
> Multithreads" (or some such) for the journalists, if that's what |
| 9641 |
> journalists need to make them pay attention. |
| 9642 |
|
| 9643 |
Down that path lies "Perl version 5.006, codename `Ticklish Uvula', |
| 9644 |
was released today" madness. |
| 9645 |
% |
| 9646 |
[on perl version numbering] |
| 9647 |
> elaine> 5.1 would be a good thing(tm) as it would draw attention, |
| 9648 |
> elaine> etc. in a way that a developers versioning would. The |
| 9649 |
> elaine> world is not populated by people who think the same |
| 9650 |
> elaine> way. To that end, this would be a good change. Of course, |
| 9651 |
> elaine> we could call it Perl99. |
| 9652 |
> |
| 9653 |
> To me, Perl seems to be recognized for it's language qualities, not |
| 9654 |
> for marketing reasons. IMHO, perl may keep this difference with other |
| 9655 |
> wintel product. More than that : Perl99, would let believe people that |
| 9656 |
> it is not Y2K proofed, or still in beta (<1.00). So it's not a good |
| 9657 |
> marketing name, anyway. |
| 9658 |
|
| 9659 |
Right. Then, to be Y2K compliant, we'll have to call it Perl1999. Hmmm. |
| 9660 |
"The year perl left earth's orbit"? Maybe we need to get the NASA guys to |
| 9661 |
put perl on the next low-cost spaceshot. |
| 9662 |
|
| 9663 |
Of course, then c.l.p.m's motto could be "We do not commit *mindless* |
| 9664 |
violence..." :-) |
| 9665 |
% |
| 9666 |
Rule 1 says that Larry says that Larry has the last say, unless he changes |
| 9667 |
his mind in which case he still has the last say. |
| 9668 |
% |
| 9669 |
> >I never said it did.. I should have said: Binary only drivers encourage |
| 9670 |
> >poor drivers |
| 9671 |
> |
| 9672 |
> No it doesn't. |
| 9673 |
|
| 9674 |
Indeed. Its down to |
| 9675 |
|
| 9676 |
Profit = (units * margin) - overhead |
| 9677 |
|
| 9678 |
and the folks who decide "overhead" arent the programmers but the management. |
| 9679 |
The folks who say "you have two weeks allocated to write this driver, then |
| 9680 |
we ship it" are the folks to take the issue up with, and that goes source |
| 9681 |
or binaries. |
| 9682 |
% |
| 9683 |
dig txt leap.yp.to |
| 9684 |
% |
| 9685 |
"The fact that I'm paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's after me..." |
| 9686 |
% |
| 9687 |
[linux-kernel on endianess issues with NIPQUAD] |
| 9688 |
|
| 9689 |
|> Do I read this correct?!? Is it more acceptable to have a bug[*], |
| 9690 |
|> than a not optimal fix?!?!? |
| 9691 |
|> |
| 9692 |
|> s/optimal/stupid/ |
| 9693 |
|
| 9694 |
What's stupid is little endian. <g> |
| 9695 |
|
| 9696 |
Andreas. |
| 9697 |
% |
| 9698 |
[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov] |
| 9699 |
... |
| 9700 |
A closely related question is `What is 1 minute before 23:59:60?''. |
| 9701 |
|
| 9702 |
Here's a good one: `What is 1 month before 1 February 1995 in |
| 9703 |
Kiritimati?''. There was no 1 January 1995 in Kiritimati; they |
| 9704 |
skipped a day by moving the clocks ahead 24 hours. Similar issues |
| 9705 |
arise when asking about times that occur within smaller, more typical |
| 9706 |
UTC offset changes. A number of obscure questions arise here, and I'm |
| 9707 |
not sure it's worth standardizing all the answers. |
| 9708 |
% |
| 9709 |
[D.J.Bernstein on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov] |
| 9710 |
|
| 9711 |
Paul Eggert writes: |
| 9712 |
> which I am calling the `modified TIME_TAI'' |
| 9713 |
|
| 9714 |
Your time differences break down near leap seconds. Ever watched xntpd |
| 9715 |
try to handle a leap second? Wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble. |
| 9716 |
% |
| 9717 |
For binary only drivers you can assume most vendors will build x86 only |
| 9718 |
however. |
| 9719 |
|
| 9720 |
"We don't have the tools" |
| 9721 |
"We can't support a non intel build" |
| 9722 |
"We don't have that sort of machine" |
| 9723 |
"Its not worth the time cost" |
| 9724 |
"Whats an Alpha ?" |
| 9725 |
% |
| 9726 |
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote: |
| 9727 |
|
| 9728 |
> The original message was received at Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:39:56 -0400 |
| 9729 |
> from mini [10.0.0.3] |
| 9730 |
> |
| 9731 |
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- |
| 9732 |
> <mailproc@fred> |
| 9733 |
> |
| 9734 |
> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- |
| 9735 |
> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5' |
| 9736 |
> procmail: can't map '/lib/libc.so.5' |
| 9737 |
> procmail: can't load library 'libc.so.5' |
| 9738 |
> 554 <mailproc@fred>... unknown mailer error 16 |
| 9739 |
% |
| 9740 |
> Here is the difficulty with this discussion: |
| 9741 |
> No documented problem |
| 9742 |
> No reason to believe that the "solution" solves the unspecified "problem" |
| 9743 |
> No clear understanding of the effects of this change on the system |
| 9744 |
> |
| 9745 |
> Why, this could be a discusion among AIX developers! |
| 9746 |
% |
| 9747 |
> This would be a reasonable committee-like compromise that might |
| 9748 |
> satisfy neither of us (:-). |
| 9749 |
% |
| 9750 |
By default Microsoft has set Explorer to use gz files as VRML, you need to |
| 9751 |
change the association for .gz / vrml from "start vrml program" to "always ask" |
| 9752 |
|
| 9753 |
dave |
| 9754 |
% |
| 9755 |
On 10 Aug 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: |
| 9756 |
DG> You're not programming MS-DOS applications are you? |
| 9757 |
|
| 9758 |
BP> Hell no. I wouldn't touch MS-DOS with a ten-foot network cable. |
| 9759 |
% |
| 9760 |
[Paul Eggert on tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov] |
| 9761 |
|
| 9762 |
Date: 10 Oct 1998 15:35:05 -0000 |
| 9763 |
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to> |
| 9764 |
|
| 9765 |
Paul Eggert writes: |
| 9766 |
> * 29 February if it's a leap lear, 28 February otherwise. |
| 9767 |
|
| 9768 |
If that's 1 month before 31 March, then what's 1 month before 30 March? |
| 9769 |
1 month before 29 March? |
| 9770 |
|
| 9771 |
The same as 1 month before 31 March. |
| 9772 |
|
| 9773 |
1 month before 28 March? |
| 9774 |
|
| 9775 |
28 February. |
| 9776 |
|
| 9777 |
And what's 1 month after 28 February? 1 month after 27 February? 1 month |
| 9778 |
_before_ 27 February? |
| 9779 |
|
| 9780 |
28 March, 27 March, and 27 January. |
| 9781 |
% |
| 9782 |
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c |
| 9783 |
|
| 9784 |
>Nils Goesche wrote: |
| 9785 |
>> So make a security check first: |
| 9786 |
>> |
| 9787 |
>> if (status = UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK) |
| 9788 |
>> launch_full_counterstrike(); |
| 9789 |
> |
| 9790 |
>Hmmm. The way the worlds been going lately, AI wouldn't trust that code to |
| 9791 |
>do the job. Here's the revised version: |
| 9792 |
> |
| 9793 |
>if(status == UNDER_NULEAR_ATTACK); /* Corrected dangerous |
| 9794 |
> = instead of == error*/ |
| 9795 |
> launch_full_counterstrike(); |
| 9796 |
> |
| 9797 |
>Now isn't that much more reliable? |
| 9798 |
> |
| 9799 |
>-- |
| 9800 |
>Email: cyrand@hotmail.com |
| 9801 |
|
| 9802 |
The following variant is less reliable but much safer: |
| 9803 |
|
| 9804 |
if (status == UNDER_NUCLEAR_ATTACK); /* Correct dangerous |
| 9805 |
launch_full_counterstrike (); = instead == error */ |
| 9806 |
% |
| 9807 |
It is even more cheerful than that. Not so long time ago a customers |
| 9808 |
of ours totally destroyed his NT installation on Alpha. |
| 9809 |
|
| 9810 |
He found on a manufacturer page, no money - for a download, "NT driver" |
| 9811 |
for his particular piece of a hardware. So he followed instructions |
| 9812 |
to the letter - "Installation Wizzard" and all that crap - and the thing |
| 9813 |
happily installed clobbering, as it is customary in these circles, |
| 9814 |
essential system libraries with its own versions. The catch was that |
| 9815 |
this driver was for NT/Intel and these bozos did not even bother to |
| 9816 |
check for an architecture or at least mention something in some blurb. |
| 9817 |
Ooops! No chance even to try to boot anymore. |
| 9818 |
|
| 9819 |
The saving grace was that the installation was rather new, so loses |
| 9820 |
were not big, and he had an opportunity to practice an essential skill |
| 9821 |
of re-installing Windows NT. Ah, and yes, this was the only NT driver |
| 9822 |
available for that hardware from any source. |
| 9823 |
What do you plan on doing? Using a PA system for networking? :) |
| 9824 |
Whats next? A *Smell* modem? It would bring a new meaning to packet |
| 9825 |
sniffing! |
| 9826 |
% |
| 9827 |
"I'd rather spend 10 hours reading source code than 10 minutes on a |
| 9828 |
technical support line that isn't" |
| 9829 |
% |
| 9830 |
[from linux-kernel] |
| 9831 |
`This code fills 8 million seats, we therefore decide what's standard.'' |
| 9832 |
% |
| 9833 |
[...] |
| 9834 |
And especially with new machines users have a lot of clout. Several UK |
| 9835 |
suppliers now carry Buslogic cards partly because they got fed up of |
| 9836 |
|
| 9837 |
"I'd like to order a dual PII/300, 256Mb of RAM, 17" monitor |
| 9838 |
4 4Gig IBM disks, and a buslogic scsi controller" |
| 9839 |
"We dont do buslogic only adaptec" |
| 9840 |
"Nothing else" |
| 9841 |
"Sorry" |
| 9842 |
[Click] |
| 9843 |
|
| 9844 |
Alan |
| 9845 |
% |
| 9846 |
Fünfzig Prozent der Amerikaner wurden in ihrer Kindheit sexuell mißbraucht, |
| 9847 |
während weitere fünfzig Prozent von Außerirdischen entführt wurden. |
| 9848 |
% |
| 9849 |
> Let's not forget that this is just an informal, free |
| 9850 |
> software project. Unlke the US House of Representatives |
| 9851 |
> we do not yet posess nuclear capability (certain RTEMS |
| 9852 |
> users excepted, of course!). |
| 9853 |
|
| 9854 |
Hmmm, if some RTEMS users have nuclear facilities attached to their |
| 9855 |
systems, they might be well advised to be careful using FORTRAN as |
| 9856 |
their language of choice. The comp.lang.fortran FAQ states (with |
| 9857 |
concurrence from resident X3J3 members) that "using a non-standard |
| 9858 |
construct might start WW III, if the necessary (optional) hardware |
| 9859 |
is installed" |
| 9860 |
|
| 9861 |
[Toon Moene in private discussion] |
| 9862 |
% |
| 9863 |
Newsgroups: alt.config |
| 9864 |
|
| 9865 |
L. Harris wrote: |
| 9866 |
> |
| 9867 |
> Testing |
| 9868 |
|
| 9869 |
you failed. |
| 9870 |
% |
| 9871 |
Roswell {Unit 6 of 5 Sam Borg} Coverup [Rev. joWazzoo - well mannered despammer] |
| 9872 |
<JOWazzoo@WhiteICE.com> at We are Sam Borg Spam Assimilators Ltd. - Area 51 HQ |
| 9873 |
% |
| 9874 |
Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least |
| 9875 |
20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a |
| 9876 |
"20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month" |
| 9877 |
group. :) -- Randal Schwartz |
| 9878 |
% |
| 9879 |
> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the |
| 9880 |
> fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in |
| 9881 |
> 18MB+ "Service Packs" :). |
| 9882 |
|
| 9883 |
What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98? |
| 9884 |
% |
| 9885 |
We got this INTERNET because we whan't more information ( to learn ) now it |
| 9886 |
seem's people can't handle what they see. You say freedom is a mater of |
| 9887 |
choice (well it is) you have the freedom to choose to carry your butt some |
| 9888 |
where else... |
| 9889 |
% |
| 9890 |
Steve Orzel (phloam@vol.com) wrote: |
| 9891 |
[...] |
| 9892 |
: The purpose of the newsgroup is to help out other people that have questions |
| 9893 |
: about a certain topic. |
| 9894 |
% |
| 9895 |
Mark Robinson wrote: |
| 9896 |
> |
| 9897 |
> Does any have any source code to games that I can have? Does anybody |
| 9898 |
> know where I can get game sources(legally)? |
| 9899 |
|
| 9900 |
Here's the trial version of the three-room text adventure I'm going to |
| 9901 |
write. I'm not finished yet, though. |
| 9902 |
|
| 9903 |
void main (void) |
| 9904 |
{ |
| 9905 |
printf ("You are in a dark room.\n"); |
| 9906 |
printf ("\n"); |
| 9907 |
printf ("You feel a sharp pain.\n"); |
| 9908 |
printf ("You have died.\n"); |
| 9909 |
printf ("\n"); |
| 9910 |
printf ("!!! GAME OVER !!!"); |
| 9911 |
} |
| 9912 |
|
| 9913 |
(Don't tell, but I took some of the code from Quake.) |
| 9914 |
|
| 9915 |
-- |
| 9916 |
John Kugelman. kugelman@mnsinc.com |
| 9917 |
% |
| 9918 |
[mail I got after releasing a zip-password cracker, the second biggest |
| 9919 |
mistake I ever made] |
| 9920 |
|
| 9921 |
From: "Tom Miller" |
| 9922 |
Subject: Can |
| 9923 |
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 |
| 9924 |
|
| 9925 |
Hay man can you send me some hacking tips and tricks please |
| 9926 |
send to kymmiller@bigpond.com |
| 9927 |
my name is Tom Miller |
| 9928 |
|
| 9929 |
From: "Tom Miller" |
| 9930 |
Subject: Wait |
| 9931 |
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 |
| 9932 |
|
| 9933 |
Hey man its Tom can you also send me any easy systems to hack and the |
| 9934 |
passwords also send me any infomation about hacking websites thank you |
| 9935 |
% |
| 9936 |
From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) |
| 9937 |
|
| 9938 |
[...] then think a little before flaming. Or better yet, produce something |
| 9939 |
better. Flaming is easy but it is basically masturbation without the orgasm |
| 9940 |
so why bother? [...] |
| 9941 |
% |
| 9942 |
Günter Höns <guenter.hoens@gmd.de> |
| 9943 |
|
| 9944 |
Newsgroups: de.alt.ufo |
| 9945 |
|
| 9946 |
Offensichtlich ist noch keinem das Wasser-Wachstum aufgefallen, das sogar |
| 9947 |
jeden Tag geschieht. Jeden Tag waechst der Wasserberg im Meer um mehrere |
| 9948 |
Meter, ist dann naeher an der Sonne und verdunstet dann. Sogenannte |
| 9949 |
Wissenschaftler haben eine abenteuerliche Theorie ueber den Einfluss des |
| 9950 |
Mondes auf dieses Wachstum aufgestellt, aber inzwischen wissen wir es |
| 9951 |
besser: Die Wasser-Molekuele werden von Neutrinos getroffen, und verdoppeln |
| 9952 |
sich dann. |
| 9953 |
% |
| 9954 |
CRASH(8) |
| 9955 |
no fs |
| 9956 |
A device has disappeared from the mounted-device table. |
| 9957 |
Definitely hardware or software error. |
| 9958 |
|
| 9959 |
Unix Version 7 Manual |
| 9960 |
% |
| 9961 |
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Larry Wall wrote: |
| 9962 |
> |
| 9963 |
> Maybe Pi looks like this: |
| 9964 |
> |
| 9965 |
