Monthly Archives: May 2007

An interesting and potentially useful hexadecimal number

The AACS LA doesn’t want you to have the number 45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2.  They can bite my computer’s shiny metal ass.  [h/t Boing Boing]

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od hac

Originally a spoonerism I inadvertently used in a business meeting.  Someone proposed a kludgy solution to a problem, and I meant to say that we should use a better, more general approach rather than an ad hoc fix. od hac … Continue reading

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Reverse defenestration

Around 1992, I started using the term “reverse defenestration.” I no longer remember whether I’d heard anyone else use that term previously. Example usage: “I reverse defenestrated that PC, and now it is faster and more reliable.” Such an upgrade … Continue reading

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McCain on net neutrality

At the D5 conference, Senator John McCain said that the government should not impose net neutrality regulations, but rather let the market solve the problem: Sen. McCain suggests that there should be as little government regulation of broadband as possible. … Continue reading

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Support our troops! Bring them home!

The Disgrace of Memorial Day, by Mark C. Chu-Carroll [h/t DoF]

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The suboptimal way to buy gasoline

The little red needle is pointing to “E”, and while that always stood for “Excellent” in my book, I think it means we’re out of gas! — Firesign Theatre: Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers I stopped at … Continue reading

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Finally, a new HP RPN calculator!

It appears that a retailer has spilled the beans on a soon-to-be-introduced HP 35s calculator. HP had said to expect a new model to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the introduction of the HP-35, the world’s first handheld scientific calculator. … Continue reading

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Make the Pie Higher

MAKE THE PIE HIGHER by George W. Bush I think we all agree, the past is over. This is still a dangerous world. It’s a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses. Rarely is the question asked Is … Continue reading

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Yellow wind-up car seen on Lawrence Expressway

A few weeks ago in Sunnyvale, I was stopped at a traffic light on Lawrence Expressway, and slightly ahead of me in the next lane to the right was a small yellow car. It had a giant wind-up key sticking … Continue reading

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lcdtest now uses SCons instead of make

A few people reported problems caused by the “.d” dependency files created by the dependency analysis hack in the Makefile, so I’ve updated lcdtest to use SCons instead of make.  I’ve also now made RPMs for Fedora Core 6 available … Continue reading

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