Closest Book Meme
Okay, the meme has finally reached Planet Gentoo, so here’s my entry.
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Now, there’s some question as to what constitutes a “book”. Do the ebooks on my n810 in my pocket count? If so, what’s a “page”? And which one is “closest”? How about the ISO spec sitting next to me? Does that count? I’m going to go with “no” for all of those, and go for the closest bound, published book. Since I’m at work, this is a technical book.
(Note: this is page 57, as 56 is blank)
The address conversion functions convert between a text representation of an address and the binary value that goes into a socket address structure.
This is from “UNIX Network Programming” by Stevens.