> > Dear Berkeley and/or AT&T or whoever owned UNIX the week the decision
> > was made to stop background jobs that wrote to stderr, I would like to
> > render a hearty "FUCK YOU".
> % stty -tostop
Yeh, I'd forgotten that, because I normally use this instead:
http://www.scarydevil.com/~peter/sw/detach.shar
Which solves a lot of other random hatefulness and should work on everything
>from Version 6 through Dead Rat and Interix.
> Advanced Unix Programming book[1] was devoted to interacting with the
> terminal driver and its idiosyncracies... Hate? I nearly laughed.
That's because the terminal driver was the previous playground of the "I
have a better idea of how to do menus" jerks who made X11 toolkits such a
maze of weird behaviour and exceptions, and who now delight in finding new
ways to abuse CSS and DHTML...
Does hates-software extend to hates-people-who-make-software-hateful?
