Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
- Kin Hubbard
%
[random .sig]
I'm a muslim.
No I won't email you a bomb if you tick me off, but only because I don't know how to.
%
[...] don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any
of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck"
before.
[Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO]
%
BASIC - fun! (For small programs at least.)
Smalltalk - fun! (Until you have to interact with anything else.)
Lisp - fun! (Until your eyeballs fall out from looking at too many parentheses.)
Arduino sketches - fun! (As long as they fit on one page.)
ObjC - sort of fun...once you understand 200 Cocoa classes.
Java - public static void not fun.
C++ - definitely not fun. STL seems like it should be fun but it isn't.
C - usually not fun.
What about modern scripting languages?
JavaScript - sort of fun! Until you have to deal with the DOM or various not-fun frameworks.
Ruby - fun! Until you try to do something with Rails.
Python - fun! Until you try to write a GUI app.
[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/2/]
%
"Die deutschen Zensoren------------------- --------------------------
Dummköpfe-------- -------------------------------------------"
%
* GFX_IS_DISPLAY_MODE_SUPPORTED
*
* This routine sets the specified display mode.
n = n%2 ? n : ++n;
[plan9, /sys/src/cmd/eqn/paren.c]
%
# The user is always right.
if test "${PATH_SEPARATOR+set}" != set; then
[autoconf]
%
from linux-2.6.37/fs/fcntl.c:
/*
* We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
* not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
* extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
* file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
* more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
* fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
* but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
* and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
* FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
* deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
* scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
* tables and this condition does not arise without those.
*/
%
Taken straight out of lilo... This way of intermixing case with if (0)
was new to me:
switch(c)
{
case 'x': base=16; type |= 4; if(0) {
case 'o': base= 8; type |= 4; } if(0) {
case 'u': base=10; type |= 4; } if(0) {
case 'd': base=-10; }
switch(type)
{
case 0: val=va_arg(ap, short); break;
case 1: val=va_arg(ap, int); break;
case 2: val=va_arg(ap, long); break;
case 4: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned short); break;
case 5: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned int); break;
case 6: val=va_arg(ap, unsigned long); break;
default:val=0; break;
}
cp = __numout(val,base);
if(0) {
case 's':
cp=va_arg(ap, char *);
}
%
Also, it is not true that UTC-1 is THE civilian time scale. While it
is certainly one, physical seconds are as enshrined in law as UTC
timestamps. Try arguing that you weren't caught speeding at midnight
at the end of the year because the calculation should have used an
extra second and see how far you get :-)
[Nick Maclaren, in <8ta60d$aq6$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>]
%
> > Actually it's not fully backward compatible. As I was just reminded, the
> > libc `sync' function, which is what the fileutils sync uses (sync is in
> > fileutils, not sh-utils), is backward-compatible and thus not synchronous
> > (it passes a zero wait flag in file_syncfs).
>
> Hmm. Hurd sync should use the libc sync function too; it should not
> set the wait flag. If it does, that's a bug.
It must be a confusing feature, because the code was written by the
infamous Michael I. Bushnell (may he rest in peace), who did not write bugs.
[from a random discussion about hurd, 199901032206.RAA27962@baalperazim.frob.com]
%
It is immediately apparent from these figures that moving-arm disks
should never be used, neither for paging applications nor for any other
heavy-traffic auxiliary memory applications.
Peter J. Denning -- Virtual Memory (1970)
http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=356573&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
%
(i was impatient to bikeshed with diego on code indenting... btw this
whole indentation rules/enforcement should gone, it's nonsense, i dont
know any coder who uses consistent indentation over all his code... only
beginner programmers do, sometimes. if anyone wants to read the code in
nice indentation, he can anytime run a code formatter with his favourite
settings)
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-January/104674.html
%
How do I deal with memory leaks?
By writing code that doesn't have any. [...]
[From Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ]
%
This kind of arguments doesn't really make sense for Fedora. We should
ship the best implementation, not the most "tried and true" one.
http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/development/libjpeg-f14.htm
%
The situation in the US: If you do anything before 2067 to preserve the
recording on a wax-cylinder from 1895, the terrorists win. Do you really
hate hard-working American families that much? Thank God Senator Orrin
Hatch and the RIAA love America's children more than you do.
The situation in Europe: Sound recordings up to 1960 are already in the
public domain. The terrorists have won. Our only hope of restoring the
justice of eternal and infinite copyright (and therefore saving our own
children's lives!) lies in the selfless efforts of the likes of Bono and
Cliff Richard, as they cry all the way to the bank about artists not being
rewarded for their creativity.
Let's hope that by the time you finish reading this sentence, copyright
will have been extended another 99 years... you know, to justly compensate
that bloke sitting by a mic in 1895. If he'd thought that in 2066
librarians would be able to copy his recording without his permission, he
would never have made it in the first place.
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=52573
%
"I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
future understand things" -- Jörg Schilling
%
Nobody has bought freaking 160GB of music from the iTunes store. I figured
it out once, conservatively it was like $53,000 of music. And yet somehow
Apple has managed to sell tens of millions of iPods with up to 160GB
capacity, and even the smaller iPods would cost many thousands of dollars
to fill from the iTunes store. The iPod was worthwhile because of piracy.
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars?comments=1#comment-20806800
%
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
- Mohandas Gandhi
%
"And so I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of
the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
handiwork of the Lord."
- Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" Vol. I, chapter 2, Murphy Ed. (p. 46)
%
Scientific Scrutiny and Disclosure
I was wondering how anyone possibly could conclude from this exchange that
Lenski was hiding something. I came to the conclusion that some people
must not understand how scientific scrutiny works. I wrote a guide.
Scientific scrutiny works like this:
Scientist A publishes results.
Scientist B: A, I tried duplicating your experiment, but parameters x, y,
and z that I need were not in your article. I need you to disclose to me
x, y, and z that you used at the time. What are they?
A: x, y, and z are such and such.
B: Using x, y, and z, my result doesn't agree with yours at all. Are you
sure you did the procedures that you claimed?
A: ...
B: You fraud!
Scientific scrutiny does not work like this:
A publishes results.
B: I have Generic Skepticism toward your article. Under code viii of the
Publication Criteria, I demand that you give me all of your data!
A: ... ok...? It seems that everything you would need is already in the
article. Did you have something specific in mind?
B: A has refused to attach all data he has ever used for the
experiment. He is withholding information and thus hiding something.
-- Carafe 01:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Lenski_affair_talk_1]
%
[regarding sites requesting visitors to allow advertisements and not block
them because they need the money to operate]
"The readers are not the customer. The customer is the advertiser, and the
readers are the product which that website promises to deliver. But the
readers, being the product and not the customer, have no obligation to the
site or its bottom line."
%
"..but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of
the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those
who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for
enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in church & state:
that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man has been
adulterated & sophisticated, by artificial constructions, into a mere
contrivance to filch wealth & power to themselves, that rational men not
being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down
their throats, they raise the hue & cry of infidelity, while themselves
are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of
Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."
– Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin, 19 January 1810 (draft – never sent)
%
Ignorance is the state of not having the data.
Idiocy is the state of having the data, but not being able to process it.
Willful ignorance is the state of censoring out all data you don’t want to hear.
%
["only those parts in the bible I like are authentic"]
>>>> but doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support slavery, genocide,
>>>> and the beating of children?
>>>
>>> Subjugation of women...
>>
>> "doesn't the Christian bible explicitly support ..." Only for bible
>> literalists and those who ignore what Jesus himself taught. By all
>> means call out any religious person who is acting immorally but try to
>> understand that the rest of us who are trying to follow the Way as best
>> as we can don't usually have the clout to wrestle the Falwells and the
>> Robertsons and their ilk to the ground. If we can agree on that, then,
>> shake partner.
>
> Ever read Matthew 5:31-32? Jesus said it and taught it.
>
> He says my wife is an adultress since she divorced her 1st husband all
> on account of her not taking his punches and kicks with good-natured
> humor. That "pearl of wisdom" also says that I'm an adulterer for
> choosing to spend the rest of my life with her.
>
As written, it seems pretty clear. Until you remember the book of matthew
was written decades after Jesus's death based on memories and oral
traditions, not to mention translation inaccuracies and ulterior motives
of the writers. No one really knows what Jesus really said or what he
really meant. It could all be wildly inacurrate. I think the fault is in
those who would use those words to justify their shabby treatment of you
and your wife.
%
Atheists care about religion for the same reason other people care about
cancer. If you aren't careful, it will kill you, and if you are, it could
still kill you. - arestheblue
%
Once upon a time there was the CAT working group whose name was an
abbreviation for "Common Authentication Technology". It produced IETF
specifications for GSS-API.
It was succeeded by the kitten working group, which has been working on
the next-generation GSS-API specifications.
There is now a proposal for a MOGGIES working group, which will work on
Mechanisms Of Generating Generically Interoperable & Effective Security.
[http://fanf.livejournal.com/?style=mine]
%
[from the minix 3 users guide]
ELLE is a simple and clear text editor (once you've figured out the key commands).
%
[Tips how to deal with complaints when running TOR exit nodes]
During the conversation make sure you explain a few points:
[...]
You are not insane. You may be insane, but we don't want the
complaintant to guess this is true.
%
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
- Ken Thompson.
%
http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-01-16-50-Math-Project-released.html
"Scientific calculations are becoming a reality in Syllable"
Dunning-Kruger at its best - the tool that "carries Syllable to
universities" can calculate sine and cosine values of integer inputs...
source code excerpt:
int sn()
{
char pwr;
int input1 = 0;
double output1 = 0;
system("clear");
cout<<"This is the Sin() calculator, please enter a number"<>input1;
output1 = (sin(input1));
cout<<"Sin() of"<< input1<<" is: "<>pwr;
if(pwr == 'a')
sq();
if(pwr == 'm')
system("pause");
}
%
It allows a web browser and a web server to have a persistent, two-way
full-duplex connection using just one TCP connection.
[mind-boggling, they provide TCP features with just TCP!!!11]
http://web.syllable.org/news/2010-01-02-22-16-WebSockets-for-Cheyenne-web-server.html
%
From the "my window manager is boiling bullshit, so you have to fix your
app for me" department:
From: Evan LeCompte
Myself and many other members of the Archlinux community (and anyone using
Linux with a tiling window manager for that matter) humbly beg you (the
developers) for a single-windowed version of GIMP.
%
"I will give you credit for having balls. In spite of your comments being
a PR ploy based on biased views, you consistently imply that we're just
indulging in a PR ploy based on biased views."
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/old-news/
%
"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone ...
Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone"
– Steve Jobs[47]
"We can’t adapt European magazines to the standards of Utah."
– Mathias Müller von Blumencron (editor of Der Spiegel, warning that
the news magazine would not alter its content for the App Store)
%
The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
%
Subject: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)
From: Patrick Horgan
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:13:38 -0800
To: GIMP Users
Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting,
writing bug reports for, and sometimes even developing for, writing
documentation for, or translating for open source software is paralleled
by their progress from top-posting to bottom posting to interlinear
posting, to intelligent elision with interlinear posting? I see it on
the gimp, and on other lists all the time.
[...]
%
"Logic has made me hated among men"
— Peter Abelard
%
A man said to the universe:
"Sir I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
- Steven Crane
%
He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid him.
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
– Sanskrit Saying
%
[anonymised discussion]
AGW-Denialist: ... blabla ... Karl Hopper ... blabla ... falsification ...
Scientist: Karl Hopper, eh? You're like the energizer bunny of wrong.
%
[http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/NV/render_texture_rectangle.txt]
Additions to the WGL Specification
First, close your eyes and pretend that a WGL specification actually
existed. Maybe if we all concentrate hard enough, one will magically
appear.
%
"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,
sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
- Douglas Adams
%
I like how whether a German is a "skinhead" or a "pussy", he's still considered a typical German.
[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21884]
%
“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will
lose both, and deserve neither” -- Thomas Jefferson
%
"This is a further proof of the skill of astronomers
in fitting a straight line to a circle!"
- footnote in "OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER"
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Biviano/Biviano_contents.html
%
Am Grunde eines Problems sitzt immer ein Deutscher (Voltaire)
%
"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
- Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked
Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
%
It's a known fact that not a single competent, experienced, skilled
programmer in the world uses an IDE, nor has used one at any point in his
or her career.
[http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/?node_id=636318]
%
It was stated that WIMPs and MACHOs were in the category of particle known
as "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend
Untenable Scientific Theories" (FAIRIE DUST).
%
I LOVE YOU
["authentication succeeded" protocol token used by cvs pserver]
%
General consensus seems to be 2.6.18 is where the manure intersected with
the air impeller.
Alan Cox
%
"I'm being elitist: awesome 3 is designed for power users
with a minimum computer science background."
%
From: Eric Sosman
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: about graphics
prince wrote:
> how to get command over graphics in c language?
#include
int main(void) {
puts("graphics\rcommand");
return 0;
}
%
I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
%
[Bodo Moeller in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/e79e65ed9077d0ba]
While the 2^128 step search talks a very long time indeed,
it still is a constant-time attack.
%
"Verleumdung mußt Du frech betreiben, es wird schon etwas hängenbleiben!"
-- Karl Joseph Simrock
%
From: David Damerell
Quoting Epic Campaigns :
>Because C# is case sensitive, you can use the same name with different
>caps to make it different.
