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  1. Edubuntu Home Page | edubuntu
    Added Jun 29, 2007 by aseldow
    Edubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with community based support.The Edubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Edubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise...
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  2. Good Math, Bad Math : Strange Loops: Ken Thompson and the Self-referencing C Compiler
    Added Apr 17, 2007 by battis
    For debugging purposes, Thompson put a back-door into "login". The way he did it was by modifying the C compiler. He took the code pattern for password verification, and embedded it into the C compiler, so that when it saw that pattern, it would actually generate code that accepted either the correct password for the username, or Thompson's special debugging password.
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  3. Public and permanent (kottke.org)
    Added Mar 22, 2007 by battis
    Marc Hedlund, founder of the intriguing Wesabe, recently made this interesting observation: One of my favorite business model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn't yet been implemented on the web, and fix that. [...]
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