Poofy Goof Rant-O-Matic

Kris went to her computer this morning to check email, play some mafia wars, read some news, and she was met solely with a black screen with blinking cursor during bootup. her computer is an aging Dell Inspiron 8500 with a seagate ST9160821A hard drive.

some bad (good?) t-shirt ideas that I've had rolling around in my head:

logo programming language: the standard logo turtle, perhaps partway through drawing something, complete with prompt:

] FD 50
] RT 90

the girl from katamari damacy "I feel the cosmos".

many of the older, slower machines that run NetBSD (pretty much all of mine) build programs very slowly, especially those that use autotools. it would save some time if a subset of config.cache could be created and used as cache for all invocations of the configure script.

At work we're finally retiring the in-house mail server. There's only so hard you can push a 450MHz PIII, only so much tuning you can do with a 384MB RAM cap, and only so much time you can spend on the care and feeding of something that should have never been your responsibility anyway.

back in college I wrote a program to search through possible factors of fermat numbers. I never discovered any new factors, but the program was verified through test cases, and was given an unofficial blessing by Richard Crandall. Crandall later went on to show in 1999 that F24 is composite, and a composite cofactor of F23 in 2000.

ever taken a phone trip across the telephone network? (the best quality recordings are at ftp://ftp.wideweb.com/GroupBell/ as zipped mp3s.)