Alternatively you could set your nose hair on fire, which will also be
painful but will take less typing.
%
Well, I think comparing Common Lisp to Scheme is prima facie evidence
of ill will, even if Common Lisp wins. It is somewhat like a supposed
compliment like "man, you are even smarter than George W. Bush".
Erik Naggum in 3231422371368070@naggum.net
%
From: Hans-Jürgen Koch
> The GPL places additional restrictions on code. It is therefore less
> free than the BSD.
>
> Free code + restrictions = non-free code.
The legal restriction that people must not enter your house uninvited
by smashing the door adds to your freedom, don't you think so?
%
[C++ doesn't have the monopoly on hard-to-read diagnostics]
State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *, struct CV *,
struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
from incompatible pointer type
State.xs:1927: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *, struct CV *,
struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
makes pointer from integer without a cast
State.xs:1927: error: too few arguments to function ‘(void (*)(struct CoroSLF *,
struct CV *, struct SV **, int))gv->sv_u.svu_gp->gp_cv->sv_any->xcv_start_u.xcv_xsubany.any_ptr’
%
The idea that governments have rights is absurd. People have rights. The
people have delegated certain tasks to government for their own
convenience, and have accepted limits on some minimal subset of their
rights so that society can best protect the rest. Note that "society" is
not the same as "the government"; the government is just a mechanism used
by society to accomplish certain specific things.
[Chandon Seldon]
%
[Wikipedia]
Differences between vi and Emacs
The neutrality of this article is disputed.
%
[lost the reference]
Remember that openssl is generally the upper
bound on how difficult a library can be to use.
%
"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless
to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and
elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."
%
[aol 4tw, messages are edited for readability]
Subject: Re: fcrack help
From: puezalb024@aol.com
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:27:46 -0500
To: schmorp@schmorp.de
X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
well how about making the manual more accessable u fukin cumtwat. take
ur shitty software n shove it homo. this program sux anyway. i wouldnt
have to read a manual if you actually knew how to create a good piece of a
working program you stupid fuck. n let me tell you thats a good way to get
your name out there or your software, just tel the customer their wrong,
yeah, thatll work. may you rot in piss, if your head was on fire i would
piss on your leg.
?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
maybe you should go to school and learn how to spell cuz who the fuck
spells marK with a c? musta been a baby of a couple retards
[then, a day later]
Subject: Re: fcrack help
From: puezalb024@aol.com
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:20 -0500
To: schmorp@schmorp.de
X-Mailer: AOL Webmail 39598-STANDARD
just kno that your an idiot. dont be mad at me cuz your mommy n daddy cant
aford to buy you aol, its not my problem. like anyone is going to read
your stupid post anyway.. noone likes your program, how about you read the
previous posts n then we'll see. so you just keep sitting in your basement
all by your lonesome?wasting your time making useless software buddy, cuz
quiet frankly i could give 2 shits. oh yeah if you plan on posting my
response make sure you dont edit nothing and include ALL of my response u
fucking nerd. why dont you put it on ur myspace as well, print up a couple
copies n post em on your walls too buddy
-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Lehmann
To: puezalb024@aol.com
Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 2:17 am
Subject: Re: fcrack help
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:27:46PM -0500, puezalb024@aol.com wrote:
>
> ?????????????????????????????????? -my regards-
I was suspecting that aol users have, uhm, issues, but that's just hilarious :->
Note that I will publish your response so other people can share the fun,
I hope you don't object :)
%
>Dummerweise steht es auch in der Welt der Wunder Zeitschrift und die ist
>dafür bekannt Fakten zu liefern.
You made my day
%
[http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0810.1/2945.html]
Names are important. In fact, naming is often _more_ important than the
implementation is. And that means that the implementation should follow
the naming, or the implementation is wrong.
Linus
%
The ultimate hipocrisy is when people send you mails like this:
From: Christian Walde
I'll be utterly blunt now and ask this in advance: Are you being an asshole on purpose? If so, please just stop reading now and ignore a person trying t ...
[lots of kilobyte-sized single-line paragraphs omitted]
As too many people send me top- and fully-quoted
emails, here is a guide on how to be considerate
when sending emails to other people:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
[which states to not use more than, say, 72 columns per line]
[mail quoted with permission btw.]
%
* k-god tries to think of the one mutt enhancement he'd like...
OK. Two. One: A backscratcher.
I believe muttng has one of those
Two: An implementation of the Internet Face Stab Protocol for MS Outlook lusers.
and I think outlook does that on its own :)
%
I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
be used if run as administrator in windows.
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
%
[on italy]
#24. fallingstones - 08-10 03:51
@youruncledarnell: First, sorry for my very bad English. Yes, the
majority of Italians are totally idiot, otherwise the Prime Minister
wouldn't be Silvio Berlusconi, and of course also the justice is not
only politicized, but also spectacularized.
Not only. We've the only nation in all EU having a State-controlled
corporation on copyright (SIAE). This corporation have also hated
by a lot of artists, Italian and foreigner, 'cause the division of
funds is "strange". If some of you can understand a lot of Italian, I
suggest viewing an old service on Italian TV program "Report" talking
on SIAE. You can read and viewing it on this url (sorry for long url)
http://www.report.rai.it/R2_popup_articolofoglia/0,7246,243%255E90082,00.html
Our legislation on copyright is basically on a law of 1943, approved
during WWII by fascism and signed by the king. We're a Republic since
1948 and our Costitution dislike fascism, but we've conserved all laws
from fascism period.
We don't admit officially other copyright licenses, like GPL or CC,
cause "legally" every creation would be registered in SIAE, giving to
them all rights (also rights of persecuting uses not authorized). An
author of a song can't authorize itself a pianist for playing his
song. If the song is registered in SIAE (and if isn't, isn't legally
created, and the author isn't recognized) the pianist MUST pay the
royalties, that eventually will be refunded to him by the author (if
they are accorded) when, after a lot of MONTHS, he receive it from
SIAE.
We've also some laws against Freedom of Speech, for example our penal
code include apology law, that pratically means you can't say why
you consider wrong a penal law. People can ask (with a lot of signs)
elections for deleting a law, but not for a penal law, or better can't
explain why that law it's wrong and would be deleted. If you can't
explain, you'll obviously will not found never other people signing
your petition (and you need at least 500, and with a REAL signs, not
electronic ones
#25. fallingstones - 08-10 03:52
Then, only parties have sufficient funds for these things, and we
don't have a party sufficiently interested in freedom of speech
(on internet and not). 'Cause limiting Freedom of Speech included
CONTROL. We've the last western country in Freedom of Speech (at least
based on Freedomhouse annual statistic), the only "Partly Free" in
western country.
I'm so sorry for being Italian, for our very stupid justice, for our
very bad country laws and on all for our very stupid prime minister,
but trust me, I can assure you we don't be ALL so stupid. In last
elections, with an absurd law on elections, other parties have been
deleted from parliament. Now we've only two main coalitions, the
Berlusconi's one and the Veltroni's one. All of them have approved
laws against freedom on internet, and generally against technology
innovations. For these reason, all the last governments are fascists,
also the governments of "center-left".
Again, sorry you and all for my bad English. I hope you can understand.
If I can, I suggest Brokep creating a guide for using TOR, a little
great program (and it's free) for surfing the net anonymously and
without any restriction.
Brokep and all TPB staff, go forward forever. You're my personal myth,
and the hope that good people using brain like you exists into the
world.
Long life to the Bay, forever.
Sorry for the long message and sorry if I'm using TOR, I hope you understand.
Thank you for reading.
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> > don't even attempt to compare the nvidia driver support to ati's craptacular drivers.
>
> don't even attempt to post a useful comment
How very ironic.
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With or without religion, we would have good people doing good things and
evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
takes religion."
--Steve Weinberg
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http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/en/why-not-use_java.xhtml
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[Kurt Roecks on his change that had totally broken openssl for two years in debian]
[Folks, fix valgrind bugs in your code, not in other people's code,]
[if you don't understand how valgrind works]
"I've ran all the regression test thru valgrind, using the memset()
solves most of those. As far as I know, commenting out those 2 calls
solved all the warnings valgrind reported."
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[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
the right tool for me.
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[deliantra]
02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible
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I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.
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cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
/wd_old: 5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
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From the CFA633 datasheet:
* Do not eat the LCD panel.
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>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.
It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
actually tells you it's *American*.
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[better do not hire this programmer]
From: Tony Jackson
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer
Hi
I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
someone here can advise me.
I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
happens with the customer looking on!!).
I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop. What's the
corresponding thing in C?
Thanks!
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[from mozilla 1.7b sources]
// See bug 53763.
nsCOMPtr kungFuDeathGrip;
nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
if (shell) {
kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();
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[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]
0x000000300049af30 : mov %fs:0x94,%edx
0x000000300049af38 : cmp $0x0,%edx
0x000000300049af3b : mov %edx,%eax
0x000000300049af3d : jle 0x300049af41
0x000000300049af3f : repz retq
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(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
“display quality too high”).
[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]
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Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?
> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a
> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping. Maybe parentheses? ;)
Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between
x / y * z
and
x / y * z
That'll *never* cause problems, right? :)
(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
design decisions.)
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endergt:
> snoofle:
> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
> > editor with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
> > you understand what you are doing...
>
> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation?
debug
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C# is for people who want to have one arm strapped behind their back because it reduces the probability of making a mistake by 50%.
Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.
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Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."
Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...): "Article
6 Decompilation
1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
computer program with other programs, provided that the following
conditions are met: [...]"
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http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/
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Why Linux Sux ?
Easy .
Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
Help : try get help for linux . after exploring tons of sites and forums the help you got is useless . for windows you just call them .
Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
Cost : install linux as server ... it is free no ? but you have to pay a sysadmin . or learn a lot . buy a lot of books . using windows ... just click next . if you are not dumb you might make it secure too (reading help does HELP! ) .
Virus : due to the fact that windows is so flexible it is logcal to have viruses . afterall the human body has more than a monkeys one .
Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .
You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
working ones . Screw linux users .
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19:26:03 did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
19:26:34 good point :)
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> The Dell 30"...
It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
the glowing has been highly asymmetric.
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Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials
> > u don´t use your wealth with responsibility, you only think about yourself and shrug your shoulders with comments like, "we all have the same chance", I´m a selfmade man", "everyone has to take care of themselves".
>
> yeah, that's why your little brothers decided to save the world - including your grandparents' sorry asses - from hitler, because we think only of ourselves!
>
> your welcome, pinhead!
Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a *beep* during ww2 I will respond.
1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
2. You came into the war very late, and that was strictly for buisness reasons. You need countries to trade with. The true hero in WW2 was actually Russia doing alot more then US ever did, not saying that I support Russia today.
3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
4. With those retorics you will never learn anything from your own mistakes since you always can go back and talk about your effort 100 years ago.
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[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986. (Good work, Arthur!)
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ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.
Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.
Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
anderen betriebssystemen.
Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.
habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.
Frage?
Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?
Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer
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"In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive
Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn't the spoiled son
of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by
religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations,
has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents,
and uses war to deny people their civil liberties." --The Boondocks
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19:35:41 dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
19:35:54 wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
19:36:18 tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
19:36:24 fragt sich wer mehr glück hat
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What has happened is that Dave Winer got off a rant against JSON as
reinventing XML's (and more specifically XML-RPC's) wheel:
God bless the re-inventers
Gotta love em, because there's no way they're going to stop breaking
what works, and fixing what don't need no fixing
Crockford gets off a very pithy response:
The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round
one.
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[rfc2665]
The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated.
Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more
useful in theory than in practice.
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15:40:51 son buero is faszinierend
15:41:08 staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
mit windows zu tun
15:41:15 oder mit software die dort laeuft
15:41:37 irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
15:41:47 und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
15:41:49 irgendwie
15:41:50 irgendwo
15:42:07 achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
geaendert haben :->
15:42:19 (also seit wenigen tagen)
15:47:10 es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
15:30
15:47:48 (mit ausnahmen)
15:48:13 aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht
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[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=895394]
The SparcStation2 technical docs recommend catting your /vmunix file to /dev/audio as a speaker test.
If you go nearly deaf from the painful noise, then your speaker works.
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http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/optimize.html
Strictly for beginners
Techniques you might not be aware of if you have not been programming for the past 15 years of your life:
[...]
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http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
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17:34:47 hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
17:34:53 ja klar
17:34:57 alles was lebenszeitende hat
17:34:58 wird gpl
17:35:02 weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
17:35:05 bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
17:35:08 hehe
17:35:13 und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
17:35:46 dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
17:35:48 :->
17:35:58 macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
17:36:02 chillingos, bzw.
17:36:18 uh
17:36:53 ich finds nicht mehr
17:36:57 er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
17:38:27 SchilliX
17:38:29 genau!
17:38:30 :)
17:38:33 sueees
17:38:34 http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
17:39:59 omg das ist nicht wahr
17:40:20 ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
17:40:32 das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
17:40:42 lol
17:41:06 :)
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[A Gentoo User]
First FreeBSD is UNIX. Yes FreeBSD runs beter then all other Linux
distro’s but FreeBSD lacks any graphical features(stolen linux features
doesn’t count) so it is only ment for guys with an old grey beards.
[...] That’s why for geeks/nerds/professionals (like me) bsd exists [...]