> =for C |
| 9966 |
> i++; /* add 1 to i */ |
| 9967 |
> =end |
| 9968 |
> =for C++ |
| 9969 |
> i.value() += 1; // add 1 to i, probably |
| 9970 |
> =end |
| 9971 |
> =for Java |
| 9972 |
> system().foo().bar().i().value().please().increment(); // ??? |
| 9973 |
> =end |
| 9974 |
> |
| 9975 |
> :-) |
| 9976 |
% |
| 9977 |
> > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! |
| 9978 |
% |
| 9979 |
[on linux 2.1.111] |
| 9980 |
|
| 9981 |
The horrid underlining which was a feature with the monochrome Linux vt's on |
| 9982 |
the previous two releases of the kernel has gone. Unfortunately, so has the |
| 9983 |
cursor. A couple of brief experiments didn't result in me finding a way to |
| 9984 |
turn it on. |
| 9985 |
% |
| 9986 |
[...] |
| 9987 |
its a true story, it happend this weekend in a nice country |
| 9988 |
between Belgium (wellknown for its Dutroux-case) and Germany |
| 9989 |
(wellknown for its Bratwurst), lets call it the Lowlands... |
| 9990 |
[...] |
| 9991 |
% |
| 9992 |
I get a sense of god-like proportions when I patch /dev/kmem with dd(1). |
| 9993 |
|
| 9994 |
Chad C Giffin |
| 9995 |
% |
| 9996 |
[usenet, an anology] |
| 9997 |
Mary Green's car was smoking. She got worried. "Whatever should I do?" |
| 9998 |
worried Mary... Well, as she drove along she noticed a florists shop. "Aha! |
| 9999 |
Thought Mary, "Flour shops are full of thoughtless men who need to apologize to |
| 10000 |
their wives. These men are the sometimes the same ones I see swearing under |
| 10001 |
the hoods of their cars in the shade of a tree." |
| 10002 |
|
| 10003 |
"Brrring" said the bell of the door to the flower shop as Mary poked her head |
| 10004 |
through the door. |
| 10005 |
"HELP!!! MY CAR IS SMOKING!" Screamed Mary. |
| 10006 |
"There is a garage right next door." Said the shopkeeper. |
| 10007 |
"That's right," Said Melvin, "And there is a parts store across the street. If |
| 10008 |
you ask for Fred, he's pretty savvy about that kind of stuff." |
| 10009 |
Now Joe was also in the flower store. This was his first time in trouble, so |
| 10010 |
he did not hear the 30 or 40 people per day who came in screaming about their |
| 10011 |
cars smoking (mostly men, of course -- the ones under the shade trees, |
| 10012 |
usually.) |
| 10013 |
|
| 10014 |
"Why don't you help the stinking lady!!" Screamed Joe. "It might be your |
| 10015 |
muffler bearings..." he continued. Or maybe it's your deisel glow plugs or |
| 10016 |
your tire pressure..." |
| 10017 |
Now Tim, also new to the flower shop felt the courage to chime in, "Or it could |
| 10018 |
even be your cooling system. Sometimes a hose gets a crack." |
| 10019 |
"My car smoked once and it was an oil leak, where the head gasket was spraying |
| 10020 |
oil in the manifold." Hollered Larry |
| 10021 |
"Hey lady, why don't you get your car the patch if it's smoking" chortled Glen. |
| 10022 |
Well, the hollering went on into the evening, and the lady finally went to the |
| 10023 |
gas station and found that the heater core had a tiny split and was repaired in |
| 10024 |
three days for a cost of $175.23. |
| 10025 |
% |
| 10026 |
> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein. |
| 10027 |
|
| 10028 |
Sicher, das macht der Inzest, und die Isolation!:) |
| 10029 |
% |
| 10030 |
> Nun gut, Berliner sollen ja eh etwas heller sein. |
| 10031 |
|
| 10032 |
Stimmt, deswegen waren sie wohl auch die ersten, die Hitler hinterherliefen... |
| 10033 |
:-( |
| 10034 |
% |
| 10035 |
>Mt 24,34 Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Dieses Geschlecht wird nicht vergehen, bis |
| 10036 |
>dies alles geschieht. |
| 10037 |
>Und es verging nicht. |
| 10038 |
|
| 10039 |
So what? |
| 10040 |
|
| 10041 |
Ich dachte eher an: |
| 10042 |
|
| 10043 |
" 'Und sein Wabbel wird an einer Lanze aufgespiesst', wiederholte der |
| 10044 |
Oberste Groesste Meister grimmig. Im Hintergrund knarrte etwas, als |
| 10045 |
Bruder Pfoertner versuchte, das klemmende Portal zu oeffnen. 'Sind wir |
| 10046 |
jetzt alle soweit? Befinden sich vielleicht noch andere Unwissende |
| 10047 |
unter uns,die sich verirrt haben?' fuegte er mit aetzendem Sarkasmus |
| 10048 |
hinzu. 'Gut. Wunderbar. Ich bin ja _so_ froh. Vermutlich brauche ich |
| 10049 |
nicht zu fragen, ob die vier Wachtuerme geschlossen sind, oder? Oh, |
| 10050 |
ausgezeichnet. Hat sich jemand die Muehe gemacht, der Heiligen Hose |
| 10051 |
die Beichte abzunehmen? Ach, tatsaechlich? Auf die richtige Art und |
| 10052 |
Weise? Und wenn ich nachsehe? Na schoen. Sind vor den Fenstern die |
| 10053 |
roten Kordeln des Intellekts gespannt worden? Gut. Nun, dann koennen |
| 10054 |
wir jetzt vielleicht beginnen.' ". |
| 10055 |
|
| 10056 |
Terry Pratchett, "Wachen! Wachen!", S. 15f |
| 10057 |
|
| 10058 |
Antje |
| 10059 |
% |
| 10060 |
[....] |
| 10061 |
|
| 10062 |
Da muss ich ja, obwohl ich beinahe meinen Humor verloren haette, leise |
| 10063 |
grinsen. Ich darf zusammenfassen: Du bringst uns keine Beweise, weil Du 1. |
| 10064 |
zu arm und 2. zu sehr ausgelastet mit der Rettung der Welt und der Zukunft |
| 10065 |
und so bist. Ausserdem brauchst Du keine Beweise, weil sich Dein |
| 10066 |
Gedankengebaeude nach eingehender Nabelschau als selbsttragend erwiesen hat. |
| 10067 |
Finde ich gut! Akzeptiert! |
| 10068 |
|
| 10069 |
Da will ich nicht weiter stoeren, |
| 10070 |
|
| 10071 |
Antje |
| 10072 |
% |
| 10073 |
It seems that writing to /dev/vcs0 makes the console singing "Ugh, |
| 10074 |
lalala, I love you baby..." |
| 10075 |
-- |
| 10076 |
Pavel.Janik@inet.cz |
| 10077 |
% |
| 10078 |
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote: |
| 10079 |
> |
| 10080 |
> Kubys |
| 10081 |
|
| 10082 |
Kubys is my evil twin brother. Sorry about that. |
| 10083 |
|
| 10084 |
Linus |
| 10085 |
% |
| 10086 |
> eieio stands for "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O". |
| 10087 |
|
| 10088 |
.... and it is definitely my favorite name for an assembly language |
| 10089 |
instruction (the non-native-English speakers on the list presumably |
| 10090 |
don't know the childhood song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O"). |
| 10091 |
% |
| 10092 |
> It is *big* and never uses. |
| 10093 |
|
| 10094 |
That's parses like English, but I'll be hornswoggled if I can figure |
| 10095 |
out what it means. |
| 10096 |
-- |
| 10097 |
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com> |
| 10098 |
% |
| 10099 |
[...] HP's PA-8500, for example, has 1.5 Mbytes of L1 cache on-chip. The |
| 10100 |
company has described the 8500 as a cache SRAM with an ancillary CPU. [...] |
| 10101 |
% |
| 10102 |
From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com> |
| 10103 |
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:10:31 -0400 |
| 10104 |
|
| 10105 |
Terry L Ridder wrote: |
| 10106 |
|
| 10107 |
> at some future date end up being released under the BSD License is what |
| 10108 |
> is being discussed. |
| 10109 |
|
| 10110 |
Well my licence is bigger then your licence. |
| 10111 |
% |
| 10112 |
[gtk/testgtk, after dragging & dropping an object:] |
| 10113 |
|
| 10114 |
Drop data of type text/plain was: |
| 10115 |
|
| 10116 |
Bill Gates demands royalties for your use of his innovation |
| 10117 |
|
| 10118 |
[and the button reads] |
| 10119 |
|
| 10120 |
Continue with life in spite of this oppression |
| 10121 |
% |
| 10122 |
Joshua Waxman <jwaxman@ymail.yu.edu> writes: |
| 10123 |
|
| 10124 |
While DJGPP is indeed a C as well as a C compiler, there are certain |
| 10125 |
|
| 10126 |
A terribly succinct, as well as a true, statement. However, it has a |
| 10127 |
certain amount of redundancy. |
| 10128 |
% |
| 10129 |
Compatibility with oneself is Microsoft's greatest strength. When they hit |
| 10130 |
the 64 bit transition they will hit a major internal incompatibility problem. |
| 10131 |
|
| 10132 |
... |
| 10133 |
|
| 10134 |
Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com> |
| 10135 |
% |
| 10136 |
>Hello, |
| 10137 |
> |
| 10138 |
>I am new to Perl. Can anyone tell me where I can download a full |
| 10139 |
>operational Perl version for a Windows 95 system? |
| 10140 |
> |
| 10141 |
|
| 10142 |
Of course it all depends on what you mean by "a full operational Perl |
| 10143 |
version" Perl on Win32 has limitations that are largely due to the |
| 10144 |
nature of the underlying OS, Perl on Win95 has further limitations |
| 10145 |
compared with NT due to its own shortcomings . |
| 10146 |
% |
| 10147 |
An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact |
| 10148 |
on the country as a whole. |
| 10149 |
Compaq President & CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer, |
| 10150 |
explaining why Microsoft shouldn't be |
| 10151 |
prosecuted under anti-monopoly laws. |
| 10152 |
% |
| 10153 |
With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am |
| 10154 |
limited by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net> |
| 10155 |
% |
| 10156 |
There is a need to keep from being locked into Open Systems. --IBM sales rep |
| 10157 |
% |
| 10158 |
In comp.lang.perl.misc, |
| 10159 |
Stylin <stylinsty@yahoo.comREMOVE> writes: |
| 10160 |
:Can anyone point me to the algorithm for creating a unique id? |
| 10161 |
|
| 10162 |
$id = `cat /dev/kmem`; |
| 10163 |
|
| 10164 |
--tom |
| 10165 |
-- |
| 10166 |
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-) |
| 10167 |
--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> |
| 10168 |
% |
| 10169 |
Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.misc |
| 10170 |
Subject: Larry 1 Bill 0 |
| 10171 |
% |
| 10172 |
On 3 Jul 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: |
| 10173 |
|
| 10174 |
> The only problem with these AIs is that they don't handle references |
| 10175 |
> to themselves as AIs very well. In faSegmentation fault (core dumped) |
| 10176 |
> NO CARRIER |
| 10177 |
> !@*&#@#%T^@&*(GU*SD*(@!&*(@#R(*FERHGH*(@#(&$&#@Y!&R |
| 10178 |
% |
| 10179 |
> People come here to ask questions, not for intellectual gratification, but |
| 10180 |
> rather they are seeking solutions. As such, the incorrect answer was |
| 10181 |
> better. |
| 10182 |
|
| 10183 |
There's something... terribly wrong with this statement. I can't quite put |
| 10184 |
my finger on it. Hmmm. |
| 10185 |
% |
| 10186 |
comp.lang.c does not exist to accomodate the laziness of those who cannot be |
| 10187 |
bothered to learn netiquette. That's what comp.lang.c++ is for. |
| 10188 |
% |
| 10189 |
|> : > but... a microwave is an example of an embedded system, |
| 10190 |
|> |
| 10191 |
|> : Who says? He just said it was a microwave. He didn't say it was |
| 10192 |
|> : a free-standing implimentation. |
| 10193 |
|> |
| 10194 |
|> This is approaching arguing for the sake of argument. Have you |
| 10195 |
|> ever seen a microwave oven that supports a hosted C environment? |
| 10196 |
|
| 10197 |
The Lipton Ritchie Model 8 did. I'm sure that many posters will |
| 10198 |
point out that Lipton's implementation of the stdio libraries was |
| 10199 |
horrendously buggy. It was, but it was still a great system. It |
| 10200 |
remains the only C implementation I know of that could be used to |
| 10201 |
build Bison, and then cook it. |
| 10202 |
|
| 10203 |
Viva la buffalo burgers. |
| 10204 |
% |
| 10205 |
A strategically-placed PDP-11 can be used to heat your entire |
| 10206 |
home. I've got one in my basement, next to a large box of "She's |
| 10207 |
The Sheriff" drink coasters. I sold my furnace years ago. The |
| 10208 |
Digital Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Corporation |
| 10209 |
can be found online at http://www.dhvacc.com/. |
| 10210 |
% |
| 10211 |
The lbxproxy program has various options, all of which are optional. |
| 10212 |
-- lbxproxy(1) |
| 10213 |
% |
| 10214 |
Re: Where to learn Windows programming... |
| 10215 |
|
| 10216 |
|> I'll take a Schildt book any day, thanks. |
| 10217 |
|
| 10218 |
Great. I'm expecting to see the line above as a back-cover blurb |
| 10219 |
on the next "Bullschildt: The Complete Reference". |
| 10220 |
% |
| 10221 |
Subject: Re: The wrong position of while, if and else? |
| 10222 |
|
| 10223 |
that's some ugly piece of code buddy... |
| 10224 |
% |
| 10225 |
In article <1998062718481700.OAA03186@ladder01.news.aol.com>, eyrei@aol.com (EYREI) writes: |
| 10226 |
|> I have recently started learning the C Language. I have created a simple file |
| 10227 |
|> to determine whether or not a number is Prime. When I run it, the program |
| 10228 |
|> crashes with the error message :- Unhandled Exception :- General Protection |
| 10229 |
|> Exception 0x5FD7:0x379F. Prime(1) Processor Fault. |
| 10230 |
|
| 10231 |
|> What does this mean. |
| 10232 |
|
| 10233 |
It means you've got a broken operating system, and should immediately |
| 10234 |
install [free|net|open]BSD[OS] or Linux. |
| 10235 |
% |
| 10236 |
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c |
| 10237 |
|
| 10238 |
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Emulov wrote: |
| 10239 |
> Hi, i don't know if this is a stupid question.. |
| 10240 |
|
| 10241 |
Off-topic, too! Imagine that. |
| 10242 |
% |
| 10243 |
"Right now we are the most shit hot piece of PC networking software on the |
| 10244 |
planet. The only people who can touch us are FreeBSD (who also dont do |
| 10245 |
streams)." |
| 10246 |
-- Alan Cox, in "Streams and Linux" |
| 10247 |
% |
| 10248 |
"Perl combines all of the worst aspects of BASIC, C and line noise." |
| 10249 |
- Keith Packard <keithp@ncd.com> |
| 10250 |
% |
| 10251 |
Lord Fellatio <richter_m@hotmail.com> |
| 10252 |
|
| 10253 |
>Wo soll das Loch denn dann sein? Im Meeresboden? |
| 10254 |
|
| 10255 |
Klaro. |
| 10256 |
|
| 10257 |
>Von oben duerfte man es also ueberhaupt nicht sehen |
| 10258 |
>koennen, da ueber dem potentiellen Loch im Meeresboden doch |
| 10259 |
>wahrscheinlich erstmal Wasser und dann viel Eis liegen wuerde. Wie |
| 10260 |
>verhindern die Ausserirdischen denn, dass Wasser ins Loch einstroemt? |
| 10261 |
|
| 10262 |
Na ist doch völlig logo, mit nem rotierenden Traktorstrahl. Die |
| 10263 |
Energie klauen die ?r***e dem Erdmagnetfeld. |
| 10264 |
|
| 10265 |
>Gibt es da einen kosmischen Badewannenstoepsel? Haben sie es mit |
| 10266 |
>Eisbergen verstopft? Oder benutzen sie das einstroemende Wasser zu |
| 10267 |
>Kajakfahrten bis hinunter zum Suedpol? (Das waere doch auch endlich |
| 10268 |
