Showing posts with label unix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unix. Show all posts

March 7, 2009

Developers only: wchar_t EPIC FAIL


Please skip this, unless you have a clue what wchar_t means.

"For most characters they were only wasting one byte (as opposed
to three bytes in UTF-32), but could still assume most characters
where just 16-bits (as opposed to UTF-8 which escaped anything
not ASCII). Life was good."


"Meanwhile, Unix vendors had decided that wasting one byte was
insufficient, and that wasting three bytes per character was
definitely the way to go."




Article is here: http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/07/28/wchar_t-unsafe-at-any-size/

Maybe it's time to stop smoking pot while setting up new standards

February 13, 2009

Linux Users Fail




"The Manpage Show, Your host: Ben Stein" lol

For those who don't have a clue: Manual pages are documentation pages for certain commands commonly used on Unix operating systems.

So this is how *nix users actually look like? Nah, that's how Ben Stein looks like ;)

This is how *nix users actually look like:





The one on the left... look. Maybe Stein didn't get it too wrong after all :)

More information: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Linux