Grub config file editing

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 08:52:17 UTC 2006


On 2/22/06, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:58 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> >
> >>However, since computers always start counting with 0 it was natural
> >>for programming languages to do the same.  This is just one example of
> >>how that shows to the users.
> >
> >
> > More like programmers never really put any good thought into what they
> > were doing.  The number of times I recall having to fix up someone's FOR
> > A = 0 TO 10 sort of things so they'd count the right number of times...
> >
> > How many fingers am I holding up...?
>
> Eight, and two thumbs. But there are only nine gaps between them...
>
> Fence post error!
>
> Mike

Are thumbs not fingers? I have a broken one now- so would it be
inacurate to say that I had broken a finger?

By the way, if you hold one hand in front of the other, you can hold
up ten fingers with only eight gaps between them!

Dotan Cohen
http://technology-sleuth.com/long_answer/why_are_internet_greeting_cards_dangerous.html




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