>mal eine einleuchtende Erklaerung fuer die Eismassen, die die |
| 10269 |
>Antarktis bedecken - man muesste halt nur, der Kontinentaldrift |
| 10270 |
>folgend, immer wieder neue Schaechte bohren. Oder die Kontinentaldrift |
| 10271 |
>einfach wegdiskutieren...) |
| 10272 |
|
| 10273 |
Die enorme Zentrifugalkraft im Erdinnern schleudert das Wasser wieder |
| 10274 |
am Nordpolpol raus, falls der Traktorstrahl versagen sollte (Dies |
| 10275 |
passiert immer dann, wenn das Erdmagnetfeld umkippt). Nun kommt sicher |
| 10276 |
der Einwand, die Erde würde zu langsam rotieren. Das ist nur bedingt |
| 10277 |
richtig. Richtig ist hingegen, daß die Rotationsgeschwindigkeit im |
| 10278 |
Erdinnern um den Faktor 1000 (ca; sehr schwer zu messen: Magma) größer |
| 10279 |
ist als auf der Erdoberfläche. Dies ist auch die Ursache für die |
| 10280 |
Kontinentaldrift und die Mondphasen. |
| 10281 |
|
| 10282 |
Die Mondphasen wiederum beeinflussen das Erdmagnetfeld und sind daher |
| 10283 |
die Ursache für die Sonnenflecken. Den Sonnenflecken haben wir auch |
| 10284 |
die momentane Klimaveränderung zu verdanken. Auf der anderen Seite hat |
| 10285 |
die Zunahme der Treibhausgase eine Erhöhung des Reflektionsvermögens |
| 10286 |
der Atmosphäre zur Folge, welches dazu führt, daß ein Teil der |
| 10287 |
Sonnenenergie zur Sonne zurückreflektiert wird. Dies heizt wiederum |
| 10288 |
die Sonnenflecken auf und verkürzt deren Zyklus. All dies wird sich in |
| 10289 |
den nächten Monaten so aufschaukeln, daß vorraussichtlich im Novemner |
| 10290 |
2002 das Erdmagnetfeld zusammenbrechen wird. Wie damals bei den Dinos. |
| 10291 |
Nur war dort ein Kometeneinschlag die Ursache. |
| 10292 |
|
| 10293 |
cu in hell 2002 |
| 10294 |
% |
| 10295 |
"Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '85, Windows '95" |
| 10296 |
% |
| 10297 |
>In unix, one might say 'man 3 crypt'. |
| 10298 |
|
| 10299 |
Of course, on a Solaris system this won't give you what you want. You |
| 10300 |
get a message that it can't find the man page for 3. It then prints |
| 10301 |
the man page for crypt(1). |
| 10302 |
|
| 10303 |
Of course, all a beginner has to do is figure out that the 3 is the |
| 10304 |
section number in the Unix manual. He can then use man man to find |
| 10305 |
that on Solaris one uses -s to specify the section so he'll try |
| 10306 |
|
| 10307 |
man -s3 crypt |
| 10308 |
|
| 10309 |
Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. He'll get the message "No |
| 10310 |
entry for crypt in section(s) 3 of the manual." |
| 10311 |
|
| 10312 |
If he doesn't give up, he can go back to the manual page for man and |
| 10313 |
find that the -a switch prints all matching manual pages. Or perhaps |
| 10314 |
he can figure out to use the command |
| 10315 |
|
| 10316 |
man -s3 Intro.3 |
| 10317 |
|
| 10318 |
to get a list of everything in section 3. He'll then find out that |
| 10319 |
crypt is in section 3C so he should use |
| 10320 |
|
| 10321 |
man -s3c crypt |
| 10322 |
|
| 10323 |
Gee. I don't understand why beginners have so much trouble with this |
| 10324 |
stuff. I've only been programming Unix for 15 years and I don't have |
| 10325 |
any trouble. |
| 10326 |
-- |
| 10327 |
Michael M Rubenstein |
| 10328 |
% |
| 10329 |
Take a moment to consider these lines: |
| 10330 |
|
| 10331 |
%OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } ); |
| 10332 |
|
| 10333 |
sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; } |
| 10334 |
|
| 10335 |
:-) I *love* Perl 5! Thankyou Larry and Ilya. |
| 10336 |
|
| 10337 |
Regards, |
| 10338 |
Tim Bunce. |
| 10339 |
|
| 10340 |
p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html()) |
| 10341 |
p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two. |
| 10342 |
p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug? |
| 10343 |
% |
| 10344 |
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) |
| 10345 |
|
| 10346 |
... |
| 10347 |
|
| 10348 |
> now is evil". This only shows two things: you never looked at the bad |
| 10349 |
> experiences of the industry where following a rotten design and |
| 10350 |
> keeping backward compatibility lead to unusable systems. And second: |
| 10351 |
|
| 10352 |
I worked for 3com. I know eveyrhting about following a rotten design until |
| 10353 |
its unusable, believe me I do. |
| 10354 |
% |
| 10355 |
Ok(slow) -> !NeedComputer |
| 10356 |
|
| 10357 |
Semour Cray |
| 10358 |
% |
| 10359 |
Ullrich Jans at University of Karlsruhe, Germany: |
| 10360 |
|
| 10361 |
Oh Gott! Es ist voller crons! |
| 10362 |
% |
| 10363 |
From: p00h <p00h@MONMOUTH.COM> |
| 10364 |
Subject: Re: AOL for Windows DoS/Exploit |
| 10365 |
|
| 10366 |
aol supports PARTIAL html, its like win95's implementation of tcp/ip |
| 10367 |
it only supports parts of it |
| 10368 |
% |
| 10369 |
egcs/gcc/gcse.c: |
| 10370 |
/* Help stamp out big monolithic functions! */ |
| 10371 |
% |
| 10372 |
[...] Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Especially regarding HPPA assembler syntax |
| 10373 |
as provided by HP, which was designed by someone who should not have been |
| 10374 |
let near a language-design project like that, too often "little languages", |
| 10375 |
whether assemblers, tools, or C++, are designed by people who are unaware |
| 10376 |
of, or give little thought to, the outright readability of code written in |
| 10377 |
the language, in the sense that the basic semantics should be fairly obvious |
| 10378 |
*without* the reader having to memorize lots of semantic information. |
| 10379 |
|
| 10380 |
(In HPPA assembler's case, one glaring stupidity was the nullified branches, |
| 10381 |
which have completely different semantics depending on whether the label |
| 10382 |
being branched to happens to assemble to a negative or positive offset! A |
| 10383 |
smarter design would have required the programmer to specify whether such a |
| 10384 |
branch was a "forward" or "backward" branch explicitly, then the assembler |
| 10385 |
and/or linker would complain if reality didn't match the programmer's |
| 10386 |
specification. I've never looked into whether GNU's HPPA as fixes this |
| 10387 |
botch; I gather GNU as fixes many botches, though, so it wouldn't surprise |
| 10388 |
me if it did, even though that might make for some compatibility problems |
| 10389 |
with existing HP as code.) [...] |
| 10390 |
|
| 10391 |
tq vm, (burley) |
| 10392 |
% |
| 10393 |
libc/posix/regex.h: |
| 10394 |
/* The following two types have to be signed and unsigned integer type |
| 10395 |
wide enough to hold a value of a pointer. For most ANSI compilers |
| 10396 |
ptrdiff_t and size_t should be likely OK. Still size of these two |
| 10397 |
types is 2 for Microsoft C. Ugh... */ |
| 10398 |
typedef long int s_reg_t; |
| 10399 |
typedef unsigned long int active_reg_t; |
| 10400 |
% |
| 10401 |
libc/db2/db.h: |
| 10402 |
/* |
| 10403 |
* While Microsoft's compiler is ANSI C compliant, it doesn't have _STDC_ |
| 10404 |
* defined by default, you specify a command line flag or #pragma to turn |
| 10405 |
* it on. Don't do that, however, because some of Microsoft's own header |
| 10406 |
* files won't compile. |
| 10407 |
*/ |
| 10408 |
% |
| 10409 |
> UTC variation and begining and ending dates of DST (if observed) would be |
| 10410 |
> great. |
| 10411 |
|
| 10412 |
I answered only the places I can comment on. |
| 10413 |
|
| 10414 |
> BASSAS DA INDIA |
| 10415 |
|
| 10416 |
This rock is below water half of the time! |
| 10417 |
If any inhabitants have been there, I do not think they observe DST |
| 10418 |
on a regular basis! ;-) |
| 10419 |
% |
| 10420 |
# ./test-plugin.pl |
| 10421 |
Bizarre copy of CODE in sassign at /root/.gimp/plug-ins/test-plugin.pl line 40. |
| 10422 |
wire_read: unexpected EOF (plug-in crashed?) |
| 10423 |
% |
| 10424 |
> |
| 10425 |
> The "where do you want to go today?" generation has taken the |
| 10426 |
> developer out of the "programmer" by removing the vital, development |
| 10427 |
> tools from the environment and precanning software. |
| 10428 |
|
| 10429 |
No kidding. Point. Click. Point. Click. Point. Click. Brain Atrophy. |
| 10430 |
% |
| 10431 |
Lars Chr Hausmann <36haus@but.auc.dk> writes: |
| 10432 |
|
| 10433 |
>Hello! |
| 10434 |
|
| 10435 |
>I have to write something about, what Perl is. |
| 10436 |
>I need some crystal clear info about, what perl is. So if any of you |
| 10437 |
>would be so kind just to mail. Then I would be grateful! |
| 10438 |
|
| 10439 |
|
| 10440 |
Perl. |
| 10441 |
|
| 10442 |
regards |
| 10443 |
jobst |
| 10444 |
% |
| 10445 |
Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86MX and Centaur C6 CPUs in 2.1.102 |
| 10446 |
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) |
| 10447 |
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:31:02 +0100 (BST) |
| 10448 |
|
| 10449 |
> Well, that depends. They SHOULD be. By Intel 'standards' *laff*, they have |
| 10450 |
> to be identical stepping, indicating identical features. However, I've |
| 10451 |
|
| 10452 |
They don't. Pentiums have fairly strict rules, P6/PII much less. Also Intel |
| 10453 |
are pretty good at following the MP 1.1/1.4 standard its the motherboard |
| 10454 |
makers who get it wrong - primarily the BIOS is full of bugs. It appears |
| 10455 |
nobody tests bios code against specs any more. It looks like they do |
| 10456 |
compile flash, boot 95, boot NT, ship. The quality of bios code has dived to |
| 10457 |
the absolute pits. |
| 10458 |
% |
| 10459 |
Unix never says `Please.' -- Rob Pike |
| 10460 |
% |
| 10461 |
> What about: . scriptname |
| 10462 |
> ------------------^ this is a dot! |
| 10463 |
|
| 10464 |
Funny, it looks like a "p" to me. |
| 10465 |
% |
| 10466 |
A computer without Microsoft and IBM is like chocolate cake without |
| 10467 |
ketchup and mustard |
| 10468 |
% |
| 10469 |
Subject: Re: Challange for perl `GURUS |
| 10470 |
|
| 10471 |
vimal gajjar wrote: |
| 10472 |
> |
| 10473 |
> Hi there, |
| 10474 |
> Here is a small challange. Is it possible to have a perl |
| 10475 |
> code which takes e.g. three parameters as input. time, val1, val2. and |
| 10476 |
> the name of the prog. is say challange.pl. Now if i execute |
| 10477 |
> "challange.pl 10 5 2" this perl script wille consume |
| 10478 |
> 5% of cpu |
| 10479 |
> 2 Mb of RAM |
| 10480 |
> for the period of 10 Seconds. |
| 10481 |
> |
| 10482 |
> can one of the gurus take this challange? |
| 10483 |
|
| 10484 |
Examining the 5 copies of this post has consumed 5% of the |
| 10485 |
brain power I allocate to reviewing c.l.p.m, about 10 seconds, and |
| 10486 |
has caused the death of 2 million brain cells. |
| 10487 |
% |
| 10488 |
> >> /A:You can usually write the program faster than you can |
| 10489 |
> >> dial/dl/hangup/install/read docs/fix it/fix the fix/. |
| 10490 |
> |
| 10491 |
> >s/usually/never/ |
| 10492 |
> |
| 10493 |
> s/sometimes/never/ |
| 10494 |
|
| 10495 |
Cute. You embarrass yourself by your ignorance of perl. |
| 10496 |
% |
| 10497 |
:That's probably true, but I really can't speak to it. But, if there |
| 10498 |
:were no *nix around, there'd be no Perl. Nor would there be a need for |
| 10499 |
:Perl, IMO. |
| 10500 |
|
| 10501 |
Gotta love them JCL and ini dot bat dot bad dot doo dah files. |
| 10502 |
|
| 10503 |
TC |
| 10504 |
% |
| 10505 |
'cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail.' |
| 10506 |
% |
| 10507 |
shurik@iron.Te.NeT.UA - Alexandr Dubovikov at TeNeT Networking Centre |
| 10508 |
|
| 10509 |
Hi guys! |
| 10510 |
|
| 10511 |
How check socket, alive it or die ? |
| 10512 |
% |
| 10513 |
--> Questions not to ask on linux-kernel <-- |
| 10514 |
|
| 10515 |
Miscellaneous flame-wars: |
| 10516 |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 10517 |
12) The gnome-kde debate does not belong on linux-kernel. |
| 10518 |
13) The emacs-vi debate does not belong on linux-kernel. |
| 10519 |
14) Porting linux to run under windows is not interesting. |
| 10520 |
15) Whether a given intel CISC chip "is really RISC" is not interesting. |
| 10521 |
% |
| 10522 |
Subject: what a week! |
| 10523 |
From: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu> |
| 10524 |
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 03:13:23 -0400 (EDT) |
| 10525 |
|
| 10526 |
unicode, boot-logos, GGI, STREAMS, the necessity of a short devel cycle |
| 10527 |
and the instability of 2.0.x, "ifconfig stopped working", "you really *do* |
| 10528 |
need to remove 'encaps'", Linus' tarball practices... it seems like we're |
| 10529 |
running out of things to flame off on. Here's my humble contribution: |
| 10530 |
|
| 10531 |
I'VE MADE A KEWL NEW CHARSET THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD USE. IT HAS ALL |
| 10532 |
THE LETTERS IN MY LOGIN MAPPED TO THE LOWEST 16 CHARACTERS SO WE CAN |
| 10533 |
COMPRESS THINGS REAL GOOD AND THE LETTERS IN MY BROTHER B1FF'S NAME ARE |
| 10534 |
ALL IN HIGH ASCII CUZ THAT'S WHERE LOSERS BELONG!!!2!!7 |
| 10535 |
|
| 10536 |
I ONLY USE EMACS AND I THINK VI SUX!!$231!! |
| 10537 |
|
| 10538 |
GNOME RULES AND KDE IS DEMON-SPAWN BECAUSE IT IS NOT FREE.! ! |
| 10539 |
|
| 10540 |
WE NEED KGI IN THE KERNEL (NOT LIBGGI, NOT THE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS |
| 10541 |
WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED) IN ORDER TO HAVE WAY KEWL BOOT LOGOS AND RUN MY |
| 10542 |
BROTHER B1FF'S GAMES!!1!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!11!!! |
| 10543 |
|
| 10544 |
I USE A BIG-ENDIAN MACHINE BECAUSE THEY RULE. LITTLE-ENDIAN MACHINES ARE |
| 10545 |
EVIL. AND A PENTIUM *IS* A RISC PROCESSOR!!! |
| 10546 |
|
| 10547 |
WE SHOULD PORT LINUX TO WINDOWS SO WE CAN USE ALL THE KEWL HARDWARE |
| 10548 |
DRIVERS!!!!!@@#! |
| 10549 |
|
| 10550 |
Did I miss any? ;-) |
| 10551 |
|
| 10552 |
*Please* don't respond seriously to this email. It's a joke. A joke. |
| 10553 |
Laugh. Please. |
| 10554 |
|
| 10555 |
And then let's kill all the flaming threads, shall we? |
| 10556 |
--Scott |
| 10557 |
% |
| 10558 |
> Well, /proc/kcore already reports its actual size... |
| 10559 |
|
| 10560 |
And it isn't about to change at runtime either. That is the size of |
| 10561 |
installed memory. I've yet to see a single person successfully insert or |
| 10562 |
remove a SIMM/DIMM while a machine was running. If they did, and it was |
| 10563 |
successful, the linux code will update the filesize. ;o) |
| 10564 |
% |
