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Hi The Dragon book, led my thoughts to "Here be dragons" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons "In another context, software programmers sometimes use it to indicate especially difficult or obscure sections of code in a program so that others do not tamper with them." Why not some dragon name ? or maybe someone can use this idea to come up with something else. /f Paolo Invern...

Mithril The fictional metal from JRR Tolkien The Lord of the Rings. Gandalf says: "Mithril! All folk desired it. It could be beaten like copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel. Its beauty was like to that of common silver, but the beauty of mithril did not tarnish or grow dim." Paolo Invernizzi On

This is pretty ugly. I''m using puppet to install Oracle, ie an exec{} wrapped around: /u01/oracle_extract/linux.x64_11gR2_database/database/runInstaller -silent -responseFile /etc/oracle_response.rsp The problem is that the damn installer backgrounds itself and returns control to the shell. I tried putting the above command in a script, followed by a wait command, but that

Hi Everyone, LLVM is a growing project, and many of us are very fond of it. :) LLVM is continuing to grow, both in maturity in specific areas and in scope of areas that it is applicable to. When we first started the project, we focused on the design of the intermediate representation. It is a strong design goal that the IR be a self-contained virtual instruction set, which fully describes