cladistics _never_ tells you ancestry directly,
but sometimes it is possible to infer it from what
it does tell you.
- andrew porter
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mmon source).
The less obvious suggestion is that the problem of assessing the ancestry
(or more precisely, relatedness) of texts
has been treated in a highly quantitative way by evolutionary biologists.
The discipline is called cladistics,
and the ``texts'' are DNA code sequences.
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printer is at /dev/lp0;
there is also a /dev/printer,
but I don't know whether it is used or not.
Typical output is /var/log messages is
Feb 26 21:40:20 hopscotch lpd[941]: lp: job could not be printed (cfA940localhost)
When last booted,
kernel messages about lp0 were
Feb 26 12:09:46 hopsco
Installed Debian 3.0 (woody) some while back,
never got lpr etc. to work totally correctly;
it seems to drop some jobs silently.
Works for vanilla (very vanilla) PostScript,
but malfunctions on sophisticated .ps (dvips output).
I don't even know where to begin to debug the problem,
what sort of c
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