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BTW, 99.9% of all homepages are a burden to the network, nothing else... just uninteresting graveyards of links.. in short: crap (compare this to usenet, where the situation is even worse). By far most of the crap comes from Wintel users, for which Netiquette clearly is something they never heard of...

I'm trying (yes, not very hard) to offer something original and interesting here, although "documentation" was never my profession (but I hope to change this drastically, soon!), and time is nothing I have to give away for free... So better go directly to the section, and maybe even contribute!

You can also choose to get an insight on how I made this homepage (including the design rationale, why I haven't used layers nor frames nor other crap etc...). While the gfx and other stuff isn't really bells and whistles, the remarkable point about these pages is that almost everything here is automatically generated. Just go to the section, to learn how.

Something About Me

• schmorpunes.u8, 435751 bytes, 2008-05-09 16:52:54

I lost track of the authors (actually I was too lazy to dig them out), if you are one of them drop me a note and I'll add you.

For easier skipping, citations containing german are marked in green

[From: "H.Merijn Brand"]
The more I (have to) work with java, the more I am convinced perl is
the right tool for me.

[deliantra]
02:58:42 [Kyle] my summoned pets ate my rod of show invisible

I pretend to work because the Soviet government pretends to pay me.

cerebro ~# fuser -km /wd_old
/wd_old:              5270c 12266c 12274c 12275
Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...

From the CFA633 datasheet:

* Do not eat the LCD panel.

>> Well, in German there is no "sports" but just "Sport".
>> So by that little S at the end of sports, you could tell it's English.

It's the same in English as it is in German; the little S at the end
actually tells you it's *American*.

[better do not hire this programmer]
From: Tony Jackson <tj76351@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Avoiding dereference of NULL pointer

Hi

I'm quite new to C programming - I have more of a Java background: maybe
someone here can advise me.

I'm nearly finishing a little program but it has some hard-to-find bugs
that basically lead to a couple pointers sometimes being NULL at the
wrong time. As it stands the program just bombs out when it tries to
dereference the NULL, which obviously isn't good (especially when it
happens with the customer looking on!!).

I don't think there's any serious problem to worry about, and what I'd
like to do is be able to ignore the dereference attempt and just carry
on - probably the next time round the loop the pointer will be OK. In
Java, I'd put a try block around the main loop, and if we catch an
exception then just jump back to the start of the main loop.  What's the
corresponding thing in C?

Thanks!

[from mozilla 1.7b sources]

// See bug 53763.
nsCOMPtr<nsIViewManager> kungFuDeathGrip;
nsIPresShell *shell = doc->GetShellAt(0);
if (shell) {
  kungFuDeathGrip = shell->GetViewManager();

[the beginning, and most common codepath, of getpid() on my linux 2.6
amd64 box in a program using glibc 2.3's pthreads. thats fucking cool]

0x000000300049af30 <getpid+0>:  mov    %fs:0x94,%edx
0x000000300049af38 <getpid+8>:  cmp    $0x0,%edx
0x000000300049af3b <getpid+11>: mov    %edx,%eax
0x000000300049af3d <getpid+13>: jle    0x300049af41 <getpid+17>
0x000000300049af3f <getpid+15>: repz retq

(A lot of this OPM stuff seems to come straight from the twilight
zone. It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk
error or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista
must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like
“display quality too high”).

[http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]

Subject: Re: The right answer of -1^2 is?

> I don't think there's a real Right Way here other than reintroducing a 
> mechanism for explicitly signaling the grouping.  Maybe parentheses? ;)

Nah. Use whitespace, like Fortress. Then you can distinguish between

  x / y   *  z

and

  x  /  y * z

That'll *never* cause problems, right? :)

(To be fair, I like Fortress. However, it did have some, er, unique
design decisions.)

endergt:
> snoofle:
> > Every system (*nix, PC's, etc.) has a hex
> > editor  with a string-search capability - really not that hard if
> > you understand what you are doing...
>
> Out of curiosity - what is the hex editor on a default Windows installation? 

debug 

C# is for people who want to have one arm strapped behind their back because it reduces the probability of making a mistake by 50%.

Java is for people who prefer to have the arm chopped off.

Steve Loughran: "The EU interop laws often come up in discussion, and they
are interesting. They say that you are allowed to do reverse engineering
for hardware interop. Not software: hardware."

