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As a professor of me once said after a presentation : "Today we have heard a lot of new things and a lot of good things", which meant the new stuff wasn't good and the good stuff wasn't new. And in the summer when the rivers run dry france buys solar and wind energy from germany... There are a...

It was the tentacles, yes?

These signs in fields actually have a really nice story behind them. And, Alain De Vos ... <nitpick> if your dog smells better than you, maybe it's time for a bath? </nitpick> (sorry, that was too good a pun not to make)

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"You can't just kick them out of an airlock. You know how low we are on supplies! First strip them down, THEN kick them out of an airlock!" And one of my favorite 10 seconds is that oh-so-not-sorry speech.

Thanks. I feel old now. I had to carry 17" CRT around, use serial line to make a network to play Doom or an online text-mud. In that case, I recommend reading the book series around that. The Centauri trilogy has all the back story around Londo and Vir, but I prefer the Technomage Trilogy. They...

Maybe we should do away with countries at some point and just accept that we are one world? That would put a lot of grifters out of a job, that's why it will not happen. Which is sad.

That's the big trick the austrians played on us. They made the world believe that that painter was german while also claiming that Mozart was Austrian.

... still adding to and sorting the list. An awful lot of people, but I'm not sure who really belongs (like Friedrich 2, who was Prussian, thus not German. Or was he? Introduced the potatoe to the masses by banning it) Carl von Linde (Refrigerator, keeping medicines available all around the...

It is in ports, well - freshports.org says it is. I will have a look at that for my next desktop-makeover.

I had xearth as a background for some time. And after a long coding session, you suddenly see your capital city come up on the right and you watch the horizon getting lit. That's when you put the coffee away and start looking for your bed. Now if a new version of xearth could use sattelite feeds...

The interesting part for vnodes is at the middle, a bit to the right. There are still free vnode data structures left, so there is no impact on cache performance from the vnode number. That is limited by your free memory. And yes, inactive memory can be reclaimed at once.

As long as you stay above the number absolutely needed (plus delta ofc) it will limit the code cache. FreeBSD caches on a per-file base, that is what shows up as "inactive" memory. Try having top running and check if the user memory gets exhausted. If you still have enough free memory, lowering...

How much change would you need to escape the copyright? The license? Over how many lines of code was this sco case fought?

You could call it a lossy encryption then. My argument in court would be that in face of a lack of creativity the result would by definition be a more or less good copy of the input, thus not a derived work.

/me likes this idea.

They are. But there is small room for meta jokes, so jokes about jokes could sometimes be tolerated.

We are still missing your last payment for the service contract.

We found this spoon. (I wonder, how would a coop of Monty Python and Mel Brooks have worked out? Or is that the lethal joke that sketch is about?)

Oh they did that, big time, in the railcars carrying mail between BRD/DDR and back, so you could have letters which were opened twice in transit. And of course you can depend on telephones being listened to. I always joke that the internet rollout here is so slow because the spooks' budget is...