[plug] Ben Collins (DPL) dies after accident with slapd (fwd)

[Simon Scott]

	I think the *only* april 1 gag I saw was the lzip sourceforge
site... and that wasnt funny at all, since lossy compression schemes can be
useful at times... I remember the struggle with samples on the c64 and the
lengths one would go to to compress the data down, usually at the detriment
of sound quality :) In fact, a friend of mine did a 50 second sample of
DAAS, using 1 bit sampling @ 4Khz, and lossy compression :) you could *just*
make out what they were saying :)

	Did anyone actually witness any april 1 jokes that were actually
funny?





	From:	Christian <christian at amnet.net.au> on 02-04-2001 10:23 AM
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	Subject:	Re: [plug] Ben Collins (DPL) dies after accident
with slapd (fwd)

	On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 08:10:29PM +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
	 
	> Newly elected Debian Project Leader Ben Collins, age 28, family
man
	> and also esteemed OpenLDAP developer was involved in a fatal
accident
	> with slapd earlier today.

	*lol*

	But this April Fools thing is really getting out of hand...  I just
	looked over Slashdot and I couldn't bring myself to believe any of
the
	stories posted there with an April 1 date!  This is getting to be a
	classic 'boy cries wolf' situation -- sooner or later there is going
to
	be some really big news that happens on April 1 and no one is going
to
	believe it! 

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