Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
--
%%
http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
%%
[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.
%%
http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
[I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
%%
http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
%%
[From: CRYPTO-GRAM]
Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been
Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing
that you have a problem.)
%%
[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process]
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01
26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl
[I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked
and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
%%
That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different
sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them:
Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable
declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness,
etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing
exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other
programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks
because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1
code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also
it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly
less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call
themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single
namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing
techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are
that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff
got implemented in main-stream compilers.
Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term
"C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming
paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to
create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend
programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is
hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like
MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
%%
[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:]
Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you *only*
have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I
doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
%%
[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html]
"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer
knows this, and it's true for software too.
%%
> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL"
... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!"
;)
%%
[this is not a blogggggg]
One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline,
having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the
proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with:
NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors
Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any
framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
%%
[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
using so many abbreviations...]
Hi Volker -
alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
spät ...
Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
herzliche Grüsse
tom
PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
schon ein paar Wochen her ...)
%%
From: William Lee Irwin III
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Message-ID: <20040826183838.GE2793@holomorphy.com>
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> How old are you? I thought you were the guy at Linux Tag with fashion
> oriented hair who gave a talk on his XFS work? Did I confuse you with
> someone else?
Index: mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS
===================================================================
--- mm1-2.6.9-rc1.orig/CREDITS 2004-08-26 10:37:57.424567967 -0700
+++ mm1-2.6.9-rc1/CREDITS 2004-08-26 11:35:24.977260109 -0700
@@ -2677,6 +2677,14 @@
S: 79098 Freiburg
S: Germany
+N: Hans Reiser
+E: reiser@namesys.com
+W: http://www.namesys.com/
+D: official Linux kernel hairstyle critic
+S: 6979 Exeter Dr
+S: Oakland, CA 94611
+S: USA
+
N: Joerg Reuter
E: jreuter@yaina.de
W: http://yaina.de/jreuter/
%%
Partial lynx-output for mail sent by "T-Online Vertragsbrief":
[poeppel_magenta.gif]
%%
[http://www.dark-skies.org/theproblems.html#security]
Better ligthing does not affect crime rates
%%
[http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/tc0.pdf]
Label: "Difficulty of owning Windows vs. Difficulty to make this graph"
%%
[rxvt-unicode (mine! :) vs. gnome-terminal :)]
[http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137864]
[...]
Upgrading to major: the first person to fix this (fix = performance is
within a factor of 2 of rxvt-unicode for all four of the tests here) gets
$50 from me, or an expensive dinner + all the beer they can handle if they
ever visit Sydney, Australia ;)
[...]
Tagging this critical+urgent. How dare I, you ask? Doubling the reward -
$100 if this is fixed (see above) before September 1, 2004. $0 after that
(and I'll return it to a normal bug ;) If anyone else wants to contribute
to whoever ends up fixing this, please join in..
%%
[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301268,00.html]
[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM%2ced-XX1sNy0yR7p%7eQMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/0,1518,druck-301538,00.html]
Dass die Flimmerkiste ein beliebiges "Nullmedium" sei, beklagen
Kulturkritiker von jeher. Doch nun zeigt selbst ein unvoreingenommener
Blick aufs TV-Programm: Die Quote ist heilig, das Niveau sinkt auf breiter
Front - auch bei ARD und ZDF. Verdummt die Na
%%
[SSK@goHdpeHC2XTrpDXZIbgvdJMz5XsPAgM,ed-XX1sNy0yR7p~QMmjeAA/Treibholz/1//Texte/brainleak%202004-03-02.html]
[...] Tech savvy people will be inclining towards clicking the cancel
button by default whenever they are presented a question which they don't
fully understand, or didn't expect to see. Regular computer users will
be inclined to press the Ok button instead, because they fear that by
clicking cancel they might be causing something they don't understand not
to work, something that they probably won't be able to fix afterwards
anyway. If a geek fucks up somehow, he'll know what to do to fix it
anyway, so there's no harm done clicking cancel. [...]
%%
[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/10/marienbad.html]
I once had a postmodern intertextual moment at a drugstore bookrack when I
picked up a paperback with the following title: Bram Stoker's Dracula:
A Novelization Based on the Original Screenplay.
%%
[bts show 215647]
[yes, the whole thing]
%%
[bts show 254316]
> > The problem is not in luit, it's not in XTerm, it's not even in termcap;
> > it's in the morass of complexity that some mindless jerk who'll be first
> > against the wall when the revolution comes standardised as ISO 2022.
>
> ( google suggests 2022 has many fans ;-)
We'll use a larger wall.
%%
[Maedhros35 about "Clockwork Orange" on IMDB]
This is a movie I would not recommend even to my worst enemy. It is a
horrible picture, containing too much random violence and rape committed
by four no-goods in white pyjamas, than is good for anyone too watch.
The only fun moment is when the main character, being brainwashed into a
non-violent state of mind, is being bashed by his former friends.
There may be some "hidden message" in this movie about society and blah,
but the message (not too well brought) is completely drowned.
It is not even a waste of your time, it is worse than that. Avoid at all
cost.
["too much violence" but "the only fun moment".... What the...!?]
%%
When searching on google for:
kakerlake schabe made
Google asked me wether I instead wanted to look for:
kakerlake _schwabe_ made
%%
What we learned this week;
"Hell is a bad place to be and renders with 8-12fps"
%%
"Britain is one of only three countries in the world (the others are
Germany and Egypt) enduring stricter censorship today than 25years ago"
%%
[translated]
23:07 libtool is soo broken
23:07 ./libtool gcc-3.4 ...
23:07 libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
23:07 libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
23:07 ...
23:07 libtool --tag=ulubulu
23:07 libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu
23:07 and it works
%%
History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
-- Lord Balfour
%%
The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
%%
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then
I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked
him to forgive me.
%%
[slashdot]
> there are currently no active, reliable ways to obtain the program listings for New Zealand television
I have been to NZ. You have no television.
%%
[IMDB user about "What?" by Roman Polanski]
"What?" fills the gap for those who get a kick out of 70's porn plots, but
get bored during the sex scenes.
%%
I say to you that the VCR is to the ... American public as the Boston
strangler is to the woman home alone.
- Jack Valenti (CEO, MPAA)
%%
[Bruce Schneier]
SP2 is an important security upgrade to Windows XP, and I hope it is
widely installed among licensed XP users. I also hope it is quickly
pirated, so unlicensed XP users can also install it. In order for me
to remain secure on the Internet, I need everyone to become more
secure. And the more people who install SP2, the more we all benefit.
%%
[From Paul Eggert]
[...] Worse, HP-UX asctime rejects any tm_year that is negative; this
violates the C standard, but HP won't take my bug reports since I'm not a
HP-UX customer. [...]
%%
>>>Just curious, If I recall correctly, didn't Forth used to be FORTH?
>>
>>Since FORTH is not an acronym (the way BASIC, LISP, FORTRAN and C are)
>>but a (deliberate) misspelling of "fourth", when it became possible to
>>use LC the fashion became to do so. My book, "Scientific FORTH" (1992)
>>spelled it in UC.
>
>
> BASIC, LISP and FORTRAN are acronyms. C isn't.
C isn't all caps, just the initial letter.
%%
[comp.lang.c]
> According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
I'm sorry, but that's like quoting Bjarne Stroustrup on correct ISO C
usage.
Richard
%%
I remember Elwyn Berlekamp describing what goes on at computer go
tournaments (where computer programs play go against each other) - unlike
at computer chess tournaments where the programs far surpass their
creators, at go tournaments the creators sit there and look at a game in
play and say things to each other like, "Gosh, I wonder if my program will
repair that weakness before your program notices it."
%%
21:40 sansho: du bist kindisch. :)
21:40 oesi: das hab ich mir von dir abgeguckt
%%
MarkD [-]: The trouble with political jokes is that some of them get elected
%%
A coherent understanding of Philosophy will convince you that you are
competent to understand the universe and achieve the human values that
make life meaningful. You will know when you know something and when you
don't, when you understand something and when you don't, and why. You
will also realize why morality and ethics are too important to be left to
anyone but yourself. You will learn that there are no shortcuts to truth,
no authorities you can follow blindly, and perhaps most important, that
nothing at all exists except reality. In sum, you will know what human
existence means and implies.
[Introduction to Philosophy, Joel Katz]
%%
> > Casts from void* are necessary in C++, not in C.
>
> I am aware... I'm fishing for more info! Perhaps if I reposted again and
> said you were wrong I'll get more...
>
> You're WRONG!
void* is implicitly converted to the destination pointer type (C99 §6.3.2.3
and §7.20.3.1).
%%
From: Allin Cottrell
In the DOS days, I had a scattering of students who really
knew about computers. In the XP days, I have none.
%%
[another variation, more useful]
A. It should be obvious.
Q. How is it hard?
A. Because it makes it hard to follow conversations.
Q. Why is top-posting bad?
%%
[windows is a good place to learn programming]
Subject: Linux c prog doesn't work on Sun Solaris Machine....?
Compiled using g++ on linux and then I tried to execute it on Solaris.
The error message was something like "can't execute a.out"
- works ok on linux
- ran chmod so Sun user has execute/read/etc permissions. chmod u=rwx
Any clues why?
I am new to the non windows world.
Thanks
%%
[comp.lang.c]
> I want to write some data on the EEPROM of a PIC 16F877 microcontroller via
> serial port rs232. What library can I use with a gcc compiler to perform
> this ?
This is not a C question. Please try asking again in comp.arch.embedded where
we will advise you to use an 8051, AVR, or MSP430 instead of the PIC.
%%
[comp.std.c]
In message
Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
> In lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com writes:
>
> >The text of the standard only yields one reasonable interpretation.
>
> Yup, mine!
%%
[links-2.1pre13 ChangeLog]
Thu Oct 9 16:44:10 GMT 2003 mikulas:
Do not print 1000l on FreeBSD console on exit
%%
[an old question, revisited]
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
%%
[comp.lang.c]
> can any one translate the following codes into c++ codes,
This is comp.lang.c. We do C, not C++. We do not translate C into
obfuscated languages. The good news is that your code already _is_ C++.
%%
[comp.lang.c]
I didn't say he was incorrect. I said he was an idiot.
%%
according to babelfish "glibber" in german means "more glibber" in english :-)
%%
[Debian Bug #163625 features one of my favourite bug report subjects:]
Installing additional mozilla Debian packages
deletes additionally installed mozilla packages
%%
[Aus einer Werbung für dne "Windows-Berater". Es ist erschreckend, zeigt
aber, das manche Maßnahmen von Microsoft völlig irreführenderweise als
Sicherheitsmaßnahme verstanden und dargestellt werden. Ich frage mich, wie
DRM in Zukunft aufgenommen und beworben werden wird...]
"Kaum angekündigt, schon ist der Registrierungsschutz geknackt"
Das neue Windows XP lässt sich nur mit einem besonderen Registrierungscode
dauerhaft betreiben. Besorgt sich der Anwender diese Lizenz nicht,
wird das System gesperrt. Damit sollen Raubkopien und unerlaubte
Mehrfachnutzung verhindert werden. Kaum vorgestellt, knacken Hacker
diese Verschlüsselung schon. Checklisten zeigen Ihnen, wie dieser Klau
abläuft. Damit Sie sich und Ihr System vor ungebetenen Zugriffen und Viren
schützen können.
%%
[Reiner Gamma]
http://www.geocities.com/kc5lei/SWIRL2001.htm
%%
>> Asshole keep you shit out of alt.binaries.games.adult until you read
[...]
>Dude, thisi is not "alt.binaries.games.adult".
[...]
Yes, it is. Or, it was, till your post cut the crosspost. It was
crossposted to several groups and the person you're replying to will
never get your message.
%%
[http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl]
As this project will always run unknown binary code of proprietary W32
filesystem drivers, the code can never be trusted.
%%
[http://www.hello-penguin.com/gtm-perl/doc/Perl.html]
(look at the BUGS section... very funny to read, btw., it's
a sourceforge project called GT.M).
%%
bigger things. We\\\\\\\'d be using C + asm and Hax
01:15 we all the backslashes?
01:15 no idea, i have these in some of my descriptions, too
01:15 it seems that sourceofrge does " -> \" on every deascription change
01:15 sounds like php
01:15 i guess it's written in php
01:15 *g*
01:15 :-D
%%
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
[...] At the beginning I didn't expect that I would actually succeed,
since I thought I would need almost half of that just for the headers. I
think my first cut was 458 bytes in size. I was quite pleased with myself
when I trimmed that down to less than 300 bytes, ecstatic when I finally
reached the 255-byte goal, and downright triumphant when I later got it to
work in 238 bytes. By the time I had a 198-byte version, I was just plain
dumbfounded. It's now at 171 bytes. [...]
%%
[http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Japanese/polite.html]
[...] Americans didn't invent English (although the Brits will happily
disown our mangled version of it! :-) ) [...]
%%
[Eugene Spafford]
During the heights of some of the recent viruses, I was discarding 30Mb of
email per day -- all of it viruses. And I should point out -- viruses for
Windows. There have been something like 100,000 viruses for MS operating
systems, only about 50 for the Mac, and about 3 for commercial Unix
systems. That difference isn't because of a difference in the prevalence
of the machines -- there are basic architectural differences.
%%
[http://MarginalHacks.com/]
If you can't vi it, it sucks.
%%
[from the somewhat outdated xterm-faq]
GNOME TERMINAL
[...]
The documentation is fragmentary (with a comment suggesting that the
author does not know where to find relevant information), and the program
fares badly with vttest. [...] But it suffices for vi.
[.. later]
There is a variation of xvt (ancestor of rxvt) originally known as kvt
bundled with KDE which may be referred to as "kterm", but I do not find it
interesting, other than to comment that it was a poor choice of name.
%%
[I *love* X programs]
[xc/programs/xprop/xprop.c]
/*
* blip: a debugging routine. Prints Blip! on stderr with flushing.
*/
void blip()
{
fflush(stdout);
fprintf(stderr, "blip!\n");
fflush(stderr);
}
%%
[pavel machek commenting on a proposed patch]
+ int alternative_order = 999;
Why not 666? :-).
%%
[yosh on gimp-developer]
It's also better to research your suggestions a little, so that they don't
sound completely out there, thereby reinforcing the viewpoint that Windows
users are clueless.
%%
[modularity makes unix systems more secure]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
%%
[beware german translations]
dpkg: Warnung - ignoriere Kollision, kann sowieso weitermachen!
%%
[http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html, look around there]
NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
%%
The word "ampersand" is an alteration of the phrase "et, per se and" (that
is: "et by itself [means] and"), which became corrupted to "and, per se
and", and finally, ampersand.
%%
[xc/lib/X11/lcUTF8.c]
[...] We distinguish three classes of clients: [1st] [...] [2nd] Clients
which accept CompoundText with multiple character sets and parse it
themselves. (Example: emacs, xemacs.) [3rd] [...] In a distant future,
when clients of the first and second kind will have disappeared, [...]
%%
[linux-2.6/drivers/md/Kconfig]
WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you
use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't
destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother,
or re-appoint George W. Bush.
%%
[http://www.herodios.com/herron_tc/atsign.html]
Many Finnish terms for @ are connected with cats. Not content with naming
the sign for what it looks like, Finnish names it for what it looks like
sounds like. In addition to "kissanhnta [cat's tail], "miau," "miumau,"
and "miuku" are all "miau merkki" [meow marks] in Finnish. Other terms
from Finnish include "apinanhanta" [a monkey's tail], or "hiirenhanta"
[mouse's tail]. Some "computer people" use the English word "at."
%%
17:07 schmorp: mal ein guter kommentar auf heise zum thema "Bill tourt durch
die USA und kündigt innovative neuentwicklungen an"
17:08 Kommentar war: "was hat er angekündigt: drive-letter in unicode?"
%%
[Ken Lunde about his copy of KS C 5657-1991:]
Here's another interesting note. My official copy of this
standard has all of its 2,856 hanja hand-written.
%%
[cvs, while checking in changes to uunet's radiusd]
confused about file platform.h -- ignoring
%%
[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/24/1011245.shtml]
And most likely, the FBI didn't tell the hosting company exactly what it
is they wanted. When the Feds come in with a search warrant, they don't
ask for your help. They say, "stand aside" and commence
%
http://www.bash.org/?178890
%%
[http://www.bash.org/?75016]
If Osama B. isn't in Afghanistan, and if he isn't dead, we believe he is in another country" - US army General
%%
00:56 ulpfr: ich schrieb mal einen kompletten mailer in emacs, weil mir rmail
nicht gefallen hat. man wird aelter und reifer und droppt dann emacs
einfach :)
00:56 Weichei
%%
[spca50x.sourceforge.net]
/*
* Function compares two strings.
* Return offset in pussy where prick ends if "prick" may penetrate
* int "pussy" like prick into pussy, -1 otherwise.
*/
static inline int match(const char* prick, const char* pussy, int len2)
{
int len1 = strlen(prick); //length of male string
[...]
%%
http://www.leckse.net/profilieren/chat
%%
rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tündenfischs
%%
[rxvt-*/src/init.[cC]]
/* grab colors before netscape does */
Get_Colours ();
%%
[oesi über apache-2.0]
03:10 ist mir egal, ich fahre alle 24h den apache runter...
03:10 ich fahre praktisch das 1.3er config-file. das gibt sicherheit :)
03:11 ich kann apache nicht stoppen.
03:11 apachectl stop
03:11 Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
03:11 Expected > but saw
03:12 wie konnte ich den starten?
03:12 *rofl*
[...]
03:29 es ist kein scherz. wirklich:
03:29 asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl sslstart
03:29 asp:/usr/websys/conf# apachectl stop
03:29 Syntax error on line 1222 of /usr/websys/conf/httpd.conf:
03:29 Expected > but saw
%%
[http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/]
[...] Here's a demo (username "free", password "speech") [...]
%%
[rxvt/src/screen.C]
#ifdef DEBUG_STRICT
assert(screen.cur.row >= 0);
#else /* drive with your eyes closed */
MAX_IT(screen.cur.row, 0);
#endif
%%
[http://www.mine-control.com/zack/timesync/timesync.html]
[...] Also, anecdotal evidence from network programmers suggests that the
UDP implementation under Win32 is unstable and overly-unreliable. [...]
%%
> > Ceterum censeo | PGP encrypted mail preferred.
> > Redmond esse delendam. | PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/
>
> Willkomme im Club .... :-)))
Danke - ich bin schon lange dabei... ;-)
--
OpenVMS @ 25 | Martin Vorlaender | VMS & WNT programmer
%%
Um die Jahrhundertwende erfand ein Mann namens Friedolin Tär einen
IQ-Test, der die Gesamtpersönlichkeit sehr stark miteinbezog.
Charakterstärke, Grosszügigkeit, flexibles Denken etc. wurden also
mitbewertet. Die Skala mit der Maßeinheit "Tär" wies ein großes Spektrum
auf. Ärzte, Wissenschaftler erreichen IQ's im Megatär-Bereich. Der
Durchschnittsmensch weist einige Kilotär auf. Nach unten gibt es Dezitär,
Centitär... und schießlich Mil(l)itär...
%%
http://senseis.xmp.net/?GetStrongAtGote
http://users.skynet.be/rexburton/ritchie.htm
%%
Subject: [Swsusp-devel] 2.6.1: It could go faster if I didn't have egg on my face.
%%
"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?"
