Eris discordantly quoted, from a Pink Floyd song
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Several_species), "an account of the
famous defeat of Mary Queen of Scots at the battle of Langside that
took place in the 16th Century." Here's a translation and analysis of
the full text, written in a Scottish dialect
There's a thread by yy about additions to Acme.
It contains code, which could be made better
given the appropriate feedback and time.
It's also useful and not ridiculous.
ak
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Anant Narayanan wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Roman V Shaposhnik wrote:
>
>> I still do care very much (and in fact, I've been meaning
>> to provide some of the answers on this mailing list, but
>> apparently one can't upgrade to Snow Leopard over the
>>
> dd -if /dev/sdE0/data -of /dev/sdF0/data -bs 1048576
i was thinking about your technique, and it occured to me
that this command is equvalent to
for(;;)
read(E0, buf, 1mb)
write(F0, buf, 1mb)
but if you wrote it like this
dd -if data -bs 64k -count
"Aye an' a bit of Mackeral settler rack and ruin
Ran it doon by the haim, 'ma place.
Well I slapped me and I slapped it doon in the side and
I cried, cried, cried."
[...]
"Aye! A roar he cried frae the bottom of his heart
That I would nay fall but as dead, dead as 'a can be by his feet;
De ya ken?
Namoore of this, for Goddes dignitee!!!
Myn eres aken of thy drasty speche!
'By God', quod he, 'for pleynley, at a word
Thy drasty posting is nat worth a toord!'
