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Format fix README.md.
Dead link but I found his personal website and used that instead
(updated winners.{csv,html} as well).
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# Best abuse of the user
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Edward Rosten
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Oxford University
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34 The Chilterns
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Gloucester Green
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Oxford
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OX1 2DF
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United Kingdom
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http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat1148
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Edward Rosten
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UK
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<https://www.edwardrosten.com>
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## To build:
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## To run:
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```sh
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./rosten number
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./rosten [number]
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```
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WARNING: this will mess with your mouse and can make it hard to quit the
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program. Use at your own risk.
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NOTE: number is floating point.
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## Try:
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```sh
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## Author's remarks:
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NAME
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### NAME
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rosten - make the mouse act as if it has been greased
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`rosten` - make the mouse act as if it has been greased
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SYNOPSIS
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### SYNOPSIS
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rosten [greasiness]
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```sh
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./rosten [greasiness]
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```
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DESCRIPTION
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### DESCRIPTION
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This program is designed primarily to make your X windows interface more
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obfuscated. Try doing something mouse driven (such as using a mouse
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driven editor on this program) whilst it is running. If you're not sure
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what it does, looking at the code should give a fair idea.
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This program is designed primarily to make your X windows interface more
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obfuscated. Try doing something mouse driven (such as using a mouse
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driven editor on this program) whilst it is running. If you're not sure
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what it does, looking at the code should give a fair idea.
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It also has a [cat] man page if you want to install it as a `utility'.
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It also has a [cat] man page if you want to install it as a 'utility'.
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OPTIONS
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### OPTIONS
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It only takes one optional option: the greasiness factor. This is the
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number that the speed is divided by on each iteration. The default is
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1.03. A setting of 1 (no friction is fun), as is 0.99.
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It only takes one optional option: the greasiness factor. This is the
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number that the speed is divided by on each iteration. The default is
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1.03. A setting of 1 - no friction - is fun as is 0.99.
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Being an X program, it recognised the DISPLAY variable.
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Being an X program, it recognised the `DISPLAY` variable.
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PORTABILITY
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### PORTABILITY
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The program is very portable, even to non X architectures. All that is
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required is a large desk and some good grease.
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The program is very portable, even to non X architectures. All that is
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required is a large desk and some good grease.
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COMMENTS
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### COMMENTS
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It is really rather surprising that code like this should not only be
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portable, but compile with almost no warnings on most of the compilers
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tested. It's a kind of shame that none of the compilers do anything
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like this:
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It is really rather surprising that code like this should not only be
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portable, but compile with almost no warnings on most of the compilers
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tested. It's a kind of shame that none of the compilers do anything
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like this:
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$make greasymouse
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cc greasymouse.c -o greasymouse -lX11
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greasymouse.c:30: This macro should have more text and spaces in it
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greasymouse.c:32: This is a really stupid way to perform this operation
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greasymouse.c:42: This program would look better with a newline here
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greasymouse.c:48: That's a really silly thing to do
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greasymouse.c:55: So is that
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...
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greasymouse.c:58: This program is rubbish. I'm not going to link it.
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```sh
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$ make greasymouse
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cc greasymouse.c -o greasymouse -lX11
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greasymouse.c:30: This macro should have more text and spaces in it
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greasymouse.c:32: This is a really stupid way to perform this operation
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greasymouse.c:42: This program would look better with a newline here
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greasymouse.c:48: That's a really silly thing to do
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greasymouse.c:55: So is that
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...
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greasymouse.c:58: This program is rubbish. I'm not going to link it.
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```
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The code is best viewed with tabstops every 8 spaces.
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The code is best viewed with [tab stops](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_stop) every 8 spaces.
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BUGS
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### BUGS
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The mouse gets stuck completely if you give it an option of less
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than 1 and leave it for too long. This is quite annoying if it
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didn't leave the terminal if was run from in focus.
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The mouse gets stuck completely if you give it an option of less
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than 1 and leave it for too long. This is quite annoying if it
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didn't leave the terminal it was run from in focus.
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It gets very jerky if the processor is being used. There are
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better time functions than clock() but I haven't used them.
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It gets very jerky if the processor is being used. There are
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better time functions than `clock()` but I haven't used them.
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It deflects slightly when it gets very slow.
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It deflects slightly when it gets very slow.
