2 Mar
2006
2 Mar
'06
2:25 a.m.
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 05:15 am, Simon Fryer wrote:
On 2/28/06, Tony Duell <ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
The Bit Bucket, of course. And heaven help those that fail to empty them
periodically...
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
For those who/ve not seen it, it was reprinted (without comments) amongst
some genuine data sheets in the back of _The Student Manual for the Art
of Electronics_. second edition. (FWIW, there are other jokes scattered
about in that book...)
I always wondered to which device /dev/null pointed.