Quotable Quotes

This is a collection of strange things I've heard. I'll let you judge for yourself whether they're funny, sad, or what:

i save so much money playing wow instead of going out to drink
Serena (via AIM, 20080206)
<yh> so then just set a temp password
<dave> okay
<dave> You need to set me a password first.
<dave> LOL
<dave> ,sdizov2246zor
<dave> That should hold me for a couple of minutes, so I can set a proper one.
<yh> yes if a guy gets in with that within the 3 minutes, he deserves all the info
Yitzi (via IRC, 20090811)
And as you say, Jose, we can't really know. But unlike you, I don't give up at that point. I grew up in a family of attorneys, so not being able to "know" things doesn't bother me. This is because I understand that there's no such thing as facts, there's only evidence.
blog comment by some David guy from Microsoft
A unit of surprise --- a wow --- may then be defined for a single model M as the amount of surprise corresponding to a two-fold variation between P(M|D) and P(M), i.e., as log P(M|D)/P(M) (with log taken in base 2). The total number of wows experienced when simultaneously considering all models is obtained through the integration over the model class.
Formal Bayesian Theory of Surprise
GUN CONTROL means knowing how to aim your gun
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introduction to corvix
If you write programs for linux today, you shouldn't have too many surprises when you just recompile them for Hurd in the 21st century. As has been noted (not only by me), the linux kernel is a miniscule part of a complete system: Full sources for linux currently runs to about 200kB compressed - full sources to a somewhat complete developement system is at least 10MB compressed (and easily much, much more). And all of that source is portable, except for this tiny kernel that you can (provably: I did it) re-write totally from scratch in less than a year without having /any/ prior knowledge.
Linus Benedict Torvalds
Mon Jan  4 21:43:02 UTC 2010
  New kernels...  and this deserves a mention/warning:  the last bits of the
  "old" IDE/ATA system have been removed now.  Everything should be using
  the libata based drivers now, so if you have any drives that are currently
  running as /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc., when you reboot with these kernels all
  drives will be renamed as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc.  If you had any /dev/sd*
  already, they might get renamed.  Adjustments may be required in
  /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/fstab, the initrd, and elsewhere.  Good luck!
Slackware ChangeLog announcing a new "stable" 2.6.32.2 Linux kernel
it is scary to me that the EU political process moves faster than the IETF...
Bill Manning (November 2005, on namedroppers)

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