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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
19:35:41 <elmex> dieses 'restore session' is soo sinnlos bei firefox
19:35:54 <elmex> wenn die webseite die ihn gecrasht hat immer weieder crasht
19:36:18 <schmorp> tja, bei mir restored er trotz einstellung nie etwas
19:36:24 <schmorp> fragt sich wer mehr glück hatWhat 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.[rfc2665] The dot3StatsEtherChipSet object has now been deprecated. Implementation feedback indicates that this object is much more useful in theory than in practice.
15:40:51 <elmex> son buero is faszinierend
15:41:08 <elmex> staendig hoerste leute seuftzen und jammern, und in 90% der faelle hats
mit windows zu tun
15:41:15 <elmex> oder mit software die dort laeuft
15:41:37 <elmex> irgendwem is heut mrogen die mail inbox verloren gegangen
15:41:47 <elmex> und hat sie dann wiedergefunden
15:41:49 <elmex> irgendwie
15:41:50 <elmex> irgendwo
15:42:07 <elmex> achja, und backups gabs auch keine mehr, seit sich die passwoerter
geaendert haben :->
15:42:19 <elmex> (also seit wenigen tagen)
15:47:10 <elmex> es ist auch erstaunlich wie wenig arbeit eigentlich so erledigt wird nach
15:30
15:47:48 <elmex> (mit ausnahmen)
15:48:13 <elmex> aber 50-80% der zeit wird mit kommunikation verbracht[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.
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: [...]
http://tmbo.org/offensive/images/picpile/Welcome%20to%20paradise%21.jpg
17:34:47 <elmex> hab gehoert solaris soll GPL werden, oder zumindest denkt sun drueber nach :->:
17:34:53 <schmorp> ja klar
17:34:57 <schmorp> alles was lebenszeitende hat
17:34:58 <schmorp> wird gpl
17:35:02 <schmorp> weil sie denken, dann wirds übelreben
17:35:05 <schmorp> bei mozilla hats auch gwekappt
17:35:08 <elmex> hehe
17:35:13 <schmorp> und die brrowserentwicklung unter linux locker ein jahr verzögert
17:35:46 <elmex> dann kann joerd schilling ja endlich sein lieblings system entwickeln :-
17:35:48 <elmex> :->
17:35:58 <schmorp> macht er doch schon die ganze zeit
17:36:02 <schmorp> chillingos, bzw.
17:36:18 <elmex> uh
17:36:53 <schmorp> ich finds nicht mehr
17:36:57 <schmorp> er arbeitet jedenfalls dran
17:38:27 <schmorp> SchilliX
17:38:29 <schmorp> genau!
17:38:30 <schmorp> :)
17:38:33 <elmex> sueees
17:38:34 <schmorp> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/schillix/
17:39:59 <zaphod> omg das ist nicht wahr
17:40:20 <schmorp> ihr kennt die geheimnisse und wunder unserer welt nicht
17:40:32 <zaphod> das kann bestimmt CDs brennen wie nix anderes
17:40:42 <elmex> lol
17:41:06 <schmorp> :)[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/]
20:08 <schmorp> my guess is, purely practically
20:08 <schmorp> if copyright/patent law continues to go away from the original reasons
20:08 <schmorp> that they were created for
20:08 <schmorp> you will at one point have a civil war
20:08 <schmorp> right now, you already have large-scale civil disobedience
20:10 <scortch> 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 <scortch> i.e. militarily
20:11 <scortch> ah wait.
20:12 <scortch> we are forgetting that low technology solutions are always around
20:12 <schmorp> terrorism :)
20:12 <schmorp> now i finally see the whole plot
20:13 <scortch> that's quite a story23:49 <ruskie> in my experience apart from a few exceptions all gentoo people are rude
23:58 <Err> 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 <Err> (parenthesized for easy parsing ;-) )
23:59 <Err> 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[http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/] Bruce Schneier decrypted the Bible. The plaintext read, "Bruce Schneier".
