Posts by Christoph Wernli

Cray sells Opteron-Linux super to Swiss boffins

Oh my....

An English statement is available here http://www.ethlife.ethz.ch/archive_articles/090529_MonteRosa_CSCS-su/index_EN (even though admittedly it fails to mention the dosh that is spent on the machine).

More troubling is the claim that an article is supposed to be written in "Swiss German", happily ignoring the fact that Swiss German to German is something like, ugh, Cockney to Shakespeare's language.

For a real treat of Swiss German try this: http://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweiz

Good luck with feeding it to Translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fals.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSchweiz&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0=

Every Italian's tax bill published online

Thank Goodness for Silvio

Italian politics is both entertaining and cheesy, and that makes it so special. Honestly, where else would you get a song praising a candidate? http://youtube.com/watch?v=uTVr0zkDfys