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legacy systems

the Talmud and the gopher protocol

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foo

Bad advice, running around loose. In utterly unrelated news: This week I shared an office with someone who sounds to me as if she’s from some unfamiliar part of Australia but is in fact from Derby. Learn something every day.

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domequest

My fullerene page was the first webpage I made, in 1998. The C programs whose output is shown there – to enumerate pentagon-hexagon topologies, and to estimate their 3D shapes – were lost years ago; I wanted to improve and … Continue reading

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the littlest penguin

to boldly go where no penguin has gone before (link from Monty Solomon)

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GPL goes to court

netfilter project was granted a preliminary injunction against Sitecom GmbH “To my knowledge, this is the first case in which a judicial decision has been decreed on the applicability and the validity of the GNU GPL”, says Dr. Till Jaeger, … Continue reading

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hint: parallelism

Topix.net Weblog: The Secret Source of Google’s Power

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partial success

I thought I had succeeded in setting up a dual-boot machine, but — Booting ‘Windows XP’ rootnoverify(hd0,4) chainloader +1 and it stops there. Hanh? Oh well, better that than the other way around (Windows but no Linux). Much later: Lei … Continue reading

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