Beware the Harpies

It is unlike the god of technology to elucidate on other disciplines, but He will do so if they impinge upon His realm.

It is a little known fact that male harpies exist. Of course, females are the most commonly seen, or, more to the point, heard. Scientists believe this is because they can produce sounds of a much higher frequency, enabling them to kill and consume more prey.

As you can see from this diagram, the perceived loudness of a sound starts an abrupt, dizzying climb around 20 kilohertz. Any shrieks or squawks at or above this frequency could be painful, indeed. Even deadly.

Scientists still do not understand the Harpy fully, as getting close enough for study can be a dicey proposition. Current theories believe the shrill sounds can also be used to increase status in all female groups, as well as their usual purpose - to deafen before the kill.

An online search shows that even social researchers are interested in the problem.
Sexual politics of the voice
An analysis of shreiking in all-female groups

They are known to congregate at lunch spots, nail salons, and cheerleading practice.

Set QuickEdit in windows cmd

If you have the misfortune to be using the command line on windows, right click the shortcut that launches your shell and do the following:

Properties | Options | QuickEdit mode

Now you can select text with the left mouse button, and paste with the right.
Then go to layout, and set the Screen buffer higher so you can have more scrollback.

Who are YOU getting your shell advice from?

I was looking for a fix for the cygwin version of Xemacs, and I stumbled across this:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg01236.html

You could do worse for shell advice.

(Note: The Internet does not guarantee you'll get advice from this David Korn)