I am Mario.

I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren’t for my friends always getting into trouble. I love to help out, even when it puts me at risk. I seem to make friends with people who just can’t stay out of trouble. What Video Game Character Are You?

Via Damien, aka 大面

Hynix Semiconductor, it emerged today, is the latest firm to plead guilty in a far-reaching DRAM scandal and has agreed to pay the DoJ a $185m fine.

The charge against Korean Hynix is the third-largest criminal antitrust fine in US history. It is, however, less than Hynix was prepared to pay. Last month, some nosey reporters discovered $341m piled away in Hynix’s coffers just in case the DoJ came knocking.
via The Register

Price fixing. Now, that’s a practice I have never witnessed in Korean. *coughs*

This:

FRENCH tutor

Reply to: tutorwanted@hotmail.com
Date: 2005-04-15, 2:13AM KT

We are looking for a FEMALE tutor who are sic fluent in both French and English!

The student wants to learn French taught in English!

Location: Jong-Lo (Gwang-Hwa-Moon)
Pay: 1,500,000 won/ Month
Time: Mon-Fri (3 hours/day)
Start date: May

If you are interested, please give us a call/ email

Thank you

They want a chick (emphasis on FEMALE was theirs), to teach them both French and English, obviously, and dirt cheap [I mean, 1.5 mio won for an average of 60 hours? Hello there!]

Jong-lololo hee hee!

Make that staring at Mono. I have download the Mac OS X distro, played with the sample projects from Mono: A Developer’s Notebook ($16.47 at Amazon), read a couple of articles.

Hmmm… This C# thing looks like a text-based between C, Python and RB, with plenty of curly braces, but sans RB’s IDE [I mean, try once RB’s IDE, and they’ll pry it away from your dead fingers…]

See this:

// 03-keyfunc/03-regex
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

public class ParseHosts {
public static void Main(string [] args) {
string filename;
if (Environment.OSVersion.ToString().StartsWith(”Unix”)) {
filename = string.Format(”{0}etc{0}hosts”,
Path.DirectorySeparatorChar);
} else {
filename = string.Format(”{0}{1}drivers{1}etc{1}hosts”,
Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.System),
Path.DirectorySeparatorChar);
}

if (!File.Exists(filename)) {
Console.Error.WriteLine(”{0} does not exist.”, filename);
Environment.Exit(1);
}

string text;
using (TextReader reader = File.OpenText(filename)) {
text = reader.ReadToEnd();
}

Regex regex =
new Regex(@”(?(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3})\s+(?(\S+))”);

MatchCollection matches = regex.Matches(text);
foreach (Match match in matches) {
if (match.Length != 0) {
Console.WriteLine(”hostname {0} is mapped to ip address {1}”,
match.Groups[”name”], match.Groups[”ip”]);
}
}
}
}

Nothing really perturbing here, right? In played a little with

monodis

to take a peek at the bytecode. Almost readable.

Hmmmm….

Fom How the game is played, this:

When I was in college, IBM had a larger gross income then [sic] China. Today most of Sun’s gross income seems to be IN China.

Oh, surely not helping them set up the Great Firewall, are we?

At IBM, things are run by managers, its [sic] very orderly, and nothing much happens. At Sun things are run by engineering, its [sic] total chaos, and WEIRD things happen.

Under this particular light, IBM sounds like a company I worked for. And Sun like a company I could work for. Under this light, of course… The day-to-day reality is probably a bit different.