Lennart Poettering

A somewhat well-known author of surreal horror fiction from Germany, Lennart Poettering is mostly known for writing overly long and confusing works such as Pulsations of Autophilia (a tragedy about a sluggish autistic teenager who is murdered while fucking his uncle's Porsche and comes back as a ghost to seek vengeance) and Systems Down (about a server administrator who finds himself locked in the server room after closing time with a horrible, memory-corrupting abomination).

I picked up this new book at Barnes and Noble, but it says that Lennart Poettering is required reading so I'm taking it back.

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calmbit

A computer science term for an unused portion of computer memory, usually a single bit (the alternative being calmbytes and so on for increasingly larger amounts).

After booting up his brand-new system d operating system, Hans Reiser realized that he had only 55 calmbits of RAM left for the rest of his programs.