Lustiges

That actually hurts: longest road networks (via Spiegel Online). The US (~6.4 Gm) has longest road network, the only European countries in the Top Ten (that's where you want to be, right?) are France and Spain. Germany is somewhere between place 11 and 20 (they don't say) with pitiful 0.23 Gm. But hey, we own countries like Tuvalu (8 km) or the Cocos Islands (22 km). Normalizing anyone? Tomorrow, the Top Ten of trees per country with shocking results.

Ehm? Jetzt nicht ernsthaft? So ein seltsames Keyboard (und mit Detailbild). Gibt es natürlich auch mit den anderen Dialekten. Ob die Ämter jetzt alle umrüsten?

Soso:




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There is something really crazy I just found out about the login to Unix machines. And I have no clue why this 'feature' still exists besides pure nostalgia! What am I talking about? Well, you might be able to try that for yourself. Ctrl-Alt-Fn-yourself away from the splendor X is and login to your machine. Twice. The second time type your username in all-caps and be surprised. Here is what happens for me:

Welcome to jane!
I am running Linux 2.6.17-jane-2 on a i686.
You are on tty1.
How may I assist you?

jane login: steffen
Password:
Last login: Fri Nov 30 00:31:33 +0100 2007 on tty1.
No mail.
[steffen@jane ~]$ 

Okay, not quite that unusual. But now logging out and retrying it in all-caps:

Welcome to jane!
I am running Linux 2.6.17-jane-2 on a i686.
You are on tty1.
How may I assist you?

jane login: STEFFEN
PASSWORD:
LAST LOGIN: FRI NOV 30 00:32:28 +0100 2007 ON TTY1.
NO MAIL.
[STEFFEN@JANE ~]$ 

A few minutes ago I was searching for possible translations of 'Wahnsinn' into english and what do I learn there? ILU stands for 'I love you' (probably chat or SMS lingo). Now, it does have a certain appeal that a search for 'madness' brings up 'I love you', but the real knack is that I actually have been thinking that ILU refers to the incomplete LU-decomposition. Should this concern me or does it simply rise my nerd score? Or both?

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