Language translation software

I am often surprised by how readable automatically translated web pages are. They are, howver, never without humour. Take for example this german article on file monitoring and replication.

The acronym FAM is supposed to stand for File Alteration Monitor but I can only assume that the author mistakenly thought it stood for File Ancestor Monitor, because whatever the German was ended up translated as file old person ration monitor although I have no idea where the ration came from!

Then the author talks about the complicated configuration files for the changedfiles program. Obviously the English phrase "that sucks" is fairly common across nationalities because there is a single word sentance Suction. I Must remember to use that in my writing! Sybase has no support for sequences. Suction. I love it :)