FreeBSD funnies such as "How many FreeBSD hackers does it take to change a lightbulb?" and "Where does data written to /dev/null go?":
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/funnies.html
...and then there recently was this new candidate:
Subject: Re: My freebsd dream
From: chris.trismegistus@gmail.com
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
I have a dream that one day this [OS] will rise up and live out the
true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all [code is] created equal." I have a dream that one day on the
red[mond] hills of [Washington] the [derived works] of former
[research projects] and the [derived works] of former [corporations]
will be able to [link] together [in] a table of [compatibility]. I
have a dream that one day even the [company of Microsoft], a desert
[company], sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will
be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream
that my four [computers] will one day [run] in a nation where they
will not be judged by the color of their [GUI] but by the content of
their [code base]. I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of [IP], whose [lawyer's] lips
are presently dripping with the words of interposition and
nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little
[freebsd boxes] and [linux boxes] will be able to [share code] with
little [windows boxes] and [solaris boxes] and [run] together as
[clients] and [servers]. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one
day every [interface] shall be [defined], every [bug] and [error]
shall be [documented], the [compiler warnings] will be made
[understandable], and the [stack pages] will be made [no-exec], and
the glory of the [Code] shall be revealed, and all [users] shall see
it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return
to the [buildworld]. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the
mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able
to transform the jangling discords of [operating systems] into a
beautiful [cluster] of [beowulf]. With this faith we will be able to
work together, to [code] together, to [debug] together, to [core dump]
together, to stand up for [standards] together, knowing that we will
be [compatible] one day.
19.12.2004, 11:21
Daemons and Pixies and Fairies, Oh My!
Sentient life forms as MIME-attachments: RFC 1437RFC including Dan Quayle as life-matter MIME-attachment (low-res, of course :-) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1437.txt15.12.2004, 18:33 |
Web Developer Extension for FirefoxQuite indispensable! http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/12.11.2004, 16:38 |
Refactoring until nothing is leftCode is refactored sufficiently once every feature == a single line of code.02.11.2004, 11:43 |
Brendan, never tired of providing Javascript supportFrom: Brendan EichTo: mozilla-jseng Subject: Re: does mozilla support javascript? Of course Mozilla supports JavaScript. Your report is pretty useless without a testcase, or the URL of a page that doesn't work as you expect. Perhaps the page expects some non-standard Internet Explorer feature exposed to JScript to be supported by other browsers. /be 20.08.2004, 12:00 |
Catching XP in just 20 Minutes
Snippets from the
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Designing the Star User InterfaceByte, 1982 - Xerox-Star by way of http://www.scratchdisk.com/Xerox-Star.jpg/"In the 1980s, the most important factors affecting how prevalent computer usage becomes will be reduced cost, increased functionality, improved availability and servicing, and, perhaps most important of all, progress in user-interface design. The first three alone are necessary, but not sufficient for widespread use. Reduced cost will allow people to buy computers, but improved user interfaces will allow people to use computers. In this article, we have presented some principles and techniques that we hope will lead to better user interfaces. User-interface design is still an art, not a science. Many times during the Star design we were amazed at the depth and subtlety of user-interface issues, even such supposedly straightforward issues as consistency and simplicity. Often there is no one “right” answer. Much of the time there is no scientific evidence to support one alternative over another, just intuition. Almost always there are trade-offs. Perhaps by the end of the decade, user-interface design will be a more rigorous process. We hope that we have contributed to that progress." 14.08.2004, 19:35 |
Rhino, Mono, IKVM. Or: JavaScript the hard wayhttp://chimpen.com/things/archives/001427.php#001427 from http://www.langreiter.com/space/2004-08-13-hardJs 13.08.2004, 20:41 |
>>> Re: SCO |
| > Judo |
| > Convergence on abstraction and on browser-based Console evaluation |
| > Today found out that inifinite uptimes are still an oxymoron |
| > New aspects of woven apps |
| > Original Contribution License (OCL) 1.0 |
| > Unified SPF: a grand unified theory of MARID |
| > BSD is designed. Linux is grown. |
| > 5 vor 12 bei 10 vor 10 |
| > Mocha vs Helma? |
| > Schattenwahrheit: Coup d'etat underway against the Cheney Circle? |
| > Abschluss Bilaterale II Schweiz-EU |
| > From Adam Smith to Open Source |
| > Linux - the desktop for the rest of them |
| > Big Bang |
| > Leaky Hop Objects |
| > Return Path Rewriting (RPR) - Mail Forwarding in the Spam Age |
| > Microsoft Discloses Huge Number Of Windows Vulnerabilties |
| > Steuerungsabgabe statt Steuern |
| > Anno 2003: deployZone |
| > The war against terror |
| > The war against terror (continued) |
| > The relativity of Apple's market share |
| > Are humans animals? |
| > Anno 1999: Der Oberhasler |
| > Anno 1998: crossnet |
| > Geschwindigkeit vs Umdrehungszahl |
| > Anno 1997: Xmedia |
| > "The meaning of life is to improve the quality of all life" |
| > Anno 1996: CZV |
| > How do I set a DEFAULT HTML-DOCUMENT? |
| > Global Screen Design Services |
