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  1. Last Post! on Yamaha To Withdraw From CD-R/RW Business · · Score: 0

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  2. Last Post! on Open Content Music Database Launched · · Score: 0

    A sense of desolation and uncertainty, of futility, of the baselessness
    of aspirations, of the vanity of endeavor, and a thirst for a life giving
    water which seems suddenly to have failed, are the signs in conciousness
    of this necessary reorganization of our lives.

    It is difficult to believe that this state of mind can be produced by the
    recognition of such facts as that unsupported stones always fall to the
    ground.
    -- J.W.N. Sullivan

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  3. Last Post! on Command and Conquer Generals Released · · Score: 0

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  4. Last Post! on Red Hat Advanced Server Gets DoD COE Certification · · Score: 0

    Mr. Jones related an incident from "some time back" when IBM Canada
    Ltd. of Markham, Ont., ordered some parts from a new supplier in Japan. The
    company noted in its order that acceptable quality allowed for 1.5 per cent
    defects (a fairly high standard in North America at the time).
    The Japanese sent the order, with a few parts packaged separately in
    plastic. The accompanying letter said: "We don't know why you want 1.5 per
    cent defective parts, but for your convenience, we've packed them separately."
    -- Excerpted from an article in The (Toronto) Globe and Mail

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  5. Last Post! on London to Introduce Traffic Congestion Charge · · Score: 0

    "Cheshire-Puss," she began, "would you tell me, please, which way I
    ought to go from here?"
    "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
    "I don't care much where--" said Alice.
    "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

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  6. Last Post! on Clamshell Sharp Zaurus Reviewed · · Score: 0

    You are never given a wish without also being given the
    power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
    -- R. Bach, "Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for
    the Advanced Soul"

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  7. Last Post! on Israeli Firm Claims Unbreakable Encryption · · Score: 0

    Three great scientific theories of the structure of the universe are the
    molecular, the corpuscular and the atomic. A fourth affirms, with
    Haeckel, the condensation or precipitation of matter from ether -- whose
    existence is proved by the condensation or precipitation ... A fifth
    theory is held by idiots, but it is doubtful if they know any more about
    the matter than the others.
    -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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  8. Last Post! on Forget Moore's Law? · · Score: 0

    "I said I hope it is a good party," said Galder, loudly.
    "AT THE MOMENT IT IS," said Death levelly. "I THINK IT MIGHT GO
    DOWNHILL VERY QUICKLY AT MIDNIGHT."
    "Why?"
    "THAT'S WHEN THEY THINK I'LL BE TAKING MY MASK OFF."
    -- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic"

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  9. Last Post! on Broadband over Powerlines · · Score: 0

    (1) Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood.
    (2) If your stomach antagonizes you, pacify it with cool thoughts.
    (3) Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.
    (4) Go very lightly on the vices, such as carrying on in society, as
    the social ramble ain't restful.
    (5) Avoid running at all times.
    (6) Don't look back, something might be gaining on you.
    -- S. Paige, c. 1951

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  10. Last Post! on NES PC · · Score: 0

    Fortune suggests uses for YOUR favorite UNIX commands!

    Try:
    [Where is Jimmy Hoffa? (C shell)
    ^How did the^sex change operation go? (C shell)
    "How would you rate BSD vs. System V?
    %blow (C shell)
    'thou shalt not mow thy grass at 8am' (C shell)
    got a light? (C shell)
    !!:Say, what do you think of margarine? (C shell)
    PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense (Bourne shell)
    make love
    make "the perfect dry martini"
    man -kisses dog (anything up to 4.3BSD)
    i=Hoffa ; >$i; $i; rm $i; rm $i (Bourne shell)

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  11. Last Post! on Oscar Nominations (LotR, Spirited Away, and more) · · Score: 0

