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Is an understatement. A giant circular tunnel, with several loops, stretches for 27km under the land between France and Switzerland. One of its experimental chambers is bigger than the nave of Westminster Abbey.
Hadron
The name for one of the types of particle that make up an atom. These tiny bits of energy will be propelled by giant magnets around the tunnel circuit at almost the speed of light.
Collide
Is what they will do when they meet other hadrons being beamed in the opposite direction, at the same great speed. The resulting explosion will create 100,000 times more heat than the sun, apparently. Thankfully, it will only happen for a moment, in an area a billion times smaller than a speck of dust.
No CommentsHello darkness, my old friend,
Ive come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
No CommentsMy name is Jens Jakobsen, and I am the current maintainer of ChilliSpot. I also wrote the original code, but many people have contributed with features and bug fixes. You can contact me by email at jj@chillispot.org.
Stefan Lengacher lemy@chillispot.org maintains the ChilliSpot forum at www.chillispot.info/chilliforum.
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1.0 Thanks
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The solution presented here is based on the patches by Julian Anastasov. Like several other users on the net struggling with this, I believe they fill in yet another gap for using Linux as a very advanced router. It was hard for me not only to get this running for the first time, but also to understand most of the principles. Also in this Julian has proofed to have unlimited patience. Thanks. He also agreed to expose this file on his site:
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No Commentsquoted from http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/linux-anecdotes.html
Linux Anecdotes
A look at the history of Linux, as seen by a long time Linux user. The talk is a series of anecdotes, shy of technical details, and sprinkled with personal memories.
27 April 1998
This talk was given at the 1998 Linux Expo.
Who I am and why I am here
I seem to have acquired a little bit of reputation in the Linux community, despite my efforts in to stay quiet and invisible, so that I don't get so many questions from people having trouble with Linux.
Part of my reputation is that I know Linux pretty well. That part is based on the time when I and Linus Torvalds—I assume you know Linus—shared an office at the University of Helsinki. In reality, I don't know Linux all that well. For example, my one stab at kernel programming resulted in a bug that took three years to track down and fix, and even then it was done by someone hacking OS/2. I'm referring to the sprintf function inside the kernel.
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No Commentsquoted from http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/vacation.html
"Boss, can I ask you something?"
"Sure."
"Everyone's always talking about vacations and free time and things like that. How come I never have any?"
"You wouldn't like it."
"But they think it's better than work. They really look forward to it."
"Remember last year, when the office was shut down for a week."
"When they replaced all windows? Sure I remember. I couldn't play with a computer for a week. Horrible."
"Vacations are like that."
"Oh."
"So you wouldn't like them."
"But everyone else does."
"Ah, but that's because they're lusers, not hackers."
"Oh."
"Now go back and write that compiler. We need it last week."
No Commentsquoted from http://liw.fi/programming-truths/
Originally written in 1995.
This page contains a number of important programming truths that every budding programmer should know about. These truths are self-evident, and need no explanations.
If it compiles, it works.
If it compiles, it’s correct.
If it runs, it doesn’t have any bugs.
If it doesn’t have any immediately obvious bugs, it’s perfect.
If a bug doesn’t show, it doesn’t exist.
If it seems to work, it works.
Doing something right is easy. Avoiding errors only takes a bit of concentration.
The shorter the source code, the faster the program.
It’s obvious how to optimize a program.
Prorammers don’t make mistakes.
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