Gentoo is ment for professionals that need a system for a really exact
environment and think LFS is to much work.
[http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/01/why-gentoo-shouldnt-be-on-your-server/]
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20:08 my guess is, purely practically
20:08 if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
20:08 that they were created for
20:08 you will at one point have a civil war
20:08 right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
20:10 i very much hope that it can be turned around before that happens. not the
least reason is, in a Blade Runner dystopia, there isnt a lot that individuals
can do
20:11 i.e. militarily
20:11 ah wait.
20:12 we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
20:12 terrorism :)
20:12 now i finally see the whole plot
20:13 that's quite a story
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23:49 in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
23:58 it seems logical that there is a strong correlation
between (people who like to waste their time, and their computer's
processing time, rebuilding things that have been built a million
times before) and (idiots)
23:58 (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
23:59 there are certainly exceptions to every rule - but in
general, gentoo users think that they're getting magical properties
out of rebuilding the same code everybody else builds
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[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/]
Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
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[http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-patches@cygwin.com/msg03644.html]
Internet Explorer: KB329781 "HTTP File Upload Operation Takes a Long Time
to Complete". The printing subsystem: KB816627 "TCP/IP port printing may
be slow in Windows 2000"
In the first KB microsoft amusingly states in relation to the fact that
upload speed is limited to 80kbps no matter what the network bandwidth
that "this behaviour is by design". The mind boggles...
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[so much for type-safety]
List lst = new ArrayList;
lst.add(null);
int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
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[just for reference]
Wenn man weiss, dass man in seinem Leben nicht mehr Glücklich werden
kann, und sich von Tag zu Tag die Gründe dafür häufen, dann bleibt
einem nichts anderes übrig als aus diesem Leben zu verschwinden. Und
dafür habe ich mich entschieden. Es gibt vielleicht Leute die hätten
weiter gemacht, hätten sich gedacht "das wird schon", aber das wird
es nicht.
Man hat mir gesagt ich muss zur Schule gehen, um für mein leben zu
lernen, um später ein schönes Leben führen zu können. Aber was bringt
einem das dickste Auto, das grösste Haus, die schönste Frau, wenn es
letztendlich sowieso für’n Arsch ist. Wenn deine Frau beginnt dich zu
hassen, wenn dein Auto Benzin verbraucht das du nicht zahlen kannst, und
wenn du niemanden hast der dich in deinem scheiss Haus besuchen kommt!
Das einzigste was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe
war, das ich ein Verlierer bin. Für die ersten jahre an der GSS stimmt
das sogar, ich war der Konsumgeilheit verfallen, habe danach gestrebt
Freunde zu bekommen, Menschen die dich nicht als Person, sondern als
Statussymbol sehen. Aber dann bin ich aufgewacht! Ich erkannte das die
Welt wie sie mir erschien nicht existiert, das sie eine Illusion war,
die hauptsächlich von den Medien erzeugt wurde. Ich merkte mehr und
mehr in was für einer Welt ich mich befand. Eine Welt in der Geld alles
regiert, selbst in der Schule ging es nur darum. Man musste das neuste
Handy haben, die neusten Klamotten, und die richtigen "Freunde". hat
man eines davon nicht ist man es nicht wert beachtet zu werden. Und diese
Menschen nennt man Jocks. Jocks sind alle, die meinen aufgrund von teuren
Klamotten oder schönen Mädchen an der Seite über anderen zu stehen. Ich
verabscheue diese Menschen, nein, ich verabscheue Menschen.
Ich habe in den 18 Jahren meines Lebens erfahren müssen, das man nur
Glücklich werden kann, wenn man sich der Masse fügt, der Gesellschaft
anpasst. Aber das konnte und wollte ich nicht. Ich bin frei! Niemand darf
in mein Leben eingreifen, und tut er es doch hat er die Konsequenzen zu
tragen! Kein Politiker hat das Recht Gesetze zu erlassen, die mir Dinge
verbieten, Kein Bulle hat das Recht mir meine Waffe wegzunehmen, schon gar
nicht während er seine am Gürtel trägt.
Wozu das alles? Wozu soll ich arbeiten? Damit ich mich kaputtmaloche um
mit 65 in den Ruhestand zugehen und 5 Jahre später abzukratzen? Warum
soll ich mich noch anstrengen irgendetwas zu erreichen, wenn es
letztendlich sowieso für'n Arsch ist weil ich früher oder später
krepiere? Ich kann ein Haus bauen, Kinder bekommen und was weiss ich
nicht alles. Aber wozu? Das Haus wird irgendwann abgerissen, und die
Kinder sterben auch mal. Was hat denn das Leben bitte für einen
Sinn? Keinen! Also muss man seinem Leben einen Sinn geben, und das
mache ich nicht indem ich einem überbezahlten Chef im Arsch rumkrieche
oder mich von Faschisten verarschen lasse die mir erzählen wollen wir
leben in einer Volksherrschaft. Nein, es gibt für mich jetzt noch eine
Möglichkeit meinem Leben einen Sinn zu geben, und die werde ich nicht wie
alle anderen zuvor verschwenden! Vielleicht hätte mein Leben komplett
anders verlaufen können. Aber die Gesellschaft hat nunmal keinen Platz
für Individualisten. Ich meine richtige Individualisten, Leute die
slebst denken, und nicht solche 'Ich trage ein Nietenarmband und bin
alternativ' Idioten!
Ihr habt diese Schlacht begonnen, nicht ich. Meine Handlungen sind ein
Resultat eurer Welt, eine Welt die mich nicht sein lassen will wie ich
bin. Ihr habt euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit
euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor! Von 1994 bis 2003/2004
war es auch mein Bestreben, Freunde zu haben, Spass zu haben. Als ich
dann 1998 auf die GSS kam, fing es an mit den Statussymbolen, Kleidung,
Freunde, Handy usw.. Dann bin ich wach geworden. Mir wurde bewusst das
ich mein Leben lang der Dumme für andere war, und man sich über mich
lustig machte. Und ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so
brutal und rücksichtslos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den
Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen,
damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst! Ich will das ihr erkennt, das
niemand das Recht hat unter einem faschistischen Deckmantel aus Gesetz und
Religion in fremdes Leben einzugreifen!
Ich will das sich mein Gesicht in eure Köpfe einbrennt! Ich will
nicht länger davon laufen! Ich will meinen Teil zur Revolution der
Ausgestossenen beitragen!
Ich will R A C H E !
Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, dass die meisten der Schüler die mich
gedemütigt haben schon von der GSS abgegangen sind. Dazu habe ich zwei
Dinge zu sagen:
1. Ich ging nicht nur in eine klasse, nein, ich ging auf die ganze Schule.
Die Menschen die sich auf der Schule befinden, sind in keinem Falle
unschuldig! Niemand ist das! In deren Köpfen läuft das selbe Programm
welches auch bei den früheren Jahrgängen lief! Ich bin der Virus der
diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da
anfange.
2. Ein Grossteil meiner Rache wird sich auf das Lehrpersonal richten,
denn das sind Menschen die gegen meinen Willen in mein Leben eingegriffen
haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; Auf
dem Schlachtfeld! Diese Lehrer befinden sich so gut wie alle noch auf
dieser verdammten schule!
Das Leben wie es heute täglich stattfindet ist wohl das armseeligste was
die Welt zu bieten hat!
S.A.A.R.T. - Schule, Ausbildung, Arbeit, Rente, Tod
Das ist der Lebenslauf eines "normalen" Menschen heutzutage. Aber
was ist eigentlich normal? Als normal wird das bezeichnet, was von der
Gesellschaft erwartet wird. Somit werden heutzutage Punks, Penner,
Mörder, Gothics, Schwule usw. als unnormal bezeichnet, weil sie den
allgemeinen Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft nicht gerecht werden, können
oder wollen. Ich scheiss auf euch! Jeder hat frei zu sein! Gebt jedem
eine Waffe und die Probleme unter den Menschen lösen sich ohne jedliche
Einmischung Dritter. Wenn jemand stirbt, dann ist er halt tot. Und? Der
Tod gehört zum Leben! Kommen die Angehörigen mit dem Verlust nicht klar,
können sie Selbstmord begehen, niemand hindert sie daran!
S.A.A.R.T. beginnt mit dem 6. Lebensjahr hier in Deutschland, mit der
Einschulung.
Das Kind begibt sich auf seine perönliche Sozialisationsstrecke, und
wird in den darauffolgenden Jahren gezwungen sich der Allgemeinheit, der
Mehrheit anzupassen. Lehnt es dies ab, schalten sich Lehrer, Eltern,
und nicht zuletzt die Polizei ein. Schulpflicht ist die Schönrede von
Schulzwang, denn man wird ja gezwungen zur Schule zu gehen. Wer gezwungen
wird, verliert ein Stück seiner Freiheit. Man wird gezwungen Steuern zu
zahlen, man wird gezwungen Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungen einzuhalten, man
wird gezwungen dies zu tun, man wird gewzungen das zu tun. Ergo: Keine
Freiheit! Und sowas nennt man dann Volksherrschaft. Wenn das Volk hier
herrschen würde, hiesse es Anarchie!
WERDET ENDLICH WACH - GEHT AUF DIE STRASSE - DAS HAT IN DEUTSCHLAND
SCHONMAL FUNKTIONIERT!
Nach meiner Tat werden wieder irgendwelche fetten Politiker dumme
Sprüche klopfen wie "Wir halten nun alle zusammen" oder "Wir
müssen gemeinsam versuchen dies durchzustehen". Doch das machen
sie nur um Aufmerksmakeit zu bekommen, um sich selbst als die Lösung
zu präsentieren. Auf der GSS war es genauso... niemals lässt
sich dieses fette Stück Scheisse von Rektorin blicken, aber wenn
Theater-aufführungen sind, dann steht sie als erste mit einem breiten
Grinsen auf der Bühne und präsentiert sich der Masse!
Nazis, HipHoper, Türken, Staat, Staatsdiener, Gläubige... einfach alle
sind zum kotzen und müssen vernichtet werden! (Den begriff "Türken"
benutze ich für alle HipHopMuchels und Kleingangster; Sie kommen nach
Deutschland weil die Bedingungen bei ihnen zu hause zu schlecht sind,
weil Krieg ist... und dann kommen Sie nach Deutschland, dem Sozialamt der
Welt, und lassne hier die Sau raus. Sie sollten alle vergast werden! Keine
Juden, keine Neger, keine Holländer, aber Muchels! ICH BIN KEIN SCHEISS
NAZI) Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle sterben!
Seit meinem 6. Lebensjahr wurde ich von euch allen verarscht! Nun müsst
ihr dafür bezahlen!
Weil ich weiss das die Fascholizei meine Videos, Schulhefte, Tagebücher,
einfach alles, nicht veröffentlichen will, habe ich das selbst in die
Hand genommen.
Als letztes möchte ich den Menschen die mir was bedeuten, oder die jemals
gut zu mir waren, danken, und mich für all dies Entschuldigen!
Ich bin weg...
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01:14 its an NP hard for computers
01:14 no, it's NP hard for anyone
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19:18 schmorp: eben anner kasse stand jemadn hinter mir und faselte mit seinen
kumpels zum thema bill gates: "... er ist ja mein vorbild, nicht jetzt
wegen dem geld, sondern wegen dem charakterlichen und so ... der hat ja
die haelfte seines vermoegens gespendet.... und ne jacht hat der auch...
abe was fuer eine... voll fettes schiff...'
19:19 *rofl*
19:19 aber nicht wegem dme geld
19:19 der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
19:19 das is die neue generation
19:19 'generation gates'
19:19 die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sich
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http://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
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[http://use.perl.org/~luqui/journal/]
[The reason I left Perl 6]
The virtue of social art was extinguished when the solutions that I had
worked for weeks on and I considered truly beautiful lost to syntax
bloat and "DWIM tables". It bascially came down to the rest of the team
considering Perl much more pragmatically than I did, which may end up
better for the end result anyway—it is hard to tell.
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http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
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00:20 Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface
00:21 yeah, that made me laugh a bit
00:21 "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
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[very funny read]
Hack-a-Bike
USK@vZ8crASNqmw9APiGDtTxV0YvspklNnOTmQin0ZsPLdk,bnUaihNj6Ww8CFvBQo4UwH0pYiS0hOyeKIxvO0tZdJk,AQABAAE/hack-a-bike/1/index_de.html
%
Now that habeas corpus and other basic rights, including the right not to
be tortured while interrogated, have now been deemed unnecessary, more
Americans than ever have been thinking of getting out the door while they
still can.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/23/getting_out_your_gui.html
%
23:52 Zaehlen sie die wichtigsten Berufsfelder der IT-Branche auf:
Java-code-affe, Bussiness-scheisse-laber-affe, Windows-admin,
Windows-user, echter Admin und echter Programmierer.
%
[without words]
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html
%
[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/cockburn]
We're in the twilit world of the "thought crime." Have a photo of a kid in
a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it
with lust in your heart, and that is tantamount to sexually molesting an
actual kid in an actual bath.
%
Don't put stock in the Constitution, anymore. It IS just a piece of paper,
today (actually, since Oct 17th). The Military Commissions Act of 2006
makes the Constitution null and void. You (regardless of your citizenship)
may be held with no charges, for no reason, for an indefinite time, with
absolutely no judicial oversight. It is completely legal for the
government to pick you up and for you to disappear with no one ever knowing
what happened to you.