| 10565 |
Toby Heywood (toby@he-net.demon.co.uk) wrote: |
| 10566 |
: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. |
| 10567 |
|
| 10568 |
One of those 'M's stands for Mail. |
| 10569 |
|
| 10570 |
This is not mail. |
| 10571 |
|
| 10572 |
This is Usenet. |
| 10573 |
|
| 10574 |
Please post only plain text like everyone else does. |
| 10575 |
% |
| 10576 |
------------ etienne.lorrain@ibm.net |
| 10577 |
--- hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } |
| 10578 |
--- ide1: reset: success |
| 10579 |
-----------> I like Linux ! |
| 10580 |
% |
| 10581 |
> I have experienced people walking up to my console and saying "What |
| 10582 |
> the hell does that mean" in sheer terror as the machine boots. |
| 10583 |
|
| 10584 |
Tell them it's magic, and earn the respect of your colleagues. I always |
| 10585 |
do. |
| 10586 |
% |
| 10587 |
++ Actually, I'm not at a loss for words. Here's one that's very appropriate: |
| 10588 |
++ PLONK. |
| 10589 |
% |
| 10590 |
++ > SSI is *not* HTML. |
| 10591 |
Re: Subraumfunk |
| 10592 |
|
| 10593 |
Ja, ein Handy waere da praktisch. Die hoeheren Gebuehren rechnen sich, |
| 10594 |
wenn man ueber die Grenzen des Sonnensystems hinaus telefonieren will. |
| 10595 |
|
| 10596 |
Die Telekom wuerde da wieder mal erbarmungslos abzocken. Ich kann es |
| 10597 |
mir schon vorstellen: SunSystem-Tarif, vielleicht auch einen |
| 10598 |
InnerPlanets-Sondertarif, dann einen LocalGroupWeekend-Specialtarif, |
| 10599 |
eine Supercluster-Zone und so weiter. Und wenn es auf der Venus |
| 10600 |
schneit, telefonieren alle fuer die Haelfte. |
| 10601 |
% |
| 10602 |
> > Vergiss es. Du wirst nie und nimmer von Armando eine |
| 10603 |
> > konkrete, verwertbare Antwort bekommen. |
| 10604 |
> |
| 10605 |
> Doch, man bekommt von mir sogar sehr viele Antworten. |
| 10606 |
|
| 10607 |
Du hast gerade zwei Adjektive weggelassen. |
| 10608 |
% |
| 10609 |
++ Oh yeah. Show me an example of SSI used outside of HTML. |
| 10610 |
Show me an HTML DTD mentioning SSI directives. |
| 10611 |
% |
| 10612 |
Namsuk Kim wrote: |
| 10613 |
> Is there a way to convert a scalar data to Acii data format? |
| 10614 |
|
| 10615 |
I am not familar with ACII. If you mean ASCII, then the question I have is |
| 10616 |
- is the data in EBCDIC now? |
| 10617 |
|
| 10618 |
Bill Jones |
| 10619 |
% |
| 10620 |
GNU/getopt.c: |
| 10621 |
|
| 10622 |
#if defined (WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN32__) |
| 10623 |
/* It's not Unix, really. See? Capital letters. */ |
| 10624 |
#include <windows.h> |
| 10625 |
#define getpid() GetCurrentProcessId() |
| 10626 |
#endif |
| 10627 |
% |
| 10628 |
Subject: IIS 4.0, PW32i316, CGI Programs |
| 10629 |
|
| 10630 |
Perlis.dll does not pass command line arguments correctly via the web. That |
| 10631 |
is, invoking the URL |
| 10632 |
|
| 10633 |
http://www.myserver.com/myprogram.pl?Argument1&Argument2...&Argumentn |
| 10634 |
|
| 10635 |
causes the myprogram.pl to execute, but @ARGV is empty. |
| 10636 |
% |
| 10637 |
"You need to use CGI." |
| 10638 |
"I am using CGI, it's a CGI application!" |
| 10639 |
"No, no, *use* CGI. The directive 'use'." |
| 10640 |
"OK, so what directive do I use?" |
| 10641 |
"No, no, you *use* *use*. Use CGI." |
| 10642 |
"I *am* using CGI!" |
| 10643 |
|
| 10644 |
Craig Berry - cberry@cinenet.net |
| 10645 |
% |
| 10646 |
> > Was haltet Ihr von Killfile-mailing-lists, dass sich die Leute mal |
| 10647 |
> > kennenlernen koennen? |
| 10648 |
> |
| 10649 |
> Gute Idee ;-), wäre ich sofort dabei, datrifft man wahrscheinlich ne |
| 10650 |
> Menge tolle Leute... ;-) und die wahren Freidenker. |
| 10651 |
|
| 10652 |
Einige Freidenker sicher, aber auch etliche Denkfreie. |
| 10653 |
% |
| 10654 |
"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big or |
| 10655 |
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds 1991 |
| 10656 |
% |
| 10657 |
If it's a floppy, it might be a copy. |
| 10658 |
If it's a disk, you're also at risk. |
| 10659 |
If it's a pirate, the vendors are irate. |
| 10660 |
To avoid such frustration, try: Free Software Foundation. |
| 10661 |
% |
| 10662 |
From: David Woodhouse <Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk> |
| 10663 |
|
| 10664 |
pcg@goof.com said: |
| 10665 |
> It was much more than I usally get! It was _great_ |
| 10666 |
|
| 10667 |
Hehe - I know the feeling. |
| 10668 |
|
| 10669 |
"It's broken." |
| 10670 |
"What's wrong with it?." |
| 10671 |
"I don't know - it just doesn't work." |
| 10672 |
"Well what do you mean by 'it's broken'?" |
| 10673 |
"It just doesn't work." |
| 10674 |
"How can you _tell_ it's broken, for f***'s sake - what are the symptoms!?" |
| 10675 |
"It gives an error message." |
| 10676 |
"Would you care to tell me what it says?" |
| 10677 |
"It says.... something about there being an error." |
| 10678 |
"That's not very helpful. Tell me it word for word." |
| 10679 |
"It says 'Unable to handle kernel NULL reference at something or other'" |
| 10680 |
"That's not word for word. It said 'NULL pointer dereference.' Try again, |
| 10681 |
letter for letter this time." |
| 10682 |
% |
| 10683 |
From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@INTRANET.CSUPOMONA.EDU> |
| 10684 |
|
| 10685 |
After installing Solaris 2.6 HW3/98, I discovered that /usr/bin/admintool |
| 10686 |
had been installed mode 0777, world writable. Under the original release of |
| 10687 |
2.6, the mode was 04555. |
| 10688 |
|
| 10689 |
Sun has been notified of the problem. If you're running 2.6 HW3/98, you |
| 10690 |
might want to verify your admintool hasn't been tampered with and fix the |
| 10691 |
perms. |
| 10692 |
|
| 10693 |
(Personally, I'd set them to 0000 ;). admintool? blech.) |
| 10694 |
% |
| 10695 |
From: verah@netscape.com (Vera Horiuchi) |
| 10696 |
Subject: Re: Risp: drama (Re: Do It Yourself) |
| 10697 |
|
| 10698 |
Americans ignorant of the rest of the world? |
| 10699 |
|
| 10700 |
I must tell a favorite story here. A friend and I were purchasing a gift |
| 10701 |
for another friend who lives in Canada. I was speculating out loud about |
| 10702 |
how much duty our Canadian friend would have to pay. |
| 10703 |
|
| 10704 |
The cashier said, "Oh, I'm sure Canadians don't have to pay any duty. We |
| 10705 |
ship to Hawaii all the time, and _they_ don't have to pay duty." =:-0 |
| 10706 |
% |
| 10707 |
>am besten ist z.Z. das Buch von Michael Neufeld. Wer aber Wissenslücken |
| 10708 |
>verspürt (was keine Schande ist), sollte diese zu stopfen suchen und nicht |
| 10709 |
>Zuflucht zu absolut hirnrissigen Theorien suchen. |
| 10710 |
|
| 10711 |
Hirnrissig bist Du. Das es einen Zeittransfer aus der Zukunft zu den Nazis |
| 10712 |
gab deckt sich mit dazu passenden Entschluesselungen bestimmter Bibelstellen |
| 10713 |
und mit der dann tatsaechlichen notwendigen Geheimhaltung. Es deckt sich |
| 10714 |
ueberdies damit, dass die Unterhaltung uns den Gedanken zunehmend nahelegt, |
| 10715 |
also vorbereitet, und dass es bereits ein wissenschaftliches Experiment gab, |
| 10716 |
bei dem ERST die Wirkung auftrat und DANN die Ursache. Die Zeitreise ist |
| 10717 |
also Fakt. Und es ist sicher, dass Jemand per Zeitreise den Nazis helfen |
| 10718 |
wollte. Gelegentliche Theorien, dass auch diese ausserirdische Hilfe gehabt |
| 10719 |
haetten sollen nur davon ablenken, eine andere Erklaerung liefern. Das ist |
| 10720 |
logisch, denn die Taeter sitzen ja irgendwo in unserer Zeit und moechten |
| 10721 |
sicher nicht erkannt werden. |
| 10722 |
|
| 10723 |
Du scheinst die simpelsten Grundzuege der Zeitlogik nicht verstehen zu wollen. |
| 10724 |
|
| 10725 |
normarz@aol.com |
| 10726 |
% |
| 10727 |
>Oder anders gesagt: |
| 10728 |
>Glaubst Du, Du könntest mit einem hochmodernen Maschinengewehr eine römische |
| 10729 |
>Legion |
| 10730 |
>schlagen? |
| 10731 |
|
| 10732 |
Klar. Frage mal Cortez. |
| 10733 |
|
| 10734 |
Bye |
| 10735 |
Andreas |
| 10736 |
% |
| 10737 |
>Article 2B is a threat to anyone who uses a computer. I just wanted to |
| 10738 |
|
| 10739 |
It may be a threat to any american using a computer. Fortunately, the U.S. |
| 10740 |
justice does not yet apply outside the U.S.A. |
| 10741 |
|
| 10742 |
I.a.W.: You're currently creating a lot of happy non-U.S. software |
| 10743 |
companies. |
| 10744 |
|
| 10745 |
Kind regards |
| 10746 |
Henning |
| 10747 |
% |
| 10748 |
From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> |
| 10749 |
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700 |
| 10750 |
Subject: Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits |
| 10751 |
|
| 10752 |
At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly |
| 10753 |
into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine |
| 10754 |
for reading [...] CD and the [not] copy protected sections of the DVD's. |
| 10755 |
|
| 10756 |
There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to |
| 10757 |
tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should |
| 10758 |
be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been |
| 10759 |
told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a |
| 10760 |
standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and |
| 10761 |
make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot |
| 10762 |
that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of |
| 10763 |
hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political |
| 10764 |
issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the |
| 10765 |
computer equipment that you bought and paid for.) |
| 10766 |
% |
| 10767 |
Where do you want to go today? |
| 10768 |
We might support that sometime next year. |
| 10769 |
-=- Microsoft |
| 10770 |
(But I doubt it.) |
| 10771 |
-=- Me |
| 10772 |
-=- James Mastros |
| 10773 |
% |
| 10774 |
Hello570 <hello570@aol.com> wrote: |
| 10775 |
> I tried printing a line to a file using both of the |
| 10776 |
> following methods, but the output was split into two |
| 10777 |
>lines. |
| 10778 |
|
| 10779 |
If you don't want newlines in the middle of your string, then don't |
| 10780 |
put newlines in the middle of your string. |
| 10781 |
% |
| 10782 |
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post |
| 10783 |
% |
| 10784 |
Einstein himself said that God doesn't roll dice. But he was wrong. And |
| 10785 |
in fact, anyone who has played role-playing games knows that God |
| 10786 |
probably had to roll quite a few dice to come up with a character like |
| 10787 |
Einstein. -- Larry Wall |
| 10788 |
% |
| 10789 |
From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <root@lightside.ddns.org> |
| 10790 |
|
| 10791 |
My $0.02 Euros on internationalization? I'm in Spain and my keyboard is |
| 10792 |
mosty US mapped because the Spanish map is really awkward for programming. |
| 10793 |
Computers were designed to be funcional, not politically (or locally) |
| 10794 |
correct (hm, I don't think HAL ever spoke Russian). This "computers are easy |
| 10795 |
for all" GUI related trend has done a lot of money, and lot of damage; at |
| 10796 |
least command line OSes forced the user to actually learn something and |
| 10797 |
absorb information. The user assumed so, so he did. Now he doesn't, and |
| 10798 |
it's not all his fault. |
| 10799 |
|
| 10800 |
The WWW is full of useless (and ugly) graphics, of useless links to links to |
| 10801 |
pages with links to links which usually end up in a huge links page. Of |
| 10802 |
course, there are some jewels.. but they should be majority! It's |
| 10803 |
understandable, when the tools and languages focus more on aspect that in |
| 10804 |
content. |
| 10805 |
|
| 10806 |
Usenet is worse than ever, the interesting places have been ruined by |
| 10807 |
spammers, c00l hak3rz, and more and more people asking (or demanding) for |
| 10808 |
others doing their homework.. at least some time ago they were willing to |
| 10809 |
learn (or pay for it;) |
| 10810 |
|
| 10811 |
IRC.. heh. The few times I've been on funet almost all I found is the same |
| 10812 |
people in the above paragraph. And I do know some of them even run scripts |
| 10813 |
to try denial of service or other destructive attacks on people they see, |
| 10814 |
just for fun or to get the op. |
| 10815 |
|
| 10816 |
Email. Someone selling an "incredible program that allows you to bypass |
| 10817 |
your ISP mail server, for only $89" (thats right, a smtp server). No OS |
| 10818 |
mentioned, I somehow can guess which. And that stupid thing of sending |
| 10819 |
mail to people in RTF and HTML format.. I'm gonna answer them in LaTeX. |
| 10820 |
|
| 10821 |
Internet, your ilimited junk yard. |
| 10822 |
|
| 10823 |
Using computers would make me real sad if it wasn't for UNIX and, of |
| 10824 |
course, Linux and Linux people. |
| 10825 |
% |
| 10826 |
... WNT == ++VMS . Literally. Dave Cutler created VMS, |
| 10827 |
then he rewrote it as WNT. |
| 10828 |
|
| 10829 |
Ever used VMS? It's a step above DOS. Barely. |
| 10830 |
-- |
| 10831 |
Clark O. Morgan cmorgan@aracnet.com |
| 10832 |
% |
| 10833 |
>Subject: If "=~" means match what is doesn't match? |
| 10834 |
|
| 10835 |
I heard that a friend of a friend might have once been told about a |
| 10836 |
rumor that this information can be found in perlop, right next to |
| 10837 |
where =~ is documented. (It's !~) |
| 10838 |
|
| 10839 |
I agree with Tom's assessment that the fall of modern man will be |
| 10840 |
preceded by the de-evolution of communications to the days of oral |
| 10841 |
tradition. |
| 10842 |
% |
| 10843 |
"Windows 95, the most installed system in the world, |
| 10844 |
I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself" |
| 10845 |
% |
| 10846 |
The statistics programming language S, from AT&T, combines lazy |
| 10847 |
evaluation with imperative programming. A nightmare. |
| 10848 |
% |
| 10849 |
"In 1965, as part of a research and development project for the |
| 10850 |
U.S. Army, engineers at TRW Corp developed a software program |
| 10851 |
called Generalized Information Retrieval Lanaguage and System." |
| 10852 |
Or GIRLS for short. |
| 10853 |
% |
| 10854 |
Wissen bremst die Meinungsbildung voll aus. |
| 10855 |
% |
| 10856 |
I have an idea: Anybody who posts an URGENT! or EMERGENCY! request should |
| 10857 |
post the circumstances behind the urgency. "I was having sex with my |
| 10858 |
mistress in the server room and I knocked the Linux box over and the hard |