-- Robert Fisk
%%
[the satellite death spiral: why spacecraft are unnecessarily expensive]
http://www.dynacon.ca/pdf/files/newspdf_63.pdf
[see also the small satellites homepage]
http://centaur.sstl.co.uk/SSHP/
%%
[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/lec_lev.htm]
"Anthropologists concur that America is an exceedingly 'low-touch,'
high-violence culture"
[...]
"[...] Republican members of the House of Representatives called for the
resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose transgression was to
suggest, in response to a question following a speech to sex educators,
that masturbation was an appropriate subject for classroom discussion.
This remark, according to one congressman, was part of a social movement
that was "killing the moral fiber of America" and just one symptom of
a decline also manifested in reckless driving, an indecisive military
policy-dubbed "mission creep," and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts." [...]
Masturbation is an absolute taboo in the US. Many adults still think that
they are the only ones who do such dirty things.
%%
From: <[...]@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [...]
Marc wrote on 1/7/2004, 6:57 AM:
> Congrats. No kidding, you are the first person @aol that ever sent me a
> sensible mail. I was planning to reject mail from aol.com right away
> since (in the last 8 years at least), nothing good came from there, but you
> saved it :)
Yeah, I get that a lot, but you've got to know that .aol.com email
addresses are also used by the people who work for AOL (cough, cough :).
[...]
%%
From: Alan Cox
> The code to disable prefetch on Athlon is 300 bytes and hurts your PIV?
> Really? I'll dig back through the code, but I recall it as adding or
> deleting an entry in a table to enable prefetch. If it's affecting PIV the
> code to use prefetch is seriously broken.
Big time. Its over 300 bytes long because its embedded in each inline
prefetch and it causes a branch misprediction almost every time. Amazing
what you find when you actually measure stuff 8)
[...]
%%
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
%%
http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
%%
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
%%
[FYI: java was officially announced in 1995, and certainly didn't exist
even as a concept before 1991. It's interesting how many people nowadays
claim to have decades of java experience]
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Robert Soros wrote:
> I am extremely excited about your ideas to fix freenet and would be
> willing to plug your code into fred (I have fourteen years java
> programming experience.) Could you provide a link to your code? What
%%
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
%%
http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
%%
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
%%
[in a private discussion about some potential problem that would cause]
[mail not to be delivered]
> > On the other hand, I see the same in some mail from RMS.
>
> Well, just because rms does it does not mean... :)
My point is that the FSF is unlikely to install something that
bounces RMS's mail, at least, not for long.
%%
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
> David Cantrell writes:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
> >> Anyone know of any perl software that does resume parsing.
> >
> > I don't *think* anyone has implemented continuations in perl, so I fail
> > to see how you can have resumes. Or are you trying to parse some other
> > language which does support this?
>
Just because we share a language does not mean we understand each other.
In America there are two meanings for resume. One being to continue the
other the equivalent of what ya'll call a CV (I think though I've never
heard the term before) In the second definition resume is pronounced with
a short u. I think there is a "`" in the proper spelling of the word but
since Americans are not use to using punctuation in their words (other
than to show ownership and contractions) it is usually loss.
%%
echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
AFTER 30 years of "daylight saving" - moving the clocks forward in the
spring and then back again in the autumn - there is still an Abolish
Daylight Saving Committee in New South Wales, Australia.
Added to the usual claims of such campaigns - for example, that the
extra hour of daylight in the evening in summer fades the curtains - is
a new one from ADSC spokeswoman Judith Hall, of Gunnedah, who told the
Sydney Morning Herald: "No man has the right to choose the time of the
rising and setting of the sun, only God."
Reader John McCallum, who told us about this, is surprised Hall doesn't
explain why God doesn't simply exercise this choice. When people insist
on moving their clocks forward, He should just move the sunrise forward
and thwart them that way.
%%
[Defect Report #205 to ISO-C]
There was a unanimous vote that the feature is ugly, and a good consensus
that its incorporation into the standard at the 11th hour was an
unfortunate decision.
%%
02:23 Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
fest ;)
%%
[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
Last updated: - Invalid Date
%%
http://www.bash.org/?99060
%%
[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
%%
Q: What is the state of the object after its lifetime has ended?
A: As a well-known software guru[3] once put it, speaking about a
similar code fragment and anthropomorphically referring to the
local object as a "he":
"He's not pining! He's passed on! This parrot is no more! He
has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker!
He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't
nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His
metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's
kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down
the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN
EX-PARROT!"
- Dr. M. Python, BMath, MASc, PhD (CompSci)
%%
[ach du schande]
"pflichtpfandfrei"
%%
[a comment on the demonstrations against bush in london]
The police will shoot you.
OK, that's not strictly true. The CIA will shoot you. Then the police will
arrest the CIA. Then American troops will invade.
Just another average day in central London.
%%
[this signature gave me a laugh...]
[...]even better is if there is a system function that sends out an arp
reply.
pls. cc my email address
tia
pd
--
^X^C
q
quit
:q
^C
end
x
exit
ZZ
^D
?
help
shit
.
%%
* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
%%
[From the File::Spec manpage on catdir]
Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending
with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string,
because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS2. [...]
%%
[I love it]
http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
%%
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
- Douglas Adams
%%
Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure
PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar
to the INQUIRER: Gates said more or less the same thing when he addressed
an Assembly of CEOs in Berlin a few weeks ago.
The chief software architect (CSA.'.) told IT Business that perfect code
wasn't the answer to security problems, but firewalls and keeping the
software up to date were more important. The problems that have occurred
this year wouldn't have happened if firms and individuals had set up
their software properly.
He also claims in the article that Microsoft has always had security
patches out before the exploits happened. Developers were also to blame
because they didn't understand the application program interfaces, Gates
told the publication.
And he also claimed that all forms of Unix and Linux have a greater
number of vulnerabilities than Microsoft but don't spread as much because
"they're not as dense" as Windows. Low volume software is hit by
malicious people, high volume software, that is Windows, is hit by people
who want visibility and glory.
%%
[In the FAQ for a bootp client:]
o You are using --server to point to a server which doesn't run a bootp server
x Try not using it.
%%
[http://www.politicalpulpit.com/Luke/LukeArchive0403.htm]
The facts are simple: In Lynn, MA Principal of the Lynn English High
School, Andrew Fila refused to allow teacher of English, Jeremy McKeen,
to show the disputed film in his classes. McKeen had already submitted
Moore's opus to his Department Head, Jane Balesta, for approval which she
had given.
Said Fila, "I just pulled it. This is not the time nor the place to be
showing something like that. The producer (Moore) is also an anti war
person as well."
%%
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/]
"Ich habe keine Gefühle, merken sie sich das, Walter. Und wenn ich welche
habe, werden sie nie über meine Intelligenz siegen".
%%
["Was ist ein Kopierschutz überhaupt?"]
[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,270719,00.html]
Damit entspricht Windows der Definition eines illegalen Tools zur Umgehung
des Kopierschutzes und müsste vom Markt genommen werden.
[...]
Das Bundesjustizministerium ist der Auffassung, dass die Frage nur durch
ein Gericht zu klären sei. Das Programm "Windows" kenne man zu wenig.
[...]
Handelt es sich bei Windows also rechtlich um das Abwehren einer Straftat
oder um das illegale Aushebeln eines Kopierschutzverfahrens?
%%
http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
%%
[A document] Written to answer the often asked question about the requirements
on the kernel to get a POSIX compliant thread implementation. And I don't
mean an implementation like this horrible implementation from IBM.
-- Ulrich Drepper
%%
GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
-- Ulrich Drepper
%%
Most programmers think that the programs they write are fairly well
written and perform as good as possible. In most cases this is not
correct. -- Ulrich Drepper
%%
Even though I cannot accept the rejection of fair use rights by the film
and music industry I cannot endorse piracy.
-- Ulrich Drepper
%%
Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
-- Ulrich Drepper
%%
[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
zuverlässiger
%%
[comment from linux/drivers/block/floppy.c]
/*
* 1999/08/13 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
* days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
* being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
*/
%%
[Microsoft creates a problem and inspires an industry to work around it.
Just Great. Also learn about Microsoft Logic(tm): DLL's save memory, so
you need to use them. But please use your own private versions of all your
dlls so that they aren't shared...]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
%%
[http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/drm03.html]
Pirating Movies
[...] The attackers aren't DVD owners making illegal copies and putting
them on file sharing networks. The attackers are industry insiders making
illegal copies long before the DVD is ever on the market.
%%
[Look at the time scale...]
http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
%%
[Just funny]
http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
%%
[http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60391,00.html]
The CEO of Symantec is advocating "legislation to criminalize the
sharing of information and tools online that can be used by malicious
hackers and virus writers." Doesn't he realize that most of his
company's engineers would end up in jail?
%%
[http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=1145]
Why is it you forgive Bush for saying "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET OSAMA".
and "NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL GET SADDAM". "I GUARANTEE THERE ARE WMD'S" etc
etc. Yet now he could care less about them? Of course, Clinton lies about
sex and that's a huge deal(not that i am justifying what Bubba did)
Why is it when the marines stormed in, they protected the oil fields but
left all the other resources of Iraq to be looted?
Why is it that the White House doesn't want to release information on
9/11, and only gave the investigation a $3 million budget?(it took $70
million to find out Clinton got a BJ, and that's all they found out for
$70 million!!). Meanwhile, even with a pathetic budget, the WH stonewalls
the investigating committee. It's not enough for the WH to just underfund
them, theyve got to make sure they can't get to any usefull information in
the first place!
%%
Buying a Unix machine guarantees you a descent into Hell. It starts when
you plug the computer in and it won't boot. Yes, they really did sell you
a $10,000 computer with an unformatted disk drive.
-- Philip Greenspun
%%
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
%%
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
to say it." -- not actually from Voltaire
%%
"Our ability to innovate is predicated on our ability to own the
platform."
[Kirk Koenigsbauer, strategy manager at Microsoft's MSN]
%%
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that
frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses
and you can sitll raed it wiuthoit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not
raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
%%
[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
%%
[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.asp]
So what actually happens when your Windows XP machine crashes and asks
if you want to send a report? The reports obviously accumulate in some
database, and I can only assume that when one bin piles up with similar
crash memos, the coders get to work. Exactly how many notifications does
Microsoft get? Nobody knows for sure, but based on comments Bill Gates
made at a recent meeting for analysts, the number must be astronomical.
Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice
daily.
%%
"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
%%
[http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/rbt/condemn_text.htm]
Critics of Congress and APA's concessions have analogized this situation
to that of Galileo. At the APA's annual convention in August 1999 in
Boston, an anonymous source, unknown to us, posted stickers around the
convention that satirically read, "If the US Congress says that 'The sun
revolves around the earth,' then that fact will be given most careful
consideration in all articles published by the APA."
%%
"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
-- Bruce Schneier
%%
[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
[...so it must be good]
http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
%%
[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
%%
[D-Info 3/2003 Database Dump]
I've written a script that dumps the D-Info 2003 database as tsv to stdout.
No idea why I announce it here...
http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/data/dump-dinfo
%%
[Oh My God!]
Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
%%
[How many squares are on a go-board?]
http://groups.google.com/groups?ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&selm=16394336.74521.15271%40kcbbs.gen.nz&rnum=2
%%
[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html]
When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose
father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about
life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have
been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied
Sacha.
%%
[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
A reader sent in this conversation he overheard at a corporate security
desk one morning:
Employee: I have lost my photo-ID card, can I get a day pass please?
Security Guard: Certainly, what is your serial number?
Employee: 123456
[Security guard pulls up the details on his computer, which includes a
photograph of the employee.]
Security Guard: Do you have a driver's license or another piece of
identification which has your picture on it?
Employee: Why would you need that?
Security Guard: To match against our records.
Employee: A picture of my face?
Security Guard: Yes
Employee: This is my face -- I am wearing it on my head.
Security Guard: I need another piece of ID with a picture on it to
compare against this one.
%%
[Voting in the US might be in for surprises in the future]
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml
[frankly, I don't trust any government if it's easy to fake votes]
%%
MS Windows passwords can be cracked in an average of 13.6 seconds.
Assuming your password consists of just letters and numbers, that is. But
my guess is that almost everyone falls into that category.
%%
Eppur si muove!
%%
[bwahahaha]
"RV K-17"
%%
"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
%%
[where NOT to learn german :)]
[http://www.berlitz.at/worldclub/reise-spanisch/]
<= Es ist 10:45 Uhr / viertel vor elf / dreiviertel zehn.
=> Son las once menos cuarto.
%%
ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
%%
[http://www.urheberrecht.org/news/?id=1402&w=&p=1]
Georgia Tornow, Generalsekretärin der Produzentenvereinigung film20 übt
ebenfalls Kritik an der neuen Formulierung. »In anderen Ländern ist
mitunter die Herstellung privater Kopien untersagt. Und in den USA wird
sogar darüber nachgedacht, Geräte zur Kopienherstellung für illegal zu
erklären«, so Tornow laut »blickpunktfilm.de«.
%%
http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
%%
[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
%%
[This patch removed the 75 records limit in D-Info 3/2003 linux for me]
[patch dinfo.i386, YMMV]
<00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba 4b00 0000 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
>00b8db0: 0084 c075 05ba ffff ff7f 89d0 89ec 5dc3 ...u..K.......].
%%
[bwbasic-2.20pl2/bwbasic.doc]
This program was originally begun in 1982 by my grandmother, Mrs.
Verda Spell of Beaumont, TX. She was writing the program using
an ANSI C compiler on an Osborne I CP/M computer and although my
grandfather (Lockwood Spell) had bought an IBM PC with 256k of
RAM my grandmother would not use it, paraphrasing George Herbert
to the effect that "He who cannot in 64k program, cannot in 512k."
She had used Microsoft BASIC and although she had nothing against
it she said repeatedly that she didn't understand why Digital
Research didn't "sue the socks off of Microsoft" for version 1.0
of MSDOS and so I reckon that she hoped to undercut Microsoft's
entire market and eventually build a new software empire on
the North End of Beaumont. Her programming efforts were cut
tragically short when she was thrown from a Beaumont to Port
Arthur commuter train in the summer of 1986. I found the source
code to bwBASIC on a single-density Osborne diskette in her knitting
bag and eventually managed to have it all copied over to a PC
diskette. I have revised it slightly prior to this release. You
should know, though, that I myself am an historian, not a programmer.
%%
[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
%%
[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
%%
[Wasteland]
Lester Moore,
Shot in the head with a .44.
No Les, no more.
%%
[SSK@DFpkjvKWA0kGPZUgm9LkJE1jX4cPAgM/MattersPhallic/4//]
Mormon advice on how to abstain from wanking
STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION
[for the rest of this entertaining document see the freesite]
%%
[Fallout]
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
%%
[http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html]
As we will discuss later, multiple layers of hashing are used in the
different steps of MS-CHAPv2. While this hashing serves to obscure some
of the values, it is unclear what the cryptographic significance of them
are. All they seem to do is to slow down the execution of the protocol.
[...]
It is unclear to us why this protocol is so complicated.
[...]
The Server concatenates the password-hash-hash, the 24-byte NT response,
and the literal string "Magic server to client constant", and then hashes
the result with SHA.
%%
> Für viele wird interessant sein, dass ich bisher bei jedem Kunden
> rechnerisch nachweisen konnte, dass OpenSource !immer! der teurere Weg
> ist!
Das bedeutet, daß durch Offenlegung des Source Codes eines Produkts
plötzlich höhere Aufwände entstehen? Was für ein Kundensegment betreust
Du denn? Analphabeten?
%%
"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
%%
17:21 ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
%%
[Biggest ping rtt I've ever seen]
64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=473 ttl=128 time=779.5 ms
64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=474 ttl=128 time=524.1 ms
64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=475 ttl=128 time=275.6 ms
64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=539 ttl=128 time=656365.4 ms
64 bytes from 1.0.0.3: icmp_seq=540 ttl=128 time=655365.5 ms
%%
[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
%%
[links are free ;)]
http://knowthetruth.b0x.com/Bush_Family/Bush_-_Hitler/bush_-_hitler.html
%%
[http://pobox.com/~oleg/MacHack96/]
Can software development be elevated from the Microsoft style?
%%
[openssl, crypto/evp/evp_enc.c]
/* One positive side-effect of US's export
* control history, is that we should at least
* be able to avoid using US mispellings of
* "initialisation"? */
EVPerr(EVP_F_EVP_CIPHERINIT, EVP_R_INITIALIZATION_ERROR);
%%
[man pem]
Although the PEM routines take several arguments in almost all applications most of them are set to 0 or NULL.
%%
[pth_native.c]
/* ``If you can't do it in
ANSI C, it isn't worth doing.''
-- Unknown */
%%
[subculture]
... scorp sind lucker und use script lamer aber über cheater aufregen
mehr nich und zu fünft in nem raum sitzen und dann public zocken und dann
skillig vorkommen ...
[http://forum.topwebmaster.net/extern/de/Ricoohh/thread/9196-77365]
%%%
[back to the roots. you might not understand the following, but
this list is about things _I_ find funny, not you... :)]
00:16 'mit windows netzwerk zu debuggen ist ungefaehr so sinnvoll wie eine
gehirnoperation mit einem vorschlaghammer'
00:18 elmex: da ich in deinem ignore bin, kann ich ja volltrottel sagen.
ethereal rennt seit jahren unter win32
00:18 oesi: ja, aber netzwerk nicht ;)
%%
[http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~cknust/detroit/a-z/medikamt.htm]
... Den Amerikanern sind Zäpfchen ebenso wie rektales Fiebermessen absolut
suspekt; der Verdacht der Kinderschändung steht sofort unausgesprochen im
Raum. Zäpfchen ("Suppositorium") werden allenfalls in der Notfallmedizin
im Krankenhaus verwendet. Haben Sie ein Kind, das an Asthma oder
Pseudo-Krupp-Anfällen leidet, bringen Sie sich einen entsprechenden Vorrat
an Zäpfchen unbedingt mit, erwähnen Sie diese aber, soweit möglich, nicht
vor amerikanischen Ärzten. ...
%%
sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
aber wenig freude.
%%
[from a deviance.nfo, looking for new members, I think it's waaay funny]
- you are a Unix guru with good Ansi-C software developing knowledge
and understanding how to prevent network security vulnerabilities.
That means you must be able to code to ansi-c guru level. And you
must also have a good coder perspective of hostbase and network
based intrusion detection systems. You should be able to code tools
to generically prevent stack and heap buffer overflows on unix in
Ansi-C. And Be able to code tools to look after a group of systems
and code sniffing avoidance tools. And you can configure a system
in ways to prevent packet sniffers and "man in the middle" attacks.
%%
17:39 marco: flüge von hannover/dortmund [nach sofia] etc. sind glatt
doppelt so teuer wie die gleichen von stuttgart/münchen/frankfurt
17:39 schmorp: da wollen zu viele weg und zu wenig hin... also sind die
fluege dort nur halb ausgelastet *g*
%%
For me, this article simply illustrates that centralised trust models
don't work well in practise.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml
%%
[Rumsfeld in a CNN interview]
There is an old saying, in the pentagon:
"ready, fire, aim."
%%
[...] You're allowed to resell the [windows] media but not the
license. "Unfortunately" for Microsoft, this distinction is illegal in
free countries like Germany [1].
[...]
Regards
Henning
[1] The current german governement is actively trying to change this
part of the german law. That's what you get for electing morons who
might look good on TV. At this point, we're already on U.S. levels.