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--
Markus Schulz
A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
Q: Why is top posting bad?
%
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:05:19AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> 1. It's not that I don't want to, but I _can't_ implement kprobes and not
> due to lack of skills, but lack of resources. (There is a subtle but
> important difference.)
Um, given the amount of time you've spent trying to pursuade us why
you can't implement kprobes for m68k, perhaps you would have
implemented it already if you had buckled down and started coding
instead of flaming about why everyone else should bend over backwards
just because you don't have time for your arch? :-)
- Ted
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[http://richarddawkins.net/mainPage.php?bodyPage=article_body.php&id=183]
"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus
Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them
as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are over in
Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places... Excuse
me, but we have the truth!"
%
[Meijin Title Game #3, Takao Shinji vs. Cho U]
(22) archimed [18k?]: actually, what are considered to be their respective strengths?
(22) zephi [ 7k+]: takao's strength is kickin cho u's butt
(22) zephi [ 7k+]: cho u's a big fighter
%
[nethack extinctionist faq]
The first "extinctionist" ascension on r.g.r.n. (at least from what I can
tell) seems to have been by Matthew Bourland in 2000, who although he
didn't actually kill everything, certainly genocided all (at the time) 256
monster types that were genocidable. Then, after that he extincted all
other randomly generated monsters. On the other hand, having 120 kills
in every category is perhaps more noteworthy (or foolhardy?) than simply
genociding every monster.
I'd recommend a dose of both. Kill them until they're dead and then
genocide them for good measure!
%%
[nethack instadeath faq]
* eating Death, Famine, Pestilence, Medusa, or green slime corpses
Well let's face it, this is just plain stupid. So don't do it!
%
17:57 Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
17:57 zaphod: hm?
17:57 Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
17:58 lol
%
22:51 -cfbot:#cf- [Wrathmagic] oh i love killing pirates yes i do i love stabbing them through and through
%
[Brazil and Bush’s War on Terror]
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/blumen3.html
%
http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
%
http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
There was time when badware developers tried to install ad pages as homepage
or searchpage in user’s IE by any possible means. Nowadays users install
adware voluntarily and write news about it. True web2.0 style!
%
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/05/universal_time_zone.html
At the United Nations today President George W. Bush
announced a proposal to unify all the world's time zones
into a single Universal Time Zone (UTZ), formerly known as
the Eastern Time Zone.
[...]
Britain immediately supported the US plan. "If it means
sleeping in broad daylight then we'll stick with our
allies," said Tony Blair, "Of course there's never broad
daylight in the UK, so it's not much of an issue."
%
Wow, and this in security-relevant code... (taken from libc's ld.so)
_dl_profile_output
= &"/var/tmp\0/var/profile"[__libc_enable_secure ? 9 : 0];
%
[CRYPTO-GRAM]
By January 1st, 2007, everyone crossing the border between the U.S. and Canada is supposed to have
a passport. This is because of terrorism, of course. But now we learn that ferries and private
watercraft will be exempt. One of two things is true. Either passports are required for
security, in which case we should interfere with ferries. Or they're for show, in which case we
can just do what's convenient. Or maybe we just know that terrorists never take ferries. I get
that security is a trade-off, but this is kind of silly.
http://tinyurl.com/zl5af
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[famous last words]
11:22 what do you mean by *plonk*?
%
What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
"We are a tier 1 provider" = "I am a salesperson."
"They are a tier 2 provider." = "I am a salesperson and they are our competitor".
--
Jay Hennigan
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http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
%
[latimes story about a man returning to the us from iraq and being
held for selling copyrighted images on t-shirts by the department
of homeland security]
http://tinyurl.com/ourlr
%
"Some other types of programs won't make the transition to Windows x64
seamlessly, either. Microsoft ships WinXP x64 with two versions of
Internet Explorer, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. The 32-bit
version is the OS default because nearly all ActiveX controls and the like
are 32-bit code, and where would we be if we couldn't execute the full
range of spyware available to us?"
[http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/64-bits/index.x?pg=1]
%
[http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kglobalaccel__x11_8cpp-source.html]
00279 if( pEvent->xkey.state & KKeyServer::modXNumLock() ) {
00280 // TODO: what's the xor operator in c++?
%
give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
to fix and he will run urxvt all his life
%
The NSA Phone Call Database: The European Perspective
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/05/the_nsa_phone_c.html
%
Oh, I agree completely. No game has ever let me down the way Oblivoin
did. I"m still hoping mods and expansions will fix it but there's no way
I'm pre-ordering the next one. I'm afraid it really will be a first person
shooter.
The really scary thing is that it's not just video games. Book sales were
done last year because people just don't read as much anymore. I'm having
to dumb down my newspaper editorials because people used to want analysis
they could use to make their own opinions, now they seem to just want
opinions they can quote without having to think for themselves. McDonalds
puts pictures of the food on the cash register instead of numbers.
Face it. The human race is devolving. In 500 years the best selling RPG
in the universe will be a console game where you roleplay an ape named
Fred, swing on vines and throw your own excrement. You'll have one stat,
apeness. It wiill effect everything you do in a subtle, yet unexplained
way.
And Bethesda fan boys will be screaming "TES 504: Monkeypoo good. You go
bak cave, no good rpger. Two stats bad. Made feces throw too hard. Shiney
key graphic good. Make me happy."
*shrugs* But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
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> So Hitler was a pacifist because he let other people kill for him? Most
> D&D computer games require you to kill people (not simply knock them
> out). Also just because you don't kill doesn't make you a pacifist (see
> above comment about Hitler).
I invoke the European rule: In any given argument, the first side to
mention Hitler loses.
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[siggraph '99 course 12]
Unfortunately, including has the unfortunate side effect of
introducing literally thousands of macros and type declarations into
your compilation environment. This undesirable "name space pollution"
can sometimes affect source code portability by conflicting with your
program's own macros and types. This can particularly be a problem for
UNIX programmers that are not familiar with all the junk that comes with
including .
[...]
Win32's requirement that you use wglGetProcAddress is a real drag,
but if you do everything right, using OpenGL extensions works and
gives you access to amazing new OpenGL features. And let's be honest;
wglGet- ProcAddress is hardly the only annoying and awkward thing about
programming with the Win32 API. Still, by using the C preprocessor and
coding carefully, you actually can write OpenGL programs that use OpenGL
extensions and compile from the same source code for both UNIX and Win32
environments.
%
http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/19981207_Computers_are_so_STY00PID
%
[http://www.voynich.net/Kryptos]
"It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine"
%
[CRYPTO-GRAM 2006-03-15]
[...] There are all sorts of interests vying for control of your
computer. There are media companies that want to control what you can
do with the music and videos they sell you. There are companies that
use software as a conduit to collect marketing information, deliver
advertising or do whatever it is their real owners require. And there are
software companies that are trying to make money by pleasing not only
their customers, but other companies they ally themselves with. All these
companies want to own your computer.
Some examples:
1. Entertainment software: In October 2005, it emerged that Sony had
distributed a rootkit with several music CDs -- the same kind of
software that crackers use to own people's computers. This rootkit
secretly installed itself when the music CD was played on a computer.
Its purpose was to prevent people from doing things with the music that
Sony didn't approve of: It was a DRM system. If the exact same piece of
software had been installed secretly by a hacker, this would have been
an illegal act. But Sony believed that it had legitimate reasons for
wanting to own its customers' machines.
2. Antivirus: You might have expected your antivirus software to detect
Sony's rootkit. After all, that's why you bought it. But initially, the
security programs sold by Symantec and others did not detect it,
because Sony had asked them not to. You might have thought that the
software you bought was working for you, but you would have been wrong.
3. Internet services: Hotmail allows you to blacklist certain e-mail
addresses, so that mail from them automatically goes into your spam
trap. Have you ever tried blocking all that incessant marketing e-mail
from Microsoft? You can't.
4. Application software: Internet Explorer users might have expected
the program to incorporate easy-to-use cookie handling and pop-up
blockers. After all, other browsers do, and users have found them
useful in defending against Internet annoyances. But Microsoft isn't
just selling software to you; it sells Internet advertising as well. It
isn't in the company's best interest to offer users features that would
adversely affect its business partners.
5. Spyware: Spyware is nothing but someone else trying to own your
computer. These programs eavesdrop on your behavior and report back to
their real owners -- sometimes without your knowledge or consent --
about your behavior.
6. Update: Automatic update features are another way software companies
try to own your computer. While they can be useful for improving
security, they also require you to trust your software vendor not to
disable your computer for nonpayment, breach of contract or other
presumed infractions.
Adware, software-as-a-service and Google Desktop search are all
examples of some other company trying to own your computer. And Trusted
Computing will only make the problem worse.
There is an inherent insecurity to technologies that try to own
people's computers: They allow individuals other than the computers'
legitimate owners to enforce policy on those machines. These systems
invite attackers to assume the role of the third party and turn a
user's device against him.
[...]
You can fight back against this trend by only using software that
respects your boundaries. Boycott companies that don't honestly serve
their customers, that don't disclose their alliances, that treat users
like marketing assets. Use open-source software -- software created and
owned by users, with no hidden agendas, no secret alliances and no
back-room marketing deals.
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[John Carmack on Java]
Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four
platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All
the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each
(often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful
performance.
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[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,415577,00.html]
"Wenn ich höre, dass die Telekom mit Microsoft kooperiert, da wird mir
ganz anders", sagte Herbert Tillmann, der Vorsitzende der Produktions-
und Technikkommission von ARD und ZDF dem Blatt. Man bevorzuge offene
Standards und wolle sich der Plattform von Microsoft nicht ausliefern.
%
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/05/german_cannibal.html
%
"Ok, this is complete off topic but WHY do so many Americans think that
once your cross the 49th parellel into Canada that they are going out into
a technology- and civilization-free zone???"
http://p203.ezboard.com/ftruechristiansunitefrm31
%
http://funroll-loops.org/
%
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL]
When Direct3D was released in 1995, Microsoft, SGI, and Hewlett-Packard
initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the
goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces - and again, adding
a scene-graph API. It initially showed some promise of bringing order
to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account
of financial constraints at SGI and general lack of industry support
it was abandoned. The engineers involved at SGI held a beach party in
celebration - complete with bonfires on which they burned piles of
Fahrenheit documentation.
%
[Whenever I try to use svn, it fails me. Sure I modified files, but whats
the point of a RCS system that can't cope with that? Besides, I am 100%
sure its much slower than CVS]
cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
svn: Won't delete locally modified directory '.'
svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
[Exit 1]
cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn switch http://cvs.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-19-fixes/
svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
[Exit 1]
cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn diff
svn: Working copy 'i18n' is missing or not locked
[Exit 1]
[Great, my local fixes are lost now, too. Whoever let this horror loose on
humanity deserves to be shot or something like that]
%
[http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12]
... I'm evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC
role-based CMS web service application container frameworks. ...
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Subject: RE: Question about Leap Second Features
> Is there any implementation for this information on Microsoft operating
> systems ?
Any Microsoft operating system that is accurate down to the second can
probably be hand-picked from Bill Gates' garage ... ;-)
Jesper
%
[http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer]
"As far as I can tell, the phrase 'I. Love. This. Company.
YEEEAAAAAAAAARARRRRARAGH!' has FIVE words, not four."
~ Oscar Wilde on Steve Ballmer having four words for you.
%
http://www.geocities.com/pca_1978/kafkaesque.html
%
[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136541]
You've doubled the work. People don't like that. People REALLY don't
like that. The number of duplicate bugs filed against the chooser is
evidence for this. Furthermore, click depth is a standard metric for
measuring HCI usability, and this dialog has moved in the absolute wrong
direction. People won't be satisfied until they get the entry box back
into the dialog. You can grind your teeth and pull your hair all you want,
but that's the truth.
%
[de.alt.ufo]
Braun Ludwig wrote:
> 1. Ufos sind für mich Flugobjekte des US Militärs mit einen neuartigen
> Atrieb, der mit einen Motorgenerator von ca 100000 Volt und einer
> Stromstärke von ca 2 mA, einer elektronischen Steuereinheit und einer
> Antriebseinheit auf Kondensator Basis betrieben wird. Zur Erklärung des
Aaha! Naja, die Elektrogravitation ist wirklich seit langem bekannt. Damit aber
einen Antrieb zu realisieren halte ich für weniger wahrscheinlich. So abstrakt
ist diese Funktion nicht und es wären schon mehr als ein Mensch dahinter
gekommen. Ich sicher auch.
Allerdings schreibst Du hier von einem Generator. Es stellt sich die Frage
was genau man mit 2 mA erzeugen will. Jeder Paralyzer schafft das mit
der Hälfte der Spannung auch. Ich habe aber noch kein Opfer schweben
gesehen. Im Gegenteil - die bewegen sich eigentlich immer ziemlich schnell
in Richtung Boden.
[...]
> Dieser Ufo Flugzeug Typ wird in erster Linie als Spionage und
> Aufklärungsflugobject eingesetzt.
Verstehe. Was ist in Afrika so interessant? Bekanntlich gibt oder gab es
da bisher die überwiegenden Sichtungen. Was will z.B. der Ami von den
Eingeborenen erfahren? Wie man richtig Reis oder Getreide kocht?
[...]
