Category Archives: Humor

Really for the birds

Posted on 2009-09-11 by M. Eric Carr

Carrier pigeon upstages South African ISP. Film at 11. Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, System Administration | Leave a comment

Thatsa lotta beer!

Posted on 2009-08-10 by M. Eric Carr

The statute of limitations is up on this by now, I think… Back in the day, several ne’er-do-well CS students were enrolled in a certain CS150/151 class/lab, taught by a certain D. Ray with a certain M. Ghose as a … Continue reading →

Posted in Coding, Humor, Nostalgia | 1 Comment

Linus Has Spoken

Posted on 2009-08-06 by M. Eric Carr

I was reading a recent article (“Real Men program in C”) recently, and came across a link in the comments to Linus Torvalds’ opinion on the whole C-vs-C++ thing. Let’s just say he doesn’t mince words. (This is an excerpt, … Continue reading →

Posted in Coding, Humor | 1 Comment

Random Thought Of The Day

Posted on 2009-08-05 by M. Eric Carr

I wanna know: Why does Windows’ Task Manager list the size of the “System Idle Process” as nonzero? Also, why is it different, on different computers? My desktop apparently takes 16K of memory to do absolutely nothing, while my laptop … Continue reading →

Posted in Coding, Humor, System Administration | 1 Comment