%%
[...]
The GPL does not restrict you. Contrary, it uses copyright law to
establish a pool of software with much more freedom as copyright law gives
to you. It only does not give you so much freedom to deny other people the
same freedoms. The copyright holders can only do so, because copyright law
itself give you none of these rights at all.
[...]
Wolfgang Walter
%%
burro: i once played against a computer
burro: it seemed very clever
burro: but then all its groups died in yose
burro: it forgot to defend later..
burro: oops
burro: accidental poetry
%%
[about a go game between a pro player and some really good amateur,
where white could have lived easily but decided to risk it]
yoyoma [7k]: white is pro, rather die gloriosly than live in gote with a7!
%%
[from the default config of the oh-so-broken unrealircd]
#define BIG_SECURITY_HOLE
%%
"In fact the whole of Japan is pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people."
-- Oscar Wilde
%%
[a principle used in florida's law]
"guilty until proven innocent"
[http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm]
%%
Wonderful news! A little Jewish woman, calling Mount Sinai Hospital,
said, "Hello, darling, I'd like to talk with the person who gives the
information regarding your patients. I want to know if the patient is
getting better, or doing like expected, or is getting worse." The voice
on the other end of the line said, "What is the patient's name and room
number?" She said, "Yes, darling! she's Sarah Finkel, in Room 302." He
said, "Oh, yes. Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two
full meals, her blood pressure is fine, her blood work just came back
as normal, she's going to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of
hours and if she continues this improvement, Dr. Cohen is going to send
her home Tuesday at twelve o' clock." The woman said, "Thank God! That's
wonderful! Oh! that's fantastic, darling!... That's wonderful news!" The
man on the phone said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you must be a
close family member or a very close friend!" She said, "I'm Sarah Finkel
in 302! My doctor doesn't tell me shit!
%%
[gcc-3.2/.../sstream>
// NB: Start ostringstream buffers at 512 bytes. This is an
// experimental value (pronounced "arbitrary" in some of the
// hipper english-speaking countries), and can be changed to
// suit particular needs.
_M_buf_size_opt = 512;
%%
[members.aon.at/paulinchen/advtex/sanitar.htm]
[Walkthrough SANITARIUM]
... Deshalb suchst du erneut den Wassertempel auf. ... Dort haust du als
Grimwall den Lukas ... Darauf hin öffnet der Clown seinen Mund und du
kannst als Olmec die Melodie ...
%%
[Onibaba - Great Movie]
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
%%
[Kuroneko - I'd like to see :(]
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122136
%%
[ microsoft finally takes security seriously]
[http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q276304]
Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
%%
GNU Emacs kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 11.300
vi - Editor. Kurz und gut. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 2.333
XML für Dummies. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 225.881
JavaScript für Dummies. Dynamische Websites selbst gemacht. Amazon-Verkaufsrang 24.576
%%
[http://kyushu.com/gleaner/editorspick/seppuku.shtml]
[...] Obviously you have to decide well in advance why you are doing
[seppuku] [...] Resistance, remonstrance, show of loyalty, affirmation of
the correctness of one's own position, expiation of a crime and the wiping
out of disgrace are all perfectly good reasons; being refused a work visa
is not [...]
%%
Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
repetitive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
%%
[some hilights from:]
[http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.html]
_Einfach erklärt_
GUI
Ein Hintergrundbild und 12 Xterms
Globale Variable
Parameterübergabemechanismus in 4GLs
objektorientiert
Den Code habe ich von meinem Vorgaenger geerbt.
strukturiert
dieses Programm besteht aus mehreren Funktionen
Multithreaded
Wir mußten ein Flußdiagramm malen, um es zu debuggen.
Windows 95
Das Fortran 77 der Benutzungsoberflächen
Emacs
Ich habe ja auch nie bezweifelt, daß emacs ein tolles Betriebssystem
ist. Aber um mit Linux oder Windows konkurrieren zu können, fehlt ihm
ein vernünftiger Editor.
IPv6
$ telnet hundehalsband.georg.hunde.sonnenstrasse.muenchen.de
Trying 942884947298374923847982472983. 2398749874987249247.
2398472372349. 3249782374927898324. 2987238479874987398634.
2987428901171209471. 23987432923. 23478987923.
Die fünf Sinne des C++-Programmierers
Der Schwachsinn, der Blödsinn, der Wahnsinn, der Unsinn und der Stumpfsinn.
PHP
Meine C-64-Basic-Übungen hat niemand zu Gesicht bekommen, während die
in PHP verbrochenen Laufstall-Verunfallungen heutiger Milchgesichter
die Welt verpesten und womöglich von Schlipstraeger-Deppen als
e-Commerce-Lösung gekauft worden sind.
Alleinstellungsmerkmal
Bunt.
Plattformunabhängig
Wenn Du GWBASIC im Dos-Emulator laufen läßt bist Du auch
plattformunabhängig! Du brauchst nur einen Dos-Emulator!
[94: Copyright left out, too long, see original url]
%%
[logic & fallacies]
http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
%%
http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
%%
[nah]
In the Arthur Penn film "Night Moves," someone asks Gene Hackman for an
appraisal of Eric Rohmer's work, to which he replies, "it's like watching
paint dry."
%%
http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~jay/papers/thesis.pdf
http://home.attbi.com/~bglodis/htmf/AI2-GO2.htm
http://newyork.villageworld.com/users/bradleym/index.htm
%%
[Keith Packard about some design holes in X that lead to XRender]
The rules themselves may be broken, but their existence is of vital
importance.
%%
[http://cbbrowne.com/info/xpersonal.html]
[_very_ good pages, read them all!]
Many things have been hacked onto Win32; unfortunately, actually using
Windows-based facilities has two massive detrimental effects:
You have to trust Microsoft.
There are a number of things that I would trust Microsoft with. I trust
Microsoft to continue to release buggy software such as the Windows 98
release that needed patches to survive to 1999, let alone 2000. I trust
Microsoft to continue to release software that gets more bloated such
that it requires as much memory as systems can support just to support
useless chrome.
But control over whether my code will continue to be usable next year
whether due to technical or licensing changes is not one of the things
I'd like to trust them with.
[...]
%%
[when choosing "About" from the mozilla menu]
[now, which OS let's us enjoy similar error messages all the time? ;)]
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml
Line Number 90, Column 15:
Copyright © 1998-2002 by Contributors to
--------------^
%%
[from the kanon 10% english translation patch README]
[http://haeleth.port5.com/]
A Japanese effect not found in English is the wonderful verbless sentence,
which I like so much that I've translated a few literally. I do know
English grammar, I assure you.
%%
Giant hornets regularly attack beehives. Typically, an attack begins when
a single hornet captures a lone bee nearby the hive. After several of
these perimeter skirmishes, one hornet leaves a marking pheromone at the
hive's entrance. This pheromone attracts the other hornets, who arrive
en masse and attack the beehive. The bees' stingers can't penetrate the
hornets' armor, so it's a one-sided slaughter; something like 30,000 bees
can be killed in a few hours by 30-40 hornets.
Japanese honeybees, however, have evolved an interesting defensive
strategy. When a hornet marks the hive's entrance, the bees guarding the
entrance return to the hive and wait for the attacking hornets. This has
the effect of luring the first attacking hornets into the hive, rather
than allowing them to start their attack outside. Simultaneously, over
1000 worker bees in the hive leave the combs and mass just inside the
hive's entrance. When a hornet tries to enter the hive, the workers
surround it, forming a ball of bodies, and cook it to death with their
body heat. The bees also release a pheromone that draws ever more bees
from the hive's interior to come to the entrance and defend the nest.
This strategy must be perfect in order to be successful. If the bees fail
in killing the first hornet attackers, then the hornet pheromone gets
stronger, and more hornets arrive to reinforce their attack. By sheer
numbers, the hornets can overpower the bees.
Source: Bernd Heinrich, "The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect
Survival," Harvard University Press, 1996.
%%
[http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/csrss-backspace-bug.html]
[fixed in latest service packs, but still funny ;)]
The following neat little program, when compiled and run, will completely
crash XP (and any earlier version of NT) (when I ran it, XP rebooted). I
don't recommend you really try this program, but if you do, save all your
work etc first:
#include
int main (void) {
while (1)
printf ("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
return 0;
}
%%
[you might point your windows-using-friends to this page, it
contains a lot of funny FUD ;)]
http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
%%
[http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html]
Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of
the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a
rigorous government certification confirming this.
%%
[mms_client after finishing the download]
everything done. Thank you for downloading a media file containing
proprietary and patentend technology.
%%
I wouldn't want to win the Steven Spielberg Award - he is an amateur!
-- Aki Kaurismäki
%%
[http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html]
"The Gödelian structure of the unity of levels of Reality associated
with the logic of the included middle implies that it is impossible to
construct a complete theory for describing the passage from one level to
the other and, a fortiori, for describing the unity of levels of Reality."
%%
1. Das von den Parteien eingeführte Listenwahlrecht verstößt gegen
Art. 38, Abs. 1, Satz 1 Grundgesetz (GG): »Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen
Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und
geheimer Wahl gewählt.« Danach muß es dem Bürger möglich sein, seinen
Abgeordneten unmittelbar zu wählen. Die Wahl von Parteienlisten ist also
verfassungswidrig, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil hierbei Kandidaten zum Zuge
kommen, die der Listenwähler nicht wählen will.
2. Der Fraktionszwang verstößt ebenfalls gegen das Grundgesetz. Satz
2 des Art. 38, Abs. 1, lautet nämlich: »Sie (die Abgeordneten) sind
Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden
und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.« Wenn Fraktionsvorsitzende den frei
gewählten Abgeordneten einer Fraktionsdisziplin unterwerfen (und das noch
unter Androhung von Sanktionen), erteilen sie Weisungen darüber, wie die
Abgeordneten der Partei abzustimmen haben. Es handelt sich dann um eine
Form fraktionsinternen imperativen Mandats.
3. Die überbordende Staatsverschuldung (vor allem im Bund) verstößt gegen
Art. 115 des GG. Darin heißt es in Abs. 1, Satz 2: »Die Einnahmen aus
Krediten dürfen die Summe der im Haushaltsplan veranschlagten Ausgaben für
Investitionen nicht überschreiten; Ausnahmen sind nur zulässig zur Abwehr
einer Störung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts.« Unter Fachleuten
besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel, daß das vorgeschriebene Kreditlimit
(Höhe der »Ausgaben für Investitionen«) durch Haushaltstricks sträflich
überschritten wurde. Die Folge: Im Jahre 2001 erreichte die Verschuldung
der Gebietskörperschaften die unvorstellbare Höhe von 1.210 Mrd. Euro (im
Bund: 700 Mrd. Euro); das sind 79 Prozent des jährlichen Volkseinkommens
von 1.531 Mrd. Euro.
%%
[just FMI (for my information)]
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/form-i18n.html
%%
[perldoc perlboot]
Typically, each @ISA has only one element (multiple elements means
multiple inheritance and multiple headaches)
%%
[I find that all this stallman-bashing is a sure sign that that
"linux" thing will fail]
In lists.linux.kernel.development, Larry McVoy wrote:
[...]
Richard Stallman started the free software foundation. He built the
compiler, library and zillions of other tools that developers use on a day
to day basis. He slept at the offices of MIT while he spent his time,
effort and money building up the Free Software Foundation.
Though many people differ with him on a wide variety of issues, he
deserves respect from all because he has devoted twenty years of his
life to the public good.
You, on the other hand, develop and sell a proprietary software product.
You convinced a large number of kernel developers (most importantly
Linus himself) to use your proprietary product to develop free software,
so that you could tell potential customers "Gee! Look how great my
software is! It's used to develop the linux kernel!"
You don't care about free software Larry. You're just glad that you have
a poster child to display your effort. Want proof? Look at how you have
treated numerous kernel developers when you found out that they worked
on free software projects that could potentially compete with your
software some day -- you revoke their "free" license to use your
software to work on the linux kernel!
Richard is trying to change the world into a better place. You, however,
are trying to get rich, and you're using free software as a stepping
stone to promote your proprietary software. Nothing wrong with getting
rich of course -- I'd love to be rich too. But you certainly don't
deserve to be lumped into the same group as RMS.
%%
[perldoc perlreftut]
What does line 4 do here?
[...]
This is Perl, so it does the exact right thing.
%%
[perldoc perlreftut]
Think of the President of the United States: a messy, inconvenient bag of
blood and bones. But to talk about him, or to represent him in a computer
program, all you need is the easy, convenient scalar string "George Bush".
%%
[rise and fall of free software standards]
* GNU Gettext and %expect
GNU Gettext asserts 10 s/r conflicts, but there are 7. Now that
Bison dies on incorrect %expectations, we fear there will be
too many bug reports for Gettext, so _for the time being_, %expect
does not trigger an error when the input file is named `plural.y'.
%%
Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
-- Leonard Brandwein
%%
[11:57] email@wanadoo.fr
[11:57] you know what wannados are?
[11:58] the french pendant of aol users ??
[11:58] nope
[11:58] then no clue
[11:58] "people who fail before they even try"
[12:00] wanadoo was actually named following this idea, *sigh*
[12:00] not really, yes?
[12:00] yes
[12:00] ;);)
[12:03] that "yes" sounded really painful
[12:03] more than you could imagine :)
%%
[11:37] Oui mon francais est un peu
[11:38] Arvoreen: not bad, it doesn't mean much but it sounds french :)
%%
A Russian hacker was sentenced to three years in prison here in the
United States for breaking computer crime laws here. It's an
interesting story. He was in Russia at the time, and broke no laws in
his country. However, the U.S. prosecution broke Russian laws to
collect evidence against him. The judge agreed with the FBI's
assertion that Russian law didn't apply to them. Isn't international
jurisprudence fun?
%%
[02:58] microsoft finally gets it:
[02:58] Visual Basic .NET delivers the feature most requested by existing Visual Basic
[02:58] developers--fewer bugs in the code they write.
[...]
[03:00] "VB programmers have finally found out they lack talent, and blame Microsoft" ;-)
%%
[found at www.imdb.com]
the trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots.
- Paul Ginsparg.
%%
prionbrain: A joke I just read: " A girl phoned me the other day and
said, .. come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. There was nobody
home.":))
[erm...]
%%
> described above, CONFIG_XBOX_SUPPORT will depend on CONFIG_PCI.
Which seems fair enough. ISA bus X-box systems are suprisingly rare
%%
[05:06] windows has 2 left hands when it comes to being an OS
%%
[http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PDF/IUC11-UTF-8.pdf]
[...] In particular, the following behaviour proposed or observed in some
implementations is not UTF-8 and should never be presented as such. First,
UTF16 surrogate pairs could be encoded in UTF-8 as two sequences of 3
bytes each (this behaviour is observed in some Java implementations).
%%
.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
%%
From: "David S. Miller"
> Then shouldn't the thing thats different from the norm be programmed into a header file which contains how certain functions should be+++
If I gave you a dollar, would you go out and buy some newlines
to use in future emails?
%%
Could somebody drag the Irix team kicking and screaming into the 1980's,
please?
I realize it might be quite painful for them, but maybe you could buy them
a disco tape, so they'd feel a little bit more at home.
Linus "Stayin' alive, stayin' alive" Torvalds
%%
Yesterday, the local Brazilian authorities signed a decree stating that the
Brazilian daylight saving period will start on November 3rd 2002 and will
last until February 16th 2003.
So, clocks will be set one hour forward on November 3rd (12:00 a.m. will be
changed to 1:00 a.m.) and at midnight (0:00 am) on February 16th, Brazil
will adjust its clocks back one hour (23:00 pm on Feb 15th) marking the
end.
The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
take place on October 27th.
The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM ,
the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
Constitution (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change
the clock)...
%%
[boycot your enemies]
> We're a business. We're a business which happens to be committed to
> helping the kernel team because we think that the kernel is vital to the
> world at large. Helping the kernel absolutely does not translate to
> helping people who happen to be our competitors. By your own
Stop lying. Your job is to make lots of money and you are using Linux as
cheap advertising. You are trying to make people pay *you* to do kernel
development (as it stands you want $5000 for any bk-using developer inside
RedHat and SuSE).
I hope your company dies ASAP and bitkeeper stops poisoning air here.
Pavel
%%
Rik
--
A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
%%
> Incidently unlimited permission is granted to use disks containing only
> GNU/Linux software as footballs without royalties. All other usage of
> disks as footballs will be considered on a per case basis.
I would be inclined to allow this for Windows drives instead. They contain
no useful data.
--
bill davidsen
%%
In the switching software (written in C)
there was a long do..while construct,
which contained a switch statement,
which contained an if clause,
which contained a break,
which was intended for the if clause,
but instead broke from the switch statement.
- Network message explaining the breakdown of the AT&T long-distance
network January 15, 1990
%%
[From "password retrieval policies" of some irc network:]
They are likely to continue asking for the password, even after you have
told them that it has been E-Mailed. /Ignore the stupid user. /Kick the
stupid user. Do not /Kill the stupid user, since being stupid is not a
violation of network policies.
[the same document, explaining K:Lines]
K:Lines - These lines define which clients are not allowed to connect.
The format is as follows:
K:*.aol.com:AOL sucks:lamer
%%
[Microsoft's Craig Mundie on security.]
"People confuse 'security' and Trustworthy Computing."
http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/2002/feb02/02-20mundieqa.asp
%%
http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml
"I'm not proud," [Brian] Valentine [senior vice president in charge of
Microsoft's Windows development team] said, as he spoke to a crowd of
developers here at the company's Windows .Net Server developer
conference. "We really haven't done everything we could to protect our
customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security."
...
"If you go back a few years, unless you were working on login at
Microsoft, you really didn't worry about security. The risk wasn't worth
the effort."
%%
http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
%%
[please bear with me and understand that I didn't intend to drive
gay people mad at me with this one...]
[10:16] Wenn man ihn mal mit so 'nem richtigen Bilderbuch-Schwulen wie
Lukas vergleicht :)
[10:16] Lukas is net schwul, er is Consultant
%%
http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/tenseg1.html
%%
http://24.86.132.253/090101/feature/feature.htm
%%
I maintain a /bin/ps that supports BSD, SysV, and Gnu syntax all at the
same time. It requires Linux. This one works; the Red Hat one is broken.
[Albert Cahalan]
%%
The Berkeley shell csh is reasonably well known and widely used and its
externals have been subject to some criticism. The internals of csh are at
least as bad, but lesser known.
%%
There are billions of different ways of parsing argv, the list of command
line arguments passed to a C program. The problem is that they are all
different.
%%
A common disease in programs written at Berkeley is to open /dev/kmem and grub the load averages out by the dirtiest means possible.
%%
[no, I still don't like bondage & discipline]
http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~geldridg/eiffel/liberty/meyer-bertrand/java/bm-2nd.html
%%
[about the early CD-R dyes]
The early, immature media caused some interesting problems. A certain
popular Technics CD player, often used in radio stations, had a bad habit
of accepting the early media, but refusing to eject it, causing much
consternation to disc jockeys who were left without a player and possibly
without a show.
%%
[more of a timestamp]
"SANS, SOUCI"
%%
http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/canthappen.html
%%
The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/paul/docs/commandments.html
%%
[Bruce Schneier]
A bill introduced into Congress gives copyright holders -- that's the RIAA,
the MPAA, and similar guys -- the right to break into people's computers if
they have a reasonable basis to believe that copyright infringement is
going on.
