Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Troublepunning

J: I just bought a new laptop and installed a fresh Debian on it. I used to look at my current battery status using Emacs. I like to look at the current rate too since this laptop will be used during a long trip and I want to take care of the consumption in real time. The issue is that with the 2.6.32 kernel from Debian for this laptop I do not have the /proc/acpi/battery part. However, the sysfs is able to report all the data I need. The current Emacs battery module is not able to retrieve the information I need from sysfs but it does from /proc/acpi/battery. So I made a small [patch] [...]

R: If this code keeps breaking, and we have to keep fixing it, is that similar to the Greek myth of sysfs?

Monday, December 19, 2011

Pyungyang

J: Kim Jong-Il is dead!
S: For il?

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Drag racing

S:  We live right across from one of the most popular gay bars in the Castro, so it gets pretty loud.  Sometimes there are knock-down drag-out fights at 2 AM.
A:  Are there only knock-down drag-out fights, or also knock-down in-drag fights?

Monday, December 12, 2011

Oscar de la Punta

B: The movie Hugo looks really interesting.
M: I'd rather see The Ides of March.
B: Can we please go see Hugo?
M: No, you go.