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  1. OCR position, that was me! :-) by Stuart · · Score: 2 · on Open Source OCR Packages?

    Hi all,

    The department of Computer Science at Waikato University in New Zealand is offering the position. It's a great place to live, they pay well and you get to write GPL'd software. They even pay to fly you there!

    If you want more information write to Professor Ian Witten and ask about the GNU OCR job! It's a University so they're not after people with 10's of years experience, they're after hackers that can get stuff done :-)

  2. The X-File they tried to ban. by Michel · · Score: 1 · on Duchovny to Quit X-Files
    This isn't mine. It's just something I found more than a year ago. It's about Linux. It's fun. Laugh.

    [COMPUTING LAB - WEST VIRGINIA (No great loss coming up)]
    We see a Pimply Faced Youth working over a terminal. Suddenly he looks up at the screen, scrabbles frantically with the keyboard, then shields his face with his arms, screaming

    [LATER THAT DAY]

    Mulder: So what do you think?

    .....

    Okay, it's also long. Go see the original

  3. MELDEX by GeorgeH · · Score: 1 · on Resource for Identifying Catchy Commercial Tunes

    The Melody Index (MELDEX) from is designed to do just that. You sing a few bars and in theory it will come up with the song. I doubt that it will be too successful, as anyone who's ever had a friend who just had to sing that new techno song to you knows. Still, pretty interesting stuff. Pertinent links: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990419 /08/odd-melody http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/dlib /dlib/may97/meldex/05witten.html http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~nzdl/meldex

  4. No Subject Given by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Ask Slashdot: What Training is Necessary in Becoming a Sysadmin?


    If you desire to be a sysadmin, you should first
    read the entire Bastard Operator From Hell archive.
    Once you're done with that, read the entire NetworkWeek BOFH Periodical series.




    If you've done this and still think you want to be a sysadmin, run (very, very fast) to the local mental health agency and check yourself in for a long visit (I hear that Prozac and shock therapy work wonders.)