On 27 Jun 2009, at 12:40, Joshua Juran wrote:
[...]
Well for starters, it's ridiculous to have separate codebases for /
bin/true and /bin/false when they basically do the same thing. Why
not combine the two into a single program, true-or-false, which
takes a parameter?
GNU true's implemen
2009/6/27 Jarkko Hietaniemi :
Joshua Juran wrote:
On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
On 6/26/09 5:35 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
autoconf, automake and libtool. What more could one need?
Actually, what other non-overlapping software could one
legitimately use to
increase the ha
When it becomes clear that the maintainers of a piece of software have given
up any plans to fix it after it has been broken for a long time, software
moves from hateful to not worth retaining any contact with. As is the case
with the hates-software website. So I'm unsubbing. Ciao.
--
Earle Mart
Joshua Juran wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
>
>> On 6/26/09 5:35 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>>
>>> autoconf, automake and libtool. What more could one need?
>>>
>>> Actually, what other non-overlapping software could one
>>> legitimately use to
>>> increase the hate?
>
On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
On 6/26/09 5:35 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
autoconf, automake and libtool. What more could one need?
Actually, what other non-overlapping software could one
legitimately use to
increase the hate?
This reminds me of an April Fools thing I p
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On 6/26/09 5:35 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> autoconf, automake and libtool. What more could one need?
>
> Actually, what other non-overlapping software could one legitimately use to
> increase the hate?
This reminds me of an April Fools thing I plan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:50:24PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> Dedicated music players all suck so bad that using *mplayer in a
> shell* turns out to suck less.
I still regularly use a collection of shell scripts that call out to a
set of players including (but not limited to) mplayer, ogg
* H.Merijn Brand [2009-06-26 16:55]:
> XMMS and beep-media-player are almost the same, except that bmp
> came with more plug-ins.
Yeah, and I don't see the point of using something at the XMMS
feature level. I used to have bmp around until I noticed that
I never used it any more because I'd make