[...]
People they choose to target would be deemed guilty until proven
otherwise. In short, this bill would set up the entertainment industry
as a Gestapo-like enforcement agency with no oversight.
%%
[06:20] BTW, (being from the USA) If pro is the grammatical
opposite of con, then the opposite of "progress" would be... "Congress"???
%%
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
%%
http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859
%%
[practical go humor]
Lantu: ok any suggestions for good practical jokes to play on Pro's? :]
id: Make a line of five stones, yell "Pente", and *insist* you've won.
%%
[windows API rocks]
The FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS enumeration type defines values that are used with
the FindFirstFileEx function to specify the information level of the
returned data.
typedef enum _FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS {
FindExInfoStandard
} FINDEX_INFO_LEVELS ;
%%
[Arvoreen philosophiert über die Verkleinerung von GNOME mit strip]
[05:10] 153MB gestripped und vorher 541MB
[05:13] oder wie der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen wuerde um 354%
kleiner ;-)))))) (die haben ja die prozente oberhalb von 100 erfunden)
%%
[Microsoft documents how file types are detected in IE. No wonder
it doesn't work:]
1. If the "suggested" (server-provided) MIME type is unknown (not
known and not ambiguous), FindMimeFromData immediately returns
this MIME type as the final determination.
%%
[freshmeat. And this release even adds ANOTHER codepage. I am impressed]
Recode 0.1.1
by Eugene V. Chernyshev - Friday, June 28th 2002 01:58 EDT
About: Recode is a fast Russian codepage translator. It translates between
three different codepages: DOS 866, Windows CP-1251, and UNIX KOI8-R.
Changes: This release adds an ISO-8859-5 codepage.
%%
http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/computer-error-messages.txt
%%
$S=eval'sub{eval"sub{%S}"}';$S->({});
%%
[From CRYPTO-GRAM]
Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative seems to be
just a scam so the company can avoid antitrust remedies by
claiming that opening their systems is a security risk. Pity.
A comment on Slashdot sums it up best: "Microsoft has therefore taken
the position that their code is so bad that it must be kept secret to
keep people from being killed by it. Windows -- the Pinto of the 21st
century."
Most interesting of the two articles above is the second eWeek article,
where Microsoft's Allchin mentions "at least one protocol and two APIs
that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under the security
carve-out." The protocol is Message Queuing. Apparently, Microsoft
has discovered a security flaw in the Message Queuing protocol so bad
that can't be fixed without breaking existing applications. So, until
such time as they can field a backwards-compatible fix, they're going
to hope no one else discovers it. (This is not a wholly unreasonable
decision; security researchers have made the same decision in the
past.) Of course, Allchin has undermined this decision by publicly
naming the protocol. That's more than enough for someone sufficiently
motivated to find the flaw. In the classified world, you can get your
clearance pulled for blabbing like that. Jim Allchin's testimony:
At the same time, Microsoft tries to convince the Pentagon that open source
software threatens security, and using proprietary Microsoft software is
much safer (and better for the economy, to boot). This article is
hilarious in light of the above.
A report on something called a Tactical Web Page, which purports to be a
secret combat Web site, through which American commanders in the United
States can direct troops in Afghanistan. My favorite quote: "'There have
been a few instances when unidentified computers have tried to get in, in
which case we throw up additional firewalls,' Lt. Col. Bryan Dyer
said." Is it just me, or does Lt. Col. Dyer come from I-Don't-Get-It Land?
Yet more comments from the clueless. In response to the report that
someone hacked into Experian's database and stole 13,000 credit-card
numbers, a PR flack said: "Our files are protected by state-of-the-art,
Star Wars-style security and encryption technology."
%%
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52901,00.html
%%
ich: ich hätte gerne ein nummernschild in unna: "un-ix 123"
zotan: sei froh, daß du nicht in wiesbaden wohnst: "wi-n 95"
%%
"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it
so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it
so complicated that there are no obvious errors."
Tony Hoare
%%
Nach dem Gesetz über Einheiten im Meßwesen vom 2. Juli 1969 in der Fassung
vom 22. Februar 1985 dürfte Word im geschäftlichen und amtlichen Verkehr
_nicht_ eingesetzt werden, da es mit dem Punkt eine nicht-SI-konforme
Maßeinheit verwendet.
%%
From: Alan Cox
[...]
The Nforce is basically completely unsupported by 2.2. It is mostly unsupported
by 2.4. The networking built into the chipset is not supported by either
system. Basically its windows computer
%%
[go figure...]
read(3, 0x8102cc8, 32768) = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
%%
Subject: Re: Off topic: Solaris 9 announced, a lot of Linux incorporated
> In today's world of heterogeneous computing, compatibility leads
> to efficiency. Combining the Linux community with thousands of
> Solaris software developers and nearly three million Java and XML
> software developers...
Homeopathic approach to software development?
%%
> > Patch is severely broken in its current form, not only for the
> > reasons you stated, but also because of its inability to handle
> > renaming in any sane way. I want a patch --sane option.
>
> I bet BitKeeper gets it right... ;-) ;-) ;-)
Funny you should mention that, since Bitkeeper has embarrassed itself pretty
badly with respect to patches, so far.
- Somebody decided to add another level on top of the linux root directory
in their source directory. I can't import patches into that.
- I can apply patches to bitkeeper repository using the normal 'patch',
but Bitkeeper gets its revenge later, as each bk edit command starts
off by throwing away the patch.
Given the hype, I expected more. I want a tool to save work for me, not
create new work. I don't think I'll be using Bitkeeper as a substitute for
patch any time soon.
--
Daniel
%%
From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg"
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
[...]
Bummer, I'm using Debian, and iostat is in woody (frozen, about to
be released) - that means Debian users will have to wait to the
next release, another two years perhaps, before iostat gets working.
%%
[no comments ;)]
I've installed kernel 2.5.15 (should include aio support) an libaio (0.3.7).
It seams that libaio.so depends on libredhat-kernel.so.1. Why?
Is it realy needed?
%%
[W. Richard Stevens about the 3.2 streams "poll" function:]
int poll(struct pollfd *fdarray, unsigned long nfds, int timeout);
[...] The number of elements in the array of structures [...] is
specified by the nfds argument. (Why this argument is specified as
an unsigned long integer, and not a simple integer, is perplexing.)
%%
[www.intel.com]
Over 70 Internet Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
extensions enhance streaming multimedia and graphics applications, both on
the hard drive and over the Internet. With SIMD, audio and video
download faster, with clearer sound quality, deeper color and resolution,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
and enlarged images with smoother frame rates.
%%
From: Alexander Viro
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > I did quite a bit of this work for CML2 - bus dependencies can be
> > found in the CML2 sources.
>
> Btw, what happened to CML2?
This is an ex-parrot
%%
From: David Weinehall
> > It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something
> > besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as
> > easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting
> > algorithm ever" etc.
>
> Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not,
> pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.)
I've always been a fan of bit-decay sort.
while (!sorted(data))
;
%%
Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
From: Alan Cox
> This should be a reflex for someone with such a Sun heritage like you...
You obviously never used SunOS4. Its a bit before security became relevant
to computing
%%
From: David Schwartz
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
>What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
Common sense, one would hope.
%%
From: Toon Moene
[...]
Obviously, the only way I could support this effort is by rewriting the
backend to use FORTRAN; that way it would finally be possible to
translate the Linux kernel into FORTRAN and vindicate this:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
"Challenged by McIlroy's feat in reproducing TMG, Thompson decided that
Unix - possibly it had not even been named yet - needed a system
programming language. After a rapidly scuttled attempt at Fortran, he
created instead a language of his own, which he called B"
:-)
%%
"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
their C programs."
Robert Firth
%%
[miri@ccc.de]
Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
[and after some quarrel...]
Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
%%
[Klaus Knopper, and no, I don't think this, to the contrary :(]
Ich bin Marc Lehmann begegnet, und seitdem glaube ich, er hält mich für blöd.
%%
[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
%%
[from windows' wininet.h]
#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
%%
Für die Erkenntnis, dass Perl produktivitätssteigernd wirkt, kämpfe ich hier
in meinem Laden allerdings noch. Interessanterweise sind die Leute, die
selber programmieren, mittlerweile fast alle auf meiner Seite; die Leute,
dir organisieren und selber gar nicht programmieren können, halten Perl für
eine Art Spielzeug, oder für ein Quick-and-Dirty-Tool, das man bei
erstbester Gelegenheit durch etwas professionelles ersetzen muss (was
vermutlich von Microsoft stammt).
Aber ich arbeite weiter dran...
\Gisbert
%%
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
%%
P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the
world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
--Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393@wall.org>
%%
From: Felix von Leitner
Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
I don't have python. Any version of python.
[...]
%%
[perldoc Test::Harness]
Additional comments may be put into the testing output on their own lines.
Comment lines should begin with a '#', Test::Harness will ignore them.
ok 1
# Life is good, the sun is shining, RAM is cheap.
not ok 2
# got 'Bush' expected 'Gore'
%%
I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
%%
> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
>
> Spinaphore :-)
Or mutabloat :-(
%%
Microsoft Outlook *IS* the problem. Blaming it *IS* correct. Removing
Outlook *IS* the solution.
%%
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
%%
From: Ricky Beam
Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
never bought anything from UUNet.
%%
deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
by delving below its surface meaning)
%%
http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
%%
From: Alan Cox
> and hire all the lawyers they'd want...at the end of the day, could you
> just go to court and say:
Oh glorious naivety.
> The law seems pretty damn clear on this issue (in fact Subsection 3.c
> sounds like I could quite happily send it to someone in the USA if they
> can do the work better than I).
You release the code
The next day an injunction arrives in the post
The day after that the large corporate lawyers slap a secrecy order on you
preventing you discussing the case with anyone but your legal representative
by convincing some pissed geriatric moron in the high court that if he
doesnt sign it you'll tell the whole world and harm them irrepairably
Over the next week 10-15,000 pages of documents arrive for you, followed
by a couple of thousand discovery requests.
A week later while you are reading them they file for summary judgement
because you have failed to file the defence. You lose. Game over
Then the court costs bankrupt you.
Sound like fiction - it happens _regularly_. Its very rare (McLibel case
is extremely unusual) that it can ever be talked about on a per case basis,
or that the good guys win.
This is why everyone doing innovative computing work does it outside of the
US, and outside of most of the EU.
%%
From: Alan Cox
[...]
I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
year to kill.
%%
[CRYPTO-GRAM, January 2002]
Windows UPnP Vulnerability
[...]
Here's a quote from Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response
center: "This is the first network-based, remote compromise that I'm aware
of for Windows desktop systems."
[...]
eEye Digital Security told Microsoft about this vulnerability nearly two
months before Microsoft released its patch.
[...]
UPnP is a complex set of protocols to support ad hoc peer-to-peer
networking. Even though no one uses it, it's installed in a bunch of
Microsoft OSs. Even though no one needs it turned on, sometimes it's
turned on by default.
[...]
The industry analysts at Gartner issued a warning, urging companies to
delay upgrading to Windows XP for "three to six months," lest more of
these kind of vulnerabilities surface.
[...]
Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some
fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products
are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've
done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they
repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because
they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie
anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities
as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this
kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products.
%%
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
%%
[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
Monday, 06. November 2000
%%
[01:42] 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
[01:42] #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
%%
[http://davesource.com/Projects/DEStiny/x.c.html as found by google]
* If you are outside of the United States, then you do not have
* the legal right to export/download/view this program.
[too late, I broke the law, again!]
%%
Our standards say that a compiler crash, for any input whatsoever, no
matter how invalid (even if you feed in line noise), is a bug. Other than
that we shouldn't make promises, though the old gcc1 behavior of trying to
launch a game of rogue or hack when encountering a #pragma was cute.
%%
> Of course, that "other operating system" does not require you to
> manually mount CD-ROMs at all.
Nor does Linux if you set it up right. Its a case of making proper use of
existing interfaces and a bit of userspace magic. And all done without the
student fun of leaving "format/u c:" autostart cd-r's around labelled "porn"
%%
From: Alan Cox
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6]
> It never shows up in the maintainer's inbox, leaving them more time to
> address the remainder. And fewer of the increasingly bitter complaints of
> dropped patches.
Most mangled diffs I get are caused by pine. Fixing pine would do more
wonders than any magical patchbot. I also get patches and changes from
people who quite genuinely either can't mail me unmangled diffs (eg the
lotus corporate mail policy afflicted) or are from people who may really
know their stuff and even be the vendor but are not familiar with the
patch/diff tools. A robot isn't going to teach them.
%%
I remind you: ORACLE 9i is requiring half a gig as a minimum just due to
the use of the CRAPPY PIECE OF SHIT written in the Java, called, you guess
it: Just the bloody damn Installer.
%%
From: "David S. Miller"
From: Bill Huey
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:16:31 -0800
Like the Java folks ? few and far between ?
Precisely, in fact. Anyone who can say that Java is going to be
relevant in a few years time, with a straight face, is only kidding
themselves.
Java is not something to justify a new kernel feature, that is for
certain.
%%
> required DaveM made it unconditional... I think the checkin comment was
> something along the lines of "make it unconditional unless Alan
> complains about kernel bloat" :)
And I did complain. "Red Hat needs XYZ so we make it mandatory" is not an
appropriate approach to a problem.
%%
From: Pekka Pietikäinen
^^^^
[...]
Blah, Celsius is obviously more natural:
[...]
-20 Long underwear is a good idea
-15 Nice winter day
-10 Slightly warm winter day
-5 Nice warm winter day
0 Slippery as hell outside, beware!
%%
No, the US never went metric. That's why $200M Mars probes crash on
entry due to some idiot using English units as opposed to the NASA standard
of Metrics. The funny thing is that Thomas Jefferson, an American President,
suggested the Metric system to the French while he was ambassador there.
%%
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:24:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> select/poll is a win - and Java recently discovered poll/select semantics 8)
Anything is a win over Java's threading model.
-ben
%%
[...]
[11:55] <|Pixel|> no, not spanish :)
[11:55] <|Pixel|> and I'm closer to germany than spania
[11:55] <|Pixel|> so I think I'll soon get luxembourg, german or belgian euros
[11:55] I'm closer to toulouse than to china
[11:56] i am closer to france than to janman
[11:56] <|Pixel|> err
[11:56] <|Pixel|> well :)
[11:57] (but the french people near the border don't call themselves "french" ;)
[11:57] <|Pixel|> ho yes but I live just below 'em
[11:57] ;->
[11:57] <|Pixel|> I'm from moselle. I'm not alsacian
%%
Rob Bos hat das Problem über den Apache Webserver schließlich auf
debian-devel zur Sprache gebracht. Dessen Lizenz besagt, daß die
Namen "Apache Server" und "Apache Group" ohne vorherige schriftliche
Zustimmung nicht dazu verwendet werden dürfen, um ein Produkt zu
unterstützen oder zu bewerben, das von dieser Software abgeleitet
wurde. Debian modifiziert jedoch verschiedene Dateien, so daß das
Debian-Paket unter Umständen als abgeleitete Arbeit bezeichnet werden
könnte. Eine ähnliche Diskussion wurde vor ungefähr 8 Monaten auf
debian-legal geführt. Die Diskussion ist ziemlich sinnlos, aber sie fand
statt...
%%
http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
%%
[From CRYPTO-GRAM, 2001-12-15]
Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes a file erasure program called Wipe Info.
In the manual (page 160), we learn that "Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values
to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal
values." Who writes this stuff?
%%
http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
%%
> I have also changed "Macao" to "Macau". Why? :-)
> 1. Macau is the official name (in both English and Portuguese).
> See www.macau.gov.mo, for example.
> 2. On recent trips to Macau, I can no longer find any signs that say
> "Macao".
> 3. ISO 3166 says MO = Macau in English; MO = Macao in French.
> 4. On Google, Macau: 810000 hits; Macao: 311000 hits.
%%
[09:20] 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
%%
Beitrag
FUCK LINUX - Lesezugriffe: 198
fucklinux
IP: 217.83.123.198
1. FUCK LINUX
Linux ist doch wohl nur EKELHAFT WIDERLICH WIDERWÄRTIG
Eintrag erfolgte am: 06 Nov, 2001 um 22:12
%%
From: RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
[...]
Not at all... Hungarian notation is not so bad, except it is only
understood by people from hungary. So the name }:))) I just use it
when I write code for Hungary or secret code that no one should
read...
%%
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw
%%
[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
Filename: R16OS0B.zip
Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
%%
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:03:50 +0100 "A." ,MISSING_MAILBOX_TERMINATOR@.SYNTAX-ERROR.,UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR. wrote:
%%
[06:46] marco kannst du mir die sources von Nvidia auf die uni kopieren. Nvidia ist aschlahhm heute 92 bytes/sec
[06:46] Arvoreen: linux oder windows treiber?
[06:47] Arvoreen: sorry, hab nicht richtig gelesen
[06:48] marco: du stellst fragen
[06:49] Arvoreen: du tippst zu langsam
%%
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:08:37AM -0600, C V wrote:
> You mention "Do not set retries more often than 60 minutes".
> So I shouldn't set my retry greater than 60 minutes or did you meant to say
> to set retries atleast 60 minutes?
> Thanks for clearing this up.
%%
It is more virtuous to write programs that are fast than slow.
It is more virtuous to write programs that are small than bloated.
It is more virtuous to write programs that are optimized than not.
It is more virtuous to write programs that are portable than platform-specific.
It is more virtuous to write programs that are modular than spaghetti code (example: Unix's many commands versus Windows)
It is more virtuous to write programs that are independent than reliant on numerous libraries and software systems.
It is more virtuous to write programs that use little memory than be a memory hog.
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).
It is more virtuous to write programs that are self-testing than not.
It is more virtuous to write programs that are GPL'd than payware.
%%
[Jim Allchin, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group]
Windows XP is dramatically more secure than Windows 2000 or any of the
prior systems. Buffer overflow has been one of the attacks frequently used
on the Internet. We have gone through all code and, in an automated way,
found places where there could be buffer overflow, and those have been
removed in Windows XP.
We have also turned off by default a whole set of things so that users are
configured in a minimalist kind of way, making them less vulnerable. We
also put a Win XP machine naked on the Internet and let people try and
crack it. There have been no entrances and no issues so far.
%%
[From CRYPTO-GRAM, on bug secrecy rather than full disclosure]
The result is that users can't make intelligent decisions on
security. Here's one example: A few months ago, security researcher Niels
Ferguson found a security flaw in Intel's HDCP Digital Video Encryption
System, but withheld publication out of fear of being prosecuted under the
DMCA. Intel's reaction was reminiscent of the pre-full-disclosure days:
they dismissed the break as "theoretical" and maintained that the system
was still secure. Imagine you're thinking about buying Intel's
system. What do you do? You have no real information, so you have to
trust either Ferguson or Intel.
Here's another: A few weeks ago, a release of the Linux kernel came
without the customary detailed information about the OS's security. The
developers cited fear of the DMCA as a reason why those details were
withheld. Imagine you're evaluating operating systems: Do you feel more or
less confident about the security the Linux kernel version 2.2, now that
you have no details?
[...]
Particularly disturbing is the way Thomas tried to invoke patriotism and
counterterrorism in an effort to get people to use Microsoft products. He
said that if people stop using Microsoft's IIS because of security concerns
-- as Gartner advocated recently -- that this "would only accomplish what
the industrial terrorists want."
