What an amazing year for the Web.
"Impressed with his technical abilities, Snowden’s managers decided that he was the most qualified candidate to build a new web front-end for one of its projects" -- forbes.com
Subject: Is Ext2 stable enough for normal use?
+FBI SA Nicol told me that, during execution of the warrant, I should look for a Mac computer, because the network connection logs provided by Jeffrey Savoy showed a Mac address, indicating some type of Mac/Apple computer or hardware was used.
+Dynace includes an extensive class library.
+That's a video card, Blake.
+I stole a fair amount of code from W, surrounded it with an asynchronous rather than a synchronous interface, and called it X. -- Bob Scheifer
+Emacs Needs To Move To GitHub, Says ESR
+If you move your mouse pointer continuously while the data is being returned to Microsoft Excel, the query may not fail. Do not stop moving the mouse until all the data has been returned to Microsoft Excel. -- Microsoft Support Article ID: 168702
+Nobody knows what "most" C++ programmers do. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
+(iv) Make changes to the UNIX system only after much deliberation, and only when major gains can be made. Avoid changing the UNIX system's interfaces, and isolate any such changes as much as possible. Stay close to the Research UNIX system, in order to take advantage of continuing improvements.
+9front at least has DVCS but they have one good programmer and 50 idiots who prefer to fill up the fortune file rather than fix a bug–oh, and they switched from the publically-archived Google Groups mailing list to a self-hosted non-archived mailing list, so nobody really knows what’s actually going on there.
+I do not want you to check my systems. -- Lt. Cmd. Data
+006: SECURITY FIX: Jan 10, 2014 All architectures A BDF font file containing a longer than expected string could overflow a buffer on the stack in the X server.
+Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.
+To enter the computers, he exploited weaknesses such as a program called GNU Emacs that allowed mail users system administrator privileges under certain conditions.
+Sometimes people base their whole lives on a sincerely held belief that could be wrong. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
+2. if sufficient standards do not exist, DoD will develop its own standards until national or international standards become available.
+The BCPL to B transition also include changes made to suit Thompson's preferences (mostly along the lines of reducing the number of non-whitespace characters in a typical program).
+WIRED: Opinion: 10 years later, the infamous "Hacker Way" still rules at Facebook
+No. -- Brad Fitzpatrick
+ The University of California, Berkeley, has been authorised by Alcatel-Lucent to release all Plan 9 software previously governed by the Lucent Public License, Version 1.02 under the GNU General Public License, Version 2.
+// run runs the command named by cmd.
+building a small rpi cluster is really easy (i have one with 8-nodes) -- Skip Tavakkolian
+https://github.com/jfloren/plan9/commit/445b546003d071f3cf3cd6a0133b92397e5c9024
+Evidenced by last few years of bug reports, nobody knows what 5g, 8g, and 6g are these days, so I deleted the "which compiler?" part of our bug report template. -- Brad Fitzpatrick
+(#cat-v) qrstuv → my patch to disable posting in lucio's mail client was put in the maybe directory
+I have "reduced"(hah) my vim config to about 50 plugins, so it takes ~25 megabytes of ram
+Internet Explorer 7 was audited by Microsoft to ensure that it contained no Mosaic code, and thus no longer credits Spyglass or Mosaic.
+I'm having a little... difficulty... understanding why you won't share your research. -- Captain Jonathan Archer
+/* wrong? */
+Fuck them dead, the whipsawing comsec windfall bandits. -- John Young
+Tessel is a microcontroller that runs JavaScript.
+There is no read or write. Instead, there are get and put operations. -- Clive's ZX file systems and name spaces, by Francisco J. Ballesteros
+It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? -- Ronald Reagan
+No. -- Aram
+We're seeing some really excellent proposals. -- Anthony Sorace
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+We're busy porting Java to QNX, but we're looking for alternatives as well.
+I notice that mothra doesn't react well to certain web pages -- Scott Schwartz, Mon, 15 Apr 1996
+The Usenet of 1990 is gone and is not coming back.
+It should be noted that many object-oriented systems exhibit very poor locality of reference. -- comp.os.research FAQ
+Conventional wisdom has it that preprocessing time is a negligible part of building a C++ binary.
+Has the Internet been overhyped?
+Subject: cat-v, distribute & monetize your software
+I’m no compiler architecture expert, but accompiler that loads Internet Explorer seems peculiar.
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