On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:43:53 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
> In article <488f6369$0$12937$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net>, > Peter Kohlmann <peter.koehlmann@arcor.de> wrote: >> Yes, we know. You do, "true linux advocate", "kernel hacker", "emacs >> user", "swapfile expert", "X specialist", "CUPS guru", "USB-disk server >> admin", "defragger professional", "newsreader magician", "hardware >> maven", "time coordinator", "email sage" and "OSS culling committee >> chairman" Hadron Quark, aka Hans Schneider, aka Richard, aka Damian >> O'Leary > > Some amazing Peter Kohlman claims: > > * A swap partition is more efficient than a contiguous swap file on > Linux. (The kernel tracks swap space by contiguous regions of disk. It > doesn't care if they come from a file or a dedicated partition.). > > * A screen shot of an antialiased image will not show the antialiasing. > (Trivially disproved by experiment). > > * MD5 collisions are not a security risk. > > * 64-bit pointers do not take up more memory than 32-bit pointers. > > * KDE apps will not work on Cygwin. > > * Posting your WPA key to a public forum is not a security risk for your > wireless network. > > * Peter claimed that the answer given by Excel for multiplying 29513736 > by 92842033 shows Excel is slop ware. Unfortunately, Peter didn't > bother to check with any other spreadsheets, as all versions of > OpenOffice *agree* with Excel. Peter was too dumb to realize that many > spreadsheets give results to a set number of significant figures. > > * If X makes a statement, for example "the sky is blue", and Y says that > X is wrong, that does NOT mean that Y disagrees with the statement "the > sky is blue" or agrees with the statement "the sky is not blue". > > * LCD displays cannot look good at anything other than their native > resolution. > > The above is not a complete list.
Peter Kohlmann has obviously gone off the rails again. Last time his wife took away his collection of army soldiers. I wonder what set him off this time?
-- Moshe Goldfarb Collector of soaps from around the globe. Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots: http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
