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Re: When Geeks meet.
At 12:40 AM 7/3/97 -0700, Ira Abramov wrote:
>Linus is a cool dude, very open and friendly like I more or less expected
>him to be (building an image on 3-4 newspaper articles is hard). He was
>pulled into an interesting conversation with a few guys after the lecture,
>it was mainly about compilers and linux platforms (apperently Linus
>himself can't memorize the number of platforms the kernel has been ported
>to, after counting the Nintendo playstation and all, it totals at around
>10 or so). People ask him why MILO won't boot kernels after 2.1.35 on
>their Alphas and he answers that he still uses 2.1.27 at home... he loves
>GCC, and it's thorough linting capabilities, but he admits it's pretty
>slow, especially it's noticably slow on his 300Mhz Alpha, compiles the
>kernel at the same speed as a Ppro/200...
Ohh. Tragic. Especially if we consider that I have a Pentium 166 at home...
BTW, I saw a film in which there was an American guy named Linus. Only, in
the usual American English way it was pronounced Lie-naes. In Israel we
pronounce Linux as Lee-nox, so I how do they say it in America. Another
good question is what is the common pronouncation of Linux by Finnish
speakers... :-)
Maybe Ira can enlighten us about those two crucial matters.
Shlomi Fish
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The Bible dictates that "Thou shalt not seethe [=cook] a kid [= young goat]
in his mother's milk." To avoid possibility of breaking that regulation,
the Jewish tradition ruled that it also applies to female goats, to mature
goats, and to the meat and milk of two completely unrelated goats. It is
also forbidden to eat the meat with fresh milk, and it applies to beef and
mutten as well (including mixing the milk and meat of two different
beasts). Finally, chicken, which are incapable of milk production, may not
be eaten along with any mammal's milk either.
We are fortunate that most mathematicians were not Jewish. Otherwise, it
would have been forbidden to divide by all numbers between -1 and 1.
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