Josef “Jeff” Sipek

Dear Facebook,

I tried to use your @ name completion feature in Opera, and it didn’t work…at all!

Love,
Jeff.

I was just looking at the source for Postfix, when I came across this function:

/* mail_conf_read - read global configuration file */

void    mail_conf_read(void)
{
    mail_conf_suck();
    mail_params_init();
}

It turns out that mail_conf_suck reads in the config file, and then mail_params_init does all the dirty work of initializing the internal data structures based on the config.

Anyway, that’s the random thought of the day. I found it marginally amusing.

Edit: the code in question is in src/global/mail_conf.c.

Some time ago, I stumbled across a Wikipedia article about a book:  Eternity’s Missing Children.

Apparently, it’s some obscure book that no one really cares about — at least that’s what the “this article may not meet the general notability guideline” box implies.

Anyhow, here’s the entire description from the wiki page (copied because I wouldn’t be surprised if it got deleted on Wikipedia).

The Devil and Jesus sit down for a cocktail in New Orleans, with a myriad of shared worries and personal relationships to resolve. These two historic gentlemen find themselves in the One Wheel Louisiana, a New Orleans bar on the outskirts of town, where an aging black bluesman finds his soul and Jesus is reminded of a former romance. As the night roles on, with libation and song consumed, these half-brothers of biblical proportions find a world in peril with genuine faith shaken and manipulated by our earthly guardians of organized religion; but they both agree with belief in their hearts and their futures in question that New Orleans never looked so good.

At some point, I came across this wonderful bit of history — the IBM RAMAC. Even though I’m a System/360 fan, I think this is too cool not to share.

First, the memory:

Second, the whole “CPU”:

And third, a video about it: