- article on en.wikipedia.org
- the armistice at the end of WW II has also taken place in Compiègne Forest
- today is still a bank holiday in Belgium
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we remember the end of WW I and its armistice in Compiègne Forest
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some old funny Python anti-Perl and Ruby anti-Python propaganda
Have you ever come across this
this piece of Python anti-Perl propaganda? The article that referred to it is actually Ruby propaganda and dated 2004-07, so that anti-Perl propaganda is even older than that. The Ruby now found a followup. Look and enjoy!By any chance: isn’t there any gifted artist around, that the Perl community can make use of in order to create some Perl-minded stuff?
Update / 2010-08-05:
In response to my re-share here more sweet perl vs. ruby vs. python propaganda got created by Mark Keating:
http://mdk.per.ly/2010/06/25/propaganda/ :
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debugging my .procmailrc
It’s usually not really big fun, if you find a message like this in your procmail log file: “procmail: Missing action“.
Well, I don’t yet know of a procmail syntax checker, which is rather a pity, so the debugging is of a dynamic kind.
Just add “VERBOSE=on” in the beginning of your .procmailrc, enjoy the flood of “procmail: No match on …,”, and find your “procmail: Missing action” occasionally in the middle of it. You found the corrupted rule then. The rule in question might actually be a very rarely used one resp. one pretty at the end of your .procmailrc, so it may take a while resp. a couple of incoming mails, until it gets used and shows up.
Once you found and corrected the offender, I am quite sure, you will remove “VERBOSE=on” very quickly.Update 2013-01-07:
This article attracted far too much SPAM, so I had to disable commenting.
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spoilt files from bittorrent
I recently saw “a friend” 😉 who complained, that he had downloaded huge movie files from a bittrorrent, and when he tried to watch them, it turned out, that a special viewer is needed, and that that special viewer even makes a monthly subscription necessary. Well, under these circumstances downloading movies from bittorrents don’t make sense.
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FIFA worldcup on my Google Calendar
I just wanted to add the games to my calendar, now there are so many game events in my calendar, that I don’t really see anything any more. And as there is one calender per team (and I only selected a couple of teams), it’s not even easy to see the calendar wi/o FIFA worldcup. What a mess! 😉
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correcting red eyes on pictures
Looks like Picasa 3 for Windows seems to be the appropriate tool
for
doing that. Free and easy to use — these reasons are good enough for
me.
Update / 2010-06-22:
Alright, alright, I can simply use iPhoto on OS X for that. Silly me!
Did quite a few snapshots, uploaded them to the relevant places …
Life seems to be far easier with the right tools, i.e. on a Mac, esp. if it’s running a Unix derivate …