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It annoys other people if you run it on their display too
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often. Maybe I should make future versions print funny jokes to
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keep the humor fresh.
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It annoys other people if you run it on their display too
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often. Maybe I should make future versions print funny jokes to
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keep the humor fresh.
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It's pretty ropey over a 56K modem.
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It's pretty ropey over a 56K modem.
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It's even ropier over a 56K modem and tunneled through 3 ssh links.
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It's even ropier over a 56K modem and tunneled through 3 ssh links.
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WARNINGS
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### WARNINGS
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Pages and pages and pages of things, with GCC at any rate.
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Pages and pages and pages of things, with GCC at any rate.
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It suggests loads of ()'s where they're not needed.
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It suggests loads of `()`s where they're not needed.
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It reckons I have not used some of the values I have computed. I
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would never do a thing like that: I just haven't used them in
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the way it's used to.
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It reckons I have not used some of the values I have computed. I
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would never do a thing like that: I just haven't used them in
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the way it's used to.
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The MIPS compiler suggests an == instead of an = in expressions
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such as:
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The MIPS compiler suggests an `==` instead of an `=` in expressions
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such as:
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&&(a=b)
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```c
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&&(a=b)
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```
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but I its suggestions would break my program. It also reckons
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that r() has no prototype.
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but its suggestions would break my program. It also reckons
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that `r()` has no prototype.
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Giving the -pedantic option to the MIPS compiler causes it to generate
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warnings about its own header files, but not any extra ones with this
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program.
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Giving the `-pedantic` option to the MIPS compiler causes it to generate
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warnings about its own header files, but not any extra ones with this
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program.
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With all warnings enabled, the DEC compiler, oddly enough finds some
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problems with its own include files, but none with my program.
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With all warnings enabled, the DEC compiler, oddly enough finds some
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problems with its own include files, but none with my program.
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ERRORS
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### ERRORS
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The DEC compiler of this version:
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The DEC compiler of this version: `DEC C V5.6-079 on Digital UNIX V4.0 (Rev.
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878)`
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DEC C V5.6-079 on Digital UNIX V4.0 (Rev. 878)
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can't compile the code. It thinks that preprocessor lines can not have
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whitespace preceding the #. Moving the preprocessor directives to the
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beginning of the line wrecks the layout but makes it compile.
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can't compile the code. It thinks that preprocessor lines can not have
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whitespace preceding the `#`. Moving the preprocessor directives to the
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beginning of the line wrecks the layout but makes it compile.
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## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
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@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ E. Jay Berkenbilt,E._Jay_Berkenbilt,null,null,null,null,null
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Ed Luke,Ed_Luke,http://www.erc.msstate.edu/~lush,null,lush@erc.msstate.edu,null,null
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Ed Lycklama,Ed_Lycklama,http://www.klg.com,null,eal@klg.com,null,null
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Edward Giles,Edward_Giles,https://id523a.com/,null,edward@giles.net.au,null,null
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Edward Rosten,Edward_Rosten,http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat1148,null,scat1148@herald.ox.ac.uk,null,null
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Edward Rosten,Edward_Rosten,https://www.edwardrosten.com,ed@edwardrosten.com,null,null
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Eric Marshall,Eric_Marshall,null,null,eric@EMIEng.com,US,null
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Eryk Kopczynski,Eryk_Kopczynski,http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~erykk/,null,ek189185@zodiac.mimuw.edu.pl,null,null
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Esko Nuutila,Esko_Nuutila,http://www.cs.hut.fi/~enu/,null,enu@cs.hut.fi,null,null
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<LI TYPE=square>Most poetic use of strings (<A HREF="years.html#2013_robison">2013 robison</A>)
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</UL><BR>
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<LI TYPE=none><A NAME="Edward_Rosten"></A><B><a href="mailto:scat1148@herald.ox.ac.uk">Edward Rosten</a></B> -- <A HREF="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat1148">http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat1148</a>
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<LI TYPE=none><A NAME="Edward_Rosten"></A><B><a href="mailto:scat1148@herald.ox.ac.uk">Edward Rosten</a></B> -- <A HREF="https://www.edwardrosten.com">https://www.edwardrosten.com</a>
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<UL>
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<LI TYPE=square>Best abuse of the user (<A HREF="years.html#2001_rosten">2001 rosten</A>)
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