Martin Pool's blog

Old school flava

% stty olcuc

(Try it! You'll like it.)

(The option exists to support ancient terminals (teletypes, etc) that do not support lowercase letters. It rocks that Linux still supports this.)

Antipattern

You can do this in a number of ways. IBM chose to do all of them. Why do you find that funny? — D. Taylor, Computer Science 350

(fwd) Best Bug Ever

Garrett points out http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1640

lp0 on fire

Origin of the message "lp0 on fire"

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