Fanfiction Reviews, Interesting Links, and General Geekery
LKML: “Michael H. Warfield”: Sync option destroys flash!
Just a little something for Linux users which I felt was too important not to share. The short version is, never use the sync option for FAT drives. It does not get ignored, will wear out hard drives quickly, and can kill flash drives with a single file transfer!
Title: Wishes Three
URL: Fanfiction.net
Author: Valandar
Source: Harry Potter
Rating: 5/6
Type: Joke-as-Prose (a humorous story with the humor concentrated on the punchline)
Length: oneshot
Let’s just let the Type entry (Joke as prose) do the talking. It’s suprising enough that I found one oneshot which prompted a temporary return to reviewing, let alone two. The basic concept for the joke is “What if Harry got a djinni that couldn’t grant any ‘deus ex machina’ wishes like reviving his parents or killing Voldemort.”
Title: A Little Homework
URL: FanFiction.Net
Author: Ruskbyte
Source: Harry Potter
Rating: 5.5/6
Type: light comedy
Length: oneshot
Normally, I’m too busy to review things these days, but in this case, it’s funny enough and short enough to make an exception. The story is a funny little one-shot about what might constitute an “accident” in such a magic-filled place as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Modifiers:
+1 for the “Why didn’t I think of that?” factor.
I recently learned that many of the bash keybindings which I so enjoyed are in fact emacs keybindings. Armed with this knowledge, I’ve decided to try emacs. However, the decision jostled loose a memory which I felt I’d share…
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