:) boreale$ cvs update -q
cvs [update aborted]: -q or -Q must be specified before “update”
Translated: “I know what you’re trying to do, but it’s not the way
I want it, so I’m going to make you retype the command.” Not only that,
it doesn’t even give you something to cut and [...]
Raymond Chen’s blog, The
Old New Thing, spends an awful lot of time examining the quirks of
the Windows API and some of the design decisions that went into some
of the odd and obvious things Windows does. I’m not a Windows person at
all — I have it installed for Counter-Strike and that’s about it — and
I’ve found [...]
Someone on IRC linked to this graphic footage of Roy Horn being
mauled by the tiger who hospitalized him:
Warning, graphic footage!
Our bathroom is getting fishier and fishier. For ages I’ve had a mounted
poster of tropical fish on the wall in there, and this weekend Candice
and I bought
a fish showercurtain, and made a little fishbowl out of a bowl vase and some
dried and plastic fishythings:
We’ve been trying really hard to get some tropical-fish-colour towels
for in there, [...]
This letter from the CEO of ICANN to the General Manager of
Verisign insists that the latter deactivate their SiteFinder service
by 6 PM PDT (GMT-0700) on October 4th. I’m pleased to see that they’ve
decided to take positive action on this instead of just hoping, because
it seemed pretty clear that Verisign wasn’t going to voluntarily shut
it down.
(For [...]
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