[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...
[so much for type-safety] List<Integer> lst = new ArrayList<Integer>; lst.add(null); int x = 1 + lst.get(0);
[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...01:14 <scortch> its an NP hard for computers 01:14 <elmex> no, it's NP hard for anyone
19:18 <elmex> 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 <schmorp> *rofl*
19:19 <schmorp> aber nicht wegem dme geld
19:19 <elmex> der studiert glaub ich informatik :)
19:19 <elmex> das is die neue generation
19:19 <elmex> 'generation gates'
19:19 <schmorp> die frage schiene mcirosoft oder schiene java erübrigt sichhttp://www.bissantz.de/pub/Luegen_mit_Statistiken.pdf
[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.
http://www.ta-sa.org/files/sc/perl6_timeline_updated.png
00:20 <schmorp> Mikachu: xjdic lists ぶっかける as to dash (slosh) water (or other liquid)onapersonorinaperson'sface 00:21 <Mikachu> yeah, that made me laugh a bit 00:21 <Mikachu> "or other liquid, know what i mean, nudge nudge"
[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 <elmex> 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.
-- 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[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 <zaphod> Murch: Stroemungslehre ist geil
17:57 <Murch> zaphod: hm?
17:57 <zaphod> Murch: "Diese Gleichungen sind, zumindest aus der Sicht eines
Ingenieurs, als exakt anzusehen."
17:58 <Murch> lol22:51 -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
[famous last words] 11:22 <kaizoku> 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
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++?<Mikachu> give a man a fix and he's running urxvt one day, teach a man
to fix and he will run urxvt all his lifeThe 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.
> 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.
[siggraph '99 course 12] Unfortunately, including <windows.h> 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 <windows.h>. [...] 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.[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.
[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. ...
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 <Wick84@gmx.de> 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.[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.
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" <david@inner-drive.com> 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.[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 Chaitin13:49 <RayTracer> pixelsize=14 ist so groß wie 8 beim xchat wenn ich den
gnome-settings-daemon nicht lade
13:50 <schmorp> autsch, was hat das mit dem gnome-settings-daemon zu tun? ist ja hart!
[...]
13:51 <RayTracer> 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
[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: <viciously> 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
"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
>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[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: <SLAP> <SLAP> 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 <mmead> 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 <mmead> 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 <mmead> 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
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 warwget 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 <clameter@engr.sgi.com> [...] 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." <http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html> [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.shtmlThe 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 <mmead> 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 <mmead> 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
<http://babygimp.sourceforge.net/> 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.[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 <mail@andreas-waechter.de> [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.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]
[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[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.
[just a really nice md5sum] 99421268df476006401f11f96b655248
[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.
[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.
21:22 <mmead> tiger's SMB support is fucking broken 21:26 <oesi> mmead: when you grow up, you will substitute "'s SMB support" by "" :)
03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> ich dachte immer alle beinhaltet mehr als 1
03:05 <oesi> 02:34 <bani_> aba naja
03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <oesi> nein, viele beinhaltet mehr als 1
03:05 <oesi> 02:35 <bani_> stimmt auch wieder[ein so gut geschriebenes dokument erwartet man eigentlich nicht mal vom BSI]
http://www.bsi.bund.de/literat/studien/antispam/antispam.pdf[some SPAM] Freie Geschlechtabbildungen und -filme. Und Phasennetznocken
cowsay -f head-in oink | cowthink -n -f sodomized
[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]
[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]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054743/ [Why is it that every good Hollywood movie is at least 30+ years old?]
