Re: Pesterware

2007-08-16 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 16 Aug 2007, at 21:56, Sean O'Rourke wrote: Dave Hodgkinson writes: 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. Ooh,

Re: Dear Windows. I have 2GB RAM...

2007-08-16 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 16 Aug 2007, at 13:18, Peter da Silva wrote: Dear Windows. Stop. Right now. You win. Or lose. Whatever. -- Dave Hodgkinson Back in the Market Risk swamp

Re: Pesterware

2007-08-16 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
27;ll be buying software that has the annoying habit of Just Fucking Working. -- Dave Hodgkinson Back in the Market Risk swamp

Re: Argument list too long... again.

2007-08-14 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
e I should be piping or some shit to justify this will be destroyed. You all lose. man xargs -- Dave Hodgkinson Back in the Market Risk swamp

Re: troff

2007-07-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
of requests). That's a hell of a comment delimiter. Not many of my lines are likely to begin with ###7m<80><99>7m<80><99> That looks like escaping gone very, very badly wrong through several transmogrifications. -- Dave Hodgkinson Back in the Market Risk swamp

Re: Ubuntu Feisty hate

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
ange. People have been through enough machine changes over the last few years that now in their minds they distinguish between the apps and the data, that where possible the data is held externally on a NAS or USB drive and the machine is viewed as an appliance. The smart people at least. -- Dave

Re: XNEWS - This may take a while

2007-01-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
entire list. Xnews? Wow. Acid flashbacks. Gnus dude, gnus. -- Dave Hodgkinson - Music photography http://www.davehodgkinson.com/

Re: perl

2006-12-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
rcing perlcritic which has led to some interesting debate about fixing such shonky code at the risk of breaking it. One of my favourites is "return;" vs. "return undef;". -- Dave Hodgkinson - Music photography http://www.davehodgkinson.com/

Re: Invalid Operating System

2006-12-17 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 17 Dec 2006, at 04:20, A. Pagaltzis wrote: Whatever you think the substitution API should be (and I'm not a huge fan of Perl's), putting patterns into simple string literals is hateful. Reach for the root cause: regexps themselves are hateful. Nasy, cryptic line noise

Re: iPhoto (was: Syncing)

2006-12-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
g the thumbnails the right size for quick browsing. -- Dave Hodgkinson - Music photography http://www.davehodgkinson.com/

Re: Syncing (was Re: DRM can bite my ass)

2006-12-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
go with the flow. Use the UI to export them, then re-import. It does cool things like always keeping an original so if you mess up an edit you can revert. People who rummage, get into trouble. At least the Pictures directory is perfectly rsync-able. -- Dave Hodgkinson - Music photography http://www.davehodgkinson.com/

Re: RubyGems deciding version formats

2006-11-10 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
roken version to put up with thankyounotverymuchatallyoubastards. Ruh-roh Raggy... -- Dave Hodgkinson - Music photography http://www.davehodgkinson.com/

Re: Eclipse

2006-10-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 27 Oct 2006, at 20:28, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 13:00 -0400, Patrick Carr wrote: And yet they didn't mention the superiority of APL. Strange, that. Do they even remember APL? Mmmm...quad backspace divide. -- Dave Hodgkinson - Music photography

Re: Windows: where everything is harder than it needs to be. And also broken.

2006-10-20 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
ile). But, who is so bitter about the incorrect use of 'begs the question' that they would go to the trouble of buying a domain name and setting up a web site to discourage misuse? A stickler. /me goes over to register "fewernotless.info" -- Dave Hodgkinson - Music photography http://www.davehodgkinson.com/

Re: iTunes on Windows

2006-10-08 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 3 Oct 2006, at 13:09, Smylers wrote: Dave Hodgkinson writes: On 3 Oct 2006, at 12:54, Simon Wistow wrote: 10) Repeat with other MP3s Why repeat? ... Select the files you want to change, hit Option-I, it asks are you sure you want to edit all those files at once, say yes and it'l

Re: iTunes on Windows

2006-10-03 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
e files at once, say yes and it'll let you set everything in bulk except the track name. -- Dave Hodgkinson - Music photography http://www.davehodgkinson.com/

Re: Apple Terminal

2006-08-01 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
operations. But that's a good start. Since I got the pedals and the eyebrow gesture tracker, it's been much easier. -- Dave Hodgkinson - Music photography http://www.davehodgkinson.com/

Re: NFS

2006-07-31 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
g perfectly. But can I? Can I hell. Somewhere, somehow, whenever I try to write a file larger than 1K it's crapping out. ktrace on the Mac doesn't tell me anything. And the server isn't talking to /var/log/messages. I warned you. Drop your NFS block size to 512 bytes or 1k. O