Swobodin v Brně

I could guess that people used to consider work as a torture thanks to … word etymology!
In fact, in the Middle Age, there used to be a torture instrument called “tripalium“, which consists of attaching the hands and feet of the condemned to 4 horses in order to quarter him.
Very cruel! but what does […]

To search and replace a string at the same file with “sed” command, use the -i option:
sed -is ’s/search/replace/g’
The same option can be used for Perl too; this can help a lot:
perl -pie ’s/search/replace/g’

Many sacrifices don’t require concrete calculation at all. It is sufficient to only glance at the arising position to convince us that the sacrifice is correct.
Thus used to think Mikhail Tal, the Magician from Riga: no calculation, only intuition!
Tal - Smyslov, Bled 1959
1.Qxf7!
Now if
1…Rxf7 2.Rxd8+ Rf8 3.Rxf8+ Ng8 4.Nf7#
1…Qa1+ White King can be hidden and […]

Saint George of Texas
Bush says that “God told him to invade Iraq“.
Absolutely no comment!

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

Sharp Cobra (homo advocatus trans fanaticus) showed me a funny text: a letter to Santa Claus written by Little Johnny.I liked the Hegelian style of the boy when he seems to be an angel at first, but then became another perrson; read the letter to find out more.
Be careful: there are very offensive words […]

Found a cool medical HTML template at OSWD.
It’s XHTML compliant and has nice CSS features, without tables nor Javascript.

It’s strange that I could not find on the Web the lyrics of a such famous song, sung by Bob Marley in a concert.
The song is a combination of 2 of his songs: War and No more trouble, with some modifications; here’s the lyrics as I could hear…

Until the philosophy
which hold one race superior
and […]

I found out another OS called cdfs. The installation is quite simple: download it from http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/, then patch the kernel source. It is also possible to just type make at cdfs directory; insert the module and, depmod and modprobe it. You have a new filesystem!
Once done, update /etc/fstab adding the following line for example:
/dev/hdc   /media/CDFS   cdfs    […]

QUESTION 1: If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis; would you recommend that she have an abortion?
QUESTION 2: It is time to elect the world leader, and your vote counts. Here are the […]

When Robert Rodríguez (El Mariachi, Desperado, …) is a director, and Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, …) is a special guest director, you should expect an extremly violent movie! So is Sin City…
Weird: the grenades don’t kill, bullets hardly kill, and cutting hands doesn’t harm, but “just” offends as cutting hair.
A good […]

I found out some interesting tricks using gnuplot:
first, run the interactive program:
$gnuplot
type, in the shell, the following command
gnuplot> splot sin(x)+cos(y) with lines palette linewidth 4
Cool 3d output! You can even play with it making rotations and scales.
If you want to export it to a vector graphic and then edit it with Inkscape, type:
gnuplot> set […]

Another verse of the Book of Mozilla , not by Firefox or any Gecko software, but with Nvu!
Click on Help, About Nvu and click on Credits while holding “Shift” key.
You will be redirected to http://disruptive-innovations.com/book/0823.html, where you can read the following verse:

The elementals fought and sent back the armies of Mammon to the inner […]

Fernando Arrabal, l’Express du 5 août 1999.
Un homme est assassiné. Il tient dans la main droite le Roi noir du jeu d’échecs et dans la main gauche un morceau de sucre. Il avait bu du café. Sur la table repose un échiquier : une partie est commencée (Frederich Glauser, Les Premières Affaires de l’inspecteur Studer, […]

Kaiser (homo mæthimaticus), also a LaTeX guru, informed me once that there’s a LaTeX library called ArabTeX (عربتاخ) which consists of the following: you write your Arabic text as you pronounce in Latin characters, and the module converts it to Arabic (yes, simply!); furthermore, if you require it, your text will be accentuated (الشّكل) […]