May 2012
5 posts
“My name is Susan. I am calling you from the world wide web regarding computer.”
– Probably the worst virus scanning scam call I’ve ever had.
April 2012
2 posts
“So ARM is not a tightly-knit family; it is more like an extended group of...”
– LWN
March 2012
2 posts
Poronkusema →
An old Sami unit of distance, defined as the distance a reindeer can run before it needs to urinate. One poronkusema is approximately 7.5km.
(many thanks to jku)
whoawsome!
patrick: robsta: invent your own word - seems to be pretty popular with native English speakers, too.
robsta: whoawsome
robsta: see, easy
February 2012
10 posts
“Note that this means that above 16,777,216 a float has less precision than an...”
– http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/tricks-with-the-floating-point-format/
“Craig David works for the UN? I presume it’s not his full time job, on...”
– Paraphrased chat I just had with Vicky
“I don’t like his face, it’s precocious.”
– Vicky
“Another thing about Twitter I hate: the fucking ats everywhere. I can’t...”
– Vicky, venting.
“A lot of the display panel action happend during the era known as The First...”
– Robert Staudinger
“I could sell shit to an Arab.”
– Not quite the expression you were looking for mate.
“A couple of weeks ago, this page appeared on the elinux.org wiki. It’s...”
– Shit like this makes me furious (via mjg59)
January 2012
10 posts
“The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, which has around 60,000 members...”
– 31st January is the deadline for paying tax, in case you didn’t know. Now that is well planned strike action.
“Every time I’m asking for advice you’re making it harder, ebassi”
– Such is the problem with asking the Master of GLib Knowledge a question (via robsta).
“> I’m also dissatisfied with the name of the distro.
> Linux is the...”
– Ciaran McCreesh, gentoo-dev list.
“Some have questioned the song’s implied necessity to row one’s boat...”
– Wikipedia on Row Row Row Your Boat.
“There are two major modes to the game, a textual spell-casting game, and a more...”
– Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010, Ars Technica.
“At the [cyclocross event manager] training there were a number of questions like...”
– Cyclocross racers need to, as they say, grow a pair.
“Why do you want to use pkg-config more? In my ideal world it doesn’t...”
– FACEPALM.
December 2011
4 posts
“… and two, this is an arts course. One does not work, one faffs.”
– Vicky on her CoG course.
November 2011
8 posts
“The price is right, but MeeGo = No Go! This OS will probably die out within a...”
– Some guy on engadget
“WinKexec is named after Linux’s kexec feature, where the kernel boots a...”
– WinKexec
“Unfortunately, Nokia was heavily invested in the Symbian alliance by the time...”
– Erm, what?
October 2011
7 posts
“Certainly, thinking about some of the things that Mr Littlejohn writes in my...”
– Paul Dacre
1985 Argos catalogue, scanned →
NHS will not fund some operations, patients told →
“It’s become kind of a cliché for me to claim that the reason I’m...”
– Someone give mjg59 a proper paying column, please.
“The hypocrisy is obvious, and it’s not just the Daily Mail, which rather...”
– Rihanna and our mock concern for women’s dignity
September 2011
16 posts
“I dreamed of ACPI last night. I hope you realise that this shit is actually...”
– mjg59
