Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

19sep2005

Satan Comes to Dinner in E, A solution to Dijkstra’s Dining Philosophers Problem which provides for deadlock avoidance and fairness.

Hush little baby, don’t you cry
Mama’s gonna buy you a .45
And if that .45 gets recalled
Mama’s gonna buy you an assault rifle
And if that rifle doesn’t fire
Mama’s gonna buy you a tightrope wire, to the sun
— Dan Bern, Tape

DSCN2043 by ZachIsHere

Yes, that dude is totally drumming on cheese, %-)

What is xampl anyway? Easy answer: “It is a framework generation tool.” (I almost pissed my pants when I read that line.)

Measuring Libre Software Using Debian 3.1 (Sarge) as A Case Study (PDF) by Juan-José Amor-Iglesias, Jesús M. González-Barahona, Gregorio Robles-Martínez, and Israel Herráiz-Tabernero. “Estimated cost to develop: 8,043,000,000 USD.” Wow.

When you conquer the world
There s nothing left to do
Cept defeat the reflection in the mirror
With a bottle and a tear and a flag unfurled
When you ve already conquered the world
— Dan Bern, When You Conquer The World

LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed-source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic.

Aaron Swartz: Powerpoint Remix, the PDF that’s in Joel’s book.

How Halle Berry really looks, i.e. without PhotoShop.

I lavishly predict that we’ll see 800 people at RubyConf ‘06. Watch it happen. — David Heinemeier Hansson

Hr waffle by spinme

Wir gratulieren! Der “Ästige Stachelbart” ist der Pilz des Jahres 2006! Toll.

Ronnie Brown: Allow Beautiful Minds to Thrive, at Wadler’s Blog: “The British Association for the Advancement of Science warns that the research assessment exercise does not recognise the importance of the public communication of science…”.