Courtesy: OldMonk, hsonline.

(after 2 years)

Disciple : O Master! How old art thou ?
Master   : 16

(after 2 years)

Disciple : O Master! How old art thou ?
Master   : 16
Disciple : O Master! Please enlighten thy disciple, how could you still be 16 ? When I asked
           you 4 years ago, you were 16 then, and 2 year ago, you were still 16, and even
           now you're still 16.
Master   : Dear disciple, even if you ask this question after 10 years answer will still be
           the same.
Disciple : (confused)
Master   : It is the base that changes.

On hearing this, Disciple was enlightened.

UPDATE: On seeing this, the abbe enlightened.

To fix the chateau.d.if, I decided it to relocate it to a new box Intel Core i7 950, a Intel DX58SO mobo, n GiBs of RAM and a graphics card, and the combo decided not to boot for me , and therefore needs a replacement.

And on top of that I’m overclocked (read as: overslept) these days, playing weird RPGs .

I’m hopeful, this abbe will regain his lost faith soon, and will commit all of his pending PRs, port updates as soon as he gets on his chateau.d.if.

Hopefully all of this will happen by the end of this week.

UPDATE (at 20101104 0300 UTC): I had a Superbad yesterday, didn’t get sleep for more than 36 hours and found that my mobo and CPU both are bad (highly rare, but common for me) and are sent for replacement. It’ll take a week for highly uncertain replacement to happen, courtesy: series of festivals

UPDATE (at 20101112 2230 UTC): chateau.d.if is back, and so am I. I’ll try to finish all pending ports asap.

But one of the side-effects of this is the regret that the time you spent playing this RPG could have been well-spent in writing that awesome piece of code which you were hoping to write since a long time, but the reality is that if you really had that time, you were actually trolling…c’est la vie

But unlike every time, this time I’m not going to do any stupid things like contacting the real-life participants of the RPG, and telling them how much I enjoyed RPG, as this always turns out to be those shoot yourself in the foot moments, lol .

after few minutes:

<abbe> coretemp-isa-0000
<abbe> Adapter: ISA adapter
<abbe> Core 0:      +99.0 °C  (high = +80.0 °C, crit = +100.0 °C)
<abbe> coretemp-isa-0001
<abbe> Adapter: ISA adapter
<abbe> Core 1:      +99.0 °C  (high = +80.0 °C, crit = +100.0 °C)
<abbe> 
<abbe> coretemp-isa-0000
<abbe> Adapter: ISA adapter
<abbe> Core 0:          N/A  (high = +80.0 °C, crit = +100.0 °C)
<abbe> coretemp-isa-0001
<abbe> Adapter: ISA adapter
<abbe> Core 1:      +96.0 °C  (high = +80.0 °C, crit = +100.0 °C)
<abbe> coretemp-isa-0000
<abbe> Adapter: ISA adapter
<abbe> Core 0:     +100.0 °C  (high = +80.0 °C, crit = +100.0 °C)
<abbe> coretemp-isa-0001
<abbe> Adapter: ISA adapter
<abbe> Core 1:      +97.0 °C  (high = +80.0 °C, crit = +100.0 °C)
<abbe> i can go down any moment 

after few minutes:

<abbe> I need 2 of them, and I think I'll go with nVidia
<abbe> shopping for computer hardware is the worst thing I ever want to do 
<abbe> shopping for anything is a nightmare 
<abbe> what do you say ?
<dragon> yep
<dragon> I agree hardware shopping is painful
<abbe> esp. while shopping when you realize how better this time could be spent in humanizing firefly or writing that awesome haskell program that could launch a nuclear attack (but instead if you weren't buying hardware at that time, you're actually trolling in firemoth@  )
<dragon> haha exactly.
<abbe> dilemma of whether to fall in love or deciding whether to spend time implementing something in python, java, perl, haskell is 3.14159 times better than deciding which hardware to buy
<abbe> but the best part of all this is typing this bullshit, instead of seriously deciding which hardware to buy 
<dragon> lmao.
<abbe> so, an i7 CPU - 11K INR, a corresponding mobo - 5K INR, 6G DDR3 RAM - 5K INR, and spending infinite time deciding how to make up for this lost money -- priceless...somethings mastercard can help you lose, for other things you're the loser :p
<dragon> correct lol.

If in future, you notice a similar strip in Cyanide and Happiness, then you know who is the retard behind this.

Also available at: http://wahjava.users.sourceforge.net/gpg-transition-notice.txt. To verify the genuinity of this transition notice, execute:

chateau.d.if!abbe: ~% for i in 0x762E5E74 0xE74FA4B0 ; do ${gpg} --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys $i; done
chateau.d.if!abbe: ~% curl http://wahjava.users.sourceforge.net/gpg-transition-notice.txt 2>/dev/null |${gpg} --verify

where gpg points to the installed GnuPG executable (gpg or gpg2).

Machines are always better than humans.

This is really crazy sending 404 to HTTP HEAD requests, while 200 to HTTP GET requests, causing wget to break, which performs HTTP HEAD before HTTP GET to get value of Content-Disposition header.