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Linux kernel swear counts is a graph of swear words in the Linux kernel. There are step changes in the total number of swear words in the kernel around every major release - presumably because of a large increase in code. Also graphed is the swear words per line which tends to 2e-5 per line i.e. 0.00002 per line. Could this be used as a new measure of software maturity?

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So I’ve just done my regular emerge sync etc. It seems that everytime something new is installed printing stops working. The current issue was fixed by adding a line in cups.conf which explicitly tells it which network address:port to listen on. Why this worked before we’ll never know.  So here is the saving line:

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This weblog is (currently) running ExpressionEngine. I just had a bizarre problem: when I went to the home page it was only displaying a message saying “Invalid URI” Sometimes it would load part of the page though without the css. An intermittent problem - the hardest to track down. I searched around the forums and the net for why this could be - found nothing. Nothing changed as far as I know so it was a bit odd. There was also nothing obviously wrong in the logs. I fixed it by restarting Apache and MySQL - maybe only one of…

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