| 10859 |
drive crashed and so I've reinstalled everything but I still can't get |
| 10860 |
5_004_03 to build!" |
| 10861 |
|
| 10862 |
This would inspire me to action far more than the implied subtext of "I |
| 10863 |
have no patience." |
| 10864 |
|
| 10865 |
xoxo, |
| 10866 |
Andy |
| 10867 |
% |
| 10868 |
> I have Perl5 running on my pc. |
| 10869 |
> and also front page98 and microsoft personal web server runnig. |
| 10870 |
We all have our cross to bear. |
| 10871 |
% |
| 10872 |
(THIS IS LONG, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP) |
| 10873 |
|
| 10874 |
From: mjd@plover.com (Mark-Jason Dominus) |
| 10875 |
Date: 09 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT |
| 10876 |
Subject: Re: system() question |
| 10877 |
|
| 10878 |
There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and |
| 10879 |
over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot |
| 10880 |
are: Questions are incoherently phrased. Questions have the form 'My |
| 10881 |
code doesn't work' and don't include the code. Questions include the |
| 10882 |
code, and it's 200 lines long, and comp.lang.perl is not a debugging |
| 10883 |
service. Nobody knows the answer to the question. The question is so |
| 10884 |
badly punctuated that nobody can bear to read it. Questions aer |
| 10885 |
written by a non-native speaker of English and the native speakers who |
| 10886 |
are trying to understand it can't. (That's a shame, but it does |
| 10887 |
happen. I often wish that these people would post in their native |
| 10888 |
languages. I'd love to see more discussion in languages other than |
| 10889 |
English. Some Dutch guy tried posting all his comp.lang.c articles in |
| 10890 |
Dutch a few years ago, and all the Americans flamed him. How |
| 10891 |
humiliating for me!) |
| 10892 |
|
| 10893 |
Apart from these oft-mentioned reasons are many others that are |
| 10894 |
not so often discussed, because anyone who tries to bring them up gets |
| 10895 |
flamed. But it's the truth: I know the reason I don't answer more |
| 10896 |
questions is because so many of them questions are so damn stupid. |
| 10897 |
They're stupid in a lot of different ways, but they're still stupid. |
| 10898 |
I don't want to suggest that that's why your questions go unanswered. |
| 10899 |
I don't know what you're asking. No doubt the reason your questions |
| 10900 |
go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody |
| 10901 |
really knows the answer. |
| 10902 |
|
| 10903 |
The most common stupid question is the one from someone who has |
| 10904 |
some high-level problem that they need solved. They have an idea that |
| 10905 |
they'd like to do it in perl, and they don't really know perl. So |
| 10906 |
instead of learning perl, they post to comp.lang.perl.misc. |
| 10907 |
|
| 10908 |
Now don't get me wrong. I don't have any problems answering the |
| 10909 |
questions of someone who's trying to learn perl. I love THOSE |
| 10910 |
qusetions. But these people don't seem to be asking useful questions |
| 10911 |
for that. |
| 10912 |
|
| 10913 |
Today, for example, I saw a question from a guy who wants to get a |
| 10914 |
list of hostnames out of nslookup. `How do I do that?' he says. And |
| 10915 |
it's hard to know what to make of that. What does he mean? Does he |
| 10916 |
not know how to open a pipe? Is his en' command failing? What's |
| 10917 |
going on here? I can't give a useful answer without understanding the |
| 10918 |
problem. Having your en' fail is a problem. Wanting to list |
| 10919 |
hostnames is not a problem; it's a desire. |
| 10920 |
|
| 10921 |
Here are some similar questions that would have made more sense to me: |
| 10922 |
|
| 10923 |
1. `I'm a lazy asshole and I can't be bothered to learn to |
| 10924 |
program myself, but I know if I post here you'll give me |
| 10925 |
something for free.'' |
| 10926 |
|
| 10927 |
(OK, fair enough. At least I can send him a rate card.) |
| 10928 |
|
| 10929 |
2. `I'm trying to use en' to talk to nslookup, but... |
| 10930 |
...here's my code; what's wrong?'' |
| 10931 |
|
| 10932 |
(Good question.) |
| 10933 |
|
| 10934 |
3. `I know perl has a `System' command for running programs, |
| 10935 |
but I can't see how to get my commands into nslookup |
| 10936 |
once I have run it.'' |
| 10937 |
(Good question.) |
| 10938 |
|
| 10939 |
4. `I'm trying to use `Getprotobynumber' to talk to nslookup...'' |
| 10940 |
|
| 10941 |
(Good question.) |
| 10942 |
|
| 10943 |
See, I'm not just biting people's heads off, here. #4 is a good |
| 10944 |
question, because it gives me something to work with. OK, he has a |
| 10945 |
very weird idea about interprocess communication, but that's |
| 10946 |
ignorance, and that's what we're here to correct. He doesn't know |
| 10947 |
about en'; I can refer him to the manual. |
| 10948 |
|
| 10949 |
Here's another example: Some guy wants to assemble a list of email |
| 10950 |
addresses . `How do I do that?'' he wants to know. Well, duh. Get a |
| 10951 |
big pad of paper and read news for a couple days and write down all |
| 10952 |
the addresses you see. Problem solved. What's it doing in |
| 10953 |
comp.lang.perl? |
| 10954 |
Oh, you wanted to do it in perl. Well, I guess I'd open a socket |
| 10955 |
to the NNTP server and send it some XHDR commands for the `From' |
| 10956 |
lines. But that's not Perl; you could do that in any language. I |
| 10957 |
could do it in Bourne Shell for you if I'm allowed to use a little |
| 10958 |
external thingie to handle the socket parts for me. What's it doing |
| 10959 |
in comp.lang.perl? |
| 10960 |
|
| 10961 |
Oh, you wanted us to write the program for you? Wait, let me send |
| 10962 |
you my rate card. |
| 10963 |
|
| 10964 |
Someone posted yesterday asking how to get the data from a file where |
| 10965 |
the start and end of the data is marked by keywords. Same thing going on |
| 10966 |
here. `Well, here's how you solve your problem: First you go take an |
| 10967 |
introductory class in programming and learn to write programs in some |
| 10968 |
language. Then you go to the bookstore and buy this book by Wall and |
| 10969 |
Schwartz, it's really good. Read the book carefully and try out the |
| 10970 |
examples. Then if you still have general questions like `How do I do this' |
| 10971 |
instead of thought that this code would do X but instead it does Y' you hire |
| 10972 |
a professional to write your program for you. Or you could just skip right |
| 10973 |
to step 3. Want my rate card?'' |
| 10974 |
|
| 10975 |
The worst stupid questions are the ones that come from people who |
| 10976 |
have no business asking them. The most perfect example of this that I |
| 10977 |
could have imagined was in comp.unix.questions a couple of years ago. |
| 10978 |
Some guy came and asked how you could tell if a file is a hard link. |
| 10979 |
My jaw flapped open and it's stayed open since then. I couldn't have |
| 10980 |
been any more stumped if he'd asked why Bodhidharma came from the |
| 10981 |
West. What do you say to this guy? Do you tell him the truth, that |
| 10982 |
all files are hard links, that even symbolic links are hard links? |
| 10983 |
He's not going to understand you; you might as well keep your mouth |
| 10984 |
shut. Do you tell him the truth, that the answer won't do him any |
| 10985 |
good because he doesn't know what a hard link is, so why did he bother |
| 10986 |
asking in the first place? No, that'll just make him mad. I followed |
| 10987 |
that message for the next couple weeks, and nobody said anything. |
| 10988 |
What could you say? The guy had no business asking the question and |
| 10989 |
no use for the answer. Maybe the right answer would have been to cut |
| 10990 |
off his finger or something. I dunno. |
| 10991 |
|
| 10992 |
Some questions get ignored because they're boring. Someone asked |
| 10993 |
today how to compare two variables (I assumme he means the contents of |
| 10994 |
those variables) to see if they're exactly the same. You've gotta be |
| 10995 |
in an awfully good mood to take the time to answer that. Maybe |
| 10996 |
someone will. Maybe I will. |
| 10997 |
|
| 10998 |
If I answer that one today, maybe he'll be back tomorrow asking |
| 10999 |
how to check to see if two variables contain different values. Maybe |
| 11000 |
I won't. What I find incredible is that if you tell these people to |
| 11001 |
go read the manual and come back in two weeks, you sometimes get |
| 11002 |
jumped on for not being helpful to beginners. Bah. If everyone told |
| 11003 |
these people to go read the manual, they'd eventually figure out that |
| 11004 |
that's what you have to do ,and then I wouldn't have to spend so much |
| 11005 |
of my life dealing with incompetent programmers. |
| 11006 |
|
| 11007 |
Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent |
| 11008 |
thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form |
| 11009 |
`How do I use X to accomplish Y?'' There's nothing wrong with this, |
| 11010 |
except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the |
| 11011 |
integration of European currency systems. I always get stuck on |
| 11012 |
these, probably because I can't get rid of the idea that the person |
| 11013 |
really has a good reason for wanting to use X. I know a half-dozen |
| 11014 |
easy simple ways to accomplish Y, but I can't imagine what X has to do |
| 11015 |
with it. This is a problem for me in my day job, too. Clients are |
| 11016 |
always saying to me `We want to use product X to do multimedia |
| 11017 |
development on the world-wide web,'' and all I can think is `Well, |
| 11018 |
gee, what would you want to go and do that for?'' Sometimes it turns |
| 11019 |
out that they want to do it because they want to impress the |
| 11020 |
manufacturers of X, and I don't work on those jobs. |
| 11021 |
|
| 11022 |
The flip side of this is a questions like `I want to accomplish |
| 11023 |
X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which, |
| 11024 |
again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a |
| 11025 |
filehandle and Y is the `Close' function. |
| 11026 |
|
| 11027 |
The questions I like the best are the ones that go like this: |
| 11028 |
|
| 11029 |
`I want to accomplish X. |
| 11030 |
|
| 11031 |
I thought that the following code fragment would do it: |
| 11032 |
|
| 11033 |
... |
| 11034 |
|
| 11035 |
But instead it does Y. |
| 11036 |
|
| 11037 |
Why is that?'' |
| 11038 |
|
| 11039 |
This one is also pretty good: |
| 11040 |
|
| 11041 |
`I want to accomplish X. |
| 11042 |
I thought I might be able to use facility Y. |
| 11043 |
|
| 11044 |
But Y doesn't seem like it's quite right, |
| 11045 |
because of Z. |
| 11046 |
|
| 11047 |
What should I use instead of Y, or how can I overcome Z?'' |
| 11048 |
|
| 11049 |
When I ignore these, it's usually because I don't know the answer. |
| 11050 |
There were an awful lot of them today. It makes me very happy. |
| 11051 |
|
| 11052 |
|
| 11053 |
There you go; a 160-line dissertation on why questions go unanswered. |
| 11054 |
Now don't let me hear you saying nobody ever answers your questions. |
| 11055 |
|
| 11056 |
-- |
| 11057 |
Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC |
| 11058 |
The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire |
| 11059 |
% |
| 11060 |
>> BTW, would it be easier to cope with international text using Python? |
| 11061 |
>Sigh... you're breaking my heart. Ask Jack Jansen, he probably knows. |
| 11062 |
|
| 11063 |
If I were really evel, I would point out that the newest TCL (8.1) has |
| 11064 |
support for international character sets and Unicode. But then, mentioning |
| 11065 |
TCL in this newsfroup would be really bad. So, of course, I don't do that. |
| 11066 |
|
| 11067 |
Ups. I'm so sorry ... ;-) |
| 11068 |
|
| 11069 |
bye, Georg |
| 11070 |
% |
| 11071 |
I personally do not believe in object orientation as a security model |
| 11072 |
(nor as a general programming paradigm), but feel free to try to |
| 11073 |
convince me. |
| 11074 |
|
| 11075 |
[ Or maybe I confuse you with somebody else and some other posting ] |
| 11076 |
|
| 11077 |
Linus |
| 11078 |
% |
| 11079 |
++ how can i strip new lines out at var. |
| 11080 |
++ |
| 11081 |
|
| 11082 |
Removing new lines is very tricky, as the manual tells you so. Ignore the |
| 11083 |
complicated things in the manual, and put in this neat little trick: |
| 11084 |
|
| 11085 |
$var=join+q,,,grep{ord$[[qq$\137$]]<10 or+10<ord}split+q,,,$var; |
| 11086 |
|
| 11087 |
If you're old enough not to read the manual, you won't have a problem |
| 11088 |
understanding the above line. |
| 11089 |
|
| 11090 |
Abigail |
| 11091 |
% |
| 11092 |
I fixed the problem by mounting the SCO volume on the SunOS box, and since |
| 11093 |
1995 the problem has gone away together with the SCO machine. |
| 11094 |
% |
| 11095 |
++ Hi Does anybody know how to upload many graphic files at the push of a |
| 11096 |
++ button? |
| 11097 |
Yes. |
| 11098 |
|
| 11099 |
++ 100 pictures or so? |
| 11100 |
Yes. |
| 11101 |
|
| 11102 |
++ Can I do it in Perl? |
| 11103 |
Yes. |
| 11104 |
|
| 11105 |
Your question isn't Perl specific. Please ask in the relevant |
| 11106 |
newsgroup. alt.button.play |
| 11107 |
|
| 11108 |
Abigail |
| 11109 |
% |
| 11110 |
perly gates - The way to perl; Enter hackerdom. |
| 11111 |
|
| 11112 |
perly Gates - Contradictio in Terminis. |
| 11113 |
|
| 11114 |
Martien |
| 11115 |
% |
| 11116 |
Ren hat weder von Sinnhaftigkeit noch von Kausalität geschrieben, sondern |
| 11117 |
nur von Logik. Logik und Kausalität sind in unserem (normalen) Denken zwar |
| 11118 |
eng miteinander verknüpft, sind aber nicht dasselbe. Sinn ist hingegen noch |
| 11119 |
etwas Drittes und ganz verschiedenes! "Sinn" bedeutet mindestens, daß eine |
| 11120 |
Sache eine gewisse Richtung hat, wie in "Uhrzeigersinn". Meistens bedeutet |
| 11121 |
Sinn aber, daß eine Sache einen bestimmten Zweck erfüllt. Auch darf man |
| 11122 |
nicht "verursachen" mit "begründen" verwechseln, weil die beiden |
| 11123 |
unterschiedlich sind. Die Existenz muß auch keinen Sinn haben, um eine |
| 11124 |
Ursache zu haben. Das sind zwei völlig voneinander unabhängige Sachen. Die |
| 11125 |
Existenz hat einen Sinn, also eine Richtung, wenn wir unserer Existenz eine |
| 11126 |
Richtung geben. Dieser Sinn kann auf etwas abzielen, was außerhalb unserer |
