Archive for October, 2004

The Kill Everyone Project

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

I forgot about this site for a few years. Back then, they were still at 20-something percent of the world's population. Now, they're on to the third largest (and third last) country on the list – the US. After the US is India and China, but yeah, they've really made some progress over the past few years. Well, I decided to help out a bit again.
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The UNIX ABCs

Tuesday, October 19th, 2004

A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
D is for dd, the command that does all.
E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
G is for grep, a clever detective, while
H is for halt, which may seem defective.
I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
J is for join, which nobody uses.
K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
M is for more, from which less begot, and
N is for nice, which really is not.
O is for od, which prints out things nice, while
P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
Q is for quota, a Berkeley-like fable, and
R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.
S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
T is for true, which does very little.
U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
V is for vi, which is hard to abort.
W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while
X is, well…, X, of dubious fame.
Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
Z is for zcat, which handles compression.

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Sunday, October 17th, 2004

The ending to Snow Crash sucked. It was a wonderful book. The ending just sucked though. It just ended. Just like that. Now I know what everyone on /. was talking about when they said the ending sucked.

I dislike labs. part II

Saturday, October 16th, 2004

I've come up with a hypothesis as to why teachers teach you certain things but leave out other important skills.

Let us take my experience of high school science. The past two years, I had really good science teachers, Pheonix and Hybs. However, Grade 9 and 10 science is pretty much everything smashed together into one course. One is a physics teacher, the other is a bio teacher. What ends up happening is that they end up teaching their specialty really really in depth, while making the other(s) an extemely horrible impression on you because quite realistically, they shouldn't be teaching it. Such is what happened with Hybs and physics. Fortunately, Phoenix made physics make sense to me before, so I was safe.

Now I had never had a chem teacher before, so I had no idea as to what to do with all of this stuff lying around. While both Phoenix and Hybs were both proficient in teaching chem, they didn't really have the lab setup for chem like Anastasios does. The result was that I was bloody lost attempting to do the labs this past month.

So whatever shall we do? Get teachers who just teach Grades 9 and 10 and leave chem, bio, and physics to the guys who are really into it.

Cancel job should really mean cancel job.

Thursday, October 14th, 2004

I really wish my HP Laserjet had a cancel job button like my Canon i450 that I just resurrected from possible damnation a few hours before. It would really save me the hassle of having to print out something meant for the canon and have it come out as jumbled crap on the laserjet.