Dave Brown wrote:
>
> Remember when emacs was at version 1.18? Then they decided to drop the
> "1" and go the version-hyperinflation route.
Sheesh. And xterm is on version 258 and less is on version 436. The sky is
falling!
> Kind of like how Apple short-circuited the iPad version number inflat
Dave Brown writes:
> Version-number hyperinflation ... It's not really a new thing,
$ less --version
less 444
Doesn't seem to cause anybody any harm.
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On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 06:26:56AM -0400, Numien wrote:
> On 04/05/12 03:35 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:
> >With 6-11, would you have had time to notice before a new version
> >came out?
>
> Which is a hate in itself.
>
> My e-mail server (Kerio Mailserver) was written with the assumption
> that,
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> I would ask if you would be upset at this if the releases were identical
> except they were called 4.6 thru 4.11???
I woiuld be even more upset at that, because 4.11 < 4.6.
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On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
>* Roger Burton West [2012-05-04 09:40]:
>> With 6-11, would you have had time to notice before a new version came
>> out?
>I would ask if you would be upset at this if the releases were identical
>except they were called 4.6 thr
* Numien [2012-05-04 12:30]:
> I'm not entirely sure which software to hate more in this case.
Any way you turn it, the mail server. That was plain stupid. What, does
it cost extra in string manipulation fees to grab more characters?
* Roger Burton West [2012-05-04 09:40]:
> With 6-11, would yo
On 04/05/12 03:35 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:
With 6-11, would you have had time to notice before a new version came
out?
Which is a hate in itself.
My e-mail server (Kerio Mailserver) was written with the assumption
that, since Firefox 3 was the latest for years, it would never have to
ha
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 02:45:00AM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
>I fail to remember if I even had any crashes with versions
>6 thru 11, but since the upgrade to 12 it has been crashing on me every
>couple of hours.
With 6-11, would you have had time to notice before a new version came
out?
