ed reached the optimum not only in user interface but in error message
already years ago. In the below you have to be careful not to confuse
the user input and the (error) response:
$ ed
?
?
q
$
--
There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is
'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
Just had a web form reject my email address as invalid. It insisted
that the email must be entered in the format 'n...@domain.com.' Which
is hard for me to do with a .org.
I mean. Just. Really? *Really*? Isn't this just delightful.
Didn't we fire the last web developer who did stupid cra
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:33:09PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>
> Right! And that should be information I can use to `fix' your fuckups?
Most error messages are the subject of hate. I only comfort myself by
realising that I have produced some pretty unhelpful ones in my time.
How useful can you make your error messages?
$ firefox
Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.1.7 and 1.9.1.7.
Exit 1
Right! And that should be information I can use to `fix' your fuckups?
--
H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/
using & porting per
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 06:39:19AM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Nicholas Clark [2010-01-06 14:50]:
> > At which point *the server* writes the output file into the
> > directory that holds the database itself.
>
> So this can overwrite the database itself? Or some of its tables,
> or what
* Nicholas Clark [2010-01-06 14:50]:
> At which point *the server* writes the output file into the
> directory that holds the database itself.
So this can overwrite the database itself? Or some of its tables,
or whatever is stored as separate files in the on-disk structure
of a database?
Regards