> 2. ausserirdische Ufo Flugobjekte.
> Es gibt maximal 1 oder 2 oder drei ausserirdische Flugzeug
> Beobachtungen, die tatsächlich wahr sind.
Nur drei? Das muss ich mir merken, damit ich das nicht vergesse. Welche
mögen das Deiner Meinung nach wohl gewesen sein? Das ist ja noch
schlimmer als Cenap, die von etwa 100.000 Fällen 1% erforscht haben,
die wiederum schon im Vorfeld als 'normal' geklärt waren. Mit dieser
Meinung solltest Du zu WW gehen und dich vorstellen. Der nimmmt Dich
sofort.
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[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/Tech/connect4.htm]
By the way, decryption can be performed easily in your editor with syntax
like !!tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (Sorry if you had the misfortune to buy your
software from Microsoft.)
%
http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/
%
> BTW I have 2 English words for you, FUCK YOU
Why, that's a rather intimate proposal. I never realised you were
gay. While I would like to offer the hand of friendship, I am
afraid that the thought of sex with a grown man doesn't really do
much for me so I shall have to decline with a modicum of regret.
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http://www.ta-sa.org/files/java_godkk.jpg
http://www.chunder.com/carrots/javasux.html
%
Subject: Re: Docket No. 2005-22114
From: Rodrigo Severo
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:04:33 -0200
To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
On 1/23/06, Paul Eggert wrote:
"David Braverman" writes:
It is a bit ironic that the US is less efficient than Brazil in fixing
obviously-broken regulations like this.
I'm sorry but I have to ask: where is the irony in this? I hope the answer
isn't obvious to people from US and I'm not seeing it just because I'm
brazilian ;)
Rodrigo Severo
%
[Frankly, I'd just like to know what GNOME did wrong to deserve this :]
http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
%
[Another entry in the series "make this a blog":]
I wanted to see it for myself, and directed my browser to http://www.mpaa.org/.
Got "Bad Request (Invalid Header Name)".
Well.. some investigation showed that it didn't like the headers added by
squid (in mostly default debian config).
*sigh*
%
A LIBERAL DECALOGUE
By Bertrand Russell
Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement
it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
might be set forth as follows:
1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
was once eccentric.
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
agreement than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
"A Liberal Decalogue" is from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
Vol. 3: 1944-1969, pp. 71-2.
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[http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/12/09/502014.aspx]
John Hoy, President of the DVD Copy Control Association, made
the following statement to the Library of Congress in its 2003
Anticircumvention rulemaking proceedings:
"Furthermore, if a consumer in the United States desires to view a DVD disc
that has been region coded only for Europe, then that consumer is free to
purchase a DVD player (either hardware or software) that is coded to play
European DVDs. No legal restrictions apply-either through the CSS license
or otherwise-to the importation and use of non-U.S. region players in the
United States."
---
It must really suck to live in a nation where competition is actually
outlawed - you have to feel sorry for all those people oppressed by
communists and socialists. Oh, wait.... ;)
---
"You ain't seen nothin' yet! I heard that the new HD-DVDs or Blue-ray
discs (whichever win eventually) will be street-encoded. You have to
quote your street name while buying DVDs and they won't work in the next
street. The hidden reason for this is that MPAA wants to charge upwards of
$1000 per DVD for those living in million dollar mansions."
This isn't far from the truth. Blu-ray disks for PlayStation3 will only
play in ONE player on earth. MS will eventually make up something similar.
%
[gnome-clock and my radio-clock failed miserably, /bin/date and Linux worked:]
Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC
%
[http://www.slate.com/id/2133993/]
Vulnerabilities deemed "critical" have forced the company to release an
almost unending stream of patches and fixes [...]
Sure, it might be nice to connect your computer and your television
set. But is it worth it to give hackers access to your television?
Even if we don't use them, we suffer from them.
[...] a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives,
believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security.
%
[Copyright History - US view]
http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
%
[I just re-read the unix haters hadnbook]
X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock
tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all
the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough
to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 "xclock" utility consumed
656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing.
%
[Got to remember this way of arguing, it's great if it works:]
"Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should
they care about it?"
-- Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s Global Digital Business President.
[see also http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php]
%
Let me repeat again: Formal axiomatic systems are a failure!
-- Gregory Chaitin
%
13:49 pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
13:50 autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
[...]
13:51 wenn ich den nicht lade sind alle gtk-programme mit großem Font,
wenn ich ihn lade werden sie klein gemacht und wenn ich ihn töte ist
wieder alles groß
%
[man perlsub]
That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues
having to do with visibility of @_. I’m ignoring that question
for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped,
those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this
sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
%
[glibc's bits/socket.h]
if ((size_t) __cmsg->cmsg_len < sizeof (struct cmsghdr))
/* The kernel header does this so there may be a reason. */
return 0;
%
http://www.wicked-vision.com/zensur/zensur/zensur_bei_filmen.html
> Die Argumente liefen insbesondere darauf hinaus, dass es sich bei den
> Filmen, auf die in Anspielungen verwiesen wird, um Filme handelt, die
> entweder von der FSK gekennzeichnet wurden mit "nicht freigegeben
> unter 18 Jahren", die von der Bundesprüfstelle indiziert wurden oder
> die sogar durch entsprechende Beschlüsse bundesweit beschlagnahmt
> wurden, also alles Filme, die Kindern und Jugendlichen aufgrund der
> Gesetze zum Jugendschutz von vornherein nicht zugänglich sind. Kindern
> und Jugendlichen wird daher die Persiflage auf diese Filme nicht
> transparent.
Das muß man sich mal auf der Zunge zergehen lassen: Da wird ein Film,
der ab 18 Jahren freigegeben ist, indiziert, weil Kinder und Jugendliche
die parodistischen Anspielungen nicht verstehen könnten. Mit solchen
Begründungen beraubt sich die BPjS letztlich ihrer Glaubwürdigkeit.
%
Großmanns Gesetz: Komplexe Probleme haben einfache, leichtverständliche,
aber falsche Lösungen.
%
A project done in Java will cost 5 times as much, take twice as long,
and be harder to maintain than a project done in a scripting language such
as PHP or Perl. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/09/20#a1762 Java
is the SUV of programming tools] Philip Greenspun
%
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>
> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
> than useful to the user.
I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
Please, just tell people to use KDE.
Linus
%
Move 80, Node 81
theodore [22k?]: i hear 8 d can read the future
setzer [?]: what about 9d
theodore [22k?]: they control it
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[Fuqid 1.6 FAQ]
Wenn ich HTL auf 300 setze dann lade ich viel schneller runter, warum?
Weil du daran glaubst, das hat nur psychologische Gründe. HTL's grösser
als das Nodelimit haben einfach keinen Einfluss. PUNKT!
--
Warum wurde Fuqid nicht in der geilen Sprache XX geschrieben?
Du sprichst nur eine Sprache? Bist du Amerikaner?
%
[Are people responsible for the company they work at?]
I was at a party in New York City earlier this year, and a conversation went like this:
Person: What do you do?
Me: I'm a computer programmer at Microsoft.
Person: I hate you.
If Miss Manners didn't say so explicitly, I suspect she would nevertheless
agree that snarling "I hate you" to somebody on first introduction is not
exactly getting off on the right foot.
[And this is how that Microsoft programmer reacts to bugs in Microsoft software]
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/10/17/481810.aspx
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"The music and film industries are demanding that the European parliament
extends the scope of proposed anti-terror laws to help them prosecute
illegal downloaders."
Bill Thompson at the BBC has some pertinent commentary:
"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make
profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil
liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve
to stay in business, and new ways for artists to reach the public will
have to emerge."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm
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>Damit dürftest du der zweite Mensch sein, den ich kenne, der sich mit
>einer so spartanischen Hardwareausstattung zufrieden gibt:) Ich selbst
Mein Arbeitsplatz ist eine HP 715/80 - also 80 MHz. Da drauf laeuft der vi
immer noch genauso schnell wie vor zehn Jahren :)
Bye, Andy
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[ka.uni.rz.stud, warum bestimmte zeichen in passwörtern verboten sind]
>einem Passwort nicht zulässt, das kann ich nachvollziehen, aber wieso ein
>Dollarzeichen, Leerzeichen, Klammeraffe, Doppelkreuz, Prozent, doppelte
>Anführungszeichen, Paragraph und was es da noch so alles gibt? Und wieso nur
Dollarzeichen: DCE kann nicht damit umgehen.
Leerzeichen: sind nur am Anfang und Ende eines PW verboten - es gibt
System, die das wegstrippen :(
Klammeraffe: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Kill-Zeichen (stammt
halt noch aus der Zeit, als Fernschreiber als I/O-Geraete benutzt
wurde, und ein Fernschreiber, der druckt, kann per Definition kein
Backspace o.ae. haben - Tipp-Ex-Baender waren nicht eingebaut :)
- und es gibt eben noch Systeme, die zum lokalen Login diese STTY-
Settings benutzen. Seit wir die VT100-Terminals abgebaut haben,
ist das fuer Studenten weniger relevant, unser BV behandelt aber
alle Benutzer.
Doppelkreuz: Ist bei einem Unix-Terminal das Standard-Erase-Zeichen
Prozent: Mift, das hab' ich mir nicht aufgeschrieben, geht aber auch in
irgendeinem System nicht. Vielleicht sollte man es mal wieder
probieren (bis es knallt)?
Doppelte Anfuehrungszeichen: Wurden von Radius als Begrenzer benutzt. Ja,
der Radius-Server funktionierte nur mit Klartext-Passwoertern :(
Ja, funktionierte, Vergangenheitsform, er ist jetzt endlich tot :)
Ja, damit kann ich die doppelten Anfuehrungszeichen freigeben :)
Paragraph: ist kein ASCII-Zeichen. Das kann die lustigsten Probleme geben,
insbesondere wenn verschiedene encodings benutzt werden - IMHO gibt
es auch Implementierungen, die das 8. Bit wegschneiden...
%
[subversion is just plain broken. I just lost all my local modifications, right?]
cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
svn: Working copy '.' locked
svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn cleanup
svn: 'programs/mythlcd' is not a working copy directory
cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn update
svn: Working copy '.' locked
svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
cerebro ~/cvs/mythtv# svn help cleanup
cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
unfinished operations, etc.
usage: cleanup [PATH...]
Valid options:
--diff3-cmd arg : use ARG as merge command
--config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
[Thanks for the details. Not.]
%
But there's an observation I can't help doing: it seems to me that the
ratio of increase in the complexity of (some aspects of) the language _is_
_much_ _bigger_ than that in the functionality such complexity is supposed
to provide.
- perl6-language - michele dondi
%
[From: perl6-language]
The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
alarm people more.
-Nate
[...]
My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of
Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the
image of the language that is created here.
Juerd
[...]
(Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the
perl526 translator will dump core on those)
--
H.Merijn Brand
%
Die Firma Microsoft warnte asiatische Regierungen am Donnerstag,
dass diese patentrechtlich verklagt werden könnten, wenn sie das
Betriebssystem Linux anstelle von Microsoft's Windows-Software einsetzen.
Nachrichtenagentur Reuters (18. November 2004)
%
[Come on, "kidtalk"???]
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
%
[Priceless :)]
http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
%
[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&from=rss]
>> I hate it whenever Word tries to encourage me not to use passive.
[...]
> Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
"Windows is broken."
%
[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon on the perl6-language list:]
Removing features simply because their implementation is inconvenient
is not The Perl Way. If it were, Perl 6 would be Java With Sigils.
%
[Incidentally, the USoA is one of the two countries on earth that insist
on being able to kill their children legally]
http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040329pornp6.asp
%
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test]
The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining
whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene [...]
%
[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050923-5346.html]
"They find the anti-pornography crowd disturbing because they believe
that policing pornography violates fundamental rights. This has become
the dominant view in our society: As long as what I do doesn't harm you
personally, I have a right to do it. It's a silly view and a view rejected
by law enforcement policies all over the country."
--
"What we really need is less government and more common sense. The Bush
administration thinks it can win the war in iraq, the war on terror, the
war on drugs, and the war on smut while establishing a lunar colony and
rebuilding New Orleans, all without raising taxes. He really needs a
reality check. I can't believe that with all of this crap going on, Tom
DeLay has the balls to claim that the republican party has eliminated
wasteful government spending."
%
[Attaching 72lbs to spam-reply-envelopes is legal. Do it!]
http://www.vertical-visions.com/_temp/postagepaid/index2.html
%
[Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: Wake up!]
http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
%
["It's such a moving story, it must be true"]
http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=246277
%
[Pencil Carving]
http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html
%
[Copyright]
http://www.bromsun.com/practice/copyrights/flowchart.html
%
[Die Wirtschaft befreit die Menschen von der Arbeit]
http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/949236
%
23:10 schmorp: A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen
captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital to protect the
nation from terrorist attacks.
23:10 A congressional resolution after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks "provided the President all powers
necessary and appropriate to protect American citizens from terrorist attacks by those who attacked the United
States on Sept. 11,'' the decision said.
