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Yes, that’s it, the wonderful Firefox has a problem, I can’t say it’s a bug, since the developers are aware and I can even say that they did it intentionally; well, here’s the point, when you save a valid XHTML page (Option: Web Page, complete), it reformats it to HTML 4 and keeps XHTML […]

Une remarque assez amusante que l’on peut découvrir à travers Wikipedia, il s’agit l’étymologie du mot “mayonnaise“, le mot dérive de la ville espagnole où probablement la mayonnaise a été inventée, Mahón; cette ville porte le nom du général carthaginois Magon Barca, fils de Hamilcar et donc, frère de Hannibal.
 
Merci Kassus pour l’information !

Does Google support pattern matching?
Apparantly it does, except that there’s no really regular expressions! I tried to search using Perl, awk and Grep regular expressions, but it does not sem to accept them. Of course, some basic ones work, like the logical OR, for example
(A|B|C)
But I could not make it work for something like
.*somepackage.*[[:digit:]]+.*i(6|3)86\.rpm
 
Any […]

Source: http://www.newint.org/issue308/Images/invasion.JPG

Our journey through the history of Linux begins ca. 28000 B.C. when a large all-powerful company called MoogaSoft monopolized the wheel-making industry. As founder of the company, Billga Googagates (rumored to be the distant ancestor of Bill Gates) was the wealthiest man in the known world, owning several large rock huts, an extravagant collection […]

Having a small idea about what was Apartheid in South Africa, I have read a Wikipedia document about History of South Africa in the Apartheid Era, all what I can say is shocking and shameful.
Non-white people were considered as non-humans, and I can’t imagine how they were mistreated and not considered. Some of the […]

When talking of the etymology of the word “fuck”, people refer to acronyms:
“Fornication Under Consent of the King”, because “in ancient England single people could not have sex unless they had consent of the king. When people wanted to have a baby, they had to get the consent of the king, and the king […]

I found out an interesting site, Sorryeverybody.com, where Americans apologize for making a mistake: Voting for Bush twice.
They show pictures they token by themselves, in which they write they are sorry.
Some of the messages:
 
Believe me, almost half of us are very goddamn sorry.
 
I’m so sorry, I did everything I could
 
I’m so … like… Fucking […]

It’s just the first week of June, and events are strangely succeeding.
The victory of Alan García in the Presidential Election of Peru. Alan García promised improvements of economy, less poverty and a so on, he is from left after all; however, the first thing he did was attacking his neighbors and his rival; besides, […]

 
Tom Hanks: n.

Someone who never mess a movie up.
Great actor.
Mythic personality

Swobodin’s Cinematic Encyclopedia
The Ladykillers is not an exception, when you first learn that Tom Hanks casts in a funny movie, you probably would say: “That’s his first failure, now he starts destroying his career”, however, it’s another chef-d’œuvre that emphasize the legendary actor.
Professor G. […]

Yes, the title is segregative and agressive, I keep my position though.
Analyzing May’s statistics, I realized that  3426 visitors came using search engines, of which 3260 from Google and 120 from MSN. Those MSN users who come to my site and generally use Internet Explorer really make me shit, and, unlike Google visitors, rarely look […]

أصبحتُ أستعمل الانجليزية أكثر من أي لغة أخرى بما في ذلك العربية لغتي الأم والفرنسية لغة تعليمي
ومع ذلك فإني لم أتعلم الانجليزية جديا في المدرسة مثلما درست النحو العربي أو الرياضيات
أشغل جهازالكمبيوتر الذي يحتوي على نظام لينكس بالانجليزية أفتح صندوق رسائلي بالانجليزية والذي غالبا ما تكون الرسائل فيه مكتوبة بالانجليزية. أقرأ الأخبار بالانجليزية (لم أعد أثق […]

Wikibooks is one of my favorite portals, where I can get different kind of information for free! No matters of the topic, they are almost all included: Computing,
arts, languages (human), jokes, culture, literature, …
I recently got interested by the book of the month, European History, a comprehensive text that introduces readers to the political, […]

It seems that Don Hugo Chávez is offering oil to poor American countries.
He doesn’t know how much we are needing it! We have it around though ….

This “mathematical exhibition” may interest even those who don’t like maths!
Load this script on gnuplot, and it will produce a funny shape.
 
set clip points
unset border
set dummy t,y
unset key
set polar
set samples 800, 800
set xzeroaxis lt 0 lw 1.000
set yzeroaxis lt 0 lw 1.000
set xtics axis nomirror norotate autofreq
set ytics axis nomirror norotate autofreq
set title “Amazing […]