Not sure what you're talking about, but Council Directive 91/250/EEC seems
pretty clear to me (or as clear as legal texts can be to me...):  "Article
6 Decompilation

1. The authorization of the rightholder shall not be required where
reproduction of the code and translation of its form within the meaning
of Article 4 (a) and (b) are indispensable to obtain the information
necessary to achieve the interoperability of an independently created
computer program with other programs, provided that the following
conditions are met: [...]"

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/

Why Linux Sux ?

Easy .
Security : most hackable operating systems are unix based .
Portability : try installing unix on cutting edge hardware . bad luck it won`t work . install windows (the oldest) on any ... it will .
Help : try get help for linux . after exploring tons of sites and forums the help you got is useless . for windows you just call them .
Applications : we all know there are more and more on windows . linux will probably never get so many .
GUI : we know how customisable is the windows gui . and how stable .
Gaming : ...anyone got an ideea of a linux game that is really cool ?
Cost : install linux as server ... it is free no ? but you have to pay a sysadmin . or learn a lot . buy a lot of books . using windows ... just click next . if you are not dumb you might make it secure too (reading help does HELP! ) .
Virus : due to the fact that windows is so flexible it is logcal to have viruses . afterall the human body has more than a monkeys one .
Stability : reboot windows 100 times by using the case button . perhaps a scandisk will appear . reboot linux ... ups kernel panic .

You don`t have money for OS ? Work ! Oh you hate miscrosoft and bill gates
no ? Sure thing ... stupid and lazy people generally hate smart and hard
working ones . Screw linux users .

19:26:03 <schmorp> did you know the us is officially metric? for over 100 years, too?
19:26:27 -cfbot:#cf- [moerderer] it is also officially a democracy, go figure
19:26:34 <schmorp> good point :)

> The Dell 30"...

It is big, but some of the reviews have not been so glowing, or rather,
the glowing has been highly asymmetric.

Re: USA- an underdeveloped country with potentials      

> > u don´t use your wealth with responsibility, you only think about yourself and shrug your shoulders with comments like, "we all have the same chance", I´m a selfmade man", "everyone has to take care of themselves".
> 
> yeah, that's why your little brothers decided to save the world - including your grandparents' sorry asses - from hitler, because we think only of ourselves!
> 
> your welcome, pinhead!
        
Even though I´m tired of hearing "we saved your a *beep* during ww2 I will respond.

1. Did you? Or did your great grandfathers? Maybe they were better?
2. You came into the war very late, and that was strictly for buisness reasons. You need countries to trade with. The true hero in WW2 was actually Russia doing alot more then US ever did, not saying that I support Russia today.
3. One good thing in the past doesn´t make up for bad things in your society today.
4. With those retorics you will never learn anything from your own mistakes since you always can go back and talk about your effort 100 years ago. 

[discussion about some changes in windows longhorn]
Let's hope that some day Microsoft will catch up to what the
public-domain tz code was doing back in 1986.  (Good work, Arthur!)

ntfs ist dennoch für datei und ordnersicherheit zuständig.

Zum Beispiel unter Linux wenn man auf fat32 festplatten zugreifen will ist
es kein problem, wenn man aber die festplatte auf ntfs convertiert hat,
dann funktioniert dass nicht mehr der zugriff auf die festplatte.

Denn das ist die sicherheit vor zugriffen auf daten von anderen usern und
anderen betriebssystemen.

Habe fat32 festplatte gehabt(zugriff von linux möglich) dann habe ich es
auf ntfs umconvertiert und dann ging es nicht mehr.

habe nochmal in meinen unterlagen nachgeschlagen, haben erst ca. vor 3
Wochen die Unterlagen vom Lehrer bekommen und ich sag nochmal, zittiere
Lehrer: Fat32 sollte man heutzutage nicht mehr verwenden außer man hat
Windows 98 und man möchte Dualbootkonfiguration erzielen. NTFS ist
einfach für bessere Sicherheit zuständig.

Frage?
Hast du Windows und Linux beides auf deinem Laptop oder Standpc?
Wenn ja hattest du vorher eine fat32 festplatte?
Hast du sie dann auf ntfs umconvertiert?

Freundlichen Grüße von Vista-Ultimate-Besitzer

Something About Me, Part 2

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