User: Nik

Re:It comes as no surprise

On: Farscape Frelling Cancelled

Well, I guess I don't get the distinction between "sci-fi" and "science fiction" any more than I would see a diff between Hi-fi and "high fidelity", thought I suppose one could be a "stereo" and the other is "good sound". (So, the shorter one can be "nouned"? Don't think that applies here!)

To those who are wondering why,
What we call 'SF' ain't 'sci-fi',
It's just, there's a fine line,
Between Robert Heinlein,
And 'Son of the two-headed fly'.

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A couple of my favourites

On: What's the Worst Acronym You've Ever Heard?

PCMCIA - People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms

PENCIL and PAPER - Plotter, Encoder, Notator, for Ciphers, Icons and Letters, for use with a Passive Accumulative Permanent/Erasable Raster.

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Re:Insulting title

On: FreeBSD XP^H^H 4.5 available now

http://www.earthstation1.com/pgs/wbcartoons/des-it s_a_jo.wav.html

Re:Questions on the book.

On: FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd Edition Available

there is essentially 1 book for FreeBSD.

There's the "Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey, the "FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide" by Ted Mittlestadt, and "FreeBSD: An Open Source Operating System for your PC" by Annelise Anderson at least. SAMS have a FreeBSD book coming out shortly, and O'Reilly have several FreeBSD books in the pipeline (including the "FreeBSD Network Administrator's Guide", which I'm co-authoring).

Do they comment on the kernel config file better?

You need to be more specific. What do you find missing from LINT?

I'd say a device driver book would be nice

Take a look at the FreeBSD Developer's Handbook, which has a very large section on device driver writing. And feel free to contribute.

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Re:The same Matt, as the one who wrote the dice??

On: Matt Dillon On FreeBSD 5.0 VM System And More

Yes