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New quotes for Thu Feb 14
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Thu Feb 14 01:29:39 1991
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 91 01:29:04 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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apo (Alpha Phi Omega):
Alpha Phi Omega is a National Service Fraternity with chapters in over 650
universities throughout the United States. If you are interested in finding
out about the Alpha Chi chapter at MIT, stop by our office in room 415 of the
Student Center or call 253-3788 any time.
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dschmidt (Dan Schmidt):
Current typing speed:
Qwerty: 84 wpm
Dvorak: 14 wpm
Still a ways to go...
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
Where are we going?
PLANET 10!
When?
REAL SOON!
.... and USE MORE HONEY!
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jfc (John F Carr):
To figure out what an 8th order system of differential equations
really means.
Quotes of the day:
"AIX, It may not kill you but you wish you were dead."
(Jeff Smith, alt.religion.computers, Feb 14 1991)
"If you dereference a NULL pointer to void, does anything happen?"
(comp.lang.c 1989 or 1990, author forgotten)
Thought for the day:
AIX 3.1 gives a process read access to location 0. This is now
considered a bad idea, but is common on older operating systems.
IBM wasn't content to leave it at that. AIX 3.1 documents that
*(int *)0 == 0, and the compiler generates code that depends on
this. This means that for binary compatibility, all future versions
of AIX 3 on the RS/6000 must do the same. The AIX 3.1 linkage
convention is designed to make it easy to generate position
independent code, so I have to wonder what IBM was thinking when
they defined where the NULL pointer leads.
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
In the future:
2/15 Triple date
2/16 gown hunting with my maid of honor
2/18 6.033 report 2 due
2/21 1.101 ASSESS assignment due
2/21 1.101 problem set 2 due
2/23 MIT Concert Band Tour Finale Concert
2/27 :-)
3/1 interview with Consulting for Management Decisions
3/1 Brass Ensemble stuff with WCRB
3/2 Brass Ensemble concert at Symphony Hall
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Words-n-stuff for the day:
Barach's Rule:
An alcoholic is a person who drinks more than his own
physician.
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nand (Nand M Mulchandani):
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sker (Mic.O.):
To open the sky.
For the steel grey traps me.
Waiting for a storm to churn the sky into bright blue again.
Waiting.
I leave my jacket open as I am alone on the crowded street.
The icy gusts remind me I am alive.
But the wind feels me, and leaves me.
Sweet and fleeting.
...I knew another caress once...
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speck (Shawn C Becker):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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steph (Stephanie A Brooks):
Hullo. To plan, or not to plan, that is the question...or maybe to pass
my classes, or get some sleep, or to crew til I die. What say you?
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therese (Suntioinen Therese M.):
Sooner or later just like the world first day
Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away
History will teach us nothing.
-- Sting
Nothing Like the Sun
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valerie (why do you ask?):
The 12 most honorable ways for an MIT student to die:
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12. To drown in a sea of parentheses, no thanks to Professor
Gerald Sussman.
o glub glub glub
o /
(())(())(( o ))(())(())((
()((()())()()())()()())))
))(()(()()()()))(())())()
11. To die from lack of sleep due to nocturnal housemates and
early 6.012 lectures. (Blechhh!)
10. To suffocate under piles of Interdepartmental Mail.
(Remember kids: nothing important *ever* comes through
Interdepartmental Mail!)
9. To die from caffiene overdose.
8. To succumb to the immense entropy found in any MIT student's dorm
room, especially mine.
7. To be asphyxiated while being squished in the corridors
of the textbook section of the Tech Coop on Reg Day.
6. To be trampled to death by slam-dancers at a Senior
House courtyard party, *especially* if Jon Gladstone
picked the band.
5. To be strangled by large amounts of MIT administrative red tape.
4. To die from EMF radiation for spending 28 consecutive
hours in front of a computer terminal.
3. To be electrocuted by your 6.101 lab project.
2. To fall off the Great Dome while attaching the mouse ears.
1. To die from food poisoning in an MIT dining hall. (Out
with ARA!)
R.E.M. mailing list info: murmur-request@athena.mit.edu
Indigo Girls mailing list info: indigo-request@athena.mit.edu
Nine Inch nails Mailing list info: mmontano@pnet91.cts.com
Official member of IDA (Industrial Chicks Anonymous).
Needleworkers unite!
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