Ever wondered why the asterisk is the wildcard character for zero or more characters?

Hint: It is the answer to everything. You just have to know how to asc the question ( Read more... )

I finally decided to take the plunge and get a Flickr pro account for myself. Clicked through their upgrade procedure till the point where it says "Ok! I am ready to pay". Clicking on that took me to the familiar Yahoo "password verification" page. Entered my password and submitted... only to be redirected back to the same page ( Read more... )

this is an (almost) anonymous version of a recent reply I wrote to P's mail that was sent to K, R, U, M, and Me@all: please read this in its entirety, and do look up the references as you read ( Read more... )

It started off a bit slowly... The weather was pleasant, but it got humid as the day progressed and it rained (!) for some hours in the evening ( Read more... )

Route from H12 to VT ( Read more... )

Here is something that Jeff Bonwick, the creator of Sun's ZFS wrote about 128-bit file systems.
Populating 128-bit file systems would exceed the quantum limits of earth-based storage. You couldn't fill a 128-bit storage pool without boiling the oceans.

Read an explanation on his blog.

Narrator: In A.D. 2006, Web was beginning.

Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the journal.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main browser turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you users !!
CATS: All your base are ( Read more... )

This is a test post from a fresh browser that has showed up on the horizon. So what is new about it? Why another browser when we have our beloved Firefox ( Read more... )

WARNING: DokuWiki’s ACL feature has now been included for some time and should be pretty stable. However, if you are concerned about the leakage of certain data you should never put it on a computer accessible from the internet...

--http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:acl