Month: November 2000

Orvetti.com, Surrealection 2000 Continuous Coverage. The Day’s Top Polotical New in 250 Words of Less.

Orvetti.com, Surrealection 2000 Continuous Coverage. The Day’s Top Polotical New in 250 Words of Less.

Dr. Seuss on why computers crash

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort,
and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted ’cause the index doesn’t hash,
Then your situation’s hopeless and your system’s gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house
says the network is connected to the button on the mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol,
that’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
and your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
till your icons in the windows are as wavy as a souse,
then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
‘cuz sure as I’m a poet the sucker’s gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy’s getting sloppy in the disk,
And the macrocode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
Then you’ll have to flash the memory and you’ll want to RAM your ROM,
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your Mom!

[via email bit bucket]

Dr. Seuss on why computers crash

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort,
and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted ’cause the index doesn’t hash,
Then your situation’s hopeless and your system’s gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house
says the network is connected to the button on the mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol,
that’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
and your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
till your icons in the windows are as wavy as a souse,
then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
‘cuz sure as I’m a poet the sucker’s gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy’s getting sloppy in the disk,
And the macrocode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
Then you’ll have to flash the memory and you’ll want to RAM your ROM,
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your Mom!

[via email bit bucket]

Coagula – a Perl SDK for Quake3

Coagula – a Perl SDK for Quake3

Ballot Usability in Florida

In the oh-so-close Presidential race in Florida, a major issue is whether some of the votes that went to Pat Buchanan were really meant to be for Al Gore. Larger-than-expected Buchanan numbers in some areas known to have only elderly, Democratic-leaning voters, along with complaints about ballot usability by those people, brought this to national attention. I heard about it from a relative in Florida before the voting closed.

Will usiability matters decide the election.

Ballot Usability in Florida

In the oh-so-close Presidential race in Florida, a major issue is whether some of the votes that went to Pat Buchanan were really meant to be for Al Gore. Larger-than-expected Buchanan numbers in some areas known to have only elderly, Democratic-leaning voters, along with complaints about ballot usability by those people, brought this to national attention. I heard about it from a relative in Florida before the voting closed.

Will usiability matters decide the election.