On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Saager Mhatre wrote:
> does this work? is anybody out there?
>
It's software. Of course it doesn't work.
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p; corners of the screen are easier
to hit.
With touch-based interfaces, this no longer applies. Then again, with
Apple's touch interfaces, there are no menus in the first place, so the
whole line of thinking is moot.
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Peter Corlett wrote:
>
> Let us instead unite against things that we all agree suck.
>
There's something we all agree on?
Other than the fact that self-aggrandizing tirades can be both fun &
cathartic?
I eagerly await details.
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ouse -string YES
>
> defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm true
>
Well, yes, but other than this trivial demonstration, it's still
*technically impossible*, right?
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that
is, as all systems should, synchronizing the clock over NTP?
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:05:08AM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
>Congratulations, you've discovered ACLs.
I suspect that the short answer to this is "I am root, dammit. If I tell
you to remove my head with a chainsaw, I
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Joshua Juran wrote:
> Aren't you glad you mentioned Panther?
>
I'm all aquiver..
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Philip Newton wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 16:05, Chris Devers wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Joshua Juran wrote:
> >>
> >> So I'm setting myself up with a non-admin account on OS X, which
> invo
27;t.[1]
>
> But I was wrong. Even using BSD's POSIX layer, even *as root*, the Locked
> attribute wins.
>
Congratulations, you've discovered ACLs.
> Apparently, Mac OS X is not Unix.
Apparently, 1970s solutions to 2000s problems may not be sufficient in all
cases.
Congratulations, you've discovered ACLs.
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
> On 2009-12-22, at 21:40, Chris Devers wrote:
>>
>> Now if you want to go make up your own moon-rules definition for what
>> an "application" is and what should be expected of it, that's up to
>&g
p to
you.
But don't go blaming us mere Earth-folk when we don't go by the moon-rules, too.
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rejas rojo. San Pedro, San Jose, Costa Rica.
I've seen addresses like this in rural Alabama, where a house is
outside the boundaries of the nearest town, so the address ends up
being something like "8.1 miles north of Mobile city line on Mobile
County Rd 63, on the left".
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ght
in the bottom-row status bar, too.
I'm not actually sure what option enabled it -- some inscrutable two
letter code, apparently -- but it has worked for years now.
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Peter da Silva wrote:
> I used to use a social playlist system that worked with iTunes
iLike?
http://www.ilike.com/faq/ilike/
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Marco Von Ballmoos wrote:
> Un. In. Stall. It.
Sounds good to me.
But what's the way to import scans from the device then?
iPhoto can't seem to do it.
Can Image Capture?
I'll have to try it tonight when I get home...
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t it's roughly the same idea.
At first it just looks like a shuffle queue.
But you can reorder the queue, add things to it, etc.
The feature has been there for a few years by now.
HTH, HAND.
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f to improve
upon "click one button", was to shim in a big heavy secondary
application, let it copy the photos to the local hard drive, then have
you manually drag them in to iPhoto.
Just like I was going to do with `cp`, but with less typing.
Best of all, the HP software comes with an uninstaller.
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t Macs that
shipped with USB2 ports came after the last Macs that were capable of
booting OS9.
Therefore, this isn't really even a software hate -- you could put
Ubuntu and iPodLinux (or whatever it's called) on the same hardware and
it still couldn't be expected to work reliably.
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.
Blah blah blah, Aaron Grier was pithier than me anyway, and I think
getting at roughly the same point. So I'll stop now.
> Bother. This is what I get for "say, I'm feeling chipper. Let's see
> what's happening over in hates-software!"
Now there's solid reasoning for ya :-)
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Joshua Juran wrote:
> And people wonder why I don't believe in Apple.
What happened when you tried it on your VAX?
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Chris Devers [2008-08-23 07:05]:
> > The strange point of view to me -- which I am aware of, but fail to
> > see the benefits of -- is taking the purist Unix-ey "everything does
> > one and only one thing, and yo
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Chris Devers [2008-08-22 18:45]:
> > Surely punting with "not my problem" is itself hateful.
>
> You seriously want each application to come up with entirely new ways
> of making text editing hateful?
On t
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:12:23PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
>
> >I thought Mutt had all manner of bells & whistles. It can't rejustify?
>
> Mutt is not an editor; it's an MUA. It'll use whatever editor yo
] rejustifies a paragraph, including fixing the
indentation if necessary. Easy peasy.
