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Going...going...gone? (Aug 10 2003 23:24 GMT) - Uri Avnery's latest column predicts that Abu Mazen will fall by mid-autumn unless the Americans step in now to save him by turning the screws on Sharon to get serious about concessions. Don't hold your breath waiting for said screw-turning.... |
Obsolete Computer Museum Helpline
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Helpline Comment (22951) (Aug 10 2003 23:23 GMT) - My friend had this computer with monitor problems. She switched the power switch on the back from 115 to 230. Now when she reboots the pc all she hears is the fan blowing & nothing else. I asked her did she flip the switch & she said yes. She had no idea what it was for but thought it might help. |
A Work In Progress
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Interesting (Aug 10 2003 23:22 GMT) - I mentioned Joe's anniversary in a post yesterday. Because he's running MovableType (and I suppose it would have worked with Radio, too), my entry created a trackback ping to his, which was then displayed on his site. Today, he wrote a note of thanks, referencing the page on his own site that listed the various people that had linked to him yesterday. Which then generated a trackback to my entry (the one that had trackbacked his). Confused? |
A Work In Progress
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Interesting (Aug 10 2003 23:22 GMT) - Confused? My head is swimming. Either there's some strange extra linkage going on, or Joe manually requested that my entry yesterday be pinged, along with any others that had linked to him. |
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Linux: Flavour vs. Flavor (Aug 10 2003 23:20 GMT) - Jasper Spaans recently submitted a patch to the lkml that "changes all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' in the complete [2.6 development kernel] tree". This quickly led into a lengthy and frequently humorous discussion about the which spelling is better, and if it even matters. Linux creator Linus Torvalds aknowledged that there are times when such consistency is beneficial, but that overall it was of little importance to him. Regarding the emails that were threatening to quickly grow into a full-fledged flame war, he noted, "I think you guys who care should have a huge free-for-all, an electronic mud-wrestling thing if you will. |
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