%%
[Bruce Schneier]
Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
%%
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
%%
In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
of each 50 days
%%
"Richard B. Johnson" writes:
>I believe that we should have sent a tactical nuclear cruise
>missile to Ben Laden's last known address. We can always apologize
>later. This would put future terrorists on notice that if you
%%
> Well, freedom in the US has always been about money. The independence war was
> about getting rid of taxes and modern freedom is bought in the courtrooms
> with expensive lawyers. Why should it change now?
%%
On 7 Feb 1999, torvalds@transmeta.com wrote:
> I _refuse_ to even consider tying my hands over some binary-only module.
>
> <...>
>
> Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules,
> it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I
> want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a
> cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules.
%%
They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression.
This was a lie and we could not let them publish it.
-- Nelba Blandon, Nicaraguan Interior Ministry Director of Censorship
%%
> more for feedback that the boot is proceeding ok. The fact the boot
> sequence isn't even interactive should also be a big hint that it isn't
> really necessary (except for kernel and driver developers).
You are thinking the small picture not the big one. If you are going to
graphical in init then you want to make full use of the graphical
environment to clearly show things like parallel fsck behaviour, what
servers are starting up (with pretty icons) and to do interactive things
like starting a rescue shell, going single user, pausing the boot,
changing run level, interactive boot.
Alan
%%
[http://thefreeworld.net/]
I'm a US citizen, but why would I care?
The DMCA is only enforced against criminals, right?
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
%%
http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
%%
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
%%
> For instance, most X-Ray systems only detect density. The X-Ray
> density of a jar of peanut butter is similar to the density of
> the explosive C4. Without chemical discrimination, anybody with
> a jar of peanut butter in their luggage is suspect. However,
I suspect them anyway. I've never seen anything in peanut butter.
%%
[jwz about netscape's threading algorithm]
"This is not the algorithm that Netscape 4.x uses, because this is another
area where the 4.0 team screwed the pooch, and instead of just continuing
to use the existing working code, replaced it with something that was
bloated, slow, buggy, and incorrect. But hey, at least it was in C++ and
used databases!"
%%
From: Alexander Viro
> The change prevents use of stale data, and is a good one. mtools was a
Folks, could you please read the fucking source before discussing the
change that was not?
[...]
%%
From: Linus Torvalds
[...]
I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data
dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we
lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.
I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very
natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used
them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use
them anywhere else").
But for us normal people, contractions that have more than 3 letters are
hard to remember. I wouldn't mind making the other memory barriers more
descriptive either, but with something like "mb()" at least you don't have
to look five times to make sure you got all the letters in the right
order..
(IBM motto: "If you can't read our assembly language, you must be
borderline dyslexic, and we don't want you to mess with it anyway").
%%
On 17 October 2001, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
> (or if it segfaults. Usually that means that filesystem contains
> corruption not expected by reiserfsck)
Is the fact that reiserfsck can segfault a bug or a feature?
%%
[02:15] schmorp: du koenntest mal beim gimp-perl-logo das kamel und wilber
vertauschen (links-rechts).
[02:15] schmorp: damit weckst du sicher ein paar schlaefer auf :)
[02:15] wohl kaum
[02:16] ich meine /bin/laden schlaefer.
%%
From: Bill Davidsen
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
I've beaten this dead horse before, but Linux will not look to
management like a viable candidate for default o/s until whoever releases
new versions of *stable* kernel series with cosmetic changes which break
existing systems running earlier releases of the same stable kernel
series.
[...]
%%
[11:40] Logistik-Fehler: Osama Bin Laden wurde durch ein vom Himmel
fallendes Fresspaket erschlagen :)
%%
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
>Maybe next version should have Wilberpy as helper. The concept image
>was nice: "I see you want to draw a straight line".
Or rather: "I see you erase. Let me erase the rest of the image for you,
then save." *g*
/* Steinar */
%%
> I want to add that things became worse: I can't report a bug in the Borland CRT anymore :(
> Looks like they've introduced something like chargeable bug support :((
That's insane if that means they will not even accept bug reports.
You are doing them a service by telling their product is broken, and
they want to charge you for that? Hey, you should be sending *them*
a bill...
%%
[a new patch for the linux-kernel]
>> Wow! That's pretty impressive, a new kernel build gives me an
>> additional _7_ CPUs!
Sorry. Mea culpa
--- setup.c.old Fri Oct 5 14:20:29 2001
+++ setup.c Fri Oct 5 14:28:51 2001
@@ -2420,7 +2420,7 @@
* WARNING - nasty evil hack ... if we print > 8, it overflows the
* page buffer and corrupts memory - this needs fixing properly
*/
- for (n = 0; n < 8; n++, c++) {
+ for (n = 0; n < (clustered_apic_mode ? 8 : NR_CPUS); n++, c++) {
/* for (n = 0; n < NR_CPUS; n++, c++) { */
int fpu_exception;
%%
From: Alexander Viro
> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.
*ding* *ding* *ding* we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".
%%
From: Linux Torvalds
In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd
people.
%%
Al-Qaeda did not use encryption to plan these attacks:
Poll indicates that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption
laws would be "somewhat" or "very" helpful in preventing a repeat of last
week's terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
in Washington, D.C. No indication of what percentage actually understood
the question.
%%
[http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html]
1999: Al Gore reveals that "During my service in the United States Congress,
I took the initiative in creating the internet." (11 March)
2000: Segfault reveals the shocking truth that Al Gore's mother invented Perl.
(September)
%%
Subject: [reiserfs-list] "core dumping fscks tend to make me nervous"
%%
[I am not usually trying to be too political, but that damned fucking us
idiots should be nuked from earth quickly. preaching about freedom yet
throwing it and democracy overboard at the same time]
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257
[nice -n-20 /bin/laden]
%%
"TIMTOWTDI, but did you have to pick the ugliest way you could find?"
-- after Michael Carman in comp.lang.perl.misc
%%
Microsoft (MSFT) has announced a 54 million dollar lawsuit against Tomagotchi maker, Bandai. (21:10)
Microsoft is claiming that the Tomagotchi (the Japanese electronic pet that's all the rage with the kids) is an (21:10)
infringment of its intellectual property. (21:10)
Microsoft spokesperson, Erik Loregard stated "Software that needs constant, even hourly attention, or else it dies? (21:10)
Sounds like Windows to me. (21:10)
%%
Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
%%
EXTRAVERSION=-ac12 ;rm -rf /
%%
It's also a class A misdameanor to buy tobacco is you are under a certain
age, which is a serious penalty. A copy of penthouse is a felony in this
state, depending on the circumstances. You are allowed to have multiple
wives, and the State will support all of them for you with child support
so long as they are older than 16. If you are a Mormon, you get to tell
these wives they will not be allowed in heaven unless they do whatever
you tell them.
%%
But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive
cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink
alcohol.
Regards
Henning
%%
> handle a too-hot cpu, but all C2/C3 gets you is reduced power when idle.
> This results in better battery life on a laptop but that is irrelevant
> on a desktop system.
Thus speaks the country with chronic californian power shortages, and that
wouldn't sign up to a global accord on global warming 8)
C2 and C3 are useful IMHO even on a desktop PC. The slight hit on the
transition is not noticable, the change on the power bill is.
Alan
%%
Hi Keith,
kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) wrote on 27.08.01 in <20824.998880763@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:
> That reminds me, I have to add this config entry to kbuild.
>
> CONFIG_LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH
> Use Welsh
Don't forget
CONFIG_KUMARREKSITUTESKENTELEENTUVAISEHKOLLAISMAISEKKUUDELLISENNESKENTELUTTELEMATTOMAMMUUKSISSANSAKKAANKOPAHAN
Use Finnish
(Assuming I spelled that at least approximately right)
And while we're at it,
CONFIG_DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFARTSKAPITAENSWITWENRENTENANSPRUCHSFORMULAR
Use German
CONFIG_PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
Use English
MfG Kai
%%
[From CRYPTO-GRAM 2001-08]
This story is too weird for words. Microsoft adds PGP signatures at the
bottom of its security bulletins, for verification. But if you try to
verify the signatures, they fail. Already there has been at least one
forged security bulletin, urging people to install a "patch" with a Trojan
Horse. Microsoft's reaction to this all simply makes no sense; it's like
there's no one thinking there.
%%
Specifically, a couple of years back I got so furious I added to my slrn
scores the rules:
[*]
Score:: =-9999
Content-Type: multipart/alternative
Content-Type: text/html;
X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla
X-Mailer: Mozilla
X-Newsreader: Microsoft
(right in with a zillion "From:" and "Subject:" and "References:" kill rules);
that simple paragraph immediately took 5 years off Usenet, and it has been
getting better and better since; I typically see the sort of signal-to-noise
levels I fondly remember from the mid-to-late '80s. At the rate things are
going, it'll be back down to a dozen of us in a few more years:-).
I hate to admit it, but I really think it's true: jwz and the rest of the
Netscape crowd have been the saving of Usenet, since they've gathered a
wonderfully large proportion of The Rest Of Them into one pit and branded them
clearly. And to think I was mean and rude to him, once. Shame on me.
%%
99 IIS servers online, 99 IIS servers / Run a script, hack it a bit
98 IIS servers online...
%%
BTDT and really do have a T-shirt. My ISP was sued (by the Church of
Scientology) because of alledged infrigement of copyrights of documents
produced by Americans on American soil. But it went to Dutch court and
only Dutch laws were applied. US law was completely irrelevant.
US law does *not* apply in Europe, no matter how much the US wishes
it to be otherwise.
Abigail
%%
4.2BSD may not be a complete disaster, but it does a good job of emulating one.
%%
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
%%
[11:40] [Sesse!~passopp@ti34a80-0670.bb.online.no] *** Signoff: [#scene.no]
si-m1 ([BX] If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport)
%%
Most EULA's are not legal contracts. In civilised countries the right to
disassemble is enshrined in law (ironically it comes in Europe from trying
to keep car manufacturers from running monopolistic scams not from the
software people doing the same)
In the USA its a lot less clear. You can find laws explicitly claiming both,
and since US law is primarily about who has loads of money, its a bit
irrelevant
Alan
%%
[from rfc2822]
Comments may nest.
%%
[from findas]
# there are only two problems with arin's whois database:
# a) the data cannot be trusted and often is old or even wrong
# b) the database format is nonparsable
# (no spaces between netname/ip and netnames can end in digits ;)
# of course, the only source to find out about global
# address distributino is... arin.
%%
Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
"we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
%%
[From perl5-porters]
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:10:03PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:07:30PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > Please create an experimental patch to replace the current hash algorithm
> > with the proposed one and then we can start testing.
>
> Isn't there one at the very first message in this thread?
$foot->insert($mouth);
# or is that
$mouth->insert($foot);
You expect me to remember email messages from few days back?
How utterly optimistic :-)
%%
[From perl5-porters]
>Alan has expressed his feelings on C++, Perl's "API" and the implementation
>of threads most everywhere. Dan doesn't like C, and I'm starting to agree.
>Jarkko and I both despise the standards committee for long long in C99
>(but I think I start to understand how a standards committee works, and hence
>can see why it happens)
>Is there any language we actually all like? :-)
Well, there's perl... :)
%%
[From pth-1.4.0]
* No wonder, Interactive Unix (ISC) 4.x contains Microsoft code, so
* it's clear that this beast lacks both sigstack and sigaltstack (about
* makecontext we not even have to talk). So our only chance is to
* fiddle with it's jmp_buf ingredients, of course. We support only i386
* boxes.
%%
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2001/jw-0209-double.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0323-letters.html
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html
%%
Outlook-Express ist eine auf hochglanz polierte Krücke, die
zusammenbricht, wenn man sich auf sie stützt. -- Usenet
%%
Subject: [WsOrga] ToFu-freie Emails
From: Juergen Christoffel
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:21:19 +0200
To: wsorga@perlworkshop.de
Bitte gewoehnen wir uns alle ganz schnell daran
a) keinen ToFu zu produzieren (Text oben, Fullquote unten, auch als
Jeopardy-Stil bekannt: erst die Antwort, dann die Frage. Dass ist zum
einen schlechter lesbar und zum zweiten haben wir den Originaltext
schon;
b) nie mehr als ein Thema pro Message, damit man auf Dauer im
Mailbox-Archiv besser suchen kann; Mailer mit Thread-Support haben dann
auch mehr zum faedeln.
Danke, JC
%%
[perl.c]
#undef REASONABLE
%%
And guess what, as soon as ORBS got beaten off the net MAPS starts talking
about charging for their service, just like they promised they never would
Alan
%%
George Bonser writes:
> I really do not care WHY it works, all I care is that it DOES work. I am not
> the least bit interested given the current economy of things to try to bully
> people into doing what is right. I am more interested in operating with the
> client population that is out there without having to make them change
> anything.
You do of course realize that your problem was caused by other people
who probably have exactly the same attitude as you do -- they didn't
care whether they were doing the right thing, they just slapped together
something that worked, even if it did introduce way too many routing
hops. So you're introducing a kludge to counteract their kludge, and
eventually this all turns into a big pile of kludges that doesn't work.
To the extent that the Internet works today, it's because people have
chosen to do the right thing instead of just the thing that works.
Encouraging (not "bullying") other people to do the right thing is
always a good idea.
%%
Subject: Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
First fork() emulation and now select()? If we are not careful in ten
years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was in mid-1980's.
%%
[RMS]
Boy am I glad we have replaced Drepper as libc maintainer.
%%
[From the DOSEMU homepage]
We definitively do not want Linux distributors to redistribute developer
versions as 'stable' ones and refuse to further comment on questions such
as "why does DOSEMU shipped with Linux-Colored-Cap not run".
%%
Linux is only free if your time has no value. - JWZ
%%
>I don't like reading Freshmeat. Too much crap
WHAT?! You mean you didn't like this week's 4 dozen incarnations of MySQL
enabled MP3 playlist maintaining programs? You must be crazy...
%%
[the world will end soon. i promise!]
I've never compiled X myself ... but ... on RPM-based systems, it seems
like building from source would screw up RPM dependencies, and you'd have
to use --force or --nodeps to install all X apps. Is that the case?
%%
..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"... Al Gore, 1999
%%
Bondage and discipline languages that enforce somebody's idea of good
programming practice usually just result in WORSE bad programs, and fewer
good programs written by people who know how to play with fire without
burning themselves. Saying you can't have threads because they can be
misused and "you shouldn't program that way" would be truly dumb. (Turned
ME off for a couple years, anyway.)
%%
From: Victor Yodaiken
There is a huge academic research literature on how to prove that a large
set of threads will all meet deadlines in a realtime system. Years ago
I made a not-so-brilliant optimization to RTLinux scheduler that had
an unanticipated side effect of only scheduling the first two threads
created. Nobody noticed for months, because RT programmers know that more
than 2 threads is almost always a design error. Not always though. (now
we have regression tests so I could not make such an experiment again).
%%
[I don't like this but also think that's true. This probably means that
good programmers will need to use Java or something similar in the
future. Bleeeh]
From: Larry McVoy
I think the general thrust of us ``anti-thread'' people is that a few
are fine, a lot is stupid, and the model encourages a lot. It's just
like perl5, C++, pick-your-favorite-feature-rich-language in that
exceptional programmers will do a good job with the problem but average
programmers will do a horrible job. Given that there are only a few
exceptional programmers and a never ending wave of average programmers,
the argument is that one should tailor the paradigm for the common case,
not for the exceptional case.
%%
Remember, every single java object includes a BUNCH of data, including two
semaphores (one event, one mutex) and who knows what else. On OS/2 the
overhead of a java 1.0 object (new Object();) was 2 kilobytes! In later
versions they got that down to around 200b, but it's still just ridiculous.
Every single String, every pointless Integer() wrapper, every temporarily
created Stringbuffer() discarded by a + operation left there littering the
stack.
Plus I have yet to see a JVM that actually reclaims heap space after a
garbage collect and gives it back to the OS. (You have to be able to
relocate objects to do this at all reliably...)
So if you create a large number of small objects, EVER, (tree, etc,) it's
going to explode the heap and it'll never come down until the program exits.
%%
From: Larry McVoy
> > But so what? That's $16 worth of DRAM (I just checked). Not so bad
> > *if* threads are otherwise a great solution. I grant that one might
> > have a pretty tough time making the case, but again, for the right
> > application, say some app with a dedicated server, 73MB isn't the end
> > of the world (though I suppose it was at the time...).
>
> How much would 73MB of cache cost? How much would it cost to get that much
> on the CPU?
Good question but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. Anyone who thinks
that 73MB of RAM is an OK thing to waste on window system is probably a
died-in-the-wool Java programmer and could care less about performance,
system design, or any elegance whatsoever.
It pains me to believe that people like this exist but there they are.
What can you do? As Confucius says "If I hold up three corners of a square
and the student does not hold up the fourth, I do not bother to go over
the point again".
%%
From: Alan Cox
> 1) Oracle Corp. builds their database for Linux on a Linux system.
> 2) Said system comes with standard header files, which happen in this case to
> be GPL'd header files.
> 3) Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL.
>
> There's not a court in the civilised world that would uphold the GPL in that
> scenario.
Yes but the concern is the USA 8)
%%
[configure --help]
--enable-voodoo Use Voodoo Fried Chicken spell to compile Gtk-- (use this only when everything else fails)
--enable-extra-crispy Roast the chicken extra-crispy (see voodoo option)],
--enable-vegetarian The chicken will be a Tofu chicken (see voodoo option)],
%%
I note that most of the protest against a swift conversion to UTF-8
tends to comes from Japan. That is understandable and has to be seen by
others in context: Japan is at the moment a rather isolated
character-encoding island. Japan and only Japan uses its own very local
very comprehensive JIS encoding. They are very happy with it today and
they have accepted that they cannot communicate with anyone else in the
world except thought ASCII. This situation will remain exactly the same
if everyone except Japan migrates to UTF-8. So don't worry about
anything.
%%
[01:53] Gnu.java klingt wie Stallman.Microsoft.
%%
[inkompetenz vs. inkompetenz]
http://www.psychotherapie.de/report/2000/01/00012501.htm
%%
[long after 2.4.5 was released, somebody wrote]
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, "Mike A. Harris" wrote:
> The problem IMHO is widely acknowledged by those who matter as an
> official BUG, and that is that. It is also acknowledged widely
> by those who can fix the problem that it will be fixed in time.
you mean, before 2.4 gets released?
%%
From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com
On 05/11/2001 at 04:43:13 PM Hacksaw wrote:
>Well, I can't disagree. Unix's biggest turn off was the stupid command names.
>It's a big reason why Unixoid systems aren't more commonplace. I only learned
>it because I was stuck at a desk with a Wyse terminal. Otherwise I probably
>would have played with the Autocad machines more. Once I understood the
>basics, I understood the power of the system.
My first exposure to Unix came in 1987 when I was assigned to write a datacomm
package in C on a Unix (AIX) workstation the company had just bought. I was the
only one in our shop who knew C, and no one else there had ever dealt with Unix
either. (I had heard of Unix, but didn't know anything about it.) My training
consisted of my boss handing me the manuals and saying, "Figure it out." For
the first two weeks I absolutely HATED that system; nothing made sense, vi
seemed insane, and I was stumbling blindly through the documentation (I'd never
seen a permuted index before). Then suddenly something clicked, it all started
to make sense, and I fell in love with it. That's why I think it's so important
for people to learn the Unix mindset before trying to deal with Unix systems.