I thought Mutt had all manner of bells & whistles. It can't rejustify?
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7;t care. It
just works and I don't have to think about it.
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approach to
formatting their thoughts, but in my experience, people *that* bad are
rare, and with such people, if it isn't going to be the email, then it's
going to be other things they do that you're confronted with (printouts
on the company bulletin board and the like).
Earl
Now that this gentleman has some spare time on his hands, maybe someone
can talk him into subscribing to hate-software for some more catharsis.
Certainly it seems like he could use some of it:
http://gizmodo.com/5019516/classic-clips-bill-gates-chews-out-microsoft-over-xp
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n say?
"Hell of boiling oil."
You're kidding.
Yeah, I am. It says "Start".
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, David Mackintosh wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:51:52PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
> > On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Michael Bevilacqua wrote:
> >
> > > Tool Tips are quite possibly the most annoying feature of software today.
> >
> > Bes
device! Click here!"
"Why, this USB device turns out to be a hard drive! Click here!"
"Hey, if you want to use the new drive, you can now! Click here!"
Every. Damn. Time.
Who the hell thinks software really should work this way?
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Jeremy Stephens wrote:
> I fucking hate the MS Access upsizing wizard.
Surely this sentence goes two words longer than necessary.
It probably doesn't need "the", while we're at it.
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at
they're all unstable branches.
The only distinction that matters is whether it's actively maintained
dreck or abandoned dreck, and the MMDD scheme would answer that
question implicitly.
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Surely this can be simplified to:
[I'm feeling lucky]
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> [Skip] [Defer] [Ignore] [Cancel]
[Abort] [Retry] [Cancel] [Panic]
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Peter da Silva wrote:
> On 2008-01-03, at 14:06, Chris Devers wrote:
> > I don't remember an option for "don't update"; you only have a choice as
> > to whether or not to defer the action, e.g. [skip version] etc.
>
> Um, that'
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Chris Devers wrote:
> > We can't have these things happening without *some* kind of user
> > intervention in the process, can we? People always seem to howl about
> > silent self-update systems, but *ahem* th
>
> > But agreed, if there's only one choice, why bother showing it?
>
> So you feel all warm and fuzzy because you were involved in the upgrade.
We can't have these things happening without *some* kind of user
intervention in the process, can we? People always seem to howl about
silent self-update systems, but *ahem* this solves that problem, eh?
In any case, surely "Proceed" or "Continue" would be better verbs than
"Finish", hence
"Click [continue] to begin using the new version of Firefox."
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I know find is powerful enough to blow my foot off, so I try not to
point it that way to begin with.
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to begin with; if this is such a novel way to distribute the work, why
put on the distracting side show to get in the way of it?
That's the part that frustrated & confused me...
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ut I'm feeling a lot
more wary about paying for ... whatever it was that the process for
getting this "name your price" this way was trying to accomplish.
As far as I can see, the point is to insult the industry and the buyers.
:-/
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realizing this may be off-topic
but annoyed because he wanted to be impressed by this approach
and so very very wasn't.
:
$ /usr/bin/rsync --version | head -1
rsync version 2.6.3 protocol version 28
No wonder half my usual rsync flags haven't been working since a
coworker installed RsynxX... :-/
Then again, spite me for not using full paths. Fair enough.
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ise, albeit an imperfect one.
But as previously noted, why not just use "tar -zxf foo.tgz"?
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m Terminal, or force
a reboot?
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om Adobe.
Or are their pockets not as deep as everyone assumes?
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On Aug 16, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 16 Aug 2007, at 10:07, Denny wrote:
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 00:42 -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
Dear SideTrack,
I've used you for about three years now.
Then pay for it. Next?
What he said.
Get a mac, then not only will you be paying
the world's web browsers.
It comes soo. close... to making sense.
Almost.
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te] *does* behave as a forward-delete.
Yes, it's a keychord rather than a keypress, but at least it's there.
(Usually though, I can get away with the fact that [ctrl]+[d] usually
does the forward-delete, as Cocoa apps get Emacs keybindings from
readline.)
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shift] = if holding down [n], a series of 's, halted when
hitting the [shift] key
That's probably a silly example though, to pick the modifier after
the key...
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down to a dull
roar most of the time....