[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.[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[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 $10 bills to homeless guys because you have too much money. Computers baffle you, but you enjoy looking at pictures of naked women. You don't know what Linux is, but you continually bugged the IT guy at work about your computer so he installed Linspire on your machine. 4. Umbongo You shop at GAP. You probably used to use a Mac. When you saw the multiracial image used as a desktop picture and heard that this operating system came from the same country as Nelson Mandela, you knew it was for you. You meet with your friends in fair-trade coffee houses and talk about the eventual overthrow of evil corporations such as Microsoft and Starbucks. Like the Linspire user, you have very little real knowlege when it comes to computers but you would never use your computer to look at pictures of women degrading themselves. 5. Gentoy You've been "into computers" for ohh, one or two years now and fancy yourself as "a bit of a hacker". Wouldn't know C from C++, or even Perl for that matter. Older Gentoy users may be building their homes from matchsticks. You've explained to all your friends that your matchstick house will have an "optimised floorplan". They've tried to tell you that your house violates every known building code and law in your area, but you've ignored them so far because you can't read those complicated regulatory documents. 6. Linux From Scratch Much like the Gentoy user but you'd also be into sadomasochistic sex if you could get it. You're not just building a house from matchsticks, you're planing to grow the trees to make the matchsticks. You've cleared some land but don't know what to do next because you havn't read the books you've got, so you've posted to alt.arborists.newbie asking for help. It's been three days so far and no one has replied. You remain hopeful.
[/usr/bin/cowsay]
if (($^O eq "MSWin32") or ($^O eq "Windows_NT")) { ## Many perls, eek![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
<opine@orifice2.com> 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 Karotte00:24 <elmex> ich bin ja nur ein dummer niedersachse, der kaum was in der schule hatte
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce
98% of the time I am right. Why worry about the other 3%.
[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]
[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
=> phenomenon10:41 <oesi> [0]--(10:40:39)-(root@km)-(~/xxml)-> file tmon.out 10:41 <oesi> tmon.out: ASCII Java program text
[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?).
"Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren."
(PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>)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.
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"parrot - from the people who brought you ithreads"
- oesi[US, Metric] http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/usmetric.html
[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
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.
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.
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.
{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 :)[Java, like Delphi, requires manual destruction. Obvious, but still interesting read] http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ImmortalityAtaPrice.html
[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.
http://www.crypto.com/papers/safelocks.pdf Safecracking for the computer scientist
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)][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.[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
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.
Java is, in many ways, C++--. (Michael Feldman)
[Happy New Year] 23:42 -!- zaphod [jkneer@fatboy.laendle] has quit [Quit: Hochhaus] Day changed to 01 Jan 2005 00:24 <schmorp> re
[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.[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)."
[wonderful info...] http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/ [useful info...] http://www.snopes.com/
Computer analyst to programmer: "You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."
[Fun!] http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
[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."[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:~$
22:07 <elmex> schmorp: naja, es beweist das das konzept von java nicht funktioniert
22:07 <schmorp> elmex: welches konzept?
22:07 <elmex> das "hack dir die beine ab, und lauf nen marathon"-konzept ;)[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."
Immerhin meint die Filmförderungsanstalt, im Jahr 2002 seien 59
Millionen CD-Rohlinge von 5,9 Millionen Nutzern mit Filmen bespielt
worden, im Durchschnitt also zwo:lf Rohlinge pro Anwender.
-- <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/see-08.04.03-000/>http://otierney.net/images/perl6.gif
[http://www.kinderschaender.de/begriff.htm]
Das einzige, was die Seite wirklich gezeigt hat, ist, daß es kaum Menschen
gibt, die weiter denken als ein Schwein scheißt.http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html [I'd say ALL the essays on http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html are readable, and in most cases I wholeheartedly agree with them.]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
[From: CRYPTO-GRAM] Bill Gates points out that all those IE security holes have not been Microsoft's fault. (The first step towards recovery is recognizing that you have a problem.) <http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/15/015239.shtml?tid=109&tid=1>
[top output on redhat9, with one real-time priority process] PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 25788 root 18446744073709551565 0 10076 9.8M 2816 S 0.9 1.9 0:01 26064 root 21 0 1508 1508 1184 S 0.3 0.2 0:00 0 curl [I am continually amazed at how redhat is able to break utilities that worked and work on other distributions without flaws again and again and again...]