| 11127 |
selbst steht, muß aber nicht... Sie kann auch einen Sinn haben, der schon da |
| 11128 |
war, bevor wir uns danach ausgerichtet haben - von all dem schreibt Ren aber |
| 11129 |
nicht. ;) |
| 11130 |
|
| 11131 |
Worauf Ren wohl hinaus wollte, ist, daß wenn die Logik des begrenzten Raumes |
| 11132 |
nicht gilt, daß dann die Logik schlechthin hinfällig wird und so jedes Sein |
| 11133 |
fragwürdig wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall, da die Logik, die er von den |
| 11134 |
Grenzen des Raumes aufstellt, gar keine wirkliche Logik ist, sondern nur die |
| 11135 |
Grenzen des menschlichen Verstandes zeigt. Er kann sich nicht vorstellen, |
| 11136 |
daß außerhalb der Grenzen des Raumes "Nichts" ist, weil man sich als Mensch |
| 11137 |
das Nichts nicht vorstellen kann. |
| 11138 |
|
| 11139 |
Darüber hinaus meinte er, daß die "Existenz unlogisch" würde. Dieser Satz |
| 11140 |
ist vollkommen unverständlich. Denn entweder ist etwas, oder es ist nicht. |
| 11141 |
Das ist auch schon die ganze Logik einer Existenz. (Aristoteles: Satz vom |
| 11142 |
ausgeschlossenen Dritten) Unlogisch wäre, wenn etwas ist, das nicht ist oder |
| 11143 |
wenn etwas nicht ist, das ist. |
| 11144 |
|
| 11145 |
Von der Unfähigkeit des Menschen, sich einen unbegrenzten aber endlichen |
| 11146 |
Raum (oder wie auch immer der Weltraum nun aussieht) vorzustellen auf die |
| 11147 |
"Unlogik der Existenz" zu schließen, ist aber wohl nicht ganz möglich, zumal |
| 11148 |
eine Existenz nicht unlogisch sein kann. Was sollte das auch heißen? Daher |
| 11149 |
ist das Problem, das Ren aufwirft, nur ein Scheinproblem. Die Existenz an |
| 11150 |
sich wird nicht in Frage gestellt dadurch, daß man sich etwas - egal was - |
| 11151 |
nicht vorstellen kann. Er verwechselt die Begriffe "unlogisch" und |
| 11152 |
"unvorstellbar". |
| 11153 |
|
| 11154 |
Thomas.Decker@lrz.uni-muenchen.de |
| 11155 |
% |
| 11156 |
Marcel Richter wrote: |
| 11157 |
> Marcel Richter - IQ: 3538327 |
| 11158 |
^^^ |
| 11159 |
fehlt da nicht irgendwo ein Komma.... =?-) |
| 11160 |
% |
| 11161 |
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't |
| 11162 |
do anything for you. --Ken Thompson |
| 11163 |
% |
| 11164 |
linux-2.1.92/fs/autofs/root.c: |
| 11165 |
printk("autofs: trying to recover, but prepare for Armageddon\n"); |
| 11166 |
% |
| 11167 |
>>Vincent DiPietro, the discoverer of the face on mars, has thrown in |
| 11168 |
>>the towel, and said that the face on mars is a pile of rocks. |
| 11169 |
>Was sollte es denn sonst sein? |
| 11170 |
|
| 11171 |
An artificial pile of rocks. |
| 11172 |
% |
| 11173 |
> ps: mal nebenbei: eine unbekannte variable beim analysieren des |
| 11174 |
> marsgesichtes ist es, dass mensch gar nicht weiss, wie die lebende, |
| 11175 |
> gedachte oder sonstige vorlage eigentlich aussieht. dazu kommt natuerlich |
| 11176 |
> noch das fehlende wissen um die intention des "kuenstlers", ob er |
| 11177 |
> beispielsweise nur aspekte bzw. partien eines gesichtes integrieren wollte |
| 11178 |
> - und natuerlich, ob es ueberhaupt kunst ist:) |
| 11179 |
|
| 11180 |
Ganz genau. Und das Matterhorn ist eine palaeoimpressionistische Studie des |
| 11181 |
Geruchsorgans der Rasse der Ciabattanimalier. Aber das wussten hier |
| 11182 |
sicherlich schon alle. Das ganze Universum ist ausserdem eigentlich nur ein |
| 11183 |
grosser Flipperautomat. |
| 11184 |
|
| 11185 |
Christoph Schulte Moenting - ubec@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de |
| 11186 |
% |
| 11187 |
> Kris Weilemann schrieb |
| 11188 |
> |
| 11189 |
> >MIR ging es neulich aehnlich. Ich wurde von Ausserirdischen entfuehrt. |
| 11190 |
> >Ich wurde eingesperrt in einem dunklem Raum mit langen Sitzreihen und mit |
| 11191 |
> >einer Popcorn-artigen Substanz gefuettert. Nach 2 Stunden war alles |
| 11192 |
> >vorbei. Einen Tag spaeter stellte ich fest, dass mir 18 Mark im |
| 11193 |
> >Geldbeutel fehlten. Ist das nicht krass? -Kris. |
| 11194 |
% |
| 11195 |
... Jazz ist nicht nur das erfolgreichste, sondern auch das einzige originäre Kunstgenre, |
| 11196 |
daß die USA jemals hervorgebracht haben. |
| 11197 |
|
| 11198 |
"Apropos Musik", HR2 am 16.4.98 |
| 11199 |
% |
| 11200 |
http://www.rsw.com/ |
| 11201 |
|
| 11202 |
The Unix shell as a 4GL |
| 11203 |
|
| 11204 |
Unix provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily |
| 11205 |
perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the |
| 11206 |
functions that come standard with Unix. Programs and philosophies carried |
| 11207 |
over from other systems put walls between the user and Unix, and the power |
| 11208 |
of Unix is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators, |
| 11209 |
is the fourth generation database scripting language most appropriate to the |
| 11210 |
Unix environment. |
| 11211 |
% |
| 11212 |
Perl is incredibly difficult to parse. For example, what's the difference |
| 11213 |
between these: |
| 11214 |
|
| 11215 |
time /3 ;#/; print "hello"; |
| 11216 |
sin /3 ;#/; print "goodbye"; |
| 11217 |
|
| 11218 |
Right. The first one is time divided by 3, and the print is in a comment. |
| 11219 |
The second one is the sin of the result of a regular expression match for "3 |
| 11220 |
;#", and the print gets executed! |
| 11221 |
|
| 11222 |
There's no pure BNF in the world that'll handle that. And remember, with |
| 11223 |
"use" and prototypes available, whether you parse something like "sin" or |
| 11224 |
"time" depends on its definition in some other file, somewhere in the galaxy |
| 11225 |
(or even decided by Perl code in a BEGIN block, that evals a prototype!). |
| 11226 |
|
| 11227 |
Which led Larry to say at one point: "the only thing that can parse Perl is |
| 11228 |
'perl'". |
| 11229 |
|
| 11230 |
-- |
| 11231 |
Randal L. Schwartz |
| 11232 |
% |
| 11233 |
Ronald J Kimball <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes: |
| 11234 |
|
| 11235 |
> Pascal AMRAM wrote: |
| 11236 |
> > Subject: MSEXCHANGE / OUTLOOK |
| 11237 |
> |
| 11238 |
> So here I am trying to figure out what an M sex change is.... |
| 11239 |
|
| 11240 |
It's obviously the opposite of an F sex change. HTH. |
| 11241 |
|
| 11242 |
-- |
| 11243 |
Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY |
| 11244 |
% |
| 11245 |
The management (my cats) made me say this. |
| 11246 |
% |
| 11247 |
uae-0.6.9/custom.c:800: |
| 11248 |
write_log ("Program is torturing BPLCON1.\n"); |
| 11249 |
% |
| 11250 |
uae-0.6.9/src/memory.c:363 |
| 11251 |
write_log ("Your Amiga program just did something terribly stupid\n"); |
| 11252 |
% |
| 11253 |
Closures make sense in any programming language where you |
| 11254 |
can have the return value of a function be itself a |
| 11255 |
function, as you can in Perl. Note that some languages |
| 11256 |
provide anonymous functions but are not capable of |
| 11257 |
providing proper closures; the Python language, for |
| 11258 |
example. |
| 11259 |
% |
| 11260 |
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to |
| 11261 |
resemble a nail. |
| 11262 |
% |
| 11263 |
> but all I get are 501 errors, method not supported. I am not 100% sure what |
| 11264 |
> I did wrong. |
| 11265 |
|
| 11266 |
What you did wrong was post a microsoft server question to a perl |
| 11267 |
newsgroup. |
| 11268 |
% |
| 11269 |
I am trying to learn Perl on my Windows 97 system. In particular... |
| 11270 |
% |
| 11271 |
>Es kamen Außerirdische, die Pyramiden bauten und andere Wunder |
| 11272 |
>vollbrachten. Dafür wurden sie vergöttert. Diese außerirdischen bauten dann |
| 11273 |
>wahrscheinlich auch die Cydonia Region. |
| 11274 |
|
| 11275 |
Etwa zehnmal zu oft 'Stargate' gesehen, was? |
| 11276 |
% |
| 11277 |
>Die Menschheit kämpft seit Millionen von Jahren gegeneinander. |
| 11278 |
|
| 11279 |
Welche Hälfte ist denn da die grössere? :o) |
| 11280 |
% |
| 11281 |
...am still rebuilding after being hit with a clock changing virus it reset |
| 11282 |
my clock to 2039 unfortunately for me my OS is beta 98 needless to say it |
| 11283 |
expired instantly!!! |
| 11284 |
% |
| 11285 |
From: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com> |
| 11286 |
To: Pal Engstad <engstad@hunt.inmet.com> |
| 11287 |
|
| 11288 |
> Linus Torvalds requires that all code in the source is using a tab |
| 11289 |
> length of 8 spaces, and he also states that you are a bad programmer |
| 11290 |
> if you write code with more than 3 indentation levels. |
| 11291 |
|
| 11292 |
I didn't know that Linus Torvalds has done research on programming styles. |
| 11293 |
He much have, since why else would you have the audacity quote him as |
| 11294 |
an authority, on a list where there are dozens of people with more |
| 11295 |
than double Linus's programming experience? |
| 11296 |
|
| 11297 |
> This has caused the code to be fairly easy to read and maintainance is |
| 11298 |
> pretty straight forward. |
| 11299 |
|
| 11300 |
Irrelevant - a kernel is a lot simpler than an optimizing compiler, |
| 11301 |
in terms of complexity of algorithms and data structures. |
| 11302 |
% |
| 11303 |
Nach der Diskussion muss ich akzeptieren, dass die juengst erfolgte |
| 11304 |
Erdbeschleunigung von - 0,6 auf - 0,4 Millisekunden kein zwingender Beweis |
| 11305 |
fuer einen Permanentantrieb ist. Aber: In letzter Zeit kommt es bei mir immer |
| 11306 |
wieder vor, dass ich Dinge einfach weiss. Selbst wenn ich sie nicht begruenden |
| 11307 |
kann. Ich weiss trotzdem dass sie stimmen muessen und der Antrieb existiert. |
| 11308 |
Mit der Zeit findet sich dann auch die Begruendung. |
| 11309 |
% |
| 11310 |
Wir suchen neue AussenMitarbeiterInnen... (S.Pernar@Link-Goe) |
| 11311 |
% |
| 11312 |
hyperltext (hy'perl-text), n. double-quotish-interpolated hypertext markup: |
| 11313 |
Example: |
| 11314 |
print qq[[<LI><A HREF="$self->[[url]]">@[[[ucfirst $self->[[title]]]]]</A>\n]]; |
| 11315 |
% |
| 11316 |
liperlsuction: What happens to any script longer than 10 lines once |
| 11317 |
Randal gets his hands on it |
| 11318 |
% |
| 11319 |
Uperl Volta - country where perl programmers control the electricity. |
| 11320 |
% |
| 11321 |
> Anybody successfully installed the win32 version of Perl? |
| 11322 |
|
| 11323 |
No! Millions of people don't use perl on win32 machines. You may be the |
| 11324 |
first if you get it working. |
| 11325 |
% |
| 11326 |
> Macintosh. |
| 11327 |
> Think different. |
| 11328 |
|
| 11329 |
Think Again. |
| 11330 |
% |
| 11331 |
Bill.Cilnton@dyselxia.com |
| 11332 |
% |
| 11333 |
tsatan@hotmail.com writes: |
| 11334 |
> Why does perl have the "push" and "unshift" functions? ... |
| 11335 |
> push @nums, 4; is the same as @nums = (@nums, 4); |
| 11336 |
|
| 11337 |
What do you want, Scheme? ;) |
| 11338 |
% |
| 11339 |
# There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. |
| 11340 |
# It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen |
| 11341 |
% |
| 11342 |
| I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because |
| 11343 |
| someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the |
| 11344 |
| top. |
| 11345 |
% |
| 11346 |
I had a student ask about the UN9 operating system. I didn't understabd what |
| 11347 |
he was talking about so he wrote UNIX on the board. |
| 11348 |
% |
| 11349 |
On 1 Apr 98 17:34:23 GMT, Schulung7 wrote: |
| 11350 |
^^^^^^^^^ |
| 11351 |
>Was haltet ihr vom UFO-Absturz in Rosswell? |
| 11352 |
|
| 11353 |
Nichts. Und jetzt geh woanders spielen. |
| 11354 |
% |
| 11355 |
>Kann man hier irgendwie mal die UFOs reinbringen, um die es in dieser NG |
| 11356 |
>gehen soll? |
| 11357 |
|
| 11358 |
Nein, der Datentyp wäre inkompatibel. UFOs sind per Definitionem |
| 11359 |
materielle Objekte (obwohl das zur Zeit fraglich ist ;-), die sich in |
| 11360 |
diesem Medium nicht austauschen lassen. |
| 11361 |
% |
| 11362 |
Wer redet hier denn von der "Hui Hui"? Ich sprach von "Hui! Hui!". |
| 11363 |
% |
| 11364 |
>> nein...ist kein Sender. Eine taiwanesische Sekte hat behauptet, daß am |
| 11365 |
>> 25.3. auf allen TVs der Welt Gott auf Kanal 18 erscheinen würde. |
| 11366 |
>> Ist natuerlich nicht eingetreten. |
| 11367 |
> |
| 11368 |
>Aber unsere Haus-Sat-Anlage geht seither nicht mehr. |
| 11369 |
|
| 11370 |
Ein Zeichen! Er hat uns ein Zeichen gegeben! Zieht alle euren linken |
| 11371 |
Schuh aus! |
| 11372 |
% |
| 11373 |
>Klingt nach Erdstillstand. |
| 11374 |
|
| 11375 |
Ich bin entsetzt. Man hat hoffentlich sofort Wiederbedrehungsmaßnahmen |
| 11376 |
eingeleitet? |
| 11377 |
% |
| 11378 |
Mars Global Surveyor Imaging Schedule |
| 11379 |
|
| 11380 |
|
| 11381 |
First opportunity |
| 11382 |
Approximate |
| 11383 |
Orbit Internet |
| 11384 |
Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting |
| 11385 |
|
| 11386 |
4-3-98 09:58/1:58 a.m. 216 Viking Lander 1 April 6 |
| 11387 |
4-3-98 21:37/1:37 p.m. 217 Viking Lander 2 April 7 |
| 11388 |
4-4-98 09:16/1:16 a.m. 218 Mars Pathfinder April 7 |
| 11389 |
4-5-98 08:33/12:33 a.m. 220 Cydonia April 6 (mid-a.m.) |
| 11390 |
|
| 11391 |
Second opportunity |
| 11392 |
Approximate |
| 11393 |
Orbit Internet |
| 11394 |
Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting |
| 11395 |
|
| 11396 |
4-12-98 15:23/ 8:23 a.m. 235 Viking Lander 1 April 14 |
| 11397 |
4-13-98 03:01/ 8:01 p.m. 236 Viking Lander 2 April 15 |
| 11398 |
4-13-98 14:40/ 7:40 a.m. 237 Mars Pathfinder April 15 |
| 11399 |
4-14-98 13:57/ 6:57 a.m. 239 Cydonia April 14 (mid-p.m.) |
| 11400 |
|
| 11401 |
Third opportunity |
| 11402 |
Approximate |
| 11403 |
Orbit Internet |
| 11404 |
Date Time (UTC/Pacific) Number Target Posting |
| 11405 |
|
| 11406 |
4-21-98 20:45/1:45 p.m. 254 Viking Lander 1 April 23 |
| 11407 |
4-22-98 08:23/1:23 a.m. 255 Viking Lander 2 April 24 |
| 11408 |
4-22-98 20:02/1:02 p.m. 256 Mars Pathfinder April 24 |
| 11409 |
4-23-98 19:18/12:18 p.m. 258 Cydonia April 24 (mid-a.m.) |
| 11410 |
|
| 11411 |
% |
| 11412 |
> >2. Der Menschheit ist durch Inzucht entstanden. Laut biologischem |
| 11413 |
> >Wissen, unwahrscheinlich, da Mutation und Mißbildungen auftreten |
| 11414 |
> >würden. |
| 11415 |
> |
| 11416 |
> Vermutung: Das ist auch aufgetreten. Siehe levitische "Gesetze" zur |
| 11417 |
> "Behandlung" von "Aussatz" insb. im 3. "Mose". Die hatten schon Probleme. |
| 11418 |
Sag mal, bei Dir piepts wohl nicht mehr richtig! Aussatz, heute besser |
| 11419 |
unter dem Namen Lepra bekannt, ist keine Erbkrankheit. Es ist eine |
| 11420 |