    After this was written there appeared a remarkable posthumous memoir that
    throws some doubt on Millikan's leading role in these experiments. Harvey
    Fletcher (1884-1981), who was a graduate student at the University of Chicago,
    at Millikan's suggestion worked on the measurement of electronic charge for
    his doctoral thesis, and co-authored some of the early papers on this subject
    with Millikan. Fletcher left a manuscript with a friend with instructions
    that it be published after his death; the manuscript was published in
    Physics Today, June 1982, page 43. In it, Fletcher claims that he was the
    first to do the experiment with oil drops, was the first to measure charges on
    single droplets, and may have been the first to suggest the use of oil.
    According to Fletcher, he had expected to be co-authored with Millikan on
    the crucial first article announcing the measurement of the electronic
    charge, but was talked out of this by Millikan.
    -- Steven Weinberg, "The Discovery of Subatomic Particles"

    Robert Millikan is generally credited with making the first really
    precise measurement of the charge on an electron and was awarded the
    Nobel Prize in 1923.

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  12. Last Post! on Samba-TNG Team Releases 0.3 · · Score: 0

    An interpretation _I satisfies a sentence in the table language if and only if
    each entry in the table designates the value of the function designated by the
    function constant in the upper-left corner applied to the objects designated
    by the corresponding row and column labels.
    -- Genesereth & Nilsson, "Logical foundations of Artificial
    Intelligence"

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  13. Last Post! on Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality · · Score: 0

    A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such
    a speed, if feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the
    sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will
    know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.
    -- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul

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  14. Last Post! on Terahertz Imagery Progresses · · Score: 0

    Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name correctly
    (Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into (Nick-les Worth). Which
    is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value.

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  15. Last Post! on Spector, Garriott on Games · · Score: 0

    One of the things that hamper Linux's climb to world domination is the
    shortage of bad Computer Role Playing Games, or CRaPGs. No operating system
    can be considered respectable without one.
    -- Brian O'Donnell, odonnllb@tcd.ie

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  16. Last Post! on AMD Releases Barton: Athlon 3000+ · · Score: 0

    Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more
    "user-friendly". ... Their best approach, so far, has been to take all
    the old brochures, and stamp the words, "user-friendly" on the cover.
    -- Bill Gates, Microsoft, Inc.
    [Pot. Kettle. Black.]

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  17. Last Post! on Shared Source vs. Open Source · · Score: 0

    NOTE: No warranties, either express or implied, are hereby given. All
    software is supplied as is, without guarantee. The user assumes all
    responsibility for damages resulting from the use of these features,
    including, but not limited to, frustration, disgust, system abends, disk
    head-crashes, general malfeasance, floods, fires, shark attack, nerve
    gas, locust infestation, cyclones, hurricanes, tsunamis, local
    electromagnetic disruptions, hydraulic brake system failure, invasion,
    hashing collisions, normal wear and tear of friction surfaces, comic
    radiation, inadvertent destruction of sensitive electronic components,
    windstorms, the Riders of Nazgul, infuriated chickens, malfunctioning
    mechanical or electrical sexual devices, premature activation of the
    distant early warning system, peasant uprisings, halitosis, artillery
    bombardment, explosions, cave-ins, and/or frogs falling from the sky.

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  18. Last Post! on SBC Considering Buying DirecTV · · Score: 0

    The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four
    forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and
    bloody-mindedness.
    -- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic"

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  19. Last Post! on Trail of Tears: MySQL, ODBC, & OpenOffice 1.0 · · Score: 0

    (6) Men employees will be given time off each week for courting
    purposes, or two evenings a week if they go regularly to church.
    (7) After an employee has spent his thirteen hours of labor in the
    office, he should spend the remaining time reading the Bible
    and other good books.
    (8) Every employee should lay aside from each pay packet a goodly
    sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years,
    so that he will not become a burden on society or his betters.
    (9) Any employee who smokes Spanish cigars, uses alcoholic drink
    in any form, frequents pool tables and public halls, or gets
    shaved in a barber's shop, will give me good reason to suspect
    his worth, intentions, integrity and honesty.
    (10) The employee who has performed his labours faithfully and
    without a fault for five years, will be given an increase of
    five cents per day in his pay, providing profits from the
    business permit it.
    -- "Office Worker's Guide", New England Carriage Works, 1872

