If 0.999... != 1, then there exists a number which is greater than 0.999... and less than 1. What is this number?

Bullshit. If you only have room in your brain for one language, then you're a shit programmer and no one cares what you think. :)

Rolsky used to think of Mason + mod_perl as providing the whole stack. He doesn't anymore. But he still works on Mason, and still uses it -- as a frontend to other frameworks. So you're absolutely right :)

SDL/GL is available on Wii Linux, but running a game under Wii Linux means mediocre performance and only running on "hacked" Wiis. Going the "official" route would require a much more thorough port of BBGL into Nintendo-approved bits. And lots of direct cooperation from Bit-Blot. And a few grand and some legal hassles. :)

Until a recent (late last year?) update you couldn't *do* anything useful with the SD card. You could put music or pictures on it, and you could put games on it if you didn't want to play them. Anything you actually wanted to run had to be moved back into main storage (moved, not copied, due to piracy paranoia), and then moved back when you were done with it (it couldn't just be quickly deleted because you had to move it the first time, due to piracy paranoia). So the existence of more than one app over 150MB would have completely crippled users' ability to enjoy the system.

Why they haven't changed the limits since then? Meh. Nintendo has never really made intelligent decisions.

Right where I put it. Also, there's no DRM on homemade recordings; that doesn't benefit major studios...

Who passed it to you?

Older than it needs to be. I ran Slackware 4 (just about contemporary with Redhat 6.0) on a laptop with lower specs than that, no problem.

Damn Small Linux and Tiny Core Linux being some of the obvious choices. Your real problem is getting things booted in the first place. I wonder whether gPXE is able to see your PCMCIA network card. If it did, you could just boot that off of a floppy and from there it would be a pretty simple task to netinstatll something; if not, well I'm pretty sure DSL has a set of floppies still. You could also try installing Slackware 9, which I think was the last version to ship a floppy set -- just install the very base system from there and then once you're booted you can try an in-place upgrade over the network.

I was hoping for a review of Churchill's memoirs.

You may be, but your coworkers took the job mostly because they figured getting paid to drive around in a jeep with a bunch of buddies and shoot shit sounded like a good time.

I prefer Chihuahua Del Este.

Microsoft is the new Tupperware?

The one very, very far away from me, ideally. But making a turn is an obvious exception.

Came here to say L5-30. :)