(heute heilbare) Infektionskrankheit, verursacht durch Bakterien. |
| 11421 |
Also nichts von Inzucht, wie Du das in Deinem latenten Rassenwahn |
| 11422 |
implizierst. |
| 11423 |
% |
| 11424 |
> You might please start up with reading more than one sentence - a skill |
| 11425 |
> quite familiar in Europe, but as it seems not in the USA. |
| 11426 |
% |
| 11427 |
Yup. Instead of crashing Xservers, now you have crashing kernels. |
| 11428 |
Big improvement. |
| 11429 |
% |
| 11430 |
-- "Hey look, this new card is for windows and only $xx!" |
| 11431 |
-- "Yes, but it's braindead and will hurt your performance. Take that one |
| 11432 |
over there. Besides, it's not an ope.." |
| 11433 |
-- "Why that one?" |
| 11434 |
-- "Because it's better, sinc.." |
| 11435 |
-- "But I can do the same with this one, it's cheaper, and its for windows!" |
| 11436 |
% |
| 11437 |
In der Klinik, in der ich mal arbeiten musste, hatten wir einen echten |
| 11438 |
Koenig Ludwig II und mindestens fuenf Stueck Jesus - sowas gibts halt, |
| 11439 |
wenn Du verstehst, was ich meine. |
| 11440 |
% |
| 11441 |
> Hast Du mal einen Stein beobachtet, der eine Unzahl komplexer |
| 11442 |
> Vorgaenge paresentiert, einschliesslich der Hervorbringung |
| 11443 |
> etlicher Lebensformen? |
| 11444 |
|
| 11445 |
Jepp. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "zahlreich". |
| 11446 |
|
| 11447 |
> Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der sich mal eben |
| 11448 |
> "verwandelt", und auf dem dann lauter Wesen rumkrabbeln, |
| 11449 |
> die aus ihm selbst entsprungen sind? |
| 11450 |
|
| 11451 |
Klar doch. Ist nur ein Problem mit der Definition von "lauter". |
| 11452 |
|
| 11453 |
> Ueberspitzt: Hast Du mal einen Steinen beobachtet, der |
| 11454 |
> ploetzlich zum Lebewesen wird und Dich fragt, wer oder was |
| 11455 |
> er eigentlich ist? |
| 11456 |
|
| 11457 |
Tja, da hören die Übereinstimmungen auf. Ich dachte Du meinst |
| 11458 |
Erwin Stein. Den kenne ich. Der hat zwei Kinder. Die krabbeln |
| 11459 |
ab und zu auf ihm herum. Der ist aber nicht plötzlich zum Le- |
| 11460 |
bewesen geworden, sondern den gibt es nun schon ein wenig |
| 11461 |
länger. Und er hat mich auch noch nie gefragt, wer oder was |
| 11462 |
er eigentlich ist. Zumindest nicht in einem Zustand, den man |
| 11463 |
als "normal" bezeichnen könnte. So wird das anscheinend nix. |
| 11464 |
Ciao |
| 11465 |
Stefan |
| 11466 |
% |
| 11467 |
"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After |
| 11468 |
unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including |
| 11469 |
all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer." |
| 11470 |
(http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pc99.htm) |
| 11471 |
% |
| 11472 |
Video cards have write-only registers. (of course that is bad design) Let's |
| 11473 |
say that register 13 is write-only, as is common. It holds an index that |
| 11474 |
determines what register 69 (also write-only) actually changes. If you write |
| 11475 |
to register 13 while the accelerator is active, you lock the PCI bus. You |
| 11476 |
can't determine if the accelerator is active without reading from register |
| 11477 |
42, but you can't interpret the contents of that register correctly without |
| 11478 |
knowing what the last accelerator command was. Reading from register 13 gets |
| 11479 |
you some useless (unrelated) info and _also_ toggles the accelerator on and |
| 11480 |
off. |
| 11481 |
% |
| 11482 |
Join the Army, |
| 11483 |
Meet interesting people, |
| 11484 |
Kill them. |
| 11485 |
% |
| 11486 |
> Wie entsteht Materie? Ich koennte mir vorstellen, dass Energie in Materie |
| 11487 |
> umwandelbar ist. |
| 11488 |
|
| 11489 |
E=m*c^2 (Schon mal gehoert?) (Schon mal verstanden??) |
| 11490 |
% |
| 11491 |
>nach der die Pygmäen geheime UFO-Basen in ausgehöhlten Baumstämmen |
| 11492 |
>unterhalten (Vorsicht: das war ein Witz :-) ). |
| 11493 |
% |
| 11494 |
> (Bernhard Nahrgang) wrote: |
| 11495 |
> |
| 11496 |
> >> Logische Annahme: Die Erde waechst entweder kontinuierlich, oder periodisch |
| 11497 |
> >> ruckartig. |
| 11498 |
> >wie kann jemand mit dem IQ von 130 nur SO SELTEN BLOEDE sein?? |
| 11499 |
> |
| 11500 |
> Norbert ist nicht selten blöde... |
| 11501 |
|
| 11502 |
:-) |
| 11503 |
% |
| 11504 |
SAT 1 Teletext: Ein Asteroid mit einem Durchmesser von fast einem Kilometer |
| 11505 |
rast mit großer Geschwindigkeit auf die Erde zu. US-Astronomen befürchten: |
| 11506 |
"XF11" könnte im Jahr 2028 auf der Erde einschlagen. Die Folgen wären |
| 11507 |
verheerend. "Der rasende Stein aus dem All ist eine Gefahr", warnt Jack G. |
| 11508 |
Hills vom US-Kernforschungszentrum Los Alamos: "Wenn er die Erde trifft, |
| 11509 |
wird er die Sprengkraft von 320.000 Megatonnen Dynamit haben." Das |
| 11510 |
entspricht dem Zweimillionenfachen der Atombombe... |
| 11511 |
|
| 11512 |
ARD/ZDF Teletext: ASTEROID MIT KURS AUF ERDE ENTDECKT Amerikanische |
| 11513 |
Astronomen haben einen Asteroiden ausgemacht, der in 30 Jahren der Erde |
| 11514 |
gefährlich nahekommen wird. Die Gefahr, daß der Asteroid einschlagen wird, |
| 11515 |
sei gering, aber auch nicht völlig auszuschließen. Nach derzeitigen |
| 11516 |
Berechnungen wird der Asteroid mit der Bezeichnung "1997 XF11" am 26.Oktober |
| 11517 |
2028 unserem Planeten am nächsten kommen. "1997 XF11" hat etwa einen |
| 11518 |
Durchmesser von 1,6 Kilometern. Erstmals käme ein Objekt dieser Größe der |
| 11519 |
Erde so nahe, hieß es in dem Bericht der Internationalen Astronomischen |
| 11520 |
Union. |
| 11521 |
|
| 11522 |
RTL Teletext: Himmelskörper rast auf Erde zu Ein Asteroid wird im Jahr 2028 |
| 11523 |
der Erde gefährlich nahe kommen. Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben die |
| 11524 |
Chance eines Zusammenpralls auf eins zu tausend berechnet. Sollte der |
| 11525 |
Asteroid, der einen Durchmesser von 1,8 Kilometern hat, aufprallen, könnte |
| 11526 |
er eine gigantische Flutwelle auslösen, so die Forscher. Auch ein genaues |
| 11527 |
Datum haben die Wissenschaftler schon errechnet: Von Europa aus wäre das |
| 11528 |
Naturschauspiel am 26. Oktober 2028 zu beobachten. |
| 11529 |
% |
| 11530 |
* Linux Viruscan..... |
| 11531 |
Windows 95 Found Remove it ? (Y/y) |
| 11532 |
% |
| 11533 |
>>Hmm, welche Behauptungen entsprechen denn deiner Meinung nach der |
| 11534 |
>>Realität? |
| 11535 |
>> |
| 11536 |
>>Das es das FBI wirklich gibt? |
| 11537 |
>>Das Scully frigide ist, und deshalb mit Mulder nichts anfangen möchte? |
| 11538 |
>>Das Mulder homosexuell ist, und deshalb mit Scully nichts anfangen möchte? |
| 11539 |
>>Das der CSM einen Vertrag mit Marlb*ro hat? |
| 11540 |
> |
| 11541 |
>Hinter diesen "Fragen" erkenne ich z.B. eine gut bekannte Strategie. Die |
| 11542 |
>FBI-Frage ist bewusst absurd. Das Abgleiten ins Sexuelle hat ebenfalls |
| 11543 |
% |
| 11544 |
"'You're a Cirrus. You're crap. I'm an S3. I rule. Thank you and please drive through.'" |
| 11545 |
% |
| 11546 |
> How could you have perl take a set of numbers (1,2,3,4) and put them |
| 11547 |
> into a random order??? |
| 11548 |
> |
| 11549 |
|
| 11550 |
@array=qw(1 2 3 4); |
| 11551 |
print "@array[1,3,2,0]\n"; |
| 11552 |
|
| 11553 |
I've checked this against other possible random orderings |
| 11554 |
of these numbers, and this ordering is at least as random as |
| 11555 |
any of the other possible ones. The benefit of this one being |
| 11556 |
that it begins with the number 2, which is my favorite random |
| 11557 |
number less than 42. |
| 11558 |
% |
| 11559 |
From what I am reading Win98 and NT5.0 will be getting rid of all that |
| 11560 |
crap anyway. Seems that Microsoft has invented something called TCP/IP and |
| 11561 |
another really revolutionary concept called DNS that eliminates the |
| 11562 |
netbios crap too. All that arping from browsers is going to go away. |
| 11563 |
I also hear rumors that they are on the verge of breakthrough discoveries |
| 11564 |
called NFS, and LPD too. Given enough time and money, they might |
| 11565 |
eventually invent Unix. |
| 11566 |
% |
| 11567 |
In Germany, where typeface design has always been a significant part of |
| 11568 |
the cultural heritage, and where typefounding has remained an important |
| 11569 |
business, there are more than one kind of copyright-like protections for |
| 11570 |
typefaces. Certain long-standing industrial design protection laws have |
| 11571 |
been used to protect typeface designs in litigation over royalties and |
| 11572 |
plagiarisms. Further, there is a recent law, the so-called |
| 11573 |
"Schriftzeichengesetz" enacted in 1981, that specifically protects |
| 11574 |
typeface designs. New designs are registered, as is done with |
| 11575 |
copyright in most countries. This law only protects new, original |
| 11576 |
designs. It is available to non-German designers and firms. Therefore, |
| 11577 |
some type firms and designers routinely copyright new designs in West |
| 11578 |
Germany. This gives a degree of protection for products marketed in |
| 11579 |
Germany. Since multinational corporations may find it cheaper to |
| 11580 |
license a design for world-wide use rather than deal with a special case |
| 11581 |
in one country, the German law does encourage licensing on a broader |
| 11582 |
scale than would initially seem to be the case. |
| 11583 |
% |
| 11584 |
[linux processes vs. nt/solaris threads] |
| 11585 |
Rob Pike pointed out that the solution to slow process creation is |
| 11586 |
faster process creation, not another kernel abstraction. |
| 11587 |
% |
| 11588 |
Does anybody know how to communicate between a PC and a modem, |
| 11589 |
using a Perl CGI script? |
| 11590 |
% |
| 11591 |
>I really don't know crap about PERL. How is it different from JAVA? |
| 11592 |
|
| 11593 |
One tiny difference: Java can crash your browser. It happened to me last |
| 11594 |
week. |
| 11595 |
% |
| 11596 |
Brieweb> I heard Randal Schwartz say he could write an entire httpd server in 90 lines |
| 11597 |
Brieweb> of PERL. |
| 11598 |
No, that's an http *proxy* server. A simple web server is much shorter. |
| 11599 |
From "perldoc HTTP::Daemon"... |
| 11600 |
[Randal Schwartz] |
| 11601 |
% |
| 11602 |
But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving |
| 11603 |
capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason |
| 11604 |
for leaving capabilities out of Perl. |
| 11605 |
[Larry Wall in `Macros'. [[perl5-porters]]] |
| 11606 |
% |
| 11607 |
Yes: Java's main advantage over Perl is that it's hard to use for casual |
| 11608 |
programmers, so keeps all but the most intrepid programmers away from it. |
| 11609 |
It has no decent support for string processing, allowing you to spend |
| 11610 |
hours at useless debugging. It has a very restrictive and static system |
| 11611 |
to make sure you don't try anything interesting. It makes sure that you |
| 11612 |
use objects, by golly, because James Gosling said so. It's easy for C++ |
| 11613 |
programmers to use, and hard for shell or BASIC programmers to use. It |
| 11614 |
also only runs on a few systems, locking its customers into a a closed |
| 11615 |
system and restricting their options. |
| 11616 |
[Tom Christiansen in `Java Vs. Perl'] |
| 11617 |
% |
| 11618 |
<Bill_Gates> Where do you want to go today? |
| 11619 |
<Phase_5> Where do go tomorrow? |
| 11620 |
<BlueFlux> Where were you yesterday?!?! |
| 11621 |
% |
| 11622 |
"It's not to control, but to protect the citizens of Singapore. In our |
| 11623 |
society, you can state your views, but they have to be correct." |
| 11624 |
Ernie Hai |
| 11625 |
Coordinator of Singapore Government Internet Project |
| 11626 |
% |
| 11627 |
: I very much prefer a useful error message than a "it produced the wrong |
| 11628 |
: results" report from the users. |
| 11629 |
|
| 11630 |
if i got even "it produced the wrong results" from our users, i would |
| 11631 |
be in 7th heaven. ours often mail us with such insightful requests as |
| 11632 |
"can you tell me my email address?" no, sorry, that should be "CAN U |
| 11633 |
TEL ME MY E MAIL ADRES DUDE?!!!?? HURRY!!!" |
| 11634 |
% |
| 11635 |
There are many intelligent species in the Universe. |
| 11636 |
They are all owned by cats. |
| 11637 |
% |
| 11638 |
Why dignify your unsustainable, unjustifiable, unprovable feeble |
| 11639 |
attempts at character assassination with anything resembling a reply? |
| 11640 |
You only make yourself look foolish by mouthing off like that. |
| 11641 |
% |
| 11642 |
From: L & K Olson <kolson@mbnet.mb.ca> |
| 11643 |
Subject: If they wrote error messages in haiku ... |
| 11644 |
|
| 11645 |
Yesterday it worked |
| 11646 |
Today it is not working |
| 11647 |
Windows is like that |
| 11648 |
- - - |
| 11649 |
wind catches lily |
| 11650 |
scatt'ring petals to the wind: |
| 11651 |
segmentation fault |
| 11652 |
- - - |
| 11653 |
Three things are certain: |
| 11654 |
Death, taxes, and lost data. |
| 11655 |
Guess which has occurred. |
| 11656 |
- - - |
| 11657 |
A file that big? |
| 11658 |
It might be very useful. |
| 11659 |
But now it is gone. |
| 11660 |
- - - |
| 11661 |
Windows NT crashed. |
| 11662 |
I am the Blue Screen of Death. |
| 11663 |
No one hears your screams. |
| 11664 |
- - - |
| 11665 |
Errors have occurred. |
| 11666 |
We won't tell you where or why. |
| 11667 |
Lazy programmers. |
| 11668 |
- - - |
| 11669 |
Seeing my great fault |
| 11670 |
Through darkening blue windows |
| 11671 |
I begin again |
| 11672 |
- - - |
| 11673 |
The code was willing, |
| 11674 |
It considered your request, |
| 11675 |
But the chips were weak. |
| 11676 |
- - - |
| 11677 |
Printer not ready. |
| 11678 |
Could be a fatal error. |
| 11679 |
Have a pen handy? |
| 11680 |
- - - |
| 11681 |
Server's poor response |
| 11682 |
Not quick enough for browser. |
| 11683 |
Timed out, plum blossom. |
| 11684 |
- - - |
| 11685 |
Chaos reigns within. |
| 11686 |
Reflect, repent, and reboot. |
| 11687 |
Order shall return. |
| 11688 |
- - - |
| 11689 |
Login incorrect. |
| 11690 |
Only perfect spellers may |
| 11691 |
enter this system. |
| 11692 |
- - - |
| 11693 |
This site has been moved. |
| 11694 |
We'd tell you where, but then we'd |
| 11695 |
have to delete you. |
| 11696 |
- - - |
| 11697 |
ABORTED effort: |
| 11698 |
Close all that you have. |
| 11699 |
You ask way too much. |
| 11700 |
- - - |
| 11701 |
First snow, then silence. |
| 11702 |