That depends. There is C++ and there is C++. There are many different sorts of C++, I'll talk about 2 of them: Category 1 code is 'C with classes and on-the-fly variable declarations'. It uses macros, bad encapsulation, no const-correctness, etc. Category 1 code tends to either use object oriented programing exclusively, or use it combined with procedural programming. Other programming paradigms are extremely rare. It often uses non-portable hacks because Standard-knowledge is scarce among category 1 coders. Category 1 code is seen mostly in Flipcode and Gamedev.net articles and forums. Also it is seen in almost every API ever developed by Microsoft. A slightly less bad version of category 1 code is seen in libraries that call themselves "high-quality C++ libraries" but that don't even use a single namespace and rely heavily on macros and other unsafe preprocessing techniques where this is totally unnecessary. Most of those libraries are that way because they were started before the 1998 C++ Standard's stuff got implemented in main-stream compilers. Category 2 code is what I'd like to see as the meaning of the term "C++ code". It is Standard-compliant, uses multiple programming paradigms and is pushing the language to the max (and beyond ;) to create easy to use, efficient, highly-reusable and easy to extend programs/libraries/modules/etc. Unfortunately, category 2 code is hard to write when you have to work with incompetent compilers like MSVC6/7. Category 2 code is mostly seen in:
[On "Main Loop with Fixed Time Steps", a Windows programmer commented:] Just to point out, With a tick being a maximum of FFFFFFFFh, you *only* have about 49 days of tick time since the system has started! Though I doubt any game or even system runs for that long.
[http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html] "The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White. Every good writer knows this, and it's true for software too.
> think it needs the Ultimate Refactor..."rm -rf programs/Xserver/GL" ... and I was told "rm -rf" means "read mail, really fast!" ;)
[this is not a blogggggg] One fine day, I removed the "video=matrox:off" from my kernel commandline, having removed the matrox card from my machine months ago. Promptly, the proprietary nvidia driver greeted me with: NVIDIA: Failed to map framebuffer memors Adding the video option back made it work again. No, I do not have any framebuffer devices compiled into the kernel, either...
[taken out of a public mail by a journalist... I have never seen anybody
using so many abbreviations...]
Hi Volker -
alles klar ..!? Bin mit dem Buch i. Stretch .. Lektorat / Korrektorat
Architekturbuch ... wie üblich, kennst das ja wahrsch. auch ... alles zu
spät ...
Dann gehts direktemang in die Ferien (2 Wochen Gomera ab komm. SA ...)
Ja, und dann find ich doch Volker ganz Massiv im Briefkasten a. SA ..
schönes Foto von dir ... 1 Seite .. 2 seiten Interview, m. Fortsetzung im
nächsten Heft ..!!! (äusserst rar b. nem Interview ...)
herzliche Grüsse
tom
PS: Mein Wissenschtf.Kollege und Filmemacher ist der Meinung, dass das Thema
'Copyrights, Commons, Freedom' etc ...spannend wäre, aber schlecht fürs TV
... Du kannst prakt. nichts mehr themat. Anspruchsvolles machen ... auch b.
Arte war irgend nen Problem (fällt mir auf d. Schnelle nicht mehr ein ...
schon ein paar Wochen her ...)From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> 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..
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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 <schmorp> libtool is soo broken 23:07 <schmorp> ./libtool gcc-3.4 ... 23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration 23:07 <schmorp> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag' 23:07 <schmorp> ... 23:07 <schmorp> libtool --tag=ulubulu 23:07 <schmorp> libtool: ignoring unknown tag ulubulu 23:07 <schmorp> and it works
History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other. -- Lord Balfour
The whole of Mozilla is just one big focus bug.
<Beerman> 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 <oesi> sansho: du bist kindisch. :) 21:40 <sansho> 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 <cottrell@wfu.edu> 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 <c4k0mj$fmp$1@sunnews.cern.ch>
Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
> In <nfa0k1-03l.ln1@jones.homeip.net> 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
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