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  20. Last Post! on Sun Releases New Servers, Blades & More · · Score: 0

    A priest asked: What is Fate, Master?
    And the Master answered:
    It is that which gives a beast of burden its reason for existence.
    It is that which men in former times had to bear upon their backs.
    It is that which has caused nations to build byways from City
    to City upon which carts and coaches pass, and alongside which inns
    have come to be built to stave off Hunger, Thirst and Weariness.
    And that is Fate? said the priest.
    Fate... I thought you said Freight, responded the Master.
    That's all right, said the priest. I wanted to know
    what Freight was too.
    -- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"

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  21. Last Post! on Castle Denies GPL Breach · · Score: 0

    Fellow programmer, greetings! You are reading a letter which will bring
    you luck and good fortune. Just mail (or UUCP) ten copies of this letter
    to ten of your friends. Before you make the copies, send a chip or
    other bit of hardware, and 100 lines of 'C' code to the first person on the
    list given at the bottom of this letter. Then delete their name and add
    yours to the bottom of the list.

    Don't break the chain! Make the copy within 48 hours. Gerald R. of San
    Diego failed to send out his ten copies and woke the next morning to find
    his job description changed to "COBOL programmer." Fred A. of New York sent
    out his ten copies and within a month had enough hardware and software to
    build a Cray dedicated to playing Zork. Martha H. of Chicago laughed at
    this letter and broke the chain. Shortly thereafter, a fire broke out in
    her terminal and she now spends her days writing documentation for IBM PC's.

    Don't break the chain! Send out your ten copies today!
    For example, if \thinmskip = 3mu, this makes \thickmskip = 6mu. But if
    you also want to use \skip12 for horizontal glue, whether in math mode or
    not, the amount of skipping will be in points (e.g., 6pt). The rule is
    that glue in math mode varies with the size only when it is an \mskip;
    when moving between an mskip and ordinary skip, the conversion factor
    1mu=1pt is always used. The meaning of '\mskip\skip12' and
    '\baselineskip=\the\thickmskip' should be clear.
    -- Donald Knuth, TeX 82 -- Comparison with TeX80

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  22. Last Post! on MS Faces Hard Sell in EU Antitrust Case · · Score: 0

    If just one piece of mail gets lost, well, they'll just think they forgot
    to send it. But if *two* pieces of mail get lost, hell, they'll just think
    the other guy hasn't gotten around to answering his mail. And if *fifty*
    pieces of mail get lost, can you imagine it, if *fifty* pieces of mail get
    lost, why they'll think someone *else* is broken! And if 1Gb of mail gets
    lost, they'll just *know* that Arpa [ucbarpa.berkeley.edu] is down and
    think it's a conspiracy to keep them from their God given right to receive
    Net Mail ...
    -- Casey Leedom

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  23. Last Post! on US Immigration Implements Biometric-based Border · · Score: 0

    It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to
    mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
    -- H.L. Mencken

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  24. Last Post! on Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama going Hollywood? · · Score: 0

    There is a building with four floors. On the first floor, there
    is a convention of architects. On the second floor, there is a
    vinyl manufacturing plant. On the third floor there is a fast food
    stand, and on the fourth floor there is a library.

    Q: What would happen if a librarian traveled down in a small
    elevator with one other person from each floor?
    A: The elevator would be full.

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  25. Last Post! on The Search for Secret Shuttle Parts · · Score: 0

    Well, since MS cant be sure of the username of someone downloading
    things, they are going to play it safe and have everything dowloaded
    and executed by Explorer as suid root. That way, it will run on ANY
    system anywhere. :)
    -- George Bonser

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