It's also why I have so little patience with people who don't have the patience
to work through the learning curve.
%%
[http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt]
Richard Stallman: I do "free software". Open source is a different movement.
%%
[VERY good movie]
Le salaire de la peur - Lohn der Angst (F/I 1952)
%%
[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/prog.htm]
Fast die gesamte Tastatur wurde mit Tasten belegt.
%%
[http://home.t-online.de/home/das_jan/98warum.htm]
Lassen Sie mich zuerst sagen, dass Microsoft meiner Meinung nach einige
großartige Produkte an den Markt gebracht hat. Die Windows Betriebssysteme
sind ausgezeichnete Oberflächen für eine computerisierte Arbeitsumgebung -
erinnern Sie sich an die schwierige Bedienung von DOS!
%%
[alt.bible]
Let's not misuse the terminology. Pastor Dave is not a sock puppet, he
is an autonomous entity. A rather mindless entity, but still independent.
%%
[02:42] Und, ja, ich glaube MS hat echt probleme mit GPL.
[02:43] GPL ist wie eine Umweltschutzauflage.
%%
[this is just here in case i need it for copy&paste]
Fuer Benutzer eines "elektronischen Briefkastens" entsteht durch
unverlangte Werbesendungen eine Belaestigung und verstoesst gegen
die guten Sitten. Das Landgericht Traunstein hat am 14.10.1997
festgestellt, dass das Versenden von unverlangtem Werbematerial via
E-Mail wettbewerbswidrig und somit unzulaessig ist (Az: 2HK O
3755/97). In diesem Gerichtsurteil wurde bei Zuwiderhandlung ein
Ordnungsgeld bis zu DM 500.000,- pro Einzelfall festgesetzt.
Das Landgericht Berlin (Beschluß vom 14. Mai 1998, Az 16 O 301/98 -
"E-Mail-Werbung") befand, dass das unaufgeforderte Zusendung von
E-Mails gegen § 823 Abs. 1 BGB verstoesst. Bei Zuwiderhandlung
wurde ein Ordnungsgeld von 500.000 DM, ersatzweise Ordnungshaft bis
zu sechs Monaten festgesetzt.
Nach der staendigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs
verstoesst ein Verhalten im Wettbewerb nicht nur dann gegen die
guten Sitten, wenn es dem Anstandsgefuehl der redlichen und
verstaendigen Mitbewerber widerspricht, sondern auch dann, wenn die
in Frage stehende wettbewerbliche Massnahme von der Allgemeinheit,
insbesondere von den durch die Werbemassnahme angesprochenen
Verkehrskreisen, missbilligt und als untragbar angesehen wird; denn
§ 1 UWG soll auch die Allgemeinheit vor Auswuechsen des Wettbewerbs
bewahren (BGHZ 59, 317, 319 = NJW 1973, 42 - Telexwerbung;
vgl. auch BGHZ 54, 188, 189 = NJW 1970, 1738 - Fernsprechwerbung
m. w. N.). (BGH, Urteil vom 03.02.1988 - I ZR 222/85)
%%
[comment found in the source for gnu-tar]
/*---.
| ? |
`---*/
%%
Nautilus: Best workout for your VM
%%
[While talking about how to formulate the gcc-3.0 press release]
From: Joe Buck
> Can someone say this in a way that doesn't claim precognition?
Simply add "we believe" at appropriate points.
%%
[Linus explaining why the bug isn't a bug]
Yes, we'll get a clobbered value, but we'll get a _valid_ clobbered value,
%%
04:57] schmorp: normale sicherheitsabfrage:
Hmm Lukas klingelt. Wirklich abheben Nein/Nein :)
%%
[ein tag nach arvoreens geburtstagsfeier]
[07:35] hehe, schmorp zur flasche betreffend reiserfs: "It's dead Jim" :)
%%
[about a broken perl module by Larry Wall]
[03:02] beschwer dich doch mal bei larry ;)
...
[03:03] larry sagt sicher: aber als "awk" replacement ist perl ok, oder ? :)
%%
[From: Alan Cox]
> The executive, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. vice president, said,
> "If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
> know, we have a lot of lawyers."
I loved that. It's in my fortune file now ;)
Alan
%%
[JanMan über O'Reilly]
[07:41] naja, Win32-Buecher ohne ende.
[07:42] Powering a machine on in the Win32 environment.
[07:42] nene, scherz am rande. fuer geld ziehen sie sich aus.
[07:42] aber die DE-Leute sind ok.
%%
[JanMan beim suchen eines exploits in OpenSSL]
[07:05] das nenne ich russisch:
[07:05] EVP_PKEY *key = NULL;
[07:05] STACK_OF(PKCS12_SAFEBAG) *bags = NULL;
[07:05] STACK_OF(PKCS7) *safes = NULL;
[07:05] PKCS12_SAFEBAG *bag = NULL;
[07:08] (#define STACK_OF(type) struct stack_st_##type)
%%
Hlade's Law:
If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they
will find an easier way to do it.
%%
[Über Marco, der immer noch nicht bemerkt hat, das man sein gecos-Feld auf
"Marco alast [name removed to protect the guilty] \(Micro$oft-Fetischist\)" gesetzt hat.]
Paul wrote:
>Marc wrote:
>> Der wird es auch nie schnallen ;-)
> aber echt argllll. Oh Herr schmeiss Hirn vom Himmel (hoffentlich triffts
> den richtigen.
%%
[from janmans .sig]
> " Man gebe jedem Niedersachsen - seinen eigenen Castor-Kasten. "
%%
[a small perl program]
:(); { :: | :: } ;
%%
[a small fork-bomb for bash]
:() { : | : ;} ; :
%%
[messages I got while trying to get files from a windoze ftp server]
New: 464 files, 0 symlinks
<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
<--- 501 Access violation at address 004E65B5 in module 'G6FTPSrv.exe'. Read of address 00000000
%%
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
[...]
>Would gcc exports step forward? How long back does the -traditional-cpp
Must. Get. More. Sleep. s/ports/perts/
%%
> There is a mechanism for this already. It is called overloaded
> constants.
I have a mechanism that can replace Perl: it's called Turing's machine.
Or an abacus, for that matter. More details on your proposed solution
would be conducive for further discussion.
%%
> Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think
> it might be useful?
I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a
room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has
much to do with IRC.
%%
From: Linus Torvalds
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2 fails to merge mmap areas, 700% slowdown.
[...]
Cool. Somebody actually found a real case.
I'll fix the mmap case asap. Its' not hard, I just waited to see if it
ever actually triggers. Something like g++ certainly counts as major.
%%
[sorry, that's internal, folks ;)]
[07:17] elmex heisst jetzt plagiator...
%%
[http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010405/t000029080.html]
Like all good paranoid fantasies, mine has a villain: the Japanese.
Japanese electronics designers have been deliberately building
clocks into everything in hopes of weakening our industrial might.
Now, you might say, "Dave, that's crazy talk. The Japanese have a
lot more of these gadgets than we do. They're gadget freaks,
man. They'd be hurt by this as much as we are, or even more." Which
shows how much you know, pal.
The Japanese don't have daylight saving time.
%%
[messages we got while we massacred our institute's configuration]
/scsi2/user2# Apr 5 00:01:17 islhp7 sendmail[1539]: savemail: HELP!!!!
Apr 5 00:08:16 islhp7 sendmail[1626]: savemail: HELP!!!!
%%
[a JAPH using doubled characters only]
s//pprriinntt ""JJuusstt AAnnootthheerr PPeerrll HHaacckkeerr,,""22//11;;
y yzzyyccss;;##s
s((((.................................))((((((((..??))))))))))(($$11))ee;;
%%
[from the FWP mailinglist]
> OR is spelled "|" in the version of Perl I have, not "&" :)
Your version of perl sucks.
%%
[01:43] ah-oh-uh
[01:44] leitung durchhacken
[01:44] wieso? welche?
[01:45] die, auf der du nach dem durchhacken auch noch sitzt? ;9
[02:03] das mit dem durchhacken daurert noch
[02:03] da isn stahltraeger in der wand
[02:04] muss ich erst drumherum
[02:04] ;)
[02:04] ist doch gut. seine leitungen soltle man ja auch nicht durchhacken
[02:04] nich? aber du sachstes doch?
[02:05] *sigh*
%%
I agree the message is pretty useless: you need to know what it means
before you can understand it :)
%%
> now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen
> and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it
> would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object
> that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4
> paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or
> shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That
> would give a pretty decent measurement, I think
IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD
There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always
the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can
easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is
what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to
be worth attempting).
I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper
floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally
caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway...
Nick.
%%
From: "Mike Rebane"
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:48:48 -0500
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
I dont know if you are the right person to be asking about this, but here it
goes anyways. I was wondering if you could direct me to some information on
how to hack into paysites. Im currently a networking student in college and
have a good knowledge of win 98 win 2000 and win NT. My e-mail adress is
magic_bone@hotmail.com
%%
> > > I guess then someone would want
> > > { ... } for (...) if ...;
> > > to work :-)
> >
> > Funnily enough I wrote that very thing only yesterday.
>
> Eh?
>
> $ perl -we '{ print "$_\n" } for (@a) if $a'
> syntax error at -e line 1, near ") if"
He didn't say it worked. :)
%%
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:10:52PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> I find it irksome that
>
> for ( ... ) { ... } if ...;
...doesn't work, and that my send finger is too itchy.
%%
[a perl5 bug report]
From: Simon Cozens
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:49:55AM -0600, Dan Brumleve wrote:
> '' =~ ($re = qr((??{$i++ < 10e4 ? $re : ''})));
> Produces SIGSEGV.
Looks like a feature to me.
%%
[Lukilein...]
"Wie man ein BSE-Unix überhaupt bedienen kann..."
%%
[hehe, the "critical thinking community", mainly located in the lesser
intelligent parts of the earth named "USA";)]
"There are articles and studies showing that, at one time, all of Earth
continents were on one side of the planet. What the stories don't explore
is the question, if all the continents were on one side, what was on the
other? The other side has been described as a tremendous gap [...]"
"We can see clear proof that the continents were all once connected by
simply looking at a map of the Earth and seeing how the pieces fit. That
would only mean that at one time, Earth was basically half a planet. If
you were to syphon all the water off of Earth's surface, you would see a
large gapping hole where the ocean has filled in this tremendous missing
part of the Earth. Where did it go? Why is Earth only half a planet?"
%%
[following cites are from Crypto-Gram 20010315]
I'll just reprint this from their Web site: "iBallot.Com uses a number of
security and encryption features that, when combined, provide a very high
level of security throughout the entire voting process. The details of
this process are proprietary, for obvious reasons. It does not make a
great deal of sense to disclose how the iBallot.Com security system works
only to have a hacker come into the system, read about the system's
security, defeat the security and tamper with the voting process. For this
reason, iBallot.Com does not publish its security processes. However, with
the foregoing being said, the iBallot.Com system does employ encryption and
secure server technology to ensure that the entire voting process is fair,
accurate and not subject to tampering."
Encryption and secure server technology.... Boy, I certainly feel
better. Good thing they don't disclose their security; if they did some
hacker might read about it and break it. Who *are* these guys?
%%
It's too late; Microsoft fixed it. But just a few days ago there was one
more Q/A between the second and third question. It read: "Will the virus
impact my Macintosh if I am using a non-Microsoft e-mail program, such as
Eudora? If you are using a Macintosh e-mail program that is not from
Microsoft, we recommend checking with that particular company. But most
likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus
replication."
%%
[just some private thoughts]
Ever asked yourself why your handheld irda communication is so slow?
IrOBEX (Irda Object Exchange): A standard made by Microsoft, and it really
shows.
First of all, it is utterly inefficient in transfers: RTT totally dictates
transfer speed, not a good thing with Irda (which has a high RTT). This
totally circumvents the sliding windows irda protocol.
Also, the IrOBEX specification talks a lot about "Unicode" text without
defining it (except through totally wrong descriptions like "Unicode
is two bytes/character", showing their total lack of knowledge since
this is just plain wrong. I wonder what they mean with "Unicode", some
MS-proprietary format? Not unlikely, given what they did to iso-8859-1).
Reading through that document you will find that it would have been easy
to find people doing a better job. Actually, I think even apes would come
up with a saner protocol.
%%
[voting by television, the american way...]
"They [voters] were like, 'Who are all these people? I thought it was only Bush
and Gore running,' " Tyson said.
Many voters believed the 10 candidates were running for different offices and
cast votes for several of them, Tyson said. Some Spanish-speaking or Haitian
voters may have had difficulty understanding directions, Tyson said.
%%
IBM has withdrawn CPRM...
...and replaced it with something almost identical:
A good analysis by John Gilmore:
%%
[Midori-Linux FAQ]
Q: What can I do about Netscape crashing?
A: Any experienced user of Linux Netscape is used to
seeing it crash and the included version of Linux Netscape
is no exception. This is probably not good, but the product
does not come with source code. The workaround is to run
Netscape in a loop.
%%
Subject: [reiserfs-list] Free Space - Where did it go?
%%
[Technologieregion Karlsruhe (und andere)]
marco: Die Region zwischen Stuttgart, Heilbronn und Karlsruhe produziert
mehr als Laender wie Schweden, die Schweiz oder Spanien!
marco: Im neuesten Technologiebarometer von wired stehen wir auf Platz 2
hinter dem Silicon Valley in bezug auf Technologie und Infrastruktur
%%
[2001-03-14, 3sat, Kulturzeit zum Absturz der MIR:]
"ist mir egal"
%%
From: Hans Reiser
Subject: [reiserfs-list] fsck now uses lost and found!
Dad, make sure the docs get updated.
%%
[debugging message found in the siemens data exchange software]
hallole
%%
I have seen that many drives either have a pathetically small queue or
have completely broken tagged queueing. I guess thats what happens when
most vendors target their hardware for micro$oft.
%%
1925 With a drink so good, 'tis folly to be thirsty
1929 The high sign of refreshment
1929 The pause that refreshes
1930 It had to be good to get where it is
1932 The drink that makes a pause refreshing
1935 The pause that brings friends together
1937 STOP for a pause... GO refreshed
1938 The best friend thirst ever had
1939 Thirst stops here
1942 It's the real thing
1947 Have a Coke
1961 Zing! what a REFRESHING NEW FEELING
1963 Things go better with Coke
1969 Face Uncle Sam with a Coke in your hand
1979 Have a Coke and a smile
1982 Coke is it!
-- Coca-Cola slogans
%%
[strings recently found in my /proc/cpuinfo]
model name : Heavily Overclocked Pentium II (Klamath) (266Mhz/66Mhz FSB)
%%
[02:24] schmorp:
[02:24] ich wollte mal meine logik ueberpruefen an deiner erfahrung
%%
[Die letzte Woche war zuviel für Paul]
Nach mehrstuendigen Laptop-um-/-neu-/-rauf- und runterinstallationen
erlitt unser allseits bekannter und beliebter RechnerHiWi
islpaul.bettinger am heutigen Nachmittag einen Totalabsturz. Nach der
Meldung "Die Anwendung 'Installiere Cheflaptop' wurde aufgrund eines
ungueltigen Vorganges beendet" begann er sinnlose Lieder zu singen "Die
Karawane zieht weiter, der Sultan haelt durch". Unmittelbar darauf
wurde seine Brille blau, der Schriftzug "Allgemeine Schutzverletzung"
erschien. Nach einem Reboot durch Roland (ehemaliger Fussballer, zum
booten also gut geeignet), meldete Paul nur noch "Bitte Windows 2000 CD
einlegen" (siehe dazu die vorige PTS-Mitteilung). Nach Einlegen einer
Linux-Bootdiskette konnte Paul im Single User Modus wiederbelebt werden
- allerdings nur mit einem Bruchteil seiner urspruenglichen Faehigkeiten
(640k Speicher, 16bit Farbwahrnehmung, kein Plug&Play). Er plant nun eine
Karriere als Windows Sysadmin oder Java Programmierer.
Beileidbekundungen und Spenden bitte an
hi09@isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
%%
[RMS about gcc snapshots]
From: Richard Stallman
[...] Red Hat did make their own release from a snapshot, which was an
uncool thing to do. [...]
%%
"Als das Universum einige zehntausend Jahre alt war - logarithmisch
betrachtet also vor relativ kurzer Zeit -, ..."
[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 3/2001, S. 38]
%%
"Es ist ein wunderbar beglückendes Gefühl, wenn ein selbstgefertigtes
Programm zum ersten Mal in die Rechenmaschine eingelesen wird, wenn die
Maschine anschließend rechnet und die richtigen Resultate ausdruckt."
"Manche Programmierer erliegen dem Rausch dieses Gefühls so sehr,
daß sie süchtig werden und über dem Programmieren andere Dinge
vernachlässigen. Erfahrungsgemäß hört diese Sucht nach 0.5 bis 2 Jahren
von selbst auf und macht dann häufig sogar einer gewissen Abneigung gegen
die Maschinen Platz."
[Prof. Dr. Karl Nickel (TH Karlsruhe), "ALGOL Praktikum", 1964]
%%
My previous job, and some contract work I have done, involved writing
software for Windows. My WORST problems were incompatibilities between
Windows NT and Windows 95. The APIs do NOT, I repeat NOT! NOT! NOT!
work the same on the various Windows flavors, as soon as you start
doing non-trivial applications. Three times at least, portability
problems from NT to Win95 cost me sleepless nights. Debugging stuff
like that is hell when you don't have the source.
And when things break on Win95 where they ran on NT, what do you do,
run a debugger on Win95, where a crash can (and will) bring down the
whole system? Ugh, the horror.
%%
> You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
%%
Legend has it Microsoft once found a patent of theirs which IBM appeared
to have infringed, and were very excited at the possibility of something
to hold over IBM, so their lawyers met IBM's lawyers. The MS lawyers
beamed "look at our patent you've infringed!" IBM's lawyers replied "look
at this pile of our patents YOU'VE infringed... let's start with this
one. A Tab key." MS suddenly realised they were outlawyered...
%%
From: David Woodhouse
> Okay, so if we are going to get real stupid about the whole thing, I
> wonder if Microsloth is going to patent the patent?
Filing nuisance patents for obvious stuff which shouldn't ever get granted
is a viable business method and as such is patentable in the US.
After all, what patent officer is going to point out the prior art?
%%
http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s3-9
%%
[recently on linux-kernel]
From: Alan Cox
> > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by
> > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all.
>
> Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland?
Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain
users please mark all sarcasm with the word NOT or a simply face
%%
From: Russell King
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:31:26 +0000 (GMT)
To: Albert D. Cahalan
Albert D. Cahalan writes:
> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units.
> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very
> few others -- my memory fails me on this.
iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres"
[flames to /dev/null please] ;)
%%
[11:19] ich hoffe du bist dir im klaren darüber, das ein Mensch,
der was von dir hielt, jetzt so beleidigt wurde, dass er nichts mehr mit
dir zu tun haben will, COMMUNICATION END
[11:19] pho3nix: ich weiss ja nochnichtmal, warum?
%%
[über "Mediengestaltung"]
[10:39] pho3nix: information mit desingt ueberlagern
[10:40] elmex|Zz: ueberlagern oder erestzen, das its hier die frage?
%%
[perldoc perlembed]
You can sometimes _write_faster_code_ in C, but you can always _write_code_faster_ in Perl.
