[D-community-offtopic] 3.13 Kernel and "The Awful German Language" by Mark Twain

[Ralf Mardorf]

Seemingly messages sent by me randomly come through or don't come
through the mailing list.

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From: Ralf Mardorf
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Subject: 3.13 Kernel and "The Awful German Language" by Mark Twain
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:08:57 +0100
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From: Ralf Mardorf
To: d-community-offtopic at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: 3.13 Kernel and "The Awful German Language" by Mark Twain
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:02:06 +0100
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Kernels are boring, so I'll add some entertainment.

Mark Twain's German most likely was broken. The rules of the German
language he disliked sometimes are unintentionally funny.

"Sprechbalsen"

translated 1. speech balloons
           2. doing a blowjob while speaking

"Haftbar"

translation 1. liable
            2. a tavern for arrested persons

"Ekelhaft"

translation 1. disgusting
            2. imprisonment with punishment by causing disgust

Usually only the first translations are regular German, but regarding to
the rules for the German language, it's possible to understand it as
mentioned by the second translations. IOW regarding to the context it's
possible to do define the word meaning, no complicated books about
semantics for different fields of expertise are needed to define the
word meaning.

AFAIK no computer language comes with such an advantage.

OT:
On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 19:01 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On 2/25/14, David Baron <d_baron at 012.net.il> wrote:
> > Is it just my very subjective impression or are these significantly
> > faster than 3.12??
> 
> On my hw, 3.12-rt hangs at early boot, so I'm guessing it's a bit
> faster than that - just a guess.

On my machine all linux-rt > 3.8.13-rt14 lock the machine soon. Some
lock it already during startup, some others lock it when I try to start
a session and others lock it a while after logged into a session.

However kernels < 3.12 and the kernels <= 3.13.x _without_ the rt patch
are ok on my machine, but I didn't notice a difference for the
performance, compared to kernels < 3.13 and < 3.12.

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From: Ralf Mardorf
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Subject: Re: 3.13 Kernel and "The Awful German Language" by Mark Twain
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:11:08 +0100
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On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 17:08 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> IOW regarding to the context

Sometimes, when not at the beginning of the sentence, it already makes a
difference if the first letter is capital or not.