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last updated at 2003-06-24 23:12

<drue> will newsmonster 1.0 run on The One True Operating System? <burtonator> Emacs?

watch this again
posted by Ash at 2003-06-24 22:42

Ash: this one actually works

OH LOOK ITS A TALKEING ASS
posted by uke at 2003-06-24 22:32

Ash: DO NOT PLAY QUAEAK IT WILL TURN U INTO A KILALR

since everyone is lusting after hig performance hardware these days (dual G5's, power4's, etc)
posted by coderman at 2003-06-24 22:21

coderman: one day you will be able to buy this kind of power in a desktop system. one day a long time from now that is.

Space impact 'saved Christianity'
posted by coderman at 2003-06-24 21:56

<lemonodor> i just want to build a banach-tarski sphere
posted by coderman at 2003-06-24 21:46

coderman: i read this, and at one point I actually thought I understood it. then the letters started dancing and I had to hide in the bathroom until the flashback passed.

http://kensall.com/big-picture/bigpix22.html
posted by _joshua at 2003-06-24 20:55

_joshua: Why Johnny Can't Code

http://www.electricsheep.org/
posted by druework at 2003-06-24 20:50

http://www.levien.com/
posted by druework at 2003-06-24 20:49

companies increasingly use riddles and puzzles in interviews as a pointless measure of mental acumen with exceptional annoyance capacity.
posted by coderman at 2003-06-24 20:31

coderman: "In one discouraging study conducted by Harvard University psychologists, interviewers were found to make up their minds about a candidate within just two seconds of seeing the person. The revelation could mean that brain teasers -- or any other interview questions for that matter -- add little value to the selection process."

http://www.hoise.com/primeur/03/articles/monthly/UH-PR-04-03-5.html
posted by vab at 2003-06-24 19:03

firegod: IBM Power Arch Plans

Oh noe! the Mac G5 benchmarks were tweaked to mislead the sheeps!
posted by coderman at 2003-06-24 18:29

coderman: check the fan mail at the bottom, the best part.
coderman: man, they really fucked these benchmarks. using a special single threaded allocator for the G5, disabling hyperthreading on the intel systems, using unoptimized compilers for the intel, but highly optimized compilers for the mac tests, etc, etc.
Mutiny: Here's one for the people that believe an Apple can ever out perform a similarly priced x86 system.
coderman: this guys 'misleading' asserstions are misleading
coderman: .. the truth lies somewhere in the middle. i think this guy is pissed off, like me, because WE WANTED TO BELIEVE, REALLY, and then we find a bunch of cheap tweaks in the test methodology.

Twenty Days in Spring
posted by coderman at 2003-06-24 17:43

coderman: light, uplifting reading for a nice summer day ...

TROGDOR!!!
posted by Ash at 2003-06-24 17:31

coderman: wow, a big fucking grey box on a black background! WOO HOO! now that is entertainment.
coderman: <nek0> coderman: it isn't that big
Ash: install flash you weenie

How to Burn Xbox Games and Copy Protected CDs
posted by Ash at 2003-06-24 17:22

coderman: "You have to make sure that the drive is hot enough to burn it properly like Trogdor burninates the peasants."

Harvard research into alien abductees
posted by A_Young at 2003-06-24 15:19

A_Young: I've experienced the hypnopopic sleep paralysis of which they speak, and even without hallucinations or alien abductions it's pretty darn wierd
A_Young: although with reductionalist rationalist methods, apparently it's a walk in the park

Hopes medical breakthroughs a financial boon for Aust
posted by A_Young at 2003-06-24 15:08

A_Young: discovery channel report
A_Young: Bracks opens US biotech centre
A_Young: Premiers selling biotech
A_Young: invest in Australian biotech (give me a job)

Senator wedges foot in mouth, becomes unable to speak.
posted by rik at 2003-06-24 13:23

seti: still?

SCO vs. Linux decision matrix
posted by seti at 2003-06-24 12:50

seti: what happens when? almost all scenarios written out + consequences + list of sources.

Hold on to your hats, freenet is sucking harder than a thai whore on rent day.
posted by Mutiny at 2003-06-24 08:26

http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/pipermail/devl/2003-April/005008.html
posted by rvalles at 2003-06-24 08:25

blanu: Hehe, the "next generation" routing protocol. Whee!
blanu: A sensible way you might achieve this kind of thing would be to use Kademlia with request latency as the secondary criterion.

inappropriate ads, 24/7 ! God bless puny weak AI!
posted by malaclyps at 2003-06-24 06:09

LanRover: Liked malaclyps' comment? then you might also enjoy nutter butters and a gift certificate for swedish massage!

http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/airport.htm
posted by firegod at 2003-06-24 05:05

firegod: Urban legends Reference Pages: Travel (Stranded at the Airport for over 10 years)

Try Before You Sell: See What Ads Google Thinks Are Relevant to Your Site
posted by AaronSw at 2003-06-24 04:22

AaronSw: Since I put this up this morning, I already made $80.
AaronSw: I get 50 cents a click-through, apparently.
AaronSw: So go click on some ads and make me more rich. ;-)

http://www.phatnoise.com/vw/
posted by lemonodor at 2003-06-24 03:31

http://bittorrent.kicks-ass.net/mactorrents/index.php
posted by druework at 2003-06-24 03:19

"hrmmm... Houston ? I guess we've lost something !"
posted by rnc at 2003-06-24 02:53

    
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