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unclebob / apology.
Created April 27, 2012 12:19
Apology to Women Programmers.
Today I gave a keynote at ACCU in Oxford. In the midst of it I made two (count them) two statements that I should have known better than to make. I was describing the late '70s, and the way we felt about the C language at the time. My slide said something like: "C was for real men." Emily Bache, whom I know and hold in high regard, spoke up and said "What about women?". And I said something like: "We didn't allow women in those days." It was a dumb crack, and should either not have been said, or should have been followed up with a statement to the effect that that was wrong headed.
The second mistake I made was while describing Cobol. I mentioned Adm. Grace Hopper. I said something like "May she rest in peace." I don't know that any of the words were actually demeaning, but the tone was not as respectful as it should have been to an Admiral in the United State Navy, and one who was so instrumental in our industry; despite what I feel about Cobol.
I am a 59 year old programmer who was brought up
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alexalouit / openwrt.squid.transparent
Last active April 11, 2022 21:25
OpenWRT Squid transparent configuration
Squid required:
Mount HD (15GB min) on /tmp/cache, chmod -R 777 /tmp/cache
Firewall section:
config redirect
option src 'lan'
option proto 'tcp'
option src_ip '!192.168.1.1'
option src_dport '80'
option dest_ip '192.168.1.1'