... Hi Arik! I tried several ways to view this Hebrew part and was not successful. Can you write an HTML file with it or write it in English letters. BTW, Joel...
2714
Arik Baratz
arikb_
Aug 10, 2002 6:44 am
Instead of translating 'stole their lunch' to גנב את ארוחת הצהריים it is better to use a Hebrew expression, like גנב את הבכורה. --...
2713
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 9, 2002 10:51 am
... I thought so too at first, but that is not the case. The entire code is wrapped in a <?php ... ?> block and contains dollars. No, the DeCSS algorithm is...
2712
Chen Shapira
shenkaisr
Aug 9, 2002 10:46 am
... If I understand correctly, this guy took the javascript deCSS and used PHP that creates a webpage that contains that javascript. This is clearly a symptom...
2711
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 9, 2002 10:37 am
Check: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/css_descramble-php.txt The author thanks for the effort. The URL he points for trying out the code is working...
2710
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 9, 2002 7:57 am
Joel Spolsky is now pulling an effort to translate his site into other languages. To help with this good cause, I translated "Things you must never do - Part...
2709
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Aug 8, 2002 6:06 pm
... The possibility that gcc is somehow sensitive to the legal status of the code in question does not have to be ruled out. How this might happen (DISCLAIMER:...
2708
Oleg Goldshmidt
ogoldshmidt@...
Aug 8, 2002 3:37 pm
... The 1980 Summer Olympics (held in Moscow) were boycotted by many Western countries (because of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afganistan; Salt Lake City was...
2707
Ofir Carny
Ofir@...
Aug 8, 2002 1:49 pm
There was a boycott that year, but I think there was some alternate event where he could have won something. ... From: Nadav Har'El...
2706
Nadav Har'El
nyharel
Aug 8, 2002 1:25 pm
... I did a little more surfing in http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/rob/, where that funny biography is repeated, and at least some of it is beginning to make...
2705
Nadav Har'El
nyharel
Aug 8, 2002 10:19 am
Some people know how make fun of themselves, and write funny stuff when asked for a biography. One example I just found is in Rob Pike's "Acme: A User ...
2704
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 8, 2002 9:58 am
Included below is a makefile I use to build the site for Freecell Solver. It's the most complex makefile I constructed by hand until todate. The following...
2703
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Aug 8, 2002 1:21 am
My own EWD memory: The high school which I attended was LIDA - the high school near the Givat Ram campus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. After school, I...
2702
Tzafrir Cohen
ctzafrir
Aug 7, 2002 10:08 am
... The novel idea (dated from the 1970-s) is that your symmetric cipher does not have to be good enough to resist an attacker with infinite computing ...
2701
Adi Stav
stav@...
Aug 7, 2002 6:36 am
... Is DES really an innovation, or is it just a more refined implementation of millenia-old ideas? Please correct me if I'm wrong here, but it was common at...
2700
Nadav Har'El
nyharel
Aug 6, 2002 2:38 pm
... Another strange thing is that on some issues he writes several "innovations" but in other issues he writes none. For example, in 1965 supposedly semphores...
2699
Nadav Har'El
nyharel
Aug 6, 2002 2:18 pm
... Does anyone know if this is the same Prof. David Wheeler who invented Block Sorting (the algorithm behind bzip2) when working in Digital's SRC (Systems...
2698
Chen Shapira
shenkaisr
Aug 6, 2002 2:12 pm
... While the list is far from complete, I thought it was pretty good. Some things bothered me though. Do you consider refactoring an inovation? Its just a...
2697
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 6, 2002 1:53 pm
David Wheeler is the author of SLOCCount and an open-source analyst. He wrote the article "The Most Important Software Innovations": ...
2696
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Aug 6, 2002 12:08 am
So in order to replenish his supply of illustrious pseudo-Latin insults, I am taking over the honor of introducing him to the following Web page: ...
2695
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 4, 2002 5:23 pm
... I don't really consider this a good thing because I'm not sure Standard Oil was abusive. And even if it were, there would have been better things to do...
2694
Nadav Har'El
nyharel
Aug 4, 2002 2:11 pm
... Hmm, let's see: * 1911: Rockefeller's Standard Oil broken up according to the 1890 Sherman Act (the most important anti-trust suit ever). * 1920: The 19th...
2693
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 4, 2002 10:09 am
This is a rough sketch of a document I wrote. I am posting it here for you review and comments. Flame away! Regards, Shlomi Fish I'd like to give some advice...
2692
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 3, 2002 8:02 pm
... Enlightened trademark was removed in the CVS. And "grep hello star" and "dollar parenthesis". ... I omitted the long, and made a joke out of the meters. ...
2691
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 3, 2002 5:17 pm
... It's an expression. ... I don't aim it for the general population. _I_ like computers, and I'm going to write about a topic I like. I don't say I'm going...
2690
Nadav Har'El
nyharel
Aug 3, 2002 1:39 pm
... No, he had nothing to do with it. ... You can't see the forest from the trees?? All the "trees" said one thing: This is a long way from being a sitcom....
2689
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 3, 2002 2:12 am
Oh Jesus Christ! In one paragraph or two, while being completely honest and sincere. Did _you_, Nadav Har'El, liked it or did you not? Did it make you laugh? I...
2688
Nadav Har'El
nyharel
Aug 2, 2002 10:06 pm
... There's something I don't understand. Who's the target of this sitcom??? Is it going to be broadcast on the Cable Geek Network? It contains far too much...
2687
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 2, 2002 8:49 pm
This is episode 1 of a sitcom I'm writing. It tells the story of a web publishing company. I should give a description of the characters, but it's too late now...
2686
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 2, 2002 1:22 pm
Check: http://www.advogato.org/article/527.html Regards, Shlomi Fish ... Shlomi Fish shlomif@... Home Page:...
