Swobodin v Brně

Justin Podur: You get the chance to exercise your talents, which is rewarding. Do you think society should reward people for their innate talents?
 
RMS: Not directly, but people can use their talents to do things. I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling […]

Ballan is a blacksmith who accepted to participate in Jerusalem’s Crusades to clean his sins and his suicided wife’s ones.
Within some days, he got noblesse titles, lost his faith and, influenced by Saladin’s justice, and became more tolerant. But the fanaticism of his rivals forced him to be the first Saladin’s ennemy.
The movie is […]

A New Delhi cent joueurs d’échecs se sont réunis. Les meilleurs du monde… virtuellement! Il ne manquait que le ‘quarteron’ des “K” : Kramnik, Kasparov , Karpov et plus le plus brillant de tous, Kamsky. Parmi les cent il y avait les Russes Dreev, Khalifman, Morozevitch, Bezgodov, Galkin, Rustemov, Grischuk, Utnasunov; l’Espagnol Chirov, le […]

Why, actually? Google is a free service, isn’t it? And it is becoming more and more a normal part of many people’s lifes. Coupled with an always on connection it has certainly become an extension of my own brain.
 
Some future predictions:
 
- In 2006, Google accidentally gets cut off from the rest of the internet […]

A man is interviewed by a “Verification Committee.”
“What kind of family do you come from?”
“A rich, Jewish family.”
“And your wife?”
“A German aristocrat.”
“Have you ever been to the West?”
“I spent most of my life in England.”
“How did you make a living there?”
“A friend supported me.”
“Where did you get the money from?”
“He owned a textile factory.”
“Who […]

Après avoir vu les deux pièces de Fellag “Djudjurassic Bled” et “Bateau pour l’Australie”, j’ai eu la chance, hier, de regarder “Le Dernier Chameau”. Fellag y raconte son enfance avant et pendant l’Indépendance.
L’auteur, fidèle à son sarcasme et son humour noir, met au point la mentalité classique de la société algérienne, la […]

Albert Einstein was visited one day by one of his students. “The questions on this year’s exam are the same as last year’s!” the young man exclaimed. “Yes,” Einstein replied, “but this year all the answers are different.”
http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=8419

Accident, n.:
A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
Foolish Dictionary

Adult, n.:
One old enough to know better.

A Law of Computer Programming:
Make it possible for programmers to write in English
and you will find that programmers cannot write in English.

Beauty:
What’s in your eye when you have a bee in your […]

Learn how to draw Fedora Core logo with Inkscape through this tutorial.
Click here to download the tutorial.

Every Pink Floyd’s fan must remember the Wall’s scene when pupils were singing
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave the kids alone
Hey, Teacher, leave us kids alone !
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the […]

Life is a kind of chess.
Benjamin Franklin
Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box
Italian Proverb
Chess is the game which reflects most honour on human wit.
Voltaire
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, […]

What a happy news!
I came to the office today to find out that Raouf screwed my work up! He deleted the 5 existing partition to create a Fedora one!!!!
6 months of development and research were erased within some mintues.
Damn! I won’t give you back your CDs!!!!

The following story happened to me yesterday in Tunis:
- Monsieur, monsieur, monsieur … !
- ?
- Vous parlez français ?
- Euh … oui
- Bonsoir, je vous explique : je n’ai presque plus d’essence et j’amerais que vous m’aidiez, j’habite à Hammamet (Luxury!) et je partirai demain bla bla bla … Écrivez-moi votre adresse et je […]

After dumping some MySQL tables, whose the structure is the follwing:
CREATE TABLE `mydata` (
`id` tinyint(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`content` varchar(20) NOT NULL default ‘’,
PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
)  TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;
INSERT INTO `mydata` VALUES (’1′, ‘First entry’);
etc.
After dumping the tables, you want to drop the original tables from the database in order to replace the content; however, […]

Just for challenge
 
Не плюй в колодец - захочешь ещё воды напиться
Don’t spit on the well, you may want to drink the water again.
 
Слово не воробей - вылетит, не поймаешь
Word is not a bird: once it flys, you can’t catch it.
 
I got’em, Aygul