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pproaches to this problem and not one of them reduced it to the two-
step process that it should be. And I can't tell if the Windows-
provided procedure is any better, but I assume it must not be because
all these vendors are trying to override it...).
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he display? Why does
every damned laptop have a completely different mechanism -- all with
entirely too many useless knobs & switches -- for attaching to an
open wireless network? What, in short, would be so bad about just
offering one, simple, consistent way to do common tasks like this,
rather than these further down the rabbit hole journeys into madness?
It's enough to make a grown man cry, I tells ya.
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ets all the better.
Yes, I fully realize that I could get around this by editing a
~/.screenrc, but software that gets off to such a bumpy, boneheaded
start seems like a recipe for too much pain to be worth the trouble.
I've managed without it so far, and I've yet to be convinced that it
solves more hate than it generates...
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On Dec 22, 2006, at 1:31 AM, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote:
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:16:33AM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
On Dec 22, 2006, at 1:05 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
[...] Perl [...]
Out of curiosity, at what point can we take it as "established" that
you just. d
On Dec 22, 2006, at 1:05 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
[...] Perl [...]
Out of curiosity, at what point can we take it as "established" that
you just. don't. like. Perl. Hm?
100 messages?
500?
More?
I'm just curious when to stop skimming, thanks :-)
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n more, so
there's never a line.
But at least supermarkets are climate-controlled.
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e keyboard &
mouse, *not* with a KVM switch, but by putting a 1 pixel, full height
VNC session along the margin of one display, and whenever the mouse
cursor hits it, jumps to the other one. I forget if it's that simple
to set it up, but it's a clever trick for this kind of scenario.
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msy.
However, now that I try it again, it appears that 10.4.8 has cheerfully
corrected this "bug", and the animations soldier on undaunted by clicks.
And so site policy hate spirals back, as it ever does, to software hate.
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rtion is a non sequitur.
* Software can be simultaneously "tag based" and case-insensitive.
* iTunes *is* simultaneously "tag based" and case-insensitive.
Or can you demonstrate otherwise?
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, for example, that an email file had attributes like
sender, date, and subject, while a song file had attributes like artist,
album, and genre. And, of course, you could organize or search by any of
these attributes, all right in the file browser.
Granted, modern OSes completely fail to be
to the beginning or end of
the name, save, then delete that, save.
3) Rename: "inna gadda davida" -> "Inna Gadda Davida Baybee"
4) Hit save. It works.
5) Rename: "Inna Gadda Davida Baybee" -> "Inna Gadda Davida"
6) Hit save. It works.
Not ideal, but slightly less typing & remembering than the other way.
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clearly, I shouldn't go throwing stones.
http://www.macuser.com/ihnatko/ihnatko_harsh_words_for_window.php
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ObTypoHate: Realizing just before hitting 'send' that I almost omitted
the 's' from the subject line, changing the meaning utterly. Whoops!
lblog/archive/2006/09/20/What-happened-to-the-menu-bars_3F00_.aspx
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hoping (probably in vain) to not ever have to touch a Vista machine
ne location still listed on their site.
I blame the Comic Sans.
But then, from a quick look at the HTML source --
-- etc. Maybe the font was the least of it.
Maybe it was software hate, too.
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oesn't necessarily expose the UUID or force typing it out
when needed -- to attach macros to UUIDs rather than file names.
This should solve the current problem, and if VBA macros are attached to
file names and (presumably) break if the file is renamed, then it would
solve that problem too.
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with `sudo fs_usage | grep -i '/usr/X11' (etc)
* repeat steps with `sudo fs_usage | grep -i 'X11.app' (etc)
* use cmd+f to search the terminal window's buffer
Etc.
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preventing this?
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> * Chris Devers [2006-07-11T00:34:30]
> > As for the menu key, show me any other way to bring up a context menu
> > for the current focus (highlighted) item without using the mouse.
>
> I thought this nearly always was Shif
y started noticing how useful
they were after I'd more or less fully switched over to Macs from Linux
and Windows. Now, they're one of the last Windows features I miss.
So it goes.
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On 23 Jun 2006, at 11:55 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Chris Devers [2006-06-23 23:35]:
Yes, but... [ snip ]
I did say clichéd, no? I'm aware of the facts. [...]
