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What food causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?

Wedding Cake

(Paraphrasing rec.humor.funny)

You have got to be kidding me. The kernel is no longer exporting the table of system calls and yet apparently as Dave Jones points out some people can’t take the hint.

It might make sense if you’re absolutely clear that it’s just a (quick) hack, but I get the feeling the example was intended for actual use… scary.

(Spotted on Kernel Planet)

Haven’t yet decided whether I care enough to go watch the Revenge of the Sith in a theather. Having good memories from the original trilogy I had to watch the new episodes, but as the previous two didn’t sound too exciting I settled for watching them at home. But this one is said to be better and it’s also more closely linked to the familiar events so it’s more appealing. What to do, what to do…

I need to get a nice carrying case for my T40 for my trip to GUADEC. Since I move around with my bike a lot, I’d prefer a backpack to the more “traditional” models. There’s only one backpack model offered from our internal marketplace (vs. several normal laptop cases) — I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with Targus Campus Notebook Backpac (TEB05)? Is it any good?

Hmm… gnome-blog homepage indicates the last release is 0.8

CVS indicates latest/next version is 0.8.5

…but ftp.g.o already has version 0.9

/me is confused. This is almost as confusing as trying to find the latest Planet tarball release.

You are our next Einstein. Wow! Keep of the great thinking. — Yup, that’s me alright 😉

Hmm… Keep of…?

I’m sure everyone has their favorite examples of simple mistakes that are easy to do when you’re not yet fluent with the given programming language. if (a = 42) is quite legendary (did you mean ‘=’ or ‘==’ ?) but there are so many ways you can code wrong…

Here you can probably recognize the basic idiom(s) one was intending to use but got confused during implementation. Fun part is that this is not necessarily crashing:


mystruct->member = xmalloc(somelen+1);
memset(mystruct, '', sizeof(strlen(somestr)+1));
strncpy(mystruct->member, somestr, somelen);


Again, the intent is quite clear, but there’s something fishy in the implementation:


if (str[g_utf8_strlen(str, -1)] == '/')
  str[g_utf8_strlen(str, -1)] = '';


Semantics, schmemantics…

Sourceforge is upgrading the services once again. This time around the most relevant change is that group directories (read: web pages) will be mounted read-only. As a result our current TWiki installation will be rendered useless… Not that it would matter much, most of the recent updates are only new spammers registering anyway.

crispin has been looking into setting up MediaWiki as a replacement. It feels a little bit of overkill, but on the other hand it’s probably sufficiently mature. Hopefully all it needs is little love and some template tweaking to make it look like Galeon site rather than Wikipedia 🙂