23:10 The decision by a three-judge panel was written by Judge J. Michael Luttig, who sources have said is under
consideration by President Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
%
[Looks extreme]
http://www.counterpunch.org/
%
[Some glimpse of what happened in New Orleans]
"As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the
foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing
their weapons over our heads."
http://www.livejournal.com/users/malbec/1052572.html
%
[Global Average Temperature vs. Number of Pirates]
http://www.sheise.de/files/PirateGraph.jpg
%
[http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/]
Many people using Windows don't care about their freedom. They do care
about quality software and for that reason try to replace all the user
space software from Microsoft with better free alternatives. This is the
sole reason for the existance of cygwin.
%
[http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php]
%
The TCG has resisted defining "owner" for purposes of their spec, despite
several requests for clarification.
Think of it this way: most computer-related "stuff" now has a "licensed,
not sold" tag attached. Ask yourself again, then, who has ultimate control
unter TCG definitions.
%
But rememer they aren't doing anything wrong and they aren't trying to
force anything on you. It is all opt-in and you always get to set the
policy on your computer. It's just that nothing works any more unless you
do opt-in and you do set your policy exactly they way they tell you to.
%
It's not coercion. It's for security. It helps the economy. It thwarts
terrorists. TPM gives flags to orphans if that's what it needs to do to
get people on board.
%
To have a secure computer, you must download the latest
patches. Therefore, you must upgrade to SP4, and therefore, you must
accept the EULA that requires you to agree with Microsoft's proprietary
DRM.
The end is near. Security patches will soon require your body to be
injected with RFID. Surely, we are all doomed.
%
[http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/09/01/1419222.shtml?tid=172&tid=109]
switch ($decade) {
case "the 50's":
s/the Boogyman/Communist agitators/g;
break;
case "the 60's":
s/the Boogyman/acid-eating hippies/g;
break;
case "the 70's":
s/the Boogyman/disco/g;
break;
case "the 80's":
s/the Boogyman/mutual assured destruction (and Grenada!)/g;
break;
case "the 90's":
s/the Boogyman/evil hackers and George Michael/g;
break;
case "the 00's":
s/the Boogyman/terrorists/g;
break;
}
%
http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2005/08/curiosities-from-japans-porno-shops.html
"How fucking creepy is that? As you can see from the flyer included
in the capsule (note the kiddie crayon font), the other toys in the
assortment include little girls spreading their legs, little girls sucking
suggestively on popsicles, and little girls dry-humping their teddy bears"
"Interestingly enough, none of the cans were very long - maybe six inches
at the most. I was trying to avoid the whole Asian-men-have-small-penises
thing, but they kind of handed it to me on a silver platter."
""Maybe I should just try it. Just see what it feels like..." I mean,
why not, right? You know. Just for kicks, right? So you know what? I
fucked it. Yeah. I fucked a plastic beer can. I fucked the shit out of
that can. And you know what? It felt alright. It did the trick. That
is, until it was all over. Until the moment after, when I was hit by a
sobering freight train of humility, looking down at my dick stuck inside a
latex vagina housed in a plastic beer can. Moments like that you start to
question everything - "How the hell did it come to this? Who am I? What am
I doing with my life?" I probably sat there for an hour, silently with my
plastic lover, pondering my existence."
%
"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said
that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is
married or unmarried."
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503547102
http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/02/Article01-0.shtml
http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/07/Article02.shtml
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503545556
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503543324
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http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503546996
[I like this comparison between of and watching television:]
Your brother is not at all different from those who have been conditioned
to fornicate, or commit theft or murder, or who have become addicted to
watching pornography or even television for that matter. All of these
are destructive habits that one learns through continuous exposure or
conditioning.
[And this is religion at its best:]
Let him continuously read, reflect and meditate on the verses of the
Qur'an that deal with the punishment meted to the nation who practiced
this abomination; let him also read the verses depicting hell fire.
%
[Racism]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/firewall/38725768/
%
[A link, just a link]
http://www.oilcrisis.com/
%
As you may have noticed, the HOWTO is getting stale, you can't subscribe to
the mailinglist and a lot of messages sent to it aren't getting through.
I apologise for this.
If all goes well I'll get my driver's license this Tuesday, which will allow
me to visit the server, which I can't easily reach right now.
%
PSYC @> el says: von java bekommt man krebs
induktiv says: java is ein riesiger marketing misthaufen voll mit code von uebereifrigen fh-programmierern
el says: ich kenn da wen
el says: bei dem wars so
[...]
PSYC @> el says: und.. naja, der hat also ganz viel java programmiert
el says: und bekam augenkrebs
el says: gehirntumor auch
el says: ich weiss nicht, was vorher da war
%
wget http://el.l.tobij.de/ratz.jpg && xsetbg ratz.jpg
%
[in a reply to a school work assignment about proving why env vars make
no sense in the kernel]
From: Christoph Lameter
[...]
Mathematical proofs are accomplished within a framework of mathematical
models.
In the postmodern time period and we gave up belief that the mathematical
models are an accurate representation of reality. We only expect that
they are sufficiently accurate for the purposes at hand.
%
[such nice quotes from http://theinquirer.net/?article=24638]
There will be EF devices, EF branded content and probably EF branded
contraceptives to use while watching EF branded porn.
--
Any DRM on a machine is simply a sign of failure.
--
This crushing DRM that is being foisted upon you is the surest sign that
you don't want this product, and you will be paying too much for it. Don't
like that? Bought legislators are hard at work making sure you will go to
jail if you try to exercise your rights on the issue.
%
An absolutely fascinating interview with Robert Pape, a University of
Chicago professor who has studied every suicide terrorist attack since
1980. "The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist
attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear
strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military
forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland."
[From: CRYPTO-GRAM 2005-08-15]
%
[If you are a US citizen, you might want to fight for the right to vote,
which you currently do not posess]
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/right_to_vote.html
%
Kind: "Daad! Die alten Griechen mußten 44 Arten der Selbstverteidigung lernen, ohne Waffen!"
Vater: "Dafür haben wir eine zweistufige elektrische Heckenschere."
[Nach: Time Bandits]
%
http://www.cpmission.com/main/painpolitics/mdjackson.html
%
Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off
a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.."
%
Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
paragraphs.
%
[the average IQ seems to be declining]
http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/000953.html
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/
%
[http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/31/0626257.shtml?tid=153&tid=98&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219]
> If you know anything, most catholics register as democrats
Most catholics aren't American.
%
[Some things possibly cannot exist...]
[http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/depleted-uranium.html]
In NEWS1920, we demonstrated how America's widespread usage of Depleted
Uranium munitions is fulfilling the prophetic End of the Age prophecy
against Babylon (Iraq). Now, we examine how our D.U. is quite possibly
fulfilling another major prophecy: Revelation 6:3-4
[http://cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=939]
How Mormon Temples Are Built To Be Demon Magnets
%
[http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/23/egypt.explosions/index.html]
Asked whether he thought the blasts might be related to Islam, he
replied, "What Islam? This terrorism has nothing to do with any religion,
because all religions do not allow aggression and do not allow killing
civilians in innocence. Those don't belong to Muslims. They are a gang of
criminals."
%
The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hfalcke/bh/sld1.html]
%
To me anything above 30 fps is good and 45-50 is amazing... 75 is more
than I've seen lol. Then again I come from a mac
%
[There are things the US congress can do that were far beyond my imagination]
http://reason.com/rauch/99_08_07.shtml
%
The MSI MS-9130 (K8T Master2-FAR) is an excellent board. The only problem
I had was with my video card shorting out and frying both the board and
card (They went up in flames).
%
05:46 AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that
it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The action
was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's
white flag factories, disabling their military.
05:47 it's obviously been recirculated recently:
http://www.edthibodeau.com/nonplussed/2004/10/french_terror_a.html
%
[The following quote from a NASA press release shows impressively how much
we know. And more importantly, how to build up scientific knowledge part
by part. "Knowledge" always has a margin-of-error inherently attached to it.]
"The cloud indicated the comet is covered in the powdery stuff."
[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/text/di_pr_20050708.txt]
%
[http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/06/09/security-through-stupidity/]
Silly questions abound, all to cover people's butts. When I moved to
the US in 1992 (from Canada), one of the questions on my green card
application was "Do you, or any member of your immediate family, plan to
violently overthrow the government of the United States or assasinate any
elected official?" Not only did they have checkboxes for "yes" and "no",
but they had a blank space labelled, "If you checked 'yes', please provide
a detailed explanation in the space below." I never figured out what kind
of explanation would make them give you a green card anyway.
--
Hasbro should ask the same. Teddy Ruxpin chips were found on a number
of landmines during the first gulf war... First, we just thought these
people REALLY hate Teddy Ruxpin, maybe we're not so different after all...
but on further investigation, Ruxpin had easily-programmable EEPROMs, so
the Ruxpin chip was actually being repurposed as a controller for the
explosives. They were jackin' overseas deliveries to get the Ruxpins.
%
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielrh/vote/vote.html
The Obfuscated V contest
%
Airplane security is getting surreal: "...FAA regulation that requires
soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles,
shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and
cigarette lighters."
http://tinyurl.com/7z8my
%
Does it run under Windows ?
- Who cares?
%
[Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?]
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html
%
http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto.html
Single Bubble Sonoluminescence HOWTO
[...]
Don't bother me with "my bottle exploded, what was wrong?"-stuff; While the bottle is heated it mustn't be closed!
[...]
Darken your room completely. Adapt your eyes, which may take 15 minutes up
to half an hour. Look at the flask or at least where you think your flask
is (remember: the room is completely darkened).
%
[de.alt.ufo]
> Ja, stimmt - ich hatte mich früher viel mit Leuten beschäftigt, die
> wahrscheinlich entführt wurden, oder bei denen es den Anschein hatte. Im
> Moment beschäftige ich mich mit der Konstruktion eines kleinen UFO-
> Detektors, der die UFO- Ereignisse auch zählt.-
> www.ufo-finder.de
> Aber Feld-Forscher bin ich deshalb noch nicht. Das geht gesundheitlich nicht
> mehr!
> richy.
Und es gibt wirklich Deppen, die sich von dir abzocken lassen??
%
[de.alt.ufo]
> Wie kann ich online etwas belegen, das sich in der Vergangenheit
> zugetragen hat?
Das solltest Du Dich selbst mal fragen. Wenn Du es nicht belegen kannst,
warum behauptest Du es dann?
[später]
> Ach, wenn es interessant wird, umfängt Dich Faulheit?
Bei dir ist das angemessen, du hast deinen Ruf weg.
Du plapperst immer nur von Belegen, verlangst letzten Endes
naturwissenschaftliche/physikalische Beweise (genaugenommen:
ein Alien-craft zum Vorfuehren), darunter akzeptierst du nichts,
aber das stellt sich erst nach ellenlangen threads heraus.
Aber das ist bekannt, und eigentlich belanglos.
Wer sich auf Debatten mit dir einlaesst und Argumente erwartet
von jemand, der die Wissenschaft zur Ersatzreligion verquast,
ist eigentlich selbst schuld.
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[de.alt.ufo, über einen www.rtl.de-news-Artikel]
Wie die Skepsos so schoen sagen: der Verfasser von dem Quark war so offen,
dem ist das Gehirn rausgefallen.
%
[res_nsend.c]
/* give the hook another try */
if (++loops < 42) /*doug adams*/
break;
%
[sr_port/mdq.h]
/* Insert a doubly-linked list of elements from "n->q.fl" to "n->q.bl"
in between "o" and "o->q.fl" */
#define dqadd(o,n,q) ((o)->q.fl->q.bl=(n)->q.bl,(n)->q.bl->q.fl=(o)->q.fl,(o)->q.fl=(n)->q.fl,(n)->q.fl->q.bl=(o))
%
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
%
* Andreas Waechter [06-25-05 00:58]:
> No, Thunderbird should not "reply" to the list with the
> current settings of the list.
>
> There is no "Reply-To" header, thus a "Reply" has to go to
> the address in the "From" header - which is the address of
> the original sender, not the list.
>
> The List address is in the "To" field. Thus only a "Reply
> All" will go to the list as CC (and to the original sender
> as TO).
>
> Don't blame my mail client for the set-up of the list.
Your *mail* client is *not* being blamed. It is *your*
responsibility. No one disputes your choice of mail client, but it
*is* your responsibility to see that *your* posts are properly
addressed to the list, not the list's software or the people you are
being discourteous to.
The *fault* is *all* yours. It is/was your choice.
--
Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
%
[http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/104/]
"Sie können mit falschen Tatsachen Leute überzeugen, das ist nun mal so."
%
An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption
software [PGP] on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.
http://www.granick.com/archive/2005_05_01_theshout_archive.html#1117581
http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/0505/opa040381-0503.htm
%
[http://www.komotv.com/stories/37150.htm]
"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said
what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ...
you don't have any'."
[I also am very fond of this quote:]
"My concern is that if that's the way they're treating American citizens I
would hate to think how they're treating other people. It's crazy."
[Don't they have _any_ ethics?? What about equality? Ah well, I forgot...]
%
[http://wiki.ffii.org/CampIcecream050601En]
Yes its true! If you go down to Place du Luxembourg from now until
3pm, you can collect your free icecream and support the Computer
Implemented Inventions Common Position!
%
[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation/algorithm/upconversion/index.htm]
The change from Blitz to standard arrays had little effect on the
execution time so I stuck with the standard type. The standard arrays
should be more acceptable to developers who want to modify the code.
Insisting that the developer use a certain array container for no good
reason will not win many fans.
