Monthly Archives: August 2000

20 August 2000

20 August, 2000 – 9:07 am

GNOME: prostituting
ourselves to big-money for the chance of being a
media-recognized standard since 15th August, 2000

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12 August 2000

12 August, 2000 – 1:14 am

I was looking at the coins problem. I can see a solution
if you know the bad coin is heavier (or lighter — just
s/heavier/lighter). Here is a solution for that:

Split the coins into 3 groups of 4 coins.
Put two of the groups on the balance.
If they weigh the same, the third group contains the [...]

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8 August 2000

8 August, 2000 – 11:53 pm

On IRC:

<raph> UTF8 really is simple enough to do in
your
head
<raph> assuming your brain has SHL and SHR
instructions
<jwz> you need help, raph

The book I am tech reviewing must be almost finished.

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7 August 2000

7 August, 2000 – 10:25 pm

I released a new version of dia on sunday. Didn’t get
everyone’s patches in, but I thought it was important to get
another release out because of how long ago the previous
release was. Of course, after doing the release someone
finds an XIM bug, I notice that the SVG CR has been put out
(so the recommended [...]

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