Tell me another way to convey the same point in
40-odd words and I'll concede the issue. :-)
Call it what it is up
On 24 Jun 2006, at 9:28 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
cdev...@pobox.com (Chris Devers):
Surely someone's written a Haxie (err, APE plugin) to require CMD-Q
CMD-Q within double-click-time? No? Damn, I don't have time...
Better still, someone found a way to do it without requir
ou don't have a solution, you have two problems.)
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eek out Fisher and ask them to develop a "space
pen," Fisher did not charge NASA for the cost of
developing the pen, and the Fisher pen was
eventually used by both American and Soviet
astronauts.
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
But by all means don't let that get in your way.
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On 15 Jun 2006, at 6:33 PM, Juerd wrote:
Ricardo SIGNES skribis 2006-06-15 18:28 (-0400):
Me, I hate top-posting.
Full quoting here.
Oddball attributions. :)
Lack of sig.
Thinking ALL information (such as vertical whitespace) still matters.
Failing to recognize that vertical whitespace
nown-good set of standard apps in /Applications. (And if you're doing
upgrades some other way, you should reconsider how you're doing them.)
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On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Patrick Carr wrote:
> P.S. Including a soft link to /Applications/ in the disk image is less
> hateful but not optimal.
Lots of people (foolishly) remove Applications from the side bar, or
turn off the side bar altogether. Putting the link there fixes this.
Lots of people
ot playing some
childish call & response game of "no, this is the secret handshake,
no wait that is the secret handshake."
But then, I've about given up on finding such pragmatic tools...
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P.S. Here's another thought: -h or --help output should confine
i
On Tue, 23 May 2006, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Chris Devers [2006-05-23 14:45]:
> > On Tue, 23 May 2006, Yoz Grahame wrote:
> > > I *think* it's all Winamp's fault, but can't prove it. I'm
> > > actually genuinely interested in researching this for
On Tue, 23 May 2006, Yoz Grahame wrote:
> I *think* it's all Winamp's fault, but can't prove it. I'm actually
> genuinely interested in researching this for a reason - does anyone
> know what totally-user-skinnable apps existed before Winamp?
X11 ?
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plicated, can take way too long to get
working, and may not work as well as more modern off-the-shelf kit" ?
It may not be in keeping with the spirit of the list, but maybe,
just maybe, user misjudgement (on top of more user misjudgement)
is a factor here. :-)
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onality?
At best it's redundant, and a waste of the Mozilla
Corp^H^H^H^HFoundation's seventy million dollars.
What is that money for, anyway, if it isn't going towards good software?
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gt; the tabs nicely for me.
>
> This problem seems to have been solved long ago. Nothing to see here,
> move on.
Yes, but then you have to use GNOME.
You're not really coming out ahead that way, you see?
One step forward, four steps back.
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ve a way to script this kind of
thing yet. We can do annoying crap like popup windows and animated text
in the status bar, but no tab management at all, last I checked. (Which
was, admittedly, a year or two ago now.)
Oh well, whatever, I don't do web development anymore, and am much
h
hat nearly no one is using it, so web developers
can't be expected to depend on it being available. If mainline Firefox
(or one of the modern peers to it) supported scripting tabs, this
problem could start to go away. As it is now, we're stuck :-/
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so hard to do? If the set-top box is smart enough
to keep polling the customer until s/he submits to its tyrrany, it
should surely be smart enough to at least figure out a reasonable and
mutually agreeable time for the tyrrany to begin.
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V|üZêΤM£
o record audio, and [b] has not just "blog support", as
everything seems to have that these days, but, yes, a full-blown
"blogging architecture". While I can see where each of these could be
useful, they go waay beyond what you're asking for here...
But I digress.
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A10´f hU]YA
f the most moronic things in the world. It crops up a lot in
> UNIX-type system documentation, which says a lot.
Hey, at least the quotes are balanced this way.
Thank heaven for easily parseable miracles.
Quoting `like this', now that is a monstrosity.
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h`c8õ6¡¼õ
be a lot of people that are already
comfortable with editing some dialect of WikiText.
It'll still be prone to the problem you cite here, but at least it gets
a bit less likely, and adds benefits of simplicity & familiarity...
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ng toolkits have such abilities, as
plugins if not as core functionality, no?
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like this, a lot of
the "solutions" I've heard of seem more cumbersome than the original
problem they were supposed to solve.
YMMV.
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