[http://dirac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html has other nice
documents in the algorithm section]
%
["Blue in the Face"]
Ich kriege in New York keine Angst, nein... aber in Schweden...da isses
irgendwie so leer und da sind alle betrunken... und alles funktioniert...
und, naja, wnen du an einer roten Ampel den motor nicht abstellst, reden
die leute mit dir.... die zeigen da im fernsehen ohrenoperationen...
Solche dinge machen mir Angst... nicht New York.
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And before I forget it, readers fascinated by the idea of Central
Europeans using A6 as a toilet paper size might also be interested to hear
that the U.S. have for the same application field a standard square format
of 4.5×4.5 in = 114×114 mm, which is for instance documented in New Jersey
Specification No. 7572-01 (May 1997), section 2.3.
[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html]
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[Better know what they actually do...]
[Technische Richtlinie / Telekommunikationsüberwachung]
http://www.regtp.de/imperia/md/content/tech_reg_t/ueberwachu/TR_TKUE_Ausgabe_4.1_29-11-2004.pdf
[RFC3924 Cisco Architecture for Lawful Intercept in IP Networks]
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3924.txt
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[rfc4096]
The FTC called a summit of leading thinkers, and the regulation was
amended to read "but don't use languages that go from right to left
or up and down instead of plain old left to right." Needless to say,
the reaction from the Freedonian League for the Defense of Linguistic
Diversity killed that proposed regulation really quickly.
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[just a really nice md5sum]
99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
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[a comment in some g729 sample implementation]
* For G.729(,A,B) royalty payments, see http://www.sipro.com
* WARNING: please make sure you are sitting down before looking
* at their price list.
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[http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139347&cid=11665921]
You'd think I was overgeneralizing, but I'm not. Absolutely every single
time I see HN in use, I quickly end up learning that the programmer who
wrote the code was an idiot. On at least two separate occasions, I've
had to correct C code with HN that did not allocate space for the null
terminator on any strings anywhere in the code. That's pretty much the
level of programming talent you can expect when you see HN in use.
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21:22 tiger's SMB support is fucking broken
21:26 mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
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03:05 02:34 ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
03:05 02:34 aba naja
03:05 02:35 nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
03:05 02:35 stimmt auch wieder
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[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf
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[some SPAM]
Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
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cowsay -f head-in oink | cowthink -n -f sodomized
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[star wars episode guide]
1 =Epichode 1: The Phantom Grimace
2 =Epichode 2: Attack of the Groans
3 =Epichode 3: Revenge of the Shit
4 = Episode 4: A New Hope
5 = Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back(By far the best Star Wars film. One of the finest movies ever made.)
6 = Episode 6: Return of the Jedi(would have been a thousand times cooler if the ewoks had been Wookies).
[http://www.beggingtodiffer.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pp;action=display;num=1113843411]
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[God knows his enemies]
http://sheise.de/files/GODvsBUSH.gif
[Uh-oh, "se germans are next"]
http://sheise.de/files/cnn_iraq.jpg [a fake, but nevertheless]
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/
[Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
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[http://www.bildblog.de/]
Die "Bild"-Zeitung schreibt Blödsinn, und alle schreiben's ab. Die
rührende Geschichte von den "Unfallforschern", die angeblich "ermittelt"
hätten, was doch nur eine schlichte Umrechnung von Stundenkilometern in
Meter pro Sekunde ist, zieht Kreise.
Nachrichtenagentur ddp, 3. Mai, 03:16 Uhr:
Laut "Bild" ermittelten Unfallforscher, dass ein Auto bei einer
Geschwindigkeit von 50 Kilometern pro Stunde etwa 14 Meter pro Sekunde
ungebremst weiterfährt, während der Fahrer nach einer fallengelassenen
Zigarette sucht.
Nachrichtenagentur AFP, 3. Mai, 04:25 Uhr:
[usw.]
Bei "Stern Online" ist aus den "Unfallforschern" schon eine ganze "Studie"
geworden, die plötzlich zu Ergebnissen kommt, die nur scheinbar mit den
bekannten "Ermittlungen" identisch sind:
Nach Auffassung des SPD-Verkehrsexperten Peter Danckert kann eine
brennende Zigarette den Fahrer jedoch ebenso wie ein klingelndes
Telefon ablenken. Er verwies auf eine Studie, nach der ein 50
Stundenkilometer schnelles Auto mindestens 14 Meter weiterrolle, wenn
der Fahrer nach einer Zigarette sucht.
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[schlimmer als de.alt.ufo, schlimmer als jede Verarschung sein könnte...]
http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2005/01/22/sonne__boese/sonne__boese.html
http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/12/28/seebeben/zerreisst__unsere__erde.html
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[http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147629&cid=12370229]
Which fanboy are you?
1. Windows
You wear wraparound sunglasses, even indoors. You wish your mother
would let you ride a motorbike. You tell your friends you're pulling
in $50,000 a year and $2,000 a month "playing the stock market" but
in reality you're only bringing in half that and your dividends from
MSFT havn't been good in years. Your non computing friends all turn
to you for help; you only charge $30 an hour. Your collegues talk
about you behind your back. Your workplace nickname is likely to be
"The Asshole". Unlike the Linux fanboys, you actually try to pick up
dates in bars but women laugh at you.
2. Apple
You think you're so cool you hurt. You have mirrors on every wall
in your "loft apartment", which is really a grimy little apartment
next to a guy who plays Guns 'n Roses at 3am. All of your furniture
is from Ikea. You sometimes think that changing your name to "Steve"
would be "pretty cool". When you go to bars you only drink Miller
Lite. No body ever asks you for help with their computers because
they know you don't know anything but OS X, even if you do tell them
you "run Unix" now. Your friends openly laugh at you.
3. Linspire
You regularly give $10 bills to homeless guys because you have
too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at
pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you
continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he
installed Linspire on your machine.
4. Umbongo
You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the
multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this
operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you
knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee
houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations
such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have
very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would
never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading
themselves.
5. Gentoy
You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy
yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even
Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes
from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your
matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried
to tell you that your house violates every known building code and
law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't
read those complicated regulatory documents.
6. Linux From Scratch
Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic
sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from
matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the
matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next
because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to
alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far
and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
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[/usr/bin/cowsay]
if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek!
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[A few days after the 6.0.9 release announcement]
In the spirit of release early, release often.... Err no, actually more
in the spirit of, let's not try to lose data during file resolution...
Coda 6.0.10 is out
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wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:55:28 -0800, CrabRangoon wrote
>
> > Meine Großmutter hat einen kleinen Hinterhof und sie benutzt selten die
> > Dusche. Bei vielen Gelegenheiten habe ich mehr als 4
> > Lebensmittelgeschäftspeicher-Versorgungsmaterialien Sellerie an einem
> > einzelnen Tag verbraucht. Würde es irgendein Benzin unter meiner Couch
> > geben, wenn ich meine Hose bügelte?
>
> What does your granny's tiny ass have to do with this group? Other than the
> smell attracting flies of course...
>
I figured a little non-native tongued nonsense would help keep this
request near the top of the group. thanks for playing along.
cheers and Haben Sie eine glückliche Karotte
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00:24 ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
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98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
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[Bertram van Munster, Jerry Bruckheimers partner, interviewed in the BBC
show "Correspondent"]
[...] I do reality television, and I've done this for many many many
years, long before even anybody knew what reality was.
[so know we know who creates reality now]
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[from wordnet]
cock sucking, blowjob
=> fellatio, fellation
=> oral sex, head
=> perversion, sexual perversion
=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> organic process, biological process
=> process
=> phenomenon
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10:41 [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out
10:41 tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
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[SSK@J3GtFnEi8b~ko6mGvvXdrQoZ3D4PAgM,hhWspr43hLbvnrlkwxtDLg/ABC_NoJail/2//]
[slightly edited]
Largest prison population in the world is in the United States of America
(in 2000: 2,071,686 persons, 22% of world prison population), it has more
than double the prison population of Russia or China. What that means is
that in USA 1 out of 143 residents are incarcerated.
About 88% of USA prison population is male, but female population is
sharply on the rise, and might soon reach that of males, due mostly to new
laws on terrorism and drugs.
Out of all the black males between 20 and 39, 12% are in custody (anybody
told them about emancipation proclamation?).
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"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
(PLemken, )
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Mail::Box - 700MB of RSS to open a 30MB mail folder, one half of the
advertised features doesn't work, while the other half is just buggy.
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A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for.
I learned that some cops lie. This was a brutal and profoundly disturbing
realization: Those in control are not necessarily trustworthy.
- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
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"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
- oesi
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[US, Metric]
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
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[http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal]
[I agree with that very much, most of his blog is really interesting]
Sunday February 20, 2005 07:18 AM
Minions Wanted [ 0 Comments | #23269 ]
It's been about 10 years since I've had minions. They've all grown up,
started painfully profitable companies, and now hob-knob whose-who of
important and influential figures of their field. I'm growing old and
increasinly mal-adapted to normal life. It's no longer becoming for me
to leave my lair nor speak on the phone. I've reflected on making this
post, and I've reflected at great length. Minions aren't what they used
to be. Minions now days are soft and weak willed. In the old days, it was
that minions would realize they can wield power if they're willing to
spend a time subserviant to someone capable of teaching. Now days, kids
have this notion that money only comes from the parents, power comes from
your social (gag) circles, and glory comes from the things you own. They
seek answers to Perl questions only for immediate gradification, not to
truly master an insidious tactic and become a potent force. Kids now
days, not nearly robust enough to be considered minion material. They,for
their entire life, questioninglessly slide into being slaves of much
more powerful overlords. They accept as payment for their servatude a
few measily tens of thousands of dollars, and then only paid in payments
yearly, calling that close enough to world domination, and inexchange
for that paultry fee, deliver one after another innocent to the hands of
Bill Gates, telling the clients they betray that Microsoft Windows is a
servicable operating system and a supportable platform. While it is truly
becoming to serve on the side of Microsoft, it is also well known the
ranks are thin at the top but wide at the bottom, and few ever move past
petty explotation of businesses and moronic home users.
This is not the stock I seek. These so short-sightedly driven by greed,
rather than lusting for true power, amount to little more than orcs - a
fodder of little use except as "consumers" in this modern age. It is far
more becoming to hope to some day aspire to be an overlord of some small
repute yourself and initially forego payment.
Minions in my service will be expected to endure maindane business-related
tasks, such as answering the phone, but will always be allowed the
basic dignity of being able to tell clients to "fuck off" when
appropriate. Retaining dignity does not relieve the necessities of
subordination, however. My minions may seek clarification but will never
question me. For the term of their indenture, they will accept my teaching
as truth itself. They will not seek short-cuts where I say there are none,
and if I later reveal short-cuts, they will know it was because they were
not yet ready before. While my young troglodytes will doubtless enterain
perversion and drug abuse in their free time, they will go for the want of
the very necessities of life should urgant cause arise.
In exchange, they will be tutored on the basic elements of evil and Perl
programming and will share in the spoils of an insideous plot I've hatched
some time ago to dupe large numbers of people out of money by playing on
their greed and fear. Of course, in the interest of avoiding indictment
myself, the details of the plot can never be revealed, but a clever
student will quickly ascertain the nature of the ploy. After thier period
of endenture, minions will have developed an eye for exploitation and
trickery, but most importantly will have developed a deeper understanding
of how things work - both in Perl and in the real world. They will see
everything about them as quite potentially theirs - no program must go
unwritten, and persuent to Free Trade Agreements, they will be as a
sovereign nation.
While the offer is valid, this is a draft for a post on
jobs.perl.org. Feedback is welcome - unless you're stupid, then stay the
hell off my blog. Time and time again I forget both the power of TV to
sap intelligence and the very prevelence of the thing. So let this be a
test: if you watch more than half an hour a day of any programming besides
CSPAN, don't post here.
-scott
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But Mike Loughlin, who studied the boiling of lobsters when he was a
University of Maine graduate student, said lobsters simply lack the brain
capacity to feel pain.
"It's a semantic thing: No brain, no pain," said Loughlin, who now works
as a biologist at the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission.
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Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help & Crimson Editor in Windows
From: Sven Neumann
Hi,
Rubén de Diego Martínez writes:
> I also think that it's a bug. How may I report-it?
Go to http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ and tell them
that
ShellExecute (HWND_DESKTOP, "open", uri, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
does not do what you would expect it to do.
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http://www.syslog.com/~jwilson/pics-i-like/kurios119.jpg
the original comment says:
This is probably part of an elaborate IQ test.
Waiting at the gate means you fail.
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{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} ich mir eine kolaflasche reingeschioebn
{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und dann ist meine klitoris erissen
{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} und ich musste ins krankenhaus
{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} oh sorry, falsches fenster
{Flat eric:Net-Knuddels} aja
{Net-Knuddels:Flat eric} hi :)
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[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still
interesting read]
http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
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[Obscure Algorithms, just for my reference]
http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/
http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm
%
In Los Angeles, the "HOLLYWOOD" sign is protected by a fence and a locked
gate. Because several different agencies need access to the sign for
various purposes, the chain locking the gate is formed by several locks
linked together. Each of the agencies has the key to its own lock, and not
the key to any of the others. Of course, anyone who can open one of the
locks can open the gate.
This is a nice example of a multiple-user access-control system. It's
simple, and it works. You can also make it as complicated as you want,
with different locks in parallel and in series.