This thousand dollar screen dies |
| 11703 |
so beautifully. |
| 11704 |
- - - |
| 11705 |
With searching comes loss |
| 11706 |
and the presence of absence: |
| 11707 |
"My Novel" not found. |
| 11708 |
- - - |
| 11709 |
The Tao that is seen |
| 11710 |
Is not the true Tao, until |
| 11711 |
You bring fresh toner. |
| 11712 |
- - - |
| 11713 |
The Web site you seek |
| 11714 |
cannot be located but |
| 11715 |
endless others exist |
| 11716 |
- - - |
| 11717 |
Stay the patient course |
| 11718 |
Of little worth is your ire |
| 11719 |
The network is down |
| 11720 |
- - - |
| 11721 |
A crash reduces |
| 11722 |
your expensive computer |
| 11723 |
to a simple stone. |
| 11724 |
- - - |
| 11725 |
There is a chasm |
| 11726 |
of carbon and silicon |
| 11727 |
the software can't bridge |
| 11728 |
- - - |
| 11729 |
To have no errors |
| 11730 |
Would be life without meaning |
| 11731 |
No struggle, no joy |
| 11732 |
- - - |
| 11733 |
You step in the stream, |
| 11734 |
but the water has moved on. |
| 11735 |
This page is not here. |
| 11736 |
- - - |
| 11737 |
No keyboard present |
| 11738 |
Hit F1 to continue |
| 11739 |
Zen engineering? |
| 11740 |
- - - |
| 11741 |
Hal, open the file |
| 11742 |
Hal, open the damn file, Hal |
| 11743 |
open it, please Hal |
| 11744 |
- - - |
| 11745 |
Out of memory. |
| 11746 |
We wish to hold the whole sky, |
| 11747 |
But we never will. |
| 11748 |
- - - |
| 11749 |
Having been erased, |
| 11750 |
The document you're seeking |
| 11751 |
Must now be retyped. |
| 11752 |
- - - |
| 11753 |
The ten thousand things |
| 11754 |
How long do any persist? |
| 11755 |
Netscape, too, has gone. |
| 11756 |
- - - |
| 11757 |
Rather than a beep |
| 11758 |
Or a rude error message, |
| 11759 |
These words: "File not found." |
| 11760 |
- - - |
| 11761 |
Serious error. |
| 11762 |
All shortcuts have disappeared |
| 11763 |
Screen. Mind. Both are blank. |
| 11764 |
% |
| 11765 |
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way |
| 11766 |
to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates from "The Road Ahead," p. 265. |
| 11767 |
% |
| 11768 |
> What is the Windows equivalent of the first line used for |
| 11769 |
> UNIX (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) that tells where the Perl interpreter is? |
| 11770 |
|
| 11771 |
Windows hasn't gotten quite as far in functionality as, say, BSD Unix in the |
| 11772 |
early 1980s. |
| 11773 |
% |
| 11774 |
> I have a chat script, that will work fine for a bit then after a while |
| 11775 |
> the private messages will stop working. It might be because I changed |
| 11776 |
> something, but chances are that isn't the case. I re-install a fresh |
| 11777 |
> copy, paths are correct, and they still don't work |
| 11778 |
|
| 11779 |
I think you are experiencing GOVERNMENT CONTROL. You see, everyone |
| 11780 |
with a chat script is being scrutinised by the department of CHAT |
| 11781 |
control. Whenever they see some message they don't like, they |
| 11782 |
introduce some little goblin called feature-creep in your program. if |
| 11783 |
you have lots of these little devils, your program migth acquire so |
| 11784 |
many new features that it just stops working. |
| 11785 |
|
| 11786 |
This also applies to Microsoft products. |
| 11787 |
|
| 11788 |
> Does it make sense for certain features to just not work?! If you can |
| 11789 |
> help, or have suggestions, get back to me, PLEASE:) |
| 11790 |
|
| 11791 |
Yes, it makes perfect sense. Especially if they're features which |
| 11792 |
really are bugs. And especially if they're 'private' messages. You |
| 11793 |
know perfectly well that the government doesn't like private messages. |
| 11794 |
|
| 11795 |
Hope this explains what's going on |
| 11796 |
Martien Verbruggen |
| 11797 |
% |
| 11798 |
...code? If you're on a misconfigured NT server (is that redundant?), you... |
| 11799 |
% |
| 11800 |
X11R6.1-based free X server compiles, links and crashes under IRIX(TM). |
| 11801 |
% |
| 11802 |
-------------- please bite here ------------- bitte hier abbeissen --------- |
| 11803 |
% |
| 11804 |
"Frag mal, auf was fuer uptimes man kommt, wenn man Software-Entwicklung |
| 11805 |
unter NT macht..." "Das koennen bis zu dreissig Minuten werden - in der |
| 11806 |
Mittagspause." -- Andreas Bogk, Kai Fett, de.alt.sysadmin.recovery |
| 11807 |
% |
| 11808 |
> ++ A lot of posters here have .sigs that include perl one liners. |
| 11809 |
> ++ Is there a safe way to run them, and be assured that they wont |
| 11810 |
> ++ damage and/or erase files? (or e-mail off my shadow file) |
| 11811 |
> |
| 11812 |
> Just make sure you understand it ;) |
| 11813 |
|
| 11814 |
I nominate Abigail for best response of the year with this one. Come to |
| 11815 |
think of it, I nominate it for best response of next year, too. |
| 11816 |
% |
| 11817 |
Your moderator will be spending the next week on a beach on a small island |
| 11818 |
where the phones don't work very well, so there won't be any comp.compilers |
| 11819 |
until the 28th. Any messages you send in will wait here until I get back and |
| 11820 |
should be posted on March 1st or 2nd. |
| 11821 |
% |
| 11822 |
But now, in comp.lang.perl.misc, you have a bunch of people who aren't |
| 11823 |
even asking how to make the pieces fit together, but what the |
| 11824 |
individual pieces are. ("How do I get my lego project to roll accross |
| 11825 |
the table?" "You use one of those pieces that have the wheels |
| 11826 |
attached.") Or questions that aren't about building at all. ("The |
| 11827 |
motor stopped moving. How do I get it to start again?" "The batteries |
| 11828 |
are probably dead. You can buy new batteries at any department or |
| 11829 |
convienience store.") |
| 11830 |
% |
| 11831 |
: how do i make my perl script run? |
| 11832 |
Get up at 91 minutes before dawn, clothe yourself in neon green body |
| 11833 |
% |
| 11834 |
for some reason Windoze users don't seem to expect docs to come with an archive |
| 11835 |
>>> ToiLeTGoD |
| 11836 |
|
| 11837 |
Well, well.. I always wondered who/what made that flush thingy work. |
| 11838 |
Pretty cool name, dude. (not) |
| 11839 |
% |
| 11840 |
Ummm...create "comp.lang.perl.wizards", make it moderated and all posts, |
| 11841 |
including xposts, go into /dev/null. Most FAQers won't have the Usenet |
| 11842 |
background to understand that such groups are either a) a wasteland |
| 11843 |
populated (briefly) by persons like themselves, or b) point to /dev/null. |
| 11844 |
% |
| 11845 |
Lazy people never bother to actually read the manual. Instead they (like |
| 11846 |
kids) pick something with big, colorful buttons. |
| 11847 |
-- Eugene Tyurin <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu> |
| 11848 |
% |
| 11849 |
The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic: |
| 11850 |
(A => B) => (B => A) |
| 11851 |
(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x) |
| 11852 |
(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) - Warren Vonroeschlaub |
| 11853 |
% |
| 11854 |
cal 9 1752 |
| 11855 |
% |
| 11856 |
Installing unix fixes the [VMS] bug. |
| 11857 |
-Barry Shein |
| 11858 |
% |
| 11859 |
And this horrible free-for-all will be left to children wondering around |
| 11860 |
by themselves in the dark because they refuse to turn on the light and |
| 11861 |
read the manual. |
| 11862 |
% |
| 11863 |
"SPARC" is "CRAPS" backwards --Rob Pike |
| 11864 |
% |
| 11865 |
I increasingly begin to understand why some universities require |
| 11866 |
that its compsci majors study the Euclid's Prime Number Theorem, |
| 11867 |
the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Cantor's Diagonalization Proof, |
| 11868 |
Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the ramifications of Halting Problem |
| 11869 |
in everyday life. These may not be involved in daily programming, but |
| 11870 |
it helps develop a rigorous mind. And it gives those who would progress |
| 11871 |
from typist to word-processor devotee to HTML documenter to CGI scripter |
| 11872 |
to distributed multithreaded operating systems design specialist cause |
| 11873 |
for pause. You just can't do that without proper training. |
| 11874 |
% |
| 11875 |
comp.lang.perl.i'm-from-microsoft-so-won't-read-documentation |
| 11876 |
% |
| 11877 |
I suggest you install a newsserver, and keep a local spool. Anything else |
| 11878 |
is too much work, and fairly silly. The Internet has catupulted even |
| 11879 |
the Wintel victims past the days of BBS toys. |
| 11880 |
% |
| 11881 |
> Help help! Pls advise me thru email. |
| 11882 |
|
| 11883 |
I advise you to buy a new keyboard; one that has all the keys you |
| 11884 |
need. |
| 11885 |
% |
| 11886 |
Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely |
| 11887 |
powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is |
| 11888 |
deeply and personally concerned about my sex life. |
| 11889 |
% |
| 11890 |
I find the first particularly useful in destroying the miswrapped |
| 11891 |
lines stemming from brain-damaged "it's just another word processor" |
| 11892 |
newsreaders. You know, |
| 11893 |
those postings that always seem to go to the edge of the line and then |
| 11894 |
back |
| 11895 |
again to the start, as this paragraph has. These are just too painful |
| 11896 |
to read. Just kill them. It's not worth your time trying to figure |
| 11897 |
out what they're saying. |
| 11898 |
% |
| 11899 |
It is most annoying to receive junk mail describing how to purchase 93 |
| 11900 |
million addresses, while knowing that yours is one of them. |
| 11901 |
% |
| 11902 |
I'm surprised Tom, how could it miss the "X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT; |
| 11903 |
U)" header line? Personally, I find the attempted use of Netscape as a |
| 11904 |
newsreader even worse then the attempted use of WinNT as an OS. :-) |
| 11905 |
|
| 11906 |
But the combination.... *sutters* |
| 11907 |
% |
| 11908 |
Hm... my new killfile isn't detecting you're posting from Windows. |
| 11909 |
Darn it. |
| 11910 |
% |
| 11911 |
At least he didn't post in all caps. |
| 11912 |
% |
| 11913 |
http://language.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html |
| 11914 |
% |
| 11915 |
I think the biggest problem with M.S.A. is that the scripts work for Matt, but |
| 11916 |
the majority of people trying to use them are from the |
| 11917 |
"Wintel/AOL/FrontPage/push-a-button/HTML-is-programming/no-programming-required" |
| 11918 |
school of non-learning. It isn't a problem with the code, per se, but with those |
| 11919 |
trying to use it. |
| 11920 |
% |
| 11921 |
"Linux can emulate an C64 on my AMDK6PR200 at full speed. Windows can't." |
| 11922 |
% |
| 11923 |
cdog wrote: |
| 11924 |
> |
| 11925 |
> Is this group active? |
| 11926 |
No. |
| 11927 |
|
| 11928 |
If you had spent half a second LOOKING at the group before posting, you |
| 11929 |
probably could have come to that conclusion yourself. |
| 11930 |
|
| 11931 |
On a personal note, I died 3 years, 8 days, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, and |
| 11932 |
345 milliseconds ago, but who's counting. |
| 11933 |
% |
| 11934 |
"Security through obscurity is no security at all." |
| 11935 |
-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting |
| 11936 |
% |
| 11937 |
"Windows 95 will now attempt to blow chunks across your primary partition. |
| 11938 |
Press any key to continue..." |
| 11939 |
% |
| 11940 |
NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix |
| 11941 |
isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing |
| 11942 |
itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground... |
| 11943 |
% |
| 11944 |
The Wall St Journal (1996-01-22, page 1) reported that Cuba is |
| 11945 |
considering jumping across the International Date Line, just so that |
| 11946 |
it's the first into the year 2000. So it's possible you'll have to |
| 11947 |
adjust your travel plans. |
| 11948 |
% |
| 11949 |
"Wo kämen wir hin, wenn alle sagten, wo kämen wir hin, und niemand ginge |
| 11950 |
hin, um einmal zu schauen, wohin man käme, wenn man ginge." -- Kurt Marti |
| 11951 |
% |
| 11952 |
The Takeuchi function is a popular benchmark of function calling due to its |
| 11953 |
highly recursive nature. It's defined as: |
| 11954 |
|
| 11955 |
tak x y z = z, if y >= x |
| 11956 |
= tak (tak (x-1) y z) (tak (y - 1) z x) (tak (z - 1) x y), otherwise |
| 11957 |
|
| 11958 |
For this benchmark, the function is invoked as: |
| 11959 |
|
| 11960 |
tak 18 12 6 |
| 11961 |
% |
| 11962 |
"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!" |
| 11963 |
-- Bill Gates |
| 11964 |
"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM." |
| 11965 |
-- Bill Gates |
| 11966 |
"Nobody will ever need Windows 95." |
| 11967 |
-- logical conclusion |
| 11968 |
% |
| 11969 |
Year Name James Bond Book |
| 11970 |
- ---- -------------------------------- -------------- ---- |
| 11971 |
50's James Bond TV Series Barry Nelson |
| 11972 |
1962 Dr. No Sean Connery 1958 |
| 11973 |
1963 From Russia With Love Sean Connery 1957 |
| 11974 |
1964 Goldfinger Sean Connery 1959 |
| 11975 |
1965 Thunderball Sean Connery 1961 |
| 11976 |
1967* Casino Royale David Niven 1954 |
| 11977 |
1967 You Only Live Twice Sean Connery 1964 |
| 11978 |
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby 1963 |
| 11979 |
1971 Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery 1956 |
| 11980 |
1973 Live And Let Die Roger Moore 1955 |
| 11981 |
1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Roger Moore 1965 |
| 11982 |
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore 1962 (novelette) |
| 11983 |
1979 Moonraker Roger Moore 1955 |
| 11984 |
1981 For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore 1960 (novelette) |
| 11985 |
1983 Octopussy Roger Moore 1965 |
| 11986 |
1983* Never Say Never Again Sean Connery |
| 11987 |
1985 A View To A Kill Roger Moore 1960 (novelette) |
| 11988 |
1987 The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton 1965 (novelette) |
| 11989 |
* -- Not a Broccoli production. |
| 11990 |
% |
| 11991 |
Windows NT: n. |
| 11992 |
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit |
| 11993 |
operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written |
| 11994 |
by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. |
| 11995 |
% |
| 11996 |
Auf der Kiste läuft EHNIX, das ist ZUNIX kompatibel. |
