Swobodin v Brně

Letoponyme est Tunisa ou Tuneisa. Il désignait une petite ville dont l’emplacement n’a pu encore être défIni. Or, il semble bien s’agir d’une localité côtière se situant sur un petit cap. Le mot berbère thaunza signifie en effet, initialement, toupet — entendons une mèche de cheveux s’avançant sur lefront - ; mais il signifie aussi, secondairement, […]

I have coded a funny and buggy Feed Reader, with PHP and SQLite. So don’t be afraid if you see on the log a user-agent with a strange identity showing my URL: it means that I have added your RSS to my bookmarks

The following Perl program loops from 0 to 1 incrementing by 0.1:
perl -e ‘while ($_ < 1.0) { printf(”%.1f\n”,$_); $_+=0.1;}’

I always wondered why did the Nazi army siege Leningrad (St Petersburg) and Stalingrad (Volgograd). Was it because of their strategic sites, or simply because they have been named after the famous communist leaders?
Certainly, Leningrad was the most important city (with Moscow) in the USSR, but why Stalingrad? Why not Kazan, Astrakhan or Gorky) […]

Firefox Slogan: Always use protection.
Firefox is the free web browser that offers greater privacy and prevents pop-ups, spyware and viruses.

- un français en mercedes, c’est du luxe. Et un allemand en Renault,
c’est quoi ? de la nostalgie ?
- Les boîtes noires des avions sont toujours intactes après les crashs. Pourquoi ils ne construisent pas les avions dans le même métal ?
- Si je demande à un taxi de me ramener chez moi en marche […]

I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
May I ask a question?
Smoking is the leading cause of statistics.
Christ was born in 4 B.C.
As famous as the unknown soldier.
Thank God I’m an atheist.
The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
W.C. Fields
It isn’t an optical illusion. It just looks like one.
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When “Mr. Zugzwang” Aaron Nimzowitsch loses with his strategy, we get a situation similar to the hunter hunted … But when the hunter is the Great Aleksandr Alekhin, nothing is strange anymore!

Alekhin - NimzowitschSan Remo 1930
27. Ba4 Threat is b4-b5.
27. ..b5 Saving time
28.Bxb5 Ke8 29.Ba4 Kd8 30.h4!
Zugzwang! Black give up: any move would lead […]

UNINTENTIONAL HUMOR is often the funniest. I’m co-presenting with Eric Meyer at the always-fabulous UI Conference (celebrating its 10th year!) and Eric, describing positioning, inadvertently said: “Here’s how we relatively position an elephant”
Now, Eric’s known for his oft subtle humor, but this was more a we-just-finished-lunch-so-we-all-need-a-nap situation. It came flying out of his mouth, no […]

Even wondered about the origin of the word “ok”? Some people say that the word “okay” is an acronym of “Oll Korrect“; however, a probable approach is that, during the American Civil War, there was a custom to write in the daily report the number of deads; if none, they wrote 0 killed, or […]

La langue allemande est relativement facile.
La personne qui sait le latin et est habituée à faire des déclinaisons, l’apprend sans grandes difficultés.
C’est ce que les professeurs d’allemand disent lors de la première leçon. Ensuite on commence à étudier le der, des, den, dem, die et ils disent que tout est une suite logique. C’est […]

If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France […]

Hay una canción de Miguel-Ángel Filippini que, infelizmente, no es famosa; se llama Alma Morena; no es famosa, porque hasta ahora no he encontrado la letra en Google, por eso decidí de publicarla, pero me faltaba la voluntad de hacerlo, hasta que Mavi (femina chemiquea) me la ha pedido. Pues, aquí tienen la letra

Trae […]

SONY has a new form of Corrupt Disk. You can’t play it on your computer on a free operating system. The Digital Restrictions Management let Windows users make a few copies–but the copies are corrupt too, and only Windows can play them.
 
It works by installing a “rootkit” on Windows computers–that is, software that hides […]

Wakegen dropped me that C program that crashes your UNIX machine.
Be careful! It’s dangerous, use it at your own risk
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main() {
pid_t p=fork();
main();
}
It consists of the following: Creating infinte child processus until the buffer gets overloaded; […]