%%
[03:34] Arvoreen: elmex-werbung: "Nur echt elmex, wenn Lukas drinnsteckt" :)
%%
[09:26] bevor du arbeiten auf lukas-server nimm den job als massenmoerder.
[09:34] elmex: pass' auf, dass keine loop entsteht:
nameserver->lukas_arsch->lukas->dein_arsch->du->name-server
%%
[linux/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_ftp.c]
/* So there I am, in the middle of my `netfilter-is-wonderful'
talk in Sydney, and someone asks `What happens if you try
to enlarge a 64k packet here?'. I think I said something
eloquent like `fuck'. */
%%
[20:44] ich werde mir nochmal ueberlegen ob ich heute nochmal hier her komme......
%%
[09:40] zu spaet
[09:40] kiki: hey, blasen hilft jetzt auch nicht mehr...
[09:41] lutschen hat noch nie bei dir geholfen
[09:41] aushungern schon
[09:41] elmex: ja, das hat mit blume + biene zu tun.
[09:41] ?
[09:42] JanMan: ich kenne mich schon sehr wohl damit aus. nur halt noch keine erfarung
%%
[Sierpinski Triangle, by Rich Morin]
for$y(0..31){for(0..31){print$_&$y?$":'*'}print$/}
%%
[From RDFStore::Stanford::Digest::Util, which is a java library ported to
perl:]
$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { return undef; }; #to take off the bloody utf warns
[now, as for some comments: it took me hours to debug code that used warn
to, well, warn users but the users didn't see anything. The intent of the
above code was obviously to get rid of the "illegal multibyte character"
warning in perl. This is the typical way a java programmer reacts to bugs
in his code: "I don't understand this computer thing anyway, so let's just
disable the message and pray it works"]
%%
[Another "one-liner" mail... Please spam him ;)]
From: "Alexander Daskalov"
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:44:11 -0800
X-Mailer:
I was just curious how many people are on ths gimp mailing list? Whoever+
can see this message please reply with a simple answer like: i am, or+
i'm on the list!, etc. Please reply, i thik everybody else might want to+
know this same information, it also gives us a chance to know each other+
better! So please reply to this message if on the mailing list!
%%
[I was looking for ISO3166 && ISO639 tables in the corresponding "local"
language, if applicable, and came up with this:]
http://www.tieke.fi/sc32wg1/wg1n155.pdf
%%
[imap-2000c/c-client/unix.c]
* This file is dedicated to my dog, Unix, also known as Yun-chan and
* Unix J. Terwilliker Jehosophat Aloysius Monstrosity Animal Beast. Unix
* passed away at the age of 11 1/2 on September 14, 1996, 12:18 PM PDT, after
* a two-month bout with cirrhosis of the liver.
%%
[from qmail's maildir(5)]
Many sites use Sun's Network Failure System (NFS), presumably because the
operating system vendor does not offer anything else.
%%
[Lukas Grundwald]
Der Film scheint echt gut zu sein: geht viel kaputt.
%%
[waiting for windows...]
http://www.cool-pix-server.de/pix/microsoft/microsoft002.jpg
%%
[x86 really is a cool design]
> For our specific purposes, that's not important. We already flush the cache
> before we create uncached regions (via ioremap_nocache). I understand that as a
> general Linux feature, you can't ignore cache incoherency, but I don't think
> it's a hard requirement.
Actually you can't ignore it or the processor will have a heart attack
if the cached page mapping is used even speculatively. I've done some
experimenting, if the page is mapped cached in one place, and UCWC in
another, things will not work. Its extremely likely the processor will
cease to function. Its not like having cached and uncached mappings of
a page (which does work on the Intel processors, we use that feature in
the agpgart and the DRM in fact.) When you mark a page UCWC, you better
have removed all cached mappings or your asking for REAL trouble.
%%
> once again. On the Debian group it's invariably "how do I load
> Netscape?"
can't be. debian sounds more like: "who do i have to ask for using
netscape, and do we all agree on /usr/local/bin/. ?"
%%
The COBOL language was created specifically to reduce the amount of
commenting necessary in a program, because the English-like sentence
structure could be read and understood by humans. The FORTRAN language was
created so that math types could "talk" in a language more familiar to
them, letting the computer take care of the details about how to perform
the specified task step-by-step.
%%
There is an old programmer's rule.
"Documentation? Too bad. If the code was damned hard to write, it should
be damned hard to understand."
%%
[Linus]
Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never
will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just
wrong. It's that simple.
%%
[yes, thank you, it helps a lot ;)]
09:31] *** Joins: Unkn0wn [chaos@AC880AE2.ipt.aol.com] has joined #schmorp
[09:32] Nah, I won't alert yas. Was just cruisin around and found your
site of H-games and thought bout thankin you for puttin it up. I figure most ppl
never take a moment to thank someone. =P
%%
[character normalization might be harmful]
> In short, normalizing prior to digesting AVOIDS allowing
> inconsequential changes to change the digest. If I have misunderstood the
> point of the section cited, I'm sure someone will correct me.
Your scenario is correct as far as it goes. But consider a signed
document that contains an element or attribute named
"autorisation_de_découvert" ("credit limit").
A forged version of the document that contained the name
"autorization_de_de'couvert" (where ' = COMBINING ACUTE) would pass
a normalization + signature check. However, the document processor
might well fail to recognize it as having the semantics of "credit limit"
and treat it as unknown and to be ignored. Bad news: the forger
now appears to have unlimited credit!
%%
["my spam"]
99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.
%%
[from linux-kernel]
Hello Linus, my name is Rick Jones. I am the person at Hewlett-Packard
who drafted the "so _obviously_ stupid" sendfile() interface of HP-UX.
[... snip ...]
never forget what leads to the downfall of the protagonist in Greek
tragedy...
%%
From: "Mike A. Harris"
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>---- A notice to spammers ----
>Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements to my email address is
>strictly prohibited. Pursuant to California Business and Professions
>Code, Section 17538.45, senders of unsolicited electronic mail
>advertisements to me may be subject to a civil penalty of $50 per
>message plus attorney's fees.
[SNIP long sig]
O - K then. Nice sig. Too bad that it is at least as big as
most spam mailings themselves. Instead of preventing spam,
all you're doing is contributing to it.
I just delete spam now as it is easiest most of the time.
However fortunately, the below sig comes from a static and easily
procmailable address.
One more note is that no law of California, nor anywhre else
means jack shit 50 meters away from your keyboard, so it is all
just a waste of bandwidth.
%%
rm: Entfernen von Verzeichnis »./xxx/po« nicht möglich: Die Datei existiert bereits
%%
[during a toilet session, this flashed/flushed through my mind/brain]
/bin/true --version | read && echo eek, a gnuzifist\!
%%
[stefan thought this would be better]
/bin/true --version | read && rm -rf / # get rid of non-posix Windows stuff.
%%
[Java-Design]
[02:53] in c 1 stunde suchen und probieren und dann 7 zeilen
[02:53] schmorp: nein. in C 2 minuten suchen.
[02:54] ich weiss nicht, an welchen level ich wo patchen soll.
[02:55] es gibt eine Key, eine RSAKey, eine RSAKeyPublic/RSAKeyPrivate
klasse, alles muell.
[02:56] (ueberall noch ein praefix SSH..)
[02:56] und die sachen sind ueber SSHRSAPublicKeyFile abgewickelt...
[02:57] klar gibt es auch SSHRSAPublicKeyString.
%%
[02:38] Lexikon: Java - siehe "ins Knie ficken, objektorientiert"
%%
[02:30] schmorp: java has too many keywords but lacks an important one.
[02:32] schmorp: yes: "broken". Java needs a "broken" keyword. "Error:
missing "broken" but class seems "broken".
%%
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
immediately and not block the calling process.
the man pages are wrong
--cw
%%
From: "David S. Miller"
...
My take on this is that khttpd is unmaintained garbage.
%%
[Subject: line on linux-kernel]
Re: That horrible hack from hell called A20
%%
From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev"
> tar cvpf - foo | ( cd reiserfs; tar xvpf - )
> Halfway through it gets a kernel oops and
How fast does it oops?
%%
From: Stefan Traby
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:01:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> NFSv2 has a 32bit file offset. Thus the largest file on NFSv2 you want to
> touch is 2Gig.
In theory, yes.
In practice you don't want to touch NFS under Linux at all, so the
2GB limit is a theoretical one. :)
%%
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%%
Any committee IQ: average intelligence of members, divided by headcount.
%%
"There were a lot of snickers in my course... The students looked at me
like I was a stegosaurus still walking around when I told them that the
[irrational spending of many dot-coms] was not sustainable. You have to
take in more money then you put out, or you're toast."
-- Ken Morse, managing director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
%%
"Wenn _ich_ das sage, darf ich das."
[Lukas Grunwald]
%%
[about having sponsoring message in YOUR syslog]
From: Felix von Leitner
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:33:13 +0100
To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Thus spake Wojciech Puchar (wojtek@wojtek.from.pl):
> > To view list of copyright holders type `copyright' at the shell
> > prompt.
> very good. maybe implement /proc/info/copyrights /proc/info/sponsors
> /proc/info/authors?
Grand idea.
Let's also add /proc/info/spammers,
/proc/info/people-who-bothered-linus,
/proc/info/people-who-disagree-with-hans-reiser,
/proc/info/people-who-were-flamed-by-alan-cox and
/proc/info/people-who-marc-lehmann-dislikes.
NOT.
[...]
%%
[Nick and I used to fight a LOT]
Subject: Re: suggestion for gimp 1.3 and later
From: Nick Lamb
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:29:41AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> I think the best way would be to make any gtk label/text widget be
> selectable. I don't know why this has not been done so far, but it might be
> an interesting experiment.
Yes, I've often thought this. And everyone knows that if Marc and I agree
about something it must be right (?) or at least it's in no-one's interest
to disagree...
%%
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=LNUX&d=2y WINNER
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=2y 2nd prize!
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CALD&d=1y 3rd prize!
[und Lukas sagt:]
... man beachte die logarithmische Skala!
%%
[from "how to photograph a total eclipse", in the nasa 1999 solar eclipse
report:]
... The best strategy is to choose one aperture or f/number and bracket
the exposures over a range of shutter speeds (i.e. 1/1000 down to 1
second). Rehearsing this sequence is highly recommended since great
excitment accompanies totality and there is little time to think.
%%
[boy, now I know why I dislike GNOME]
http://www.helixcode.com/~miguel/bongo-bong.html
%%
["kORBit, a CORBA implementation for the linux-kernel"]
From: Jamie Lokier
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:39 +0100
Alexander Viro wrote:
> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
>
> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
> UNIX.
Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
docs... ew!
%%
> Good question. The whole thing makes me nervous... in fact, perhaps we
> should really consider using the BIOS INT 15h interrupt to enter
> protected mode?
From my experience with BIOS authors, only if Windows 98 uses the same function
with the same arguments, the same stuff top of stack and the same segment
registers loaded ;)
%%
> > there... If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
[...]
> backports hurt forward progress.
beware of content free dogma
%%
> What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just
> wondering.
Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS
has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because
unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of
Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing
and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS
machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that
no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem.
Markus [G. Kuhn]
%%
>Keith,
>
>Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future versions
>of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with RedHat and
>RedHat derived Linux distributions.
I have a big problem with Redhat. They make incompatible changes to
utilities, do not feed patches back to maintainers then expect the rest
of the world to follow their lead. The -i and -m flags to modutils are
not the only example, I recently found IA64 and Sparc patches they had
added to modutils code and not bothered to tell me. Other distributors
are much better about sending me patches, Debian and SuSe in particular
do the right thing.
Since "-F System.map" in modutils is equivalent to "-m System.map -i"
and works on all distributions, not just Redhat, the "-m -i" patch is
unnecessary. Consider this my protest against bad habits by
distributors, they created the mess with their lack of communication
and they have to fix it.
%%
10:44] falls Du mal DB2 crashen musst:
[10:45] connect reset;
[10:45] connect to sample user db2admin using db2admin;
[10:45] select * from employee where year(birthdate)=1999 and firstnme<'';
%%
[a perl quine, by ilmari karonen:]
printf+(q(printf+(q(%s))x2))x2
%%
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:22:34PM -0500, M&M Samsel wrote:
> You see I have about 10 years of commercial development experience and
> pretty much know business procedures from huge corporations and business
> midgets and what I should expect or not.
You've not demonstrated your 10 years of experience.
You've just proved that killfiles are useful.
%%
[once upon a time, when poul started gnomeicu:]
gnomeicu: Rohrbruch (beim Speichern der Konfiguration)
%%
[subject from a thread on the gcc steering commitee mailinglist when
glibc-2.2 was released]
Re: glibc 2.2 a fait accompli
%%
[08:05] elmex: Fehlt Dir einmal Klopapier, versuche es mit GNU m4. :)
%%
# root:0Ayj0AZhTi4O2:11272:0:99999:7:::
# kma:1NXgYu6J80kvc:11225:0:99999:7:::
# elmex:0ImdHgG2TEQAE:11273:0:99999:7: : :
%%
soll ich das ganze uber einen perl-hash erzeugen ?
klar.. %hash->generate
oesi siedelt nach de: %oesi->degenerate
%%
[From "How the mind of a php programmer works", by Marc Lehmann]
(1) it works on msie 5 (alt.: netscape 4) so the code is
standards-compliant.
(2) an entity looks like "&" entityname ";"
(2a) [conclusion] the fragment href="xxx¬es=77" doesn't contain a valid
entity, so the browser must use it as is.
(2b) [corollary] "" is not a valid html element, so the browser
must react according to what I assume it should do (display, ignore).
(2c) in some programs I assume differently than in others.
%%
[Oh no, Don Becker again ;)]
> which one is the linksys card, so I have included the entire listing. (Is it
> even listed? Perhaps this is my problem.)
That's your problem.
There is no PCI Ethernet device listed.
Check that the card is fully inserted into the PCI slot.
(If it's an ISA card, then it's not fully inserted into the PCI slot ;->)
%%
> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
> > out there) in the foot?
> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
%%
> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if
> you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day
> or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will.
No encryption use; and the maximal message size is 1Mb (for sanity's sake,
after somebody sent a PowerPoint presentation (some 3Mb), then thought that
perhaps the target didn't have PowerPoint, and sent it again with the
PowerPoint package, then noticed this might not work either, and sent it
_again_ with the full MS Office attached... the joys of sysadminning ;-)
--
Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
%%
Ulrich Drepper writes:
> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" writes:
>
> > Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
> > behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
>
> Why are you talking such a nonsense?
[Note to self: remove kitten from keyboard before writing mail.]
%%
[Simon Budig, nachdem er erfahren hatte, daß Lars Eilebrecht nicht wusste,
daß Leerzeichen in URLs nicht erlaubt sind:]
"Also, Lars, das hätte ich nicht gedacht, jetzt hast du aber jede Menge
Gurupunkte bei mir verloren."
%%
[amazon readers about the Annotated C Standard by Herberdt Schildt,
which is much less expensive then the official version (search also for
Bullschildt below ;)]
"The price difference reflects the value of the annotations. At no time
do the annotations clarify, enhance, or supplement the standard."
%%
Stefan Traby wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:43:04AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
>
> > We have a few websites floating around, [...]
>
> Many mirrors are also out of sync. Especially the primary server :)
%%
> This happens with both ext2 and reiserfs, since at least 2.2.15.
I installed noflushd on my laptop, which was running 2.4.0-test6, and
it did the same thing.
Sorry I can't offer more info. Someone spilt a glass of water on it about
a week ago. :(
--Jack
%%
"Kalk hat diese Waschmaschine getötet"
%%
[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time.
-- K&R
%%
JanMan: "||01:42:20|| schmorp: jo, die sprache muss man nicht erklaeren"
%%
[please kids, don't try this at home]
indent -kr -l78 -lc78 -lps -i8 -br -pcs -psl -bbo -bad -bap -cs -nbc -nhnl -nss
%%
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ms/kmfms.jpg
%%
[PApp.pm]
$modules => { "" => "" };
%%
Das einzig sichere Mittel gegen Migräne ist das Entfernen des Kopfes.
%%
elmex: Sprichwort "Relaye doch bei dnx, dann kriegst Du nix." :)
%%
[From Russel Coker's .sig]
> --
> If you can't program in C, PERL, and shell scripts then don't call yourself a
> Unix administrator. Every idiot on the net is claiming to be a Unix admin. :(
%%
[the two sides of the medal]
From: "David Schwartz"
> Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was increased from
> 100 to 10000, the time to check for active sockets with poll()
> increased by a factor of only 6.5. That's a sublinear increase in time,
> pretty spiffy.
Under Solaris 7, when the number of idle sockets was decreased from 10,000
to 100, the time to check for active sockets with poll() decreased by a
factor of only 6.5. Shouldn't it be more like 100? Sounds like Solaris' poll
implementation is horribly broken for the most common case.
%%
[lukas grunwald...]
[ich sag' dir, ] ... am nächsten Tag brüllt der mich vielleicht per e-mail an ...
%%
[from linux-kernel, about the rtl8139 network card]
> (After looking at the specification for the 8139, I am acctually ashamed
> of having bough one.
Not an uncommon thought :)
%%
From: Stefan Traby
Hi Marc !
keycode 115 = ISO_Next_Group
keycode 116 = ISO_Prev_Group
keycode 117 = ISO_Level3_Shift
Finde ich witzig, man erspart sich den lock-screensaver :)
%%
[I hope you get the point(s)...]
From: Alex LIVINGSTON
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:12:46 +1100
To:
At 07:40 +0000 2000-10-06, ken@halcyon.com wrote:
>But the thing is: mm/dd/yy[yy] is in widespread use (US), as is
>dd/mm/yy[yy] (much of Europe, I'm told).
Slight refinement: dd/mm/[yy]yy. Used in all European countries - and
all countries colonized by a European country at one time or another
which haven't had a strong US influence since, and probably all
remaining Asian, African, and Pacific countries - that don't use
[yy]yy-mm-dd. mm/dd/yy[yy] is restricted almost entirely to the US
and a few neighbors. I would hesitate to say it is in widespread use.
>[yy]yy-mm-dd was used
>in Japan even before the ISO standard came out.
And in China, and in Sweden, and in Hungary, ... (possibly with different
separators). Also in the Arab world, in the sense that the digits (all of
them) appear in the same order from left to right, only Arabic is written
right to left.
>But no culture
>has ever used [yy]yy-dd-mm format, and there is absolutely
>nothing to recommend it, so there is no reason to expect anyone
>to adopt it. Yes, the perverse can use that format just to
>confound us, but in practice one can safely assume that a
>nnnn-nn-nn date is in yyyy-mm-dd format.
Thanks Ken. You've put it much better and more concisely than I could have.
--Alex
%%
[recently, on the tulip driver mailing list]
From: Donald Becker
To: "Jon.Hinks"
[most of the reply snipped...]
> The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It
> may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may
> it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Berkeley
[[ The rest of the boilerplate omitted. ]]
These terms do not apply. You have mailed to a published list. You hold
the copyright to your writings, but by submitting questions to the list you
grant the list publisher (me) the right to publish in this list and related
forums. "Related forums" may be collected archives of the list on any media,
and quotes from questions in FAQs.
(Long boilerplate appendages like this notice annoy me. Automatically
attached copyright notices can never unilaterally extend your rights, so why
try to claim that they do?)
%%
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> void go_take_a_dump (float load)
> {
> if (pull_down_pants() && purge_bowles() && wipe_anus() && pull_up_pants())
> flush(load);
> else
> wear(load);
> }
But here you make another classic mistake. Consider the case where
purge_bowels() fails (-EWOULDBLOCK?).
