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www.yahoo.com et la religion [French]
BRUXELLES 21/02 (BELGA) = Le portail internet “Yahoo!” refuse que les utilisateurs inscrivent à son service de courrier électronique “Yahoo! Mail” un nom d’utilisateur comprenant la suite de lettres “allah”, a rapporté mardi le site spécialisé britannique “theregister.co.uk” dans son édition en ligne. Un homme a essayé d’inscrire sa mère,
Bad reputation?
“System administrators have a stereotypical reputation for grumpiness and irritability. Sometimes this misanthropy is a cultivated pose, designed to deter casual or trivial requests that would take time away from more important activities like playing nethack and reading netnews.” (Read on ./)
Correct password policy?
Passwords?
WTF eBay!?
Really? Do I need to upgrade? Help!
Mobile phones dangerous? Never!
Weekend Eating: Mobile Cooking.
Source code readability!
During my studies, students were always brain stormed with the same message: “Your code must be readable by others”. And this one? #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $_=’ev al(“seek40D ATA,0, 0;”);foreach(1..2) {;}my @camel1hump;my$camel; my$Camel ;while( ){$_=sprintf(“%-6 9s”,$_);my@dromedary 1=split(//);if(defined($ _=)){@camel1hum p=split(//);}while(@dromeda ry1){my$camel1hump=0 ;my$CAMEL=3;if(defined($_=shif t(@dromedary1 ))&&/\S/){$camel1hump+=1;s$\s*$$g;( );;s ;^.*_;;;map{eval”print\”$_\””;}/.{4}/g; __DATA__ \124 \1 50\14540\165\163\14540\157\1 4640\1
Smart gun made in Belgium
“FN”, The Belgian “Fabrique Nationale” is developping an intelligent gun which could be “activated” only when handled by his owner (via a under skinned RFID chip) Robocop will be a reality soon? 😉 Source: http://www.fr.datanews.be/news/enterprise_computing/20060127006
Windows open-sourced?
Le numéro un mondial des logiciels, Microsoft, a annoncé mercredi qu’il allait communiquer aux éditeurs de logiciels le code-source de son système d’exploitation vedette Windows. Microsoft va entreprendre ce geste afin de se conformer aux exigences de l’Europe, qui l’a condamné en 2004 pour abus de position dominante. (Belga) #
mysqldump & foreign keys
Today, I had a problem while restoring a crashed MySQL server… The daily backup is done via a mysqldump (then the dump files are moved to a separate box). The DB to restore used InnoDB and foreign keys. I started to restore the data using: # mysql -u root -p