Re: [arch-general] Reliable documents (was Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch)

2012-04-30 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
2012/4/30 Rashif Ray Rahman : > On 30 April 2012 17:35, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: > >> 2012/4/30 Kevin Chadwick : >> > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:23 +0200 >> > Gour wrote: >> > >> >> we did embrace LaTeX/LyX etc. >> > >> > To get the benefit of your experience. Do you use Lyx as your editor or >> > s

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

2012-04-30 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > What's the point. To me that's just adding an extra redundant layer > that could have bugs. I see no point using binaries for configuration > whatosever. RAM is crazy fast and some SSDs are now as fast as a PIIIs > ram. How many nanosecond

[arch-general] Lyx (was Re: Reliable documents (was Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch))

2012-04-30 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 04/30/12 at 09:16pm, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: > On 30 April 2012 17:35, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: > > > 2012/4/30 Kevin Chadwick : > > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:23 +0200 > > > Gour wrote: > > > > > >> we did embrace LaTeX/LyX etc. > > > > > > To get the benefit of your experience. Do you use L

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

2012-04-30 Thread Auguste Pop
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:59:02 +0530 > Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > >> You are very correct, master documents should always be plain text. The >> generated documents can be binary however. Also, there should be a fallback >> system where the plain

Re: [arch-general] Reliable documents (was Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch)

2012-04-30 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 30 April 2012 17:35, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: > 2012/4/30 Kevin Chadwick : > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:23 +0200 > > Gour wrote: > > > >> we did embrace LaTeX/LyX etc. > > > > To get the benefit of your experience. Do you use Lyx as your editor or > > something else. > > Sorry if I "jump in",

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

2012-04-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:59:02 +0530 Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > You are very correct, master documents should always be plain text. The > generated documents can be binary however. Also, there should be a fallback > system where the plain text documents are used rather than binary documents > so that

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

2012-04-30 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Monday 30 Apr 2012 11:30:23 Gour wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:51:42 +0100 > > Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > Heck, I save my documents as .txt for secondary backup purposes. I > > wish I knew that when I was a teenager doing work for school at 3AM > > and Word lost everything spectacularly well.

Re: [arch-general] Reliable documents

2012-04-30 Thread Gour
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:43:19 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Keep in mind that blind people can't read nice formated documents on > braille, they anyway need to read the source code ;). Whatever...I found that when working on non-technical texts, LaTeX markup takes away focus from writing...and ther

Re: [arch-general] Reliable documents

2012-04-30 Thread Gour
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:55:48 +0100 Kevin Chadwick wrote: > To get the benefit of your experience. Do you use Lyx as your editor > or something else. As LaTeX 'front-end'. your servant, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa -- One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws it

Re: [arch-general] Reliable documents (was Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch)

2012-04-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 13:35 +0200, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: > 2012/4/30 Kevin Chadwick : > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:23 +0200 > > Gour wrote: > > > >> we did embrace LaTeX/LyX etc. > > > > To get the benefit of your experience. Do you use Lyx as your editor or > > something else. > > Sorry if I "

Re: [arch-general] Reliable documents (was Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch)

2012-04-30 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
2012/4/30 Kevin Chadwick : > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:23 +0200 > Gour wrote: > >> we did embrace LaTeX/LyX etc. > > To get the benefit of your experience. Do you use Lyx as your editor or > something else. Sorry if I "jump in", but as a LaTeX user I usually suggest to stay away from Lyx. Basicall

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re:RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

2012-04-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:22:42 +0200 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > In my opinion, if I have to start hacking random C to add or adapt > > features (which happens as soon as the builtins do the wrong things - > > that's about twice a year for me) it'll be a lot more crashy than a > > simple shell scri

[arch-general] Reliable documents (was Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch)

2012-04-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:23 +0200 Gour wrote: > we did embrace LaTeX/LyX etc. To get the benefit of your experience. Do you use Lyx as your editor or something else.

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

2012-04-30 Thread Gour
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:51:42 +0100 Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Heck, I save my documents as .txt for secondary backup purposes. I > wish I knew that when I was a teenager doing work for school at 3AM > and Word lost everything spectacularly well. Heh...similar lesson when I was workin on OS2 with Lo

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

2012-04-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:12:15 -0500 C Anthony Risinger wrote: > yeah ... i'm a C novice, and i'm pretty sure i can write a stable init > ... that's kinda the point. init is so incredibly dumb that it > requires no code. is that really what "unix philosophy" is meant to > convey? so little code a

[arch-general] Re: [Bulk] Re:RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

2012-04-30 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 29/04/12, Patrick Lauer wrote: > In my opinion, if I have to start hacking random C to add or adapt > features (which happens as soon as the builtins do the wrong things - > that's about twice a year for me) it'll be a lot more crashy than a > simple shell script where I add one line of code.