I just got an unsolicited phone call from someone claiming to be a representative from Paypal, calling to verify a recent transaction on my account to make sure I authorized it. The caller proceeded to ask me for the email address on my account before he could continue. When I balked at giving out any personally identifying information when I had ( Read more... )

Linux dump/restore don't complain about failing to recognize ext4 filesystems. Instead they happily read them in and write them back out. But what they read/write is garbage because they don't actually know how to deal with extent-based inodes ( Read more... )

Dear lazyweb,

Can any of you identify the author and title of this track?

No time to write about what's going on in general right now, but here are some pictures from my trip to the computer history museum last weekend, and a short video clip of the Babbage Difference Engine #2 in operation.

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Carrie made this for dinner about a month ago. MMmm, I can still TASTE the RECURSION!


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stick-figure jesus says "you all misunderstood. The raptor is coming."

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I, myself, have enjoyed many a hannukah ham. Mmm, sacrilicious.


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There was once a young piece of glass named Florence, but because she was only 750mL everyone called her Loliter.

14:34 s-exps on a frame