How foul does "JFS Translator for the GNU Hurd" sound? :)

Lately Manuel Menal, hurdextras maintainer, had been putting a lot of effort to gather disparate Hurd projects scattered all over the web together. My ol' academic project is one of those that got checked into the repository last week, in addition to mboxfs, memfs, notice, pith, run, xmlfs ( Read more... )

So I got a ThinkPad yesterday. Nothing fancy, it is the entry-level, cheapest thing in the lineup, one that comes without an operating system. (At the shop I salivated a lot over the X41 Tablet, but that is, of course, waaay beyond what I can afford. Sigh ( Read more... )

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NerdTV interviews Andy Hertzfeld: "Bill (Atkinson) - who was the author of MacPaint - wasn't there. Don Knuth repeated his request to me and I thought, "Boy, that's Don Knuth asking me for a favor, I'd better do as much as I can to fulfill this. So as soon as I got home I called Bill and said, "You've got to have a copy of the MacPaint source lying ( Read more... )

RFC 2324 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0): There is coffee all over the world. Increasingly, in a world in which computing is ubiquitous, the computists want to make coffee. Coffee brewing is an art, but the distributed intelligence of the web-connected world transcends art. Thus, there is a strong, dark, rich requirement for ( Read more... )

From google-this-google-that department.


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Happy (belated) birthday to a very good old friend, who celebrated his twelfth birthday on August 16. No, I haven't ditched you, I will come back to you, promise! :) (For the curious, Wikipedia entry on Debian is quite good.)

There's a rumour in the town about a Debian Developer Conference this weekend. (Hmm, but there are only two Debian ( Read more... )

You and Your Research talk by Dr. Richard W. Hamming, via LTU.

Obligatory blockquote:
The people who do great work with less ability but who are committed to it, get more done than those who have great skill and dabble in it, who work during the day and go home and do other things and come back and work the next day. They don’t have the deep ( Read more... )

Vai. Mu. Ba, had he been watching the play Moonshine and Skytoffee, would have been a very happy man. For Kesavan Nair, Saramma, Ottakkannan Pokkar, Zainaba, and Mandan Muthapa came to life and talked (yes, in English) to a stunned audience at Ranga Shankara. (And my friend and ex-roomie Saju became "athu njammala!" Ettukaali Mammoonju. The ( Read more... )

Can anyone tell me why there are so many wiki engines?