I read this article recently which mentions one explanation for "hauntings":
http://www.cracked.com/article_18828_the-creepy-scientific-explanation-behind-ghost-sightings.html
So, one thing to check for would be infrasound. If you find it and can identify the source, you may be able to put a stop to the "hauntings".
Peace in our time?
I read it more as "MySQL's handling of the GPL was wrong and maybe now things can return to normal" rather than "we must reform GPL over-reaching". I did not get the impression that he was trying to have his cake and eat it (which is what Monty appears to be trying to do.)
This was not a science fair project. It was something he was working on by himself at home and decided to bring to school to show other pupils.
If you want the "HI-RES TIFF" versions of the images, you'll need to add another "f" onto the ends of the URLs.
He was saying that in AIX it's all integrated and therefore easy and AIX admins tend to think of the way it's done in Linux as a step backwards, BUT with the Linux way of doing things it's much more flexible exactly because "every partition / [logical] volume can be partitioned again, and so on."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_(computer_programmer)
Sending him a "thank you" e-mail would be one way to pat him on the back.
As a followup, how long until we see a netmainframe?
You can have it now! Just run hercules on your netbook:
http://www.hercules-390.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_emulator
See also this LWN article: http://lwn.net/Articles/351053/
He shows how he straightened a picture he took and also mentions the SIFT algorithm which is disabled by default because of software patents. He says:
Your editor, being a daring sort of person, decided that he wanted to find out just what sort of functionality is being denied to hugin users by the oppressive US software patent regime. As it happens, Fedora users can get around patent-based repression by installing the autopano-sift-C package from the rpmfusion repository and tweaking the program preferences to use the real autopano tool. The difference is striking: with autopano-sift-C installed, the program proceeds immediately from image selection to a preview window; the whole "control points" and "optimization" process just sort of goes away. This package does a great job of finding control points, at least on your editor's sample image set.
Yes, because more people can copy him and up the sample size. If enough people do this ( also switching hands, say cracking their right hand and not their left, and also noting left or right handedness ) then you know the results are valid barring any association between liklihood of doing this and assymetric arthritis. Possibly there is a gene that causes both OCD and arthritis.
No, no, that's not double-blind! You have to have someone cracking (or not) your knuckles without you knowing it and also without them knowing whose knuckles are being cracked.
[...]and learn how to spell "lose" (rhymes with "news") correctly.
I agree on the spelling, but "lose" and "news" only rhyme if you're American.
There's a difference between shell globbing and regular expressions.
What's worse is they use BIND!
https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2009-September/004481.html
I've often found a bee on the ground looking like it's about to die and fed it sugar water. After drinking a bit of it it's amazing how they seem to recover.
Not necessarily. In South Africa we don't have yellow jackets and the bees do sometimes congregate around soft drink cans. People sometimes get stung in the mouth if they aren't careful and a bee decides to take a drink while they're not looking.
Always look over your shoulder because everyone is watching and plotting against you.