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http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf
Safecracking for the computer scientist
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Fact: Something that you observe to be true.
Fact #1: when you drop a hammer, it falls to the ground
Fact #2: a genetic sequence can change sufficiently to form a new
species. Speciation has been observed more than once in the laboratory
and in the wild, so this is a fact. Since we call this process
'evolution', that means evolution is a fact. Keep reading for more
explanation of this.
Theory: An explanation of an observation
Theory #1: The theory of gravity is understood as a curvature in space,
which explains why the hammer falls.
Theory #2: The Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection explains
how a population's genome can change over time.
Law: Not really related to any of the other definitions. It's just a
mathematical relationship between two values.
Law #1: If you double the distance from a source of light, the
brightness falls off proportionally to the square of the distance.
Law #2: (expressed as a formula) F=ma. Force equals mass times
acceleration.
Please note that Evolution is a fact, and the theory is called the Theory
of Evolution through Natural Selection. There are other theories of
evolution, which have been disproved. A famous one is the theory of
evolution through acquired characteristics, also known as Lamarkian
evolution. It posited that species evolve by acquiring and retaining
useful characteristics through use. Therefore, a giraffe would have
longer necks if the previous generations stretched their necks to reach
high leaves. This was the main theory that Darwin and others showed to be
false.
[by Profane MuthaFucka (574406)]
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[Aus: Psychologie heute, 10/2003, über einen Artikel von Rentfrow/Gosling,
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6/2003]
Fans von reflexiven und komplexen Musikstilen wie Klassik, Blues, Jazz und
Folk sind offen, tolerant und machen gerne neue Erfahrungen. Sie halten
sich für intelligent - und sind es auch. Außerdem können sie gut mit
Worten umgehen, schätzen das schöne. haben eine starke Vorstellungskraft
und sind politisch liberal eingestellt. Sie sind häufig etwas unsportlich
und wollen andere nicht dominieren.
Anhänger von intensiven und rebellischen Musikrichtungen wie Heavy Metal,
Rock und alternativer Musik sind offen für Experimente. Sie halten sich
außerdem für intelligent, eloquent und sportlich. Obwohl die Musik, die
sie bevorzugen, vorwiegend negatives ausdrückt, scheint dies nicht auf
sie abzufärben: Sie sind weder neurotischer noch unverträglicher als die
Fans anderer Musikrichtungen. Darüber hinaus sind sie wissensdurstig,
risikobereit und körperlich aktiv.
Beschwingt und konventionell. So bezeichnen Rentfrow und Gosling
Popsongs und Schmusehits, Countrymusik, Filmmusik und religiöse Musik
(Spirituals, Gospels, Kirchenlieder). Wer diese Musik gerne hört, ist ein
umgänglicher Zeitgenosse: Er geht gern aus sich heraus, ist verträglich,
fröhlich, zuverlässig, hilfsbereit und gewissenhaft. Seine Einstellungen
sind eher konservativ, Beredesamkeit und Offenheit sind nicht seine
Stärken. Dafür hält er sich aber für attraktiv und vor allem für
sportlich.
Wer sich für energetische und rhythmische Musik begeistern kann (Rap,
Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Electronica) trägt sein Herz auf der Zunge. Er
ist umgänglich, quirlig, liberal eingestellt, extravertiert und ein
wenig eitel: Er hält sich für attraktiv und sportlich. Konservatives
Gedankengut und Dominanz über andere liegen ihm hingegen fern.
Die besten verbalen Fähigkeiten haben die Angehörigen der ersten beiden
Gruppen. Am wenigsten beredt ist die dritte Gruppe. An analytischem
Verstand mangelt es vor allen den Musikhörern der vierten Gruppe.
während die erste Gruppe, gefolgt von der zweiten, am meisten davon
vorzuweisen hat.
"Die intelligenteste Gruppe bevorzugt die komplexeste Musik", sagen die
Forscher.
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[Very well-written article on the legal foundazion of licensing, and
the extreme difference in what a free software license does vs. a
EULA-style license]
http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/2005/01/001453
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The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden with 150,000 users
a day. In the fall, it posted a torrent for Shrek 2. Dreamworks sent a
cease-and-desist letter demanding the site remove it. One of the site's
pseudonymous owners, Anakata, replied: "As you may or may not be aware,
Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country
in northern Europe [and] US law does not apply here. ... It is the opinion
of us and our lawyers that you are fucking morons." Shrek 2 stayed up.
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Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
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[Happy New Year]
23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus]
Day changed to 01 Jan 2005
00:24 re
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[http://www.calsky.com/lexikon/de/txt/f/fe/fehlschluss.php]
Im besten Fall kann die Verknüpfung zweier Tatsachen Verdachtsmomente
liefern, die mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden abgeklärt werden
sollen. Was eine wissenschaftliche Methode ist, ist Gegenstand anderer
wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen.
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[funny page(s), although I think it's sad that people trying to "debunk"
bad science theories are prone to the same logical fallacies as the
proponents of such theories.]
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/Planet-X.htm
"On the Internet, there's a picture circulating that's supposedly `secret
evidence' from Russia, proving Planet X is an inhabited world. The makers
took the original photo (top left), enlarged it, and upgraded it with
`solarize' and `find edges'. And look... Suddenly, you see all kinds of
spaceships orbiting the planet! (top right) I followed exactly the same
procedure, using a photo of one Robert Bridson, math student at Stanford
University (below, left). After enlarging and solarizing the photograph,
it became clear that mr. Bridsons left ear actually is inhabited by
intelligent beings, since there clearly is a spaceship taking off from it
(below, right)."
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[wonderful info...]
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/
[useful info...]
http://www.snopes.com/
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Computer analyst to programmer:
"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
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[Fun!]
http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
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[Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11/2004, über Informationstransport im All]
"Wenn unsere Vettern im Kosmos wirklich intelligent sind, werden ihre
Computer sicher nicht mit Microsoft-Betriebssystemen ausgestattet sein."
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[in our continued series, "solaris source code", today, /bin/true]
ddev5:~$ cat /bin/true
#!/usr/bin/sh
# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
# All Rights Reserved
# THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
# The copyright notice above does not evidence any
# actual or intended publication of such source code.
#ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */
ddev5:~$
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22:07 schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
22:07 elmex: welches konzept?
22:07 das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)
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[Gtk2/Makefile.PL]
# win32 does not allow unresolved symbols in libraries, but
# Gtk2 uses on symbols in the dll created for Glib.
# so, we have to break all this nice abstraction and encapsulation
# and find the actual Glib.dll and Glib.lib installed by perl when
# the Glib module was built, and add it to the list of lib files.
#
# say it with me: "i hate win32."
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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.
--
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http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
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[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.
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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.]
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
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[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.)
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[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...]
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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)
[...]
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http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
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http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
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http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
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[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
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http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/mmmgroup/e-oak.html
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http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html
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http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427&mode=classic
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[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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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[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.
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02:23 Breaking News: SCO stellt per Wahrsager Codeklau in HURD in einem Jahr
fest ;)
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[http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html]
Last updated: - Invalid Date
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http://www.bash.org/?99060
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[IZ-Buzzword-Bullshit-Bingo]
http://www.l13.de/it/ibbb.html
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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)
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[ach du schande]
"pflichtpfandfrei"
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[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.
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[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
.
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* muppet also hates bloatus notes. it doesn't need vnc to make it slow.
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[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. [...]
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[I love it]
http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/wiltshire/swindon-roundabout.htm
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"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
- Douglas Adams
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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.
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[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.
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[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."
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[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".
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["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?
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http://www.nature.com/nsu/021209/021209-10.html#b1
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[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
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GCC generates truly horrible code when no optimization is enabled.
-- Ulrich Drepper
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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
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Never say "PIC Code"!. This is duplication.
-- Ulrich Drepper
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[http://www.ffk.co.at/programme_ffksnetmanager.asp]
Ping und Netsend laufen jetzt über die Windows API, daher schneller und
zuverlässiger
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[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).
*/
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[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
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[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.
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[Look at the time scale...]
http://www.networm.org/graphics/worm-progression.Sep03.pdf
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[Just funny]
http://www.zug.com/pranks/turnpike/
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[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?
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[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!
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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
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"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]
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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.
[http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/]
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[The world is getting saner and saner. The whole world? No....]
http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf
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[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.
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"...vielleicht praktisch manchmal auch mal geraten, das, wenn auch mal..."
[Johann Gärtner, "Die Republikaner" bei einer Fernsehsendung über ihr
Wahlprogramm. Das Zitat ist repräsentativ.]
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[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."
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"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."
-- Bruce Schneier
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[it took me over 7 minutes to find this movie again on imdb...]
[...so it must be good]
http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0072131/
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[mplayer/libmpcodecs/ad_realaud.c]
[real uses a novel protection scheme...]
raSetPwd(sh->context,"Ardubancel Quazanga"); // set password... lol.
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[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
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[Oh My God!]
Subject: aic7(censored) use after free in 2.5.66
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[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
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[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.
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[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.
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[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]
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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.
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Eppur si muove!
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[bwahahaha]
"RV K-17"
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"We're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World
electricity grid," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
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[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.
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ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
ceterum censeo mundum non delendum esse
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[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«.
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http://www.plif.com/archive/wc285.gif
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[D-Info 2003, on my box:]
Linux-Distribution nicht erkannt. Koennte RedHat sein.
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[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.......].
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[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.
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[what high dan players in go think while playing:]
"Must kill ... black stones ... black stones ... must die"
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[the one and only time rcp failed for me, at the very end of the transfer]
rcp: protocol screwup: mtime.sec not delimited
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[Wasteland]
Lester Moore,
Shot in the head with a .44.
No Les, no more.
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[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]
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[Fallout]
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas instead of the brake
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[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.
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> 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?
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"Der Sun-Forte-Compiler ist näher am C++-Standard als G++"
[Jörg Schilling, CeBit 2003]
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17:21 ok, sex kann ich nicht, aber ich kann vim und Perl ;)
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[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
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[I once used a vped.conf from windows on linux, and then had to:]
tcpdump -eni\\\\.\\{F2CB3DC8-1
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[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);
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[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 */
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[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]
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[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 ;)
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[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. ...
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sendmail ist wie masturbation mit einer gurkenraspel, erzeugt viele spaene
aber wenig freude.
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[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.
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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*
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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."
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[...] 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.
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[...]
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
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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!
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[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;
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[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 ...
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[Onibaba - Great Movie]
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058430
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[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
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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
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[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 [...]
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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."
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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.
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[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.
[...]
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[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
--------------^
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[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.
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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.
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[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.
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[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 :)
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[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).
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.+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+''
/ \ / \ / \ / \ /
.+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+'
%
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."
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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)
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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?
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> > 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
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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.
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[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?
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[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.)
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[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.
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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
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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))
;
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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
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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.
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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"
:-)
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"... 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
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[miri@ccc.de]
Moooooment, das sind zwei Sachen die miteinander zusammenhängen...
[and after some quarrel...]
Ich lasse mich ungern zitieren!
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[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.
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[Content-Type used by Microsoft for .exe files]
Content-Type: application/x-msdownload
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[from windows' wininet.h]
#define ERROR_INTERNET_INSERT_CDROM (INTERNET_ERROR_BASE + 53)
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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
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http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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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>
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From: Felix von Leitner
Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers
I don't have python. Any version of python.
[...]
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[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'
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I specialize in storage, and C is self taught.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
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> > The new lock uses a combination of a spinlock and a (mutex-)semaphore.
>
> Spinaphore :-)
Or mutabloat :-(
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Microsoft Outlook *IS* the problem. Blaming it *IS* correct. Removing
Outlook *IS* the solution.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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From: Ricky Beam
Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously
never bought anything from UUNet.
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deconstructionism -- (a philosophical theory of criticism ...
that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work
by delving below its surface meaning)
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http://brics.dk/~cw97/ProceedingS/01.ps.gz
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html
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[following links in 2002, http://www.myguestbook.de/book.asp?id=1510]
Der Gästebuchservice wurde aufgrund
technischer Schwierigkeiten eingestellt.
Monday, 06. November 2000
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[01:42] 22:57 < JanMan> elmex: du stoerst, aber das verstehst du nicht.
[01:42] #schmorp , de , Thu Jan 10 00:34:42 2002
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[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!]
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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.
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> 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"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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> 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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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[...]
[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
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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...
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http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/unix_editor.html
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[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?
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http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#security
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> 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.
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[09:20] 10 (Marc Lehmann) Mandant [Entfernen] [Setze auf Steuerberater]
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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
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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...
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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
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[Firmware Upgrade Download Sections Rock!]
Filename: R16OS0B.zip
Description: Modify the BUG when using Direct-CD
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> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:03:50 +0100 "A." ,MISSING_MAILBOX_TERMINATOR@.SYNTAX-ERROR.,UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR. wrote:
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[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
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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[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."
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[Bruce Schneier]
Remote administration tools look a lot like Back Orifice (although less feature-rich).
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telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
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In the older kernels the alpha floppy driver only worked for the first 25
of each 50 days
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"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
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> 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?
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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.
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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
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> 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
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[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
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http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
-- Alan Perlis, SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9
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> 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.
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[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!"
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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?
[...]
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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").
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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?
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[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.
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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.
[...]
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[11:40]