In that case, you don't actually execute the subsequent two procedure
calls, which I'm sure we all agree is a suboptimal state of affairs.
--
dwmw2
%%
Factoid: 90% of all patents are never challenged, while 80% of those that
are are overturned.
%%
"Going into court is throwing the dice."
%%
[Dipl. Ing. W******* D*******]
"Lukas, eins muss dir klar sein, die ganze Kryptographie ist doch
für den Arsch, wenn ich ein Stück von dem Originaltext habe und den
verschlüsselten Text, knack' ich dir jeden Schlüssel in 50 Stunden."
%%
[some discussion between reiserfs enthusiasts:]
Stefan: oh shit, everything coredumps, I'll just reboot.
Marc gives some dumb comments.
Stefan: No, I'll first check it with reiserfsck.
Marc: Yeah.. and?
Stefan: "reiserfsck: no reiserfs found"
Marc: Oh, the superblock is damaged. Maybe you should just try the backup superblock...
%%
[t-online is just sooo cool:]
Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
From:
|------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------|
... 550 Mailbox quota exceeded / Mailbox voll.
|------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------|
%%
[a play with a well-known-signature:]
Deadlock, n.:
Deceased Rasterman.
%%
[Jeff Williams & friends]
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-bremen.de/pub/doc/internet-drafts/draft-terrell-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-addr-cls-00.txt
http://IPv8.vrx.net/
http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08030.html
%%
[some .signature]
This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security.
%%
[Andreas Mueller-Maghun for ICANN!]
Allein der Kandidat des Chaos-Computer-Clubs (CCC) Hamburg, der schon
mehr als 1.100 Unterstützungserklärungen erhalten hat, dürfte nach
Einschätzung des arbeitskreises die Bedingung für eine Basiskandidatur
zum ICANN-Direktorium schon jetzt erfüllen. Ausgerechnet er hat es aber
nicht für nötig gehalten, auf die Anfrage der Behindertenvertreter zu
reagieren. Seine Webseiten zeugen zudem von einem "Sicherheitskonzept",
das Usern mit Sehbehinderung vor lauter technischen Barrieren keine
Zugangsmöglichkeiten bietet. Der Arbeitskreis hält einen Vertreter solcher
Positionen für unwählbar.
Jens Bertrams (Pressesprecher)
%%
From: (Albert Y. C. Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: what is "functional" (Re: Macros)
Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes:
> Their opinion: "well, *everybody* knows that this is not professional,
> nobody uses functional languages, all your colleagues suggest that we
> should learn Lex and Yacc, etc. -
> but *WHAT A PLEASURE AND FUN* was to write these programs in Haskell.
> Almost no run-time errors, ever!"
A professor at my school got the opposite opinion from her students.
She introduced ML (along with two other languages) as part of a course
on the principles of programming languages in the third year. The
students' opinion: this is such an annoyingly pedantic language, it
refuses to let me run my program and get some partial though wrong
results simply because I make a mistake!
In other words, given that humans are bound to make mistakes, the
students at my school prefer to see them manifested as run-time
errors.
So I look at your email address. Ah, you are in Europe and I am in
North America. I guess that's why. Dijkstra is probably right about
European programmers liking to do programming right and American
programmers liking to chase after bugs.
%%
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:15:09PM +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that
> > "special" POSIX signals [.. like KILL] can be delivered to a process.
>
> Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
%%
"The posix programmer knows the availability of everything, but the cost
of nothing."
%%
[after the linux-kernel list was moved to a new machine]
Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
>
> So tell us about this new machine. OS? Filesystem? Memory?
> CPU?
Root password? :)
John.Fulmer
%%
I think there is a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J. Watson (Chairman, IBM) 1943
%%
> NO. They can/will use RAW_IO *IF* this is available to them. If not, they
> will have to provide a proper kernel driver for their hardware. I know
> which I prefer...
Sure. And keep that dusty 2.4.3 kernel around just in case you someday need
to upgrade the firmware for your disk, and the (binary!) kernel module only
works with that one. Don't forget the 2.4.15ac12 which is for your USB
scanner, and also the 2.6.7-12 (Red Hat) which is the only one with the
updater for the new SCSI controller.
--
Horst von Brand
%%
[de.comp.lang.iso-c++]
>Nicht alles was Standard ist, muss auch implementiert werden.
[...]
Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich.
%%
[Drew Sanford about why not to do real-time by throwing faster hardware
at your problem:]
The F4 Fantom fighter. The plane was essentially a large block of metal, with
a few advantagously aerodynamic surfaces, and big f****** engines. If you
had engine trouble in a Fantom ...you had trouble.
%%
[Hans Reiser, on /bin/cp.. ;)]
cp is inherently inefficient.
%%
>I thought disk drives contained vacuums, thus the extensive concern over
>breaking seals on them.
Air pressure is 1Kg/cm^2. I have never seen a hard drive case that looked
nearly strong enough to take such pressure. Basically if you can't jump on a
hard drive then it's not strong enough!
...
There's a story that Dave Cutler (VMS and WNT architect) when he was at DEC
did a test on a DEC hard drive by blowing cigar smoke into the drive which
killed it properly. DEC then greatly enhanced their drive air filters. It
could be just an urban myth though.
Russell Coker
%%
>I've unsubscribed our somewhat less than intelligent friend.
>Ah, Internet for the masses. What a wonderful idea.
Yeah, let's have an IQ test before you're allowed to buy a modem.
%%
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 02:40:33PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> "Yury Yu. Rupasov" wrote:
> > All my current benchmarks show that reiserfs works correctly on
> > deleting.
>
> Just a sidenote: you don't test correctness with benchmarks :(
Wrong. Yury does.
:(
--
Stefan
%%
"Jeff V. Merkey" writes:
> I will provide a tool that decodes and repairs NTFS volumes to those
> folks who run into this problem, but our agreements with Microsoft do
> not allow us to distribute it for any purpose other than to assist
> Microsoft customers who have corrupted drives. Also, this tool is
> dependent on the DDK being present to run as it has dependencies on the
> DDK DLL's, so you'll need to install the DDK to use it.
DDK == "Disk Death Kit"?
Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu
%%
[very instructional movie, if you get what I mean...]
00:30-02:05 (13) ( -35) Kabel 1 Das Mädchen am Ende der Straße The
Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane Psychodrama - KAN/F/USA - 1976 -
Regie: Nicolas Gessner * Die 13-jährige Rynn (Jodie Foster) lebt allein in
einer alten Villa und hütet ein schreckliches Geheimnis.
%%
[Einsichten in die "Kommunikation"]
> > > Ich beschreibe dir, was in dem Moment an Eindruecken durch meinen
> > > Kopf geht - in dem Augenblick bin ich Besucher und sehe was
> > > mir gefaellt oder nicht - das ist wie ein Schmierzettel. Die
> > > Ausarbeitung der Ideen kommt danach im Gespraech. Du packst solche
> > > Sachen anders an - das seh ich ein. Aber ich bin mit dieser
> > > Art chaos bisher immer ans Ziel gekommen. Was ich mach will -
> > > machen muss - ist Feedback generieren. Ich lass Versuchsballons
> > > aufsteigen und schau zu, wie sie entweder fliegen oder abgeschossen
> > > werden. Dann reagier ich auf das Ergebnis.
%%
[Mitch, als Erklärung dafür, weshalb er blindlings ein (kaputtes) ssh-rpm
installiert hat, das er über rpmfind gefunden hat:]
Doch, echt! Der Server war trusted, der sah' ja sowas von vertrauenswürdig
aus!
%%
[IMHO one of the main reasons linux is nicer]
http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/ix/bsod-story.html
%%
[On the reality of random numbers]
> /dev in a world with dynamic hardware, so why bother? We only need
> to provide random numbers to fill in struct stat. (zero works)
Alan Cox [as usual ;)]
%%
[Flame Warriors]
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html
%%
A programmer who hasn't been exposed to all four of the imperative,
functional, objective, and logical programming styles has one or
more conceptual blindspots. It's like knowing how to boil but not
fry. Programming is not a skill one develops in five easy lessons.
--tom
%%
To: bugs@gimp.org
X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 105
Hi there, I recently downloaded your gimp toolkit. At first I was having
problems until I read your download help tip. I understand I have to compile
it so I tried using Borland C++ Compiler but it said the line length exceeds
editor capacity. Is there any other compiler I can use that wouldn't rip a
whole in my wallet. Thank you for your support.
%%
["General Information About Using VBScript with Outlook"]
VBScript is designed to be a secure programming environment. It
lacks various commands that can be potentially damaging if used in
a malicious manner. This added security is critical in enterprise
solutions.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q167/1/38.ASP
[Despite this "added security", however, VBscript still can modify,
rename, delete files, modify windows registry entries and send email in
the background]
%%
[Phil Agre on the "ILOVEYOU" virus and Microsoft's reaction]
Scott Culp of Microsoft Public Relations, excuse me, I mean Microsoft
Security Response Center:
This is a general issue, not a Microsoft issue. You can write a
virus for any platform. (New York Times 5/5/00)
[and later]
Mr. Culp also says this (CNET 5/5/00):
This is by-design behavior, not a security vulnerability.
[Phil closes]
Microsoft shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down.
[See also http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html]
[and http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.notes.and.recommenda6.html]
%%
[Bruce Schneier about the "ILOVEYOU" virus]
Expect even worse in the future. Systems running either Microsoft Office
2000 or Internet Explorer 5.0 can be infected with these sorts of viruses
even if the recipient doesn't open the attachment. That's right; if the
system is running Internet Explorer with the default settings, it is
vulnerable. The problem is caused by a programming bug in an Internet
Explorer ActiveX control. Thank you, Microsoft.
%%
>Reaching to Fallingbostel was extremely amusing though, germany is
>splitted into two halfs, one that doesn't know Fallingbostel and one
>that 'heard of this place but have no idea where it is' at some point I
>was almost convinced that there is no such place :)
[Trashey / Quasars]
%%
Tom Christiansen writes:
> I'm writing perlrtfm. It explains search techniques, not quickfix
> switches plugging bursting dykes by springing more leaks.
Irony potential in
man perlrtfm
is left to the reader.
Nat
%%
Do you plan to release support for on-the-fly file and directory compression
and encryption as in NTFSv2?
(Imagine a system that in order to run needs a diskette or CD-ROM disk with
private key - protection never seen except in movies ;-)
%%
[Telekom-Techniker, bei einer ISDN-UK0-Messung!]
Ich: Also, einen Layer-1-Connect bekomme ich...
Telekomiker: Layer-1? Was ist das? Aber ich bekomme ja auch gar kein Freizeichen...
%%
"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
Paul Tomblin
%%
[recently on p5p]
>I am morally
>convinced that map() was written based on grep()
Considering they use the same op function, I'd say that's a distinct
possibility...
Dan
%%
[after the "Welle Erdball" performance on the Mekka&Symposium 2000:]
bine: du solltest da nicht hingucken, das ist nicht gut fürn kopf
after listening to this crap, and hearing *zugabe zugabe* i finally have the proof that all german c64 sceners are gay :)
zugabe
%%
"Why upon hearing his arguments I changed my opinion 360 degrees."
Recent comment on the floor of some state legislature
%%
DIVIDE EMPLOYEE-EARNINGS BY EMPLOYEE-HOURS GIVING EMPLOYEE-PAY-RATE
[cobol, *sigh*]
%%
It is expected that the Multics system will be published when it is
operating substantially and will therefore be available for implementation
on any equipment with suitable characteristics. Such publication is
desirable for two reasons: First, the system should withstand public
scrutiny and criticism volunteered by interested readers; second, in an
age of increasing complexity, it is an obligation to present and future
system designers to make the inner operating system as lucid as possible
so as to reveal the basic system issues.
Corbat_ & Vyssotsky 1965
%%
"Rule #7: Silence is not acquiescence.
"Contrary to what you may have heard, silence of those present is
not necessarily consent, even the reluctant variety. They simply
may sit in stunned silence and figure ways of sabotaging the plan
after they regain their composure."
-- Paul Rinaldo
[see also http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rinaldo.html]
%%
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:09:59AM +1000, Chris wrote:
>
> In case you guys havn't noticed...
>
> http://slashdot.org reports that XFS is now released.
Yes, and http://www.freshmeat.net reports:
Error: Unable to connect to MySQL Server ().
;-}
--
ciao -
Stefan
%%
> The 'hypervisor' is a new term to me.. Are you refering to the
> Transmeta CPU and it's native mode? If I read you correctly
No its what the S/390 VM is often called. Its a supervisor for supervisor
mode programs so illogically enough its a hypervisor 8). The IBM mainframe
guys thing this kind of set up is routine. Unix is met with
'You mean you cant run a new kernel on test at the same time as the old
one' type remarks.
[Alan Cox]
%%
Godwin's Law
As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
[see also http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/]
%%
["Stefan im IRC."]
[01:53:07] anyone know how to get emacs to stop creating the file.name~ files?
[01:53:24] alias emacs=vi
[01:53:31] haha
%%
[remaining problems with OpenBIOS]
Our SDRAM sizing and init code is not very good; we could use good code.
The code we've been offered so far requires memory to work (oops!);
requires a stack (oops!); or assumes a totally configured machine (oops!).
%%
[Alan Cox on wether special fs's should have require "//" in their path]
> No :-) It's a feature. Some things are going REAL ugly without such things.
Given //ipc or freebsd, I think I'd pick freebsd. Thats how ugly the idea
is to me ok.
%%
"The code is self documenting." -- The Programmer.
"I don't read C." -- The Tech Writer.
%%
[Stefan Sebolth, on the CeBIT, while listening to the original c64 "Giana Sisters" tune:]
Haaach, da war die Welt halt noch in Ordnung!
%%
Remember, never ask a geek "why";
just nod your head and back away slowly...
%%
The thought of implementing something like text and binary modes for
files is a about a frightening for todays kernel developer's as a mouse
to a women in a typical movie of the 50's ;-)
Ralf
%%
It may be real, but it's icky. It's too traditional Unix ``I don't
care if we lose 90% of our market base to NT if our competitor loses
95% of THEIR market base!'' to be palatable.
david parsons
%%
["some time ago on p5p"]
> ($host) = gethostbyname('localhost');
>Sadly most UNIX boxes don't add a sane alias to their /etc/hosts file
>so that trick is not portable.
% grep localhost /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
--tom
%%
["some time ago on p5p"]
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:22:05PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >But given that most slip drivers I have seen for OS/2 do not do this,
> >the question is moot.
>
> I'll send you a free Unix system.
Thanks, the doors in my house are well-balanced. ;-)
Ilya
%%
[Elliott H Mitchell on the reiserfs list]
> Me thinks if unwillingness to use tar over dump will stop you from
> using a better filesystem there will be lots of other reasons that
> will stop you from trying anything new too. So it is not really worth
> trying.
Yeah, if a filesystem randomly lost files and the authors had no plans to
fix it, that would kind discourage one from using it...
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[Russel Coker on the reiserfs list]
... my old Thinkpad 380XD (Pentium-233 with 3.2G ide hard drive) running
ReiserFS and exporting the file system over 10baseT Ethernet could
outperform local hard drives on an AIX machine running JFS.
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[Peter Mattis, author of GIMP]
I can't say anything about Rasterman because I've never looked at any of
his code. My only comment about Raster is that he should learn to spell.
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[David Schwartz on linux-kernel]
> ORBS does not do ANYTHING above try to send few LEGAL
> strings to mailservers with LONG delays. So if you block ORBS you deserve
> blocking :-)
That's not the point. The point is that ORBS claims to be a list of
validated open mail relays, and it's not. It's not supposed to be a list of
people who deserve anything in particular. I'm sure if you talk to the
people who have chosen to block ORBS, you will find that they have their
reasons.
DS
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[WDR, 19991216 Fernsehen mit Manuel]
Es ist ein Fall bekannt, bei dem sich ein Patient über ein Jahr lang
geweigert hatte, auf die Toilette zu gehen. Dann haben seine Verwandten
und Ärzte ihn dazu überreden können, endlich die Toilette aufzusuchen. Er
hat dabei auf einmal 37 Liter entleert.
Danach lebte er noch ganz normal einige Jahre, bis er, wie in Amerika
üblich, erschossen wurde.
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> - My Maxtor 27G drive ends up in PIO mode (non-SMP system, but likely
[...]
> Last time I reported this, I had a WDC31600, as hda, and the maxtor as
[...]
You committed a mortal sin in ATA............
You never ever mix WD and Maxtor..........on day I will document why.
Basically these two vendors have timings that are completely incompatable
with each other on the same channel.
IMHO, WD is crap..........however, you may split the two pieces of
hardware and they will work fine under linux and all other OS's.
This rule of "never ever mix WD and Maxtor" is OS independent.
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[ALF2-Benutzerhandbuch]
"Nur eine tote Festplatte ist eine sichere Festplatte."
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Physicists write FORTRAN in any language.
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[OpenBOOT 3.10.6 response to pressing "Ctrl-Alt-Del":]
ANY word at all is a candidate.
USE words to see the entire dictionary.
ok
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[SDF for POD Users]
... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - even Lisp has it's fans. :-)
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schmorp: i haven't been doing any gimpy things lately
xach: well, who is doing gimpy things lately :(
schmorp: Mitch
xach: ok.
schmorp: you are not keeping pace with the other germans
schmorp: you must work more diligently! FOCUS!! DON'T TALK!!
burrito, focus
FOCUS you BABOON!
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[Paul Miller]
... I find Knuth's attitude to be far more logical: "Be careful about
using the following code -- I've only proven that it works, I haven't
tested it." ...
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Intel Inside -- Idiot Outside!
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Bart Lateur wrote in message <383a4712.942513@news.skynet.be>...
>Petrus Prawirodidjojo wrote:
>
>>So we must compete with Windows CE.
>
>"Please wait while your Toaster shuts down."
>
>"My microwave oven hangs, I have to reboot."
>
>No thank you. :-) I don't think Microsoft somehow can "automatically" be
>the most obvious choice as a supplier of system software for embedded
>systems.
Quite so. Windows CE is rapidly losing what small market share they once
had.
--
Neal Bridges
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On 27 Nov 1999, sanjay Kumar wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 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?
> please reply to
> sanjay_rect@rediffmail.com
> and sigma_btl@vsnl.com
Parse error.
---
Alex
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From: Richard Earnshaw
> Why do we really need to support compiling with -ansi when
> including a non-ANSI header file in a C program?
Because some vendors wouldn't recognize a C standard it if hit them. The
amount of code that purports to be ANSI C code, but is in fact nothing of
the sort, has to be seen to be believed.
That doesn't mean that I don't want *my* program to be clean ANSI C.
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[one of the few good us movies]
Talk Radio Mediendrama - USA - 1988 - Regie: Oliver Stone * Sein Zynismus wird dem Radiomoderator Barry zum Verhängnis.
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[guess the language AND the language revision ;)]
ii = 44;
p = ⅈ
*p = ii/*p;
ii++; /* Don't forget to increment ii. */
printf ( "ii = %d\n", *p );
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> But many systems set the RTC while running Win*ooze. That will affect
> Linux time then.
Here is another microsoft Innovation (TM):
They now allow you to run your BIOS-clock in UTC! (Just like
Linux. Woops. Just gave it away...)
Roger.
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schmorp, for the next trick, do